Comparison Of Snyder's Movies 300, Watchmen, And Sucker Punch

Burton manipulates shots/framing, editing, and music/sound to enhance the perspective of the audience and give them a meaningful and relevant story.

What makes a good adaptation? This is a question I asked myself after watching the trailer for the new Death Note Film. There are two ways you can mess an adaptation up, defined by a scale in my mind. There is being completely faithful to the source material, following it to a tee and essentially translating the source from it's medium, book, comic or whatever; to film. Then there's the other side of the spectrum where the Director strays too far away from the source material. Perhaps they make a good Film, but it is no longer an adaptation at this point. Where you want to be for an adaptation is anywhere in the middle.

The beginning of The Notebook opens with the gentleman, Noah in a nursing home facility. We soon learn that he is living at the facility to be close to his wife, Allie who has Alzheimer’s. Allie is introduced to Noah, and he offers to read her a story. They are in the sunroom at the nursing home, and unbeknownst to her he begins to read her a love story. Due to Allie’s disease she is unaware that the story she is listening to is her own read by her true love. Noah begins to share about the summer romance that began one night in the 1940’s at a carnival. We see Allie and Noah fall madly in love only to be torn apart by her parents that do not believe he is worthy of their daughter because of his place in society. Allie’s parents take her away from the love of her life to focus on school, and to find a socially acceptable husband for their daughter. Noah cannot forget Allie so easily and writes to her everyday for a year. When he doesn’t hear back from her we see them both move on with their lives.

Reading is really great, but for me, I do not like writing as much as reading. Many people enjoy writing over reading, except I am complete opposite. When I sit down and read a good book, I can read for hours. Writing on the other hand, just does not come naturally. Books like, American Sniper, The Monuments Men, and Unbroken really got me interested in reading books about war and history. I like to write, if it is a topic I can write about. If I get an easy topic, that I can brainstorm great idea’s.

Hundreds of movies are released every year. Filmmakers try to create the next jaw-dropping movie that audiences will stand in line for hours and pay top dollar to see. The key to success is finding ideas that appeal to a mass audience. Viewers are the lifeline of any production company so making something for everyone is a savvy business move for the film industry. To cover all bases, there are over fourteen different genres of movies. Film making is not a solo effort. It is a collaboration between the actors, directors, producers and other key contributors. This combined effort or mise-en-scene includes all the elements of the film to include actors, backdrops, costumes, props and lighting used to meet the director’s vision

Much like some scenes in an action film the audience might feel their heart racing, Mark Bowden accomplishes this by making his descriptions

In this essay I will be answering the question throughout time, literature has been used as an instrument to revolt against social and political issues. How is this reflected in the texts you have studied this term? In this term will have learned a lot different texts about a dystopian society, which talks about lack of freedom in a totalitarian government. We were introduced to The Giver, V for Vendetta and 1984. The texts that I will be analyzing are V’s speech and V for Vendetta, 1984, mise-en-scene, and the Giver.

Herodotus and Zac Snyder have at least one thing in common: they both portray the ancient Persians in very unflattering terms. The grim, ghastly, almost monstrously barbaric (yet weirdly effeminate) features of the Persian leader Xerxes is one of the most visually arresting elements of Snyder's film 300 (based on a graphic novel by Frank Miller). How historically accurate is the film? Considering the fact that Snyder shot almost the entirety of the film on a soundstage because the film's "landscapes are different than in real life. They don't exist in the real world, only in Frank Miller's imagination," one might be tempted to say not very. Yet, there are elements of the film that do correspond to the historical Battle of Thermopylae in a way. This paper will compare and contrast Snyder's film 300 with the real history of the battle between Spartans and Persians and show why Snyder's film is more fantasy than reality.

After watching both “Waiting for Superman” at home and “Race to Nowhere” in class, a lot of conclusions can be made from both incredibly made documentaries. Both films offered their audience the opportunity to be informed about the problems and issues in contemporary American education, both clearly with two completely different points of view. “Waiting for Superman” and “Race to Nowhere” were both created in 2010, and here and now in 2015, major issues in the United States surrounding education include curriculum, funding, and control. In regards to both films, “Waiting for Superman” includes the issue of how much the education in America has declined in regards to public schools and “Race to Nowhere” is about the everyday stress factor of students that are in school. Both documentaries were completely different with the issues they chose to address in the films, but both also brought about the right message when it comes to an end.

Director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) cribs from the best and uses all those propulsive camera moves, voice over leading to fourth-wall-breaking,

Tim Burton. Dubbed the golden standard for film making, because of his exotic use of various cinematic techniques; he can truly bring a piece to life. From Willy Wonka, to Edward Scissorhands, to Big Fish, Burton proves that the use of music, lighting, and camera angles are the ingredients to a cocktail of magic, with just the right amount of, “Whoa.” In this essay, I will bring forth how Burton utilizes these techniques of the cinema world, to create the masterpieces we all know and love.

Captivating the Audience From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Edward Scissorhands to Big Fish, Tim Burton has been captivating audience with his unique directing style. Everyone can agree that Burton has an uncommon gift in the directing world, which allows the audience to have feelings that wouldn’t normally be there. In many of his films, Burton uses camera movements and angles, sound and lighting to highlight characters differences in all of his movies and control the mood of the scene. Burton shows a fondness for the unusual and surreal in his stories that can be told through film.

Every Film is placed in a category that is apart of formalism, Realism, and Classicism. I believe that the movies Sin City, Troll Hunter, and Good Will Hunting all fall into one of these categories. Sin City represents Classicism because it focuses on the storytelling; Troll Hunter represents Realism because it focuses on the way the filmmaker is making the film and Good Will Hunting represents Formalism because the filmmaker is drawing attention to self and the film. Even though each film is represented in different categories, these films still have some similarities.

Directors all around the world have different styles and uses of different ideas to create movies, extending the film industry to various new levels of interpretations. Tim Burton; one of many famous directors who expresses his creativity and mentality through his films, in a dark but childlike way. With the use of specific cinematic techniques in the films: “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, and “Edward Scissorhands”, he gets his main idea across and gives extended details and contrast on specific events. The two major types of cinematic techniques that he uses are: low-key lighting, and zoom. With the use of these techniques he places emphasis on the ideal moments, and contrasts them from other on-going events or characters. Thus turning them into memorable, and important developments throughout the plot of the film.

It is intriguing to witness the development of technological shift in society. The newest technology has played and enormous role in media and it has a major effect on the way films and all other forms of media are originated. The style in which images, sound, and text are developed is much distinct from how it was processed many years ago. Digital Cinematography is a technique used to record and capture motion pictures as digital video images. Unlike the traditional analog film frames, digital capture provides other ways to capture motion pictures such as video tape, CD, or flash drive. With the help of digital cinematography filmmaking has become relatively easy allowing filmmakers to produce various types of films. Southpaw, an action/drama film released in 2015 directed by Antoine Fuqua is about a boxer who is subjected to a real if strenuous transformation reeling from tragedy. While movie critics found the film to be a bit cliché the viewers didn’t seem to mind. What set this film apart from most boxing movies was Fuqua’s display of masculine aggression, intense violence but yet emotional and familial drama that keeps the viewer’s tuned into the film. His inspiration for the film was influenced by the life story of Hip-Hop cultures very own rapper Eminem. The main goal was to depict a sense of reality while making the film very relatable. From the different factors within the diachronic shot such as focus, angles, sound, montage and the fascinating interpretations that