Polanski Essay

In Search of Himself, J.J. Gittes, in Chinatown Roman Polanski used every minute of his movie Chinatown to define and redefine J.J. Gittes, played by Jack Nicholson. Gittes is for all intents and purposes a classic private investigator, making a living out of other infidelity. Polanski adds an element of quirkiness to Gittes by utilizing the genius of Jack Nicholson and incorporating film noir traits. With Polanski’s mixture of modern acting talent combined with an updated format of color film he

assumptions, ideas, and values are used in Roman Polanski’s China Town (1974) to manipulate characterisations and the denouement. Polanski manifests the love of money and society’s corruptibility in the depiction of the antihero, thus encouraging viewers to comprehend Noah Cross’ escape from the social value of justice. Protagonist Jake Gitties’ characterisation is used by Polanski to persuade the audience decency will prevail, effort has its reward, and justice is unbribable; nevertheless viewers are positioned

In the film, The Pianist, Roman Polanski depicts the struggle of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a polish pianist to survive World War Two against all odds. The central theme of the film, that humans are capable of creating both beauty and destruction, forces the viewer to question human nature and reflect on the beauty of music and destruction of war. Polanski manipulates our emotions through the extensive use of a variety of techniques such as: lighting, characterisation and sound. Music is used to evoke

Johnson 1 Kayla Johnson Prof. Hirchfelder, K-213 ENG2102, Sec. 06 26 March 2013 Scene Analysis Paper Musical Dependency The 2002 film, The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski focuses on the hardships of a well-known, local concert pianist, Wladyslaw Szpilman. Wladyslaw Szpilman is played by actor Adrien Brody, who does an excellent job portraying both the warmhearted side of Szpliman and the desperate struggling side we see later on in the film. The film is based on Szpilman’s book, The Pianist

In Knife in the Water, Roman Polanski presents us with three unique characters: Andrzej, a sports columnist; Krystyna, his wife; and a young student whom they stumble upon on their day trip. Polanski, by setting more than half the movie on a sailboat on the water, creates a tense and claustrophobic situation with three opposing personalities. At the end of the story, all three characters have lost something, whether it be their dignity or a physical possession, but the “winner” in this situation

by director of Roman Polanski to focus on private investigator J.J. Gittes, played by Jack Nicholson to investigate the elements behind the truth. Polanski’s goal is to emphasize the audience to give an ominous feeling of the main character, J.J. Gittes and his point of view by showing in color instead of black and white pictures. Due to these reasons, Polanski wanted to use Panavision to give a flawed vision about the past, which the story is set in the years of 1937. Polanski states, “a traditional

Roman Polanski is a controversial and multifaceted director, whose films are often overshadowed by personal tragedies the director has suffered with over the length of his film career. His film Chinatown, however, is able to tap into that great classic film noir quality of the cynical, hard-boiled detective, and the femme fatale that was popular from the 1940s to the late 1950s. The cornerstone of which was “set by Dashiell Hammett, and its greatest practitioner was Raymond Chandler. To observe

upon this child and nodded. The only thing this soldier told Roman Polanski was "Don't run." ("Story of Survival") Sixty years later, Roman Polanski was finally able to recreate those terrible memories that haunted him and show the world an un-softened portrayal of what happened back then. He found it too difficult to tell his own story; the memories cut too deeply into his heart for him to relive them exactly. "For years [Polanski] searched for someone else's [story] to adapt" (Thomas). A decade

In the film “The Pianist”, directed by Roman Polanski, three important scenes are the invasion scene, the Hosenfeld scene and the concert scene. These scenes are important because they show the three main points in the movie. Roman Polanski, a Holocaust survivor himself, uses colour, symbolism, music, lighting, and camera techniques to display the key ideas and purpose of the film, survival and the re-creation of one man's struggle respectively. The film is heavily influenced by Polanski's personal

dramatic tension from the same scenes but different productions from different directors. One from the director Polanski and the other from the director Kurzel. In Polanski’s production of Macbeth, Polanski directs the plot development so that Macbeth is meeting with the murderer in a dark, tight spaced corridor without a crowd. He meets with the murderers before he joins the banquet. Polanski develops the plot with dramatic irony that instills suspense in the audience through the knowledge of what Macbeth