The Grand Budapest Hotel is loosely based on the events leading up to and including World War II while combining dark undertones, planimetric framing, stylized acting, and mood lighting to transcend various levels of time and locations in order to establish a basis of confusion, amusement, and diversion all at the same time by cutting from scene to scene in a planimetric but also story telling fashion from setting to setting giving the audience joyful memories littered with sadness as the main characters reminisce. ... As each cut-away occurs, the degree of the lighting, colors, and acting cha...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is a perfect example of sexual awakening. ... His way of shooting, his real life approach, and his natural settings forms the ultimate suspension of disbelief for any person who falls under the spell of a Satyajit Ray picture. ...

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Obviously there are many aspects that influence film and its development. The history of movies/film, although only a century old, is rich and complex. This essay tries to bring light into the roots of film by focusing on two main movements that have very much helped shape the techniques of contemporary film making. - German Expressionism and Formalism, both of which occurred in the 1910's and mainly in the 1920's. Both these movements resulted in influential developments in film theory and a distinctive body of films that are still considered important by nowadays film makers. E...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate