As the first feature film to examine outlaw motorcycle gang violence in America, The Wild One (1953), received considerable intense media attention. And the sale of black leather jackets and motorcycles reached new heights after the film's release, and motorcycles became a symbol of youth rebellion. Because the film was inspired and loosely based on a real-life incident over the Fourth of July weekend in 1947 in Hollister, California, (publicized in an issue of Harper's Magazine in a January ...
This paper discusses and provides an analysis of how some films are depicted by the indigenous people of New Zealand. These films include The piano, Once were warriors and Whale Rider. To bring us to a better understanding on this, the reception of these films by the New Zealand citizenry, including Maori groups will be focused on. In this essay, I evaluate a number of aspects as they are implicated in the films. The native language of the Maori people is the Maoritanga. They are believed to ...
Eisentein describe montage is one of the editing style of discontinuity in graphic qualities which means how the filmmakers combine together all the different shots sizes in different camera angle by using the editing suite with the force of powerful narrative. "Eisenstein held that proper film continuity should not proceed smoothly,but through a series of shocks. Whenever possible, he tried to create some kind of visual conflict or discontinuity between two shots with the goal of creating a ...
Many stories contain symbolism such as the conch in the well known story Lord of the Flies symbolizing order on the island, or the name "Fortunado" in the story The Cask of Amontillado, symbolizing an ironic ending to the character. One story in particular that uses symbolism throughout the whole story to represent many different things is the short story Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemmingway. Hemmingway is an outstanding author and writes magnificent stories. This short story of hi...
Leni Riefenstahl was born in August 1902. She was christened Helene Bertha Amalie. She was born into a prosperous family. Her father owned a successful heating and ventilation company and he wanted Leni to follow him into the world of business. However, her mother believed that Leni's future was in show business. In 1918, when she was 16, Leni started dance and ballet classes at the Grimm-Reiter Dance School in Berlin, where she quickly became a star pupil. Early Film Career: Riefenstahl gain...
White Nights is a 1985 film set sometime after the start of the Cold War. It stars Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Helen Mirren and Isabella Rossellini. Nikolai Rodchenko, played by Baryshnikov, is a Russian dancer who leaves the Soviet Union and flees to the United States. On a flight to Japan, his plane malfunctions and makes an emergency landing in a Russian military airbase. There, Nikolai is recognized and is stopped from returning to America by the KGB, the Russian secret police. Ra...
Proxemics is the study of how the cultural, social and aesthetic relationships between individual actors are conveyed to the audience. There are many ways proxemics can be interpreted on stage, and many different dynamics that affect proxemics, but it always concerns the spatial relationship between the subjects, objects and the setting. The different dynamics that are studied in proxemics are key to shaping the mood and effect that the director intends, for example levels are often used to s...
The genre of the movie is drama. It has been one of the most famous films because of their excellent presentation; good script, directing and clear enough to deliver the message to the audience. The Illusionist Film is produced by Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Michael London, Cathy Schulman,Bob Yari and screen writer/director is by Neil Burger and starring Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, and Paul Giamatti. That movie is based on Steven Millhauser's short story called s"Eisenheim the Illusionis...
Editing takes considerable part of "Baptism" scene at the end of the Godfather film. When spectators watch a film, they may not be aware of the editing parts because generally they do not know about real function of editing. However, they can easily notice if there is shift from one scene to another which provides continuity as well as captivating rhythm in film. When a film editor works on the parts of movie, he or she should know exact story to tell or create great editing. He should know w...
Leni Riefenstahl's films gave the world the lasting images of Nazi Germany, whether in the form of propaganda or as she claims, in a completely historical sense. Following the second world war, Leni Reifenstahl was both praised and put down for her contributions to the Nazi Party through her films. Some historical debates state she was creating propaganda films knowingly and deliberately for the Nazi regime while others have succumbed to her adamant protest that she was merely creating films ...
