Lighting is also used to show romantic or sad scenes in the movie. ... The "Halloween" scene, the "Romantic" scene, and the "Snowman" scene use non-high key lighting. The "Romantic" scene uses dimmed lighting to reflect Ester's feelings once again. She is trying to create a romantic atmosphere so that she can make John Truett want to kiss her. ...
Within this context, the director made use of flashback technique to unearth the romantic story of the lovers in the film. ... From a different angle of view, close-up shots of the lovers (in the deck) provide richness and romantic touch to the scenes. ... Within the context of societal impact, the director proved that a historical event can be made use as the theme and can be portrayed as a fiction and romantic story. ...
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. ... Expressionism is a more generalized, romantic conception of film as an expressive force. ...
Bianca appears in the film sporting an image which could not be further from that of her sister, as she floats across the screen, through the clever use of slow-motion camera techniques, to the soft, non-diagetic strains of a romantic melody. In addition to signifying her feminine image and the desirability of her presence to other students at Padua, the use of this romantic music reinforces the effect that this first sight of Bianca is having on the emotions of Cameron James. ...
Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Psychological Suspense Alfred Hitchcock has earned the title ofMaster of Suspense? by creating films conveying on screen some of his own personal phobias. As child, Alfred Hitchcock had a run in with the police in which changed his prospective on author and, the...
Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Psychological Suspense Alfred Hitchcock has earned the title ofMaster of Suspense? by creating films conveying on screen some of his own personal phobias. As child, Alfred Hitchcock had a run in with the police in which changed his prospective on author and, the...
In this essay we will look at the production, reception and interpretation of American film, concentrating in particular on the role of the gangster film. In order to do this we will focus on The Godfather (1972) and Goodfellas (1990). We will first identify a definition for the gangster film genre and go on to discuss the role it has played in American Film with reference to the aforementioned films. Film genres are categories of film characterized by instantly recognisable recurring patterns of setting, content, theme, styles, characters, and stars. Differences between genres are usua...
THE ARTS IN CONTEXT HISTORY OF The Arts covers a wide verity of professions from Theatre, Music to Literature and the of it goes as far back to the cave men in preastoric times to modern day and even now new ways are being thought of and old ideas have been changed. American Film In 1896, the famous inventor Thomas Edison won the patent for the Latham Loop, a device that prevented the film inside a camera from snapping. Thus ensued a series of conflicts, lawsuits, pirating, and armed confrontations, as would-be movie producers struggled to attain independence from Edison's attem...
The modern prejudice against genre in art can be traced to the aesthetic theories of the Romantic period' (Braudy Genre: the Conventions of Connections 1979) a period where art was characterised by uniqueness and individuality. ...
