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Working out conflicts face to face can and cannot make a difference in resolving the problem.“These face-to-face interactions build trust, understanding, and a real sense of a shared mission, and this has made all the difference in the world.” This direct quote from Forbes.com explains how this specific way can improve how the world communicates to each other. Many people will disagree with the previous statement, but it is just one of the basic elements of the social system. Admittedly, not everyone believes in face to face interaction. People can choose whichever side they want to, but people can solve their problems by talking to somebody.

Analytical Thesis: Get Out is a psychological thriller that analyzes the racial issues in modern America through the use of visual rhetoric: such as film noir, symbolism and metaphors.

Throughout the film Do the Right Thing, we continuously observe racial conflict that builds up to such an extreme point that it leads to a fight for power. This movie portrays the struggles and realities of a neighborhood with white and black African American people. This can be seen in many instances for example when Buggin ' Out, Radio Raheem, and Smiley march into Sal 's and demand that Sal change the Wall of Fame. Another vital instance shows the height of power struggle. It is when the huge fight starts in the street and results in Raheem being killed by a white police officer.

How do the formalistic and ideological patterns found in Orson Welles’s movies; Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, and Othello, make him a great auteur?

Orson Welles was passionate about film. By the young age of 25, he had directed, produced, and starred in what is today considered by most to be the greatest movie ever made, Citizen Kane. About a year later, Welles began work on his next film project, The Magnificent Ambersons. Based on the novel of the same name by Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons tells the story of a falling aristocratic family in a

Citizen Kane is a film open to many interpretations and analyses. It tells the story of its main character through the complex points of view of those who knew him. Or thought they knew him. The character of Charles Foster Kane is played by, and done so in an enigmatic performance, by Orson Welles. The intrinsic bias and prejudice of the “narrators” in this film creates conflicting accounts of who Charles Foster Kane really was. Kane was a private man; closely guarding his true identity, making it difficult to differentiate the private Kane from his public identity. Throughout the film’s development of Kane, several inconsistencies and contradictions arise in the depiction of the character’s personality. All of these issues make it

Hayakawa’s career was jumpstarted by his leading role in The Cheat, the film catapulted him

Orson Welles is commonly praised for his popular movie, Citizen Kane, but that wasn’t the only movie he has directed and acted in. In his career, Welles acted in several plays, used his voice on radio shows, created ten complete films, and acted in a number of movies himself. Even though, Citizen Kane was a major influence in the filmmaking world, it wasn’t all Orson should be remembered for. Welles was a dedicated director, producer,writer, and actor who always found a way to use his creativity and passion to create films. Welles got lucky and started peeking into the acting world at a young age.

When talking about how the Western culture has been influenced over the years, it is impossible not to talk about Orson Welles, a man who has shaped the face of American cinema, radio, and theatre. Orson Welles was born to two highly educated parents, Richard and Beatrice, who taught him to play the violin, the piano, and traveled around the world with him. He was born in Wisconsin, and although in his young years he was introduced to much of the world around him, his childhood wasn’t exactly happy. When he was four years old his parents separated, and by the time he was nine his mother would be dead from jaundice. When we was thirteen his father died as well, this time do to his alcoholic nature.

Orson Welles’ career took place in the mid-thirties to late eighties in the twentieth century. He began his career at age fifteen, starting in Ireland, making his acting debut in the Gate Theater in Dublin. By eighteen, Welles started to appear in off-Broadway productions. It was then that he also launched his radio career. By age twenty, he had presented alternate interpretations of certain well-known plays and movies. At age twenty-two he was the most notable Broadway star from Mercury Theater and, because of this, BBC radio gave him an hour each week to broadcast whatever he pleased. That’s when, at age twenty-five, he broadcast War of the Worlds, which caused panic due to the “Martian invasions”. By the time he came into

“One of the most promising artists of our day,” “ One of the most accomplished dramatic artists of the twentieth century, “ and “A major creative force and ultimate auteur,” were all praises and titles from major media moguls, publications, and critics given to Orson Welles. Not too shabby for someone who hasn’t even turned thirty yet, eh? Right out of the gate Welles proved to be an innovative and artistic force that could hold its own, and even surpass, the heavy hitters of his day. His career seemed to be on a steady incline for almost a decade; however, did his talent and work hit a plateau? Welles was always seen as an active political figure that was not afraid to voice or project

Alfred Hitchcock is arguably the greatest director of all time. Many of his films are considered standards of American cinema and inspired many of today’s directors. Even though Hitchcock is known as timeless director, he had an understanding of philosophy that was beyond his time. Hitchcock had a brilliant perception as to how the mind works and human reaction. Hitchcock’s understanding of philosophy can be seen in his film Vertigo and illustrates how many theories can be debilitating in everyday life.

The aim of a film is to evoke a response from the audience and depending on the individual spectator's background this response will vary. In this presentation, I am going to be focusing on how directors such as Alfred Hitchcock , David Fincher and David Lynch have the ability to make the spectator feel uncomfortable through subliminal messages and film language such as mise en scene and sound. As most film fans know, the idea of social discomfort in films was pushed into the mainstream by the 'Master of Suspense', Alfred Hitchcock. His breakout film, 'The Lodger' (1926), which follows the story of a protagonist who is falsely accused of a crime, shows his early efforts of upsetting the spectator. Despite 'The Lodger' being considered his

I watched the movie The Other F Word for my fathers in the media paper. In watching this movie I could see certain features that we have talked about in class such as sensitivity, the importance of the breadwinner, and they also start to put themselves into the shoes of their children and their emotions. I also saw things that were not talked about in class such as: the fathers trying to bring the child into their world instead of adjusting their lives to that of the child. The Other F Word gives a very different look at fathers than what I am used to talking about in the class, because these fathers are coming from different backgrounds than that of the fathers we have talked about.

When Citizen Kane was first released in 1941 it was cinematically groundbreaking because first time director Orson Welles had taken various types of filmmaking, much of which had been used in Expressionistic German films in the 1920’s and incorporated them all into one film. Despite the fact that Welles did not create the techniques used in the film he revolutionized the way films were shot. When Welles was asked where he had gotten the confidence as a first time director to create a movie that was so different from its counterparts, Welles said, “ Ignorance, ignorance, sheer ignorance-you know they is no confidence to equal it, it is only when you know something about a profession, I think, that you are timid or careful” (Welles). This “ignorance” was important to the film as it resulted in the use of cinematography that had not been popularized yet, some examples of this are: