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Week 10 : GENRE
Hi all Cinemaaa students!
Last week, we looked at the types of main genres, and the sub-genre categories as-well.
Just a note: Remember to only choose ONE main genre when answering a question in the exam. Do NOT put a sub-genre as your answer. Only if it asks you "What is the main genre and sub genre for this film?"
We saw the film Requiem For A Dream, which is a psychological (sub) Drama (main).
This movie used alot of new techniques of filmmaking - including a reverse POV and experimenting with high/low speeds.
Don't forget that your Assignment 2 is due this weekend! Latest submission on Sunday 11:59pm!!
This is also the final week you are watching a movie, as next week we are preparing for your Cinema Exams.
WEDNESDAY 9th FEB
1.30 - 3.30pm
- Dr Dray
Sicko
I'm impressed..! In the beginning when it shows the guy suturing his own knee, I thought it was the kind of movie I wouldn't be able to watch it (if it was all about injuries, stitches, open bruises..). I'm glad I did! Even gladder for not having to see those things again along the movie
2063_Character-Analysis
Monkey D. Luffy
the main protagonist of One Piece. He is a pirate that is inspired by another pirate when he was small by the legendary pirate captain, "Red-Haired" Shanks. His father is a Revolutionary Army's commander, Dragon, and he is grandson of the famed marine, Garp. Also He has foster brothers, the late "Fire-Fist Portgas D. Ace and Sabo.
His goal is becoming a pirate king and find the legendary treasure called One Piece that is left behind by the pirate king, Gol D. Roger. He travels with his 8 crew. Each of the crew has bounties that is put by the world government. Total bounty for them is 800,000,050.( = their money currency "Beli")
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I am legend
Director:
Francis Lawrence
Writers:
Mark Protosevich (screenplay), Akiva Goldsman (screenplay), and 3 more credits »
Stars:
Will Smith, Alice Braga and Charlie Tahan
Robert neville is the manin character form the movie"i am legend"
whole movie about to revange the moster that been plague that has infected everyone around him, concentrate to undterstand the plague elements aim to save them to return to human, and save the world.
Independent:
Neville is only one humanbeen in newyork city. he need to fight by himself that mean is no backup, no help, no second chance.
Clever:
Neville still live in his old house(the place he has love) alone. he used his house to protect him and build institute under the house.
As the story progresses, he begain to fight these moster very close, and this is the turning point in this movie.His courage to face challenges,His brave to face challenges.
He Eventually defeated the enemy, or he died.
find out!!
second ending:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-rJsnXsgMo&playnext=1&list=PLD79A6975267D00E0&index=32
WEEK 9: CONTEXT & EPISTEME
Good day students!
This week we watched the classic 1989 hit, Do The Right Thing directed by Spike Lee.
Here is a video clip with Spike Lee 20 years later after the release of DTRT:
Next movie will be Requiem For A Dream, directed by Darren Aronosfky. Exams are coming close, so don't forget to download the weekly lecture slides for your notes!
Hope you had a great weekend!
- Dr Dray
PS: FIGHT THE POWER!
3615_roman holiday character analysis(Audrey Hepburn)
in movie roman holiday, princess Ann embarks is a very pretty and wish to get freedom, she hate something like public raletion everyday what she do. But one night she escapet from the Palace, so she begin her beautiful journay. before leaving palace, she didnt have coffee in street coffee shop, she didnt walking in the rain day, she didnt do angthing she wants. but now, journalist joy helps finish her wish, so princess feels so happy. But princess didnt know, her friend, journalist just wants to write a report about her to make money. during they are together, princess was so pure and trust joy and treat him as her good friend, they dance in the dance party. journalist is influenced by princess and fall in love with her. when joy send princess to palace, they kiss each other deeply. return to palace, princess become more strong, she know how to refuse count's question, and more independent. after press conference, princess shake with each journalist, including joy, they look each other and tears in their eyes.
2873_Charactor_Analisis
The heroine is a brave and stouthearted personality.
When she was young she lost the love of her parents, she was trained to be a cold-blooded SPY,
just only know finish the task, later she got married and get her husband’s love.(she become affectionate)
She endure unjustly , she face on chase by her colleague who highlighted the danger before , but also need to take into account the duress of her husband’s life safety. And shoulder the responsibility of national honor and is the test of her mind. In this heavy pressure, what is the emotion of a female SPY performance will be? This will be the need for actress’s performance to the audience the things to watch for : Not only the skills of a high strength, and rich emotional female SPY.
Harry Potter character analysis 3570 Rock
He is fifteen years old that is a thin and black-haired boy. His jet-black hair, however, was just as it always had been: stubbornly untidy, whatever he did to it. The eyes behind his glasses were bright green, and on his forehead, clearly visible through his hair, was a thin scar, shaped like a bolt of lightning, just as suddenly a short time overstating the children. He attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to learn magic under the guidance of the kind headmaster Albums Dumbledore. Harry also discovers that he is already famous throughout the wizarding world, and that his fate is tied with that of Lord Voldemort.
Many people thought he was stupid because he was living by the sacrifice of others. However, who do not want a reunion of good living, but Voldemort did not choose him .he is a simple kind of man who was even more sad when people die that he rather sacrifice himself than watch other people suffer. He loved his family and his friends.
3807_Character Analysis_Iron Man
Mr Stark.
Who don't know this guy. He was Tony Stark or iron man like we know in iron man movie.
Tony Stark is played by Robert Downey, Jr. In this movie he is the head of Stark Industries.
The rich man that don't care about anything and he was playboy also. Later he was attacked and being kidnapped by the afghan terrorist when he go to Afghanistan for a demonstration of Stark's new weapon. The Afghan terrorist make him to make a missile for them. During that 3 months he and Dr. Yinsen secretly build a crude suit of armor powered by a miniature arc reactor. After he escape from that place he realized that his industries was the one that created a weapon of war and being used by terrorists. Tony Stark then decided to shut down the weapon manufacture and he make himself to be a weapon by being an iron man. That he believe can bring peace to the world.
3787_character analysis Olando Bloom in the movie "Elizabethtown"
3587_character_Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman
Scent Of A Woman – Frank Slade (Al Pacino)
Frank is protagonist in this movie. He is a blind, old, retired soldier from U.S Army, has twisted mind, has narrow relationship with others but, honest and romantic which means that he has untypical character but it is hard to hate him. Since he lost his eyesight, he also lost his motivation to keep living his life. However, he has couple of dreams for his life so he decided that he would finish his life after he achieved his dreams but he met Charlie, another protagonist, who is hired by Frank’s relatives for thanks giving holidays to take care of him and Frank start to his special journey with him through his performance in the movie, we can see what is life, what is purpose for living one’s life, and so many things on.
3524-yueli- character analysie
Jake Gyllenhaal played as Prince Dastan in Princes of Persia the sands of time. In this movie he is the youngest of the three Princes of Persia who learns about the powers of the Dagger of Time. He serves as the protagonist in the film. Dastan was a courageous orphan rescued by the king of Persia, and raised as a prince. 15 years later, his two brothers and their uncle Nizam (Ben Kingsley), lead an attack on the sacred city of Alamut. When the king is murdered, and Dastan framed, he comes under ownership of a dagger that can turn back the sands of time. The dagger belongs to the princess Tamina , who teams up with Dastan in a quest to return the all-powerful dagger to the Gods.
Personal detail
Name:Will Smith
Nickname: Fresh Prince Mr. July
Born: 25 September 1968 (Age: 42)
Where: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Height: 6' 2"(1.88 m)
Awards: 2 Oscar nominations, 4 Golden Globe nominations
Date of birth: 25 september 1968, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Occupation: actor,rapper, film producer, record producer, television producer
Years active: 1985-present
3820_Character Analysis_Oh Dae-su (OLD BOY)
OLD BOY (2003)
Director: Chan-hook, Park
Main Character: Dae-su, Oh
Dae-Su is kidnapped and thrown into a locked room with no windows and only a television set for company. As the weeks turn into months, he works out, trains himself and tries to find a way out of his cell, slowly going insane in the process, especially after learning that he has been framed for his wife's murder while imprisoned.
He tries to kill himself on several occasions, but when he gets too out of control (or just needs a shave and haircut), he is gassed unconscious by his unknown captors.
Oh Dae-Su occupies his time with teaching himself to fight, shadowboxing in his room and exercising to keep himself in shape.
The acting is excellent all round, but the character of Oh Dae-su, played by Choi Min-sik.
In a pivotal fight scene, Dae-Su fights his way through a hallway full of gangsters armed only with a hammer, which Park shoots with a single camera following him from one end to the other without a single edit.This shows his strong body and mind and shows perfect character in this movie.
character analysis---megamind 2486 yinzhi
Megamind is a aline who has super power n is sent to earth by his parents who he is still a baby.He has a big blue head and small blue body. He is a bit unlucky because the location he lands is a prison compare another super baby called metro man who is sent to earth at the same day with him. Here it is a big turning point they have different education ,are risen by different people , these all make people have different attitude to them. People like metro man dislike megamind because metro always save and solve the problems those megamind make.Thats why at the begin of this movie all the people will think that megamind is a bad guy but actually he is not. After finishing the whole movie i just only can say his bad is just naughty. He turns to be naughty because he wants get peoples' attention, he needs someone to care about his feeling and he needs to be loved. He beats with metro man because he feel he wanna get peoples' attention, i can say he just a bit give up on to be a good guy.He does not think people will like him anyway and also he feels longly we can see from after he wins metro man and controls metro city. He just realizes these are not what he wants. Finally he just be himself the rest part of movie because he get encouraged by his lovely lady, he is trust by. Here it is a second turning point he becomes good guy not naughty anymore.
3518 Laura Character_Kill Bill
3466_Lyn_Character
character: Max
From whith movie: Mary & Max
Max is autism. He is easy to nervous, he hates people litter. He can not recognize the human emotion from people’s face.
He likes chocolate and noble (TV program). And because he eats a lot of chocolates, he is fat and his doctor asks him to go to the club, talk to others and lost weight. But that would makes him nervous, and he eats lots and lots chocolates to clam himself down…bad recycle.
Besides, he is kind and happy living in his own life.
Also, he loves himself. Not narcissism but he thinks positive with his life. He would not hate the life or hate himself although he is autism. He accepts his weakness, he thinks weakness is part of our human being, we can’t choose. But we can choose the one to be our friends.
He writes letters to Mary, his pan friend, for over 20 years. And he care about this friend very much.
3621_Mirinda_Character Analysis
3531_xueli_Character Analysis
Character Analysis
--Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson have Bright and frank personality, and her don't decorate your attitude and expression, her is very simple and clear person who want to be independent strongly, and her don't so much rely on others. She is filled with generous, have a charm creating warm humanity, people gather around you automatically. Very generous and her does whatever she can for someone. And Scarlett Johansson is relied by others, or you care for the junior or younger in many times. Since her is a self-confidential person, must have no doubt for successful your act. She thinks that your own thought is more than the other's one. Her never don't hear the advice from others, and sometimes her become disobedient, overall, her is a good actor.
character analyse _3498_ApriL
Billy Elliot is a 2000 British drama film written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. Set in the fictional town of "Everington" in the real County Durham, UK.
The film is set during the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike, and centres on the character of 11-year-old Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell), his love of dance, and his hope to become a professional ballet dancer. Billy lives with his widowed father,older brother, and his invalid Nan, who once aspired to be a professional dancer. Both Jackie and Tony are coal miners out on strike.
Jackie takes Billy to the Sports Centre to learn boxing, but Billy didn't like the sport. He is instead ballet class . But Billy Elliot's father and his older brother don't support him in pursuit of his dream to become a ballet dancer.
With the help of a local ballet teacher who secretly takes him under her wing, Billy persists and his talents as a ballet dancer develop impressively.
Finally,Billy face to his father and let his father know that how much he loves of ballet. And he finally become a professional dancer.
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3530 Shane Character Analyze
The movie
The main character is Takumi Fujiwara, but I'm not gonna analyze him. In my opinion his father is a key character in the movie.
In most of the audience he's a bad father who's without sense of responsibility. Smoking and drinking all the time and very randy even to his son's girlfriend-_- He also always beat his son and make him a introversion.
But actually he's very helpful no matter in the movie or out of the movie.
In the movie he's the trainer of Takumi Fujiwara. He trained his son in his own way to make him a really awesome car racer. Like when Takumi Fujiwara's TOYOTA AE86 is dead, he help him to fix it and change the engine to make it much more powerful.
There're also some detail to show he's really care about his son which is his smile! When he knows his son win the GTR, he smiled. When he know he'll race with FC, he smiled. And everytime he ask about the car racing knowledge, he always smiles. So we can see that he's bad temper didn't stop his son's way to be a succesful car racer.
Out of the movie, he's duty is make the movie much more funny. Everytime audience saw him, they know some funny story will happen. The second duty is to tell how awesome his son is. We can know much more information why Takumi Fujiwara is so powerful by he's phone call to the boss of the gas station.
Also when Takumi Fujiwara break up with his girlfriend, he seems like really care about that, that means he's a good father anyway. That's why I really love this character.
2586_Ivan_character analyse
Step Up 2: The Streets
The main character named Andie West, her big dream of becoming a street dancer.So she joins a dance crew called “410”,and it keep the title of the illegal competiton,The Streets. But her supervisor Sarah think that is a really bad for her .so she want to sent Andie to live with her aunt in Texas if she does not change. She get a audition for Maryland school. The crew decide to kick her out, then, she meet a good guy called Collins, he encourage her do not forget her dream. So she do not give it up, so she run her own crew, she have many good members in her crew, they want to beat the crew“410”.eventually, she win the competition, her dream come true.
Andie is a really brave girl, she knows what she wants. And never give it up, she believe that her dream will come true. So she effort to practice dancing .she is really nice girl, and she is very easy-going, every body wants to make friends with her.
3501_Monique_Character Analysis
my character_3081
My character is an animation character. Her name is "Chibi Maruko-chan"due to her younge age and small size. She lives together with her parents,her grandparents and her elder sister in a little town. In school, she has many friends and plays together everyday.She is a naive girl and likes to have a day-dream.She is lazy and always does some funny things.
Nevertheless,she still a goodness girl.
3508_character analysis
Jackie Chan
He was born in 7 April 1954. He is a Hong Kong actor, action choreographer, director, comedian, singer and so on.
He is known for his Kungfu which is acrobatic fighting style. And Jackie Chan has been acting since the 1960s. He acted more than 100 films. And he is entitled The Disciple of the Dragon. He also has received stars on the Hong Kong Avenue of Stars and the Hollywood Walk of Fame.( Dramatization and fame in Hollywood: 1999–2007)
Jackie Chan has a lot of nominations and awards. Such as Hong Kong Film Awards, Best Film for Rouge, Best Action Choreography for Rumble in the Bronx, Best Action Choreography for Who Am I, Professional Spirit Award.
3828_Character_Analysis
Kind of character
Describe Character
'Do The Right Thing' still resonates
Lee's character, Mookie, a black pizza deliveryman, stands between the crowd and the shop. He's shoulder-to-shoulder with Sal, the shop's Italian owner. They exchange looks of confusion, betrayal and regret.
The crowd stares at Mookie. He's on the wrong side. Mookie moves over to his brothers, rubs his face, wrestling with the weight of the moment. Then he decides.
"Hate!" screams Mookie as he hurls the metal can through the pizzeria's plate glass window. The dam bursts. The mob destroys the shop in a frenzy that was both inevitable and completely avoidable.
Much has changed since "Do The Right Thing" announced Lee's special gifts to the world. The police choke hold that killed Radio Raheem — a fictionalization of the real death of Michael Stewart in New York City — has long been outlawed. Life on the ravaged Brooklyn block where Lee filmed the movie has improved. Ronald Reagan has given way to Barack Obama.
"White people still ask me why Mookie threw the can through the window," Lee said in an interview. "Twenty years later, they're still asking me that."
"No black person ever, in 20 years, no person of color has ever asked me why."
Something new to say
That question is what made "Do The Right Thing" so explosive. Some writers speculated, erroneously, that it would incite riots.
"People were fearful of the backlash," said Rosie Perez, who played Mookie's Puerto Rican girlfriend, Tina. "A lot of things happening in the movie were happening in real life. People were afraid when the truth, although a little exaggerated, was put up on the screen for everyone to see."
Meanwhile, Lee got rave reviews from many influential critics. Roger Ebert cried after watching it at the Cannes Film Festival, where it lost to "sex, lies and videotape."
Audiences definitely were not prepared.
Most serious films about race, like "In the Heat of the Night," "To Kill A Mockingbird" and "The Defiant Ones," ended with understanding or even brotherhood. And for every ambitious movie like "Watermelon Man" or "Black Like Me," there were a half-dozen violent, sexy ghetto shoot-em-ups — "blaxploitation" flicks.
Lee had something new to say. "In just three feature films," critic Gene Siskel wrote then, "Spike Lee has given us more genuine and varied images of black people than in the last 20 years of American movies put together."
Today, Ebert says "Do The Right Thing" should have won the Oscar for best picture. "It was so honest about the way people really feel," he said via e-mail. "No hypocrisy. It generated grief and left us with a central question of American society."
The best picture of 1989, according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: "Driving Miss Daisy," about the friendship between a white Atlanta woman and her black chauffeur.
It ends on a Thanksgiving in the 1960s, with the chauffeur feeding Miss Daisy a piece of pie.
The trash can almost stayed on the curb. Paramount offered Lee the biggest budget for his film, but executives there wanted to change the ending.
"They just couldn't understand why Mookie throws the trash can through Sal's window," said Hollywood veteran Tom Pollock, who gave the film the green light when he was chairman of Universal Pictures. "Quite honestly, I didn't understand either, until it was explained to me by Spike."
Pollock agreed to give Lee creative control. After the film was done, Pollock only had one problem. At the time, the movie ended the morning after the riot, when Mookie visits Sal at his burned-out shop and demands his $250 salary for the week.
"The movie offered no hope whatsoever at that time," Pollock said. "All I said at the time was, 'This is a really powerful film, but we can't go out of here being totally depressed that there is no future for this country in terms of race.' "
Lee responded by adding two quotes at the end. The first, from Martin Luther King Jr., preached nonviolence: "The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind." The second, from Malcolm X, advocated self-defense against "bad people" who block racial progress: "I don't even call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence."
"It got misconstrued that it had to be either Dr. King or Malcolm," Lee said. "It was never meant to be that you had to pick one or the other. These are the two most prominent African-American leaders of the 20th century, and they both wanted the same thing."
Buggin' tries to organize a boycott, but his black friends have no problem with Sal or his wall. He finally enlists Radio Raheem, whose enormous boom box blasting Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" has offended both Sal and various black residents.
Twenty years ago, amid racial battles stoked by everyone from Lee Atwater to Tawana Brawley, Lee's film seemed like another salvo. Today, the smoke has cleared, revealing a less contentious world, but one where many of the issues raised by "Do the Right Thing" still resonate.
3489_character analysis
Character analysis
Joowon Kim
He is the main character at Korean drama that is ‘Secret garden’.
He’s the CEO at the biggest department store in Korea. He is intelligent and rich.
He is being sarcastic to treat anyone around him.
He seems to be a little bit selfish but when he is on work, his self-esteem is really remarkable.
He always asks people who need to get his signature. “Is that the best? Are you sure about that?”
And he is proud of himself, he uses these phrases. “If you know who I am, you will see that you cannot treat me like this, or you will be really sorry to me.”
He cannot get into the lift, even though the building is too high. He walks on stairs.
When he was 21 Y.O, he got an accident in a lift. After that time, he is not able to get on the lift. If he does, he cannot breathe in there and he will not make it.
He tends to say, “As a higher position of social leader, I am helping poor and abandoned people. I’m educated like it”
He looks little bit cold. He tells little bit rude way. He does not show his real thought or mind to any others, but we can see his real mind is warm.
3511_debbie_Scene analysis
Scene Analysis
I would like to take something about Lost in Translation. The scene which I’m going to analyze is the last few minutes of the movie.
Scene about the leading people is going to be separated to each other. The man sitting in the car saw the girl the crowdy street, and then he came out to the girl. They hug, kiss and talked a little bit, then left each other in the street.
At first I would like to talk about the Mise-en scene.
In this scene, the first attract us is the crowdy main street. Many people, shops, busy traffic. The man can see the girl from inside car, it tells us they are the two people that are so special, so secluded from this city. And shows that the girl is so important to the man. The car using here I think also shows the difference class between the man and the girl. He is at the high class of the society, but not the girl. It can be told the position is not that important in their relationship.
The actors here are mean to perform how the strong feelings they want to let each other know. The hug here is the best way to express the emotions. The time at the last they go away to their Owen worlds, they were both smiling coz they already got what they need, the understand between each other.
Sound at the first is the crowdy background. Its like the leadings are so separate from this city. They do not care about what ever happen around them but each other. Then some music came out when they said goodbye to each other then turn around. the music keep going to the end of the movie. It is a kind of light music that tells us their mood at that moment both are good, even happy.
The lighting in this scene is normal. It is a simply fine story that can easily happen in any people's daily life. Coz almost all the people in the world do feel lonely in somehow case. It is like a real story that happens in a real world. So the lighting here just normal using the original color and lighting.
Then I am going to talk about the Cinema Tography.
In this scene many medium shot are used. And then they hug each other using the long shot. The long shot here take the leading actors inside and the background street. The camera focus them so that make background blur shows like there are only them two in this world however the world here is pretty much crowdy.
The camera movement in this scene used tracking. The camera follow the man actor from he get out of the car until he find and close to the actress. Then the camera turn around like from the actress's side to see the actor. Using these techniques to perform how is that and the process of their meeting each other. In the end of the movie, the man go back to his car with smiling on his face, the camera begin to move to the buildings, the scenery outside. To take around this modern city shows like the camera just follow the man's eyes sight to let us have a look at this city again. But this time is not feeling that lonely, instead, there seems like contains some special emotion inside. And the camera angle here used the low angle to take the big city outside the car. The main idea here maybe is to start with the man's eyesight to take around this city. And from the actor transit to the city stuffs through the man's eyesight as well.