1940's 2003 Film Analysis

It was estimated that by the late teens of the 20th century, Zukor held 75% of the best talent in the filmmaking business. I was baffled by this statistic when I read it. For one studio to hold ¾’s of the best talent in the industry is nearly a monopoly. Another thing I found interesting was that Fox worked on 70 mm wide-screen techniques. This was thought provoking to me because this summer I saw the film Dunkirk, and my friends and I saw it with the 70 mm wide-screen edition. I had never seen a movie with this wide-screen 70 mm and it was definitely different from a regular screen. Another thing that caught my attention was the connection between film and politics. I was interested to learn that MGM used a film to bring down Upton Sinclair as he was running for office. I was also shocked to read that Charlie Chaplin was not let into the United States because of his progressive political views. I was baffled that a man that was once called the “king of comedy” in the United States was denied entry because of his political

Imagine having to face impossible odds, if failed, would kill you. This is exactly what the Spartans had to face when they were protecting their home. The movie 300, directed by Zack Snyder tells the story of the courage and solidarity of King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and his army of three hundred Spartans who fought the army of King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his colossal Persian army to their deaths. In 300, producers cover the Spartan life, the Spartan women, and the Battle of Thermopylae.

The Australian cinema in the 1960’s failed to communicate with the audience due to their lack of promotional messages that weren’t disseminated. Media is formed by cultural, political, economic and social conditions. These influenced or even directed its characteristics and its intended meaning. After a devastating blow to the film industry in the 1960’s, filmmakers of Australia had stopped creating and making quality Australian films. However, the Australian New Wave brought a revival of the Australian film industry during the 70's, 80's and 90’s. It introduced Australian qualities into film, including larrikinism, mateship and a classless social hierarchy. The Castle and Gallipoli confirm, promote and explore features of Australian identity

North By Northwest is a thriller,mystery and crime film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, that was released in 1959 during the midst of the Cold War era. He depicts the United States Government and their use of spies during the time. When reading about the covert operations used by the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War it is astonishing how little the general public knew about the affairs of the government.The film centres on the character of Roger Thornhill, an advertising executive who finds himself mistaken as a United States spy - George Kaplan. Reference to cold war as Edger Hoover said communist were inflicting in corrupting ‘’various spheres of American lives’’.Ultimately, this resulted in a incredible paranoia and

In the book Tom Brennan and the documentary The Wave, the role of insiders and outsiders in society is shown, also both the film and novel show how there are many individuals who are affected by being not accepted. There many examples in the novel Tom Brennan and the film The Wave that support this point. In Tom Brennan the major example of this is when there is a car accident caused by drink driving. As a result of the accident the Brennan family become outsiders and forced to move away from their town. To add to this, in The Wave the whole film is based around a ‘Hitler’ like group that are the ‘insiders’ and that anyone who are not a part of the group are losers and thus outsiders. Throughout the novel and the film the way individuals are affected by being excluded is

Film noirs describe pessimistic films associated with black and white visual styles, crime fiction, and dark themes. Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 film noir directed by Billy Wilder. Sunset Boulevard presents many themes that are common with the genre film noir, but also introduces some differences from the typical movie in that genre.

The film flashes forward to 1943 again where Louie and his surviving crew members are sent on search and rescue mission on a plane that Louie believes is not strong enough to fly, but the others think it is fine. During the mission, the plane’s engines fail, causing the flight to fall into the ocean. Only three crew members survived, Louie, Phil, and Mac, and they lived on two inflatable rafts for 45 days. On day three of 45, a search plane flew by, but unfortunately they were unable to get its attention. The trio fought through a storm and a shark attack by depending on a minimal amount of food, rainwater, birds and fish. On day 27 of 45, Mac died. Finally on day 45, Japanese soldiers capture Louie and Phil making them prisoners of war. The

Soviet cinema has a significant contribution to the world’s film history. The years after the October Revolution in 1917 bring many economic difficulties and political changes to the newly formed USSR, which also affected film production. The nationalization of the film industry, Kuleshov experiments, and the support from the government mark some of the most important phases that influenced the progress and development of the Soviet film. Even though used as medium of propaganda, the cinema popularity

Afghanistan is a country torn apart time and time again. It's seen such dramatic change in such a short time, artistic renaissance was almost inevitable. From the time the Taliban took control in 1996, following a brutal civil war, no films were produced in the country until 2003. The violence and turmoil that has seized a country once lauded as one of the most progressive in the Middle East has influenced the films produced there indelibly.

In the movie The Third Man, written by Graham Greene, the main character Holly Martins investigates the death of his friend Harry Lime in Vienna. Throughout the film, Green focuses on the importance of appearance versus reality and links that with morality through the characters as the plot presented many twists and turns for several outcomes. Greene uses characterization of Holly Martins and Anna Schmidt to show that appearance does not always portray reality and can often be deceptive. Throughout the film, Anna Schmidt stayed as a stable character.

Hollywood has for several decades, set an agenda as well played a propagandist role in showcasing the Arab world and the Middle East in general. This depiction has been greatly impacted by several major political events from the last few decades to a century. Political events such as the creation of the State of Israel, the revolution of the Islamic State of Iran, and the tragic events of September 11, 2001 in the United States have gone a long way to influence Hollywood’s portrayal of Arabs, very often in stereotypical and negative facets.

Part 1 - In American author's 2009 book, The Help, the primary thesis is the relationship between Black maids and white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s. The story is really told from three perspectives, Aibileen and Minny are Black women, both maids, and Skeeter is the nickname of Eugenia Phelan, daughter of a prominent White family. Skeeter has just finished school and hopes to become a writer. In general, the relationship between the Black maids and the White employers is six sided: On one side we have the White employers who have three views: 1) Their personal and private beliefs that can range from extreme scorn and bias to kindness regarding race; 2) Their public persona that must have the "proper" attitude about Blacks and "the help," and 3) Their employer attitude, which is condescending and parental. The Black view also has three segments: 1) Their personal and private beliefs that usually range from understanding not all Whites are the same and an extreme love and empathy for the White children for whom they care; 2) The public persona that is deferential, polite, and stoic to their White bosses; and 3) Their attitude and view among the Black community, which usually separates the "poor and ignorant but rich" White souls from the Black view of family and common sense. All in all, the relationship is contentious, phony, and based on economic advantage.

And with this growth came a wider variety of films. But, perhaps inevitably, it was not until the political upheaval in the years following WWII and the onset of the Palestinian Israeli conflict that Arab cinema took up more hard-hitting themes.” (Seymour 70). Therefore, the European colonization of the Arab nations touched the industry of Arab films positively.

The Egyptian movie industry is over one hundred years old putting into consideration it began in 1896. In January 1896, Promio, a Lumiere photographer, visited the country to create short films and showed it showed the Egyptians. By 1908, the country had ten movie houses, three of them in Alexandria and five in Cairo. As more Egyptians viewed the films, they started to become interested in the art of filmmaking. The first Egyptian films by an Egyptian were made in 1912 by Abdel Rahman Salheya after hiring outside technicians. In 1927, Layla became the first full length but silent movie in the country. In the 1980s, film production in Egypt started decreasing. However, the latest trend in the Egyptian movie industry seems to be giving it a bad name. In 2014, it was argued that Egyptian films bore a close resemblance to those from Hollywood (Meky, 2014).

The first film was released on May 18th 1912, it was a silent film called Shree pundalik, directed by Torne. There is some controversy surrounding film, some believe that it should not hold the title of it being the first film because the cameraman was a British nationalist, who filmed the film in Britan. The film was also just a recording of a popular play. Dadasaheb Phalke, named the father of cinema produced the first full-length motion picture. He brought scholarly and cultural aspects to his films. His first film consisted of males playing the female roles. This marked the