Mystery film

Brother to Brother Brother to Brother all throughout history that has been the question. It's always a competition between them, they constantly fight for the approval of their father. Which one is greater? Which one is stronger? Which one is smarter? That's is the evil deep inside of us all. The constant battle between each other for greatness. All the death and sorrow it has caused and yet we still have not learned from our mistakes. We constantly struggle with one another for these…

(1941) is a film directed by John Hunston. In the film, a private detective named Sam Spade’s partner gets murdered and a woman, Ruth Wonderly, shows up needing his help to find a falcon statue. Spade meets a variety of characters all with the same motive of acquiring the falcon statue. This films use of a classical opening and closing, the way it develops its characters, the omniscience of the narrator, and causal linearity combined with the continuity editing system define this film as an…

In The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare shows that he encourages the anti-Semitism and racism of the time. This is first shown through the choosing of the caskets of who will marry a fair lady named Portia.. Secondly, the language that is used by the characters when they are referring to Shylock. Lastly, the punishment of Shylock near the end of the play. Therefore, Shakespeare shows that he encourage the racism of the time. One reason that demonstrated how Shakespeare encouraged…

Burbank California. Burton was influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, dark humor, and fairy tales. Tim Burton is a film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator. His films are characterized as eerie disturbance. Tim Burton uses cinematic techniques such as shots and framing, lighting, and camera angles to achieve the dark horror/fantasy films that he is known for. The audience can tell a film Is by Burton if it includes a contrast of both light and dark colors, has characters with a disturbing…

The motif of the sled is quite significant, not only in this sequence but throughout the course of the film. ‘Rosebud’ is Mr. Kane’s last word on his deathbed and the film’s plot is based around uncovering the meaning of this peculiar word. The mystery is finally put to rest at the end of the film when Kane’s childhood sled inscribed with the word ‘Rosebud’ is thrown into a furnace. In the ‘Thatcher taking young Charles’ scene, the sled acts as a visual metaphor of Kane’s childhood. He is seen…

The Winchester Mystery House is one of California's most interesting attractions. Rumors say the owner built the house to confuse evil spirits and appease pleasant spirits. During the 1900's it was estimated to cost five million dollars to construct but no one knows the true value of the house today. You can now tour the house and decide for yourself if the house is truly haunted. Sarah Winchester was married to William Winchester; son of the inventor of the repeating rifle. The couple lost…

Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 Vertigo, stars James Stewart and Kim Novak in this mystery thriller about a retired detective who has acrophobia or "vertigo". John Ferguson, or to his friends Scotty, is on a private investigation to find out if his friends wife is possessed. The story takes place in San Fransisco in the late 1950's and is about retired detective John Ferguson, who after a tragic accident has acrophobia and decides to give up on being a detective. One day, an old friend from college…

by Ernie Gehr and So Is This by Michael Snow are two films built from constraints that seem to rely on similar understandings of motion and, in these understandings, evoke similar emotive responses. In these two films, we are presented with velocities. These velocities are causes of tension, frustration, and anxiety. Serene Velocity was filmed in one night in 1970 in a hallway of a building at the University of Binghamton. In a way, the film was made before it was ever filmed for it was…

summons a brilliant team of mentally stable henchmen in an attempt to create a multiple dimension dream world in order to plant and gain confidential information from some of the world’s most financially powerful beings, such as Saito and Fischer. This film features many complexities and overlap in themes, making it extremely difficult to pinpoint a single genre that best fits it. As Mike Brotherton states, “Science fiction is a story in which science plays a central role using elements beyond…

writing for film and television, he did not resume his teen detective idea for several years. Writing a novel could take months for Thomas, whereas a television script…