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A scene, in Saving private Ryan, that Spielberg uses desaturated colors to enhance the audiences’ view of the film is the opening scene of Rangers landing on Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion of World War II that features a group of American soldiers led by captain Miller and German soldiers. Spielberg uses establishing shot to show the Omaha landing. However as the scene continues Spielberg uses many cuts to different soldiers faces as they prepare to land. When the close ups are on the American

Throughout the entire length of the text Levitt and Dubner rely the heaviest on cause and effect to achieve their purpose for writing. Levitt and Dubner use the cause and effect approach the most often because it is a logical and easy to follow approach to supporting an argument. By using cause and effect Levitt and Dubner were able to inspire new thoughts within their readers while simultaneously exploring unusual subjects such as the perfect parenting in order to refute conventional wisdom. For

The overall role of the audience, made up of teenagers and adults, in Freakonomics is to act as the receiving end of a personal conversation just like Gladwell’s audience in Outliers. The audience always remains constant because it would be folly for an author to alter his or her intended audience part way through a text unless they wished to create a book intended to confuse its readers. The audience of teenagers and adults is meant to learn from the speaker of Freakonomics much in the same way

1946, in Cincinnati Ohio, Steven Spielberg was born. Throughout his adolescences Spielberg was a proletarian movie producer and director, recognized for a film called Escape to Nowhere. Spielberg produced his initial self-budgeted picture at the age of 16, Firelight, which developed into the motivation for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Spielberg finished high school in Saratoga, California, and attended California State University. Directing Jaws (1975), Steven Spielberg exercised numerous

In 1993, Schindler’s List won Best Picture from the Academy Awards. Steven Spielberg not only directed the movie, but helped produce it as well. Spielberg won his first Oscar for Best Director for Schindler’s List, an award that had eluded him in the past. He managed to acquire the rights to direct the film from Martin Scorsese in exchange for the rights to direct Cape Fear (1991), (New York Times, 1991). Branko Lustig, a producer for Schindler’s List, tracked down Spielberg and pleaded to him to

In Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner write in a colloquial fashion and tend to keep their writing informal. For example, when they write, “like the proverbial butterfly that flaps its wings on one continent and eventually causes a hurricane on another” the allusion to the butterfly effect serves to engender common ground with their audience (Levitt and Dubner 5). Additionally, by using the word “butterfly” Levitt and Dubner are able to create imagery which will help their audience better visualize

Saving Private Ryan, directed by Steven Spielberg and released in the United States on July 24, 1998, is based during and after the Invasion of Normandy during World War II. The movie starts out with an old man in a cemetery, studying a single grave. The man breaks down in tears, and the screen fades into what is presumably a flashback. Soldiers are mounted upon boats, moving towards a beach’s shore. The men exit the boats, and are thrusted into a battle with the opposing side. There are many casualties

The Thrill of Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg writes and directs modern films which have majorly impacted the film industry. Spielberg made many contributions to the film industry. He directed many infamous movies by using his impeccable ideas such as, the different genres of movies that he produces. He has made two huge successes known as ET and Jaws. Spielberg is one of the greatest revolutionaries of all time because of his outstanding special effects as well as his ability to expand on

Jurassic World, is the next film in Jurassic Park series. The film had been in development hell for since 2005. So its great to see the film series return to the box office again. The film is directed by Colin Trevorrow and stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. In the the male and female leads. The plot is that it takes place after the failings of the first park and now the park has finally been opened as the trailers have said. So thing goes terrible wrong as many Jurassic films tend to do

After watching and analyzing the action adventure film, Indiana Jones - “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” (2008) and the Sci-Fi thriller, The Matrix (1999) many cinematic elements attracted my attention. With three very distinct and ingenious directors, (Spielberg and the Wachowskis siblings) these two films exemplified extraordinary uses of lighting, framing, editing and sound techniques unique to its own genre. Lighting Foremost, in terms of lighting Indiana Jones – Kingdom of the Crystal Skull