MAJOR WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT: TOPIC TWO ESSAY
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Introduction:
In film, drama is the most diverse of genres with many subcategories such as crime drama, comedy drama, romantic drama, and historic drama. Dallas Buyers Club directed by Jean-Marc Vallee and The Imitation Game by Morten Tyldum both take on the role of historical and biographical dramas. This is due to the fact that both films are set in the past to tell a story and through the perspective a certain important person in history. The purpose of a drama film is to touch on realism of a central protagonist and the people that he/she interacts with, to touch on social issues mostly and go in depth indirectly through a character’s encounter with the issue(s). The genre mostly
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The technique of using real characters help the director make for a more realistic film and connect with the viewers in this way. The ways in which the films enforce realism is through scenes, dialogue, and cinematic techniques such as in both movies the lighting is nothing abnormal and changes naturally with the time of day and with other variations. Natural shadows are also shown in the films to which the lighting seems to only come from windows or other natural light sources. Dallas Buyers Club touches on the true issue of AIDS in the 1980’s in particular the protagonist Ron’s journey with the disease and selling illegal medication for other people in need. The legal issues in which Ron faces with the selling of medicine it makes for very real complications of his situation. The death of the protagonist and supporting protagonist in the film, Rayon and Ron, inflicts realism of the disease that is being combated and makes the small triumphs factual instead of greatly satisfying. In both films each character is greatly limited to what they can achieve compared to what they wish to achieve due to legal, social, emotional, and other genuine day-to-day issues. Another difficulty that characters are presented with is sexim, Rayon because of his transitioning …show more content…
These social issues are most commonly shown through the protagonist’s direct encounter(s) with the societal problems. Ron, in Dallas Buyers Club struggles with the SDI AIDS and is constantly scrutinized for it and disowned by his co workers. When little was known about the disease during this time and socially it was known as a ‘gay disease’, which is generally known now to be false. This causes frustration from the viewer that the government and people around the protagonist are not understanding his efforts to help others affected by AIDS. The government’s lack of interest in the help of the people suffering in the film creates a link to the issue of big companies and their addiction to profit putting money before others. In both films as mentioned earlier strongly touch on the realism of sexism during the times that the works are based on through protagonists and supporting protagonists. Alan in The Imitation Game is limited to what he can be at the ending of the film due to his homosexuality, and ends up taking his life because of the scrutiny he faces. As a relation to present times it urges people to be more accepting of the LGBT community. In both films the rise against government is a strong thematic device to make relations to the viewers world. There is constant problems with government around the world in present times and using it in
The concentration is on comparing and finding the changes that history made to this movie genre, especially considering the gender roles. Results will clearly explain the psyche of society in two different periods, which confirms that people reflect the movies as movies have an impact on people. The Introduction It is often said that the element of surprise makes the movie more interesting and leads the plot. There are many masters of storytelling
Pleasantville is a movie about two siblings who find their true colors with the help of others. David and Jennifer fight all the time, and when they fought over the TV remote it broke. Out of nowhere a TV repairman gives them a special remote, allowing them to be teleported into David’s favorite show Pleasantville. Pleasantville takes place in the 50s and is a black and white program. There everyone is happy, life is simple, and there are no conflicts.
The crime scene at the beginning of the film, for example, used a low angle view to show the body floating from underwater. Low key lighting is often represented when scenes are shot inside Norma’s home. The interior shots are also tightly framed shots with extreme camera angles it gives off a depressed, claustrophobic environment. In the exterior shot, the scenes are in high key lighting and use realistic lighting to give off a lively atmosphere that Joe does not experience while inside the home.
Mise-en-scéne is crucial to classical Hollywood as it defined an era ‘that in its primary sense and effect, shows us something; it is a means of display. ' (Martin 2014, p.XV). Billy Wilder 's Sunset Boulevard (Wilder 1950) will be analysed and explored with its techniques and styles of mise-en-scéne and how this aspect of filmmaking establishes together as a cohesive whole with the narrative themes as classical Hollywood storytelling. Features of the film 's sense of space and time, setting, motifs, characters, and character goals will be explored and how they affect the characterisation, structure, and three-act organisation.
These novels were both at different times, but both can show how easily things can change. A history class turned cult and a man’s life was changed because of his curiosity. People who questioned anything in both these novels were shunned in different ways, from exile to a killer man hunt. There was shown how power can be evil and too much power is good for nobody. Also, to question what is going on, to not go with whatever you are told to do and do not obey.
The audience learns in the films how fear, suspicion, and prejudice can have tragic consequences. The main story line of both films is that a group of neighbors falsely accuse each other of being an alien, like they do in the 1960 film, or a terrorist, which they do in the 2002 version. Chaos quickly erupts and violence breaks out amongst the mob. Neighbors turn against neighbors, and in the 1960 episode, someone ends up being shot dead. The 2002 version has its characters burn down a house.
They are different in their setting and point of view. Similar in their protagonist, antagonist, and theme. They both are two very great books that teach readers about the tragic history. Most people are too caught up in their electronics these days that they don’t get to learn about what happened in the real world. They worry too much about if their friends or crushes text back, they don’t worry enough about what their family had been through in times like slavery, civil rights, wars, and the Holocaust.
The two differences will be the censorship and casting(characters). Let’s take a look at the details of some of the similarities and differences. The play and movie share many common details. Both shared the same author.
In the end, the novel and film had differences, yet both were able to portray the theme of prejudice, the theme of radical
O Brother Where Art Thou? is a film that will take you on a perilous journey with Ulysses Everett McGill and his simpleminded cohorts. This film may be set amidst the early 1930’s Great Depression era, but it still has a Homer’s Odyssey feel to it. Down in the dusty and highly racial south, Everett recruits a couple of dimwitted convicts, Pete Hogwallop and Delmar O’Donnell, to help him retrieve his lost treasure and make it back home before his wife marries another suitor.
Poverty and deprivation of many kinds is a very serious problem, not only in the United States, but also around the world. In a study in 2014, forty-seven million people living in the U.S. were considered to be in poverty; that is fifteen percent of its population . Poverty and deprivation is a serious topic that everyone should be aware of; if you are not aware of a problem,how are you going to fix it? You can find examples of this topic in almost every where; From books and movies to your everyday life. The most common known definition of poverty is economic poverty, but there is also social, emotional, and spiritual poverty and deprivation.
To what extent does the nature and form of a film and literature influence what is or is not presented as “reality?” How do we define what is considered as realism and what isn’t?In the world of realism we find ourselves engulfed in an attitude of living in the moment. By this I mean in regards to realism, we deal with situations as they arise. We do not plan or fabricate or use emotions; we use logic. We see this realism prevalent in Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground.
Death of a Salesman has been extremely influential in regards to theatrical performance and it has been performed by multiple different theatre groups. It has also been made into a movie, which has actors such as Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman, John Malkovich as Biff Loman, and Kate Reid as Linda Loman. All of these actors’ performances were true to the character and were extremely realistic. It was easy for the audience to get caught up in the characters that these actors portrayed. Throughout the movie, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, and Kate Reid all provided an outstanding performance by ensuring that their facial expressions, body language, and emotions always shined through all the while they were creating realistic characters that were easily believable by the audience.
Adversity in “The Intouchables” “My true disability is not having to be in a wheel chair. It’s having to be without her.” (The Intouchables). Lines like that are just a piece of the great undertaking directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano took when they decided to be part of The Intouchables.
Wall Street “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works, greed clarifies—cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all its forms—greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge—has marked the upward surge of mankind” (O. Stone). In 1987 the by Oliver Stone directed movie Wall Street was released, starring Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen.