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Payday arrived for both me and Patsy, giving us the opportunity to attend the luxurious cinema and a wider variety of movies. As we stand before the array of movie posters, deciding between an action or comedy, somehow, how conversation shifts over to John. “He was so excited about the other night,” says Patsy. I abandon the posters and give her a questioning look. “About what?” “Well, first of all spending the evening with you, and then because you hugged him the way you did.” She taps her finger

Chaplin: Film Revolutionary A revolutionary idea are certain movements that change life as we know it entirely, take for example the revolutionary idea of a film. There would be no film if it were not for it’s forefathers such as photography, pictures drawn on caves, yet still dating back to the time of story telling. None of these outstanding ideas would be able to be born without the humans that set off these chains of events. An important influence in Film is 1920’s celebrity, Charlie Chaplin

Live theater provides an experience that not even television or movies can portray. It reveals the true face of the actors and not someone hiding behind a screen. And there are some emotions that can only be achieved through seeing a show being performed live. My mom gives this quote, “Live theater is a shared experience. Interacting with the other patrons is part of the fun. In some cities there are areas that are geared entirely towards live theater. When you are at a show you are part of a collective

Cinema Paradiso: Still Relevant Today ​Released in 1988 by director Giuseppe Tomatore, “Cinema Paradiso” follows the life of a young boy in Italy who dreams of being a filmmaker. The road the boy, who eventually becomes a famous Italian film director named Salvatore Di Vita, takes to reach his goal is difficult and includes many sacrifices and trade-offs. Today, the film is widely regarded as one of the most popular foreign films ever to be released in the United States. Given that foreign films

Another idea from Ángela Bernardo (March 10, 2016) is that color technology such as Technicolor has transformed the movie industry and the way Hollywood creates films. In 1916 Technicolor, one of the most important advancement arrived. Which allowed films makers to record in color. Technicolor was a photographic chemical process that managed to introduce color into movie frames. Technicolor was based on the Kinemacolor system which was very successful in England. When Technicolor first arrived it

The history of cinematography has increased enormously since the birth of the first motion picture. Numerous of styles, techniques and technology have been introduced to make films like they have never been seen before. From the invention of the camera obscura, to the introduction of CGI technology, the film industry has tremendously grown and has allowed for the generating of ideas to become easier than ever. The creation of film has allowed talented directors, screenwriters and producers to express

Zozo by Josef Farez, is a good example of a Swedish/immigrant movie that has become a popular theme amongst Swedish movies since the increase of immigrants and refugees coming to Sweden. However, what this particular film did that most Swedish/immigrant films don’t is show how both Swedes and immigrants affect each other, and how conflict comes from both sides. Zozo brings up how the best way to avoid starting these conflicts is for immigrants to try to let go of their fear and anger left from when

Early films were created with audience reception in mind. Tom Gunning, author of “Cinema of Attraction,” theorizes filmmakers’ goal to create a film that gripped the audiences’ attention and amazed them – create a spectacle. Therefore, early cinema did not have a narrative structure. They were most often short films, such as those of the Lumiere Brothers, that were actualities; 40 to 50 second films that showed actualities or activities representative of everyday life, such as playing cards, drinking

Small, sleepy towns are like bad movies. Your mom drags you to one to “bond” on her day off. Just when you feel settled in with popcorn and soda, the lights dim, the opening credits roll, and you can tell you’re in for an unbearable hour and a half just by the somnolent music that begins to play over the tinny speakers. The opening scene drags on for several agonizing minutes as the camera pans over barren landscapes, townscapes, bayous, or tundras. You want to run out the theater door to the car

The General Buster Keaton wrote, directed, and acted in the film The General (1926). The silent film is a chase comedy enriched by realism. Siegfried Kracauer states that film represents reality as it evolves in time with the aid of cinematic techniques and devices. Film literally photographs reality to record and reveal physical reality. Physical reality being called material reality, physical existence, actuality, and simply nature. The movement in the film The General emphasizes the motion of