Taken Conventions

The sudden change in mood from easygoing to sheer terror catches the attention of

Although this paper uses a mainstream movie, at all times you should use scholarly writing and language throughout the paper.

Let's say a guy has done something bad and is trying to change, but he doesn’t care so it takes longer and the road is harder. In the beginning, Cole didn’t want to change so his anger took over. “Rage controlled Cole’s hand as he drew back, paused for a split second, and then flipped the lighter match inside the shelter.” (pg.25). Shows its hard the change.

As the novel begins, Cole is bullying Peter, so Peter tells the school to get Cole in trouble. Instead of apologizing, Cole becomes enraged and he, “warned the skinny red-haired boy, giving him a shove. He laughed when he saw the fear in Peter's eyes… he attacked him and started hitting him hard in the face with his bare fists” (7). This line from the novel represents using anger in a horrid and gruesome manner and Cole felt no remorse. Therefore, this segment of the book shows Cole before his transformations and before he could control his anger. This demonstrates the choices Cole makes before he realizes anger is a choice and he can control it. Cole's anger is like a wildfire and it spreads to Peter. Peter now feels sheer hatred and anger towards Cole. The anger Cole

This essay is based on films of the same story, told in different ways, with emphasis, themes, meaning and interpretation shaped or shaded by the situation of the storyteller; the cinematic mise-en-scene. Based on the same story, the films reveal and reflect the film-maker’s social norms and views, emerging from their different national contexts. While exploring the two films, this essay will examine elements of film language or semiotics: color saturation (or black and white), sound, setting, type of camera angles used; repetition of visual motifs (Metz, 1985). The two films explored were made in the 1960s. Neither film is American, yet both reveal influences and reflections on American cinema and American power; the Western film, adherence or detracting from Hollywood Classical cinema tropes, i.e. close-ups, shot-reverse-shot, POV, depth of field (Bazin, 1985: 128-9). The two films are Kurasawa’s Yojimbo (1961) and Leone’s Fistful of Dollars (1964), from Japan and Italy, respectively. How are they different; how similar? Why do they use the same plot,

One example of this occurs toward the end of the story when Charlie is more mature and is very intelligent. “Now my mind is deteriorating rapidly, I won’t let it happen”(206). You can understand that the author, Daniel Keyes, added a sense of urgency. This urgency also shows how much stress and worry the main character Charlie, conveys. I want you to imagine yourself as one of the most intelligent people on Earth. Now imagine nearly all of your intelligence slowing disappearing, till BANG, and it’s all gone. I’m one hundred percent sure you wouldn’t want that, and it would really stress you out if you did, just like it did to

The imbalance of her thoughts and emotions causes her to feel panicked which in turn causes her to make hurried decisions. Arnold tells her that she wants to be with him, that no one can love her like he can, and that they are meant to be together. This is what causes her to feel safe and loved. He also tells her that he is going to harm her family if she calls the police. This is the counteractive threat that scares her and makes her feel in

The use of various camera techniques such as canted frames, low-angled, high-angled and close up shots, as well as camera distance, enhances the struggle between the characters. The use of such techniques not only allows the audience to get an extensive insight into the many different characters, but also helps us understand the relationships between them and how all of these factors contribute to the overarching theme of racism in the film. The use of these camera rapid movements

Development and adaptation of the western genre has occurred throughout the twentieth century in relation to the shift in context, this is still relevant. Stereotypes of a western genre and the context are determined by the time in which the film is being produced. The time in which they were produced determine how social construction, gender ideas, values and attitudes, the setting and SWAT codes are demonstrated. I have chosen to present this speech by looking at the film studied in class, and a film of my choice and how the difference in context has changed in the tie of these two films.

The collaboration between two generations of action stars infuses the film with a sense of balance, between the fighting scenes and the actual drama, a fact resulting in both being adequate, to say the

The concept art imitates life is crucial to film directors who express their views on political and social issues in film. In regard to film studies, race is a topic rare in many films. Like America, many films simply refuse to address this topic for various reasons. However, more recently, Jordan Peele’s 2017 box office hit Get Out explicates contemporary race relations in America. In the form of an unconventional comedy horror, Get Out is intricate in its depiction of white liberal attitudes towards African Americans. In short, Get Out suggests a form of covert racism existing in a post- Jim Crow era. Similarly, Eduardo Bonilla- Silva’s book Racism Without Racists acknowledges the contemporary system of racism or “new racism,” a system

When it comes to the film industry, entertainment is the tool used to acquire what is desired, money. The main goal for filmmakers when they create a film is to attain money in addition to the money spent to make the movie. Therefore, in some films that they like to base off of true accounts, it is somewhat necessary to dramatize or embellish the story to really tug at the heartstrings of the films audience. They achieve this goal by the use of dramatic music, ambient lighting, and a small amount of tweaked diction. The Fighter is an excellent example of this dramatization in action because throughout the film the characters are faced with a multitude of decisions that must be made. The choices they make require the characters to choose

The movie A Time to Kill is engrossed in the emotions that revolves around hatred, this hatred originates from racism in the south. It begins with the brutal rape of a young black girl, Tanya Hailey. The rape was committed by two rednecks in a pickup truck. Tonya’s father Carl Lee Hailey takes the law into his hands and lashes out by killing the rapist. Charged with two counts of murder, he is assigned the young and brilliant lawyer Jake Brigance, who still believes he is able to receive a fair trial. With the trial beginning, viewers get to see this hatred somehow rise to become more significant. Focusing on the relationship between Carl Lee and Jake Brigance, and its impact on the southern town. The producers of this movie tried to make the audience or the viewers understand how these people in the south struggle with this hatred of racism, facing segregation head on and its judicial system. A Time to Kill is based on the first novel by John Grisham. Directed by Joel Schumacher, with the strong performances from Samuel L. Jackson as Carl Lee Hailey, the avenging father, and Matthew McConaughey as Jake Brigance, the lawyer. This paper will be analyzing some clips and scenes from the movie, and discussing how every visual aspect of a film's language especially cinematography. For example, shots, sounds, settings, and movements can give the audience a clear sign of emotions, motive, and clues as to what the filmmaker feels and

Hess and Zimmermann mention that conventional categories have blurred and there’s demands for new political and aesthetic responses in transnational cinema (John Hess 2006). These transnational films I believe would be growing significantly in the film industry as a part of film history.

With Film Analysis comes the analyzation of films and movies that depict narrative structure, cultural context, the evaluation of discourse, and many other approaches. The film, “Friday” (1995), is a comedy and drama that displays the relationship between two childhood friends growing up in an impoverished neighborhood. These two friends became affiliated with a neighborhoods drug dealer, and were startled and clueless as to how they were going to come up with the money they owed him by the end of the night! The characterization, setting, and conflicts are the three main elements, in which are portrayed can indicate the analyzation of contributing a larger meaning of this particular film.