I found that Mizoguchi’s staging within Ugetsu’s “By Boat in the Moonlight” scene was very interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgBHeJfnJ5s Astruc states that mise-en-scène is “movement of the body” (Astruc 266) that “extends states of minds” (267) like a song or rhythm (267). In this particular scene, I noticed how the character’s emotional responses changed through Mizoguchi’s “one scene/one shot” style. At 0:55, the camera pans from Genjuro and Tobei to Genichi in Miyagi’s arms. Until around 1:19, Miyagi seems fairly happy as they are avoiding danger by transporting by boat. However at 1:21, she looks away from the men and begins to appear upset. The men are talking about how they will become rich, hinting to the audience through Miyagi’s solemn movements that Genjuro is obsessed with the pursuit of wealth. Throughout the film, the viewer learns that this is his downfall, leading to him cheating on Miyagi with Lady Wakasa and ruining his life. Miyagi’s …show more content…
She is hardly looking around at first. At 1:57, her attention is grabbed by something out of the frame, ceasing to row. Her concerned movement as she turns from the oar and looks out demonstrates that she is immensely concerned about what she is seeing. The other characters may not be completely aware yet, but the audience knows through the mise-en-scène. Astruc further explains that it is an “irresistible movement that casts itself ever forward along the same path in the pursuit of fulfillment — or destruction” (267). With this particular movement that Ohama performs, it pushes the film onward as she is casting herself, as well as the characters within the boat, towards their destruction. As a result, they run into a suffering man who was overcome by pirates that serves as a bad omen. This scene stands true to being a sort of “irrevocable slowness that urges on” the plot of the film simply by the movement of the actors within
The book Night is about the holocaust as experienced by Elie Weisel from inside the concentration camps. During World War II millions of innocent Jews were taken from their homes to concentration camps, resulting in the deaths of 6 million people. There were many methods of survival for the prisoners of the holocaust during World War II. In the book Night, there were three main modes of survival, faith, family, and food. From the examples in the book Night, faith proved to be the most successful in helping people survive the holocaust.
The book Night and Boys in The Boat have resiliency in common through family, faith, and fear. The authors of these books, Daniel James Brown (Boys in The Boat), and Elie Wiesel, (Night,) both wrote stories that had common values. Night is a terrifying story of how young Elie Wiesel and his family go to a 1944 concentration camp. The death of his family destroys his innocence and shows these camps must never happen again. Boys in The Boat is an empowering story of 9 boys who shocked the world by making it to the Olympic games in Berlin. In the core of this story, however, Joe Rantz must learn how to live on his own without his family, who perspires in the boat and finds his second family. Joe Rantz and Elie Wiesel demonstrate being resilient
The key to the relationship between politics, commerce, and the media is that they are all linked through violence. Violence is how to ensure the audience will pay attention and support films. It also plays a significant role in how some businesses, both legitimate and illegitimate, running smoothly. Just the threat of violence can create compliance, further launching individuals and groups to success. Politics thrive on violence, usually through trying to stop it from creating corruption within society.
“In an age when Americans enjoy dozens of cable sports channels, when professional athletes often command salaries in the tens of millions of dollars...it’s hard to fully appreciate how important the rising prominence of the University of Washington’s crew was to the people of Seattle in 1935” (Brown 173). As seen by this quote, America is a much different place than what it was in the 1930s. The times have changed significantly. In today’s day and age we have it all too good. The world we live in is one of leisure and not nearly as much hard work as there used to be. Back in the early 20th century the people had it pretty rough and dealt with many frightening problems of their generation such as
The Russian Revolution and the purges of Leninist and Stalinist Russia have spawned a literary output that is as diverse as it is voluminous. Darkness at Noon, a novel detailing the infamous Moscow Show Trials, conducted during the reign of Joseph Stalin is Arthur Koestler’s commentary upon the event that was yet another attempt by Stalin to silence his critics. In the novel, Koestler expounds upon Marxism, and the reason why a movement that had as its aim the “regeneration of mankind, should issue in its enslavement” and how, in spite of its drawbacks, it still held an appeal for intellectuals. It is for this reason that Koestler may have attempted “not to solve but to expose” the shortcomings of this political system and by doing so
Night by Elie Wiesel was one of the best books I have ever read. Night is the story about Elie’s horrible time spent in Auschwitz and Buna the death camps. This story impacted me the most because all of this is real. Elie’s mother and sister were murdered as soon as they arrived. The story goes on telling his unimaginable experiences with his father in 1944 during the Holocaust.
Richard Adams’ exceptional construction of setting in Watership Down greatly assists the preservation of this literary masterpiece. Although being set specifically in the British countryside, Adams’ vivid recreation of the area and landscape that he knew best allows for clear visualization and understanding from a reader of any background. The dire consequences that arise in this seemingly most unlikely and tranquil of places assist the narrative in presenting itself as a serious novel that serves as an allegory for issues that arise in contemporary life and society. The setting of Watership Down provides for much more than just a backdrop for the action to take place upon, as it accurately and effectively helps convey many
In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes is a lost man who wastes his life on drinking. Towards the beginning of the book Robert Cohn asks Jake, “Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize that you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already?” Jake weakly answers, “Yes, every once in a while.” The book focuses on the dissolution of the post-war generation and how they cannot find their place in life. Jake is an example of a person who had the freedom to choose his place but chose poorly.
"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never." (9)
"The Open Boat," by Stephen Crane, has been critiqued and deconstructed by many thinkers. One such critique is "The Dialogic Narrative of `The Open Boat'." This critique on Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat," was written by two authors: Sura P. Rath and Mary Neff Shaw. The authors focused on a five main points in the duration of this Critique. First Mikail Baktin's theory of the "Five basic types of discourses," are discussed and used in the deconstruction of "The Open Boat." The critique then delves into the use of first-person actor-character to third person spectator-narrator. Shaw and Rath then annotate the tonal quality of "The Open Boat." Fourthly the critique characterizes and analyzes the key figures of the Novel. Lastly
Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night” is written in Terza Rima, a very uncommon form first used by Dante Alighieri, the famous Italian poet. Terza Rima is a very cyclical form, with the unusual rhyme scheme interlocking the stanzas. Frost uses this form to represent the cyclical nature of his night time journeys to the edge of town, as well at the cyclical nature of depression and suicidal ideation. The most interesting thing about this poem is how ambiguous it is, and how Frost goes about creating the ambiguity. It is extremely straight-forward, and is not hard to interpret literally.
I read for hours. Scanning through books and books about our goddess. I could find nothing. I layed down onto my bed. My eyes slowly fell shut as the world around me dissolved. My dreams rippled like water through the night. They came back and left then came back again. THe most vivid of them all was a dream of a pure gold man, a pure white man, and a man who had two-faces. In the dream the the gold man gold man sat across from the white man and they talked to each other politely. What they where saying, I could not tell you, everything was like being underwater. The visions rippled and eveyrthing was muffled. Anyhow, they talked until suddenly the gold man grabbed the white man and threw him onto the table. The whiteman however pulled out
Literary terms in “Acquainted with the Night” include darkness and loneliness. In the poem, Robert Frost says “I have looked down the saddest city lane”, my belief is that this “street” is lifeless. This poem is obvious taken place in the title, hence the title. The structure of “Acquainted with the Night” is an iambic pentameter, which pattern is, aba bcb cdc dad aa.
Description: Van Gogh painted more than 10 paintings of olive trees, which was mostly in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France in 1889. The painting of Olive Trees in a Mountainous Landscape was complementary to The Starry Night. The landscapes are in a pattern of curves as painting from The Starry Night. Van Gogh’s unique painting technique, impasto was used. The characteristic style of divisionism is used by painting multiple strokes with varieties of colors. It is decided character of each horizontal zone of this turbulent work that keeps the picture from succumbing to the dullness of chaos, which so often results from an artist's immersion in pure feeling. In the visionary cloud, with blue and yellow streaks and wavy outline, vaguely organic,
It was three o’clock in the morning. Outside the window, the sky was still dark. There were barely any stars in the sky, and no cloud cluttered. The sky was painfully dark and motionless. Except for the faint light from the moon, everything seems lifeless. In a dark room, there was a girl sitting up on the bed, leaning on the wall beside her. She was looking out the window. Through the window, the girl can see the sky and the top of some buildings, however, nothing special or attractive. But, the girl has been staring at it for almost an hour now, silently and peacefully.