In terms of captivating children, few things work as well as dinosaurs. These 65-million-year-old movie stars were cemented in the minds of countless children with the 1993 film Jurassic Park. I was one of many whose dinosaur craze began here, when new-age special effects collided with the brilliant mind of director Steven Spielberg in what…
Apocalypse Then, and Now
My first memory of Apocalypse now came from a young age, on a night where my father was left in charge of me and decided that a pre-teen should watch this film. I would be lying if the nudity and ultra-violence didn’t stand out as I was young and had not experienced that kind…
1965 – When The Evolution Started
From the Great Depression, Vietnam war, Women Rights movements, deep economic crisis to landing a man on the moon and from being shot in a single scenario, narrated linearly, without ellipses or time jumps, without close-ups,without adequate technology to creating Fusion systems and 3-D cameras, cinematography has responded to moments of change and turmoil in…
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…
Pursuit of visual experience: Films from 1965
Film is the product of people’s pursuit of the ultimate visual experience, which always stirs the emotions of the audience. Since 1965, a series of changes have taken place in world movie industry driven by the New Wave movement. There has been a great change in form, style as well as storytelling. However, the constant…
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…
Rediscovering Hollywood
“No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.” Arthur Erickson. Since the rise of the film industry in the 19th century to the present day, a dream world reflected the individual minds of society. Resembling any other art some…
The Relationship between Society and Film
Since 1965, films have grown significantly in a few key ways. Technology has grown with the invention of colored film and CGI. Films have blown up on a global scale, reaching people everywhere instead of just in America. Movies have changed to show a more complex point of view in society, both nationally and globally….
The Race of Gender, Racial, Global and Meaning
Movies have changed dramatically since the 1960’s. The one difference that didn’t go unnoticed while taking this class is technology and meaning. After watching the different movies from this class I’ve seen more be about money than meaning. As the years got further into the present I noticed that the movies were becoming more about…
Why We Watch Movies: An Analysis on How Films Have Changed.
Take a look at the following clip from the 1959 film, The Room at the Top: The audio quality is poor, the camera work is shakey and the film contains two whole colors: black and white. Compare this to the following clip from the 1994 film, Forrest Gump: The audio quality is clear, the cameramen…
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