Orson Scott Card

Pyscho is a very popular film which released on January 12th 1960 in Hong Kong and was directed by the famous Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock had said that one of the reasons why he shot Pyscho as a back-and-white film was because he thought that the murder scene might have been too intense for the audience to watch . So going back to the shower scene, it is one of the most prominent and iconic scenes shot in all cinemas. The scene begins when we can see one of the leading actresses Marion Crane…

Merly Beaumonte Media 15: Essay Two October 26, 2016 Which one of you nuts has got any guts? I’ve discovered one of my favorite films in film history class. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was a phenomenal and unforgettable film directed by Milos Forman. This film premiered in 1975 and is considered one of the best New Hollywood films. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is a great example of the director’s work and also undeniably one of the best films ever made in the history of movie making.…

The Auteur Theory is defined by a director who is the main force for a film. A main creative force is usually someone who wrote, directed, and maybe even edited their own film. Although in MMP’s it’s extremely rare for a director to edit their own movies, it’s not unheard of in the indie market. It is debatable whether if directors who are the main creative forces in their film make it any better, because sometimes they fail. A great example of an auteur theory director is George Lucas, and he…

Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles, is a 1941 film about reporters who try to gather personal details about Charles Foster Kane. Specifically trying to uncover the meaning of his last dying word, Rosebud. Throughout the film many personal truths are revealed about Kane, many people considered to be close to Kane were interviewed to find the meaning of Rosebud, but many other things were revealed about Kane. Citizen Kane is a film representing people who have had a traumatic experience that…

Did you like it? Why or why not? Citizen Kane is one of the best film that I have watched, I enjoyed watching how politics were during that time. The film was released in year 1941 which is known as an American dramatic film which was directed by Orson Welles. Citizen Kane was nominated for an Academy Award but won only the best original screenplay that was played by Herman and welles. The story of this film is a fictionalized pastiche of the life of William Randolph Hearst and Welles' own life.…

During the film Citizen Kane, I realized theme in it was the struggle of telling one man's story. I mention this in my main assignment, but I have since then gains even more information of this topic. At the begining of the flim they reveal the first draft of the news clip and then have an arguement on how they did not tell Charles Foster Kane's true story, but just his business half of it. Now getting to why I am adding on to what I said in my main assignment, I recently saw a commerical…

This movie Citizen Kane was directed by Orson Welles. The movie was released on September 5, 1941. Citizen Kane was known as a drama or mystery movie. This movie was made in a very unique way with flashbacks and flash forwards. In this essay I will discuss the how important flashbacks and flash forwards are, the flashbacks, and flashforwards. Flashbacks and flash forwards are very important in this movie. If you did not pay attention to this movie entirely than you will be lost. In this movie,…

Both Citizen Kane and The Great Dictator are widely considered to be among the best films of all time in their respective genres. Orson Welles’ masterpiece may very well be the greatest drama film ever created, while The Great Dictator became Charlie Chaplin’s magnum opus and was the most anticipated motion picture of its time. Although there are many explanations as to why these films have withstood the test of time, the cinematography and artistic choices by Welles and Chaplin stand out as a…

The movie that I chose to do this week assignment on is called “Crash” directed by P. Haggis in 2004. Once I started watching this movie I realized that it was one that I had seen before and thought was a really good movie with a wonderful meaning at the end. This movie won three Oscars in 2005 for best picture, best original screenplay, and best editing. In this week assignment we are to pick an interpersonal conflict in the movie we chose to watch. In Crash there were lots of interpersonal…

style and unconventional techniques made him a maverick, a genius, and rebel in the entertainment industry, and like the character portrayed in the film, director Orson Welles also had his rise and fall to fame. The film begins among the desolate landscape and remains of Xanadu castle as “aging newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) dies in his sprawling Florida estate after uttering a single, enigmatic final word -- “Rosebud“ -- and newsreel producer Rawlston (Phil Van…