Pleasantville Analysis of Film Techniques against the Theme of "Change"

Colour in both texts has many meanings, several of which are similar. Both ‘The Giver’ and ‘Pleasantville’ start off in black and white with colour gradually seeping into the two worlds. The dull shades represent mundanity as they all look alike. Colours contrast against this, portraying individuality, freedom and change. However, the community in ‘The Giver’ chose to live without colour as it would give them fewer options and decisions to make.

In the beginning of Ordinary People, Conrad has come up with a thesis of blue symbolizes anxiety. Throughout the novel,

Pleasantville, a drama/fantasy movie that was created in 1998 revolves around siblings, David and Jennifer as they travel into the “perfect” 1950’s tv show known as “Pleasantville”. David and Jennifer enter this “perfect” tv show by complete accident. The siblings have an enormous fight about who gets the remote, the eve of the twenty-four hour “Pleasantville” marathon, and this eventually leads to a mysterious television repairman showing up on their doorstep with a brand-new remote. This brand-new remote transfers them into the tv show. Pleasantville provides viewers with an insight into what life was truly like in the 50’s. The movie shows how fearful citizens are when new information is discovered by others in society and how these events

Everything everywhere is constantly changing. People change, weather changes, plans change, everything changes; you can’t escape change. Two movies that really illustrate the concept of change are Pleasantville and Back to the Future. In both of these movies, the main characters – Marty, David, and Jennifer – are sent back into the times of the 1950s and are faced with a world completely different from their own. In Pleasantville, David and Jennifer get stuck in David’s favourite television show Pleasantville as the characters Bud and Mary Sue. Jennifer seems to want to stir things up, creating change throughout Pleasantville, while David is doing all he can to stop Jennifer from destroying their perfect world. On the other hand, in Back to the Future, Marty gets sent back in time to when his parents were his age. Unfortunately, he runs into his parents, causing his mother to fall for him, supposedly interfering with Marty’s future. All of these main characters have to deal with a lot of change – the key concept these movies have in common. While Pleasantville and Back to the Future both focus on the concept of time and change, both movies illustrate change from different perspectives. These movies also have other similar concepts, such as racism and the idea of the “ideal family”; however, they both differ by discussing other social issues as well.

“The Notebook” (2004), is a deeply powerful and moving film about the undying love between a man and woman through the telling of their story of love and loss. Duke, a resident in a nursing home reads to a fellow resident, an old woman with Alzheimer’s, the love story of Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun. Viewers later learn that the woman with Alzheimer’s is Allie and that Duke is Noah. Prior to the advancement of her illness, Allie had written their love story in a notebook and told Noah to read it to her so that she would “keep coming back to him”. Through the sharing of their personal experiences of love and grief along with the experiences of other characters, viewers are able to critically reflect on their own life experiences of love and loss and the different ways in which these experiences have allowed change, growth, and transition in one’s life.

"I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.” This was a statement given in an interview by Director Gary Ross after the release of his film, Pleasantville. Pleasantville, a film that basically represents anti-nostalgia, takes the use of Technicolor and uses it as a metaphor for peoples desires, fears, and maturation.

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Jeunet’s techniques are influential to his film’s visual style. For example, Jeunet utilized wide angle lenses and placed the actors particularly close to the camera. This produced animated-like facial features which worked well with the actors casted, due to their unique facial features. I did a little bit of research on the cameras and lenses used to film and I came up on a blog. The stated that for Tautou, Delbonnel and Jeunet found that a wide angle 14mm or 27mm lens was just right. Anything longer or shorter did not look quite right. The camera in Amélie barely filmed scenes at eye level. Bruno Delbonnel set the camera usually a bit above or below eye level. Mixed in with the wide angle lenses, a small tilt up or down eventually contributes to the dynamic look. Another element I cherished about the camera work was the way Delbonnel moved the camera towards an object or focal point. He did not simply zoom in, he gradually moved the camera as he moved it with a turn of about 180 degrees. The use of the track/crane device is common in most films but Jeunet’s controlled

David has no real stable relationship and is too afraid of making them as shown in the introduction with a mise-en-scene displaying close-ups of David’s insecurity, apprehension of the unknown as he is asking out a girl; which is later revealed to have been all in his head as he is shown to be standing alone, isolated with the girl of his dreams standing far away in a midst of people. He is found to be constantly fighting and being insulted by his sister “I knew you couldn’t be so hopelessly geek-ridden for so long without suffering some really tragic consequences”, which causes him to yearn for inclusion which he finds in the TV show “Pleasantville”; the perfect world. Suddenly being immersed in this perfect world along with his sister he revels in the world being predictable; safe and dry of risks. After forming a bond with his boss Bill; who believes that people ‘must be awfully lucky’ to have creativity and colour forces David to realise that Pleasantville is in fact not a utopia but a dystopia with no choice of freedom, or choice of expression which he never embraced in the real world. David harnessing his newfound confidence stands in front of the whole town and shouts down at the Mayor “They (the colourful townspeople) are no different to you” finally gaining respect from his twin, with Jennifer stating to him “You turned into a pretty cool guy”. The connections David made

The movie witness thoroughly explores the slow transition of negative to positive changes in life. Whether it may be accepting change or the crashing change of modern technology witness perfectly change in every aspect. Everyone will change. And as Barack Obama once said “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

In this piece of writing I want to portray how important this film is and the incredible ideas it shows. Room is an outstanding film that tells a heart breaking story of a mother and son that have been held captive. As the film develops it shows how strong their bond is and that with each other they can get through the hardest things they would have to face. The director Lenny Abrahamson used many important aspects such as themes, characters, events and cinematography to create such a memorable film. This film should definitely be seen by anyone interested, as it captures unforgettable moments and gets you thinking about important issues the world faces with in today’s society. The impact this film leaves is enormous.

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After an eventful night, Hildy and Walt are in the press office working on one of the biggest stories of their lives. Bruce, Hildy’s fiancé, runs in the room fed up with her behavior. He tells her that he is about to leave on a train, but she does not care. She just continues to write her newspaper article. Hildy’s choice to ignore Bruce serves to drive the goal of the narrative movement; she is reunited with the man she is meant to be with. The ending is exactly what the audience wants. However, this segment is not just a predictable ending. This segment serves as a statement about marriage, feminism, and working women. His Girl Friday (directed by Howard Hawks, written by Charles Leaderer) uses a series of formal and narrative techniques to unite Hildy and Walter. David Bordwell’s ideas explain how narrative, fabula, syuzchet, and the “Classical Hollywood” system apply to the segment and the film in general. Techniques such as these bring the audience’s attention to the film’s motifs: careerism, women, marriage, and feminism.

Hey brother do you remember when I was in the 9th grade, I started enjoying more and more films in my life then ever before. Remember that time when I started looking deeper into the films that I watched, at that time is when I decided I was going to make my videos of my own for fun. I bet you don’t know all about what happened at that age so I will tell you. At that moment I started my journey to become a film maker in the real world with real short films. However, I can’t take all the credit for just one day of being interested and watching funny and crazy movies whenever I wanted. This passion was created by one movie that I watched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. This movie inspired me and made me who I am today, as well as helping me through a lot of obstacles in my life. Therefore, the reason that I have chosen the guy who helped create it Michael Kahn as my role model in this paper. Well brother your most likely wondering who this guy and what he does? Michaels editing skills are what makes these movie creations come to life right before your eyes with movie magic as some people call it. Johnathan Paul describes “Michael Kahn as one of the most successful film editors in the business” (Paul, 2015).

Everyone lives in a different reality, that is why people enjoy watching movies. It gives insight into the world’s of others. Film directors strive to portray their characters’ lives as believable as possible. Many help set up the authenticity with costumes and such.