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Cinematic Technique Known as 'the Long Take'

In six pages this paper examines how filmmakers such as Hou and Orson Welles have employed the long take cinematic technique in su...

Making a Movie Out of Henrik Ibsen's Play A Doll's House

should convey a sense of the strength that is reflected in Nora. The adornments and the furnishings are only accessories to the s...

'1791' and 'Amadeus'

post as court composer and imperial Kapellmeister). In the movie Salieris music is simpleminded - this could have never been the ...

Ludwig von Beethoven's 5th Symphony's Symphonic Form

In nine pages the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is examined in terms of Recapitulation, Development, and Exposition...

Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World and Johann von Goethe's Living Hand to Mouth

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these two works in terms of the importance of the contemporary world's awareness o...

JFK, a Critical Overview

Few movies have sparked more controversy than JFK, Oliver Stone's 1991 descent into conspiracy theory. This paper offers a critica...

Depiction of Reality by Woody Allen in Mighty Aphrodite, Purple Rose of Cairo, Zelig, and Annie Hall

In ten pages this paper discusses filmmaker Allen's portrayal of reality in four of his most critically acclaimed motion pictures....

Cinema and Novel Expansion of Blade Runner

but an android is not designed to react emotionally and must formulate a false emphatic response. The difference in the time invol...

Platoon Film by Director Oliver Stone

Platoons top-notch portrayals by the actors were a joy. Ensemble performances are all first-rate with Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe ...

Analyzing Text and Film Interpretations of All the Pretty Horses

and the ancient road was shaped before him in the rose and canted light like a dream of the past where the painted ponies and the ...

Film Director John Schlesinger

In five pages this research paper examines the cinematic career of filmmaker John Schlesinger in an artistic consideration of such...

Movies of Federico Fellini and Women's Roles

In six pages this research paper discusses the narratives in 3 movies by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini in an analysis of the ...

Cynicism, Romance, and Annie Hall by Director Woody Allen

In six pages this paper examines the themes of cynicism and romance within the context of this 1977 Academy Award winning film Ann...

Motivation and Drive of Director Steven Spielberg

he paid his dues. Many of those dues included working for other people and learning from some of the best in the industry. He wo...

The Kid and Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...

Modern Cinema in China

began in Hong Kong back in 1979, and was like a "coming of age" for the film industry (Li 709). Suddenly, there was a new generat...

Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria and Existentialism

typical abused prostitute. Her boyfriend treats her badly and in fact the films opening shocks as he throws her into the water whe...

Luchino Visconti's Film Ludwig from a Sociopolitical Perspective

which attacks everything the ruling class stands for (Ludwig). The cinematic protagonist is the last Bavarian king (1845-1886), a...

Rintaro's Anime Version of Metropolis

of the city have depth. These cityscapes are incredibly beautiful. Although there are futuristic features about the city, it is la...

Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Johann von Goethe's Faust

And to my cost Theology, With ardent labour, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before"...

Cinema and Truth

sister, Cynthia. As if to complicate matters further, Johns old college friend, Graham, shows up in town for a visit and something...

Alfred Hitchcock's Genius

his cinematic apprenticeship working for British studios - working first as an artist, set designer and directors assistant before...

Analyzing Milos Forman's Film Amadeus

film, which is told via flashbacks by Salieri, who is in an asylum after attempting suicide, and concentrates on the final ten yea...

Woody Allen's Life and Career

the undeniable connection that exists between the foibles of falling in and out of love, regardless of the unreal circumstances in...

Godfather Films of Francis Ford Coppola

Godfather realizes that his son, Michael, has yet to arrive. He refuses to take the picture until Michael arrives. In thi...

Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents and Johann von Goethe's Faust

of human beings is of far greater impact than the behavior of human beings as separate individuals. How humans act based on their...

1936 Olympic Games in Berlin

statement that Social Fascism and Nazism actually worked. At the time, the Games did the job: Shirer noted that "the athletes from...

Steven Spielberg and David Lean Cinematic Comparison

easy to see how Leans grasp of cinematography and his ability to create and drive plots throughout the directing and filming proce...

QUALITY COMMITMENT - INDEPENDENT FILMS

Scripts go through many rewrites up to the day of the scene production (and sometimes even through the scene production (Sherwood,...

The Nature of Documentaries

This essay pertains to documentaries. The writer defines the genre and then discusses the strategies it employs and the way in whi...