Film Analysis of Juno There is no doubt that Juno is one of the best American independent films of 2007. The screenplay written by Diablo Cody ruins stereotypes and makes it hard for critics and audience to put a label of any particular genre on this film. It is neither a comedy nor drama, either a film for teenagers and adults. Juno is a heartfelt movie that is watched in one sitting. A colorful and multilayered story of a pregnant teenager named Juno has so many plot twists that it is absolutely impossible to predict how it may end. Juno caused a stir when it was released in the United States back in 2007 to positive reviews of both critics and mainstream audience and made Diablo Cody (the film’s glamorous screenwriter in a catchy leopard …show more content…
The film appeals to viewers of all ages, who are hungry for touching stories, in which people do not look like glossy mannequins on the runway or stereotypical Hollywood characters. On the other hand, some viewers accused Cody on the Internet by arguing that there are no such wise teenagers as Juno in reality with such attentive parents and faithful friends, but it is not the point for critics, who find that Cody’s story hangs together well (considering that the film won the Academy Award for the Best Original Screenplay). Moreover, there is no escaping the fact that Ellen Page, who plays Juno (a pregnant teenager, who is the protagonist of the story), rendered her character very well and had no small part in the overall success of the film. Ellen Page’s character, Juno, is a very sincere and kind-hearted teenage who gets pregnant from her school friend named Paulie Bleeker (who she is in love with). She considers having an abortion at first because she is only a sixteen-year-old student of a high school, but having visited a clinic, June decides to …show more content…
Her screenplay is really a cornerstone of the film’s success. Dialogues are full of salt; all events unfold in close connection to the individuality of characters, who take decisions; and, on top of that, all of the characters themselves are quite lively and creatively different. A film always reflects the inner world of its screenpwriter. On the other hand, although an audience might watch the same movie, every viewer perceives and interprets differently the symbolic meaning of presentational media used by a filmmaker, implications of a plot and actions of characters from one's own subjective point of view. It must be noted that a film is able to address the unconscious of a viewer directly via sound and visual effects and can affect a person in a much greater variety of ways than other forms of art like literature, music or painting can do. Thus, a conscious interpretation of a film by viewers might differ from their unconscious perception, which makes an effect that a movie may produce upon a viewer quite similar to the effect that a dreaming can have. As a matter of fact cinema is a bright illustration of a thesis, according to which a reflection of subjective reality in art is much more important than a portrayal of an objective reality. Cinema offers an audience a copy of the past
Sydney: This script has everything! Exceptional dialogue! Intricate plotlines! Dynamic characters! It´s sure to be a hit!
The purpose with this paper is to study and compare two different directors, and to compare and contrast the two different works. How are they working with their movies and how do they use mise-en-scene? By studying two different directors that uses different techniques when making movies, we are going to find out how important mise en scene really is, and how it affects the movie.
Juno is a refreshing movie about a rebellious young woman with a sense of herself and her place in the world. Written by the screenwriter Diablo Cody, the film stands as a corrective to all the mass-marketed teen movies that engage the tired, ideologically destructive story of inhumanity towards girls. Cody paints instead a portrait of a young person whose world is rocked, offering an ironic but warm view of her world’s minor calamities and major achievements. Juno resembles My So-Called Life for the 21st century, as Juno comments in her voice-over on her pregnancy and her plan to give the baby to a childless couple she finds in the local penny-saver. The slightly awkward situations deliver an affectionate, respectful view of a rather ordinary
Okja captures the lighthearted moments of friendship between a girl and her best friend while also exposing viewers to harsh truths, giving it a beautiful balance of fluff pieces and darker content. Despite film critics’ badgering for its genre transitions and supposed heavy-handed displays propaganda, the genre bending showcased
Run Lola Run, is a German film about a twenty-something woman (Lola) who has 20 minutes to find $100,000 or her love (Manni) will be killed. The search for the money is played through once with a fatal ending and one would think the movie was over but then it is shown again as if it had happened ten seconds later and changed everything. It is then played out one last time. After the first and second sequence, there is a red hued, narrative bridge. There are several purposes of those bridges that affect the movie as a whole. The film Run Lola Run can be analyzed by using the four elements of mise-en scene. Mise-en-scene refers to the aspects of film that overlap with the art of the theater. Mise-en-scene pertains to setting, lighting, costume, and acting style. For the purpose of this paper, I plan on comparing the setting, costume, lighting, and acting style in the first red hued, bridge to that of the robbery scene. Through this analysis, I plan to prove that the purpose of the narrative bridge in the film was not only to provide a segue from the first sequence to the second, but also to show a different side of personality within the main characters.
First, a lot of embedded meanings where inscribed within the movie. An example of this is the female uterus portrayed on the labyrinth, book, faun and fig tree which depict the pregnancy of Carmen and the cinematographic techniques used mentioned in the previous paragraph. These sights increase the usage of imagination and the critical skills of the viewer. This type of art makes the viewer not only watch the surface of the film but far deep from its context. Second, the scenes set for character building were effectively portrayed.
As the course progresses, it is evident how crucial adolescences years are. Both the brain and physical development in teens, explains why they’re more likely to engage in risky behavior and react more impulsive (Snowman & McCown, 2015). A character that demonstrates how adolescent brain and physical development affects the adolescence behavior, emotional and social skills (Blakemore, 2011), is sixteen year old Juno MacGuff from the movie Juno. Juno is an independent comedy film, directed by Jason Reitman and was released in 2007. The main character, Juno, experienced various obstacles that showed her as a mature and strategic teenager compared to other teens, particularly when it came to the decisions that she made and dealing with an unplanned
middle of paper ... ... In final analysis, the motion picture is the one that goes deeper inside the spectator’s mind. Other mediums such as still picture and theatrical play also provide the visual and aural elements for the spectator, yet they seem to be inferior to the motion picture in that they lack the reality, affinity, and creativity in terms of use of time and space. The levels of emotions such as attention, memory, imagination, emotion, and unity, which were introduced by Munsterberg, indicates how the spectator perceives the elements of the film and ends up with it.
The plot was very predictable, but overall there was a firm story behind the afraid, indecisive teenager. I would recommend this novel to anyone who’s afraid of unveiling their true identity to the people they love, or to those who are interested and curious in learning about the feelings of someone who is judged so heavily every day. Riley once explains her feeling of unsureness she endures daily when he/she says to the reader, “It’s like I have a compass in my chest, but instead of North and south, the needle moves between masculine and feminine. I know it’s not like that for all gender fluid people- but that’s the best way I can describe how it is for me” (Garvin 25).
Across the globe watching movies started as an asylum for the working class, but slowly the ideas being portrayed onscreen have evolved resulting in movie going to become almost religious. Movies have the ability to leave us in awe as a result of their ability to give us a glimpse of a dream, however unrealistic. I myself am a huge fan of the film industry. I started to feel a certain reverence for it because of the way it inspired me to dream and gave birth to my ambitions. This ultimately led to me to go into an in depth investigation of whether I was the only one who felt this way and what affects had been created because of this feeling.
This movie shows itself to everyone in the world from all aspects. First of all, the most significant feature of the film is its overall structure echoing at the beginning and the end;
Bordwell elaborates that the deviations from classical cinema are “resituated as realism (in life things happen this way) or authorial commentary (the ambiguity is symbolic).” The art film provides an enticing medium for the auteur’s vision as the film “reasserts that ambiguity is the dominance principle of
Since the creation of films, their main goal was to appeal to mass audiences. However, once, the viewer looks past the appearance of films, the viewer realizes that the all-important purpose of films is to serve as a bridge connecting countries, cultures, and languages. This is because if you compare any two films that are from a foreign country or spoken in another language, there is the possibility of a connection between the two because of the fact that they have a universally understanding or interpretation. This is true for the French New Wave films; Contempt and Breathless directed by Jean-Luc Godard, and contemporary Indian films; Earth and Water directed by Deepa Mehta. All four films portray an individual’s role in society using sound and editing.
When you stop to think about it, our ability to understand what goes on in a typical Hollywood film is shocking. Images jump from one to the next with little to no linearity. Perspectives jump around as if a person is spinning and floating around, and music and sounds emanate from nowhere and everywhere at once. The lights dim. Your body shifts about to get comfortable. It’s not bed time however. It’s time for a movie! The strong correlation between our film watching setting, and our dream making setting is too closely tied to be considered mere coincidence. Colin McGinn, author of The Power of Movies, in chapter four titled “Dreams on Film”, says “A child has to learn to read before a literary narrative can be processed, but watching a film requires nothing much beyond the capacity to dream” (113). McGinn argues that the reasons we are able to understand film so easily and readily, is because of our ability to dream. In dreaming, we create visual fantasies that seem to reflect memories and images we experience in our own lives. We might wake up in a heavy sweat, a confused state of mind, or a smile on our face, and it is these same emotions that can be brought about by film. Our ability to create and consume film stems from our innate ability to imagine and understand dreams. Robert Rodriguez’s film adaptation “Sin City” is a perfect case study of how film and dreams are interrelated.
Movies take us inside the skin of people quite different from ourselves and to places different from our routine surroundings. As humans, we always seek enlargement of our being and wanted to be more than ourselves. Each one of us, by nature, sees the world with a perspective and selectivity different from others. But, we want to see the world through other’s eyes; imagine with other’s imaginations; feel with other’s hearts, at a same time as with our own. Movies offer us a window onto the wider world, broadening our perspective and opening our eyes to new wonders.