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The influence of Bollywood in everyday life According to the Oxford Dictionary, the name ‘Bollywood’ is actually derived from a portmanteau of Bombay and Hollywood; which we all popularly know as the hub of the American film industry. India, the world’s largest producer of films actualizes an average of 1,288 to 1,500 feature films every year compared to films produced by Hollywood which are only a fraction. Although Hindi cinema is just a segment of India’s annual film production, it remains…

Sometimes the movie industry believes that they can stretch a movie beyond the original story in order to capitalize on the achievements of the precursor film. This is not the case as Ted 2 fails to be as charming and funny as the original movie. The author of the films has made a career on repeating the same gags over and over on his TV shows, but when you go to a movie theater you expect to see more quality than your average TV program since you are paying for that ticket. The type of humor is…

1. I think the major musical film is no longer a money maker for Hollywood because it is not unique anymore. Viewers would find it repetitive or too common to make over and over again. Some scenes would especially be repetitive that would lost the interest of some viewers. Some challenges would be making it unique that allows it to stand out from other musicals. If it is the same story or similar ideas, it may be unsuccessful. Additionally, the actors need to be flwexible if they are in a…

The article “Peaks and Valleys” by John Calhoun investigates what shaped the film style of Brokeback Mountain. Calhoun interviewed the director of photography Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC, who offered a surprising amount of insight into how many of the films stylistic choices were made – many of them falling into the categories we discussed in class. It turns out, that even the director Ang Lee’s choice to recruit Prieto – and subsequently shape the style of the film – was partially driven by…

monsters and supervillains has been slowly amping up as it nears the release date. Suicide Squad is DC Extended Universe’s big move that promises to be bigger when it hits theaters. With cast members like Jared Leto, Harley Quinn and Will Smith, the movie is expected to be a big hit. With Suicide Squad’s theatrical release only a few weeks away, the supervillain ensemble and cast members are already taking their characters to various social media outlets to promote the film. Marketing materials…

Nick Lacey, is the characteristics or conventions for categorising genres, which contains five major factors; iconography, characters, settings, style, and narrative structure. Iconography is the images, tools, or features which are presented in the movie, the meaning is sent through these objects such as spaceships and high-technology tools in Science-Fiction films. Stereotyped characters, there are different types of characters in different genres, for example, action genre has both…

Keeping Up with the Kardashians During the past decade, TV has gained power over the years and became an assertive competitor for cinema. Specially, considering the fact that the quality of television products increased day by day and a lot of movie stars appear in TV shows. On the other hand, alongside TV series, reality shows have become an important ingredient of TV inbox. However ,there are a lot of debates about the reality shows being scripted and not actually visualization of real…

Although the film appears to pass beneath the eyepiece located at the crown of the contraption, I wanted to research this object for my response paper because the mechanics were difficult to make sense of at first glance. Described as “the birth of the movie industry,” the Kinetoscope was originally designed by Thomas Edison in the…

Reality is something humans define through sensory perception –what and how we see and hear all help create our experiences. Throughout the ages, storytelling been an art practiced by many and has taken several forms in order to appeal to these senses through such media as books, paintings, music, and film. When filmmaking first became an artistic medium capable of producing compelling stories, it took over one hundred years to reach the point technological advances the industry has reached…

Prior to our class, Peace Through Film, I had unfortunately not heard of the Global Peace Film Festival (GPFF). Last summer, I had the amazing opportunity to intern with a company that handles all of the publicity for the Sydney Film Festival (SFF). In certain ways the SFF differs from the GPFF, but overall they both have similar values as an organization. The Sydney Film Festival is larger than the GPFF and has a cash prize given to the best film selected by a panel of judges. The SFF is…