Adam Elliot is an Australian stop-motion animator. He has received over one hundred awards through his career. In 2003 Adam Elliot won an academy award for Animated Short Film for his movie “Harvie Krumpet”. Elliot calls his films “clayography” - clay animated biography - because most of them are based on his friends and family.
“Mary & Max” is an Australian clay-animated film written and directed by Adam Elliot. The film is about a friendship between two pen pals, Mary a eight-year old girl and Max a forty-year old man.
Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan’s greatest animation directors. Most of his movies are very successful e.x. “Kiki’s Delivery Service”, “Nausicaa of the Valley of the wind”, “Princess Mononoke” and “Spirited Away”. With a sixty year old career, he managed to earn international recognition, three Academy Award nominations including a win for “Spirited Away”.
“Ponyo" (Gake no Ue no Ponyo) is a Japanese animated film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. The plot focuses on a five-year old boy who becomes friends with a goldfish princess who wants to become human.
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Adam Goldberg, more aptly an all round iconic star has created his identity as a Hollywood actor, musician, producer and director. With his subtle mind on screen, Goldberg has played a multitudinous character that ranges from comedic, tough infantry man to undead servant in supernatural thriller. Certainly, few actors have ever chosen such a baffling and unusual role in their calling. Actor Adam Goldberg was born as Adam Charles Goldberg on October 25, 1970, in Santa Monica, California. He was born to a Jewish father and non practicing Roman Catholic mother of mixed German, Irish and French descent. Thus being used to cross – cultural circumstances, Adam was not really an ardent follower of any particular religion. Early on, music and movies became subject of his intense passion. He went to study in Sarah Lawrence College where he was artistically and intellectually influenced. Actor Adam Goldberg made his big screen debut in 1992s film Mr. Saturday Night by then; his professional calling actually took off. However, his role in the movie is shaded off as he was casted in the minor ro...
His parents died when he was young. He was nurtured by his older brothers. Pony has to struggle at the bottom of the social ladder. Like the people around him, he has to fight, steal and scare little kids. However, Pony remained a pure heart, a golden heart. He only fights when he has to defend himself. He kept his heart of sympathy, understanding of others and think for the others. Like in when the church was burned, he understands the situation of the teacher and children. So he risked his life to safe the kids. The most straight forward example and conclusion of Pony’s good heart is the word of Johnny, “Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold…” Moreover, Ponyboy is a thinker. He can think for the opposite side of his gang, the Socs. Although the Socs almost drowned him, he can still understand the Socs and didn’t be blinded by the hate. He in the chaos and impulsive world can see through the surface of the conflict and see the core of the world that people are the same. That is really amazing and Ponyboy does have the board mind of a hero.
In the beginning, Ponyboy, a Greaser, comes out of a movie house and is beat up by a group of Socs, but is saved by Darry, Sodapop and the gang.
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Mary and Max tells the heart warming tale of a lonely 8 year old girl from Australia and a 44 year old man plagued by Aspergers and anxiety who are able to develop a friendship through writing letters. Mary Daisy Dinkle loves three things: her pet rooster, sweetened condensed milk, and the Noblets, a children’s tv show. With parents absent from her life and the kids at school bullying her for her birthmark, Mary is only able to find solace in someone thousands of miles away. Max Jerry Horowitz also loves Noblets, chooses the same lottery tickets every time and suffers from anxious overeating and not being able to understand others due to his Aspergers. While Mary’s demand for advice is often a heavy burden, Max is still grateful for his only friendship with Mary. After premiering at the Sundance festival in 2009, Mary and Max went on to receive a few small awards within its own genre. Despite its lack of international success, Mary and Max has still been able to grip the hearts of those who have viewed it. With not only holding a unique entertainment factor, but also a gripping message, it is important to analyze what makes Adam Elliot’s Mary and Max such a powerful film.
the beginning of the book chapter 1 Ponyboy went to the movies alone on the way home some greasers jump him and in the right moment his group members save him from getting beat.
Samurai films exhibit two basic dramatic styles. The jidai-geki (period drama) which are stories based on characters and how they negotiate a variety of political, personal and romantic situations and the chanbara (sword fighting films) which are action packed with dramatic sword fighting scenes. Films in the samurai genre which deal with ‘ronin’ (masterless samurai), demonstrate strong elements of both styles as exhibited in Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961), as well as the many films about the legendary Musashi Miyamoto.
By looking at the incidents happened around Ponyboy and the changes of Ponyboy’s attitudes towards reality, we can see that Ponyboy has matured and learned the essence of solving problems, which most readers don’t see; this is important because it reveals the relationship between dreams and reality, that is cocooning from the world is not going to solve any problems, instead, only through facing the reality could we regain lost courage and break the obstacles.
Drawing on pictorial traditions as venerable as sumi-e (black and white ink brush painting), yamato-e (landscape painting in the Japanese style), and emaki-mono (narrative picture scrolls), the Japanese cinema was characterized by a pictorial elegance not seen anywhere else in the world. A propensity for long takes and long shots gave many of the films a stately, leisurely, contemplative pacing that appealed to many young film critics and filmmakers. The creation of mood, of tone, was similarly a unique property of the Japanese cinema. Combined with many theatrical elements, the films presented themselves as the product of a culture that seemed far from the one that waged fierce war on the world. The stylistic experiments of Kurosawa (one of the rare directors who were as comfortable with dynamic montage as he was with long takes) and Ozu (a filmmaker virtually unique, but not sui generis, with his graphic matches, narrative ellipses, dramatic de-emphasis, and singular thematic concern) grew out of a prolific, varied, and exciting cinematic period. (Grant p.
Starting in 1995, every solo album Hirasawa has produced was accompanied by an Interactive Live Show based on the album's central themes and story (NO ROOM 2014). For these live shows, a story is told to the audience using computer generated visuals and text, displayed...
Interviews // Nausicaa.net. Trans. Ryoko Toyama. Ed. Team Ghiblink. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Apr. 2014.
The widely popular film Shrek, produced and distributed by DreamWorks in 2001, grossed a total of $484,409,218 in worldwide sales (Box Office Mojo). The success of the film has led DreamWorks to create several shorts, companion films, and sequels. From its memorable characters to its whimsical, edgy humor, Shrek was an amazing, highly successful animation that would pave the way for DreamWorks to make billions off the franchise. Shrek’s success can be attributed to three main factors: the range of ages it appeals to, its creative use of intertextuality, and its ability to cover a wide range of the fairy tale functions proposed by Vladimir Propp.
The billowing black smoke left behind by the train represents another theme that repeatedly presents itself across multiple Miyazaki films, the constant battle between nature and industry. Miyazaki appears to have an intense appreciation of nature and a disdain of the modern world, shown through how industry and war are often treated as the true overarching antagonists of his stories . Nausicaä and the Valley of the Wind focuses on a post-apocalyptic world where the pollution of industry and war lead to the mutation of life on the planet and a forest of death taking over the planet, forever expanding through poisonous spores and gigantic mutated beetles. Princess Mononoke is the story of a war between industry and nature, where the early versions
He is a true auteur, as he himself calls the same. His movies are generally based loosely on his family and friends (e.g.-Uncle, Cousin and Brother. He says he love telling stories and biographies about his family and friends, which is why he came up with the word ‘clayography’ He never felt comfortable calling himself an 'animator’ or ‘claymator’. He thought he makes clay biographies. Therefore Adam calls each of his works a "Clayography" - Clay animated biography. All his movies have narrations. He says that he likes it when someone guides you through the film.
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