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    Cinematic Techniques Tim Burton is a film director, producer, writer, artist, and animator. He is well known for his films that portray his dark, mysterious and unique style. Throughout his films Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Corpse Bride he included cinematic techniques to enhance his unique style and create a mysterious effect. One cinematic technique he utilized was lighting. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Burton used darker and paler tones of light inside

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    the underground crime that happens in a city. Such as having it focus on the people that work for the mob boss instead of the victims. And even having the movie out of order plays a part. Both of these things also help create the form and content of the movie. The form being violence/unchronological order, and the content being redemption. The form, violence/out of order, affects the films content, redemption, in the way that the people that committed the acts of violence were able to redeem

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    Realism In Goodfellas

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    Considered one of the Top 25 films of all time, GoodFellas, a biographical crime film directed and co-written by Martin Scorsese follows the life of mob associate and FBI informant Henry Hill who is played by actor, Ray Liotta. GoodFellas is a film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book called Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi. The film was subsequently released in 1990 after a few years of formulating. Scorsese was never fascinated in making a mob film until he read Pileggi’s book and was drawn to the

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    acclaimed films to date. Director Quentin Tarantino sent shots of adrenaline and wonder in to the heart in the 90’s cinema world with the release of this film. This narrative film very creatively depicts various genres of crime, mystery, comedy, thriller, and pop-culture all within the same plot line. At the same time, Pulp Fiction is illustrated in broken, puzzled vignettes which all depict a different setting, characters, and theme. Starring Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega; the two mob hit men set

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    Huck Finn Movie Vs Book

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    The task of creating a film based on a work of literature sends filmmakers on a challenge of sorting through which parts of the book are incorporated into the movie. The creators had to find a way to turn almost over 200 hundred pages of paper into about two hours of time. Consequently, many details of the original writing are left out, shortened, or changed entirely to “fit” into the script. This concept is shown in the movie version of the book, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, which

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    Bong Joon-ho once said “I regard remaking a film as creating something again”. In cinema the production of a “remake” retells a previously successful story. This concept of altering or rather “remaking”is used in reference when a new cinematic motion picture is based on an earlier version and is then used as the source of inspiration. Often times a remake will posses a different title, contain an altered narrative structure, and may even be remade in a different language. One well-known motion picture

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    Consequently, they decided to make a live action version of the film a quarter of a century later. Bill Condon, the director of the 2017 film, added dimension to the characters by further explaining their backgrounds. Facts about Belle’s mom and the Beast’s family brought new sides that the 1991 movie did not bring, but the movie was able to keep its original family feel. The live action Beauty and the Beast is an excellent example of the family film genre because of its lessons, range of inner genres, and

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    The Departed Comparison

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    Departed (2006, directed by Martin Scorsese), the latter being an adaptation of the former, are surprisingly similar films overall. The discrepancies between the two motion pictures are only easily seen when analyzing the difference in the narrative, plot and cinematography used within each film, while taking into account the influences of the differing cultures that the two films were created in (i.e. location of creation). Due to the differing locales: China (Hong Kong) for Infernal Affairs and

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    fantastical castle, her world changed completely. The original movie caused many children and adults to connect and find themselves within the characters. Consequently, they decided to make a live action version of the film a quarter of a century later. Bill Condon, the director of the 2017 film, added dimension to the characters by further explaining their backgrounds. Facts about Belle’s mom and the Beast’s family brought new sides that the 1991

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    Fantasy which uses narrative and Film conventions to create the mixture of Horror and Fantasy. Fantasy films have their own charatestics and those are how we can determine what genre the movie belongs to. A fantasy Film will normally be in an enclosed space, the setting oF Edward scisoor hand is way that Tim Burton makes the film aFantesy film. Like most movies there is a clsh between a villan and the main Charater changes during the film aswel. Many other things make a film what it is like the Charaters

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