Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961) presents an overall stronger story than A Fistful of Dollars (Leone, 1964) as it focuses less on the action sequences on more on character development. In particular A Fistful of Dollars (Leone, 1964) appears to depict some of the more meaningful scenes with an excessive amount of swashbuckling that ultimately detracts from the significance of particular scenes. This can be seen in the respective scenes of both films when the two factions are sparring with one another near the beginning. With a well positioned point of view, high angle view from Sanjuro’s perspective atop the bell tower, the audience is able to more gauge the hesitance with which both gangs repeatedly charge at each other, only to back off at the last second. …show more content…
On the other hand, the clash between the two factions in A Fistful of Dollars (Leone, 1964) features a repetitive and prolonged duel between the two sides. Leone’s flamboyant extravagance in the scene ends up only distracting the audience and diverting the audience’s attention away from the underlying plot and storyline context to what otherwise appears to be an extended frivolous gunfight. In addition, Sanjuro undoubtedly had quite a bit more depth to his character overall, in contrast to Joe. Throughout Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961), the audience is able to learn more about Sanjuro through his humorous personality at times, as his character development unfolds. On the other hand, Joe does not seem to quite receive the same amount of character development as Sanjuro, and as such, the audience is able to relate to and connect more with Sanjuro than
...larly impressive was John Savarese playing the part of the Narrator with an engaging charm and likeability that makes his calculated betrayal of the Girl all the more cruel. There is much room to play El Gallo as an unsympathetic manipulator, but Mr. Savarese finds a way to balance his character's actions with compassion, which makes for some wonderfully poignant moments, especially in the signature tune "Try to Remember."
The acting choices of each version vary in similarity and in quality. Some characters are portrayed differently in the
In The Wicker Man and “The Lottery”, they both had many similar elements as well as differences throughout their stories. In both the story and film, in the end there was a death by sacrifice. Both of these stories are centered on the ideals of a cult like society that believes in sacrifice for the benefit of crop fertility. Though they are both similar theme wise, there are some slight differences in each story. In the Lottery, the selection process was based by chance and luck. The person who is the sacrifice would be picked at random. One member from each family household had their name in the “Black Box” and one name would be picked and whoever it was suffered the consequences. In the Wicker man, they had an involuntary selection process.
While the film could be thought of as an inconsequential anomaly overshadowed by more conventional westerns released around the same time, such as The Searchers, Walsh’s movie was nonetheless listed as one of the top ten highest-grossing for 1958 in Britain, where it was better received than in the United States. If, as Nowell-Smith and Neale suggest, the feature film exists as a capitalist enterprise to please audiences and subsequently make as much profit as possible, it is entirely plausible that the crews of Captain Apache, Charley One-Eye and Chato’s Land took note of the unusual popularity of The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw among British audiences when writing and producing their own revisionist
The themes of “The Lottery and “The Tell-Tale Heart” have its similarities but minor differences. The stylistic techniques the authors use in each story contribute to their themes. Irony and symbolism help support the 2 different themes of each story. Both stories involve death but are looked at in different ways.
“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman are two very meaningful and fascinating stories. These stories share similarities in symbols and themes but they do not share the same plot which makes it different from one another. Furthermore, “The lottery” was held in New England village where 300 people were living in that village. This event took place every once a year. Besides, the story begins where on one beautiful morning, everyone in that village gathered to celebrate the lottery. The surroundings were such that children were gathering stones while adults were chatting with each other. It was compulsory for every head of family or house to draw a slip of paper out of the box. In addition to that, the family that draws the slip in the black do will have to re draw in order to see who will win the lottery. Therefore, the winner of the lottery will be stoned to death. This is very shocking because in today’s lottery events, the winner will be awarded cash.
This film had spectacular performances from the actors, especially Takashi Shimura, who plays Kanbei. Kanbei is a seasoned samurai and he was first chosen by the elders of the village. Toshiro Mifune’s plays Kikuchiyo who is an abrasive samurai who bridges the gap between the warriors and the people who live in the village.
Throughout the movie there are numerous occasions in which the comparisons between the two are noticeable.
The Godfather is the “dark-side of the American dream story” (Turan, pp2). The film follows the practices of a fictional Italian mafia family, the Corleone’s. Though most Americans do not condone the practices of the Italian mafia, they cannot deny that Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather is a cinematic masterpiece. This film gave insight to a mysterious way of life that the average person does not have knowledge of. As the audience is educated about the mafia they also are introduced to many stereotypes.
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The story of Bandits is told in a flashback form, starting off in a standoff with the police at a bank called the Alamo. Which appeared to have gone very wrong, and then going back in time via a homemade interview made at the home of the host of Criminals at Large( An Americas Most Wanted type show). We first get to know Joe (Bruce Willis) and Terry (Billy Bob Thornton) breaking out of an Oregon State Prison with the aid of a borrowed cement truck crashing through the prison gates all on a whim. That leads to an impromptu bank robbery started with a highlighter. Then two unsuspecting teenagers get to spend the night with the stars. Terry then came with a great idea, instead of charging into their targets with guns blazing, they spend the night before the robbery with the bank manager, and his lovely family and have a nice evening at home, and then walk into the bank before it’s open the next morning. So Joe and Terry start their careers as the “Sleep over Bandits.”
The first scene occurs early on in the film as mob enforcer Mark Gor (played by Chow Yun-Fat) kills a gang of criminals for revenge of a comrade's death. What made this scene so original and groundbreaking when compared to other action films in Hong Kong at the time was the way John Woo directed this gunfight, and the fact that it wa...
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In the film "A Fistful of Dollars", the sole hero is corrupt. This is equivalent to the status of the sole hero in a large portion of the purported, "Spaghetti Westerns". The Spaghetti Western's were shot in Europe, utilizing Italian performing artists as a part of everything except the main part, and dedicated with American voices. The Spaghetti Westerns completely changed the substance of he Western, as they turned out to be rougher - and the solitary hero turned into an a great deal more awful character. Whenever viewing "A Fistful of Dollars", the initially engaged picture is the rough, forsake soil. After this, the camera container and zooms in onto the solitary legend and his steed. Overwhelming imagery is being utilized here - that the
Let's talk about jumanji and the movie jumanji.Im going to compare the tone of them.Because in this book and movie there are several different moods and tone