Jeunet’s Amelie and Ham’s Tilly enter as outcasts; who long for acceptance and normalcy from the members of their societies. The use of settings in the novel and film are used as a visual representation of Tilly and Amelie’s isolation. Tilly is “detached” at the top of the hill but able to “[see] everything”, just as Amelie is in her high positioned apartment that overlooks the unfairness in Raymond Dufayel and Lucien’s lives. They experience detachment in different ways, with Amelie growing up “deprived of playmates”, never learning the social skills necessary to enter society, and Tilly being isolated, for being “the dangerous one” and sent away from the society at a young age. They are after the approval of everyone around them as the women …show more content…
They both look at themes of love, power, acceptance and revenge with varying lessons imparted onto the audience. Jeunet explores how love, along with life in general, will turn out well for everyone, whilst Ham imparts the life does not always give what is wanted. Power is something many want in life and that can over shadow other people’s rights as it does in both texts, but Amelie and The Dressmaker show that sometimes to get what is wanted it must be taken. The use of acceptance by Jeunet has a different impact to that of Ham, with Tilly being used as a vehicle to teach the audience to assess the situation after gathering evidence to make a decision on what is really wanted in life while Amelie does not impart any such lesson as she finds the acceptance she wants in life. Finally, the want for revenge and justice in life is taught as something that can, not only be good, but vital to improve and achieve what is wanted in life. Amelie and The Dressmaker both explore getting what is wanted out of life through different lessons taught to their audiences in a multitude of ways that leaves them with a sense of hopefulness and
Casablanca, directed by Micahel Curtiz, is said to be one of the world 's best movies. At the time, it had an all-star cast, and apparently they are still considered legendary. The main stars of the film were Ingrid Berman as Ilsa Laslow, Humphry Bogart as Rick, and Paul Henreid as Victor Laslow. The cast did a fantastic job of portraying their characters. Rick plays the main role as a man who runs a popular “saloon” in Casablanca. His true love, Ilsa, comes with her husband, Victor, to seek for help to go to America. Upon encountering Rick, Ilsa becomes weak and wants to stay with him in Casablanca rather than go with her husband to America. Being the big-hearted person he is, Rick gets them both their visas and helps them escape to America. This was all against the French captain’s orders, but he did it to make his true love happy.
In Ma Vie En Rose Ludovic is one of the four children of Pierre and Hanna Fabre who was assigned male at birth but wishes to be a girl. Ludovic 's first appearance in the movie is of her showing up to a block party with a dress and makeup on. Ludovic is rushed inside by her parents and changed into "normal" clothes, clothes boys are expected to wear. Ludovic 's parents, and the guests, were taken aback by Ludovic 's entrance and her parents tried to play their clothing choice off as a joke. This is just the start of Ludovic attempts to express her gender. Ludovic also brings dolls to class for show and tell, states that she will marry a boy in her class, wears dresses, and relates to the woman character in a popular kids television show. Ludovic
Often times society dictates which social classes are acceptable to interact with. When opposing social classes are forced to mingle in a setting such as high school, a variety of results can occur, from bitter rivalries developing to unlikely friendships blossoming. The film Pretty in Pink Illustrates strong tensions between social classes, and how each class segregates themselves from each other out of arrogance or fear of what they don 't know. While in the end the film argues that people can set aside their differences, it is not forgotten how difficult it can be due to societal pressures.
Beside that, Cinematography is also one of the element that play important roles in film noir. This can be seen when Dixon (2005) explained that in film noir shot in black and white, interior setting is always suffused with shadows and exterior settings are usually at night, with wet streets and rain. It is true because most of the film noir are shot in night with wet streets and rain, night scenes are able to create the ‘ darkness ’ mood and feeling while wet streets and rain can create the fear. Furthermore, according to Dixon (2005), he mention that the imbalanced camera set-up in film noir and the camera sweeps in on the protagonists in their most intimate moments. It is true also if the imbalanced camera set up in film noir such as dutch angle and low angle shot, it shows that something are going to happen, but it depends on the director and cinematographer on what visual they want to show to the audiences.
In rural Burkina Faso, middle-aged women clean and cook for their husbands, give birth to children, and nurture them. In their spare time, they gather together, listening to music played on the radio--their sole refuge from rural life. Sometimes, they host parties to celebrate their daughters undergoing a "purification" ritual, where little girls are "cut"--an euphemism to being mutilated.
The book Flowers for Algernon and the movie Charly are similar and different. One similarity is that the characters are the same. The book describes them perfectly. The film just shows how they described it. One difference is the plot. In the book, Charlie has feelings for Miss. Kinnian. They never did anything, Miss. Kinnian tried keeping it all professional. In the film, it's way different. Miss. Kinnian did try to stop things at first but then Charlie forced it on her. One big difference between the book and film is that Charlie had to find out Algernon died. In the book, the doctors had to break the news to him. However in the movie Charly he had to find out himself when he goes on stage, and sees algernon dead. In conclusion, the book
The film Little Princess shot in the 1939 is one of the greatest examples of the works created by Walter Lang throughout his career. The film nowadays is related to the classical Hollywood Cinema, and has had an impressive impact on how the Hollywood was developing. The movie itself is the rags-to riches story of a plucky orphan, Sara Crewe, who is said to have lost her father at the time of the war. The movie covers a wide range of topics that were playing an essential role at those days and still highly contribute to our society. The film depicts the most essential topic of the need to hope in any circumstances and despite any obstacles arising on one's way. Furthermore, the film is an excessively detailed reflection of the Victorian epoch
Transitioning the focus of how queer and cultural representation in the media, between 2010 -2015, the vision is present. Many story lines tackle the kind of resistance that might appear in families whose members classify across lines of sexuality, race, and ethnicity to explore diversity. Reaching into how gay and lesbian representation in the media is perceived, the 2013 ABC Family series, The Fosters, is a great example of queer visibility on television after 2010. The American drama series follows the lives of charcters, Lena Adams and Stef Foster, who are an interracial couple living in San Diego, raising Stef’s biological son, Brandon, along with their adopted twins, Jesus and Mariana. As the TV series begins, Lena’s occupation is a
For our second assignment, we are assigned to watch one international film and study it thereafter. We are to identify its genre and its particular conventions such as themes, sub-themes and etc. However, the main idea of this assignment is the film theory. We are to apply one of the nine film theories into our film choices and analyze it thoroughly in terms of mise-en scene, narrative structure, character interaction and any other criteria.
Dr. Manette is imprisoned unjustly in a physical prison for eighteen years. The torment and injustice of his situation drives him to discover a way to escape the distress and despair dominating his imprisonment. He crafts shoes to pass the time, he imprisons his intellect by gradually forcing himself to forget the torments of his imprisonment and even who, where, and why he is. Even after his loving and supporting daughter Lucie frees him, at least presently from his unfortunate predicament, whenever distressing occurrences intrude into his life he is prone to lock himself inside his mind becoming a mental prisoner once again. However, when Lucie’s husband Charles Darnay is imprisoned unjustly, Dr. Manette because of his own experiences as a prisoner, is determined through fruitless efforts, to set him free. “As my beloved child was helpful in restoring me to myself, I will be helpful now in restoring the dearest part of herself to her; by the aid of Heaven I will ...
The movie Frida revolves around the hauntingly tragic life of Frida Kahlo. Frida was a surrealist Mexican painter, who was known for her intense self-portraits. Although she was often over shadowed by her egotistical muralist husband; Diego Rivera. Throughout the movie her life of pain, love, and self-hatred is compacted into 123 minutes. The main characters are Frida and Diego Rivera. Each character impacts each other more than they ever imagined. They both were sexual beings, who felt they could change the world with art, put them together and it created art filled with pain.
For as long as there have been jokes, there have been people saying that women can’t tell them. For over a century figures in popular culture have publicly peddled this claim of misconception. In 1884 Richard Grant White, one of the most powerful cultural critics of the 19th century, wrote, “a sense of humor is the rarest qualities in a women”, to Jerry Lewis in 1998 stating he “cannot sit and watch a lady diminish her qualities to the lowest common denominator”, and more recently in 2012 Adam Carolla, arguing, “The Reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks” (Moss). If there is anything that can put these men in their place it is the cinematic success of Paul Feig’s 2011 film Bridesmaids. Since its release, the film has been nominated for 24 different awards, won 6, and has generated over $288 million in sales worldwide, making it the highest-grossing-R-rated female comedy of all time (Buckley 5). Bridesmaids, thus, represents how the symbol of women in the space of cinema is being challenged and changed.
The film Imitation of life (John M. Stahl, 1934) Imitation meant to mimic the values, and tradition of a person around him/her. In this film Imitation of life it illustrates the struggles of a young woman name Peola who is trying to pretend to be someone different. Peola’s character is very deceitful because of her fair light skin, and the way she wear her dresses you would think she is white.
In the movie Hugo, the director Martin Scorsese uses different camera angles, lighting, costumes and sound to give the first impressions of the character, Uncle Claude (Monsieur Claude). These techniques show that Uncle Claude is unsympathetic, his solitary, and unfit as well as lacks skill to take care of Hugo.
Dominique Francon is the human personification of inner turmoil and complexity. She is a character who seeks to destroy the one person she has allowed herself to love. She is introduced as a character that lets people walk over her and control her destiny. Her father, Guy Francon, describes her as not even possessing the ability to “behave like a human being” (122). Dominique lives her life freely, not caring about reputations or money. Her life appears to be transparent at times, almost like she is not really living at all. She goes through the motions of working for a paper she despises, writing about a subject she views as despicable. She even states that she holds this job to “have something to do, something more disgusting than many other things I could do. And more amusing” (118). However, her persona changes entirely when she meets Howard Roark. Roark is a man who represents everything Dominique values in life- heroism, nobility, creativity, and individualism- which is why she seeks to destroy him. She wishes to preserve him, along with her values. In a world where she herself can barely survive, Dominique seeks to destroy the one thing she loves, in order to give him salvation.