Up Close & Personal

fidelity in this scene. I think he used common and familiar environmental sounds in the background while Marion was completing mundane tasks before entering the shower. This is apparent when Marion ripped a piece of paper out of a notebook, tore it up, and then flush it down the toilet. Hitchcock chose to allow the audience to hear these sounds for a few reasons. First, it provides the viewer with a more complete experience. Second, it keeps the viewer’s attention more present because the scene is

Soap operas over the years have ended up obtaining a bad stigma that even Modelski says “if television is considered by some a vast wasteland, soap operas are thought to be the least nourishing spot in the desert” (128). Most people would explain them as over-dramatic, unrealistic, or even too “feminine” but Modelski tries to overcome the bad wrap soap operas have by shining light on the connection she has seen between women and soap operas. Her point is to “not ignore” but “focus on” “what is “feminine”

that even adult would find disturbing. This movie’s unique selling point is the fact it is based on a true story, making the movie more interesting as it has more of a connection to a realistic life experience happens in a big family who are very close and show love for one another. The conjuring 2 trailer opens with notorious ghostbuster Lorraine Warren and Ed and a priest sitting around a table, listening to a tape. The camera is taking from top, projecting the view of a radio at the centre of

This scene from Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity features various cinematographic and stylistic elements to foreshadow Walter Neff’s tragic end. Through the monologue from Walter’s trustworthy sidekick Barton Keyes, he describes the consequences that will befall Walter for committing a murder. Of course, Keyes does not know that a murder has occurred but already has his suspicions. As the viewer, we see Keyes progressing on these suspicions as he explains in this scene how murderers can never get

possible for the rest of them to escape the maze. As compared to the film Maze Runner, majority of the sacrifice in The Hunger Games is derived from accepting death. During the competition, only one person out of twenty four can survive, which ends up to a cruel entertainment for the Capitol. 
 
The main characters in The Hunger Games and Maze Runner both showcase the theme of heroism by doing many heroic acts throughout the film. Katniss Everdeen is considered as a hero in the film as she encounters

everyone around him. As expected, this happy scene is cut short as Chiron is dropped off at home to find his mother with drugs and a stranger in the house. The scene is meant to immediately draw the viewer back to the real world, the one Chiron has grown up in. In actuality, Chiron can’t just escape the situation he was born into. The mise-èn-scene used in this moment is meant to demonstrate how the mother is quickly losing grasp of a happy life; trying to escape their reality by any means necessary. The

story that takes place in the '60s in Rio de Janeiro about two boys growing up in the neighborhood take on different paths in life. A child who wanted to prove himself, became a merciless drug lord, who killed , raped, robbed and threatened in order to gain power. The other kid, Rocket, witnessed the violence going on in the neighborhood around him and became a photographer. This film demonstrated two paths people growing up in this environment could take and showed the result of their choices. These

Hannya gets easily angered when someone admires anything else but her when she is around, causing her to lash out both physically and emotionally at almost anything and everything. She craves attention relentlessly and will go out of her way to stir up drama if that helps her achieve her goal. She doesn't care if a particular person hates her since she figures that she can always make them come crawling back later on. This feminine Viscet is

innocent people on the stairs. Different angles of the images were cut alternatively to increase the tension of how communist authorities had been constraining the people from their rights to gather around. Additionally, Eisenstein included some close up shots to give the image of people dying and kids sitting in the middle of the dead people. The scene then jump cuts to the soldiers in white uniforms walking down the stairs roll by roll, pushing the

In Tanaka and Kurosawa’s (1961) Yojimbo, I like how the cinematography and the editing work together in showing the dark comedy behind humanity’s inhumanity. I appreciate the camerawork’s use of shots and angles that expose the pitiful characteristics of corrupted human identities. When Sanjuro Kuwabatake meets the Ushitora’s goons, the contrast between the true warrior and the superficial ones makes me laugh and feel disgusted at the same time. As a samurai, Sanjuro is confident in his sword fighting