Early works of Griffith formed and achieved a high level of short films. He is the first real master of the short film in American cinema. But he wasn't only one person who did the short films. ... Griffith's directorial debut was a short unpretentious story called "The Adventures of Dollie", filmed in 1908. ... In this story people put poison to each other's coffee and wait until some of them die. ...
You only have to take a short walk back through history to realize that today's "new releases" are actually borrowed from the past. ... Where, in similar circumstances "8 Mile" is a "feel-good" crowd-pleasing story about Rabbit (Eminem) who after humiliation rises up from the underdog persona to become the champion. Can I even go as far as saying both these feature films are similar to the fairy-tale, Cinderella rags-to-riches story? ... Also, in short, the character "Rabbit" from "8 Mile" was based on Eminem's own life. ... Of course there isn't anything new in cinema anymo...
Jack Finney wrote a very interesting short story named "Of Missing Persons" and for an assignment a college student named J.D. Marlow made a short movie based on the story that he called Escape to Verna. ... We learn that through watching the movie and reading the story and creating the interpretation. ... In the story he also indicates that he has no friends when the travel agent asks him, "Do you like people? ... Both the movie and the story show that Charley is a very distressed, distraught man. ...
What the people in the film industry came up with for the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" was pretty interesting. ... Much of the story was made more "glam" for the silver screen and major changes were made. I personally did not enjoy many of the changes because I believe that it was too far off from the orginal story The story had lots of big changes for the movie and probably one of the first ones that I noticed was the added characters. ... These characters were just one of the many distractions from the story and most of the time were pretty irrelevant from everything else that was...
Duo 2.National stations use long waves; regional, short waves. ... Most of the time news come in informative flashes, which are short spots between the regular shows that give short explanations about them. ... It might take a while receiving the news but it might be the most accurate media, because it always shoes the full stories. ...
Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard is a story set in the 1950s of the Hollywood and the film industry. ... Long story short, Joe is thrown in the cynical world of Norma Desmond and her desire to be a star, in which he ends up with three bullets in his chest. ... He is telling his own story and describes how he dies. Apart from that, he also tells this story of entrapment, greed, and deceit while dead. ...
The story of movies began in an other continent: It was in Europe, in Paris that Auguste and Louis Lumiére--- after several years of experimenting--- showed a film on the screen for the first time (on 28th of Dec. 1895.), for a paying audience. ... One of the first companies, the United Artists, was founded by Douglas Fairbanks ---the fearless hero of silent films--- and his wife Mary Pickford and in a short time they were said to be the uncrowned king and queen of Hollywood. ... When the sound and the colour film appeared, companies began to pour out the most variuos kinds of films: ...
Maltese Falcon In my opinion comparing both the written and film version of the Maltese Falcon I believed that the written version showed the intrigue of the story to be a little better than the film. ... Huston did not bother to add pointless stories like in the novel. A pointless story that was in the book but pointless in the film was the story with the man named Flitcraft that left his family because he so had a near death experience, it was a good choice of the film director Houston because I thought that the story had to do with the main plot. ... One character that the director did...
Even without dialogues like in literature, early talking pictures accompanied by sound told stories with as much thrill and captivation. George Melies's short feature films in particular were brilliant sound-on films, playing simply classic theatrical sound effects but successfully creating suspensions and climax as the stories went. Even in modern days, movies that are only dubbed with sound effects and music still provide the audience enthralling stories. ... Unlike words, moving images and sound keep the audience constantly engaged in the story. ... Images tend to recur in spectators&#...
Toy Story 2 was filmed totally on location - in cyberspace. ... During this time, a showing of a computer animated short film didn't win over many people watching. ... This tells a story of a wind-up toy's 1st encounter with a child. It won an academy award for the best animation short. ... It was a story of dinosaurs who were living in the current day. ...
One day, I was asked to make a short animated film and it was during the process of doing that when I first discovered editing. ... I'm also able to put my own ideas into the film, helping shape the story and the pace of a film. ... When a film has an effective rhythm, the editing appears to be seamless - leading the audience to become involved with the characters and the story. ... For me, editing is much like writing a story. I'm hired for my instincts and am trained to use different cuts to help present the story and create continuity....
Usually when you ask of people of what "pleasure" means to them, they would think of a satisfying story or a happy ending, but in the case of Grave of the Fireflies, even though the story is tragic, it gives a different form of pleasure. ... Lower pleasure gives us a short term pleasure. ... That's what makes Grave of the fireflies of a higher pleasure compared to lower pleasure films like movies of vice ganda that only caters humor and short term pleasure. ... –It was released together with My Neighbor Totoro in hopes that it would be in the Children's list, but fea...
This proposal is for a short documentary that will cover the life of Dr. ... Thus, making him the perfect candidate for a short film such as this. ... Overall, this documentary will be most attractive to those who enjoy human interest stories. ... Resolution The ending of the film will portray an ending question with 'what's your story?' This proposes the idea that everyone has a story and that everyone has something to talk about. ...
In short, Vertov has created Kino-eye to observe movements in the lives of Russians which then was effectively made into montages to be inscribed and defined within the context of another. ... Vertov's creation of story, however, was neither fabrication nor route of predetermined formulation that had strong subjectivity of control. The story is, rather, candid and presented in the way the real Russian daily lives were. The story plot also unfolds in chronological manner from morning to night and weekdays to weekends to give reality sensation. ... In metaphoric analogy, Eisenstein would be...
This is a story where love and war collide after a soldier brings his sweetheart to his Vietnamese post. ... In the movie, Rat Kiley who is telling the story seems gentler. ... "She stopped wearing jewelry, cut her hair short and wrapped it in a dark green bandanna," (O"Brien 98). ... In the film, after Rat finishes telling his story about Mary Anne, Mitchell Sanders was killed. ... Leaving out aspects of the novel limits the viewer's appreciation for the story. ...
Usually when you ask of people of what "pleasure" means to them, they would think of a satisfying story or a happy ending, but in the case of Grave of the Fireflies, even though the story is tragic, it gives a different form of pleasure. ... Lower pleasure gives us a short term pleasure. ... That's what makes Grave of the fireflies of a higher pleasure compared to lower pleasure films like movies of Vice Ganda that only caters humor and short term pleasure. ... –It was released together with My Neighbor Totoro in hopes that it would be in the Children's list, but fea...
(N.U. p 88) The punishment that Freeland talks about is that in most works, the reproduction goes so horribly wrong that the things that end up being formed are nothing short of monsters. ... It seems as if the plot of The Changeling is from what Stephan King writes, " the very basis of the horror story: secrets best left untold and things best left unsaid."" ... In a story such as The Changeling, it struck me as more of a detective story than a horror film, even though John Russell is being delivered clues from a supernatural source. Even with this in mind the story has its chilling an...
The film Notorious was Hitchcock's first attempt to bring his creative talents to a serious love story of two men in love with one woman, and he does so through his known attention to details, captivating the audience. ... The scene peaks at the end through a series of long shots interspersed with shorter point-of-view shots. ... Part 4: Conclusion The 1946 movie of Notorious was the first attempt of Alfred Hitchcock to utilize his creativity to apply it to a love story. ...
Even though I know that isn't very practical, it would have made one hell of a story and something great I would be able to remember my father by. ... Perhaps the thing I appreciated the most is that the filmmakers are content to tell this story at its own pace, and in its own way without throwing in gratuitous explosions and action sequences designed to appease audiences afflicted with short attention spans. ...
Demme's method is less affective because, without reading the novel, the viewer does not fully grasp the importance of the characters" past experiences and the effects they have on the characters through a few short flashbacks. ... The past experiences of the characters in Beloved, which plays an integral part of the story, are left out in the film due to the difficulty of jumping time. ...
The two men in the story become entranced with their separate passions, one wants the mighty prestige of a Japanese samurai and the other wants the power of money and wealth. ... After a short time of living in their dream worlds the men follow the advice they receive and do the right thing and return to their wives. ...
The struggle to be complacent within the collective is what brings harm and trouble within the story for the individuals that are singled out within the film. ... The film portrays almost a anti-hero stance towards Pancho Villa, the Mexican Revolutionary the film bases itself off of, even though he is only shown in sporadic scenes throughout the story. ... The groups social and political goals are cut short by the very struggle they helped fight for, in the end leaving a anti-climatic yet realistic resolution to the idea of manhood in battle. ... The film is an example of the French Popular F...
But after a relatively short period of time the novelty wore thin - something else was needed. ... But the attempts to brand- name the movies this way was short lived, significantly because of a man named Carl Laemmle. ... Soon after she signed with him, he spread the news that she had died - "But as soon as the story of Miss Lawrence's demise had hit the headlines, Laemmle mounted a lavish advertising champagne accusing his competitors of maliciously circulating the lie to discredit his new star."" ...
The film begins with a short sequence in modern-day France that shows one man visiting a particular grave in the sea of white crosses that marks the memorial to those who died liberating the country. ... The D-Day invasion at "Bloody Omaha" beach forms a prologue to the main story. ... Yes, it contains a framing story, as it must in order to engage its audience and continue moving forward. ... Story parallels are echoed in subplots, to point to the film's more thought-provoking questions, but they aren't dwelled on; they're simply brought up, and the film moves on. ...
The story is an example of the Jewish dream in conflict with American reality. ... Aside from the story line of the play, the "Old World" and the "New World" have a revolutionary impact on the film world. ... That relief was short lived, as he still had to choose between the synagogue and the opening night of the play. ... It is responsible for the end of silent films and is the perfect story of Jewish assimilation in America. ...
