Editing, Mis En Scene, Sound And Cinematography In The Film Requiem For A Dream

In the infamous 1980s drug PSA “This is your Brain on Drugs”, the viewer is interrupted from their Saturday cartoons in a way that is jarring and pulls them out of whatever else they were thinking, to focus all their immediate attention on the screen. A middle aged man comes on the screen without any introduction and says, “Is there anyone out there who still isn’t clear what doing drugs does?” This captures the viewer’s attention immediately due to the expertise in casting and the brilliance of the way the actor plays his role. This man is the platonic ideal of the white, middle class, suburban father that nearly every one of the PSA’s target socioeconomic background recognizes immediately. The man stands several feet above the reference point of the camera, creating a first person view placing the viewer in the position of being scolded by a much taller authority figure. Without much pause he goes on to say in a scolding tone “Okay. Last time.” This man has become your father, and you respect him just as much. The viewer doesn’t think about the absurdity of the proposition that this character in a drug awareness PSA will give the viewer

The novel-turned-movie is a piece from Hubert Selby, Jr. The movie delineates how drug addiction really affects someone’s life as well as the others. Apparently, the Darren Aronofsky’s film received positive reviews and great appreciation from the critics. Together with Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, and Jennifer Connelly, Wayans proved that he can be considered

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder often characterized by abnormal social behaviour and failure to recognize what is real. Common symptoms include false beliefs, unclear or confused thinking, auditory hallucinations, reduced social engagement and emotional expression, and inactivity. A person with schizophrenia often hears voices, experiences delusions and hallucinations and may believe thoughts, feelings and actions are controlled or shared by someone else.

Editing, Cinematography, and Sound in Gladiator The film that I have chosen to analyse is Gladiator. I have chosen to analyse the scene where the gladiators are battling in the Middle East. The scene contains many features and editing techniques which make the fight sequence exciting and thrilling.

The movie starts off with a group of teenagers in school, all from different social groups. They all meet in detention on a Saturday where they are forced to sit in complete silence and they get assigned to write a paper about “who you think are” by their principal Vernon. Throughout the movie their minds are exposed to the different lives and experience of each other; with that they create this bond that

In Requiem for a Dream, the main character, Harry Goldfarb is a heavy drug user. He is addicted to heroin and any other substance that he can inject into his veins. He uses marijuana and other drugs occasionally, but heroin is his drug of choice. The film opens with a symptom of Harry's addiction. He is stealing his mother's television set to pawn for money to buy drugs, which she then re-purchases later in the day and the cycle continues. Harry is clearly failing to fill his social role as a son in order to get high. The drugs come first to

The movie industry has involved the use of drugs, sex, violence over the years to increase the thrill of movies. Realistic depictions or not, movies with any of these three categories have been frequently viewed and accepted in our culture. With movies creating false “fictional drugs,” along with amplifying the side effects of prescription drugs, it is crucial to critique what is actually true or not. Whether or not the drug’s effects are medically correct has been glanced over by many. Directed by Scott Calvert in 1995, the movie The Basketball Diaries focuses on the substance abuse of heroin by the main character, Jim.

All around the world anyone can find people that are addicted to some form of drug. Drug addiction is a huge issue that has been occurring for about thirty years now and is occurring to this day for many reasons. Some of those reasons may be that something is going on back home and they have had enough, or because of stress, peer pressure, biological reasons and the list goes on. However, there has been law enforcement due to drugs since the mid 1980’s. People have many viewpoints to when it comes to drug use and addiction. There are three perspectives people have that view the use of drugs and drug addiction which are structural functionalism, conflict, and symbolic interactionist.

the girl's reaction to the drugs. She uses the drugs to achieve this good feeling that addicts feel

In the memoir, “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City” by Nick Flynn, drug use plays a huge role. Throughout the memoir, Flynn describes his father’s struggles with alcoholism and how it continually caused negative events in his life. Along with his father he also explains the drug use of his mother and friends. Flynn not only describes the consequences of other’s drug use, but also his own. During his memoir, Flynn continually gives drug use a negative connotation, through the actions and decisions of his characters.

Twenty-eight days…six hours…forty-two minutes…twelve seconds, that is when the world will end. The movie Donnie Darko, Frank tells Donnie that the world will end in just a short time. Throughout the movie, different literary devices are experimented to give the movie a deeper meaning. This provides the audience with a hidden message that gathers the viewer’s attention while keeping them entertained. Donnie Darko is a movie that has imagery, symbolism, and foreshadowing and by merging these devices creates a film that holds their audience’s attention.

An individual detailed analysis on the style, editing techniques Mise-en-scene and cinematography in the film "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind".

Three Central Characters: Two adolescent males and a young woman. On a superficial level, this movie is simply about teenage sexual conquests and recreational drug usage. However, as the movie progresses you begin to understand that this is more than just a “coming of age” or “teen comedy”.

The Notebook, based off of the novel, is one of the best love story films around directed by Nick Cassavetes. An old man reading out loud from some old notebook that tells the story of Allie and Noah. Reading to a women with alzheimer’s condition telling about how the two were separated by world war II and then reunited. Allie and Noah grew up in two different and opposite life styles.

Stranger than Fiction, written by Zach Helm and directed by Marc Forster, embarks on a journey of an IRS auditor, Harold Crick, who’s found his life to be narrated and learns about his untimely doom. Literary is found throughout the movie, it’s found in the author’s, Karren Eiffel, portrayal of Harold Crick’s life as well as in her attempt to finish her novel, this adds to the literary techniques that are found in any work of literature. Some of these literary techniques that are seen in the movie, Stranger than Fiction, are point of view, narration, irony, foreshadowing, and characterization. Within Stranger than Fiction, there is also reveal of a meaningful lesson for its views, in a work of literature is much like everyday life, everyone is living their own story, and people are not what they first seem.