Fruitvale Station Essay

In classical Hollywood cinema, narrative follows a linear chain of cause and effects. The narrative is clearly structured with a beginning, middle, and end. There are a lot of elements that contribute into focusing on the narrative of a film. One of the most important element of a classic Hollywood cinema is editing by using continuity cutting. The goal is to make a cut invisible and is constructed in a way that does not draw attention onto itself.

After he was trying to recover from the beating he got from the Capitan, he heard someone else who was trying to talk to him, but he couldn't hear a word that they were trying to say to him, “All that remained was the image of an Aslan-like figure with golden eyes who kept trying to speak to him but Oscar couldn’t hear a word above the blare of the merengue coming from the neighbor’s house.” (302) He saw the that the mongoose was trying to talk to him, but with all the noise around him he couldn't understand a thing that the mongoose was trying to say to him. At the end when Oscar was about to give up his life he saw all his family in the bus and then he saw the mongoose who was about to drive, “They drove past a bus stop and for a second Oscar imagined he saw his whole family getting in the guagua, even his poor dead abuelo and his poor dead abuela, and who is driving the bus but the Mongoose, and who is the cobrador but the Man Without a Face, but it was nothing but a final fantasy. (321) Oscar went to the point where he didn't want to suffer anymore, so he gave his life up to end up all the suffering. He went back to the cane fields were him and his mother suffered and both saw the mongoose.

It is connoted by the film (and audience) that Emmy took a risk on hiring Oscar given his past incarceration, thus adding to his desire to be ‘good’ and regarded as so. The two-shot and dolly shot to aid in the understanding of Oscar as a character of his intention to revert to his unholiness of drug

Fruitvale Station (2013), written and directed by Ryan Coogler, is an American drama film that was based on the true story of Oscar Grant, an ex-convict who develops a strong-minded focus to get his life, job and family back on track for the sake of his daughter Tatiana, whom he desired to grow up and go to a private school. However, on New Year’s Eve, Oscar was fatally shot and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) officer and later died in hospital. Bride and Prejudice (2004), directed by Gurinder Chadha, is an adapted style of the classic novel; Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen. The film is a Hollywood based musical comedy incorporating and discovering the blend of Westernised and Indian cultures between an Indian farm girl

Station Eleven Essay Post-Apocalyptic novels are something I would have never picked up on my own, and after reading Station Eleven, I know that I was probably right in that choice. Because we don't know exactly what will cause the downfall of civilization, it's hard to know exactly what the environment will be like. In my eyes, Mandel’s vision of this world was almost too unrealistic. After reading Coming to Terms with the World of Station Eleven, by the Sociology and Anthropology professor, Robert Brenneman, I have realized that I am not alone in thinking this way.

The movie Candyman, is a mystery thriller film that was released back in 1992, which was directed by Bernard Rose. Set in Chicago, it tells the tale of a University graduate student (Helen Lyle) who, while investigating urban legends, stumbles across the legend of the Candyman who is a terrifying murderous supernatural being with a hook for a hand. (Candyman (1992) - IMDb. 2015.). The opening shot of the film demonstrates a flying shot of an occupied city, which pans after a street while cars drive around underneath.

One of those emotions is sadness, by showing what people go through during police brutality and racial profiling. You can also feel the helplessness Oscar went through as he struggled with money to provide for the rent and to take care of his family. For me it created a sad mood because I can relate to his story, by the way he struggled to pay the rent it made me think of the time my parents were struggling when I was small. It also created a furious emotion for me by the way the officers racial profiled because my uncle is African American and he been in that situation that he was racial profiled while being with my family which are Mexicans. Over the whole film the major emotions I received were sadness and anger.

Holden’s Struggle To Find Himself: Throughout the novel, The Catcher In The Rye, by J.D. Salinger, Holden struggles to find himself and who he truly is in order to be happy. His struggles relate to many things that he does or say in particular. Holden lacks with a social status with women and his family, whether it’s a relationship or being antisocial. Throughout The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield experiences the complexities and struggles involved with both physical and emotional relationships.

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.

“The Outsiders” is a novel written by S.E. Hinton. Originally Published in 1967, Hinton was only 18 when her novel hit the shelves. Instead of using her real name Susan Eloise Hinton, she used her initial’s so people wouldn’t know she was a girl making the book less desirable. The Outsiders is considered a cult classic and is typically assigned reading across the U.S. She always loved reading but did not like the books they had for young adults

Cinematography is critical to the success of any movie. Cinematography uses composition, lighting, depth of field, and camera angles to determine what the audience sees. Casablanca’s cinematography directs the audience’s attention, shapes the audiences feelings, and reveals the theme of the movie. Cinematography directs the audience’s attention and acts as the viewer’s eyes. The cinematography highlights Casablanca as a dangerous place filled with deception.

Fruitvale station is movie that tackles the stereotypes of racism, police- brutality and poverty all in the matter of 85 minutes. Based on a true story, the movie follows its protagonist Oscar Grant III in his final hours leading up to his death. Grant was brutally shot by police officers in Hayward California on New Year’s Day 2009. Fruitvale station depict his everyday life and centers around him and his family and the effects situations such as poverty, racism and police brutality can have on certain demographics. It also shows that sometimes all three are intertwined.

I chose this film because it showed how hard the union workers and families worked in fighting racial injustices, and because it inspired myself to move forward with strong ideologies and pride. 2. Stereotyping in mass media was an important concern of Chicana/o media activists because it imprinted a demeaning label by only casting Chicana/o actors with "minor roles: villains, sidekicks, temptresses, where their main function is to provide the protagonists, typically a handsome white

The audience knows that the shooter is going to kill Ray and through the use of cutting between the gun and inside the apartment the audience is left on edge until the very end of the move. The Coen were able to make an amazingly tense film with very little budget though their great use of

Topic Sentence Cinematography: Cinematography is the act and art of making a movie and in shutter Island Robert Richardson handled cinematography. Robert Richardson uses two main cinematography techniques to emphasizes the story telling, which is lighting and shot proximity. Evidence and Example: a. The lighting helps to create the mysterious and suspenseful tone of the film. Server low lighting aids in the creation of a dramatic atmosphere of a dramatic scene.