Slapstick film

be able to get the message across to the audience. After 1903 and 1906 the film industry flourished, describes Maloney, and new techniques and equipment such as the mobile camera, the close-up and the editing of the films was introduced. Still exaggerated facial expressions, emotions and actions were required in order to create a melodramatic effect. He states that western and slapstick comedy dominated the arena of film, since the complicated logical deductions of the detectives were…

little about non-western films. I honestly didn’t even know where to begin looking for such a film. Luckily for me, Hulu has a section entitled “international films”. I browsed through the list quickly and was immediately drawn to a film called House (1977). The description was very vague. Seven school girls visit an aunt in the countryside and encounter a haunted house. I’m a sucker for horror films. I’m an even bigger sucker for really awful and cheesy horror films. I optimistically…

For this story “Videotape” it feels as if Don DeLillo had heard of the term “Mondo film” (or as it is also known Shockumantry) and was inspired by it to write a story of someone who would be a viewer of these kind of films. A “Mondo film” is a sub genre of exploitation films that take a documentary/pseudo documentary style focusing on taboo subjects such as death real or fake. Don DeLillo 's “Videotape” shows us a man who has become desensitized to violence. The character in the story is a…

other with all of the problems each one has. A later movie that Murray was in that had a big impact on his career was, Ghostbusters. Murray made a deal with Columbia Pictures to star in Ghostbusters, so they would help him by supporting him in his film The Razor’s Edge. After The Razor’s Edge came out, which did not have a good opening, Murray took four years off from acting to go back to school. During this time his son Luke was born. Bill Murray said he would not go into movies…

The movie that is being critiqued is called Rush Hour. This will cover as many comedic devices that can be found. Some of the devices found were exaggeration, Obsession, Slapstick, contrast, transgression and language. It will also cover laughter needing an echo, the depending on comedy has an absence of feeling. Some examples of exaggeration in rush hour would be when he assumes Lee can’t speak English in their first meeting. It relates because of the way he raises his voice to the point…

decline of the silent film era 1 Silent Films Introduction. The mental image that many people have of a silent film is of a simple, black and white film, perhaps grainy and distorted in image, depicting a time long gone. With modern, dialogue driven narratives in film, it is easy to forget that dialogue is not the only way to drive a story, dialogue does not necessarily need to be spoken out loud in order to be effective, and that many actors had built careers out of silent films- careers…

2015 film Movie Mind Machine. Directed by Maureen Bharoocha and written by Eric Cunningham. Here lays a film which serves viewers a little bit of satire, culture, and some questionable but funny science. The plot of a Movie Mind Machine (a machine that will erase one’s memory of a film so that they can re-experience it for the first time) is one so unique it carries the film through. Centered on Matt and Ron who built this machine and use it for enjoyment and dangerous experimentation, the film…

Hard Days Night its celebrating 50th its anniversary this year which enhances my reasons for choosing this film. In this paper, I will argue its historical and cultural significance, its influences on modern films, particularly the music video and demonstrate how Richard Lester’s techniques paved the way what seems the norm in the industry. I will also look at the other elements that make the film so iconic today. My Paper will cover concepts such as the influences of ‘The New French Way’…

The actors in each film are indicative of the era in which they were made. In The Immigrant, a silent era film, director Charlie Chaplin uses a group of actors that he’s used in previous films, most importantly Edna Purviance and Henry Bergman, with the latter starting in two of Chaplin’s 1915 films, The Kreutzer Sonata and The Melting Pot, all the way to Modern Times in 1936. Many similar ‘auteurs” of the time used the same actors as well, especially D.W. Griffith, who used actress Lillian Gish…

The Auteur Theory, is the idea that the true author of a film is the director. The director leaves an implicit remark on the film and because of this cinematic, literary, or thematic signature, they are credited as the author of the film. While there are numerous people involved in the production of a film, with some directors it is truly prominent who can be described as the author of the film. Mel Brooks, renown comical director and screenwriter is one instance of the undeniability of the…