Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans

William Fox is inviting German filmmaker F.W.Murnau to Hollywood and gives him a whole access to the Fox Studio (Allan and Gomery, 97). As a result of this, in 1927 Murnau has an opportunity to direct a film, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, which is a first American film that is made by using two popular movements of the 1920s, German Expressionism and Hollywood realism. The film tells the story about the men from the farm, which has a romance with a woman from the city. After a failed attempt of killing his wife, the man tries to piece up a quarrel. Using a mixture of these two styles, Expressionism, which is characterized as a depiction of reality that is widely distorted for emotional effect, and Realism, Murnau permits an audience perceiving the subjective experience of the characters while hiding the reality and shows to them struggle between the frenzy of the city and peacefulness of the country. He applies the joining of expressionism and realism through mise-en-scene, en-framed images, cinematography particularly remarkable tracking shots and other camera technique very professionally.

     First off, the biggest difference is the time periods of each movie. The older movie was set in Early Renaissance times. The newer movie is set in the early ninety’s. Another difference is the use of special effects. In the

There are many similarities and some minor differences between the movie, directed by Claude Chabrol, and the short story it is based off of, written by Guy de Maupassant. The plot, setting, and characters are all highly similar in both the story and the film. In both, the plot follows the same scheme, it is set in Paris in the 1880’s, and all of the main characters are the same. The major difference that stood out to me is how these aspects are displayed at the beginning of the narrative.

To begin, there is one extremely prominent similarity that is immediately noticeable: Both films are presenting the stories of two black men on trial with white lawyers. The men in question are Tom Robinson, charged with the crime of beating and raping a white woman, and Carl Lee Hailey, charged with

Both the films differed in both the plot and the characters but resembled the same motive which was to prevent the thing being exposed to the world and cause total invasion to the world.

The movie and the story are similar and different. The first similarity is they both take place on Venus. Another similarity is the sun only came out for an hour. The differences were they had more detail about the sun lamps. They also had sun kits. The last on is in the book they said that it has been raining for 7 years, and in the movie it says it was 9 years. These are 5 ways they were alike and

I am not old enough to recall silent movies, but I most certainly remember black and white movies that my parents used to watch on TV. In the 1980s, I always wondered why some broadcasts were black and white, especially when I switched to another channel that had color broadcasting. Personally, the only black and white TV show that I used to watch was The Three Stooges (Ray McCarey, 1934). I enjoyed watching this show for its funny slapstick action; however I did not enjoy watching it in black and white, as my focus was primarily on the main characters and not the scenery or objects around them. Several years later, this sort of viewing became a thing of the past because black and white films became less accessible in either television or movies.

Some of the similarities were very noticeable. Just from the beginning, in both the movie and the

One classic masterpiece which had transformed its reception over the years is "Sunrise". It was released in the year 1927 in America and was a silent film. It was directed by the famous German Director F. Murnau. The movie received contradictory reviews initially but later on it was acknowledged as one of the best silent movies ever made. It was based on Hemann Sudermann's novel "Song of Two Humans".

and the musical score show how these movies took different paths to keep the viewer

They film and the novel both have the same qualities. Such as there are Greasers and there are Socs, the church burned down, there are all the same gang members, Johnny died, and Dallas got shot these are some of the similarities in the book and the novel.

Dystopia and Utopia can be explored in many forms of media such as artwork, film, music, poetry and even dance. The easiest and most vivid way to depict these genres to the audience is in films. Films specifically incorporate visual symbolism through colors and settings and screenshot width and filters. Films may also incorporate a subliminal message to the reader through background music used in different scenes. Displaying utopian and dystopian societies through film leaves some imagination to the audience while allowing them to visually compare with the real world around them. For the purpose of exploring aspects of utopia and dystopia through films, I have chosen the films Metropolis by Fritz Lang (1927) and the episode Nosedive from

Lewis Grassic Gibbons Sunset Song contains two characters, Chris and Ewan, whose relationship deteriorates throughout the novel. The writer shows this deterioration through the various techniques that he employs. Choose a novel in which the relationship between two characters deteriorates. Explain the reasons for this and while assessing the part each character plays

They utilized the emergence of innovations such as cinemascope, 3-D, stereophonic sound and many others to produce these films.

It is believed that more than 50 percent of the film involved special effects. One of the many reasons is because the film itself was made on a budget and the other being “for the nature and scope of its subject” (The Denny Life) to keep costs down. One of the methods that revolutionize cinematography was the introduction of a technique known as deep focus by Orson Welles. Deep focus is the use of “having everything in the frame even the background in focus at the same time” contrary to “having only the people or object in the foreground in focus” (The Denny Life). Moreover, the deep focus technique requires the cinematographer to combine lighting, composition, and type of camera lens to produce the desired effect. For example, Orson Welles use this technique on