A Close Reading For The Movie Trailer Of : Vertigo

The movie Before Night Falls directed by Julian Schnabel offers viewers a glimpse of how the homosexual community in Cuba was being mistreated under Fidel Castro’s regime. The true story is told in the eyes of Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas. The film depicts Arenas life in Cuba and all of the awful experiences that he had to deal with as a homosexual. Eventually he was arrested for false accusations of being a molester, however, he was actually under arrest for being a homosexual. Between the 1930s and 1990s, the Communist Cuba was abusive to the LGBT community as shown in their actions of harassment towards homosexuals, imprisoning the homosexuals, or sending them to re-education camps.

If you have not seen Dazed and Confused than you are really missing out. It is a great movie that relates from everything to High School to Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll. With an outstanding cast (from the past) it is a movie that everyone can relate to. Dazed and Confused reflects the lifestyle of kids that are entering high school for the first time, to seniors owning the school and being the "man" on compass. It portrays that freshman must watch their backs at all times and if you think you're as cool as the seniors, then you better watch out. There is a ritual that the seniors do to the freshman that have given so many people in reality a though of. With School being out for summer, in Dazed and Confused, it offers a great soundtrack from

Directed by Sam Mendes and shot by Roger Deakins, the movie Skyfall is a spy film in the James Bond series. It is one of the greatest movies that I have ever seen in terms of visual effects, big action, and story plot. In this research paper, I will write about the background of the cinematographers, the synopsis of the movie, my overall feeling towards the movie, as well as two specific scenes.

Both Rear Window and Vertigo engage in some of these Hitchcockian themes, notably, obsession, and the equation of knowledge and danger, where “individuals…face danger…after learning some piece of information”(Sterritt 8). In Rear Window, Jeff becomes consumed by his obsession to understand and solve the crime he believes Mr. Thorwald has committed; this obsession drives the narrative, as Jeff slowly uncovers what has happened. His obsession also exemplifies the theme of knowledge as dangerous, as in executing his ‘investigation’ he places himself in danger, as we see towards the very end of the film, but he also places Lisa in danger when she enters the Thorwalds’ apartment to find evidence. In Vertigo we see Scottie become obsessed with the character Madeleine, through both his short love affair with her, and as well in his makeover of Judy to resemble the Madeleine whom she once acted as. He also becomes, to a certain extent, obsessed with conquering his Vertigo; he tries, with Midge to try and combat it initially, but ultimately reaches his climax with the illness with Judy acting as

This presentation of Midge in Vertigo demonstrates a variance from Mulvey’s view of female characters in accordance with the male gaze. Another scene in the movie does this by allowing us into the mind of a female character and giving us information before even Scottie obtains it. The aforementioned scene is a flashback that occurs after Scottie’s first encounter with Judy in her apartment. During this flashback, the viewer is exposed to Judy’s actual thought process and frame of mind. The

The Hollywood Classical Film characteristics in Vertigo, helps to develop the plot and story. The first element of a Hollywood Classical Film that I will be examining is that individual characters are casual agents of the film. This means that characters in a film act as if they really exist, they have goals, fears, feelings, motives and emotions. The characters in Vertigo who are casual agents are the following: John Ferguson is the main character, he is a ex-cop who suffers from a fear of heights, he is spying on Madeleine Ellester and eventually falls

Judy is fetishised into Madeleine as the lost object and, in the process, she is made the object of inevitable disappointment. Scotty can never be satisfied with the substitutive object and Judy must become the object of his revulsion.

The protagonists and social conflicts in the film The Visitor presented living experience to explore that are different to my personal history. The four actors in the film are all unique from one another, but they possess a universal understanding and awareness that are not different from the life that I know. Walter Vale is a single white male, a widowed and a father who is at the end of his professional career as an academic professor. Walter adult son lives in London and he pretends to be happy with his work, but the truth is he felt unsatisfied, this was expressed at the end of the film. You also saw in the beginning of the movie Walter also didn’t enjoy his piano lessons he took from an elderly woman. Walter found meaning in life the

Clueless is a movie about a young snob, rich, and over confident teenage high school girl named

Horror films are movies that aim to elicit a strong physiological reaction in the viewer, such as raised heartbeat and fear. Three horror films by the names of Psycho, Scream and The Messengers will be analysed and compared to an episode of the popular children’s show Shaun the Sheep. Five elements will be addressed in this analysis, those being camera techniques, Mise-en-scene, Editing, Lighting and Sound.

''The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you!!! ...'' Father Merrin&Father Damien Karras from the movie -The Exorcist-

The movie Falling Down portrays many examples of the movie reflecting, influencing, and changing society. The movie reflects society's many flaws such as inflation of prices and unneeded budget spending. The movie also influences others to point out society’s flaws by using force. Finally, the movie changes society by showing the movie in the point of view of a person that is classified as a realist.

The film that I have chosen as a case study for my final paper is: Pan’s labyrinth (2006) by director Guillermo del Toro, and it is a case of real-fantastic cinema. Here I present my essay entitled “ The narrative power of sound in Pan’s labyrinth “of Guillermo Del Toro . It will analyze the sound design , the identification of its elements, the ways in which they are presented and their interrelations, to understand and explain how these elements work together in conjunction with the visual image, to support the narration of the story. Consequently, this research seeks to answer the question: How does the sound in the film ‘Pans Labyrinth' relates to

In Vertigo, Hitchcock begins with building credibility and composure in Scottie’s character. The film starts off with a chasing scene in

How do the cinematic techniques (mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound design) work together in the selected scene or sequence to develop the film’s central characters and themes?