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Set in a bland, artificial, stereotypical suburban town, and a conformable, cliché, 18th-century countryside village, Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands and Bill Condon’s Beauty and the Beast prove how initial perceptions are frequently misguided. Both films highlight how an alarming appearance doesn’t always match personality through informing the audience how Edward and The Beast grow, and how the characters help each other change by demonstrating how Belle helps The Beast become better and how Edward changes Kim’s perspective. However, both films also display how sometimes our leading instincts are correct.

Film is an artistic medium with the capability of telling a profound story and creating a feeling. Powell and Pressburger do this beautifully in The Red Shoes through their use of color and editing, capturing the struggle between Victoria’s personal and professional lives. The power of a great movie can bring its audience into another world, and allow the viewer to connect the film to their own lives. Like literature, Film utilizes metaphors, symbolism, and countless other techniques to convey its message. The result can be poetic, mysterious, funny, haunting, and all around moving.

For my final paper where we had to pick a topic from current popular culture, I decided to write my paper with the focus on Disney movies. More particularly with the focus on the Disney princess movies. When it comes to the Disney movies they have always been and will always be such a huge part of our society. While growing up most children grow up watching these movies and get the idea that that is what they want to be when they grow up. When you ask a young girl what she wants to be when she is older there is a good chance that she will say that she wants to be a princess when she grows up. I have always been such a huge fan of Disney movies and I have a feeling I always will be. I found it very interesting this semester when we spend the short class period talking about the Disney female and male characters. It is rather interesting and something that I can say that I really never noticed before but the fact that the majority of all the female characters all had the same face shape. Whereas the males there were none two that were the same. However for this paper I will be looking into the relationship to cultural meanings about gender and other identity markers, such as race, sexuality, and cultural norms as seen in some of the more classic well known Disney movies.

Whenever books are adapted for film, changes inevitably have to be made. The medium of film offers several advantages and disadvantages over the book: it is not as adept at exploring the inner workings of people - it cannot explore their minds so easily; however, the added visual and audio capabilities of film open whole new areas of the imagination which, in the hands of a competent writer-director, can more than compensate.

Christopher EronClass: Form and Idea9/29/2017We’ve all seen or at least heard of black and white films which made their decline to colored films in the late 1940’s. But what would it be like if the blind eye couldn't see more than shades of gray alone? In Jude Stewart’s interview, based on her book Roy G Biv, she focuses on synesthesia, and compares the relationship of language to colors. Synesthesia is a phenomenon that occurs when experiencing one's cognitive pathway results in the experience of another one.

The Portrayal of Older Characters in Disney Animated Films, studies the everyday stereotypes which arises in our children’s lives. This research will not just examine the direct experiences of children’s behavior from the media but also, the representation of older people in Disney animated films in terms such as gender, race, appearance, role, personality, and physical characteristics of older characters. This study was chosen for two main reasons. First, to examine the representation of older people in Disney animated classics in terms of their gender, race, appearance, and role. The second reason focuses on examining the nature of portrayals and personality and physical characteristics of older characters. Researchers will first began the analysis by studying the quantity of older characters in which they appear in Disney animated movies and how they represent in gender and race. They will look into the primary roles of older characters in Disney animated movies as well as the percentage of which is considered to be major or minor roles. The

Giroux argues that in Beauty and the Beast, Belle teaches young women that they are responsible for controlling a man’s anger and violence, and that any woman can change an abusive man into a Prince. However many children are going to be focused on the dancing, singing furniture rather than analyzing the message Giroux interprets; that Belle is just a prop used to solve the beast’s dilemma. The age of children that will be most influenced by Disney films, are at a level of thinking where they have not begun to recognize and understand the images that Giroux describes are embedded in the Disney films.

Being one of the world’s most popular art forms, it was inevitable that these archetypes would find their way into film as well. In this essay I will argue that the

In addition to the fine work of its lead actress, writer/director Mary Herron’s bold decision to shoot The Notorious Bettie Page in black and white proved a stroke of genius, and gave the finished product the look and feel of a movie from the era in which its story is set (even the brief splashes of color, including all of the movie’s Florida sequences, look as if they were shot in ‘50s-era Technicolor).

Many people believe that fitting in and conforming to the ideas of what someone should look or act like is how you find happiness within society. However, Tim Burton’s childhood of being set apart and its influence on his directing choices portray how diversity among the people in this world seems to bring more joy to life. Through the use of abnormal characters and color contrast, Burton delivers the idea that when one is different, the world is more colorful. In his movies, Burton uses color contrast to emphasize how the unknown places that people fear or can’t comprehend might surprise them.

The Great Gatsby (2013) is a movie by Baz Lurhmann, which is an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald 's 1925 novel by the same name. While the main plot of both works reads as almost identical, some character 's motives and actions differ significantly between the two. One of the main differences that sets apart the film from the novel is the relationship between Gatsby and Daisy. Their bond is extremely romantic and passionate on the big screen. In the book, however, it is the struggle to climb all the way up the class ladder that truly motivates Gatsby to be with Daisy. In this paper, I will only discuss Lurhmann 's 2013 film. It deserves to be analyzed on it 's own terms, because it is a product of a combination of director 's own vision 1920 's time period and his perception of Fitzgerald 's novel. The Great Gatsby uses considerably more computer generated imagery than other movies of this type, which is probably due to the director 's choice to visually attract the audience with his over the top idea of 1920 's. After the loud, bright, hopeful and vivid beginning of the movie, grayness, darkness and disgust sets in to where everything is broken, and the only thing remaining to do, is to pick up the shattered pieces. Tom and Daisy are part of the highest social class and their character 's are selfish and careless. After Gatby 's death in the movie, most people in the audience felt an intense feeling of emptiness and severe disdain. These emotions are all

Like James Pentecost, Pocahontas’ producer, believed, “Nobody should go to an animated film hoping to get an accurate depiction of history.” To many, the point of an animated film is just to entertain by using visuals and occasional songs, and to usually have an important message disclosed by the end of the film. Thus the question is then brought forth: If a movie successfully conveys a message, do the facts really matter? Pocahontas manages to create a powerful lesson and transmits it to its young viewers. Nonetheless, its inaccuracies really do create an impact towards children and generations to come.

Traditionally, animated films have been made for and consumed by children, with the plotlines and themes being relatively basic and forthright. However, recent years have seen the release of animated films that’s explore significantly more adult themes and thought provoking ideas. Perhaps the most confronting example of adult themes in an animated film is in 2016’s ‘Zootopia’. The film forces viewers to think about concepts such as racial segregation, nature vs. nurture and the debilitating effect of stereotyping. Although Zootopia features anthropomorphic animals, it is easy to draw a connection between the films prey vs. predator narrative and racial divide in our own society.

Traditionally, animated films have been made for and consumed by children, with the plotlines and themes being relatively basic and forthright. However, recent years have seen the release of animated films that explore significantly more adult themes and thought provoking ideas. Perhaps the most confronting example of adult themes in an animated film is in 2016’s ‘Zootopia’. The film forces viewers to think about concepts such as racial segregation, nature vs. nurture and the debilitating effect of stereotyping. Although Zootopia features anthropomorphic animals, it is easy to draw a connection between the film’s prey vs. predator narrative and racial divide in our own society.

The visually stunning movie Maleficent casts key ideas of good versus evil using memorable film techniques. Through the use of costume and setting, director Michael Stromberg has elegantly identified, using a theological light, that the lines of good and evil can be blurred and that we are not one or another but merely a combination of both traits. The tale of Maleficent is, from the villain 's perspective a modern adaptation of the 1697 fairytale ‘Sleeping Beauty’ written by Charles Perrault. It follows the story of a young woman’s journey from angelic, pure hearted fairy and ruler of her kingdom to a vengeful, spiteful demon who seeks revenge on the person who turned her pure heart into stone. She loses her womanhood, her innocence and her soft heart is clear to see the impact certain events have on her through the way that Stromberg has distinctly played around with the setting and costume to create a remarkable change in the movies tone. Maleficent shows how we have evolved the ideas and themes that we can accurately portray to the audience through the use of film techniques. The portrayal of theological themes and ideas through the use of setting and costume is a brilliant way to provide the history that surrounds the original story of Maleficent, while in turn showing just how much the film industry has evolved. Movies in the 1900’s never had the use of colour and therefore could not portray the same ideas as we get from movies such as Maleficent, where we can tell