Cain (afterward coupled by Mickey Spillane, Horace McCoy, and Jim hompson) -- whose books were also recurrently tailored in films noir. In the vein of the novels, these films were set apart by a subdued atmosphere and realistic violence, and they presented postwar American cynicism to the extent of nihilism by presuming the total and hopeless corruption of society and of everyone in it. Billy Wilder's acidic Double Indemnity (1944), which shocked Hollywood in the year of its release and was just about banned by the authorities, may be considered as the archetype for film noir, even though some critics trace the origins back to such rough but significantly less pessimistic films as his Gun for Hire, High Sierra, the Maltese Falcon, and Stranger on the hird Floor. Modified by Wilder and Raymond Chandler from a James M. Cain novel, Double Indemnity is the squalid story of a Los…...

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The moral unsteadiness of this world was rendered into a visual style by the expert noir cinematographers John Alton, Nicholas Musuraca, John F. Seitz, Lee Garmes, Tony Gaudio, Sol Polito, Ernest Haller, Lucien Ballard, and James Wong Howe. These technical masters turned into moral vagueness obviously real through what has been called anti-conventional cinematography. The method incorporated the all-encompassing use of wide-angle lenses, allowing even more and greater depth of field but causing animated deformation in close-ups; inconspicuous lighting and night-for-night filming (that is, essentially shooting night scenes at nighttime more willingly than in bright daylight with dark filters), both of which produce ruthless contrasts between the light and dark spheres of the frame, with dark outweighing, to match the moral disorder of the world; and pointed, unnatural set-ups. If all of this spears to be suggestive of the artificial studio modus operandi of German Expressionism, it ought to, for the reason that -- like the Universal horror phase of the thirties -- film noir was fashioned to a large degree by German and Eastern European emigres, a lot of whom had gained their basic training at UFA in the twenties and near the beginning of the thirties. The noir directors Lang, Siodmak, Wilder, Preminger, Brahm, Litvak, Ophuls, Dieterle, Sirk, Ulmer, and Bernhardt; the director-cinematographer Rudolph Mate; the cinematographers Karl Freund and John Alton; and the musicians Franz Waxman and Max Steiner had all been linked with or inclined by the UFA studio technique.

On the other hand, given its subject matter, film noir could barely break out of the general pragmatic predisposition of the postwar cinema, and noir directors recurrently shot outside shots on location. Such wartime modernizations as slighter camera dollies and moveable power packs, higher speed lenses and additionally sensitive, fine-grain film rolls cut down the logistics of position shooting and aided to generate for film noir a nearly standardized visual method. For this motive, it has become trendy to discuss film noir as a category (some consider it is a genre) of "idealistic" or "expressive" pragmatism; but its inheritance includes such a wide variety of cultural influences -- German Expressionism and shock exploitation, American gangster movies from the thirties, Sternbergian exoticism and self-indulgence, the graceful pragmatism of Carne, the case-hardened institution of American fiction, the forties cultural significance and fame of Freud, postwar American disenchantment (particularly a sagacity of sexual betrayal amongst GIs coming back home) and the flourish of cinematic practicality it created, cold war mistrust, and for sure, Citizen Kane -- that it is probably better to typify it as a cycle to a certain extent than to draw up the boundaries too rigidly.

Double Indemnity (1944), d. Billy Wilder, Paramount, 107 min., b&w, sc. Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler from the novel by James M. Cain, ph. John Seitz, m. Miklos Rozsa, v. MCA.

Film Analysis from a Design Perspective: eading aging Bull
Elements of Design

The focus of this paper is a pivotal scene from the film aging Bull, starring obert DeNiro as real life middleweight boxer, Jake La Motta. Jake's emotional status is reflected in multiple aspects of the film production, such as his physique and costuming, the cinematography, the editing, and the direction. Film communicates the narrative's physical reality and psychological reality with meticulous attention and applied creativity to all of the aspects of filmmaking. The efficacy and condensation of the communicative ability of film is one of the numerous reasons why humans have loved the cinema for over a century. The paper analyzes the scene wherein Jake is locked in prison from a design perspective.

Film Analysis from a Design Perspective: eading aging Bull

On December 19, 1980, aging Bull, directed by Martin Scorcese, was released to the international public. The feature film is…...

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References:

Carroll, N., & Choi, J. (ed.) (2006) Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures: An Anthology. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA.

LoBrutto, V. (2005) Becoming Film Literate -- The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CA.

Scorcese, M. (Director) (1980) Raging Bull. Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, & Frank Vincent. United Artists.

The film shows that human beings unlike the robots were way too dependent on habits and routines that make people unfocused causing people to not be able to make their own decisions (Barnes). Later on, when all-E ends up by accident bumps into one of the women, she understands that her attires have transformed into a different color and that she lastly opens her eyes and observes everything from a brand new perspective and the suddenly comes to the conclusion that she does not have to be totally reliant on technology.
Actually after watching the movie, it had a way of making an individual realize that there are times that a lot of people actually we do depend on technology than they do anything else. Most people do have things such as game consoles, computers, cell phones, and televisions, and these are just a few of the items. The researcher…...

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Works Cited

Ball, Sarah. " "Mr. Oscar, Tear Down This Wall! Andrew Stanton on How Animated Films are Pigeonholed -- and How Wall-E is Every Man." Newsweek 23 April 2009: 12-34.

Barnes, Brooks. "Disney and Pixar: The Power of the Prenup." The New York Times 5 March 2009: 23-37.

Corliss, Richard. " "WALL-E (2008) -- Best Movies, TV, Books and Theater of the Decade." Time 8 March 2009: 21-24.

Hopps, John. "Walle-E World." Disney Films 9 March 2011: 23-25.

Film Analysis: "Boesman and Lena" -- a drama of ideas, not people
The central protagonists of Athol Fugard's drama "Boesman and Lena" have what turns out to be a nearly impossible life task. Not only, the drama suggests, must they struggle to survive having lost their home and community. To become emotionally whole again, the depressed Lena and controlling Boesman must find a way to reconstruct their previous relationship as man and wife, to find some emotional comfort in a place of desolation. Gradually, as Fugard's narrative evolves, it becomes clear to the viewer that this will not be possible, that the two are too broken by the oppressive web of the apartheid system to really recreate a loving partnership. However, it also becomes clear to the viewer of the filmed version of "Boesman and Lena" that the actors who play the protagonists in this drama of the South African playwright…...

Film Analysis of the Patriot
Colonial America

For the purposes of this paper, the film of focus will the Patriot. This film was written by obert odat and directed by oland Emmerich. The film has quite a cast, including stars the late Heath Ledger, and Mel Gibson, both of which have substantial film careers and reputations both on and off the screen. The film was released in 2000 by Columbia Pictures, a studio among the oldest film studios in American history. The Patriot is a film set in 1776 in South Carolina. The film touches upon a wealth of issues, some of which remain in the past, and some of which present themselves in 21st century America. The film is definitively an epic. From the opening scenes, there is a grandness in the content, each cut feels wide because of the land and number of people on the plantation. The dolly pans…...

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References:

Cunningham, L.S. & Reich, J.J. (2009). Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities. Wadsworth Publishing. Print.

IMDB. (2012). The Patriot. Director Roland Emmerich. Starring Mel Gibson & Heath Ledger. Columbia Pictures, 2000.

Film Analysis on Farewell, My Concubine
Farewell, My Concubine: Lies that become realities

The film Farewell, My Concubine uses the lens of two men's lives to chronicle the political and social upheavals that gripped China first during the communist and then during the Cultural Revolutions. These men are extraordinary and unique: they are actors in the famous, traditional Peking Opera. However, the film argues that the artifice they are forced to use in their art parallels the masks all Chinese are forced to wear in the face of a series of oppressive government systems. Eventually the masks replace 'truth.' Although this is the case to some extent for all Chinese, it is particularly true of Chinese persons of the female gender. Both pre-communist and communist China, for all of its efforts of becoming radical and creating a more equitable relationship between the social classes, were equally patriarchal. Certain bodies (bodies sexed both…...

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Works Cited

Farewell My Concubine. Directed by Kaige Chen, 1999.

Zhang, B. Figures of violence and tropes of homophobia: Reading Farewell My

Concubine between east and west. Journal of Popular Culture, 33.2 (1999), 101-109

The multiple camera views include shots from inside the landing craft, from the beaches, facing the coastal defenses and also from the German perspective looking out at the largest invasion of land by sea in history featuring thousands of vessels and stretching further out to sea than the human eye could see (Katz, 2004).
ealism and Social esponse and Political Influence

In general, the film depicted combat scenes as realistically as was considered acceptable by the standards of the day (Katz, 1991). Certainly, there is no comparison to the graphic images of human carnage depicted in later films such as Saving Private yan, but at the time, the depiction was highly realistic. Critics suggested that strafing fighter aircraft would have made multiple passes rather than the single passes depicted, but few viewers without military combat experience would have noticed. By far, the realism of using native French, German, and British actors…...

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References

Eberwein, R. (2004). The War Film.

Katz, S.D. (1991). Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen.

Katz, S.D. (2004). Film Directing: Cinematic Motion, Second Edition.

This is perhaps where Hoffman is most successful with the character, because he conveys the sense that while aymond knows who Charlie Babbitt is, and while he knows there is a connection between them, aymond does not have the sense of closeness or brotherly bond that Cruise's character needs. The full force of the disease that aymond's personality is imprisoned within - and Hoffman does successful convey the sense of aymond's imprisonment within the sphere of his disease - is an escape-proof prison. Although aymond successfully broke free for a moment because of Charlie, it is an escape without meaning because aymond cannot break free of the autism that holds him.
In the end, the audiences' love of this film speaks for itself in the success of the actors to go deep into the characters they play and bring those characters to life in a believable way for the audience.…...

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Reference List

Levinson, Barry (dir). 1988, Rain Man, motion picture. United Artists, United States.

Film Analysis of the Believer
What is the basic plot of the film (write a synopsis)?

Released in 2001 to critical acclaim, director Henry Bean's The Believer presents a searing story of an individual's tragic struggle to form their own identity through overt acts of religious and racial intolerance. Played by Ryan Gosling, the protagonist of The Believer is a Daniel Balint, a troubled young man who has fashioned himself into a Neo-Nazi after violently rejecting his Jewish heritage. During his adolescence Balint rebelled against the orthodox authority of the Jewish religion, questioning the teachings of the Torah during his time as yeshiva student before ultimately refusing to obey a God he considers to be merely a bully. Set in contemporary New York City, The Believer tells the tale of Balint's slow descent into bigotry and fanaticism after he encounters a group of fascists organized by skinheads sympathetic to his existing prejudices…...

V's plot and characters represent a diversity in the population of the cast, but perhaps pays a tribute to queer cinema in that it acknowledges the rights of gays and lesbians, and acknowledges, too, that when a government seeks to oppress society, it targets those weakest; the minorities, the disenfranchised (which transcends race), and the creative element within that society.
The film ends with Evey giving a somewhat melodramatic speech as the dead body of V leaves on a tree set in motion to deliver to his final target, Parliament. "He was my father, my mother, my brother, my friend. He was you," Evey says in response to Inspector French's question, "Who was he?," and, then, turning to Inspector French, she continues, "He was all of us." The idea of freedom is all of us.

eference List

Cobb, Michael, ace eligion, Hate and Incest in Queer Politics. Social Text, Duke University, 2005,…...

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Reference List

Cobb, Michael, Race Religion, Hate and Incest in Queer Politics. Social Text, Duke University, 2005, 251-274.

Hammer, Barbara. The Politics of Abstraction.

McTeigue, James (dir), V for Vendetta, motion picture. Silver Pictures, USA, 2005.

Rich, B. Ruby, the New Queer Cinema. PUBLICATION, PRESS, DATE, PAGES.

Film Analysis & Critique: Movie Lost in Translation
A film can have numerous motives. A film may possibly have the purpose of conveying a message, to reveal an aspect virtuously for its aesthetic appeal. However more often than not a film may have the purpose of attaining an emotional reaction from the audience or viewers. It is imperative to take note that attaining this emotional response from the audience is largely reliant on the work done by the film director. The director of the film in discussion, Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola, attained this in an exceptional manner. By making use of lighting and music as well as dialogue, it is without doubt that the odd love affair, which is the basis of this storyline, is quite appealing.

In apparent aspects, the film appears to be one where not a lot takes place. Lost in Translation's plot is free flowing and marginalized…...

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Works Cited

Haslem, Wendy. (n.d.) Neon Gothic: Lost in Translation. Sense of Cinema. Retrieved 19 September 2015 from:  http://sensesofcinema.com/2004/feature-articles/lost_in_translation/ 

Lovejoy, Alice. Two Lost Souls Adrift In Tokyo Forge An Unlikely Bond In Sofia Coppola's 21st Century Brief Encounter. Film Comment, July August 2003.Olsen, Mark. Sofia Coppola: Cool and the Gang. Sight and Sound, 14 (1), 2004.

Renee, V. (2014) What the Hell Did He Say to Her? An Analysis of Sofia Coppola's 'Lost in Translation'. No Film School. Retrieved 19 September 2015 from:  http://nofilmschool.com/2014/05/sofia-coppola-lost-in-translation-film-analysis 

Smith, Adam James. Film Analysis of 'Lost In Translation', 2008. Retrieved 19 September 2015 from:  http://touristoftourism.blogspot.co.ke/2008/12/film-analysis-of-lost-in-translation.html

3. How should the white-collar criminal in this story be sanctioned? (explain also why have you chosen your method of sanction).

Obviously, Seth and the others involved in this criminal activity of selling artificial stocks for artificially inflated prices should lose their Series 7 licenses. That would prevent any of them from trading of stocks of any kind ever again. This forfeiture of their professional rights as stockbrokers is entirely necessary in order to prevent them from victimizing others by creating other shell companies or hatching any similar stock-related schemes. This is especially true in the case depicted in this movie, because they are so young, and this shady business, clearly, is their only profession.

They should all also serve time in a federal penitentiary facility. The particular criminal sanctions against them would have to depend on what they were charged with, and what they were then convicted of. As first-time offenders,…...

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Work Cited

Boiler Room. With Giovannini Ribisi and Vin Diesel. New Line Productions

(DVD). 2000.

Lam the manager, or the foreign purchasers? Who do you think has more power to improve things for the workers?
Mr. Lam and the Western companies were equally at fault for the deplorable conditions endured by the Chinese workers in the film. The Western companies deliberately contract with foreign manufacturers to circumvent the very laws and public policies of their own societies that are designed to protect their citizens from exploitation in the workplace. Instead of accepting the natural limitations on profit that were possible in their own nations, Western companies chose to export their manufacturing operations to China where no legal or public policy restrictions were available to protect the welfare and safety of working conditions and where children were still routinely forced to work long hours at hard labor.

Obviously, Mr. Lam and other similarly situated Chinese nationals also share the same moral responsibility because without their complicity, the…...

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References

Halbert, T. And Ingulli, E. (2008). Law & Ethics in the Business Environment.

Cincinnati, OH: West Legal Studies.

The Hershey Company. (2011). Our Story.

 http://www.thehersheycompany.com/about-hershey/our-story.aspx

Film Analysis
The Last Kiss

Never before has Takashi Kusama reached the perverted depths of sadism as he has through 2003's The Last Kiss. The Last Kiss is based on American Gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Ligeia" in which an unnamed narrator is driven to madness by the love of his beloved and ultimately believes that he has the power to will her back into his life. Kusama has taken a step in the right direction by moving away from The Grudge-esque films that have been popping up in Japanese and Korean horror cinema. Through his unique approach to Poe's story, Kusama is able to present the narrative from a new and haunting perspective while maintaining the supernatural ambience that often proliferates Japanese horror cinema.

In The Last Kiss, Kakihara, the film's protagonist, has been slowly driven mad by grief and drug addiction. It is quickly revealed that Kakihara was…...

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Works Cited

Angelo B. "Onibaba (Demon Woman)." Bloody Good Horror. Web. Accessed 15 May 2012.

Balmain, Colette. "Inside the Well of Loneliness: Toward Definition of the Japanese Horror

Film." Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies. Web. Accessed 15 May 2012.

Poe, Edgar Allan. "Ligeia." Web. Accessed 15 May 2012.

film analysis of movie Juliet of the Spirits released in 1965. The film is a great work of mid-1900's and the lovers of film history enjoy not only its story but also the picturing and the sounds. The movie is about memories, and spirituality of a woman who is in her middle age. The landscape and light effects of the movie are such to support the vision of dreams. Besides the public liking and critiques, the movie holds some development and production-based standards and follows certain styles of movie making, shooting, lightening etc. Some of these are discussed here under separate headings.
Now vs. Then

The time has changed and so have the standards of movie making. The technology has tremendously evolved and it is not cartoons and animations alone that are produced in 3D but movies like Iron man also offer a reality like experience. However, discussing a movie that…...

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References

Federman Cary, Holmes Dave and Jacob Jean Daniel, "Deconstructing the Psychopath: A

Critical Discursive Analysis," Cultural Critique, 2009, 72, 36-65

Kazel Daniel, "What is Movement in Film?," 2013, accessed from http://suite101.com/a/what-is-movement-in-film

Video maker, 2013, accessed from  http://www.videomaker.com/article/14221-camera-movement-techniques-tilt-pan-zoom-pedestal-dolly-and-truck

I. Introduction
A. Briefly introduce "The Truman Show" as a 1998 satirical film directed by Peter Weir.
B. Provide context about the film's themes and its protagonist, Truman Burbank, played by Jim Carrey.
C. Present the aim of the essay – to analyze the film's key elements and messages.

II. Plot Summary
A. Describe the setup: Truman lives in a fabricated reality that is broadcasted 24/7 as a TV show.
B. Outline Truman's journey, starting from his suspicions about his surroundings.
C. Highlight key plot points, such as Truman's determination to break free from the false reality.

III.....

I. Introduction

A. Hook: Truman's illusory existence as a reality television star
B. Thesis Statement: The Truman Show offers a critique of modern society's obsession with surveillance, celebrity, and the erosion of privacy

II. The Illusion of Control

A. Truman's meticulously crafted fictional world
B. The role of director Christof as a god-like figure
C. The psychological impact of constant surveillance on Truman

III. The Cult of Celebrity

A. Truman's status as a global sensation
B. The commodification of his life and experiences
C. The consequences of living in the public eye

IV. The Erosion of Privacy

A. The constant monitoring and manipulation of Truman's life
B. The ethical implications of violating his....

Intermediate Essay Topics

Narrative Essays:

Describe a memorable experience and its significance to you.
Share a personal story that illustrates a valuable lesson learned.
Narrate an event from a different perspective, highlighting its impact on various individuals.
Reflect on a childhood experience that shaped your beliefs or aspirations.

Expository Essays:

Analyze the factors contributing to a current social issue, such as poverty or climate change.
Compare and contrast two different historical events, highlighting their similarities and differences.
Explain a complex scientific concept in a way that is accessible to a general audience.
Discuss the ethical implications of a particular technology or societal....

1. The Significance of Movie Titles in Establishing Narrative

    This title suggests an exploration of how movie titles play a crucial role in shaping the narrative structure of a film.

2. The Art of Choosing a Movie Title Impact on Audience Expectations

    This title hints at discussing how the selection of a movie title influences the audiences anticipation and perception of the film.

3. Unveiling the Connection Between Movie Titles and Storytelling

    This title implies an investigation into the relationship between movie titles and the way stories are told within the film.

4. The Evolution of Movie Titles and Narrative Complexity

    This title suggests an analysis of....