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&#...

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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. ...

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Most recently, Richard Linklater has introduced us to his latest film Boyhood, a story spread over 12 years of a young boy's life. ... Later in the film, the main character confides in his father that the girl that he had liked had fallen short due to her lack of interest in Mason's favorite summer movies, Tropic Thunder, The Dark Knight, and Pineapple Express. ... Though a relatively short scene, it could be seen as a foreshadowing for the eventual digital revolution in the film industry. ... Slacker becomes the story of a broke Austin filmmaker exploring new methodologies of cinem...

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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. ...

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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...

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For example, Drummonds most intense speech happens during an excruciatingly hot day that causes the lawyers to be in short sleeves and fan themselves. ... against those that believed in the story of creationism laid out in the Bible. ...

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Therefore, narratively speaking, this short thirty-second clip summarizes the entire movie's plot. At first, the movie starts off music in the background that appears to be non-diegetic; that is, the sound seems to be coming from a source outside the story space. ...

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It avoided neatly plotted stories in favor of loose, episodic structures that evolve organically but however still had a clear cause and effect chain. Its stories explored the plight of the working class and the poor. ... In conclusion, despite its short lifespan and less than prolific amount of films produced, Italian neo-realism cinema has great influenced cinema all the way up to contemporary film. ...

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It avoided neatly plotted stories in favor of loose, episodic structures that evolve organically but however still had a clear cause and effect chain. Its stories explored the plight of the working class and the poor. ... In conclusion, despite its short lifespan and less than prolific amount of films produced, Italian neo-realism cinema has great influenced cinema all the way up to contemporary film. ...

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Brazil is a very complex and interesting country. Not only is it, the largest nation in Latin America but in addition it is the most varied in geography, climate, population and culture (Rist 1). The people of Brazil are from many different backgrounds due to it being colonised by the Europeans and then the high number of African slaves as well as the indigenous people. Therefore, each unique aspect of these peoples' customs and practices blend together to constitute Brazil's the rich cultural diversity. Brazilians main language is Portuguese, however, since it comprises a mixture of...

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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. ... The early films of Edison and Dickson were simple, short glimpses of "well-known sports figures, excerpts from noted vaudeville acts, or performances by dancers or acrobats" (Thompson & Bordwell 7). ... This reflects a clear evolutionary step, driven by human faculty, in the ability of the camera to tell a st...

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Caligari (1919), The Golem (1920), and Nosferatu(1922) were highly symbolic and deliberately surrealistic portrayals of filmed stories. ... The plots and stories of the Expressionist films often dealt with madness, insanity, betrayal, and other "intellectual" topics (as opposed to standard action-adventure and romantic films); the German name for this type of storytelling was called Kammerspielfilm. ... The short shots were referred to as shocks or attractions because they stood out and commanded attention within a film. ... Using "types- (Eisenstein was not interested in using professional...

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This told the simple story of simpleminded peasant girl who is sold to a circus strongman for a plate of pasta. ... Though he worked throughout the forties on short documentaries like N.U.... Cronaca di un amore (Story of a Love Affair, 1950) depicts the consequences of an affair between a wealthy housewife and a car salesman. ... (pg. 536) " This untold story of their disappearance exemplifies the impermanence and fragility of personal relationships while providing a perfect formula for a trilogy whose theme is about the hopelessness of love in contemporary life. ...

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From dog-fighting in Mexico to issues of transsexuality in Cuba, contemporary Latin American cinema covers a diverse array of topics. Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. She establishes that narrative cinema is viewed from the male gaze and women are coded for their "to-be-looked-at-ness". 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 phallocentrici...

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