Essays on Cinematography Page 69

In the classic film, “The Wizard of Oz”, Dorothy meets a tin woodsman. The solemn Tin Man tells Dorothy that he wasn’t given a heart. He then sings his hit single, “If I Only Had a Heart”, and through song and choreographed dance, the Tin Man shares his dream. He would be “friends with the…

Abstract Cinema is meant and believed to entertain, to take the viewer to a world that is starkly different from the real one, a world which provides escape from the daily grind of life. Cinema is a popular media of mass consumption which plays a key role in moulding opinions, constructing images and reinforcing dominant…

INTRODUCTION All life forms, from the microscopic bacteria to humans, on earth have very unique attributes of its or their own and thus can be generalized as different from each other. This is brought about by nature’s evolutionary processes that have molecular basis or maybe due to God’s creative will, depending on one’s own personal…

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – English assessment draft In the book, Bruno is portrayed as a young boy with a sense of adventure and curiosity; it mirrors this in the film too, however in the book he seems more mature and his age doesn’t meet his personality, it expresses this when it says…

As I sat in the immense theatre expecting the film that I had been expecting so long to see, seen so many dawdlers before merely about every other film released this twelvemonth. The prevues before this film seemed 10 times more deadening than they normally were, so like a deafening cloud on the skyline the…

Lorenzo’s Oil The movie Lorenzo’s Oil is about a boy, his family and their struggles to stick together through a life threatening disease. A family’s togetherness is challenged in the event of unexpected change, like in this movie. The Odone family tested many factors of their family structure when Lorenzo was diagnosed with ALD. Some…

The randfather telling the story stated that he had edited out all of the parts of the story that were ‘good’ meaning that reading a story inspires one to create. The birth Westlefs character is that of the archetypical hero with a slight hint of a rebel as shown as they try to take back…

Walt Disney, an American movie producer and pioneer in animated cartoons, was born in 1901. Walt Disney, who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago, began his career as a cartoonist in 1920. He was widely recognized and praised by a British political cartoonist as “the most significant figure in graphic arts since…

The film 127 Hours delves into a number of themes, such as: taking risks while alone, the power of music and its importance to human beings, belief and faith, accident vs. risk, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, dangerous situations… Articles on the film: 2 purposes – to discuss the story /theme,…

Watt illustrates the internal emotions that the characters have, such as anxiety, suspicion and despair. These recurring, mental Images cause both Merely and Nick, to live life In fear of death. When Nick was diagnosed with cancer, he immediately saw his life flashing past him in the form of a photometer. Watt uses these montages…