"Every second of every day you are faced with a decision that can change your life. The difference between life or death can be decided in a split second" (IMDb). Run Lola Run is an excellent 80-minute German film written/directed by Tom Tykwer and edited by Mathilde Bonnefoy that has a four part "What if" style genre. The movie just throbs with kinetic energy mixed with a case of Monster Energy Drinks. It is so fast-paced that it is like a roller coaster that is unstable with each twist and turn. Run Lola Run will captivate your mind and spirit with beautiful and free form flashes of anticipation, panic, passion, desperation, hesitation, fear and fervor that when all combined is quite invigorating and will significantly exhausts its viewers. The formula editor Mathilde Bonnefoy uses to manage the complex rhythms in this film not only dazzles viewers with the pacing, but it also maintains an extensive focus on what Lola is doing and why she is doing it.
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...
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In conclusion, Run Lola Run is an excellent film that incorporates phenomenal editing and music. If a viewer were not dazzled by this film one would be very surprised because it is a very compelling and breathtaking. The formula editor Mathilde Bonnefoy used to manage the complex rhythms in this film will not only dazzle viewers with the pacing, but it also maintains an extensive focus on what Lola is doing, why she is doing it and what of importance is happening in the film.
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IMDb. Run Lola Run. 21 04 2011 .
Run Lola Run. By Tom Tykwer. Dir. Tom Tykwer. Perf. Moritz Bleibtreu, and Herbert Knaup Franka Potente. Prod. Stefan Arndt. Sony Pictures Classics, 1998 (Germany) & 1999 (US).
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In the book Always Running written by Luis J. Rodriguez we meet the author at a young age, We accompany him as he grows into the Veteran gang lifestyle. Throughout the autobiography, Luis, a young Chicano who survived ¨La Vida Loca¨ in South San Gabriel gives voice to an unheard cry and illuminates the cycle of poverty and violence of gang wars. His families instability and the discrimination they received due to their ethnicity gives him a desire to hurt others and seek understanding in a deviant way. Rodriguez speaks on many of the issues we still see in our Latino communities today, The lack of resources; financially and emotionally. He narrates his own internal and external battles to gain respect, belonging, and protection.
The idea of free will or the ability to manipulate one's own fate is a concept that many people struggle to define. Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1998) depicts the interaction between the concepts of fate and free will by portraying the way one situation can be affected by minor differences of similar events. The episodic journey of the main character Lola suggests that fate can be altered through choices made as a result of character growth.
I have discussed how Francis F. Coppola exploits a wide array of audio and editing techniques to create suspense, tense, and anxiety in the sequence to affect the audience’s feelings. Despite the simple fabula, this multifaceted film requires certain intellectual involvement and efforts of the audience to grasp fully its underlying meanings and subtle nuances.
Dynamic characters are built by dynamic movement in film. Whether the character is sitting down giving a lecture, or is a ballerina dancing on stage, character are born through movement. Movement in emotion, or physical, a characters action and re-actions are what draw audiences into their story. The characters in the movie Take the Lead gain power through their character transformations through dance, their movement on the dance floor directly impacts the way they carry themselves through life. In this paper I will explore three scenes, each scene will show different levels of progression in each character’s life, and I will show how the characters gain more power in their own lives the more successful they become with the movement of dance.
novel. "...Jim running slower to stay with Will, Will running faster to stay with Jim"(18).
If nothing else before has motivated the slothful to take up an active lifestyle, perhaps the promise of a natural high will finally lure couch potatoes away from the tube and into the gym. For years, long distance joggers and runners have reported feelings of euphoria replacing the pain of physical exertion caused by long bouts of exercise. This euphoria gives them a feeling of effortless movement and has become a mythical goal known as "the zone." (Goldberg 1988) This speculation of the existence of "runner's high" has even inspired a legal controversy - in 1992, a jogger who was hit by a car brought a lawsuit against the driver. The driver's attorney claimed that the jogger had acted recklessly when crossing the intersection where the accident happened - euphoria brought upon by an extended period of exercise was responsible for giving the jogger a false sense of invincibility. (Shephard 1992)
...elp convey this story and present themes and motifs central to the understanding of the film. Mise-en-scene, shot and editing, and sound are among these elements. The film form in Wendy and Lucy contributes strongly to the sense of realism that it leaves with the viewer.
Written and directed by Tom Tykwer, the story follows Lola, as she makes three different, twenty-minute, “runs” in an attempt to save Manni’s life. First, Lola tries to borrow the money from her father’s bank. This run ends, but the film reverts back to the opening scene as Lola refuses to die. In the second run, she robs a bank to retrieve the marks. But, Manni is in a fatal ambulance accident, and so the film returns to the start again. Finally, Lola obtains the money at a roulette table. Similarly to Oedipus, Run Lola Run, in its exploration of free will vs. determinism, supports the compatibilist view. This philosophy holds that free will can coexist with determinism, without being inconsistent or
Pathfinder, The. Dir. Donald Shabib. With Kevin Dillon and Graham Greene. Leather Stocking. 1996. 84 min.
The Kite Runner. New York: Riverhead, 2003.
Run Lola Run, is a German film about a twenty-something woman (Lola) who has 20 minutes to find $100,000 or her love (Manni) will be killed. The search for the money is played through once with a fatal ending and one would think the movie was over but then it is shown again as if it had happened ten seconds later and changed everything. It is then played out one last time. After the first and second sequence, there is a red hued, narrative bridge. There are several purposes of those bridges that affect the movie as a whole. The film Run Lola Run can be analyzed by using the four elements of mise-en scene. Mise-en-scene refers to the aspects of film that overlap with the art of the theater. Mise-en-scene pertains to setting, lighting, costume, and acting style. For the purpose of this paper, I plan on comparing the setting, costume, lighting, and acting style in the first red hued, bridge to that of the robbery scene. Through this analysis, I plan to prove that the purpose of the narrative bridge in the film was not only to provide a segue from the first sequence to the second, but also to show a different side of personality within the main characters.
Lost in Translation (2003), a film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, tells the story of two privileged Americans in Tokyo: Charlotte, a young photographer’s wife and creative soul, overcome by ennui, searching for inspiration; and Bob, a once-relevant actor past his prime, working as a high-paid whiskey spokesman and struggling through a mid-life crisis. Besieged by jetlag, Bob and Charlotte are out of their element, forced from the unchallenging pattern of their daily lives, leaving them vulnerable and ripe for change. Displaced, alone with their insomnia, questioning their choices in life, they transform a fleeting connection with each other into an intimate bond that allows them to discover a direction, and ultimately, the ending of the film implies, rediscover a passion for life.
Editing is one of the most important things in now only a film, but in any project. If people don’t edit, then little mistakes slip through. Parallel editing is used in the scene from Inside Out. Parallel editing is when two scenes alter between each other because of a connection that they have. This is also called crosscutting or intercutting. An example would be the fact that the film was switching back and fourth from the scene where Riley was talking in the classroom to where her emotions were trying to see how they could solve whatever was going on. One shot would show the emotions playing a joyful memory and then the next shot would be Riley talking about that memory with a joyful look on her face. This also happened in the shot where the memory became sad and then it showed Riley becoming sad as she talked. These go back and forth with each other because they have a connection that helps keep the story moving along. By using different editing techniques, the film not only looks better, but becomes more believable in a
The narrative movie that I choose to analyze for this assignment is If I Stay (2014; Director: RJ Cutler). This movie is about a high school cellist, Mia Hall, who is in a car accident that leaves her in a coma. The story unfolds with Mia realizing that she is having an out-of-body experience and has to make a tough decision to return to a life that will never be the same. Throughout the movie we are switched from current time with Mia in a coma, viewing everything from her out-of-body experience and flashbacks prior to the accident where Mia narrator several segments.
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.