Essay on The Butter Fly Effect by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber

In contrast, ‘Pleasantville’ does not have any colour at the beginning of the film. Objects and,

The image is brighter and sharper in the film. The contrast of the film really affects the mood. Since the contrast is so bright the viewer is bound to stay focused and aware because everything is so catchy and noticeable. Also, the exposure changes throughout the film. At the very beginning the film starts in black and white and changed to color as the story progressed. The filmmaker uses a lot of Long Takes, each shot of Dorothy meeting someone new is pretty lengthy.

The movie Schindler’s List was constructed in a very unique way by including multiple theatrical elements. The film begins in color and quickly starts to fade into

This film is a black and white film and the lighting is more towards dim effect which terrified the audience. Music plays the biggest effect in the film. Bernard Hermann’s theme is used for this film because it uses mostly high-pitched string instrument notes so the suspense and horror mood can be formed to the audience.

The setting in the two novels plays important roles in both of the plots. In The Butterfly Revolution, the setting shifts in the very beginning of the story. In the journal Winston Weyn receives for his birthday from his uncle, he describes his home. Winston also shares with us that from his parents he half-heartedly accepted a trip to High Pines for the summer. Winston was not like most boys, and instead of playing baseball and doing things that most boys do, he read books. This bothered his brother Howard, which just encouraged Winston to read more and more. His father and mother, both concerned, had multiple talks with Winston but none of these talks resulted in anything. “And here I am, sitting on a thin and kind of smelly narrow mattress on my bunk in a cabin at High Pines” (22). He went from the comfort of his own bed to the smelly mattress of High Pines. The central conflict of the story begins at the camp. This shift of setting allows the real story to begin. Later in the novel, the setting shifts again. Some of the boys begin to venture off into the girls camp, or Low Pines. After the revolution has begun, they take over the girl camp, also. If the girls’ camp was not involved, two out of the three deaths would have been prevented. John Mason would not have died under the

The use of colour in films during present time is often taken for granted. Colour is a factor modern audiences almost expect however, often filmmakers use colour creatively to convey a message. Throughout the 1920s to 1930s colour in films became highly popular. This essay will explore how Pleasantville has creatively used colour to represent America during the 1950s.

The film is shown to take place in the period of 1950s in a tiny town comprising of an outlook of various quiet colors and during occasions, it is dominated by red color.

The film employs a wide cast of talented actors who bring all their characters and roles to life. The main character, Cal Trask, however is played by probably the most famous actor of the bunch, James Dean, who plays it awesomely. Cal’s character is supposed to be of someone who is always internally troubling and confused and James easily shows this in this role. Richard Davalos, plays the character of Aron, Cal’s brother, with absolute beauty as well. Aron, in the book, is supposed to represent what is good and innocent and Richard shows this characteristic evidently in his acting style. The father of Cal and Aron, Adam, is then played by Raymond Massey who is able to tie the story together very well. Raymond’s acting in being constantly angry and disappointed in Cal is what allows James to bring out the light in Cal since Adam has a huge effect on Cal’s character in the story. Another major character is

The textual features used in the film make it evident that the construction of the film has been influenced by French culture. A variety of different techniques have been used by Jeunet to give the film a feeling of fairytale and fantasy, emphasising innocence. Jeunet has used extremely saturated colours to give the film a fantasy and dreamlike feeling, the colours used to emphasise this are red and

When the audience watches the film, they would be able to see and interesting friendship that this group of friends have. To start, Layne is one of those people that has their mind all over the place. It doesn’t help that he takes pills and smokes weed. Once he finds out that his friend Samson killed his girlfriend, who was also part of the friend group, he went out of his way to protect him and became obsessed with wanting to cover up his so called friend. Samson, on the other hand, couldn’t care less if he gets caught or not. As a person who didn’t really care much about his girlfriend, he was thrilled on what happened. This is usually how some serial killers become who they are. Layne and his close friend, Matt, were the first ones that saw their friends dead body. When Layne went to protective mode, Matt took a different root. He felt numb. seeing the dead body bothered him and changed him a little. He decided to tell the police about it. Matt is an interesting character because he had a difficult life growing up and an older brother, who was a bad influence. Tim. Clarissa is flirtatious, but innocent. She wanted to do the right thing by telling the

All of the characters presented in the movie have a distinct personality, making the viewer engage deeply in the heart pumping action and drama.

Before I go on rising my argument. I want first to point out the main semiotic of the film. The audience hasn 't realised the colours of the water yet. The sign of creation of an undersea wonderland, but its also about the brightness and darkness of the water. The colour tends to darken and in most of the scenes, whenever danger lurks.(Ashiru 2015) Like what had shown in

I eventually recognized that my understanding of what was going on should be defined by the actors. Throughout the movie, I noticed the actors, Taylor especially, knew their objective and who they were trying to effect throughout the whole film. One thing that really stood out to me was the way Taylor acted around each character when they were alone with her. She behaved like herself, but she put on a face that represented different sides of her. Martha became her honest self when with her husband as opposed to Nick, she placed out an ora of interest but not just for friendship.

The movie has three major characters that are unique to themselves and each other. The characters are all different to each other in many ways such as age, appearances, and even personalities yet they are crucial to each other at the end of the movie. The first character is a middle aged man named John, the second character is a younger woman named Jane, and the last character is an older man whose name is also John. The middle aged man, John, is the time traveling agent mentioned before whereas the older man named John is the fizzle bomber. The younger woman, Jane, works as a magazine

The main characters are Gerry Lane, Karin Lane, and Segan. Throughout the movie, people can get an idea of who Gerry is. He is a man who cares deeply for his family, is protective, resourceful, and observant. His action display these traits. For example, he would jump off a building for his family (in case he turned into a zombie), uses magazines for armor, and found out that the sick people are immune from the zombies.