The technique allowed for characters to seamlessly change from one image to another. ... James Cameron6, who directed and produced "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" used CG graphics to create"T-1000", an evil metallic robot which chased after the characters, changing from one form to another seamlessly. ... The ball room scene used conventional cell animation by "inserting" dancing characters into the 3-D ball room. ... Images created by computers can be very simple, such as lines and circles, or extremely complex such as fractals and complicated rendered animations. If you want to crea...

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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. ... 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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These complex parameters of Pure Cinema will be examined through the films of the great narrative filmmaker Alfred Hitch cock, among others. ... Unfortunately for film purists times change, silent film is dead and we live in a world of films that exhibit complex conventions in both picture and sound. ... We must attempt to find the elusive guise of Pure Cinema within the complex and unPure film world in which we live, and I guarantee it is there one must simply look harder. A complex world of film requires the ability of a viewer to look closer to find the art among the entertainment. ... ...

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Thus such a move from telling to showing and specifically, from a long and complex novel to any form of performance is usually seen as the most fraught transposition. ... Conflicts and ideological differences between characters must be made visible and audible (Lodge, 1993:196-200). ... Characters placed in close suggests lack of statue. Another idea, which can be suggested by closeness, is discomfort, as with a character who invades the personal space of others. ... According to Gianetti, film language has the capacity to be even more complex than written language (Gianetti, 2005: 241). ...

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Musicians began using simple motifs that introduced a character or foreshadowed an event. Motifs are the elements of music that are pivotal in shaping the characters and the theme of the film. ... Sizeable orchestras, complex parts, lush harmonies, doubling of parts, full string parts, as well a influence from many European composers like Richard Strauss. ... The Informer is a film set in Ireland and tells the story of Gypo Nolan who is the tragic main character who is ultimately gunned down in the street. ... The film, Since You Went Away, has many similar elements in the music that make us f...

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They spot the main character who then starts to run away from them. ... The main character thanks his hero who asks him why he is here in the slums. ... The main character goes towards the spaceship, and he trys to open the hatch on the ship. ... They spot the main character who then starts to run away from them. ... The main character thanks his hero who asks him why he is here in the slums. ...

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Like a great chef he has cooked up haute cuisine using the same basic materials as his contemporaries, but has shifted the measurements so that the final result is finer and more complex. ... Another of Woo's trademarks, a character shooting two guns at once while flying through the air, also is used in this scene. ...

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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 word romance has a long and complex etymology, originally meaning something written in French. ... Romances, then, in the medieval sense of the term, treated imaginary characters involved in events remote in time or place and usually heroic, adventurous, or mysterious. ... If normally we would associate the use of close-up with a moment of emotional connection between two characters in a film (and indeed, Alvy and Alison's first meeting is filmed in just this way), here Alvy is establishing an emotional connection with the audience, an issue I shall return to later. ... The view of a ...

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