Film Analysis Of Warsaw 44

Based off Charles Webb’s 1963 novel by the same name, The Graduate is an American romantic comedy/drama released in the United States on December 21, 1967 starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, and William Daniels. The film was directed by Mike Nichols, produced by Lawrence Turman and the screenplay written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham. The film was produced by Lawrence Turman/Mike Nichols productions starting in March of 1967. Mike Nichols has also directed other well known films such as Catch-22 (1970), Working Girl (1988), and more recently Closer (2004). The film was distributed by AVCO Embassy Pictures nationally and United Artists internationally. AVCO Embassy Pictures studio, founded by Joseph E. Levine, the films executive producer, also claims production/distribution for other hit films such as Godzilla, King of Monsters! (1956), The Fog (1980), and Prom Night (1980). The movie was well received due to its $104 million dollar box office opening tab. The score was produced by Dave Grusin and the songs written by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

The film analyzed in this paper, "Aladdin" is set in an Arab culture following the life of a street rat, Aladdin and his pursuit to marry the royal princess Jasmine. This paper will examine elements in the film such as culture and social class through different sociological perspectives. These will include conflict theory, the functionalist perspective and symbolic interactionism. It will also explore Cooley 's look glass self theory and how Aladdin 's negative self concept affects his actions. Lastly, it will view through the feminist theory how Jasmine and women are portrayed and other stereotypes and discrimination in the film.

Film- Precious Knowledge Precious Knowledge is a documentary that takes place in Tucson, Arizona and focuses on how the Unified School district wants to completely ban the Mexican American Studies Program. In the film there were many scenes with examples of rhetorical appeal. I believe that the way the film was set up since the beginning had an impactful and direct emotional appeal on the audience. For instance, in the first scenes of the film we have the opportunity to get to know the main characters in a more intimate level.

The Soviet troops arrived in Mir, where Jack`s parents lived, and took control a few days after the invasion. The troops seemed friendly. The Russians chose not to acknowledge the “Jewish problem.” The Russian occupation was not too bad, especially when compared to the German occupation. In June 1941, Germany invaded the eastern part of Poland. They turned on their Russian allies who were caught by surprise by the Nazi Blitzkrieg and did not put up much of a fight. At the beginning of their occupation, the Nazi`s were secretive about their plans and actions. Then, “about two months after the initial occupation, the action against the Jews were intensified (page 40, Jack and Rochelle).” The Jews were instructed to give up all valuables and then pack. The Jews were headed for the ghetto, which “was located in the worst part of town (page 40, Jack and Rochelle).”

During the Warsaw Uprisings of World War II, there was a mass influx of Nazi Germans who infiltrated Warsaw, Poland in 1944. The goal of the Peoples’ Army, or the Poles, was to kick Germans out of Warsaw in conjunction with arrival of the Red Army but, also liberate themselves. During the uprise, the Peoples’ Army was seen as a shallow defense against the Nazi rise. In Kanal, these men and women were characterized as middle-aged, and knowledgable. However, in actuality the people of the resistance were young men and women. While age was not accurately portrayed, the gender roles and backgrounds which were represented in the film were quite factual. The Uprisers in Kanal are seen as barebacked and rugged individuals with little hope. From the beginning of the movie, the audience knew that it was the last few days of the wilting Upriser. Wajda decided to convey hopeless and irremediable aspects in Kanal because it is an accurate rendition of the Upriser’s futile efforts as well as portray the characters of the film as hopeless and defeatist.

Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night (1958), follows a young Elie who discovers that there are detrimental consequences to standing by inequity and beneficial effects to taking action to the subjugation of an individual. While integrating anaphor and metaphor, Wiesel reinforces his theme by illustrating the environment of detestable concentration camps in Poland to initiate the conflict of the struggle between protecting others over personal interests. His objective is to disseminate his unjust experience to ensure society never loses knowledge of the atrocity and to prevent repeated history. Through unveiling his arduous journey, Wiesel creates an atmosphere of despondency and regret for readers to encourage standing up to injustice. In addition,

The investigation assesses how accurate the film “Defiance” was in portraying the experiences of Bielski Otriad. In order to understand how accurate the film “Defiance” was, research has to be done to investigate specific internal and external situations the Bielskis faced during World War II in the forests of Belarus. Assessing the differences and the similarities in both the movie and the documentary will be the method used to analyse. The method that will be used in the analysis will explain the dThe main sources for this investigation are The Bielski Brothers, Jerusalem in the Woods a documentary that states facts about the Bielski’s situations during World War II and Synopsis for Defiance compiled by IMBD that gives a full synopsis of the film Defiance.

The 1996 film of The Crucible is a historical drama inspired by the Salem witchcraft trials. The film has won a multitude of cinematic achievements and continuously blows audience members away with the accuracy of the historical events and portrayal of the characters by the actors and actresses. The profound work of Arthur Miller is also expressed within the written play of The Crucible. However, the film did the best job of portraying characters that were both historically accurate and believable to an audience member. One main character from The Crucible that is both historically accurate and extremely believable in the film is Abigail Williams. Winona Ryder, the actress of Abigail Williams, did an impeccable job portraying her character and became widely known for her work through several achievements and film reviews. The recognition that she and the rest of the cast received due to the characterization in this cinematic production is what made the film do the best job of portraying characters as historically accurate and believable to an audience member instead of the written play. Although the written play describes the actions and thoughts of the characters very precisely, the film did the best job of portraying characters as historically accurate and believable to an audience member through the achievements and film reviews received from actors and actresses such as Winona Ryder, the recognition the cast as a whole earned, and the actions and emotions the actors and

After the opening of the Ninth Fort Museum, many Lithuanian Jewish partisans published their memoirs from the Kaunas ghetto and retold the crimes committed in the fort. Their books were illustrated with photographs captured by the Lithuanian Jewish photographer from the Kaunas ghetto George Kadish and in some of their publications even the identification of Jewish victims managed to surpass the Soviet censorship. Of course, as it will be discussed in this paper, first and foremost, their memories were located within the heroic narrative of the Soviet resistance against the Nazi regime and often had to follow the Soviet guidelines of the war memorialization. Nonetheless, it might be argued that antifascist ideology, which was instrumentalized

One technique that is used by Polanski is camera angles. The use of camera angles has enabled the audience to see how unimportant the Polish Jews to the Nazis and therefore why they are dehumanised. For instance, they use a panning shot to show the line of the Jewish while waiting next to each other just before the Nazis shoot them down. This panning shot clearly shows the number of polish people who were standing on the line and how unimportant when they are just shot down with no interest in their individualities which are individual human beings. So this very clearly shows how the Nazis dehumanised the polish Jews. Another example of the camera angles used is seen in the scene that closes up the Jewish people’s face who is waiting for the death with bullet loading sound. This close up shot clearly shows the fear, miseries, and dread that the Jewish people can feel just before the Nazis shoot and how they are deprived the happiness that they can feel as a human. Hence, this also effectively shows how the polish Jews are dehumanised emotionally by the nazis. The theme of dehumanization of Polish Jews is clearly conveyed, as the camera angles successfully show how unimportant the Jews were regarded and how they feel.

During the time in Warsaw, they managed to live through the Warsaw Bombing in 1939. During the time of

Casablanca, the crowning achievement of director Michael Curtiz, which was released in 1942, is a film that had to work against the pressing concerns associated with World War II to stay relevant in both cinematic and general audiences. The writing, which was done by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch, had to be inspirational yet uncontroversial. With actors like Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund, Claude Rains as Captain Louis Renault, and Paul Henreid as the French revolutionary Victor Laszlo, Casablanca has a respectable cast. The movie initially appears to fit the film noir genre because of its smoky backdrops with muted colors,

Life just like the electrocardiography, when there is no rise and fall, it means death. There is an interesting short animated film about life named “The Big Snit” which was presented by the NFB in 2013. The film delivers the message that life is not perfect. The author delivers this message very clearly throughout the conversations of the main characters and also the dramatic ending.

In the film Central Station (Central do Brasil), Walter Salles presents the characters as on a journey to self-discovery. It is a film about identity. Central Station is a melodrama of transformation based on an anomalous-duo comprising of Dora, a jaded retired schoolteacher, and Josué, a nine year-old boy, who embark on a cross-country journey in search of the boy’s father upon the unfortunate death of his mother. The film presents its analysts with many possible interpretations and significations due to its combination of different themes, visual allusions and narrative elements. Central do Brasil film can be interpreted in three ways: as an extended metaphor on the writing process and a narration of personal stories and experiences, as a figurative journey of Brazilian search for its identity depicted in Dora’s transformation and Josué’s quest for his roots, and as a theological allegory inviting a “theological reading of humans struggling to maintain a relationship to an absent God” (Bowman 1). Through a detailed analysis film’s content, production, and reception, this paper interprets Central do Brasil as an allegory representing the pursuit for identity and transformation.

Throughout this class, various discussions and blogs have been used to analyze the different elements of films such as theme, cinematic techniques and genre. It is time to bring all of these separate elements together in the analysis of one specific film, according to class text, “analyzing levels of meaning below the surface story can greatly enhance enjoyment as well as understanding of a film” (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014. p. 10.03). There are several different approaches to film analysis including formalist, auteurist, and generic or any combination thereof. Utilizing a genre theory lens, the 1956 film The Searchers will be analyzed addressing contextual information, story/plot, aesthetic choices, social/personal impact and how these areas come together to develop the film.