I heard about your competition through online resources and hear say, and through much thought and intense planning; I would like to make what I believe to be a plausible proposal for the movie screen. My idea stems from a trend that is developing in mainstream film today. Because of the demand for comedies satirizing teen/college culture, the idea of a pot film using the premise of Sir Gawain and Green Knight will be very profitable in the film industry. Firstly, the title of the medieval work I am choosing (SGGK) is blatantly perfect for structuring a satirical pot film comedy. Secondly, with the emergence of the term “go green” in American culture, particularly environmental enthusiasts who so happen to also be fond of legalizing marijuana, makes this idea timely.
Satirizing medieval lifestyle has been extremely successful before with youth in Britain, as well as in American culture. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), is a cult classic still being enjoyed by ages young and old, but comedy in Britain is much different from comedy in America. So, when I heard about your comp...
Film-making is both an art and an industry. Many people were credited for the invention of motion picture. Some major names associated with motion picture include, Thomas Edison, Eadweard Muybridge, and the Lumiere brothers. There were several stages in the making of motion picture.
In fact, English speakers in America clearly differ from those in Britain by tone, delivery, and expression. Since the language differs in these ways based on its local use, it is understandable why the two countries’s humor differ as well. America’s obvious slap-stick and Britain’s blunt irony, differ between their own individual standards, just like their versions of the English language, and continue to change with time. In comparison to the humor used by Hollywood’s original actors in the early fifties, the comedies we are currently exposed to on television today has changed drastically.
In plot, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight has elements which are similar to much modern fantasy. Its emphasis on chivalry (in the values of Sir Gawain's character through the entire poem) is similar to contemporary High Fantasy, a subgenre filled with such present top industry names as Robert Jordan and Terry Brooks. For an even greater glimpse of the popular appeal of King Arthur's court, Marion Zimmer Bradley's retelling of the Arthurian...
With this short but very interesting and informative class I have just scratched the surface of the what it takes to make a full fleged film. It takes much more than I had presumed to make a movie in Hollywood. The number of people that it takes to make a minute of a movie let alone the entire movie was astonishing to me. There are many things that it takes to start making a movie but without an idea of some sort there is no movie to be made.
...ished in real society. It is through of the eyes of Chaucer the pilgrim, and through his tendency to use long words, complicated sentences and paragraphs, attractive mannerisms of expression and absurd situations that the parodist features can be easily identified and then analysed. Expressions like “men should not be too serious at a game” shows how everything is being softened so as not to bother anyone, but amuse them and invite them to read, for later inspire the sense of criticism – satire. Chaucer the poet is “therefore a man who takes it upon himself to correct censure and ridicule the foolishness and vices of society and thus to bring contempt and mockery upon anomalies from a desirable and civilized norm”. Thus, Chaucer’s collection of parodies actually conveys a satire: a protest, a sublimation and refinement of anger and indignation of the medieval times.
Those who had remained in England during the Commonwealth had faced years of strict moral repression. Those who fled to France had acquired some of the decadence bred across the channel. In combination, these two forces created a nation of wealthy, witty, amoral hedonists. Their theatre reflected their lifestyles. Thus was born the Restoration Tragedy and the Comedy of Manners.
Certain words and phrases are able to conjure up entire scenes, images of a time long past. So too is it with the term “Middle Ages.” Immediately upon hearing such a phrase, the individual’s mental picture of the times is brought to the forefront, but not the Middle Ages as they were, but as they have been romanticized to be. The phrase conjures up pictures of castles, of fiefdoms, peasant villages, kings and queens, lords and ladies, dancing, merriment, great feasts, jousting, and, of course, the chivalric code and the concept of courtly love. These last two, these ideals, were long ago recorded in written histories and in written tales, allowing the concepts to propagate throughout the ages, trickling down through
budget a film because the cost of living is forever changing and this can affect how much is spent
British humor may be over the heads of some of you, there is so much
unemployment; competition for roles is often intense. While formal training is helpful, experience and talent are more important for success in this field. Because of erratic employment, earnings for actresses are relatively low.
Many of the historical aspects in Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail are add to the movie, but expanded to add to the humor of the movie. Some viewers might be able to point out many of the historical themes in the movie, and many can’t find them. To be honest, I knew the movie was only based in medieval times, but that is all I thought of it. It was fun to watch the movie trying to find deeper aspect of history in the humor of the movie. Which adds to the humor of some of my favorite scenes in the
The film industry has always been somewhat of a dichotomy. Grounded firmly in both the worlds of art and business the balance of artistic expression and commercialization has been an issue throughout the history of filmmaking. The distinction of these two differing goals and the fact that neither has truly won out over the other in the span of the industry's existence, demonstrates a lot of information about the nature of capitalism.
With the popularity of film culture experiencing a drastic increase, a large amount of what happens on screen is mirrored in our society. Movies can evoke thoughts and emotions that shape the average man’s ideals, sometimes even stirring up propaganda that pressures governments to create new laws.
Many people don’t think about it so much, but movies (or just film in general) have become such a big part of our lives that we don’t think much of it because it just feels like a usual part of living. But have you ever wondered why this is, and how far back film started? Movies and film have been around for a long time, have developed in big ways throughout time, and has advanced in such a big and new way to this day.
I decided to be a director when I was fourteen years old. I was in my tenth grade and studied about world wars in history. I was inspired by the stories of the wars and started writing stories based on the same subject. I had little clue what to do with those stories until I watched ‘Saving Private Ryan’ .This movie based on second world war inspired me to be a filmmaker.