Infernal Affairs Vs The Departed Analysis

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.

Although A Model of Christian Charity argues conformity leads to prosperity in a community, The Crucible and The Minister’s Black Veil urge people to avoid taking after society because strict enforcement of identical ideals results in ignorance and an inability to understand one another. The Minister’s Black Veil most effectively questions the significance of conformity because people in today’s world see their own society perfectly reflected in the social standards of town of Milford. The story starts off with, “spruced bachelors looked sidelong at pretty maidens, and fancied that the Sabbath sunshine made them prettier.” Hawthorne elaborates on how town of Milborn uses the Sabbath as a social event in order to also reveal the emphasis the town puts on materialistic and physical values. This parallels with today’s world because Americans outwardly say that what is on the inside matters while at the same time promoting models in order to define one’s worth.

The action of the play takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Puritans offer a wealth of background on the key religious movement. Things that puritans focus on are theology, their views on family and community, the balance between individual rights and one's obligation to others, and the extent to which public character should be shaped by private religious belief. Although, the Puritans left their hometown to avoid some of the hostility problems due to their religious and race beliefs. Puritans had a strong belief in the devil, and thought that Hell existed.

Individual voices challenge and disagree societal beliefs in many ways. The society in the story is indifferent and is can sometimes be really fragile because of all the events and is in some cases can be really brutal. Although the story does take place in the 19th century, it conveys the force of society through its setting in Salem, and the conflicts that arise. The characters in the story show societal beliefs through the making of masses and the opposing sides that were made through the development of the play. The use of the characters in the play help us identify the conflicts with each other and their society.

According to William Ernest Henley, an English poet, writer, critic and editor,“In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed”(Henley 2). Within William’s poem, “Invictus”, he elaborates on the idea that everyone will have to face challenges in their life at one point or another, however, it’s important to not let these hardships destroy their spirit. These ideals can be seen within many of life’s individuals, including the Jewish Prisoners, Elie Wiesel, and Eva Kor as they take these factors head on, and channel them. For instance, the novel, Night, written by Elie Wiesel, illustrates the way the Jewish community was able to come together for survival

“He did not smoke, and of course he did not drink; indeed, he had never tasted spirits, and was inclined to avoid people who had—a circumstance that did not shrink his social circle as much as might be supposed, for the center of that circle was supplied by the members of Garden City's First Methodist Church,a congregation totaling seventeen hundred ,most of whom were as abstemious as Mr. Clutter could desire.’’ (10) ( Culture and Community ) Capote used this quote to illustrate the culture of the village of Holcomb, where Mr.Clutter lived and how the social life of a religious family is rooted in their church. This quote represents culture, because is trying to tell us that people in Holcomb should live a life according to their religion ,because their actions affect their social circle and their community.

He compares the social attitude of the 50’s as nearly one and the same as the social attitude of the Puritan society in The Crucible. So, therefore, character motivation in The Crucible was normally self-based and caused by negative emotions, as well as a literary interpretation of life in the McCarthy

In this paper I hypothesize that A Voyage to the Moon was most innovative in cinematography and editing. Although mise en-scene was the main focus of the film, I hypothesize that mise en scene wasn’t as innovative as the other two. As mentioned earlier, mise en scene made A Voyage to the Moon easy to understand and follow along. In the first scene of the film, this power

In a dramatic twist near the end of the film, Evelyn reveals that her husband’s mistress is a product of incest. Catherine, the woman she has gone to such great lengths to hide from Jake, is both her sister and her daughter. This revelation flips the narrative on its head. Suspicion turns to sympathy as we come to see her as a painfully vulnerable victim. Topics of this nature were never approached in traditional film noir cinema: “we see the film

They are set during the Puritan time period in which people were very concerned with sin. For example, in “The Minister’s Black Veil”, Mr. Hooper wears a black veil over his face which represents secret sin. He refuses to remove this veil and claims that “there is an hour to come when all of us shall cast aside our veils”(Hawthorne). This implies that everyone’s

This essay will discuss the uses, strategies and the meanings that are generated by editing in cinema. The films that this essay will be focusing on are Psycho and Singin’ in the Rain. Both of these films are very different to each other and therefore use editing in varying ways in order to give the audience a different perception of the characters as well as the setting that these characters are involved in. Psycho focuses on building suspense for the audience throughout the film using editing, camera work and sound. This essay will be primarily focusing on editing with the discussion of camerawork where relevant.

The play, The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller demonstrates the implications of a society in complete chaos over an irrational fear of witchcraft in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. Fear plays an immense role in the way people make their decisions, such as when the characters of Danforth and Mary Warren resort to hypocrisy when no other options remain. Danforth and Mary Warren both embody hypocrisy, as seen when Mary says she cannot lie anymore and then lies when she becomes scared for her life, and Danforth when saying lying will send a person to Hell, but then forcing people to choose between lying and death. Mary Warren exemplifies hypocrisy extraordinarily well in the scene when she and Proctor travel to the courthouse so she can confess that the girls have pretended everything and they never actually saw spirits.

1.d. Content: Miller is stating that the town of Salem was home to Catholics who extremely valued religion, and were also able to gain success through trade. 1. e. Significance: This quote is significant because it establishes the setting of the book, and the type of people who inhabit it.

Parallel editing was present in the film wherein it was edited in a way that two scenes were alternating to make it appear that they were happening simultaneously (Lorber, 2010). High and low angled shots were also present, and panoramic shots as well. The editing that I liked the most was in the scene when The Machine Man was made to look like Maria. The surge of electricity in this particular scene and the orbits going up and down The Machine Man was what amazed me. It is shocking that in order for this to happen, the people responsible for editing had to film this frame by frame so imagine the hours, days, weeks or even months that were put into this particular scene.

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity" "There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad Humanity may assume the semblance of a Hell." -Edgar Allan Poe A man whose life is still veiled in mystery even 150 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe, the father of horror and gothic writing, is a man that truly understands the meaning of tragedy and madness. Poe lived a life of continuous misfortunes, and in his writings he expresses a darker view on humanity, one example would be in his short story "The Tell-Tale Heart", a story about a man that desperately tries to convince the reader that he is a sane man, despite the egregious story he proceeds to tell; he goes on by walking you through the time he killed an old, innocent man.