Final Essay Over 400 hundred years there has been slavery, racism, and discrimination in America with blacks, and other minorities. A famous man once said “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word” – Martin Luther King Jr (brain quote). The movies ‘Miracle at St. Anna’ directed by Spike Lee, and ’12 Years a Slave’ directed by Steve McQueen both show the struggle African Americans went through during a tough racial period in American history. Even today in Modern society African Americans still deal with racism. Spike Lee and Steve McQueen movies both give the viewer a real life look of how blacks were treated in a tough racial climate, while fighting for respect in America. Many war films in the industry have been anti-war films. Anti-war films had a great emphasize on the pain, gore, horror, and the cost of human lives during a war. Most war films focused on the violence but some focused on actually event’s that happened during wars like a genocide. Even some of the films include black humor within it as well. But Spike Lee on the other hand created the movie Miracle at St. Anna to show the war from the Buffalo Soldiers point of view. This made his movie unique because this movie was not a movie about just killing and them trying to complete a mission. It was about the Buffalo Soldiers versus the world. In their own country the the United States of America they were treated terribly, they were seen as an experiment within the army and had to deal with racism and hatred. When they were overseas in Italy they h... ... middle of paper ... ...en I saw the title. But the in-between part of the film as a viewer we want to see what he went through during those twelve years. In conclusion I feel that Director Spike Lee and Steve McQueen both did a fantastic job creating ‘Miracle at St. Anna’ and ‘12 years a Slave’ these movies show the real past of American history, and makes people think about how much things have changed since then. Both directors give the viewer a real life look of how blacks were treated in a tough racial time, while fighting for respect in America. Works Cited "Fugitive+Slave+Law+of+1793." The Free Dictionary. Farlex, n.d. Web. 03 May 2014. "List of Anti-war Films." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 05 Mar. 2014. Web. 03 May 2014. MEADOWS, BOB. "True Heroes." PEOPLE.com. People, 13 Oct. 2008. Web. 02 May 2014. "Racism Quotes." BrainyQuote. Xplore, n.d. Web. 03 May 2014.
in Peter Weirs film The Truman show, Weir constantly displays an idea of appearance verses reality. Truman is a man in Weirs film that is continuously unravelling truths about the appearance of the world that he lives in and the harsh realities of Hollywood. The first Still shows a massive black dome on top of the Hollywood hills with a Smokey grey sky behind it. Beneath the dome is some grass and the Holly wood sign in large writing. In the right hand corner of the Still, there is a small image
The Opening Sequence of Sleepy Hollow The very first thing the audience sees when watching this film is a thick red liquid dripping onto a parchment. Because the audience expects the film to be a horror film, they automatically think the liquid is blood. Seeing this image makes the audience assume someone has been murdered or at least injured. This one picture spurs questions in a person's mind like, 'who does the blood belong to?' and 'Has someone been killed?' The audience will want
The impression that I made out from watching this film is that back in 1965 in Los Angeles the gangs Crips and Bloods was found to protect black Americans from the violence cause by white police officers and white gang members. During those periods black kids in high school and junior schools were being attacked by white students in school so black people teamed up together to fight against them in school; and that was how the black gangs became. Some gangs were sponsored by Slausons, Farmers, Bausinessmen
Timothy Walter Burton is an American film director, producer, artist, a writer and an animator who was born Burbank, California, 1958. He has been known for his dark, gothic, unsettling and spooky fantasy films such as Edward Scissorhands (ES), Charlie and the Chocolate factory (CATCF), Corpse Bride, Big Fish,...among others. As a child , Burton was influenced by Dr. Seuss's grisly fairy tales and Roald Dahl’s dark children’s stories so his films are characterized by a somewhat subtly frightening
Colour is a non-verbal visual communication in our lives. Kalmus (2006) assists that colour uses a most important part in our lives. He says unlikely listening to music for a short time; we look at colour every moment of our lives continuously. I can say it is the first impression that people view something at first time. It implants something in people’s mind and thought from the eye and it gives ideas to people how they should react that they have seen. It does not say anything but it says something
the film, we see an elaborate design of 19th century Paris, France. We have a detailed and inside look at Paris through the allies, cabaret bars, prostitutes, and up the rooftops to reveal a colorful and vibrant fantasy world. Just the opening sequence emphasizes how the people of France, through poverty and plague, live a life of love, art and music. So we have these two characteristics, these two sides of Paris that seem to juxtapose each other. We see this constantly through out the film; sin
In the film Sleepy Hollow directed by Tim Burton does an excellent job of keeping you on your toes with this one. Especially since this is an older movie with older technology as well as set in the 18th century. Sleepy Hollows main character Ichabod Crane, played by the great Johnny Depp, is smart and brave but only when he has to be. To say the movie is supposed to be spooky it’s kind of funny. Ichabod Crane created new ways to solve crimes with forensic science. The ironic part is he is really
we are born, models of gender and sexual expression are pressed into us. The colors "pink" and "blue" identify what gender a newborn baby will be, placing these two genders into a type of "box" or "category". The idea that young girls should stay inside to play will dolls and young boys should go outside to be adventurous, also puts these two genders under limitations. Society places these gender roles upon us, in hopes of us acting a particular way to display our gender in the "correct" manner.
Bad and The Beautiful and State and Main are films that present the audience with an inside look into the not-so luxurious, grotesque formations of Hollywood Cinema. The Bad and the Beautiful, directed by Vincent Minelli (1952), is a black and white film narrated in flashback form. The camera work in the opening scene is positioned at a higher level forcing the audience to look below at the director at Stage 5. Here, the audience begins to intrude on the not-so glamorous lifestyle of Hollywood.
Hood: slang for neighborhood or black area/life. Before 1991 this concept of hood life was never before portrayed or looked into until John Singleton produced the black social drama Boyz N the Hood. This is the first film by a black director that actually goes deep inside the ghetto or inner city. Singleton carefully directs this film so that it appears to mirror the real world “having value as a kind of anthropological study of an unfamiliar way of life'; (Thompson 2). Set in lower-middle-class
Disassembling Mental Disorders from the “Inside Out.” “Adults with any type of mental illness in the past year: 45.1 million” (APA). Mental disorders are not easy to visualize. Especially three of the most common disorders, Clinical Depression, Anxiety Disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. However, the Oscar winning film, Inside Out, places an interesting perspective on mental disorders by occasionally panning back and forth from the main character’s head to the heads of the other cast.
It’s translated from French and means the staging the different aspects of a movie such as setting, lighting, subjects, or almost anything else. Any common movie, such as Inside Out, shows Mise-en-snéne in it. Three big parts of Mise-en-scéne that are shown in the movie Inside Out are cinematography, sound, and editing. Inside Out uses all of these by describing a plot in which there are feelings in our brains which connect to different memories that we can remember at any time. There were five main
According to Munsterberg’s film theory, the motion picture is an original medium in that it aesthetically stimulates the spectator’s senses. Although both still picture and theatrical play can possibly leave images on the spectator’s retina or brain, each element of motion picture, including camera angle and work, lighting, editing, music, and the story itself, appeals to somewhere more than just retina or brain— the element of motion picture truly operates upon the spectator’s mind. Speaking of
seemingly in opposition of each other.” (Dualism in Film) The definition of duality can be seen in many ways, in modern cinema however, the meaning of duality is more specific, although its definition does not vary too much from what the common definition is. In film, duality is the contrast of two people or entities. These two entities however, can be portrayed in several ways. The duality can be a conflict within one’s self, as seen in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan (2010) and David Fincher’s Fight Club
the films are very straight forward with the idea or messages that the director is trying to reveal in order to keep American viewers hooked on to the film. Whenever a foreign film is Americanized, there are always significant changes in the character’s love life between one another, and the organization of the plot; from the symbolism of the film with the theme of the films are altered. This method is very effective because American audiences want to understand the whole concept of the film, where