Concept Definition Example
Animation To create an illusion of movement by using stop-frame photography. (Jackson 1998:14)
Individual drawings that are photographed frame by frame. (Beaver 1983:15) The use of stop-frame photography at a high speed in “The Lion King” (Minkoff and Allers 1994) enables the characters to come alive and make a motion picture.
Antagonist The character that creates an obstacle that prevents the protagonist to reach his/ her goal. (Mobley 1992:7)
Certain characters that are in opposition towards each other and this results in conflict between them. (Pavis 1998:21) Smeagol tries to prevent Frodo from returning the ring and this creates tension between them, although Frodo still tries to think the best of Smeagol. “The Lord of the Rings”
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Art cinema It can be seen as a form of personal expression, due to the director having so much influence and control in. (Nelmes 1999:51)
Techniques and narratives are used experimentally in this type of European cinema. (Hayward1996:8) “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” (Weerasethakul 2010) is an Art film that mainly focuses on reincarnation and is the first Thai film to do so.
American Dream The belief that power and wealth is available to anyone who wants it and has the drive and desire to succeed. (Casey, Casey, Calvert, French & Lewis 2002:122)
Anybody in America can be successful, no matter what your background is. (Black and Black 2006:9) “The Great Gatsby” (Luhrmann 2013) shows the interpretation of striving towards the fabled American Dream, by displaying man’s attempt to gain wealth instead of equality.
Catharsis The feeling of release that the audience feels when a tragedy ends. (Mobley 1992:22)
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...n about a subject that can be given away by a narrator, sign or dialogue. (Phillips 2002:544)
“…it is the result of what we have been explicitly shown and told onscreen.” (Looking At Movies [sa]) In “The Wizard of Oz” (Taurog, Vidor, Fleming, LeRoy and Cukor 1939) a girl dreams of leaving home to make her life easier, but it is only after she left that she realised how important family is and that it could overcome anything if faced together with the ones she loved.
Exposition To provide information about the situation in order to understand complicated plots. (Pavis 1998:135)
The start of a plot, when the background information is given. (Pandey 2005:89) Bella speaks during the intro in “Twilight”
(Hardwicke, C 2008) to inform the viewers of her situation and where she is heading. Thus, she is providing the information needed to understand her circumstances.
The novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, deals heavily with the concept of the American Dream as it existed during the Roaring Twenties, and details its many flaws through the story of Jay Gatsby, a wealthy and ambitious entrepreneur who comes to a tragic end after trying to win the love of the moneyed Daisy Buchanan, using him to dispel the fantastic myth of the self-made man and the underlying falsities of the American Dream. Despite Gatsby’s close association with the American Dream, however, Fitzgerald presents the young capitalist as a genuinely good person despite the flaws that cause his undoing. This portrayal of Gatsby as a victim of the American Dream is made most clear during his funeral, to which less than a handful
...on materialism and social class. While novel is widely considered a zeitgeist of the time period, it is also a warning for the American Dream. Although the Dream is not Marxist materialism, it is certainly not traditional individualism and freedom. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby poses a question: what is the American Dream?
in order for the ideological infrastructure of a film to be successful, it must abide by
Literature has been portraying the idea of the American dream in many different stories throughout all of history. This dream can be defined as someone rising from the bottom and finding wealth and love in their everyday life. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the storyline illustrates the life of several characters pursuing the American dream in New York City. The characters are all by intrigued Jay Gatsby, the man who lives across the bay with the biggest house in the city. Every person wants to gain the wealth that Gatsby has. The corruption of this desired American dream develops throughout the novel as the characters pursue love and money yet ultimately end up broken-hearted, empty-handed, or dead. During the time period of The Great Gatsby, the empty and superficial way of life was masked by the glamour and wealth that the people were absorbed in.
It is a common mis-conception that films are merely entertainment, and serve no other purpose than to provide for the viewer a two-hour escape from reality. This is a serious under-estimation of the power, purpose, and potential of film, because film, upon reflection, revea...
F. Scott Fitzgerald penned The Great Gatsby in the midst of the Roarin’ Twenties. It was a period of cultural explosion, rags-to-riches histories, and a significant shift in the ideals of the American Dream. Fitzgerald’s characters all aspired to fill an American Dream of sorts, though their dreams weren’t the conventional ones. In the novel, the American Dream did a sort of one-eighty. Instead of looking west, people went east to New York in hopes of achieving wealth. The original principals of the Dream faded away, in their place, amorality and corruption. The fulfillment of one’s own American Dream is often marked by corruption, dishonesty, and hope.
The American Dream is defined as the improvement of one’s self while obtaining such things as love, wealth, status, and power as one reaches the top. The dream has had different distinctions throughout the years but keeps the bases of a desire of something greater. In the past century, the ideology has transformed into the idea of owning a big house with multiple cars and a bank full of money as the indication that you have “made it.” In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author navigates his readers into a life filled with gregarious parties and extravagant cars when a man named Nick meets the untouchable Gatsby. Unable to move away from past, Gatsby devotes his life to acquire wealth and status in order to reconcile with the love of his life. The characters in the novel attempt to define their happiness with materialistic objects but the author demonstrate the truth by illustrating the illusions of the American Dream.
“As real as it seems the American dream is nothing but another calculated scheme.” (Tupac Shakur). The ideologies behind the America dream appear to be fun and ascertainable when in reality they are nothing more than in intricate plot to distract people from the real issues in America. In the Great Gatsby many characteristics of the American dream are present in most of the characters, the ones focused on in this essay are Tom Buchannan and, Jay Gatsby. Dreams and longing for unrealistic things are two surfacing themes in the Great Gatsby and in the 2011 film ‘Midnight in Paris’. Is it possible to obtain everything you want in life or is it just not conceivable?
Auchincloss, Louis. “The American Dream: All Gush and Twinkle.” Reading on the Great Gatsby. Leone, Bruno ed. San Diego: Green haven Press, Inc., 1988. Print.
The American dream has an inspiring connotation, often associated with the pursuit of happiness, to compel the average citizen to prosper. In Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby’s infatuation for Daisy drives him towards wealth in order to respark his love. Due to Daisy’s rich background, the traditional idea of love became skewed because of the materialistic mindsets of people in the 1920s. In the novel, the wealthy are further stratified into two social classes, creating a barrier between the elite and the “dreamers”. Throughout the novel, the idea of the American dream as a fresh start fails.
Oscar Wild once said, “The truth is rarely pure and never simple” and he is right. But no matter what the outcome is, or how complex the truth is, we will always strive for the truth. The concept of truth is no stranger to film documentaries, and one filmmaker that certainty was aware of that was Dziga Vertov. During the 1920’s Vertov created a newsreel series to promote the concept of ‘Kinopravda” which translated to English mean “Film truth.” Unfortunately, Vertov was ahead of his time, and this concept disappeared along the filmmakers’ path. It wasn’t until the 1960’s that other filmmakers around the world once again recognized the importance of the truth. Two movements with the purpose of revealing the truth of life, emerge in different parts of the world, Direct Cinema in North America and Cinema Vérité in France. Although, both had the same purpose, their approaches towards getting the truth make them completely different. Cinema Vérité’s approach gave the filmmakers a chance to manipulate and distort reality by participating and observing at the same time, while Direct Cinemas approach was strictly observational, and there is no better way to find out the truth than observing without interfering.
F.Scott Fitzgerald 's 'The Great Gatsby ' display what our society call the American Dream of a vulnerable gain of money, and fabricated fantasy Each main character in the novel leads a binary life, one in which they appear successful, and thus joyful, and one where the financial success is inappreciable, and yet they are happy.
The American Dream is a recurrent theme in American literature, dating back to some of the earliest colonial writings. Benjamin Franklin, who is considered to be the epitome of the self-made man once said, “The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself” (Franklin). Furthermore it is the belief that every man, whatever his origins, may pursue and attain his chosen goals; whether they be political, financial or social. However, the composition of the American Dream transformed as America changed. Gradually, individuals became fixated with affluence. The right to pursue happiness was still permissible, however; many persons began to believe their right was to pursue money. In the modernistic novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald unveils a unique expression of the American Dream, where effortless wealth and diminished social values exemplify its corruption. The novel entails a story of the disillusioned love between a man and a woman. The main character of the novel, Jay Gatsby, who stands for his nation, imagines...
To understand the subjective ideation of film scripting, one has to consider the various possibilities of changing a section of a scene. There are innumerable po...
How do movies affect our brain? Is the movie culture directing our thoughts in a certain path? Do movies change our behavior? Do movies carry a certain message? Perhaps a warning? These are all questions that we don’t normally give much thought to when we watch a film. However, it is important to employ our critical thinking skills when we analyze a movie we just watched.