1997 in film

an American psychological thriller film that communicates ideas, themes and issues through the use of its visual style. The visual stylistic choices enable the exploration of madness, scopophilia and feminist film theory within the film. This paper will critically analyse how this is realised mainly through the use of “the Vertigo effect”, spirals as a motif, the male gaze and colour. The theme of madness is a centerpiece to the film. Vertigo was the first film to utilize the dolly zoom or "the Vertigo

The Comparisons of the 1997, and the 1965 Romeo and Juliet Films Two different actors, Baz Luhrmann and Franco Zeffirelli, take on the challenge of recreating the William Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet. Some of the comparisons of the two Romeo and Juliet plays, by William Shakespeare, is the dialogue and the colors. For the dialogue both directors use some of the same lines of the William Shakespeare play. “Part fools! Put up our swords; you know not what you do” (Act I, Scene i, p. 13).

small, between Zeffirelli and Luhrmann’s version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. After seeing the first scene of both of these films, some notable contrasts became clear. The props used in both films differ greatly, in the 1967 version, very dated costumes were used, it looked like the director wanted a medieval style to be shown in the film judging by the costumes and props used. Real swords were drawn by the Capulet's and the Montague’s as the play suggests but the

Introduction Ingmar Bergman has been openly described by Woody Allen as a major influence in his craft of making films. Throughout the years of his career, spanning over decades, Allen has been heavily drawn to Bergman’s style as an art form, enough to impact his own style of telling stories in the cinematic medium. Bergman’s strong method of telling a story was truly riveting and groundbreaking in the entertainment industry, especially for the development of Swedish cinema. As for American

time constraints, the film leaves out a few minor scenes of the droogs (Burgess' term for ruffians) committing acts of violence. The film is divided into three parts, as is the novel. The first part is the description of Alex's exploits in "ultraviolence." He and his fellow gang members (droogs) spend their time committing a series of rapes, robberies, and assaults, usually aimed at completely defenseless people. The attacks are pathological and random. The second part of the film is filled with a different

Made in Hong Kong (1997) is one of the independent films directed by the “grassroots director” Fruit Chan on low budget production. The cost of production was kept low by utilizing the leftover film reels and amateur actors such as Sam Lee Chan-Sam who has been awarded best New Artist in the 17th Annual Hong Kong Films Awards and nominated Best Actor in 35th Annual Golden Horse Awards. Made in Hong Kong is very much a vernacular film featuring the Hong Kong society and culture in 1997, particularly the

Visual Anthropology provides visual documentation, either in the form of photographs, films, or videos, of early cultures to be “used for research, teaching, and cultural preservation” (Prins 2004: 2). What many people do not realize is that sometimes the documentation may not always explain the truth in the eyes of the people they are documenting. With the historical emergence of visual anthropology on the rise, this sometimes biased or untrue documentation, can lead to the dispossession and colonization

Elley had also talked about the change of tone throughout the film “After a lively first half, with plenty of rich characterization, gruff northern humor and good backgrounding of all the many roles, the tone darkens as the threat of pit closure starts to cause social and economic strains within the community.”(1996). With the film being lively, in the beginning, it was showing the audience a small bit of how the town was before the major loss in

In Michelle Smith and Elizabeth Parsons’ article Animating child activism: Environmentalism and Class Politics in Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke (1997) and Fox’s Fern Gully (1992), the argument is made that the film Princess Mononoke, takes an anti-ethical approach to environmentalism. I do not believe that the approach to environmentalism is anti-ethical. I believe that it is the typical ethical response to those who wish to destroy the environment. Smith and Parsons also have very weak evidence to

High unattainably high all Horst Wessels stand about Jesus!”(Welch, 1983, p. 75) A film that was produced in Germany, in 1933, by the Nazis also glorifies this hero. The film is called Hans Westmar: Einer Von Vielen (Hans Westmar: One of Many). The film was renamed because Goebbels believed the film was not worthy of a hero such as Horst Wessel (Welch, 1983, p. 77). The film does however succeed in glorifying the Nazi party and particularly the SA and their struggle against the