Analyzing The Movie 'Spectacle' By Roger Ebert

Throughout the movie Citizen Kane, Welles uses framing and the visual aspect of movies to bolster the theme he is trying to convey. Perhaps the most striking example of this is when Kane is sitting at the dinner table with his first wife, Emily. At first, the table is a normal size, and the two can have a conversation and live happily. However, as Kane becomes more engrossed in his business and the love of power takes over his life, the table grows to the point where the couple is a whole room's length away from each other. This also shows in this emotional distance and lack of conversation.

The hero’s journey model, (also known as the monomyth), is a pattern of events and characters that appears in most movies, books, tv shows, etc. In this pattern, the hero leaves her/his mundane world, plunges into the unknown, undergoes test and trials, and returns with new knowledge and power. In the movie Citizen Kane, a rich man and a reporter covering the story after his death learns the power and problems with money and greediness. The movie starts with him being given away from his mother, the only truly happy place he would know. A very rich banker “adopts” him, as he has stakes in a mine that was thought to be worthless but turned out to be priceless. His threshold guardians are his conscience, and make him want to return to the

A collaborating style is a type of conflict management style that is “high in both assertiveness and cooperativeness.” When I took the “Where Are You on the Grid?” In Family Communication I got a 31 on collaborating. I also took a quiz on Buzzfeed called “How Blunt Are You Actually?” And I was deemed “Very Blunt”. The quiz elaborated and said “You’re incredibly honest, but you know the line between honest and mean.” I personally, believe communication is more efficient when an individual says whatever they need to say. While there is fine line between mean and honest, I have defiantly found that working as a Student Advisor. The book mentioned collaborating requires individuals to “integrate the needs of both parties to the conflict so that

The movie that I chose to critique is Rear Window, a realist film by Alfred Hitchcock produced in 1954. Starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly and, Wendell Corey. The genre is thriller and the sub genre is suspense infused with mystery. Rear Window is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most inspired audience participation films. When a person watches it, he feels, tantalized, shocked, and exhilarated. Further in this essay, I will summarize the plots, discuss the styles used, and deconstruct parts of the film.

In a review of Bamboozled, by Roger Ebert on October 6, 2000, the film critic begins by writing that “producing a satire is challenging because no matter how the image that is being ridiculed is portrayed, it will remain the same if the original message of the image is too strong” (www.rogerebert.com). In Bamboozled, Spike Lee attempts to expose the media’s role and manipulation of black demeaning stereotypes to gain profit and increase ratings in the entertainment industry. Although Ebert understands Spike Lee’s purpose, he does not believe that Lee succeeded in communicating his message effectively through this film because he believes the use of blackface overshadows the underlying message of the film. To support his argument, Ebert references an incident that occurred in 1993 when Whoopi Goldberg’s former boyfriend, Ted Danson, showed up at her roast at Friar’s Club wearing blackface. Members of the audience were stunned and tension filled the air (similar to the first reactions of the audience in the film). Danson makes matters worse by sharing a story of when his parents asked Whoopi to clean up after them during dinner time. Ebert thinks that possibly, the story would have been a little humorous if Whoopi had shared the story herself, but it definitely would not have been funny if she had told it while wearing blackface. Even in 1993, neither white people nor black people found blackface to be amusing. To conclude, Ebert wrote that the negative stereotypes depicted by

Collaborator awareness will allow you to further your knowledge of the sector and make you a

Defiance is a movie written, directed and produced by Edward Zwick. This movie’s setting is in Nazi occupied territory in Belarus during World War II. The storyline follows the Bielski brothers as they attempt to evade capture and fight for their lives, and over the course of the movie, the lives of twelve hundred other Jewish survivors on their quest for life, liberty and the new promised land. The film features Daniel Craig as Tuvia Bielski, Liev Schreiber as Zus Bielski, Jamie Bell as Asael Bielski and George MacKay as Aron Bielski. The film is based upon the novel Defiance: The Bielski Partisans written by Nechama Tec and is a true story s of survival during the Nazi occupation of eastern Europe. This is a gripping movie full of

Since the beginning of the Industrial Age, Americans have idealized the journey towards economic success. One thing people do not realize, however, is that that journey is not the same for every individual. For Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), the main character of Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles, the path towards riches and a fulfilled life is being well liked. He serves to please others. He strives for that attention. This view cost him his happiness in the end. In this man’s rise and fall through prosperity, Welles shows the futility of striving solely for likeability.

Effective Collaborator- Participants will work together as a team to create, develop, and support the argument and litigation, as well as work with a professional attorney to strengthen and improve the team’s litigation and performance.

Citizen Kane made cinematic advances on many fronts, and its most significant contribution to cinematography came from the use of a technique known as deep focus. Deep focus refers to having everything in the frame, even the background, in focus at the same time, as opposed to having only the people and things in the foreground in focus. The deep focus technique requires the cinematographer to combine lighting, composition, and type of camera lens to produce the desired effect. With deep focus, a filmmaker can showcase overlapping actions, and mise-en-scène (the physical environment in which a film takes place) becomes more critical. Effectively manipulating the mise-en-scène for deep focus actively engages the whole space of the frame without

Steven Spielberg uses the aesthetic of technology and aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind to creates a theme of wisdom and the quest of knowledge. Through technology the extraterrestrial’s technology makes the modern technology in the film look so mild and weak in comparison. In the beginning we get introduced to the aesthetic of technology because we see the scientist use of technology for there For example when the UFO’S were hovering outside Jillian’s house all the appliances in her home began to act up by the presence of this technology. When the scientists were trying to decode what the aliens were trying to communicate we saw a surge in the amount of appliances and devices that they were using just for them to understand. The

According to Reel News Daily, on average, there are 57 movies released every month or 684 movies each year. That’s way more movies than the average person watches in a given year. So, how do we decide what movies to go see and what not to see? What’s good and what’s bad? Fortunately, we have critics who watch most of these movies and write reviews to help narrow down what movies to go see and what movies not to see. One of these critics is Robert Ebert. Robert Elbert is a honorable critic to base judgments off of because he does an exceptional job summarizing the plot, stating his personal opinions, and speaking about the actors/director’s roles in the film.

Citizen Kane is a movie starring Orson Welles that is loosely based on the life of William Randolph Hearst and the media empire that he built in the late 1800s and the early 1900s. Mise en Scene is possibly the most important chapter that we have covered that pertains to Citizen Kane and shows numerous examples of it throughout the film to reinforce loss as a recurring theme. Citizen Kane’s non verbal strength is made evident through the use of not only intrinsic interest but through the use of isolated figure versus clustered and off-screen information as well. Perhaps one of the most important segments not mentioned in our scene summary notes that encapsulates Mise en Scene is when Charles Foster Kane is giving his speech when he’s

Steven Spielberg's 1993 motion picture Schindler's List provides an account involving the Holocaust, an ethnic German businessman interested in exploiting warfare, and an affair during which he realizes that it is up to him to save hundreds of people working in his factory. The film's storyline is inspired from Thomas Keneally's 1982 novel "Schindler's Ark". This motion picture induces intense feelings in viewers as a result of its narrative and because actors manage to put across authentic acting. The seriousness of the film's topic makes it possible for viewers to acknowledge the gravity of the Holocaust and influences them in employing significant concentration when seeing it.

Since its humble beginnings in the later years of the nineteenth century, film has undergone many changes. One thing that has never changed is the filmmaker’s interest in representing society in the present day. For better or worse, film has a habit of showing the world just what it values the most. In recent years, scholars have begun to pay attention to what kinds of ideas films are portraying (Stern, Steven E. and Handel, 284). Alarmingly, viewers, especially young women, are increasingly influenced by the lifestyle choices and attitudes that they learn from watching these films (Steele, 331). An example of this can be seen in a popular trope of the “romantic comedy” genre in this day and age: the powerful man doing something to help, or “save” the less powerful woman, representing a troubling “sexual double standard” (Smith, Stacy L, Pieper, Granados, Choueiti, 783).