The development of motion picture complexity has been driven by a continuing technological evolution, ignited and manipulated by human initiative and inventiveness, which has afforded filmmakers the opportunity to practice a more complex craft to tell more complex stories. ... Thompson and Bordwell detail Impressionist uses of the camera's optical devices: Superimpositions may convey a character's thoughts or memories. ... Throwing the lens out of focus could also convey subjectivity, whether we see the characters or through their eyes. ... The innovative use of these uniquely ci...

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In almost all of his films, he would have a character which would appear to be floating toward the camera. ... He creates landmark films to show the complex experiences of what it's like living in New York City. ... She's Gotta Have It creates a mixture of documentary which makes the film loose and open-ended, relying on characters addressing the camera directly. ... In another one of his films Raging Bull, for example, the main character LaMotta, who wrongly accuses his wife of being sexually involved with his brother. ... Lee spends a considerable amount of time focusing on his ch...

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Chungking Express depicts two virtually unrelated but loosely linked stories in which the paths of its characters crosses at some point in time. ... "Wong Kar-wai's visual style is intricate and complex as well as relentless" (Teo 194). ... On many occasions, the characters are shown in slow motion while everyone or everything else around them moves at hyperspeed, signifying a sense of being trapped in time, lost and isolated. ... Freeze frames were also used to capture significant moments in time, which in particular was used in the bridging scene where Cop 223 bumps into Faye, the fe...

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International film complexes, like Warner Cinemas placed all over the world will also help to keep profits coming. " A 1996 advertising industry survey of 20.000 consumers in nineteen nations revealed that 41.5 percent of the respondents considered US cultural fare to be excellent or very good, more than twice the figure for any other nation" (O"Sullivant, 1990:179). ... Every country has an MTV personalised, Taking Brazil into account, MTV is presented by Brazilian's well known personalities and Brazilian music is played, kids see Disney characters and The Simpsons as national pers...

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Thus Griffith ties 4 or 5 different locations in the same amount of different frames into one justified set of actions that easily makes sense to the viewer subconsciously, but complexly. ... She is just present, unlike other characters which are seen entering from different locations out of the frame and exiting the frame. ... Keeping in mind that the eye will eventually get bored of the same shot, or same characters posed in the same position, the director must add something else. ...

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She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentricism and psychoanalytic fear of castration. ... From a tertiary level the female characters seem to gain more respect and authority as the years progress, but these scopophilic elements still persist through all the narratives. ... She uses Lacanian and Freudian theory to explain her castration complex: the idea that men and women have a fear of lacking a penis as a function of our patriarchal soc...

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The history of movies/film, although only a century old, is rich and complex. ... Using "types- (Eisenstein was not interested in using professional actors, but used amateurs who were asked to draw on the experience of their own lives) rather than fully developed characters, he created a forceful, incessant logic for this story of the 1905 mutiny of the crew of Battleship Potemkin. ...

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