. As the movie shows, the balloon is used as symbol for holding on something or letting go. Despite the fact that in both movies the main symbol is balloon, the meanings are different. As second important difference between the two movies is their style. Even they both are short movies they are different genre and directors used different techniques to represent their stories. According to www.wikipedia.org, the French movie was classified as a “fantasy comedy-drama.” The other film “The Balloon” could be classified as modern fiction film based on postmodern story. Even though the both movies are short, the movie “The Red Balloon” is 34 minutes, while “The Balloon” is only four minutes. The movie “The Red Balloon” represent the story such as …show more content…
viewers are witnesses what happened in real time. Audience dives into the fun story with the little boy and his new friend. On the other hand, in the other film the time runs faster, which is typical for the modern cinema. The events are only marked. For instance, only 30 seconds in the beginning of the movie show the nightlife and then become a day. This is a typical for modern music video clips. The time period also is quite different.
French movie presents reality in 1956. We can see the old Paris ten years after the World War II. The other film was made in 2009. For 54 years, the life and movie technologies are totally changed. For example, the observer can see difference of the cars, bus and modern people on the street. Also the quality of the camera is very high in the new movie, which help to see more details. The main filming techniques that were used in the movie “The Red Balloon” are long shot and wide shot, and color emphases. As an illustration, long shot is scene that the boy is on the street. The wide shot is on the film ends as all the other balloons in Paris coming to Pascal's aid and take him on a cluster balloon ride over the city. The camera tracks the boy and the balloon as a side observer. Equally important for the movie are the color accents. The grey Paris is in contrast with the red balloon, which could be associates with boring everyday life and carefree childhood. Whereas the French movie impresses with its simplicity, the film “The Balloon” is more complicated to understand. To clarify the meaning of details, the director use different techniques. For example, the close and distant shot of every important objects and
characters. On this occasion there are many accents of the view of the street and pavement, car’s light and car , the part of bike’s tire and the boy on the bike, and the face of the character and the character from distant.
Additionally, I would recommend this movie to anyone who loves classic movies, because this classic french drama film was the first time a director had ever done this type (especially with the zooming in on the face). Furthermore, for people who say they had old movies and reading subtitles I would tell them to give this one a go, it might change their minds about these types of movies, and inspire them to watch more classic wonders such as this
Nia gives Bobby a red balloon. It’s a symbol because it is representing the life of their soon to come baby. The color red represents blood, death, life, and love. The balloon itself could represent kids, baby, birthday, freedom, and innocent. Angela Johnson could have been foreshadowing Nias coma with her handing the balloon (Feather) to Bobby because she won’t be able to take care of it. This symbol is in between growing up and not being mature. I say this because Bobby has to grow up to take care of Feather but the balloon represents childhood and fun.
In the text “Seeing Red: American Indian Women Speaking about their Religious and Cultural Perspectives” by Inés Talamantez, the author discusses the role of ceremonies and ancestral spirituality in various Native American cultures, and elaborates on the injustices native women face because of their oppressors.
The red balloon in The First Part Last is a symbol of love and innocence. This relates to coming of age because in The First Part Last, when Nia told Bobby that she was pregnant, she had the red balloon with her, "...my girlfriend Nia was waiting on our stoop for me with a red balloon. Just sittin' there with a balloon, looking all lost. I'll never forget that look and how her voice shook when she said, 'Bobby, I've got something to tell you." This shows that Nia gave Bobby her love and innocents to Bobby by getting pregnant and having a child. Coming of age means responsibility and so does having a child.
To what lengths would you go for a loved one? Would you destroy something in hopes that it would save them? That 's what Lyman Lamartine did in hopes to fix his PTSD afflicted brother. "The Red Convertible" was written by Louise Erdrich in 1974 and published in 2009 along with several other short stories. Lyman, and Henry, are brothers. The story starts by telling us about how the two brothers acquired a red convertible. Henry ends up being drafted into the Vietnam War, and comes back home suffering from PTSD. One day the pair decided to take a drive to the Red River because Henry wanted to see the high water. Ultimately, the story ends with a cliff-hanger, and we are left wondering what happens to the boys. The symbolic nature of the red convertible will play a key role in this literary analysis, along with underling themes of PTSD and war.
“Marie Antoinette” (2006) directed by Sofia Coppola is a drama/comedy, that is centered on the life of the notorious Queen of France, in the years leading up to the French Revolution. Coppola’s film style was very modern avant garde. The film focuses on Antoinette point of view throughout all her adventures and difficulties. She was the character with whom the viewer identified with the most, her observation were the most important (aside from the audience). Therefore there were many close ups and high lighting on her. The film also invokes the lesson that luxuries is not everything that it will not make you completely happy, which makes the audience feel somewhat sympathetic towards the queen. Coppola successfully achieves to use beautiful and extravagant cinematography to tell the story of the late Marie Antoinette. The mise-en-scene of the film that will be discussed is setting, costume, lighting and figure behavior.
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.
Certainly one of the most striking features of Jules et Jim is temporal distortion. Truffaut utilises this effect by various means and for various purposes. In the first two minutes of the film, time is condensed in two ways: by the third person narrative, which encapsulates the film’s exposition in the most laconic of terms, describing the meeting and developing friendship of Jules and Jim, and also by the selective images which largely avoid redunant description of the aural narrative, but instead seek to interpret and compliment. Accordingly, when the narrator tells us that Jules is a foreigner in Paris; that he wants to go to an art student’s ball; and that Jim gets him a ticket and costume, the image we are offered is a simple one of the two playing dominoes. This image, incidentally, becomes a leitmotif in the film, supporting the theme of friendship and is touchingly varied much later when Jules plays instead with his daughter. Next, the narrator tells us that their friendship grows; the ball takes place; that Jules has tender eyes.
Charles Lindbergh, A man who made history in aviation and held aviation close to his heart, he was loved by the public, famous all over the world some called him an “American Hero” or they chose to call him by his nicknames such as, “The Lone Eagle” and “Lucky Lindy” He was very influential to the 1920s by promoting aviation and making history by completing the first solo transatlantic flight.
It represents the princesses beauty and childhood. She loses it down the fountain and is desperate to get it back. The golden ball is what the princess mostly processes and it means everything to her. In today’s society, beauty is important to some people that they will do anything to look “beautiful.” While others are struggling to be accepted for how they look. In “The Frog King,” the princess suggests that she will give the frog anything in exchange for her ball. She doesn’t care about her pearls, the clothes she is wearing, and even her precious crown (D. L. Ashliman). She is willing to give him anything because those material things aren’t important to her, but her ball is. She soon realizes that material things don’t get you far as you wish. The princess begins to realize those things don 't matter as much. When the frog transforms into a handsome prince, the princess marries him and they lived happily ever after. The moral is that we shouldn’t judge someone for who they look. We need to take the time to understand people for who they are and accept
In Richard N. Bolles’ What Color is Your Parachute, the author seeks to guide and advise the reader in how to choose and gain a career. He goes beyond tips for the traditional job hunt, and attempts to reveal to the reader the importance and possibility of choosing a career that actually goes beyond paying the bills, but contributes to the happiness of the reader. Bolles encourages the reader to go beyond inspiration and pursue some practical self-reflection in order to realize the job that satisfies.
The director begins the moving-imagery with a lively and edgy look-in on paris around 1962 with a small introduction to how the two bachelor heroes of the movie Jim who is German and Jules who is French, first meet along with fast-moving short clips showing how quickly the time is passing and their friendship is growing impeccably. Both Jim and Jules had never met anyone who was ever really so interested in what they both had to offer in life. Thus, they were experiencing what one calls true friendship for the first time in life.
The red balloon is a symbol because he is loosing his child hood and he is coming of age. The red balloon also symbolizes how Nia his girlfriend is pregnant and that they're having a baby. "I never had any cake though 'cause my girlfriend Nia was waiting on our stoop for me with a red balloon. Just sittin' there with a balloon looking all lost. I'll never forget that look and how her voice shook when Nia said Bobby i got something to tell you." Bobby gets told this news on his birthday. He said something like i came home after i ate at my pops diner and
Women have battled for centuries to be equivalent to men. In “The Color Purple," Alice Walker illustrates the theme of women’s heartache, racist acts, and complications of a day to day woman. The Color Purple took place during a demeaning era to not only African American women but African Americans in general were treated inhumane. African American women submitted themselves to controlling men due to the belief of that’s how it should be. During this time, women were used for manual and sexual labor. They were referred as one’s property, hardly spoken of or treated like human-beings. Women faced lack of self-love and identity therefore the definition of love was clouded.
The Red Balloon John wanted a balloon, not just any balloon either, but the red balloon that floated high above his head attached to the stroller. The wind stared to pick up and the balloon danced behind the group, the string pulled taut. "I want hold my loon," said John, reaching out to take the Balloon into his own small hands. "I don't think that would be a good ideas, John.It might fly away,"