Toy Story 2 was filmed totally on location - in cyberspace. ... During this time, a showing of a computer animated short film didn't win over many people watching. ... This tells a story of a wind-up toy's 1st encounter with a child. It won an academy award for the best animation short. ... It was a story of dinosaurs who were living in the current day. ...
Wong says: "My works tend to become character films' rather than story films'I could chop those happenings into small pieces, and rearrange them with numerous possibilities."(Hansen, 2000, pp.43-44) So, he likes to imagine a variety of different outcomes for the next scene in his story and cannot narrow the choice down to only one of them by sacrificing others (Lalanne, 1997, p.11). ...
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...
INTRODUCTION It is truth universally acknowledge that a good novel in possession of a good love story must be in want of a screen adaptation. ... The main task here is to capture the essence and spirit of the story. The through-line and major sub-plot of the story are determined in a film and the rest features of a novel have to be viciously cut out. ... Light and dark have conventional associations built over generations of visual art and story telling. ...
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...
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. ...
The term Pure Cinema is one that embodies many different meanings and carries many implications that help give us insight to what cinema is, as an art form. The meaning of Pure Cinema also lends itself to many other theories and attitudes towards cinema. Many people, including myself, don't know ...
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...
