As each cut-away occurs, the degree of the lighting, colors, and acting changes based on the setting; This method of cutting away is used to clue in the audience and grab their attention (or to do the opposite). ... Overall, these instances are used to teach the audience that the story will be told via cut-aways while also setting up the later points in the film for aggressive lighting, colors, and acting. ... Zero framed by the contrast lighting as the camera comes closer to his face and he begins his epic story to which the setting cuts to its deepest root. ... Gustave and the ZZ soldiers ...

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The main mention to costume in the books was the man in black, who ironically proved to be the opposite of what his dark clothes and mask suggested. Similarly, props and setting play a much greater part in the film than in the book, close attention being paid to ensure the rural village is idyllic and the castle magnificent. Where in a book the imagination provides the information that is left out, each responder creating their own image of each setting, in a movie it is essential to design each individual element to create the right impression. ... Where many of the props, such as the Rod...

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According to Rebeca Duran because Rio de Janeiro was the primed location for modernization and introduction of unfamiliar cultures, it was the right location for setting up the first cinema in the country in 1896 (1). ... The films of this period were mainly low-budget films which were screen on location to utilize the natural beauty of the arid Sertão where these films took a realistic view at Brazil's social condition and portray poverty, drought and race discrimination which where beautifully highlighted in black and white and play out by non-professional actors. ... However, starti...

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