Midnight In Paris

When the last kiss is given, the camera angle turns to have the bed as well as the two figures kissing in the picture. Gertrude by the bed is the last focus of the camera you see when the scene ends.

In Midnight in Paris, Gil tags along with her fiancées family to a trip in Paris in order to become more inspired by the ambiance of the beautiful city, by having Gil experience the golden age without any help of technology, he is deliberately opposing the idea of postmodernism and how people tend to connect to people and places. According to Jameson, everything we experience is mediated by technology or capitalism, so we no longer experience things as “natural” unmediated. It is inferred that Gil understands this, and therefore decides to get out of Los Angeles in order to experience Paris for himself, instead of through the use of technology. We see how his fiancées opposes his views in the scene in which it is raining, and she attempts to avoid the rain while Gil is happily enjoying walking in the rain. In this film, we can see how Inez’s character represents popular culture which does not bother experiencing things without being mediated, while Gil attempts to accomplish the opposite. He attempts to have a fell for the mood and ambient of the city in order to regain the inspiration and motivation he had lost while in the city, where mostly everything is mediated by modern items.

a film. It is what the viewers sees, hears and experiences while watching a film. A film’s Mise en Scene subtly influences viewer’s mood as they watch a film, much like decor, lighting, smells and sounds can influence our emotional response to an actual place. In Film Art: An Introduction, Bordwell (2001), explained that in Mise en Scene, realism can be achieved by giving the settings an accurate and convincing look or letting actors express their emotions through performance as naturally as possible. This paper will discuss and analyse the significance of Mise en Scene in Wong Kar Wai’s In The Mood For Love

We recently watched the film Paris is Burning, a documentary about black drag queens in Harlem and their culture surrounding balls. Directly related we also read two feminist critiques, Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion by Judith Butler and Is Paris Burning by bell hooks. Two areas of critique I focus on and question are the critiques regarding the filmmaker, audience and drag queens and how they participate to reinforce a heterosexual racist patriarchy. Furthermore I ask if this line of investigation is the most beneficial way to view and understand the film and its various participants.

Midnight in Paris and The Great Gatsby were films were the main characters are living in the past. Gil wants to live in the 1920’s were the golden age was important and Gatsby was to go back five years and finish off where him and Daisy could spend there life together in louisville.

This is the scene where Gatsby looks across Daisy’s life in East Egg, an island that represents old money in America. The green light on Daisy’s dock symbolises how riches and social ranks have socially and morally corrupted the American Dream. Moreover, Fitzgerald description of Gatsby looking across the “dark water” a “minute and far away” makes the green light seem unachieveable and distant. This quote makes it evident to the reader that the green light symbolises the impossibility of the American Dream, and it being situated on Daisy’s dock symbolises the people who have morally corrupted it.

The scene that I will be discussing for this paper is called “He’s a spy” from the movie Young Guns. In this scene, Billy and his gang are confronted by Murphy’s men. With the mise-en-scene, this helps the viewer identify that the time period being portrayed here is the late 1870’s or the early 1880’s. The mise-en-scene being used for this movie is important in telling the story from a different era as in today’s world, no one dresses this way anymore. Also to include from this scene is the lighting. I will attempt to give an explicit description of the use of the lighting and the sun and how the cinematographer designed for the use of it. Furthermore, I will also discuss the people that are directly involved with the making of Young Guns, the director, the production designer and the art director and their roles and responsibilities.

When you hear the words “romance films”, Woody Allen instantly pops up in your mind. He is a director known for being cheesy and creative. His movies can be absolutely moving or heart-breaking. Anyways, they always have a charming touch.

An example that Fitzgerald uses perfectly is when he describes what Gatsby’s parties are like. He writes, “...men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars” (Fitzgerald 44). This is to emphasize the effect of this sentence with a simile and to draw the reader's attention to so the reader can interpret it. In this scene the readers are just learning what life was like for Gatsby and all of the upper class people who attended his over the top parties. It is the reader's understanding that these people are very posh and their lives are very simple, yet extravagant. It also shows how fast paced people were and how everyone gathered and buzzed around “like moths.” Furthermore, Located at the end of the Buchanans' dock, this green light represents Gatsby's ultimate aspiration: to win Daisy's love. Nick's first vision of Gatsby is of his neighbor's trembling arms stretched out toward the green light. Later, after Daisy and Gatsby's successful reunion, a mist conceals the green light, visibly affecting Gatsby. Nick observes, "Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever....Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one" (Fitzgerald 98). This

The story of the midnight ride is one of controversy, many wonder who was the one to actually deliver the message, and which is the most important. All those who journeyed on the midnight ride were equally important because its story lives in infamy. Charles J. Caes, the author of the article Midnight Riders, argues that Samuel Prescott is the most important and underrated midnight rider. Caes also argues that Prescott should receive more credit than the others who joined him on the ride. In actuality, Prescott is not as brave and heroic as Caes makes him out to be. The things that Samuel Prescott had accomplished before the midnight ride are not as impressive as Caes makes them out to be. Also, The fact that Samuel was the one to complete the mission is not as important as the bravery it takes to even go on the mission. Those that choose their fate are more heroic than those who stumble upon it.

This paper will discuss various elements of mise-en-scene, specifically; character development, lighting, performance, costume, makeup in the film "Casablanca".(Michael Curtiz,1942) The setting of the story sets the tone for the entire film. Shots of tanks and planes show the violence of war that coincides with the cutthroat city that is Casablanca. From there, those sentiments are reinforced when a man is shot in the street while another man pick pockets someone whom is distracted. The mood of the movie stays on the dark side of things when we enter Rick's Café, where we meet our protagonist played by Humphrey Bogart. In this scene we are treated to the jaded portrayal of night club owner. We see his utter disregard for a French woman

The environment in which people live in demonstrates the societal norms and values of said culture. In Émile Zola’s The Belly of Paris, Florent, a political outcast, returns to Paris only to find that the regime has drastically changed. Napoleon III, a self-elected emperor, has torn down many of the streets of Old Paris to make room for the angular and orderly streets of New Paris as well as the new markets of Les Halles. Throughout the novel, the character’s lives revolve around the various markets in Les Halles and the streets of Paris. Zola uses descriptions of architecture and city planning as well as how people use space within Paris to demonstrate the city’s corruption, signifying that the architecture of a city is a reflection of

The short fiction piece I chose to analyze was “Paris, At Night” by Sung J. Woo. The story centralizes on a man named Todd. Todd was trying to sell his belongings to obtain money for his “thirtieth wedding anniversary” with his wife, Sue. He wanted to take his wife to Paris. “For as long as he could remember,” Sue wanted to go to Paris; however, the couple had children and experienced financial issues which prolonged the trip from ever happening. In Todd’s world, there are robots who act as laborers; the robots do not have names, only a number as a form of identification. Some of the workers are a result of a bad memrip, like the character Manny in the story. A man under an alias named Richard Gibbon’s contacts Todd about completing “a painless, quick procedure” known as “memripping.” This procedure entails removing old memories to make room for new ones. In return, Todd will receive money to take his wife to Paris. “Memripping” is illegal in Todd’s world, yet Todd continued with the process anyways. The procedure took place in a dingy dentist’s office. “His personal history” and memories were removed from his brain by “the memrip machine.” The remains were “just a smidge of gray matter” in a petri dish. The short story concludes with Todd and Sue in Paris. Undoubtedly, the procedure had detrimental impacts on Todd. He no longer understood his wife. He was now filled with questions and doubts about Sue.

I found when watching this part that lighting was an essential element to portray the mood the director is trying to express. At the beginning of the scene it cuts into a long shot of Gatsby's house overlooking the gloomy lake. From the long shot it immediately goes into a panning shot, a scatter of lights appear on the inside of the house. This gives the viewers a sense of desolation to the house. Gatsby use to throw massive parties with lights that would light up the whole lake which made the house look alive. But the few lights in this shot made it look partly abandoned and uninviting. I think that the director deliberately made the scene dark to exaggerate to the audience loss of all personality and happiness, which has disappeared from the house. The house was once full of light but now it is

Understanding movies comes from describing and analyzing the cinematic, theatrical, and literary elements that combine to create meaning. These steps create a basic understanding of the artistic and technical elements found in moviemaking. In addition, the major characteristics of different film genres and classic movies will be analyzed. The purpose of this paper is analyzing the Academy Award winning film Chicago. This paper will describe the six steps that a person should think about when watching a movie. These steps include, (1) analysis of the narrative: story, plot and meaning; (2) theatrical elements, (3) cinematography, (4) editing, (5) sound and the (6) complete package.