Charles Foster Kane

commotion. Still naked from their first night of union, Joth peaked outside the leather tent flap. “What did we miss?” he remarked. Rinka pulled him back inside. “Can’t the war wait a few more minutes?” she teased. “I like to have you inside me once again.” Joth returned a loving smile and then threw his tunic over his head. “Oh, how I’d like that but I think something really important is happening.” She shook her head and returned the smile. “Oh, go ahead,” she sighed.…

James Horner: Some of the best movies made today are so great thanks to the advances in video production technology and special effects. However, one of the biggest contributors to a successful motion picture is the soundtrack. The soundtrack to a movie sets tone for the action on the screen and has the ability to truly enchant the audience, creating an emotional stage of relativity between the movie storyline and the audience. We recently lost one of the greatest American composers of such a…

Both Citizen Kane and The Great Dictator are widely considered to be among the best films of all time in their respective genres. Orson Welles’ masterpiece may very well be the greatest drama film ever created, while The Great Dictator became Charlie Chaplin’s magnum opus and was the most anticipated motion picture of its time. Although there are many explanations as to why these films have withstood the test of time, the cinematography and artistic choices by Welles and Chaplin stand out as a…

The 1987 film, Empire of the Sun directed by Steven Spielberg, was a very well put together film in a way that everything was put together in the end of the film. Spielberg connected a lot of things that viewers saw in the beginning of the film to what viewers saw in the end of the film. In this film there is a major relationship between some sort of a caretaker model and a young child in need of care. This relationship develops between Basie and Jamie. Throughout the film, I feel that Basie was…

Film is one of the most creative form of art that exists, and it is huge in this generation. The ultimate image we see in a movie frame comes from a trail of artistic decisions that had to be made by the director to give meaning to the story. For this paper, the opening scene of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises will be analysed. The paper has the following order: an explanation of what needs to be considered to analyse a movie, a brief explanation of the important elements of…

Hamed Rashid 201216504 COM 321 Lawrence of Arabia critique COM 321 Lawrence of Arabia Hamed Rashid 201216504 COM 321 The movie is a masterpiece movie directed by David Lean have won seven Oscars, its one of the most epic movies listed in Hollywood. An adventure of a western British officer Thomas Lawrence, Showing his way of helping the Arab win their case against the Ottoman Empire at that time World War I. Theme - The main theme of the film is it’s…

Exit Trough the Gift Shop The film ‘’Exit Through the Gift Shop is a documentary of street art that focused on the two street artist, Banksy a secretive artist who never revealed his identity, and Thierry Guetta a French immigrant from Los Angeles whose passion is film making and became an overnight sensation. Before gaining Thierry’s fame as an inspiring artist he became Banksy’s guide in Los Angeles when he need somebody to help him find walls to do his art, a film documentarist, and an…

Mirdjine Marius Professor Bennett ENC 1101 08/1/15 Requiem for a Dream and Malena Malena and Requiem for a Dream were two films I watched they were both released in the year 2000, which they are completely two different films. There are a number of reasons why either films would have been chosen over other films reason being it includes storyline, the affect it has on the viewer’s point of view, have actors or actresses, and what they bring to the viewer attention. One more…

Quentin Tarantino’s work of director as a DJ Reservoir Dogs is Quentin Tarantino’s first film as a director and it became really huge. The film was made partly by reappropriating Ringo Lam’s film City on Fire, but it was better than City on Fire and became a classical one. While Ringo Lam’s film City on Fire was a typical Hong Kong feature film which included gangster loyalty, cops’ infighting and beauties, Reservoir Dogs was more like an artwork, a masterpiece. It jumped out of the threadbare…

The Goddess (1934) is a silent film made by Wu Yonggang, a well-known Chinese director in the 1930s. Hailed as “a masterpiece of ‘the first golden age of Chinese cinema’”, the film marked not only Wu’s directorial debut, but also “the pinnacle of [Ruan Lingyu’s] career” (Harris, 128). Ruan’s “mature, nuanced performance”, which was “subtle but at the same time powerful and rich”, proved to be a major factor in the movie’s success and lasting impact in Chinese cinema – even inspiring Hong Kong…