Film Essay

Nowadays, the film industry has become one of the most lucrative businesses. Production companies tend to create the perfect strategies to maximize profit while minimizing expenses; as in result, sometimes creativity is left behind if the cost is too high. Making a sequel of a successful movie often times seems to be the right choice in terms of investments, not only because the public has previous knowledge of the original film; therefore a reintroduction of the plot is not necessary, also the…

According to a study done by USC, “across 100 top-grossing films of 2012, only 10.8 percent of speaking characters are Black, 4.2 percent are Hispanic, 5 percent are Asian, and 3.6 percent are from other (or mixed race) ethnicities.” Moreover, the remaining 76.3% roles in these films were given to White actors. Whitewashing and misrepresentation needs to stop because, Hollywood and many other forms of media don’t bother with casting POC in movies. Hollywood gets praised for this, and the white…

actively enjoy them, or at least have a few films that entertain them. However, the value of film stretches far beyond entertainment. Rather intentionally or not, movies can be a great way to analyze the culture in which they were made. Therefore, they can provide an authentic window into another culture and even during another time. By analyzing the approach of two different articles in terms of structure, language, and reference style, the academic value of film in both of these professions…

When reviewing a film, it is a hard choice to pick which type of film to watch. The movies come in several different genres and a combination of genres. A film was picked for review and will be discussed below. The review of a film will include different aspects that were used to make the film. These aspects include the genre type, social context, sound effectiveness, cinematography, and editing. The review will also involve some other aspects as well including the meaning of the film, the…

difficult points using other views that are normally available to make it easy to relate and understand (Pasolini 212). In general, any film consisting of the life’s details is always interesting to watch, as audience can relate the events with the happenings around them. “In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out”…

directed and produced a short experimental film back home in a small town in Southwest China called “Eat Me.” “What is an experimental film?” my family and friends always asked me. I came to the United States when I was thirteen as a sophomore in a private Christian high school in suburb Chicago, and that is where I discovered my passion in filmmaking. However, by that time, I still had no idea what experimental films were all about. I was making films in an extremely sheltered environment, but…

1) This film can partially be viewed as a study of humankind. What new discoveries were the scientists who work at the caves making? How were they able to speculate about the possible lives that the original painters might have lived? The chauvet cave was founded by the three local cave hunters which is one of the most significant prehistory of art. The painting in the cave are the oldest painting in the world (32,000 years) as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life. Through the…

Film Noir, launched just before USA’s entry into the World War II and peaking during the Cold War, was a hybrid of glamour and grittiness, exposing a seamy underside of America during the mid century. Film Noir was cast with wised-up men and wordly women who might not have had the right answers, but certainly had all the right moves. More than often, they held mixed motives and malign agendas. The name ”Film Noir” was coined by french film critics whom, after the trade-blockade following the…

substitutes in for its incredibly stylish persona of John Wick, as well as a more than healthy heaping of high intensity, gut wrenching violence. On the other side of this twisted coin films such as Blue is the Warmest Color completely mesmerizes me with its incredibly raw and uncensored story telling, which most foreign films do exceptionally well. A miraculous blend of the arts, love,…

creating a film? The writer decides the characters and how they will react in different situations and their personalities. They also decide the setting of the movie and why a particular scene should be shot there. He also coordinates with the director and producer to accomplish the “what” in a given shot. A film director is responsible for developing a creative vision, which leads film to success. He is responsible for changing the scripts into wonderful shots. The responsibility of film…