Psycho

I have always been attracted to scary movies, like the bees are attracted to pollen and nectar in flowers. I do not know where this attraction for these indescribable and sometimes unbelievable movies come from, but I am sure that I like them. I have been watching scary movies since I was a child, not as often as now when a new scary movie comes out and everybody wants to watch it but somehow like that, I know you might wonder why every time a new scary movie comes out in theater almost…

D.W. Griffith's influence on cinema and culture David Wark Griffith has had an enormous influence on cinema and culture throughout many of his films. He was one of the first figures in cinema to begin and start a movement in camera use as well as radical movie directory. David Griffith was an American actor, writer, director, and producer. As well as one of the first figures to advance cinema at the time and begin a movement, both through use of camera and culture depiction of the era.…

Kingsman the secret service is a very poupular movie that stands out amongst modern serious spy movies. Such as Jason bourn or Daniel Craig James bond, by parodying classic James bond. The film is over the top with its gadgets, villain’s, and action, as well as forcing more on comedy. This essay will start with a brief summery of the film and than examine three examples of the hero’s journey. Firstly, the elderly mentor, after that the allies and enemies, and lastly the heroes return. Kingsman…

Black Swan It’s fascinating how people go to great lengths to get what they want or to pursue their goals. These actions that go beyond the extent of the audience’s imagination are what make movies consuming. Overall, the movie “Black Swan” shows such strange and creepy images that made me wonder what is a hallucination and what is real throughout the whole movie, and that thought kept me absorbed. The fragile and pure main character, Nina, who perfectly symbolizes the white swan, is constantly…

The setting plays an extremely central role in that it sets up the tone for the story. The great detail Eggers provides really puts the audience in his eyes where we can see what he is seeing. The descriptive details made me feel like I was watching a movie with extravagant scenery rather than reading words on a white piece of paper. Eggers describes the company's building as, "30 feet high [that] shot through with California light . . . the front hall was as . . . tall as a cathedral." Every…

The cinematography is one of the things that stands out most in the movie Vertigo. Not only is the vertigo effect (dolly zoom) fun and intriguing, but even from the beginning of the film, the shots really stand out and are very different from anything we’ve seen in Hitchcock’s earlier films. I liked watching the way the film transitioned from sepia to red and the various zooms to different parts of Madeleine’s face, then to the rotating symbols. All of this seemed very symbolic to me. The sepia…

Sound sets the tone, the mood, the mise-en-scene of the shot. Sound tells us much about the movie and also clarifies the situation. If we are to feel the suspense and fear of a scene, the background sounds get louder such as foot-steps and ticking clocks. A close-up of a sweating face in the dark tells us the person is scared of what might happen or that they just woke-up from a nightmare, depending on the sounds or lack thereof. Sound has great meaning in film when used creatively as a means of…

Released in 1935, The 39 Steps is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most famous masterpieces. Quickly becoming an international success, it established Hitchcock’s unshaken status as the cinematic ‘master of suspense’. This classic film is particularly notable today for combining suspense and humor, and many of Hitchcock’s other trademarks as it inspired many remakes and adaptations. The thriller starring Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll and Peggy Ashcroft is loosely based on the 1915 novel of the same…

Alfred Hitchcock was a masterful manipulator of film techniques to enhance the gothic atmosphere in Rebecca. He uses various techniques to manifest the atmosphere and genre that he wants to convey to the viewers. His use of film noir incorporated into many of the scenes reflects the mysterious and suspicious environment around the protagonist, The second Mrs DeWinter. Hitchcock portrays the character of the damsel in distress through his specific stage directions and thus he utilises his role as…

Wording, clothing, and sex were some of the most reoccurring problems the Production Code Administration had with Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film Rear Window. Throughout their communications, the PCA and the filmmakers discuss scenes that have subtle sexual undertones, risqué costumes, and wordings that the PCA found to be unacceptable. The correspondence between the filmmakers and the PCA begin around November 1953 and go on until around April 1954. Most of the letters are between Paramount…