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really relate to. I can feel the texture of a silk dress in a costume drama like ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’. I can smell the blood bursting off a smoking bullet in ‘The Magnificent Seven’. And I still wince at the sight of an anguished face in a movie like ‘Peyton Place’—every fine detail that the camera so agonisingly exploits. To me, movies are…

Towne (Bonnie and Clyde [uncredited], Shampoo) from a 1970 novel of the same name. Although it had an all-star team behind it, that alone is not what makes it a Hollywood Renaissance movie. In addition to it reputable Hollywood Renaissance team, it also shares many of the common themes of a Hollywood Renaissance movie as we have seen in class. The New Hollywood movement is “remembered as an era in which Hollywood produced a relatively high number of innovative films that seemed to go beyond the…

Here is a short rundown of what happens in the movie. “The Lone Prospector, a valiant weakling, seeks fame and fortune with the sturdy men who marched across Chilkoot Pass into the great unknown in the mad rush for hidden gold in the Alaskan wilderness. Lonely, his soul fired by a great ambition, his…

James M. Cain’s Double Indemnity, published in 1935, was adapted into a film in the year 1944. This film brought in over $5.7 million in gross net, changed how Hollywood censored films and shaped the path for numerous controversial films to soon be produced. Although Double Indemnity left its impact, the strict Production Code prevented the film adaptation from reaching the full potential sent forth by the book. In her book, Blackout, film noir critic Sheri Chinen Biesen explains how the Motion…

of the film for listening to the story in it’s natural language instead of an accented English is much more enjoyable than losing meanings of the words in translation. The words, while they are in fact Spanish, they are Cuban by nature. While this movie was produced in Spain, this film is meant to be Cuban, and the directors successfully do that by having the voice-over actors speak with the Cuban accent, instead of the Spanish one. The script utilizes slang, illustrates the proper mannerisms…

and never let them watch it to cause that problem to never happen. You should never let your child play rated M video games either because it teaches the child the same stuff as if watching a movie. You also do not want your child to grow up to turn into a psychopath and had to be put in jail because of a movie that you let your child watch when they were younger. You should always give strict rule for your child or a babysitter in order to let them know that it is not “fun and…

adolescent living in a Chicago suburb that fakes an illness to have a day off from school. Foolishness ensues that day; however, by the end of the day everything was as it was before. The movie had such a believable feel that anyone could put themselves in his shoes regardless of age, and that is why the movie continues to be a pop hit to this day. Honda hit the ball out of the park by bringing Matthew Broderick to do such an outlandish advertisement. The commercial begins with an older Matthew…

The mise-en-scene itself has been created in a “shabby” environment in order to implement the context of the scene. The setting is a reflection of each of the characters disposition, particularly to that of Brett. The setting of a small, cheap, and untidy appearance to the apartment combined with tattered furniture and dim low-key lighting, due to the only source of light being from a singular window, gives the impression that Jules is providing a sense of opportunity those inhibited in poor…

How do film classifications impact people’s viewing decisions? Film classifications can impact the viewing decisions of the people in different ways however to main goal is to provide viewers, mainly parents, with information to allow parents to make informed viewing decisions related to content in films (Classification.gov.au, 2014). The current system of film ratings emerged in 1968 and greatly impacted the industry as prior to this the rating system was simply a series of guidelines as to…

One may find it hard to find a direct relationship between films and nations, and their roles in an increasingly transnational world. In order to understand the relationship between film and nation, there needs to be an understanding of tradition as well as modernity. Throughout history, one could argue that nations could be defined easily by the films that were made there, and produced by people from there as well. In modern day society, however, this is not the case. A single film cannot…