Steven Spielberg's Minority Report (2005) starring Tom Cruise is set in a dystopian society in the year 2054 in the state of DC in the USA. A crime prevention agency has been created to stop the crime before it has happened, they do this by using 3 unique people who can see murders before they are conducted and they called these people Pre Cogs. By using pre cogs murder crimes have come to a stop since the use of the new technology. The world is dark and has been taken over by technology and personalized advertising. The people that live in this society are lead to believe that they are safe Steven Spielberg uses a variety of cinematic techniques like contrast and lighting and narrative techniques like character point of view, setting and …show more content…
Even the costumes are mostly black or white, adults wear black and children's wear white. In this society white is seen to be clean innocent and pure, whereas black could be seen as unsafe or unpredictable. Spielberg shows the theme in subtle ways with the clothes of the children but sometimes it is more direct.
John anderton the protagonist of Minority Report buys drugs, in the scene where it happens the lighting is very dark, his face is shadowed and the camera angles are very direct and positioned to make the scene much more dynamic to the viewer. This effect of lower light levels and closer camera angles focused on the face of the actor allows the audience to really see a new side to the character to make further connections on the story of the movie.
‘You shouldn't trust anyone ‘ ( DR Iris) This advice is accentuated by the film's visual style (harsh, dark /light contrast, shadows, cluttered, complex spaces, tightly juxtaposed characters and objects) spielberg has created a visually unstable environment in which no character has a firm moral base from which they can confidently operate “ shifting shadows”. The majority of scenes in Minority Report have many elements in one picture, like the bright advertism of a Lexus car while a wave of black suits pass by a
The film, Fruitvale Station, is based upon a true story of a young, unarmed African American male, Oscar, who was shot by a Caucasian BART police officer. The film displays the final twenty-fours of Oscar Grant’s lives going through his struggles, triumphs, and eager search to change his life around. There will be an analysis of the sociological aspects displayed throughout the movie that show racism, prejudice, and discrimination.
Since minorities have gained a more significant role in movies, it begs the question: what happens to them after they become the “magical negro” in the horror genre? Does the min...
Death can occur in four ways. A person can die from a physical illness, viruses and infections. A person can die from an accident. A person can commit suicide. Finally a person can be murdered by another person. What if murders could be prevented? In P.K. Dick’s story The Minority Report, and in Spielberg’s film The Minority Report, the future can be altered by using incredible technology. The success of Spielberg’s adaptation of Dick’s short story to film can be determined by the way each was presented.
Although it may been seen partly as a historical accident forced by budgetary constraints, part of the mystique of the film is in how different it was to the horror audience of the day. Romero and the Image Ten team, working with black-and-white in a day in which most mainstream films were released in color, were able to use the black-and-white film to lend a certain documentary feel that evoked feelings of newsreels of the day, which were still shot in black-and-white (Hervey 26). This certain credibility evoked is one that is likely lost on contemporary audiences that grew up in a time in which the news and documentaries are delivered in color, but modern audiences should see parallels in the way The Blair Witch Project co-opted the use of VHS cameras to produce a low-cost horror film with a realistic feel to it.
Anderson used earthy colours such as khaki, pale yellows, and browns to show the nature aspect of this film. This is significant because of the location on which this film is set on as it is a remote island with lots of plants and greenery. The limited colour palette also gives the audience an element of adventure. Wes Anderson showed this particularly in Sam and Suzy’s first encounter scene, as all of the boy scouts (Khaki Scouts) sitting in the audience of the show were wearing a pale yellow uniform with a green bandana as well as the leader wearing a brown hat and bandana. The use of the uniforms shows the unity with the scouts as they are all part of the same ‘pack’. Another use of costumes throughout this film is with Suzy. Wes Anderson always portrayed Suzy wearing something different than everyone else throughout the film, whether that be with vivid blue eyeliner or the Sam and Suzy’s first encounter scene how Suzy was the ‘odd’ bird out being the black dark Raven in the play while the other girls in the play were colourful birds. This shows the audience that Suzy was commonly considered ‘different’ compared to everyone else around her. Suzy was often secluded and did not have any friends because possibly she was misunderstood. Wes Anderson did this to make Suzy more relatable to Sam as he wears a badge on his uniform that his mother gave him before she passed away, he is also not very liked in his Khaki Scout, making them the ‘perfect’
Sex, love, depression, guilt, trust, all are topics presented in this remarkably well written and performed drama. The Flick, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning drama by Annie Baker, serves to provide a social commentary which will leave the audience deep in thought well after the curtain closes. Emporia State Universities Production of this masterpiece was a masterpiece in itself, from the stunningly genuine portrayal of the characters of Avery and Rose, to the realism found within the set, every aspect of the production was superb.
A blood-curdling horror movie has to tell a story while incorporating specific aspects that make it into the terrifying film that attracts an audience to the theaters. Using darkness, suspense, jump scares, and horrific background music, directors are able to create a movie that scares everyone. In the soon to be released film Leatherface, all of these aspects are addressed and play an important role in how scary it will be. The trailer for the upcoming thriller/horror movie, Leatherface is successful in capturing the audience’s attention by the way it uses color, camera angles, and sound effects to create a suspenseful feeling while raising intriguing questions that will persuade people to watch the film.
In the film ‘Into the Wild’ directed by Sean Penn, there are some scenes in the movie and enable us to understand how it was developed. I found one important scene in the movie, this is the scene in which Chris’ feels that his journey was almost end, the director uses some camera shots, dialogues and some soundtracks for us to see and understand the scene in this movie.
Hare writes that the color white symbolizes purity and black stands for evil and derogatory referent and that “... theirs brains,..., at last has been washed white as snow.”. At a young age, children are taught how to read children’s books. ‘“Why are they always white children?” asked by a five-year old Black girl” (Larrick, 63), as many books seen are only white. Nancy Larrick wrote an article about children’s book and argued how children’s books portrays only whites in books, while there are many non white children and white children across the United States that are reading these books about white children. Larrick also points out that across the country 6,340,000 million non white children are learning to read and understand the American way of life in books which either omit them entirely or scarcely mention them in it (63), and of the 5.206 children's book, only 394 included one or more blacks, which was an average of 6.7 per cent (64). Children’s books will not contain a black hero/heroine because in the books, being depicted as a slave or a servant, or better yet to ...
Beside that, Cinematography is also one of the element that play important roles in film noir. This can be seen when Dixon (2005) explained that in film noir shot in black and white, interior setting is always suffused with shadows and exterior settings are usually at night, with wet streets and rain. It is true because most of the film noir are shot in night with wet streets and rain, night scenes are able to create the ‘ darkness ’ mood and feeling while wet streets and rain can create the fear. Furthermore, according to Dixon (2005), he mention that the imbalanced camera set-up in film noir and the camera sweeps in on the protagonists in their most intimate moments. It is true also if the imbalanced camera set up in film noir such as dutch angle and low angle shot, it shows that something are going to happen, but it depends on the director and cinematographer on what visual they want to show to the audiences.
The lack of significance that minority cultures in general have been given in American cinema is distasteful. This neg...
One of the biggest issues depicted in the film is the struggle of minority groups and their experience concerning racial prejudice and stereotyping in America. Examples of racism and prejudice are present from the very beginning of the movie when Officer Ryan pulls over black couple, Cameron and Christine for no apparent reason other than the color of their skin. Officer Ryan forces the couple to get out of the car
Minority Report is a 2002 science fiction film directed by renowned director Steven Spielberg and is set in the year 2054 in Washington, D. C. The film revolves around an elite law enforcing squad; Precrime. The Precrime Division uses three genetically altered humans called Pre-Cogs whom possesses special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand. After each crime is foreseen and analyzed, Precrime police officers are sent to the crime location to apprehend the future murderers and place them under arrest. The future murderers are then put into a sleep state with a device called a "halo". Based on Minority Report, it suggests that humans are free willed beings and have the ability to alter the future that was predetermined for them.
...n color. Even those that mean well reveal racism when they speak. A white man in the movie speaks nicely to John. However, he calls John, a fully grown man, boy. Even blacks display racism preferring lighter skin over dark skin.
Full Metal Jacket is written and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The film was released in 1987 and it is starring Matthew Modine (Joker), Vincent D’Onofrio (Pyle), Adam Baldwin (Animal), and R. Lee Ermey ( Guy.Segr. Hartman).