Most commonly, in movies the main character is a protagonist who the audiences ends up rooting for during the film. However, there is an exception to this general film strategy called an antihero. An antihero is a protagonist that doesn’t usually act noble or well mannered. This unconventional character also creates for some debate among…
Category: Fall 2017
Students writing in the Fall quarter of 2017.
A Hard Day’s Night vs. Bonnie and Clyde
Even though they were released in the same decade, A Hard Day’s Night (1964) and Bonnie and Clyde (1967), these films are as different as they come. A Hard Day’s Night is a French New Wave film and is considered to be a B-movie. It’s basically a film that promoted the music of The Beatles with a splash of slapstick…
BONNIE AND CLYDE vs. JOURNEY TO ITALY
People are walking down the street to see a new movie poster that displays two average people face to face, romantically looking like they’re in love. Poster that previewed JTI…Mislead The pedestrians are intrigued in the poster and wonder what the movie is. The movie is JOURNEY TO ITALY. Why would people be so excited…
Music in Pixar Movies
Music in movies is extremely important; It sets the tone, pace, and mood of the film. Without music, a movie would seem bland and its scenes wouldn’t affect the audience as much. Music usually plays in the background of a scene and most of the time the audience doesn’t even realize that the music is…
New Wave Cinema
Rashomon is a legend in film. It was a low-budget movie that tells a narrative of a murder in the perspective of four witnesses. It was received well, winning awards for Best Foreign Film and Best Directed Film. What made Rashomon so great was not only the unique style of telling different sides to the…
MacGuffin
What is a MacGuffin? A MacGuffin is going to be an object, person, or event that the characters in the story value greatly and normally the plot is surrounded this object. However, by the end, we see that it doesn’t have any real significance what or who it is and is mainly used to push…
Neorealism
I found a movie review of one of my movie choices, The Bicycle Thief, that includes an excellent summary of the movie style Neorealism. I find this video review to be very credible as it is from a professional movie reviewer A. O. Scott from the New York Times. This video review is dated March…
B-Grade Movies
What is a B-grade movie? According to the article from Wisegeek.com , a B-movie is movie with a low budget that tends to be a little on the cheesy side. This is a valuable resource because it helps me understand why the camera quality was that way or why the acting wasn’t the best. A…
Rack Focusing
Many movies try to grab your attention to certain things but not all the time does it work. Maybe someone will be trying to find an escape in a room and the camera focuses on the vent or maybe someone lost something while getting ready for work and they can’t find their brush and the…
Film Analysis Resource: Breaking the Fourth Wall
One of my absolute favorite cinematic techniques is when a character breaks the fourth wall, essentially stepping out of the film to bring the audience in on a secret or an inside joke. Though this technique has a storied history, being used in many films over the years, it could be argued that none have…
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