Inception And The Prestige Film Analysis

This is illustrated in the scene when Veruca Salt was in the front of the cameras and smiling because she won one of the golden tickets. The use of this technique points out the happiness she has after she received what she has wanted, everything was bright and jolly. This technique is also employed in the scene when the neighborhood ladies were talking about Edward at Peggy’s barbeque. This detail draws attention to what people don’t see in others when they are not looking. In the end, the high-key lighting shows what’s important on how people really are when others aren’t

A world where everyone lives inside of a computer program that is being controlled by machines after humans lost the war, but they are unaware that it is not the real world. A group of people that are trying to take down this program called The Matrix. This is a movie where the magnificent directors use theme, chemistry, and special effects to capture attention and make the one of the greatest films ever made.

The movie Field of Dreams came out in 1989 and was directed by Phil Alden Robinson and story written by W.P. Kinsella. The movie is about a guy named Ray Kinsella, and he lives in Iowa with his wife Annie and daughter Karin, with their yard being a farm to produce crops to make money. One day when Ray was out on the farm, he heard a voice saying “If you build it, he will come”. He went inside to tell Annie, but they didn’t know what it meant. A few days later, he still kept hearing the voice say “If you build it he will come”, and they imagined a baseball field in the middle of his farm and crops and saw Shoeless Joe Jackson. Ray then thought that if he builds a baseball field, Shoeless Joe Jackson might come back to play again.

Inception is such a complex movie that even the audience falls inside the “inception effect “falling into their own dreams and feeling disoriented as well as the subtle hints that whether what they’re watching is real or a dream. Director (Christopher Nolan) does a magnificent job by implanting the movie concept and giving an audience a clue of what is really happening with the title of the film. Cobb

Aristotle once said that “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” A quote like this can be correlated to people like Allen Lee Hughes, because without people like him, darkness would surely reign. In simplistic terms, Hughes is one of the worlds most renowned light designers that has ever lived. Hughes has been given numerous Tony nominations for his impressive lighting designs and now teaches the art of light at New York University, Tisch School of Arts. An eminent lighting design is essential in production because the light sets the mood of the play, and helps the audience’s attention focus on the important plot scenes. Using the I AM THEATRE video, this essay will offer a brief overview of light designer, Allen

Nolan’s is the better movie. He expends less effort than Martin Scorsese, even in the orchestration of the film’s great heist. It lasts for about 80 minutes (the movie is almost 2 1/2 hours), involves at least two dreams within one dream, and goes off with nary a hitch on Nolan’s part. He dances between the falling van, the disappearance of gravity, and an avalanche that could be out of the Bond picture of your choice. And yet, the dreamscapes are oddly sane, sanitary places — no crazy sex or shocking repressed memories. Instead, the subconscious proves curiously hospitable to action-thriller staging.

Like Crewdson’s lighting, my lighting is also completely staged. Crewdson chooses to shoot at twilight in order to have better control over the lighting scenarios, which also enhances the overall eeriness and mystery of his scenes. In my work, I use these same ideas as part of my process in order to have a sense of controlled—and specifically chosen—light scenarios that will add to the mysterious quality I aim for within my paintings.

To start off, Tim Burton presents a unique and daring way of using lighting to guide the audience into believing the tone of a scene is either dark, peaceful, or even mysterious. An example of this would be in the movie Edward Scissorhands. In the beginning of the movie when one of the characters named

Casablanca, to me, is a very unique artifact to study. I think that studying this artifact, is very creative and engaging. One thing that sticks out to me relating Casablanca, is the lighting, as mentioned in a group’s project. When watching film, I tend to overlook the lighting, but when seeing the project, it made me think differently. Every movie filmed has a purpose for every scene, there are no accidents. One scene that stuck out to me was the scene with Ilsa and Rick. In the scene Ilsa looks as if she is glowing , she lights up her area of the room, and lights up the front of Rick, while behind him is dark. In my opinion this scene is symbolizing how Rick is in a dark place, hence the dark lighting behind him. When Ilsa walks into the room, it's like a new Rick appears, which is more brighter. I think it is safe to say that this is no accident at all as far as coming from the producers. In my opinion I think this scene would not be as effective if the lighting was not like this, the message may be completely different. This scene makes me think of a part of my favorite tv show Pretty Little Liars. In Pretty Little Liars, the main antagonist of the show “-A” is revealed. When -A is revealed, the lighting becomes very dark, and there is a sense of darkness, or horror. This lightning fits the scene very well. When this character, who is terrible to the other characters anonymously, is finally revealed, it would not be beneficial to have bright lighting, or a sense of light. Just like the scene from Casablanca, both of these scenes would affect the viewer differently and make them think of these scenes as something different.

Not only does the focal point draw attention away from the unsightly device that powers it, the device itself looks ill maintained and unorganized; the mess of wires and the shadow the device casts invokes the dark truth: without this attractive device, the lights would cease to function, and without one, the other would lose its

Firstly, the filmed shown called “Sleepers” (Golin & Levinson, 1996). Deals with a group of four friends named John Reilly, Lorenzo Carcaterra, Michael Sullivan, and Tommy Marcano who are all between the ages of 12 to 14 years old (Golin & Levinson, 1996). The group of boys were brought up in a not so nice neighborhood called Hell’s kitchen in the

One thing I noticed in the movie was several of the patients were being released with two weeks of medication and no additional supervision to help them function in their daily basis. When many of the mental health patient’s prescription run out, those patients are left with no medicine and no treatment center to run to for assistance. In addition to that, the patients usually go back to their old self after a while of being off the medications that were supposed to help them function. As a result, many of the patient end up going back to prison. For example, 3 out of 4 shows from the movies go back to prison either for the same crime or something worse than before after being off their medication for a couple of months.

Despite the lack of narration or dialogue, this scene is a highly effective introduction to the film’s protagonist and the setting in which the most of the action will take place. This highly choreographed long take discloses an impressive volume of narrative information using only visual cues; the audience is now conscious of their protagonist’s name, his broken leg, the vibrant neighborhood where he lives, and even the summer heat that envelops the scene. The expositional scene is an excellent example of Hitchcock’s ‘pure cinema’ because it immediately deepens the audience’s participation in the film and gives the film a tangible quality, as if the audience were physically standing in Jefferies’ apartment and surveying the setting.

Rumor has it, Christopher Nolan, - now 45 and director of many big budget Holly Wood films such as; the Batman movies; Interstellar; Man of Steel; etc. and of course, Inception - took 10 years (on and off) perfecting the script of Inception to try and make the main character in the movie, Dominick "Dom" Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) have an emotional connection with the audience. Or maybe he was a few layers deep into a dream which made it feel like 10 years, but in reality, was only a day or two...

In contrast to a utopia, according to the power point provided in class a dystopia is “an imaginary place where people live dehumanized and often fearful lives.” The movies The Matrix, 1999 and Avatar, 2009 overall seem to me as dystopian films. To show how each film portrays the different aspects of perspectives on the future, and a dystopia, I’m going to use the settings, actions, and outcomes of each film.