them. The movies where the main character is a perfect human is something we dream to be, not something to relate to. Having a character to relate to helps us get involved in the movie. Martin had a way of making the characters seem real, like they are actually part of society. Raging Bull featured an altogether different type of violence. With it being a boxing movie, the bone-jarring hits were designed for visual effect rather than a shock. We knew there was going to be violence in the movie, so to make it good, he had to make the violence look awesome and hardcore. Goodfellas is more down Scorsese's alley. It focused on the lavish lifestyle of those in organized crime. There was brutality and violence in this film because there had to be, …show more content…
2017). Close up Static shots in the beginning show that Ray Liotta is for sure the main character in the film. Then comes the narration, which makes the audience feel as if they are being spoken to directly.Not only does it makes the audience feel like they are being spoken to, but they feel like they are tracking the thoughts of a certain character. Such as when Henry and Jimmy are walking down the street, and JImmy asks “Do you think Morri tells his wife everything?” Henry replies with “Morrie, Him?” Right here is when the frame freezes and Henry does a voice over. There is also a freeze frame in The Wolf Of Wall Street, with the hectic image of Leonardo Decaprio in a crazy crowd of people. Now it is worth noting that that freeze frames themselves are not what make the scenes good. It is because of the smooth transitions into the next scene from the freeze frame that makes these scenes effective. Some movies try the freeze frame effect and it is nothing but corny, and it is usually annoying, but that is not the case with Scorsese's films. Freeze frames also get a bad reputation because some people claim that it is just a “cover up for lost footage.” The use of freeze frames is another reason why Martin Scorsese's is an Auteur, he makes it work. By speaking to his audience, he is able to create a relationship with them, which in turn keeps them more engaged and interested in the …show more content…
He is arguably the best Auteur in the film industry so far. His attention to detail, and obsession over perfection is what makes him great. He holds himself to such a high standard. Not only can he be considered a cinematic genius, but he knows how to get people to do what he wants. In film, having the vision is only half of the battle. The other half is much more difficult. Think about a group project for school. The quality of the end product is not all in your hands. It is also in the hands of your collaborators, and Martin Scorsese's is a master at getting what he wants out of his assistants. He has always had a love for movies, as he was often slumped up on a couch watching movies because his asthma restricted his activity. After earning his degree from New York University, he started making movies and his career soon took off. After that, he soon became an Auteur, as he put his unique stamp on each and every movie that he made. He is known for being very meticulous while making movies, and his movies often have a gritty violence to them, but in an artistic way. He makes his movies in such a creative and beautiful way, he makes everything look artistic. He is a master when it comes to violence, freeze frames, and other great camera angles. Having said all of the information and insight discussed, he is looked at by many people as the most important Auteur in film
Goodfellas is based on the life of Henry Hill, a member of an organized crime family of Italian descent that continues to have strong ties to Italy throughout the movie. As the movie begins, an old car drives down a highway as the bumper and New York license plates are shown. It seems as though the flickering streetlights are representative of the lights of a large city fading in the distance. Two men watch as a short man makes the observation that they need to finish killing a mutilated and bloody guy in the the trunk. Tommy, the short guy, stabs the man with a butcher knife mercilessly in a way that would make most viewers cringe. It becomes clear that this is a movie about street level gangsters in the ‘70s. The protagonist, Henry Hill begins by narrating his life as a teenager, stating that he “always wanted to be a gangster.”
...o in nature and crimes are committed because these men find thrill in it. Unlike the calculated violence of The Godfather, in Goodfellas, Tommy DeVito killing a young waiter named Spider over nothing shows the rough, unstable, and volatile life many gangsters truly led. Neither of Henry Hill’s originally redeeming acts of loyalty, getting arrested for selling cigarettes as a teen and going to jail with Jimmy for beating a man, all the while telling the cops nothing, matter. This is because when Henry’s life is truly on the line at the end of the film, he caves in and gives away everyone he had ever worked with. Whereas Scorsese worked to create a more frantic and realistic portrayal of the gangster lifestyle than the romanticized version of mob life that Coppola created in The Godfather, both films at their core focus on the violence centered on the mafia lifestyle.
I will analyse some of Tarantino?s influences in Reservoir Dogs and his trademarks (he?s got such a distinctive style in directing, that you can just tell a film is made by him by just watching a couple of scenes of any movie he has made).
What could be a better summer box office hit than a film about women hitting the road, rebelling against society and undergoing a complete metamorphosis in the process? On the surface, Thelma and Louise comes across as a typical chick flick; yet, its a movie that takes on many lifeforms and interpretations. The most fascinating criticism of the movie is whether or not Thelma and Louise go insane. Thelma and Louise's actions govern the central ideas of the movie: Freedom, women vs men, and an internal metamorphosis precipitated by the open road. These overarching themes offer justification for the women's behavior, thoughts and beliefs and answers the three main questions that offer insight into whether the women go mad: Are the two violent because of their experiences, or are they simply on a “man-hating” journey? Do Thelma and Louise have boundaries? Why did the two drive off the cliff? As the answers to these questions are divulged as the movie progresses, Thelma and Louise become symbols of strong, driven, sane women who discover themselves by removing domineering men from their lives and women who create their own destines.
When the news reports a shooting, I start to panic and worry for the victims involved. I don’t typically start to wonder about how long the shooter was active and for how many minutes, so when reading the FBI Active Shooter report I was shocked to have found out most shooting happen within minutes. The report states “In 64 incidents where the duration of the incidents could be ascertained, 44 (69.0%) of 64 incidents ended in 5 minutes or less, with 23 ending in 2 minutes or less.” Leaving many civilians in dangerous situations because by the time a law enforcement officers arrives the shooting will stereotypically be over. I find this fact very unsettling because civilians rely on law enforcement officers to keep them safe, but not even law
Grand Theft Auto 5 is a game that was released in 2013 by Rockstar games. It was one of the most popular games released that year. While it is recognised in advertising that sex sells, in the world of video games it is violence that sells. The violent themes of Grand Theft Auto 5 include assaults, killings and torture and these are made realistic by the flawless graphics. Grand Theft Auto 5 is one of the most controversial games to have ever been released because even though it has a rating classification of R18+ it makes its way into the hands of many younger players via parents, siblings or friends. There are serious concerns that exposure to these violent themes will have effects on developing brains. Grand Theft Auto 5 and games like it actually cause violent behaviour, desensitises users to acts of violence, it causes some users to view the world as a scary and violent place and possibly most concerning is the fact that exposure to violence in games gives users the appetite for viewing further violence.
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Becoming the actor’s director is not an easy task, and doing just that was no joke for him. In Goodfellas, the club scene with Joe Pesci and the rest of the mobsters is great to analyze for a strong emotional performance out of an actor. Throughout the film, Pesci’s character is a rather “funny” comedic inclusion to the mob. Taken directly from the film’s script, the following quote by Pesci emphasizes very well how he tried to mess with other characters through his personality, while also keeping a completely straight face. “You mean, let me understand this … cuz I … maybe its me, maybe I’m a little fucked up maybe. I’m funny how? I mean funny, like I’m a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I’m here to fuckin’ amuse you? Whattya you mean funny? Funny how? How am I funny?” Scorsese would direct actors in the film to time their dialogue accordingly to create more suspenseful
The movie “Good Fellas” is the ideal definition of what the Italian mob use to look like and the operations of organized crime. The movie is based upon a true story and portrayed the daily lifestyles of what we perceive real gangsters to have lived. There are various myths and stories of what actually went on during the early Mafia days with organized crime, but this movie does an excellent job at exemplifying what we believe to have happened. The mafia family portrayed in the movie was filled with both Sicilians and Irish men; the Sicilians were the only members who could be “made”.
The Kite Runner addresses the grim reality faced by children in Afghanistan. Ongoing violence has resulted in many cases of death in children or their parents, turning the children into orphans. The Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood observes that the size of orphan populations is affected by societal marriage practices, as well as environmental concerns such as war, famine, or epidemics (Brunet). Violence has greatly lowered the quality of life for children in Afghanistan, especially in regards to healthcare and education. The country has an extensive number of child victims each year due to the constant fighting. Hosseini includes this tragic aspect of life “[Farid] lost his two youngest girls a few years earlier in a land mine blast just outside Jalalabad, the same explosion that had severed toes from his feet and three fingers from his left hand” (Hosseini 230). Such conditions described in The Kite Runner continue in modern Afghanistan. When children in the actual Kabul Orphanage were interviewed, sixteen year-old Nurullah said “Conditions are not at all good
Patriotism is a complex and complicated concept. Sure we all feel that inexplicable love for our land. The same love motivates us to fight until our last breath to whoever attacks her, but who dictates which is the best way to defend ones country? How should a person show his devotion and unconditional support to his motherland? What would happen if ones way is not the same as that of others? The most important thing for me is being true to ourselves; fighting for whatever it is we believe is correct. No matter how different our opinions can be regarding the defense of our country, no one should have the right to impose their way using violence. As we saw in the documentary “Two Days in October,” police should not have treated students who were passively protesting like criminals.
The setting of “ Lord of the Flies “ is important because it takes Ralph, Piggy, and the other boys in that island outside of the very society of which the novel critiques. Only by taking the boys from the imperfect society and placing them in a paradise, like the biblical Eden, can the author assert that such flaws as violence and intolerance are natural, not societally born; however, this does not explain the evidence that they can be and often are societally influenced. The boys had still been raised for several years in that society, and by different parents with certain positive attributes and also imperfections. In order to truly prove the natural quality of violence in them, they would have to be untouched by society from birth, which
Martin Scorsese had many favorite filmmakers but the most influential upon him were Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangeo Antonioni, and Federico Fellini. Black Narcissus was a film that greatly inspired Martin and he implemented many of their unique techniques into his filmmaking.
The use of violence within literature typically causes much dispute and controversy, and critics often accuse authors of romanticizing such atrocities, and Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange was not spared of any criticism that often claimed that his work further desensitized an entire generation from the brutality of violence. This infamous novel takes place in a bleak, totalitarian society, and the protagonist Alex often spends his nights committing ‘ultra-violence’ with his droogs, and is eventually arrested for murder, and forced to deal with constant dehumanization by the State, as a result of his aversion therapy through the Ludovico Technique. This classical conditioning was an act of violence that the government attempted to use to
Martin Scorsese truly captures the film with his evocative directing where he often use slow-mo camera shots and dark, eye-wielding camera angles to capture the decay of New York City. Scorsese is in top form with his directing where he makes the camera use as a viewpoint of Bickle¡¯s character or as a third party watching Bickle¡¯s descent into paranoia and madness. Even with the film¡¯s final act whe...