While watching HARRY POTTER or LORD OF THE RINGS, we notice that these characters are not dressed up like every day people. In fact, they are dressed very different that what you would see someone walking down the street wearing. What about in western movies when you see people dressed up as cowboys or in…
Transitions in Film
Transitions in film are the way one scene continues into the next. Most transitions are simple and fast to make the audience not even realize that they occur. Some examples of transitions include cuts, dissolves, fades, and wipes. Good movie editors will use different transition methods and are really good at knowing when and where…
Colorization
Colorization is the process in which a movie (or photo) is edited from its original black and white to color. The films are digitized and put into a computer program that allows the colorist to see the all the different colors of gray. They are then able to color each frame individually using a palette…
Who is Alan Smithee?
An Alan Smithee Film is when a director seeking anonymity on a film, will use this “Alan Smithee” in the credits. This can happen for a number of different reasons. It can happen when the director control has been tampered with and then the director no longer wants to be associated with the complete film….
Traditional vs Nontraditional Relationships in Movies
For this assignment I viewed two very different movies from different time periods and explored the portrayal of traditional (heterosexual, similar age etc.) vs nontraditional (nonheterosexuality, age differences etc.). The first film was The Graduate which was released in 1967. My second movie choice was Being John Malkovich (BJM) which was released in 1999. Both…
Goodfellas vs. The Godfather
Movies made in the 70s and later pushed boundaries and quickly progressed the evolution of film. Each genre of film was revolutionized by a few certain films and for the crime/mob genre, the first major success was The Godfather. The Godfather was originally a nonfiction book by Mario Puzo that didn’t receive the greatest reviews….
Blazing Saddles & Charlie and the Chocolate Fatory
Blazing Saddles(1974) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(2005) are movies that are very unlike each other and were released over 30 years apart. Blazing Saddles is a comedy/western while Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(CATCF) is a fantasy/adventure/comedy. Both have great and successful directors, Mel Brooks and Tim Burton, who did a brilliant job on the…
Blazing Saddles vs. The Jungle Book
BLAZING SADDLES is a have-to-see film. Why? Because there isn’t one dull moment. The movie has everything from comical aspects as well as action aspects. The movie’s theme was the “wild west” under the auteurs rethinking genres title. The film was released in 1974 which does not correspond to the theme in the present day….
The Shining vs. Schindler’s List
These two films were released in order to have a strong affect on the audience. In order to accomplish this, both of these films use the common theme of evil. However, the types of evil are very different. In The Shining, the evil is more spiritual and paranormal while in Schindler’s list, the evil aspect…
Breathless and The Graduate – a new take on Romance
“Breathless” and “The Graduate” at first glance appear so drastically different from one another. Made ten years apart from one another, in different countries, and one in black and white, one in color, there could really be no similarity between the two, right? The reality is that both of these films are still today looked…
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