Being There - A Bit More Like Chance

The tone is set quickly and effectively. With the book and the movie you “are not being invited into fictional believe and deaths, into the imagination, but into the absorbing reality of flesh and blood”. (McCabe 561).

My initial reaction to the film was of utter shock at the brutally raw reality of the film. Upon reflection and commentary from other sources, the film’s simple yet vastly effective filmmaking techniques of developing the explicit and implicit meaning of the film. The explicit meaning, as

Literary devices will be a primary source used to compare and contrast the narrative and stylistic choices made in the short story, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, and the film 2081 directed by Chandler Tuttle. In the film the director is able to express visuals, sounds, and physical characters, to establish a firm idea of how the characters within the story act and feel based on their surroundings and what is happening around them. However, an Author in a short story is reliant on his words alone to paint the picture for the reader to understand the movement of the plot and its impact on the atmosphere. The literary devices used in creating and shaping pieces of literature will heavily impact the point of view of the

Children today have access to many forms of literature, some of which are books made into movies. As the children become older, comments such as “the book was way better” or “the movie didn’t even come close to matching the book” or “the movie and book are the exact same, so save time and just watch the movie” are heard once children begin to make connections between the book and the film. It is important to me, as a future teacher, to be able to address such comments from my students and, in turn, help them understand why and how movies can either help or hinder the book’s original value and message. To help me prepare, I will compare a children’s film to the literary work that came from it.

To support this idea, Bordwell illustrates how art cinema motivates its narratives differently, through two principles: realism and authorial expressivity. Firstly he proposes the notion that art films reflect realism in their characters, space, and time. Psychologically complex characters are present in real worlds dealing with true-to-life situations. Art cinema is concerned with the characters ‘reaction’ to these situations, rather than their ‘action’. Thus it bares an element of psychological subjectivity as the characters survey the world they are in, which aids the realisation of the distress of

Chance tells her he has nothing to write about and then Melissa says that she has seen him peeking around the rocks. To keep his cover, he tells her a lie. Melissa starts spying on him and he begins to worry. Later the man who gave him the job finds him and tells him to keep his friend out of this or she will be in serious trouble. Chance goes to the café to tell Melissa that she needs to stop spying on him and she decides to listen. On one of his later runs he is told that new packages are going to start coming and he is going to have to hide them on the boat. When he gets the first package he becomes very suspicious. He decides to go to the library and research what it could be. He thinks it could be plastic explosives, but he brushes it off. Chance talks to the man who gave him the job and he says the packages are gems. A few days later the man is killed in an accident. The police believe it’s a suicide, but Chance suspects a murder. He thinks the people running this business decided to kill the man because the people didn’t need him anymore. Chance gets nervous and can’t wait until the people come to pick up the

It’s not difficult to figure out that almost every book with a movie made from the book will have some differences and some similarities. I can almost promise anyone that they will probably never find a book with a movie that is the exact same. This essay will point out some differences and similarities between the book and the movie “Ordinary People”.

Whenever books are adapted for film, changes inevitably have to be made. The medium of film offers several advantages and disadvantages over the book: it is not as adept at exploring the inner workings of people - it cannot explore their minds so easily; however, the added visual and audio capabilities of film open whole new areas of the imagination which, in the hands of a competent writer-director, can more than compensate.

    Film and literature are two media forms that are so closely related, that we often forget there is a distinction between them. We often just view the movie as an extension of the book because most movies are based on novels or short stories. Because we are accustomed to this sequence of production, first the novel, then the motion picture, we often find ourselves making value judgments about a movie, based upon our feelings on the novel. It is this overlapping of the creative processes that prevents us from seeing movies as distinct and separate art forms from the novels they are based on.

The audience is only given the frame to a blockbuster action movie due to the inclusion of a girl and a gun but the traditional is still subverted by not allowing that idea to be the basis of the film. Even when the audience is given shots that are visually pleasing, they are not given the satisfaction of the conversation taking place between the two characters being related to the advancement of a plot. Neither films rely on narratives to drive the plot but instead its emotional qualities, thus the focus remains on the moments experienced between the two characters as opposed to the viewer’s enjoyment of the piece. Unlike traditional Hollywood films, it appears as if the audience is gazing in on the characters as they go about their daily lives after an extraordinary event as opposed to the characters’ daily lives being disturbed by that event and being forced to follow a story structure. Both films include an inciting incident and that is all the audience is promised

The third chapter will mainly discuss Woody Allen?s The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) to examine how a theme about cinema-goers reflects a desire from the filmmaker and the audience. The film fabricates a fantasy where the protagonist of a film called ?The Purple Rose of Cairo?, Tom Baxter (enacted by Jeff Daniels), ?steps? out of the film during a screening. He joins Cecilia (starred by Mia Farrow), a frustrated waitress and aggrieved wife who has watched this film countless times, and starts an adventure in the real world. Confronting the chaos caused by Tom arbitrarily leaving the screen, Gil Shepard, an actor who impersonates Tom, comes to persuade Tom to return to the film, while pursuing Cecilia at the same time. In the end, Cecilia chooses to stay in reality but ends up alone due to Gil abandoning her for his career in Hollywood.

They only see the plot and the characters and call it good. Yet, they forget to recognize the other aspects of the film. In this film, I’ve noticed quite a bit of literary aspects of the picture. The plot of the movie is what makes the movie what it is, however there are more ideas and things that go into the plot. The first thing that I noticed was the realistic nature of the plot.

Manning and Shackford-Bradley explain that films present multiple perspectives, specifically subjective experiences (38). As each person, is able to take out something different from the film. While Marks talks about films as skin and explains the effect works can have among different audiences (xi). Thus meaning, films have the ability to leave audiences with different marks. Symbolism is also discussed in this unit.

His lack of social skills becomes much more apparent once he leaves the house for the first time. He has no intended destination, and wanders the streets. Once he is hurt by the limousine, he is given an injection to ease his pain. As the doctor fills the needle, he wants to show fear, not because he has had this experience before, but because "he visualized all the TV incidents in which he had seen injections being given" (Kosinski 33). Just like the prisoners in the cave, he was trying to understand a reality based on pictures in order to react to the world around him. One thing that he has never experienced is any type of a sex life. He found himself in a room with EE, where she made a sexual advance towards him. He thought back to a situation on TV where he could imitate an actor in a similar scene. He remembers a close embrace and kissing, but unfortunately

Understanding movies comes from describing and analyzing the cinematic, theatrical, and literary elements that combine to create meaning. These steps create a basic understanding of the artistic and technical elements found in moviemaking. In addition, the major characteristics of different film genres and classic movies will be analyzed. The purpose of this paper is analyzing the Academy Award winning film Chicago. This paper will describe the six steps that a person should think about when watching a movie. These steps include, (1) analysis of the narrative: story, plot and meaning; (2) theatrical elements, (3) cinematography, (4) editing, (5) sound and the (6) complete package.