Schaffner's masterpiece is a solid example of world building, using landscape to create a world that feels entirely alien, but also maintains a sense of realism. Paramount to the film's incredible sense of realism is the width from which the frames are shot, giving the viewer an idea of both the vastness in size as well as innate peculiarity of the foreign planet. ... The film does a great job continually exposing the audience to new, foreign, incredibly believable sets, increasing the film's intense realism and gravitas. ...

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Killer of Sheep by Charles Burnett is a film that effectively uses noir realism to portray to the viewer the everyday life and mundane routine that many people went through in the city of Los Angeles, especially in the poverty ridden neighborhood of Watts. ... "Rather than replicating Hollywood's classical realism and linear narrative structure, members of the L.A. ...

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Although the film is only loosely based on a true incident, it's hard not to accept these characters and events as real and this is one very important aspect when looking at the representation of war in Saving Private Ryan, tghe realism of the representation of war. ... The results convey a gritty realism. ...

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Steel Magnolias: The Divine Movie In a comparison of the two movies The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Steel Magnolias, the better of two is Steel Magnolias. The plot summary in Steel Magnolias is more realistic than the plot summary in The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, an...

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The Bicycle Thief is an excellent example of Italian Neorealism because it shows the working class without glamorous enhancements to the script or in the editing room and the production uses outdoor sets and natural lighting to enhance the realism. ...

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"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is a collaboration between Disney and Steven Speilberg, the live direction was done by Robert Zemeckis, and Richard Williams directed the animation. The $45 million dollar production of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was one of Steven Spielberg's most risky films due to its ext...

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D. W. Griffith was born in Kentucky, in 1875. His father was a wealthy southern farmer. During the war between North and South, he took the side of the Confederates, after the defeat Griffith's family became poor. In 1882, the year of Griffith's father dies, and after his death is that he is bank...

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500 Days of Summer, a romantic comedy, and a film directed by Marc Webb is a greatly evoked story about how life truly is not what society would like for it to be; and that life is more or less controlled by fate. The captured essence of human life, music, and the location all contribute to how grea...

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The right thing 1 Article Essay: Spike Lee's, "Do The Right Thing" The right thing 2 Article Essay: Spike Lee's, "Do The Right Thing" Spike Lee is one of the many directors who in my opinion always want to keep people alert. He is without a doubt an intelligent man that believes he ...

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People always say that a man's necessities can be satisfied but never the greed. But how strong can greed really mean to him? When the protagonist discovers that the black hole could satisfy all of his wants, he becomes fearless. All of a sudden, the carefulness and concerns from before diminishe...

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Violence as Novocain People fighting, weapons, gun fire, pain, and hurt none of us want in our lives, and yet all of this is a part of almost everyone's every day life through entertainment. Try to think of the last time a day passed when you saw no violence whatsoever. It's hard, if not i...

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"The subject of neo-realism film is the world; not the story or narrative. It contains no preconceived thesis, because ideas are born in the film from the subject." This was said by one of the founding fathers of the cinematic Neorealistic movement, Roberto Rossellini. Neorealism was a movemen...

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Saving Private Ryan (SPR) vs. Braveheart is an ever-present entity in the world of cinema. The films SPR and Braveheart show strikingly similar, yet different aspects of war. Both are epic tales of love lost and how the circumstances surrounding that loss contribute to the success of the film as a w...

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After years of dominating the industry through producing "white telephone " films, film critics began to harshly criticize its attempts to imitate American film and suggested that there be more realism coming from Italians. ... Britain's cinema took a sudden upswing with Technicolor productions, which were filled with dramatic narratives that were resonant of the French poetic realism. ...

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It's a brilliant design but it's not Robocop it's this pathetic cliche realism approach that all modern action sci-fi films have taken in recent years where every design of a character has been morphed into one with all black Kevlar. ...

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Ida Lupino's body of work explores a realistic scope of human emotion both in the lives of men and women. Her movies Hard, Fast and Beautiful and The Bigamist are no exceptions. Rather than focusing on gender issues, Lupino chooses to investigate the delicate balance that common people walk between decent and outrageous morals. As a female director in an otherwise male-dominated 1950s Hollywood, perhaps Lupino's most arduous task was to make her films stand out from the classic Hollywood mode and her ambiguity and subject matter both aid in achieving this goal. Feminist critics ca...

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Context Social, Historical and Cultural Context The context surrounding 2001 A Space Odyssey contributes to the ground-breaking impact it had on cinema, and has ultimately influenced the content of the film. The central themes are strongly influenced by political and cultural developments at the ti...

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Films are probably the closest medium we have to experiencing the inexplicable quality of the dream in our waking lives. Rich in symbol, metaphor, movement and mystery, films, like dreams, enable us to participate in another reality, and, through that participation, to be transformed. Films are like dreams and dreams interpret symbolism in ways science has not even fully discovered yet. The images and symbols within a film are unending and unaccountable. Even the creators of films themselves cannot be aware of the unconscious impact of them all. ...

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Annie Hall In this essay, I am going to discuss a certain way of viewing Annie Hall to you. This lecture has two purposes: both to illuminate some of Annie Hall's central concerns, through analysing both its aesthetic and narrative structures; and to allow you to consider a way in which a film can be approached as a visual text. "A nervous romance" Annie Hall is a film about a modern romance, a "nervous romance", as the marketing of the film puts it. What might be meant by this term? The word romance has a long and complex etymology, originally meaning something written in Fren...

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