The Third Man, is a film directed by Carol Reed in 1949 and Graham Greene wrote the screenplay. The film tone is noir, which means; lack of colour. Often, a film noir story will be created around a cynical and cold-hearted male character. The film was set in post-war, Vienna, Austria. The protagonist Holly Martins, a writer of western novels, learns that his friend Harry Lime, who has invited him to Vienna, recently died. Martins feels as though someone is hiding something and he tries to figure out who the ‘third man’ was that helped carry Lime off the road after the accident. Reed was able to use countless techniques to present the audience with various moral issues, such as loyalty, integrity, friendship and moral corruption. During the …show more content…
The audience witnesses how war and destruction have created a pessimist within Lime. People like Lime have decided to live their life dealing of the black market and choose to structure their lives without the help of the government. Limes personality is somewhat linked with that of a sociopath. Sociopath engages in criminal behaviour, they do so in an unplanned manner, with little regard for the risk or consequences of their actions. After Martins finds out Lime is still alive there is an uncomfortable scene in a Ferris wheel. When Martins confronts Lime about his illegal penicillin trade and he responds with, ‘…Victims? Don’t be so melodramatic. Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really… tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could offer to spare?...’. This scene is when the audience loses all likeability and compassion for Lime because of his moral corruption and the way he portrays himself. The long shots from the Ferris wheel where they are nearing the top, and lime describes people as ‘dots’ promotes his pessimistic view of others and their meaningless to
On October 14th, 2016 in class we watched “Two Spirits” by Lydia Nibley. Basically the film explored the cultural context behind a tragic and senseless murder of the main character. Fred was part of an honored “Navajo” youth who was killed at the age of sixteen by a man who bragged to his friends that he was nothing but a “fag”. While walking home from a carnival he was chased by one of his friends. Once his friend caught up to Fred, he pulled him down from a mountain and smashed his head with a heavy rock. Fred laid there for five days straight where two young boys found his body lying there. He was labeled as a “two-spirit” who was possessed of balancing masculine and feminine traits. In the film, there are two parts that are put together effortlessly like the people it discusses. Most of the documentary focuses on Fred’s murder, but the real issues in the film were those of the lesbian, gay, and transgender community and how its members were viewed in a
The Golden Age of Mexican cinema (1936-1959) produced great films that not only established a national identity, but also helped to spread Catholicism through movies such as Macario (1961), by Roberto Gavaldón, and Salón México (1949), by Antonio Díaz Conde. The film, Macario, follows the story of a man named Macario, a peasant who struggles with his family to survive poverty. After Macario shares with Death one of his most awaited meals, Death rewards Macario with the ability to tell who will die and how to cure those who are sick. Salón México focuses on Mercedes, a woman who works in a cabaret in order to keep her sister, Beatriz, at a private school. At one point, Mercedes wins a dancing contest with Paco, a thief and womanizer obsessed
The Bad and The Beautiful (1952) and State and Main (2000) are films within films that unmask Hollywood Cinema as a dream factory and expose the grotesque, veneer hidden by the luxury of stars. The Bad and the Beautiful, directed by Vincent Minnelli, is a black and white film narrated in flashback form. The films theatrical nature requires more close-ups than wide-screen shots to capture the character’s psychological turmoil. For example, Fred and Jonathan’s car ride is captured in a close-up to signify their friendship; however their relationship deteriorates after Jonathan’s deceit. While the camera zooms out, Fred stands alone motionless. Here, Fred is captured from a distance at eye-level and he becomes ostracized by the film industry and
The movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is based in the 1970s. It depicts the highly male dominated broadcast team and shows the shake up when a woman is hired as a reporter and has aspirations of becoming an anchor the television station. The particular scene shows Ron Burgundy is flustered because Veronica Coringstone is impeding on his masculinity. Burgundy exemplifies hegemonic masculinity by explaining he is a man and a professional, when Coringstone says he his acting like a baby he takes offense and explains he is a man and he his ultimately better than a women because indeed he is a man. Burgundy states, “'I’m a man who discovered the wheel, and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That's what kind of man I am. You're just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a 1/3 the size of us...It's science (Robertson, McKay, 2004). The clip also depicts Burgundy’s desire for Coringstone to be the typical submissive female he is used to. The articles will identify the gender stereotypes and access if they are true or false based on the research.
Gender and the portrayal of gender roles in a film is an intriguing topic. It is interesting to uncover the way women have been idealized in our films, which mirrors the sentiments of the society of that period in time. Consequently, the thesis of this essay is a feminist approach that seeks to compare and contrast the gender roles of two films. The selected films are A few Good Men and Some Like it Hot.
The movie Rain Man is an American drama that depicts the story of a self-centered young man named Charlie Babbitt, as played by Tom Cruise, who finds out that his father has died. Upon his father’s passing Charlie, as stated in the Will, is only left his father’s car and his collection of rose bushes. Considering his father was a multimillionaire this is a quite a surprise to Charlie. After finding out that his father has left millions for another trustee, Charlie manipulates individuals with information on the whereabouts of the money. He learns through his manipulations that the three million dollars his father has left have been transferred to a mental institution. When he goes to the mental institution he discovers that his father has left
The Monuments Men was an eye opening film that focused on a lesser thought of perspective during World War II – the stolen art. While in PSTL we have been familiarizing ourselves with the concepts of identity, culture and community for the last seven weeks. With that being said, this film related to those three concepts in related ways.
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The Monuments Men was released in 2014, is rated PG-13, and was directed by George Clooney. The movie begins with Frank Stokes convincing President Roosevelt that even when they win the war, if the artwork from throughout history is lost, the victory would not mean much. Roosevelt gives his approval, and Stokes begins to gather a team. He puts together a ragtag team of middle-aged art enthusiasts and curators to help save artwork from the Nazis. The film focuses on 7 Monuments Men and their journey throughout Europe to recover the essence of Western civilization.
Directed by Jeong Beom Lee, this film titled The Man From Nowhere, revolves around a mysterious pawn-shop owner named Taesik and his young neighbor, Somi. Taesik, an ex-special agent with a history of a violent past was soon face with another danger when his next-door neighbor, and only friend, gets abducted by a ring of drug and organ traffickers. Somi, a young daughter of a drug addict and an exotic dancer, was soon paying for the price of her mother’s dirty deeds. Stealing narcotics from the drug lords, the mother then hands them to Taesik to store in his pawnshop without him knowing.
In the movie 300, the Spartan army, of 300 fight in the Battle of Thermopylae. The Spartans fight the Persians, however they are greatly outnumbered. The Persian King Xerxes sends thousand of his soldiers to fight the Spartan warriors in hopes of gaining Greece. The Spartans, along with Athenians, and slaves, fight the Persia army in one last attempt to save Greece. 300 tells how the Spartan warriors are trained and taught. The filmmakers of 300 chose to historically keep that weak babies were rejected and that children were trained at seven years old to become Spartan soldiers, while; the filmmakers chose to change battle techniques, the portrayal of the Spartan men as "family men”, and made the Persian warriors "immortal”, for reasons of dramatic, emotional, and theatrical effect.
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The movie, The Butler, demonstrates the magnitude of change that can take place in one person’s lifetime. It is easy to forget how it was not so long ago that the U.S. was a starkly different place in terms of racial equality. That is not to say that we are truly equal yet, but only that the majority of the population has progressed past the point of such terrible actions as seen in the movie. I think that the movie brings up a lot of points, perhaps subtly, that are still relevant today.
Watching a movie is one of the most popular past times that people enjoy doing. There are many types of movies available for people to enjoy, such as thrillers or romantic comedies. When looking for something exciting to do when you have some free time, the idea of watching an action movie seems like a perfect fit. Action movies are the type of movies that usually include some fight scenes, exciting car chases, and exploding buildings and gun shootings. On the other hand, a thriller movie delivers a more suspenseful plot, a high level of tension in one or more life-threatening situations, and excitement throughout the movie that can make the viewers sometimes jump out of their seats. The movie Taken 1 and its second sequel, Taken 3, are
The basis of psychoanalysis is the discovery of the unconscious and the film, ‘Oldboy’, provides no dearth for elements to view it as a psychoanalytical interpretation despite the vast cultural disparity between the regions where the theory and the film originated from.