The Silent Gondoliers

that beautiful place where everyone seems to be dreaming about. The future has been a perfect spot for the movies industry. The constantly human’s need to know what our actions and consequences would bring, have been the base for movies like Her, Silent Running, 2001:Space Odyssey and Stranger Days. Putting all the beautiful visual effects and futuristic graphics aside, movies is the best way to travel in time because they show us a visual representation of an upcoming future. Directors like…

to live but someone with religion doesn’t make them believe that. Another interesting topic to discuss is that the millenniums and the youngest ones of them are the ones who have the lowest belief in God at only twenty-seven percent compared to the silent generation of a number that almost doubles at fifty-one percent. Chances are because some of the younger people are exploring and trying to figure out what they are doing on earth and what is there purpose in life which could lead them to a…

Exit Trough the Gift Shop The film ‘’Exit Through the Gift Shop is a documentary of street art that focused on the two street artist, Banksy a secretive artist who never revealed his identity, and Thierry Guetta a French immigrant from Los Angeles whose passion is film making and became an overnight sensation. Before gaining Thierry’s fame as an inspiring artist he became Banksy’s guide in Los Angeles when he need somebody to help him find walls to do his art, a film documentarist, and an…

In the opening sequence of the 1979 film, Apocalypse Now, the technique of double exposing film is used repeatedly. The origins of the technique date back to early photographers in the late 1800’s and the technique was translated into filmmaking very soon after the birth of cinema. The first use of the double exposure in film was in The Great Train Robbery, which was released in 1903, but the technique exploded in the 1920’s when cinema became a more well-known art form. The double exposure…

Shanice Homeward Mrs.Cariddi January 6, 2016 Charlie Chaplin: A Roaring 20’s Hero Charlie Chaplin was a comic actor, director, producer and writer in silent films. He was born on April 16, 1889 in London, England. He was most recognized for his iconic character “The Tramp” who and sported a bowler hat, a toothbrush mustache, a cane and oversized pants. He was a regarded as a hero in the 20’s and the most “influential and important people in the history of the film industry. At the time, Charlie…

while watching the Lumière brothers Arriva of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) in France. These new moving images amazed audiences all over the world. Thanks to Thomas Edison, Georges Méliès and the Lumière brothers, the great pioneers of film history. Silent films used camera effects, music, lighting, staging of props and the actor’s body language as a medium to create a universal language that communicated to people intellectually and emotionally. A collection of Thomas Edison, Georges Méliès and…

Films currently have a rating system that establishes what age group is appropriate to watch the film that’s being screened. However, there was a time where people were able to watch whatever film they wanted despite their age. But that was a different time, an influential time for film. Censorship existed still it wasn’t till the Production Code Administration was created when they actually started enforcing the Code thus ending the Pre-Code Era. In order to understand how the government was…

Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men follows three men on a wild chase through the borders. While on a hunting endeavor, Llewelyn Moss discovers the scene of a drug deal gone wrong. As he investigates the scene, he finds 1.4 million dollars and decides to take it. Upon taking the money, he seals his fate with a brutal killer named Anton Chiguhr. As Moss is running from Chigur, the old Sheriff, Ed Tom Bell is chasing them. These men display three different personalities and mannerisms. The…

Evolution is defined by Merriam Webster Dictionary as the process of slow change and development. There is no artform more influenced by the evolution of technology than film and specifically animation. Animation itself was born out of the evolution of technology, specifically photography. Eadweard Muybridge inspired a new way to capture motion with his photographs of animals and humans in motion, other advancements in the camera pushed film forwards, but it was the mistake of George Melies that…

while. Movies gave the world a new way to live in the 1920’s. In the 1920’s silent movies were the biggest thing to happen. In spite the fact that they are called silent movies they weren’t always necessarily silent. As said, “Silent Movies were accompanied by music that conveyed the drama and emotion of each scene. The music was played on a piano or an organ”(Alchin). Then it was known when you went to…