Rabbit, Run

In this essay, i will be focusing on the middle section of Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt, 1998) starting at the bank where Lola takes her father hostage, demanding 100,000 Marks from the cashier, to the post death scene of Manni (45 minutes to 53 minutes). I am going to be focusing on mise-en-scene how colour is used to portray different meanings in this segment of the film, and how it impacts the narrative, and the meaning behind this. “Lola rennt engages twenty first century audiences…

The Man with a Movie Camera, a 1929 silent film by Dziga Vertov, illustrates the typical life of an average citizen in the city. Through its visual images, without a plot, Vertov allows the audience to make their own interpretations of the events in order to construct an overall meaning of the film. Vertov uses editing, specifically rhythm and continuity, along with cinematography, to convey the theme that life has two sides, birth and death, marriage and divorce, and lastly the young and old.…

1. The theme major theme running throughout Run Lola Run was the idea of multiple outcomes depending on minor changes made by the characters. This idea can be found within the butterfly/domino effect. In terms of tone, the movie was all over the place. It ranged from comedic, to dramatic, to everything in between. The purpose of this decision was to give the audience whiplash at first and then gradually acclimate them to the characters, aesthetic, and plot points within the movie. 2. At the…

The 1998 German film Run Lola Run calls to question the actions and choices of individuals and how these factors alter their fates through the unique display of three separate, but similar timelines. This theme is introduced to the viewer through the beginning and end of each of Lola’s three runs, the timing of getting to Manni being the ultimate difference. Lola’s three runs not only affected Manni and herself but all the people she confronted on the way. Many of the minor character’s futures…

To say that this book was compelling might be an understatement of how enthralling and thought-provoking the effort and reporting was in Alice Goffman’s work. “On the Run” seemed to have everything in it: stories of heartbreak, struggle, and physical and psychological turmoil, the propensity and pressures of urban youths to engage in risky and illicit activities, a stark, slap-in-the-face look at the injustices and prejudices police departments and task forces have assumed since the Civil…

sense that so many things can go so many different ways. There are numerous scenarios where we as humans could have done something better or worse. Or perhaps we were saved by ten seconds from a fatal car crash. In a very captivating German film, Run Lola Run, film director Tom Tykwer explores this topic of time with a great visual aesthetic. In this film, Lola, the main character, receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni who has lost one hundred-thousand German marks. If he does not find…

Good afternoon my fellow students and teachers, today I’ll be analysing and demonstrating to you how Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run and Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory, use the distinctively visual to convey and enhance the audiences perception of their ideas. Well Let’s get into it. In Tom Tykwer post-modernist film Run Lola Run, the main themes are the power of time and the amplifying effects of minor changes, both of these concepts are fundamental throughout the whole movie. The opening…

In Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1998), one visual effect that is repeated multiple times is the transition from real life to a cartoon, like shown above. Color values, composition, and depth will be used to help discuss the role of the above still. In this particular frame the dominant colors are Lola’s red hair, green and blue clothes, and her skin color. The colors contrast the brown and black stairwell in the background. The dark stairwell seems symbolic of Lola’s journey; it seems to go deeper…

sleep because of nightmares, and he looked unsettled about that. Leading viewers to believe that he’s done some bad things in his past. Lee joined the group to get away from his past and away from a society that he’s been on the run from. He tells Chris that he has been on the run for a while and thinks it would be nice to not have to be running away for a bit and that’s why he wants to help save the town. Those types of characteristics don’t usually lead one to be thought of as a hero, but Lee…

Cottontail rabbits, the most abundant small-game animals in the county, prefer bushy areas interspersed with cropland and pasture. cottontail rabbits occur in greatest numbers in the southwestern part of of the westmoreland county, 2. Gray squirrels, they are the second in abundance among the small game animals. They generally prefer the edges of woodland. They are most plentiful where black oak, red oak, and chestnut oak are dominant They are also numerous where cornfields are…