King Kong, originally filmed in 1933, was a sensational film, as The New York World-Telegram stated, “This King Kong is one of the very best of all the screen thrillers, done with all the cinema’s slickest camera tricks” (Pitts 171). It has a position in film history that is somewhat irreplaceable for mainly its aesthetic…
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The Shining: What Drove Jack the Dull Boy Crazy? revised
The Shining is significant for many things. First, it contains rich themes, some of which are presented outright while others hinted at. For instance, many may argue that it is a film about classes, with Jack representing the failing, marginalized middle class while the hotel the ruling elite capitalist class. Secondly, it employs techniques and…
The Shining: What Drove Jack the Dull Boy Crazy?
The Shining is significant for many things. First, it contains rich themes, some of which are presented outright while others hinted at. For instance, many may argue that it is a film about classes, with Jack representing the failing, marginalized middle class while the hotel the ruling elite capitalist class. Secondly, it employs techniques and…
Bonnie and Clyde: A Couple Who Started New Hollywood Cinema
Bonnie and Clyde tells a simple story of a boy and a girl. They meet by accident and together they embark on a road of crime, robbing banks, teasing the police, and killing people. They keep running away, while at the same time picturing a peaceful life in the future. And eventually their bodies are…
A Norm-breaking Rebel: Godard’s A Bout de Souffle/Breathless revised
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard and released in 1960, A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) is a French crime drama film that started a new wave in French cinema and proved to be a milestone in the world history of films. Against a backdrop of the 1946 Blum—Byrnes agreements, under which quotas restricting the number of American…
A Norm-breaking Rebel: Godard’s A Bout de Souffle/Breathless
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard and released in 1960, A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) is a French crime drama film that started a new wave in French cinema and proved to be a milestone in the world history of films. Against a backdrop of the 1946 Blum—Byrnes agreements, under which quotas restricting the number of American…
The Shawshank Redemption: Now and Then
One of the central themes of The Shawshank Redemption is friendship. Viewers, including myself, viewed the film as a story told from a friend’s perspective. The audience, following Red’s narration, can learn exactly how his opinions about Andy changed—he first thought of him as a weak person, then doubted his beliefs, and finally admired his…
Good Will Hunting
When I first watched this film I was eleven and I watched it with my family. My family has always loved the idea of education and have consistently striven to learn and teach the rest of the family by encouraging us to learn as much as possible. Thus this movie about a genius kid is…
Films Through the Ages
The question is not if movies changed since 1965 but HOW movies have changed. Everything changes with time. The biggest change that has happened in movies is technology. At the beginning of this course, we started with watching films that were in black and white. The first movie that was watched during this course…
1965 to Now
The first movie ever made was in 1888. It’s hard to imagine that between then and now nothing has changed. A lot of aspects go into producing a film starting with the story line and moving on to technology and music selections. Our comparison however is not from the first movie made to now, it…
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