Martin Scorsese

Pages 305-307 → Film The day was fading into a soft sun-shot haze, pricked here and there by a yellow electric light, and passers were rare in the little square into which they had turned. Dallas stopped again, and looked up. "It must be here," he said, slipping his arm through his father 's with a movement from which Archer 's shyness did not shrink; and they stood together looking up at the house. It was a modern building, without distinctive character, but many-windowed, and pleasantly…

profanity, Martin Scorsese has had an overwhelming abundance of success in the film industry. In this essay I will discuss how the director Martin Scorsese uses certain techniques such as long tracking shots, freeze frames and the structure of his films in the films like “Goodfellas” and “Casino”. I will discuss and analyse these cinematic techniques and explain how this is then used to engage his audience to an extent that keeps them eager to watch. Long tracking shots. When the name…

the film studio Warner Brother’s producer Brad Grey, and actor and producer Brad Pitt bought the rights to remake the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs (2002) from Media Asia for $1.75 million. The movie a drama, crime, thriller was produced by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan. The production companies that help fund the movie were Warner Brothers, Initial Entertainment Group, Plan B Entertainment, Vertigo Films and Media Asia Films. The Departed had a budget of 90 million dollars…

Beautiful houses, wonderful weather. Los Angeles is great for driving; that's where I learned to drive. And it's great for driving because it's laid out for cars, not for people. New York is for people.” Rotten and hideous, New York still remains to Scorsese a place of vigor, energy, and most importantly, redemption. Growing up in a devoutly religious environment, the Roman Catholic concept of guilt and redemption exerts a profound impact on Scorsese’s cinema. Most of his early protagonists are…

The Bourne Identity is an action movie about a man named Jason Bourne, who has been shot, suffered from amnesia, and later been picked up from a fisher boat. He then needs to find out how and why he got shot, who he is, and most importantly, what he is. The movie was directed by Doug Liman, and produced in 2002. Matt Damon is starring as Jason Bourne, Franka Potente as Marie, and Chris Cooper as Conklin. The Bourne Identity is the first of the Jason Bourne movies, the others being The Bourne…

Whipash is cinematic adrenalin. The frenetic rhythm is accomplished thanks to mainly three elements such as cinematography, film editing and sound. That is why the film has won several awards on the category of editing and sound. But in the following film analysis I will examine the two first concepts. There are multiple close ups and extreme close ups focused on the faces of Andrew and Fletcher, keeping them centered in frame. The director shows us not only the craft and precision of the…

The movie, “Groundhog Day” is a successful 1993 American film that captures the interests, mind and heart of its viewers because of its astonishing, innovative, and unique storyline, and in which this requires clear mind when watching in order for it to decode and unfold its purpose and in order for it to discover how great it is. This was directed by Harold Ramis and written by Ramis himself and Danny Rubin, based on a story by Rubin .It was starring by Bill Murray, Andie Macdowell and Chris…

With his tenth film, the bittersweet and poignant comedy/drama A Man Called Ove, Swedish writer/director Hannes Holm has the chance to finally reach North American audiences for the first time. Not only has his work landed distribution with Music Box Films after winning three 2015 Guldbagge Awards (Sweden's top film award), but the film earned Sweden's selection to compete for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 89th Academy Awards, and some believe the film could land the country's…

Campbell remarked Lucas to have perfectly integrated the cycle to Star Wars’ plot. This is not surprising at all, due to the fact that Lucas drew inspiration from the template Campbell created for his film, Star Wars. Table 1 presented below compares the stages of the Hero’s Journey to the events that occurred in the movie, A New Hope. *(Christopher Vogler’s condensed version of the Hero’s Journey has been used in this paper to view this theory from a more general perspective in contrast to…

“Where’s my mother?! I can’t see her!” I hysterically shouted to the clueless chinese taxi driver. I tried to comfort both my sisters by gently telling them everything was going to be fine. I clenched my fists as anxiety washed over me. “Don 't worry,” I whispered in a shaky voice “I 'm sure we are almost there.” It was 1:00 am and the outside world was dark and blinded by fog. After driving through a dark alleyway the taxi came to a halt. Looking around I saw our hotel; The filthy hotel had…