Psycho

Suspense Suspenseful situations are thrills that base jumpers, roller coaster fanatics, and movie enthusiasts all possess. It is this suspense that they all seek, and it is especially common in Alfred Hitchcock’s films in which the most enticing moments are lurking around the corner. Specifically in Strangers on the Train, Hitchcock uniquely rolls out the drama by both expanding and contracting the audience’s knowledge as well as the characters’ knowledge. More precisely yet, Hitchcock alludes…

Films can cause an array of emotions to stir up within a person. The many different genres of film can allow a person to choose what they want to feel while watching. The most popular film genre when searched is comedy. Within that there can be romantic comedy, action comedy, suspenseful comedy and more. The number of films that one can enjoy is endless. Each genre contains a handful of emotions that the viewer will be feeling. The genre that can be described as both loved and hated is the…

Ames Room What is an Ames room? An Ames Room is a room that is used to create a visual illusion due to its slanted figure. While the room gives an appearance of a square-shaped from the viewers’ observation, it actually has a trapezoid shape. This effect works by developing a distorted room to create the illusion of a intense modification in its size. The illusion that is projected leads the observer to believe that the two objects that are in the same depth of area, when in reality the subject…

The classic thriller, suspense film Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock is one of his greatest masterpieces. In a small Greenwich Village apartment, a newspaper photographer with a casted leg takes frequent views of the surrounding Lower East Side apartment buildings, lower courtyard and garden. With a suspicion about one of his neighbors, Jeff believes that one neighbor inparticular is a murder, then decides to solve the mystery himself. With a combination of thriller, action and mystery,…

Evan Prunty 1 Outline Introduction Hitchcock's Themes Symbolism Hitchcock and David Fincher Use in Their Films Hitchcock's films directly influenced and relate to David Fincher's Gone Girl Conclusion Evan Prunty Professor Kimberly Neuendorf COM 320 15 October 2015 Introduction David Fincher?s modern masterpiece of cinema Gone Girl premiered around this time last year. Around that time, I was in COM 221 an intro to film class that is offered at CSU. In the class…

movie to take place because once someone is stranded, there is no way out. Roger Ebert describes this deserted town as a “town stuck in a time warp in the 1960’s” he then adds, “the house of wax dominates the town much as the Bates home towered above Psycho.” The ghost town adds a bit of mystery to the film, and provides increased depth to depict the town’s…

The contrast between “The Enchanting Shadow” and “A Chinese Ghost Story” The Enchanting Shadow in 1960, which was the first color film to participate in Cannes Festival. Compare to amount of the following Nie Xiaoqian story, A Chinese Ghost Story in 1987 was the most similar to The Enchanting Shadow in various respects, such as plot, setting and style of film making. For some of people, the neither familiar with nor enjoy The Enchanting Shadow. However, A Chinese Ghost Story was a remake of…

Stephen King is a widely acclaimed author in not just American culture, but around the world. He is commended for his significant contributions to the horror novel genre and the various movies and TV shows that have resulted from his books. In his book, On Writing, King outlines some his theories about why he was able to achieve the success he has. In the essay “On Stephen King,” author Gary Hoppenstand also presents his ideas as to why King has been so successful in his writing career. However…

The film that we watched in class was an extremely informational and eye-opening film. The name of that film is “Tapped.” The majority of the film is has to do with the water bottle industry. The film itself is basically split into two parts, half of the film talks about the water bottle industry and the other half talks about the effects that the water bottle industry has on the environment. The film starts off in a small town named Fryeburg, Maine. The people of the town talk about how the…

Kingsman: The Secret Service and The Man from U.N.C.L.E: Comparison and Contrast Movies about secret agents and diabolical “super-villains” are numerous in the film industry. Most films which were released specifically focuses on the deterrence of malicious notions, by the protagonist, from the evil clutches of villains, which are the antagonist. In the recent years, the implementation of mixing genres together has been normalized. From the production of Hollywood, Kingsman and U.N.C.L.E…