The four films show political scenarios in different countries. This paper will focus on the use of landscape in cinematography. This is not just footage; it is important that it matches well with the action. According to Semiotics is a science that deals with the study of the life of signs within society. It depicts what make up signs and the rules that govern them (Saussure 1974:16). The movie Argo was produced in America in the year 2012. It portrays the political relationship between the Americans and the Iranians (Arboleda, 2015). It talks about the hostage of the American diplomatic personnel by the radical Iranian activists. The film depicts how some of the US embassy staff escaped from Iran and, portrays the political propaganda by …show more content…
It is what the Hutus referred to as the ethnic cleansing. Terry George explains the Rwandan story in the form of a true story of one man who encountered many tribulations during that regime. The man Paul is portrayed as a very brave man who kept many Tutsi refugees in his .the movie makes progress as Paul tries to restore peace and prevent the harm that was being inflicted on his people by bribing the Hutu soldiers According to Pierce 2015(pp 79) Semiotic signs, exist in three groups. They include Icons, Indices, and symbols. Symbols are the signs that are based on conformist relationship. An example of a symbol in the film Hotel Rwanda is whereby the Hutu style is portrayed in the movie: A patchwork of yellow, green and red stripes .the Hutus are dressed using these designs to enable the audience to differentiate them from the rest of the people in Rwanda and most especially the Tutsis. The particular scene is whereby a Hutu businessman called George gives Paul a Hutu shirt as he says to him “it's time for you to join your people.” (3.37-3.46 min)The cultural meaning of the Hutu on the people is illustrated in this patchwork because they view Rwanda as Hutu land on the basis that they form the majority of the population (Seifert, 2015 .pp 45). In a similar manner, the the …show more content…
He does imitate King, but he is depicted as an icon that has been transformed into a human being (Chakrabarti, Amaresh 2015 pp60). Selma shows that the organizers of the movement and the activists were great intellectuals, strategist’s thinker’s writers and good leaders. Selma does not pass across messages that relate to the events that take place in the current society. It reflects the happenings of the year 1965 half a century later. The conclusion of the movie reveals a significant period in the history of American democracy. It shows the achievement of the people who vote for racial justice and freedom. Their legacy lives to
Symbols, by definition, have meaning that is established and changed by interaction through the cycle of meaning. This meaning, then, is multifaceted and complex with a rich history of culture and tradition behind it. However, in cultural appropriation, only the front-stage presentation of the meaning of a symbol, often the presentation that is the most cohesive with a heteropatriarchical, white supremacist Western society, is acknowledged. This removes a symbol from its cultural context as well as its human roots, facilitating its exploitation and commercialization.
However, it reminds us of how black people acquired their rights in America, despite the racism that had been engraved in the country long before our time. Selma tells the details of the SCLC campaign in which they organized the Montgomery March of 1965. The Film covers all of the most important facts where it describes the sad situation that black people faced when they tried to register in order to vote in the segregated south. For example, in a scene performed by Oprah Winfrey we see her trying to register to vote, in this exercise she is being questioned and intimidated by a series of questions from the voter registrar. At this point we tend to understand what the film is all
In effect all the techniques mentioned above portray a society of individuals who are weary of the world they live in. They are rejects who lead a pitiful existence in a wasteland called earth because they are not fit enough to go the out-world colonies. Suppressing their own natural instincts for the sake of physically surviving they really the walking dead. Scientific progress conducted not for the best interests of humanity but for the best interests of business has effectively brought about the progressive degradation of society. By exploiting and destroying the natural world human can no more find solace or beauty so as to recuperate their weary minds and rekindle their dying spirits. In summary the techniques that are unique to film such as camera, lighting, costuming, colour and location works in conjunction with common literary techniques such as visual symbolism, irony and characterisation to effectively convey the relationship between humanity and nature.
In addition to this, underlying themes especially those of individualism are conveyed through the use of symbolism to emphasise that society is uniform, prejudiced towards individuals who do not conform but also rejecting of change.
According to the semiotic theory, everything in a cinematic image is also a sign which meaning can be generated by different reading of it. Due to the components of the signifier and the signified as a sign, they all work together sufficiently to function in encoding the information in order to let the spectators to decode the carried meaning. The semiotic approach can help us to better understand Speed Racer in the American popular...
For instance, the flag symbolizes freedom and the stars represent the states. Even some signs are symbols like when a beaker has a skull with bones placed like an ‘x’ behind it, which symbolizes that it’s toxic or bad. When people see the red light when driving, that’s a symbol to stop, the yellow to slow down, and the green to go. In the short story, A Worn Path, an elderly colored woman named Phoenix Jackson walks a path to get to a town called Natchez. Phoenix is an old and small woman that wore a dark striped dress with untied shoelaces and she carried “a thin, small cane made from an umbrella,”
This project has helped me in a way to make a decision on how important this upcoming election is to my heritage as a black man and to take full advantage of this opportunity.
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.
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.
We learn or encounter history in our daily interaction either thorough media or basic conversation and with tings like flags, black and white, white house and Martin Luther king all in one image, it is clear to assume that any individual would know what each individual items represent t if not all of them collectively. When tracing the history and underling meaning in the artifacts and cross-referencing it to stone symbol, it becomes clear that the white house is telling a stymied progress story. They are telling this story in the sense that in the beginning things were bad and minorities didn’t have civil rights but after the movement civil rights was achieved and now in the future, something is threatening this achievement either through the citizens nothing working together to achieve a common goal like MLK said we should or by us deviating from the right path. The white using this image, they are basically trying to communicate to the public on how far we have come, what we have accomplished and what we can achieve if we work
Garrow, David J. Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. New York: New Haven and London Yale University Press. 1978
King traveled the country making speeches and inspiring people to become involved in the Civil Rights Movement. He organized non-violent student sit-ins and fought for the rights of the black population. In his speech, he proclaimed a free and better nation of equality and that both races, the blacks and the whites, should join together to achieve common ground and to support each other instead of fighting against one another. King’s vision is that all people should be judged by their “personality and character and not by their color of skin”(‘I Have a Dream”). All the points he made in his speech were so strong that lots of people were interested in his thoughts. He dreamed of a land where the blacks could vote and have a reason to vote and where every citizen would be treated the same and with the same justice.
The Rwandan Genocide was a terrible event in history caused by a constantly weakening relationship between two groups of people. The country of Rwanda is located in Africa and consists of multiple groups of people. Majority of Rwanda is Hutu, while a smaller amount of people are Tutsis. The genocide started due to multiple events that really stretched the relationship between the two groups to its end. One of the starting factors was at the end of World War 1. Rwanda was a German colony but then was given to Belgium “who favored the minority Tutsis over the Hutus, exacerbated[exacerbating] the tendency of the few to oppress the many”(History.com). This created a feeling of anger towards the Tutsis, because they had much more power then Hutus.
In the presented essay I will compare the style of work of selected artists in the montage of the film. I will try to point out some general regularities and features of Soviet cinema. At the same time I will try to capture especially what is common in their systems and similar or conversely what differ. For my analysis, I will draw on the feature films of the Soviet avantgarde, namely these are the movies - The Battleship Potemkin (S. Eisenstein, 1925), Mother (V. Pudovkin, 1926) and The Man with a movie camera (D. Vertov, 1929).
Semiotics is a language system in film that exemplifies qualities of the film. The theory of semiotic highlights the mise-en-scene of a film in terms of relation between film themes, characters on screen, and associated objects. The concepts of semiotic can be shown in different levels in movies. It could be a language signs or objects of justification for audiences to make sense of the movie. Semiotic approach in film does not only emphasize what is explicitly stated on screen, but it also shows signs of underlying message and meaning behind objects of justification. In this essay, I will discuss about semiotic signs that are embodied in different objects of justification in the films, Citizen Kane and Thelma and Louise. Each object demonstrate language-like phenomenon, which construct essential meanings to the characters and the plot in the film.