Minority Report Film Analysis

Roman Polanski used every minute of his movie Chinatown to define and redefine J.J. Gittes, played by Jack Nicholson. Gittes is for all intents and purposes a classic private investigator, making a living out of other infidelity. Polanski adds an element of quirkiness to Gittes by utilizing the genius of Jack Nicholson and incorporating film noir traits. With Polanski’s mixture of modern acting talent combined with an updated format of color film he creates a visual curiosity that compels the viewer to stay engaged and intrigued.

This film starts off with two boys on a road trip who go into a gas station to fill up on food for the remainder of their trip. After leaving the gas station, they realize that they did not pay for a can of tuna in one of their pockets. Later, they are pulled over and held at gun point by a police officer and eventually questioned for a crime. They are put in a line up in which they are picked out of. After believing the crime they are being questioned for is the stealing of the tuna, they agree to not be accompanied by a lawyer, and agree to confess to everything. Only later, they find out that they were being questioned for the murder of the gas station clerk because they were accused of being the last ones to see the man alive. The act of the police questioning a suspect for a crime is mostly accurate in this part of the film because the police follow the correct process.

The scenery like all of the films we have watched are important. First and for most the film is black and white. This sets the stage for an older type of

In Heat, the lighting is no different than the color. It is very somber, and dark at times with the actor’s face being the only thing that is highlighted by the light. There are also a few scenes in the movie that have heavy influences from film noir. The smoke-filled rooms or back alleyways give the effect of casting just enough light to only touch the actor. It is a crime movie, so if it sticks to the style of old crime dramas there will be lots of smoking in it as well. This allowed light to catch the smoke in the air, and effectively accent the look the director was going for. Another technique that was used a few times in this movie during nighttime scenes was to have water on the ground so the light would reflect in the water as well. It is an old technique that has been used in Hollywood for

The Usual Suspects Evaluation The Usual Suspects begins at a crime scene, where a large barge has just exploded in San Pedro, California, leaving 27 dead, a sole survivor who is terribly burned, and $91 million worth of “dope” inexplicably missing. A police detective named Dave Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) quickly seeks out the witnesses to the explosion and the key suspect, Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey). Verbal retells the events leading up to the barge incident, beginning with the truck containing gun parts that disappeared five days prior in Queens, NY. Five men are brought in as suspects: An easily agitated thief named McManus (Stephen Baldwin), a quick-tempered brutish man named Hockney (Kevin Pollak), an egomaniac named Fenster (Benicio Del

Many costumes went from dark to bright colors, depending on the mood of the current scene. Meanwhile, the scenes would alternate from clean to muddy and gray quite often. Branagh and the others that came together to make this film did a great job by changing the colors to show the moods that define the play and the main character accurately. This made it much easier for me to understand what was going to happen next seeing as though a ‘happy’ scene wouldn’t

Muted, cool colors appears across the scene, which is a significant change from the warm brown in the beginning sequence. The pale and sickly colors furthers the horror aspect of the film, followed along by the dusty and elongated state of the visible furniture.

The colors are delightfully illuminated and noticeable in background and foreground. There are two styles of color within the timeline of the film. During the scenes set in the 1930’s, the colors

The film is not your regular police story but about how the police is going against the same strategy they are using. The Departed tells the tale of how a police officer was placed undercover in the Irish Mob and the Irish mob vice versa placed a mole in the police force. The film was directed by Martin Scorsese and released in 2006. Scorsese directed other well-known crime films like Goodfellas, Casino, and Gangs of New York but surprisingly only The Departed won him the Academy Award for Best Director. Taking place in Boston, the movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Billy Costigan, the rat placed in the mob; Matt Damon as Staff Sergeant Colin Sullivan, the mole in the police force; Jack Nicholson as Frank Costello, the Irish mob boss; Mark

Howard Hawks’s Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932) focuses on gang warfare and police intervention during a power struggle for Prohibition-era Chicago. This pre-Hays Code gangster film

The 1997 less-restrictive airport security permits access to a hilarious bearded woman and those, um, sexy curves. This smooth get-a-way and low-profile gang seems to have succeeded in the mastermind robbery, that is, until the FBI get involved. Equipped with one strong and adamant er, woman, determined to capture the Loomis Fargo fugitive. As word gets back to Chambers who has since been making it rain on local malls and car dealerships. Spending his hard-earned 17 million on luxurious mansions and extravagant decor. Chambers, whose identity is quickly discovered by Ghantt, holds no bars when deciding to terminate one of America’s most wanted criminals and hires hit-man Michael Mckinney (Jason Sudeikis) to ensure the name-dropping threats will never come to a

He acted in many great movies and often as the evil villain type characters, however his most famously known acting part was in the Harry Potter series where he played Severus Snap, the traitor. I am not a talented in the ways of acting so that may be why his great abilities envelope my mind with interest and amazement. However, the abilities that he does and did have should be remembered. It is not every day that you find a great actor to play the villain, and he did it so well that if you had never had known his story you would have thought that he was a villain in real life… that’s how well he played his parts. That is someone who should be recognized just as much as any pro athlete star or Hollywood celebrity, for his

early 1960's. It is about a young boy called Francie Brady who becomes isolated from reality and eventually commit’s the ultimate sin of murder from this isolation he is experiencing. He is the victim of a dysfunctional family and of the effects of modernization in Ireland at this time and we soon realize that he has been raised in an atmosphere of inhumanity. Both Novel and film cover themes such as

His role would exceed beyond that of a movie star. It wasn’t an unusual sight to see him take on different roles during shoots: As the leading man, director, writer, producer, choreographer, set design, cinematography and lighting, one man taking on the role of eight.

A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the President. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he goes on the run to find the real killer and the reason he was set up.',