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Character Analysis - 3784

Posted by cindy on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 , LABELS: | comments (0)



film: "Psycho"
director: Alfred Hitchcock
character: Marion Crane

Marion seems to be an ordinary woman, although when she has the opportunity she becomes a thief, stealing one of her boss' client's money and escaping.
From that on, Marion seems to be in a constant battle with herself, which shows her double-side throughout the film.
The mis-en-scene helps the viewers to see her double-sidedness:
- once she wears a white bra, and another time she appears wearing a black one
- her reflection in mirrors
- her attitude, being nervous after the theft, especially talking to police

Her own battle ends when she decides to come back and return the money, do the right thing. Although she finds her end at the Bates Motel without the chance of making up for her previous mistake.

Week 10 : GENRE

Posted by dr.dray on Monday, January 24, 2011 , LABELS: | comments (2)



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.

CINEMA EXAM
WEDNESDAY 9th FEB
1.30 - 3.30pm


Don't forget to study!! Or else I will be seeing you again next semester! =] =]

- Dr Dray

Sicko

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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


Michael Moore's sarcasm is absolutely entertaining and smart. He doesn't say out loud the healthcare system in US is awful, but he drives his viewers to that conclusion showing facts and other people's opinions and tragic stories.
By going to other countries for a comparison, he definitely doesn't need to say anything else.

My highlights were:

*The 22-year-old woman who is considering to marry her Canadian "friend" for free healthcare, and the fact that at the end, Michael Moore left a website for Americans willing to marry Canadians for the same reason .
There's a HUGE "business" in US which non-Americans pay thousands of dollars to marry an American so they can be granted a Greencard and live the American Dream there. Well..they sure don't think about healthcare until they actually need it.
I once met a family in US who knew about my plans to come to Australia, they were very excited for me! And they confessed Australia was in their plans too if the healthcare system doesn't get any better...
To be honest, I don't know how the healthcare is here in Australia...should I be so worried for getting sick as I used to be in US? I could never enjoy snowboard, one of the reasons was I couldn't afford having any broken arm or leg (which happened to a friend of mine while snowboarding there)

*9/11 rescuers finding the solution of their lives in CUBA! Seriously, that was the best part considering all the history between the two countries!
Michael Moore does have many enemies, but that's what you got for showing the truth.

I finished Sicko wanting to watch all other Moore's documentaries!




2063_Character-Analysis

Posted by Jo = Yoel on Monday, January 17, 2011 , LABELS: | comments (1)



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")

3414_charactor_analisis

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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

Posted by dr.dray on Saturday, January 15, 2011 , LABELS: | comments (0)



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)

Posted by Vicky Tang on Thursday, January 13, 2011 , LABELS: | comments (0)



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

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SALT: Character name : Evelyn Salt ( Angelina Jolie )
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

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 , LABELS: | comments (0)




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.

Harry childlike man with glasses, he was an ordinary boy but he want to protect his community. when he have a beard. We find that he will grow up with us. He is not a save the world star .he is a One of the people who is our Harry.

3807_Character Analysis_Iron Man

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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"

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Olando Bloom played as Drew Baylor, he is a protagonist in this movie. He is the designer of the world famous shoe product. Anyway, the shoe of his designed made a company ruin and the company of shoe product will lost the money over a billion dollar.
Personality of character
Drew Baylor is always blame himself all the time and look the world in negative way after he made his company ruin. His personallity ike a man who repeat thinking the mistake that he did all the time until one day he found the woman named Claire(Kirsten Dunst) and this woman can change the way that Drew look the world to the positive way.

3587_character_Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman

Posted by Hyeonjin on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 , LABELS: | comments (0)





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

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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.

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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

The leading actor Will Smith is my favorite movie star. I love his movies so much. He is very popular movie star in China. Besides, he also a very famous singer. So he is a talented people. His movie has more than 30 from 1990 to present. The most popular of his movie are "Bad Boys","Independence Day", "Men in Black","Enemy of the State","Wild Wild West"and so on. He always a funny and handsome actor in the film. In his life, he also a funny and friendly. Therefore, he has a lot of good friends.

3820_Character Analysis_Oh Dae-su (OLD BOY)

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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

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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.

Over all we can see megamind is a sensitive, not confident, insecurity person due to his childhood background but actually and basically inside his heart he wants people just give him chance to prove himself, to build up his confident and love him more. Anyway he is successful.

3518 Laura Character_Kill Bill

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I want to talk about the Bride in the Kill Bill Vol.1. She is a killer, a pregnant woman, an avenger, Bill’s woman. She has multiple identities. In the beginning of the movie, she hit the deck, Bill and the other teams members are beat her and final Bill shoots her. In that scene, she is a pregnant woman; also she is Bill’s woman. She wants have a peace life, at that time, she just wants marry a normal man, she just want her baby can have a normal life like other kids. She wants give up the killer. But when she wakes up at the hospital, she is not a pregnant woman anymore. She lose her baby, at that time, she is a killer again, also becomes an avenger. Finally, she finds all the team member who hurt her before and she kill them. I think she is a great woman.  

3466_Lyn_Character

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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

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Legolas
From : The Lord of the Rings
Legolas is one of the fellowship. He has got white skin, white hair, beautiful keen eyes, I can see brave and intend from his eyes expression, and we can know that he is elves because of his ears. It looks like triangle shape. In the movie he always has a bow, arrows and a long white knife. White color is represented in his role we can obseve from his cloth and in the movie he always come with high key lighting. White color represent goodness, pure and fresh. If we watch the movie we also see he has celestial ear. Why he got that talent......................................?
Because he is the son of Woodland. (I just know that now) ^^
In the movie he is in a good side. He has to protect Frodo from danger. His performace stand for ethic, moral, and brave.

3531_xueli_Character Analysis

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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.