Thums Up

Blurred and reddened close-ups of Joel screaming interfere with these cut-ins and eventually prompt him to recount his memories of Clementine, making him relive his memories as they are erased. The formerly described calamity ends with a relatively peaceful wide shot of Joel lying in bed with the apparatus attached to his head. The camera’s focus shifts to a couple of Stan and Patrick shots, finally shifting to a close-up of Joel uttering “Patrick” after Stan calls for Patrick…

note suggests that there is indeed a 67th patient. We later learn that Teddy is the 67th patient at Shutter Island. The close up of this shot plays a major factor in a reveal in the film, which is that Teddy is in fact a patient at Ashecliffe Mental Hospital. The close-up angle shows very little background, emphasizing the importance of the note. In this case, the close up is focused on the words on the note, displaying the information that leads to the reveal. The reason the director did this…

Maximizing shareholder’s wealth is the most important business managers or chief executives ' responsibility. When the company becomes public, investors supply assets and cash. In order to keep up those assets, the chief executive or manager has to make decisions to increase the shareholder 's return, which occasionally can be inhuman and unethical. In Network, it displays Frank Hackett’s willingness (Robert Duvall) to make decisions, which is in his favor but intentionally puts Howard Beale…

witnessed Moses, Ron, Brewis and Moses being arrested at the scene by the police to where he then begins to cheer for Moses which resulted in the crowd of other residents cheering and shouting out Moses’ name as well played by Simon Howard. Quotes: “Hurry up guys, we gotta catch ‘em all!” “It was like some Gears of War…

Journal 1 After the first two weeks of lecture in Cinema Appreciation I have learned a great deal more about what goes into making a film. I was under the impression that there was one magical camera that could change settings to capture the diverse range of images instantaneously. Active viewing was something, I thought I did, but it wasn’t until I took a step back and saw the variety of shots and how each one of them is put together that I realized that there is more then one way to watch a…

I want to have a good posture. I want to gain strength and work on my core. I want to get generally fitter, I thought when choosing my classes. And so when I hurt my wrist, my first reaction was absolute panic that I will not be able to continue with pilates, yoga and self-defense. “Write an evaluation of this class,” my pilates teacher said after she saw me. I might not have looked eager to do it, but I was – I can at least write about exercising when I cannot do it. And so I took a pencil and…

proposition by Japanese businessman Mr. Saito Cobb cannot resist he assembles a team together, the plan to plant an idea in Mr. Saito’s opposition Robert Fischer Sr mind by creating dreams with dreams so in the end Robert Fischer Sr would think he came up with the idea himself. However the plan is a lot more difficult and complex. This scene is centred on the character Arthur, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He is in another layer of the dream world and in the process manages to get into a fight…

The connection between an audience and the story unfolding onscreen facilitates a reaction necessary to create an emotional impact. The connection is made possible by the films form due to music, shots, and editing. Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) succeeded in terrorizing its viewers through such techniques, creating a fictitious environment that could very well become their actual reality. Kenneth Burke states that “any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a…

So it was the last day of school and it started off like any other day Shelby,Chelsey and I got up and did our chores. Are horse Econia was pregnant at the time. She was 2 weeks over her due date. So we left her in her stall just incase she were to start going into labor. So we get to school and Courtney stayed home because she was “sick”. It gets to around lunch time and people in my school were asking about the baby horse i didn't know what they were talking about. So i looked on facebook and…

time to use his powers for good! And as he thought about that he did something he has never done before, well for one he was floating in mid air and then his body was changing like a magic-fiery glow, with different colors of of the rainbow swirling up his…