Sound and image work coincidently to create a powerful experience for the audience. In film, everything relates back to the diegesis, particularly what filmmakers want to be recounted, and how it appears to viewers (Chion, 1994). After all, it is the narrative that catches any one person’s attention and pulls them into a world of their own interpretation. When looking at the relationship between sound and image, the diegetic and non-diegetic sounds are responsible for creating realistic…
Animation is a process of displaying still images in a rapid sequence to create the illusion of movement. Animation derives from Latin verb ‘Animare’ which means ‘to give life to’. Each picture is shot on film one at a time and is shown at the rate of 24 pictures per second making the pictures appear to move. Meanwhile, during silent era, animation was developed . It was started on 1906 until 1929 by the six famous cinematic animators with different background. There are James Stuart Blackton,…
of the new rising stars in Hollywood. Because of her outstanding performance in the latest film, The Danish Girl, Alicia is getting more and more recognition and finally won her first nomination for the best supporting role, even though she had to go up against many big stars like Kate Winslate, Rachel McAdams and Roony Mara. Although . I really admire her because of her touching performances in many films. She was not only nominated for the Oscar, but also The Golden Globes Award which is a big…
carried out by Universal. Universal distribution chief Nikki Rocco had spoken out about the success of the original film which drove them to take on a follow-up film. "'Dumb and Dumber' was a beloved film on home entertainment, and people wanted to be entertained. It's escapism," Rocco explained. Narrowly prevailing over former box office top spot holder 'Big Hero 6', the PG-13 comedy film is a direct sequel to the first movie 'Dumb and Dumber' in 1994. While Carrey and Daniels have reprised…
Production Code during that time which restricted Chaplin and forced him to remove scenes from the movie. As a result of that code, Chaplin couldn’t fully put out the message he really wanted. In 1952, Chaplin visited Europe for the premiere of his film 'Limelight' and was not allowed to return to the US. The government keeps an eye on everyone; some more than others. The tramp and the Gamin wanted a nice house, where the Gamin would cook for the Tramp when he came home for work. Every…
a western, how they’ve changed through the years, and why they’re still relevant. I will then talk about superhero films and how they have started, their brief history, how they’ve changed, and how westerns have influenced them as a genre. How it started. Westerns have been around in novels before film in books such as “The Lone Ranger” The American Film institute describes films as "set in the American West that embody the spirit, the struggle and the demise of the new frontier."…
Everyday women are judged for how they look, act, or say. No matter where a woman goes she must always worry about someone looking at her as nothing more than an object of pleasure. Because of this some women try to escape this reality by watching movies, but cinema itself is judging women. We live in such a male gaze driven society that women are now body shaming themselves because of how self-conscious they have become because they always believe they are being judged on their appearance.…
Among the many California-related films on the list, I chose the “Rush Hour” because it was one of the series of movies I had enjoyed watching it when I was young. The film's main story is about the process of finding Chinese Consul’s kidnapped daughter by Detective Carter and Lee and incidents happening along the processes. Throughout the film, it suggested lots of different images about the California. Although there are lots of images that are shown in the film like there are lots of traffics…
What is Netflix? Online Subscription business that allows consumers to rent movies and television shows and allows customers to stream movies and television shows through their computer, tablets, smart phones, smart Tv's, as well as receive DVDs and Blu-Ray discs delivered to their homes (Research and Markets, 2012). In July 2011 Netflix raised monthly subscription fees. Hundreds of thousands of irate customers posted angry comments to Netflix’s social media website’s, and their…
Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal make their directorial debut in the 2012 romantic drama The Words, starring Bradley Cooper, Dennis Quaid, Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wilde, and Jeremy Irons ("The Words"). Unfortunately for the audience, the starpower of this film can not make up for the unnecessarily complex plot and disappointingly anticlimactic finish. The story begins with Clayton Hammond (Dennis Quaid) reading his new book, The Words to an audience. The book focuses on the protagonist Rory…