Don Quijote and the Neuroscience of Metafiction Essay

1. What is the title of this film? When was it made? Who wrote the original novel?

    Metafiction is experienced throughout A Girl’s Story by drawing attention to the fact that the story is a work of fiction. David Arnason speaks towards the audience a lot through the story, the actual story doesn't even start until the third paragraph. One example of David speaking to his readers is; “so you’ve got long blonde hair and you’re this tall slender girl with amazingly blue eyes...i’m going to put a tiny black mole on your cheek. Its traditional. If you want your character to be really beautiful there has to be a minor defect.” (228). He uses metafiction to show that it is all a illusion by switching back and forth from his story to real life. David tells us to finish the story by saying “Now i’ve got to bring this to some kind of ending. You think that writers know how stories end before they write them, but that's not true. We’re wracked with confusion and guilt and guilt about how things are going to end.” (232). “I’m going to end it right here at the moment of the kiss. You can do what you want with the rest of it.” (233).

Hollywood cinema is primarily subjected to telling stories. The inclination of Hollywood narratives comes not just from good chronicles but from good story telling. The following essay will discuss Hollywood’s commercial aesthetic as applied to storytelling, expand on the characteristics of the “principles of classical film narration” and evaluate alternative modes of narration and other deviations from the classical mode.

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.

Before watching the film a viewer schooled in academia must consider how the original text may be altered to comply with Hollywood tradition. Miller goes on to

The camera angles varied greatly throughout the film. Multiple times the camera was close to the floor looking up at the characters and other times it was very high up looking down. There are also multiple times within the film that the actors look straight into the camera. This happens when Leland and Kane are talking about the newspaper declaration as well as when Walter Thatcher reading Kane’s newspapers headlines. Most narratives do not have the actors acknowledge that the camera is there, however, some TV shows now have actors look into the camera for an added dramatic effect just as Citizen Kane did.

"Metafiction is a term given to fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality."

the first of its kind to be made with a small budget, unknown cast, and limited resources. This proves that this film is unique by showing how differently the director and actors

If possible, the author should be contacted for opinions and criticism throughout the filming of the movie.

In recent years, it has become popular for many of America's great literary masterpieces to be adapted into film versions. As easy a task as it may sound, there are many problems that can arise from trying to adapt a book into a movie, being that the written word is what makes the novel a literary work of art. Many times, it is hard to express the written word on camera because the words that express so much action and feeling can not always be expressed the same way through pictures and acting. One example of this can be found in the comparison of Ken Kesey's novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and the film version directed in 1975 by Milos Forman.

based on. The film is about a man who was involved in the killing of

The therapist used the Cognitive Model of Panic (Clark, 1986), initially developing the three key elements of

AUTHOR: Future film adaptation offers. Bonus and Incentives based on a stated figure of success. Name would mentioned on the credit scene or start of the movie. Name would be on the movie cover and during the premiere. Best seat in the house during the premiere.

Critics thought Argo was a spectacular film, for it was showing a piece of history. The New York Times stated, “The Hollywood angle brings lightness and levity into the movie.”(The New York Times, Manohla Dargis) Critics were pleased with the film Argo for it was interesting and ironic. Also, the New York Times said, “Ben Affleck, however, who directed “Argo” from a script by Chris Terrio and cast himself in the pivotal role of Tony Mendez, realized that comedy alone wouldn’t do.”(The New York Times, Manohla Dargis). Also, they concluded Hollywood needed to develop a plan, yet that will make an audience go incredibly excited yet afraid at the same time. However, other

The film I picked for my critique is Red Tails, a historical World War II drama. The movie starred Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard and Gerald Mcraney, was written by John Ridley and Aaron McGruder, better known as the creator of the comic strip “the boondocks”, from a book by John B. Holway, directed by Anthony Hemingway and produced by George Lucas . In this paper the author will show how all elements of filmmaking