Examining the Music of Big Fish and Cold Mountain Essay

     First off, the biggest difference is the time periods of each movie. The older movie was set in Early Renaissance times. The newer movie is set in the early ninety’s. Another difference is the use of special effects. In the

Produced and directed by Tim Burton, the film Big Fish is primarily a fictional recounting of the life of Edward Bloom. A majority of the plot takes place in flashbacks, starting with Edward’s story about how he caught the biggest fish in his town on the day of his son's birth using only his wedding ring. It is soon revealed in an argument scene that Edward’s son Will Bloom is sick and tired of stories like this as they are a complete lie. Soon following Will receives news that his father is deathly ill with cancer, so he immediately visits his parents with his wife Josephine. Soon after their arrival Edward immediately goes on to telling his life story to Will and Josephine although they have heard it countless times before. His story starting with a flashback in which he and a friend stumble upon a witch that reveals to him how they

Director, screenwriter, and producer, Stephen Spielberg, has been often described by critics as being one of the trailblazers who paved the way for the new Hollywood era. In fact, one of Spielberg’s earliest films, JAWS, captured the audience’s attentions so vividly that the movie remains to be a cult classic even decades later. The audience sunk its teeth deep into the enticing combination of drama, thrill, science-fiction, and adventure the film obtained. At face value, JAWS appears to be focused on a giant monstrous fish, but with further analyzation of the plot structure, narration, and original music demonstrates the brilliance and complexity of why JAWS is a well deserving Oscar-winning movie.

The music represents the shark, especially its movements and its presence. In the title sequence the camera is moving along the seabed like a shark. Spielberg makes the audience believe that the camera is viewing things through the shark’s eyes, he uses a camera shot called point of view shot. The music makes the shark seem a mystery because you haven’t yet seen the shark but you can feel its presence. The music clouds your vision and makes you imagine and believe something that actually isn’t even there. It builds tension

Tim Burton is an extraordinary film director of playful yet frightening movies that revolve around a character that is different from the rest. In a Burton movie, the audience will find most characters wearing bright colors with an almost perfect life. However, the character that experiences a significant and prominent adventure is often the protagonist who is different than the other characters, based on their dark and eerie past. Burton is able to smoothly transition from a joyous mood, to a suspicious and creepy mood. For example, Edward Scissorhands is a story about a man named Edward, who has scissors for hands and is brought into the “real world” for the first time in his life. Big Fish focuses on the unbelievable and incredible stories

Big Fish is a film that jumps between past and present to relay the fantastical stories and adventures of Edward Bloom. This film presents these stories through various flashbacks as his son, Will Bloom, tries to piece together the man his father claims to be. As the flashbacks unfold, stunning cinematography, lighting and colours are used to create beautiful and enchanting scenes that really complete the movie. The sequence I chose to analyse is the town scene in which Edward comes to the realisation that he does not belong in Spectre, and needs to leave whilst he still can.

In Anaya’s novel not long before Ultima is called upon for help Lucas observes witches do their evil dance, and becomes cursed so they desire the help of a cuaderna (84). This is magical realism because the brujas' magic is condemned by the people of the town, but still accepted as a reality of their life. While On the other hand, Ultima’s spiritual powers are accepted and trusted more by the town peoples as she is able to cure the miraculous, while the power of the catholic church has failed many times even with the power of god. At the beginning of the movie Big Fish by Tim Burton there is a giant residing in Ashton. This portrays magical realism because a giant is residing in the small rural ordinary town of Ashton. The people in the town are more concerned that the giant is eating their crops and livestock, than the actual idea that there is a giant residing in their town and they want it to leave treating it like a normal

For the past few weeks, I have analyzed the storytelling style of the book and film Big Fish. The biggest difference I noticed was that I thought that the book focused more on the telling of Edwards inane stories, while the film was mostly centered around character development and relationships. I also think that while the book was very euphoric and felt like a children’s bedtime story, the film took a much more mystical and mysterious route, where a childish feel was dormant. Lastly, I thought that in the book the author just threw all the stories together and told them

Bart Layton built this doc not from one perspective, but from a collection of them. Some stories, like “The Imposter” need a panoptic approach to connect the audience to the film. The themes of manipulation, identity and love are the main themes conveyed by Layton. These themes are communicated through sounds and visual imagery.

myths are the fuel for individuality, originality, and imagination. They allow us to revitalize our past and construct out future. Life is influenced and interconnected with myths in a variety of different ways. Daniel Wallace's Big Fish introduces these ideas of myths being more imortant than merely stating facts and knowledge. Throughout the novel, william, son of Edward Bloom, tries to understand the truth in his father's life as it nears his death. Through all of the tall tale stories and jokes that Edward passes onto his son, William has a hard time taking him seriouslt and becoming emotionally close with him. Near the endm William was finalyll able to come to a realization about his father. NOt only did he learn all of the jokes

Big Fish and the Odyssey are similar and different in many ways. In both texts the main characters are away from home a lot, they are also both very well known in their stories. Daniel Wallace rendered Odysseus new through the adventures of Edward Bloom. They have both similarities and differences.

The film starts with an elder Norman fishing in the “Big Blackfoot” river. Written by Mark Isham (who won the Academy Award for his work on

The “Mountain Man” is very romanticized in the movie. The Actor that was chosen for the part for example was Robert Redford the typical American hero, Blond, handsome, strong and able to survive in the wild, what else can you ask for? What really does it is the song at the beginning of the movie, which is a sort of song to a

Even with the similarities of theme, both movies have a parallel between how it portrays itself, and it further widens the gap due to its difference of timelines.

To the casual viewer The Big Lebowski, a 1998 film written by film maker brothers Ethan and Joel Coen and directed by Joel, would appear to be a comedy rip off of the 1940’s Los Angeles detective film The Big Sleep by Howard Hawks. It features a hippie dropout from the seventies named “the Dude” (Jeff Bridges) who gets caught up with his bowler buddies Walter (John Goodman) and Donny (Steve Buscemi) in a case of mistaken identity and a search for a presumed kidnap victim. Like Thornhill (Cary Grant) in North by Northwest he becomes a reluctant detective. However, The Dude is the polar opposite of the suave and resourceful Thornhill