The Day After

The rise of the Soviet Union (USSR) as a new world superpower brought tension between the USSR and the United States. Although the 1950’s was generally nonviolent, confined to only minor conflicts, there was a threatening, looming tension between the two world superpowers. The tension reached its peak when the US completed its first successful hydrogen bomb test. A second, more powerful bomb was successfully detonated in 1954 by the US. Public fallout shelters were established in major cities, and bomb drills were practiced as frequently as fire drills today. The nuclear war that Lord of the Flies suggested was not out of the realm of possibility at its time of publication

The filmmakers’ main ideas are that the government misled and lied to the people of the U.S. so that they would believe that the atomic bomb would have no effect on their health and security, that we should question if the government should have lied to the American people, and to make us question whether or not the citizens of the U.S. would continue to be as naive as the people of the 1950’s.

The duration of the shot – which is essentially a twenty-second long take – is an aspect that only emphasises the suspense and tension intended by Hitchcock. However, if the shot was approximately six seconds – a common standard in films – then the anticipation and trepidation of the shot would thereby be lost. Furthermore, Hitchcock’s decision to prolong the shot prevented it from becoming obsolete amidst all the other shots of the film. This allowed Hitchcock to inaugurate the apprehensive and foreboding tone for the rest of the film, while simultaneously foreshadowing future perilous events. However, if the shot were extended for longer than twenty seconds, then it would therefore become tedious and mundane, disengaging viewers and detracting from the drama of the shot. Another focal aspect of the shot was the dark composition and lighting that complimented the duration to highlight Hitchcock’s intended ambiance of unease and suspicion. Be this as it may, if this shot were to have taken place during the day or with high-key lighting (which is when little contrast is created), then it’s predetermined perplexity and anxiety would vanish. In addition to this, if Hitchcock employed fill lighting and bright lighting then the shadows of the three men would evaporate. This would eliminate Hitchcock’s designed effect on the

The movie Thirteen Days directed by Roger Donaldson is about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. It is often referred to as a docudrama as it is very entertainment oriented but still remains close to the roots of what actually happened. Since it was produced at a later date than many other films portraying the events, Thirteen Days was able to access recently declassified information which helped in attaining a more historically accurate film. Although there were some discrepancies with what happened in real life compared to the film.

Cinematographers and art directors play a very important and creative role in film production. They work closely with the director and give a film its unique visual look and identity. The art director was David Lazan and cinematographer Mauro Fiore. The entiriety of the movie is comprised in a single day which can be challenging for cinematographers and art directors. The film seemed to be filled with brief stints of consolidated action and emotion. This gave the plot of the film the feel as though it was unfolding in only a single day.

The movie showed some scenes of Adolph Hitler when he was announcing his speeches, by showing these footage the director made the movie seem more realistic and as if they were filming it live as it

Nuclear War is a special topic which are used by many movies. Usually, movies depict the chaos that nuclear weapons bring and show the audience a warning. Different movies have different ways to show the danger of nuclear weapons. This essay compares and contrasts two movies and talks about the concept of “nuclear war” depicted in them.

The end of World War II was not just the end of a war, but also the beginning of a tense and dynamic period that affected society on all levels. This “postwar” period, as it became known, shaped the world, as we know it today; likewise, the period was shaped itself both by the war that had preceded it, and the powerful forces that surrounded it. As the energy of fundamentally different ideologies, Communism and Democracy collided with advances in science such as the nuclear bomb, a dangerous environment ensued that created an atmosphere of paranoia throughout the world and especially, within America.

n August 6, 1945, America destroyed the city of Hiroshima with a massive bomb. The bomb kills nearly 100,000 people and injures 100,000 more. The book traces the lives of six survivors (Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, Toshiko Sasak, Dr. Masakazu Fujii, Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, )from the when the bomb drops and then a few months after. In 1985, the Author added a fifth chapter, In it He revisits these six people’s lives forty years after the bomb. In conclusion Hersey finds that the effects of nuclear war never faded away. The citizens of Hiroshima still suffered years after, and nuclear war continues to threaten the entire world.

Imagine resting on the couch watching TV when a press of a button changes the world forever. A flash of a shining light plunges everything into a murky darkness. The fading screams erupt around you. Agony devours your bloody raw body and you look for your family, but they are part of the same deathly silence that had engulfed the burning city. Blood mixes with the tears streaming down your face and the sweet light leaves your young eyes forever and you become part of the hushed ashes of your childhood city. The atom bomb was the cause of a brutal massacre of two towns that ended a war of billions and the start of the ending era of our world.

“Surveying the gigantic monster movies that flourished in the years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Sontag concluded that “a mass trauma exists over the use of nuclear weapons and the possibility of future nuclear wars”. (Tsutsui, pg.240) The paranoia of a possible future nuclear war penetrated the American’s mental freedom. Weapons like nuclear bombs and atomic testing spiked fear

It seems as though the director didn’t rush the short film, which allowed for more of a narrative to build. If this were simply a monotonic conversation between the two, I feel as though it would’ve lacked emotion, and I would have been completely disengaged.

Cinematographers and art directors play a very important and creative role in film production. They work closely with the director and give a film its unique visual look and identity. The art director, David Lazan and cinematographer, Mauro Fiore, shot the film almost entirely in sequence, following the clock from the crack of dawn to a very dark night of reckoning. Compressing intense action and emotion into a brief time frame became one of their key challenges. They had to make sure the film felt like it was one single day unfolding which became the single biggest challenge during the production.

Ridley Scott invested most of the film's 117 minutes into fleshing out the characters before he started knocking them off one-by-one. Science

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