“Selma'' is a 2014 American film written by Paul Webb and directed by Ava DuVernay. The movie is based on true events in 1965 in a town called Selma that involved Martin Luther King leading the black community to march to Montgomery in an attempt to gain equal voting rights. It captures what life was like for people of colour in America during the period of protesting for equal voting rights. The scene I have chosen to review captures Martin Luther King’s extraordinary way of presenting and public speaking. Within the scene, Martin Luther King gives a speech of hope to his people inside a church demanding equal rights for coloured people for the right to vote. The award-winning performance by David Oyelewo as Martin Luther King is supported …show more content…
In addition to positioning Martin Luther King in the center of the shot, the director cleverly uses different camera angles to emphasise King's authority and leadership within the speech. Low angle shots are frequently used to show Kings dominance. By looking up at King from a lower perspective, views are driven to admire and respect him, reinforcing himself as a prominent figure in the civil rights movement. The director uses wide shots to show the crowd and the surroundings, this provides a broader perspective, for the viewer. One of Duvernay’s most favourable aspects of the scene is the wide variety of camera shots she uses in the scene. Close-up shots of Martin Luther King’s face allow viewers to connect with King’s emotions as he delivers his powerful speech. These close-up shots allow the audience to see the pure determination in King’s eyes and feel the weight of his words. DeVernay’s use of camera movement throughout the scene does not go unnoticed. She employs smooth tracking shots to follow King as he walks across the stage, symbolising his calmness as a way to tell the audience to keep calm and to not turn to
Bridge to Freedom provides the historical documentary behind the events that served as the narrative for Selma. Instead of a drama, the viewers receive an actual documentary that shows the confrontations between the marchers and the government. Like Selma, it highlights the violence, the deaths, and the beatings, but also goes further back in time to show society’s treatment of African Americans.
Harold and Maude is a cult classic from the 1970’s that defined film making today. The movie based around a young man named Harold Chasen, and an old woman Maude. Harold seems to have a bizarre psychological fascination with death. While Maude is also interested in death; she enjoys living as well and has lived her life to the fullest. Both are brought together while attending funerals simply because they enjoy them. Maude begins to influence and change Harold’s perceptions and attitudes about life. Harold and Maude are polar opposite, in age, but the time they spend together will help Harold live his life better and more fulfillingly.
He helps them see things from their perspective. He uses detailed stories that make the reader feel like they are seeing what is going on. He also uses his ethos to show his respect for the audience, which in turn puts a positive spin on the negativity of the whole situation. Bibliography:.. Works Cited King, Martin Luther, Jr.?Letter from Birmingham Jail.?
The first social issue portrayed through the film is racial inequality. The audience witnesses the inequality in the film when justice is not properly served to the police officer who executed Oscar Grant. As shown through the film, the ind...
Film Thrasher compares and contrasts the difficulty of two men, and one young boy. Boyhood
The Sandlot movie made millions of dollars. Why? Because like the movie the kids had a childish belief that dog crosses the fence was a big, scary, and savage dog that would eliminate anyone who dares to cross its path but they come to realize that the dog was a kind loving dog it only harms to them was his licking. To grow up soon or later and lose our childish beliefs it’s human nature. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, By Harper Lee Scout can be seen as a tomboy as she does not act as our world believes a girl should act like. Scout changes from innocence to experience because her way of looking at world changes as she matures as the years passed by.
King continues to appeal to the emotion by individualizing the injustices suffered by many. He gives specifics of his young daughter crying and his son asking why white people treat him so poorly. These images work to evoke empathy for Kings cause and the civil rights movement.
He does so initially by making the audience associate him with Abraham Lincoln: a powerful, and respected United States president who fought tirelessly for a cause very similar to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s.
Whenever Martin Luther King Junior, began to speak, he held everybody’s attention. This was the case in 1963 during the pinnacle of the Civil Rights Movement when Martin gave his career defining speech “I Have a Dream”. Over a quarter million people attended the protest, and the crowd varied in color as well as cause. A crowd of this size would certainly frighten most people; but Martin was not the type of man to be phased easily. Martin grew up on the racist streets of Atlanta, Georgia and faced much adversity in his life. Not even thirty-five Martin would give a speech that would shake an embroiled nation to its core. Martin Luther King Junior gave a speech to beautifully wove together the three appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos into one
Martin Luther King, Jr was an exceptional orator who knew how to persuade an audience into adopting his own beliefs and changing their perspectives through the way he weaved language techniques into his speeches. To add further impact, he delivered his message in a dominant, strong, emotional way in order to show that the African-American society were not afraid to fight against the unjustly treatment they endured for so long and that they weren’t taking no for an answer in regards to civil rights.
The movie Norma Rae is a 1979 drama film about a textile worker from Alabama that becomes involved in labor union activities in the factory where she works. Though it is a film, it is based on the true story of Crystal Lee Sutton, a textile worker from North Carolina, who worked for J.P. Stevens textile plant, and was fired from her job for trying to organize a union (southerstudies.org, 2009)…………… The analysis and information provided will provide a summary of the movie, detail the motives of the workers to join a union, show managements reaction to the organizing, and discuss what the workers were hoping to achieve by gaining union representation, describe the union representation process,…………….
Dr. King delivered his speech to a large and diverse audience. When observing photo number three on Blackboard, King’s immediate audience spanned from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, around the reflection pond, and up to the Washington Monument. Because the gathering was so large, half way between the reflection pond and the Lincoln Memorial, speakers were set up to project King’s moving words. Although the speakers set up projected King’s voice farther, it would be the media that spread his voice further. Photographers and media personnel took photos of King and the diverse crowd he addressed. The media coverage of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech expanded his audience from the people who physically attended the March on Washington to the citizens watching the event on television. With the extensive media attention, King was able to target whites that possessed the power to end racial oppression (“photo 3”).
For this assignment, I decided to do my film review on To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan, R., & Pakula, A. (Directors). (1962). To Kill a Mockingbird[Motion picture on VHS]. United States of America.) I have a personal connection to this film because it is one of my most beloved novels by Harper Lee. I have never watched the film so it was a nice experience to see the characters I have loved for years come to life just before my eyes. The film particularly focuses on a white family living in the South of the United States in the 1930s. The two siblings, Jem and Scout Finch, undergo major changes while experiencing evil and injustice in their small town of Maycomb. Jem and Scout’s father is named Atticus and he is a well-respected man in the town as well as being a lawyer.
Recently, there is a spike of historical films being released lately. One of the films is an Academy Award nominee for “Best Picture,” Selma. The film, Selma, is based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches. The film shows the struggles of the black community face with the blockage of their voting rights and the racial inequality during the civil rights movement. Selma is about civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. heading to the rural Alabama City, Selma, to secure the voting rights for the African American community by having a march to Montgomery. It shows the struggles from what the African American community had to endured during the 1960s. Selma shows a social significance to today’s current events, specifically
Are we human if we don’t have a choice to choose between acting good or acting evil? A Clockwork Orange directed by Stanley Kubrick is a brutal film that entails many sociological meanings. Alex DeLarge and his “droogs” (gang) live in a derange society of “ultra-violence” and rape. Alex and his gang cause havoc around the town that leads to the “droogs” turning on Alex during a mischievous act on an innocent women and Alex getting arrested. While in prison he is chosen for “treatment” that is suppose to purify Alex and turn him into the “perfect citizen”. We’ve gone over many sociological concepts in class, but the three that I believe apply the most to this film are socialization, deviance, and resocialization.