Run Lola Run (1998) as a film has several interesting and inter-related elements within its storytelling which come together to produce and interesting piece, such as the mise-en-scene of the movie, the butterfly effect and the interesting camera choices used.
As stated previously, the butterfly effect (and time travel more broadly) is used to great effect in this film. The butterfly effect, in popular culture, is a phenomenon of chaos theory in which minor changes can have large and unforeseen outcomes. In conventional time travel stories, this means that even the slightest change can have dramatic consequences. This concept is used to great effect in Run Lola Run¸ with the film having an unconventional take on this idea. In a traditional time, travel story, once the incident has occurred, a logical series of steps can be taken in order to go through the course of events and change the patterns. In Run Lola Run¸ however, shows an illogical side, that Lola is not in charge of or even fully aware of all the events and their consequences, and thus shows several different states of being of which the audience is never sure of the original. Further
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One of these cameras is at a high resolution (35mm) and the other is a low resolution. The Higher resolution camera is use for Lola and Manni’s scenes whereas the low-resolution camera is used in scenes which don’t involve the couple. Manni and Lola’s scene’s have visibly better definition which contrasts with, for example, her dad and his mistress’s scene, in which the definition is low and grainy. It can be said that the purpose of this was to give Manni and Lola’s scenes more realism, with the other scenes having less permanence for the audience, giving a sense of an artificial world, in contrast with Lola and Manni’s scene which is real and happening to
Films are designed for numerous purposes, some entertain, frighten, enlighten, educate, inspire, and most make us think about the world we live in. This paper will be focused on the cinematic interpretation of the film "Stepping Razor Red X", the Peter Tosh Story. The makers of a film from the writer, director, cinematographer and the art director, design, and conceptualize what they want the viewer to see.
Ultimately, In the Time of the Butterflies is a book written and dedicated to the Mirabal sisters and their revolutionary lives. The passion they possessed for the cause is what drove them into putting themselves and their families at risk. They involved themselves in the movement despite the danger of imprisonment and torture. They do everything they possibly can do for the future of their country and the advancement of the revolution. Looking at the sisters lives from their own account, it is clear that they were better revolutionaries than any other role they held.
After watching the movie "Even the Rain", I was impressed how deeply it was thought out. With this film, I realized that people are ambiguous, and in different situations may not act the same way, showing the character from an unexpected side for others, and for himself. Also that history always repeats. Are hundreds of years old and forgotten, Read in dusty books suddenly is played at you through the window.
The play M. Butterfly is a tale of love and betrayal. But unlike other love stories, this tale also shows how Chinese people were perceived by Western people in the early '60s and maybe to this day. M. Butterfly shows us through gender, capitalism, ethnicity, and sexuality how three of the main characters all reflect those ideals and how they all relate to each other through those ideals.
When I watching this movie, I notice that I felt less separation from the movie. Initially I could not find a reason for that but, soon after I realize that the camera is not static but it wobbling slightly. In most movie, camera does not move and it creates the frame. In the other hand, this movie’s handheld camera type of camera works imitate the human eyesight feeling and make people feels like to experience the event in a movie as a one of the character. In this perspective, do not explain too much about the detail is emphasizing this experience. Consider these things, I really excited and enjoyed couple of scene which are the running through battle field and engaging to the baby. In the every day world, both scene is pretty rare to experience. For the battle field scene, majority of the people have avoiding to be in there so that is rare. The engaging to the baby experience is quite normal event for most people and of course it is grate experience but, in this movie setting, baby is extremely rare and seeing baby is truly miracle event. To emphasize and provide this miracle event, this camera work is perfect to apply.
All through this film moods were continuously changed through lighting and music creating a symbolic meaning behind every scene. An example
Among other things, editing is what determines the length of a shot. Thus, it fully controls the length of time one can look at each image and integrate the information within it. In Run Lola Run Mathilde Bonnefoy demonstrates that experimentation is editing does not have to be formulaic. She handles the editor's traditional tasks of fixing the duration and frequency of shots, thus controlling the film's emphasis on a person, location or device with such a sense of pride that the film becomes more about the editing than about the actual narrative. The opening sequence for instance, shows Lola (Franka Potente) receiving a phone call from her boyfriend, Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), who asks her to help him in a dire situation, in the importance of returning $100,000 to the g...
The butterfly effect is an idea that if something was changed in the past it would completely change what happens in the future. The allusion is shown when Mr. Travis and the group notice how much things have changed when they got back to present time. Mr. Travis looked at Eckles boot and noticed that there was a dead butterfly on the bottom of the boot. Then, Mr. Travis realised that killing that butterfly was the reason that the present had completely changed. In the story it says, “It fell on the floor, exquisite thing, a small thing that could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across time”
The film Wendy and Lucy, directed by Kelly Reichardt, presents a sparse narrative. The film has been criticised for its lack of background story, and as a short film, much of the story is left to the viewer to infer from what is presented in the plot. However, Wendy and Lucy is able to depict the intimate relationship between Wendy and her dog as well as reflecting more broadly on the everyday, and commenting on the current economic state of the film’s setting in America. This essay will examine how film form contributes to the viewer’s awareness of the story in Wendy and Lucy and allows a deeper understanding of the themes presented. The aspects of mise-en-scene, shot and editing and sound in the film will be explored.
Therefore, the distinctive visual techniques employed by the composer provide a vehicle for the respondent to understand the ideas and themes prompted by people and their experiences. Tykwer’s film, Run Lola Run demonstrates the effect of the distinctive visual in Lola’s exploration of the themes of chance and time, whilst Mackellar’s poem ‘My Country’ provides the audience with an evocative experience of the Australian environment.
This film captures this class distinction without subduing the atmosphere through the use of a variety of cinematic devices. “A good film is not a bag of cinematic devices but the embodiment, through devices, of a vision, an underlying theme” (Barnett, 274). The audience can see this theme of the realities of the oppression, poverty and despair of this time period through the use of the things mentioned, but also through the character development that is driven by the character’s hopelessness. Each of the characters associated with the lower class is motivated by the conditions, which are viewed through the cinematic devices mentioned above: color, spherical lenses, long shots, and high angle shots. Sources Cited:.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a script which falls somewhere in the middle of the Classical Design Triangle. It presents moments of causality in a non-linear temporal arrangement. The single protagonist, Jean-Dominique Bauby, is passive due to his affliction yet struggling with both his inner conflict to resolve his life’s choices and the external conflict to regain some semblance of a normal existence. Plot points for this script were not as clearly defined as they are in a script which fully utilizes the Classical Hollywood narrative structure. Some categories of the beat sheet were difficult to realize and therefore my interpretation at some points may be purely subjective and coerced.
Run Lola Run is a film set in Berlin , Germany. This film gives you the idea of running with Lola on her journey to come up with one hundred marks in twenty minutes to save her boyfriend Manni’s life. Tom Tykwer uses many film techniques that usually are not used in movies , making this film not like every other Hollywood movie. Techniques such as the use of flashback and flash forward , this giving the film an idea that just by one slightest move or event can change your move in different ways. Other techniques that made this film interesting and attention grabbing is the use of animation, cross- cutting, birds eye view and medium shot.
It’s not everyday that one may watch a film that can be categorized in all of the genres of drama, thriller, sci-fi, and love. However, in J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress’s movie, The Butterfly Effect, they do just that. Throughout the film, a young man, Evan Treborn, played by Ashton Kutcher, who like his institutionalized dad before him, has memory blackouts that he must deal with. After several years had passed, Evan discovers a supernatural technique to alter his entire life and find his vanished and harrowing memories. Unfortunately, in order to relive these moments and recollections in his past, there are critical and severe consequences.
Snatch directed by Guy Ritchie (2000) is a nonlinear film told with two main story lines which are interwoven around each other. Plot A of the film is about a boxing promote named Turkish who is indebted to local bookie Brick Top. Plot B follows a 86 caret diamond as it is brought to London and ends up moving through the underground crime scene in London. The editor of the film uses various techniques to tell the story of how the diamond passes from character to character using and how it gets to the end point which is outlined in the beginning of the film with Turkish narrating at the beginning of the film “what do I know about Diamonds.” This essay will outline the various technique the editor and director of the film used to tell the story of the diamond using both dramatic and comedic moments through the use of transitions, length and arrangement of shots, use of small montages to identify characters, use of pause and slow motion and narration to continue the story and provide energy to the film and the use of time jumping to increase the comedic elements of the film.