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Communication in a movie
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After Watching Frank Capra’s Meet John Doe and Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind it is very easy to see the directors view on topics such as capitalism and fascism. In Each movie they value some thing and throw down other ideas. I feel that both directors take more of a traditional liberal point. I thought that this was clearly shown in both movies when money hungry fat cats or religious leader whom hold more power than the ‘average Joe’ shot down the main protagonist. Although if you’re not paying attention you cannot discover that a message is being sent, but after reviewing such example it is evident that there is a message and bias in these movies. Although some may argue that is it only simply a movie, sublet messages are sent through the basis and line of the story that can be easily recognized.
First Off, In Inherit the Wind, Bert Cates is originally just an average school teacher who teaches evolution in a state where it is illegal to do so. He then is charged and to be tried in a court of law whom Harrison Brady, prosecutor, is a purebred Christian. While Mr. Cates defence lawyer is an atheist. It is a battle between both beliefs but Mr. Cates is seen to be the devil of it all. Just because he wishes to teach something he believes in makes him a bad man. In the Film, the director perceives Mr. Cates to be this average man whom is against them all. Mr. Cates is nothing but a lone soul that must fight against the world for what he believes in.
While in Meet John Doe, Long John Willoughby is shown to be a wreck. He is a homeless man who almost made it to the big leagues but never did because of an injury. He is shown to be a simple man, frustrated with his failure to make it to the big leagues but good at heart. When c...
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In conclusion both inherit the Wind and Meet John Doe are both liberal films that without a doubt support liberal views on society. Throughout my essay I’ve described many of the examples that are present in both films such as abuse of power, non-acceptance of new ideas and shooting down of the average Joe. This are just 3 of the many points that had came up during the movie but are defiantly 3 of the most important. I think this just shows no matter what the movie is or what its about there is always a message. It may take a while to figure it out but there is always a message beneath it all.
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Inherit The Wind. Dir. Stanely Kramer. Perfs. Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith. DVD. MGM, 1961
Meet John Doe. Dir. Frank Capra Perfs. Richard Connell, Robert Presnell Sr. DVD Triad Productions, 1941
Inherit the Wind. Dir. Stanley Kramer. With Spencer Tracy, Fredrick March, and Gene Kelly. MGM. 1960.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee present Bert Cates as an exceptionally courageous teacher in the book Inherit the Wind. Bert Cates is a high school teacher who is put on trial because he was teaching the theory of evolution. Bert Cates is indeed a very courageous teacher because he taught what he knew the children deserved to know even though it was against the law, the people whom he loved, the society and religion.
A Raisin in the Sun. Dir. Daniel Petrie. Perf. Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee and John Fiedler. Columbia Pictures, 1961.
Reichardt, Kelly (Director), Raymond, John and Reichardt, Kelly (Writers), Williams, Michelle and Robinson, John (Performances). 2008. Oscilloscope Pictures, 2009. DVD
Wizard of Oz, The. Dir. Victor Fleming. Perf. Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, and Ray Bolger. Warner Bros., 1939.
The French Connection. Dir. William Friedkin. Perf. Gene Hackman and Fernando Rey. Twentieth Century-Fox Video, 1971. DVD.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Dir. John C. Mitchell. Perf. John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor and Stephen Trask. 2001. DVD.
The second film we watched during the semester, as well as the one of the last films we watched, were George A. Romeo’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead as well as Jordan Peele’s 2017 Get Out. I have chosen to combine both of these films into the same section because I believe they express similar themes, in the monstercity of male privilege as well as the monstericity of whiteness. For example, in Night of the Living Dead, Romero goes out of his way to show the “roughness” of the male psyche by showing the three men try to take charge in the cabin. The scene where Harry, Tom, and Ben are all arguing trying to figure out which plan the group should take to survive expresses this. The entire scene is just a huge pissing contest between Ben (who
Groucho Marx begins his letter to the Warner Brothers with hits and jabs on their illogical point of view on their use of the word “Casablanca” in their new movie title. Both the Warner and Marx brothers address the issue with two separate tones that clearly support their arguments. As the two go back and forth, the letter written by a Marx brother reveal not only a clear picture of their point of view but as well as an extremely persuasive one through his use of rhetorical appeals.
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Kendrick, James. “Marxist Overtones in 3 Films by James Cameron.” Journal of Popular Film and Television. Vol. 27, Issue 3. Fall 1999. p. 36
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Classic narrative cinema is what Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson (The classic Hollywood Cinema, Columbia University press 1985) 1, calls “an excessively obvious cinema”1 in which cinematic style serves to explain and not to obscure the narrative. In this way it is made up of motivated events that lead the spectator to its inevitable conclusion. It causes the spectator to have an emotional investment in this conclusion coming to pass which in turn makes the predictable the most desirable outcome. The films are structured to create an atmosphere of verisimilitude, which is to give a perception of reality. On closer inspection it they are often far from realistic in a social sense but possibly portray a realism desired by the patriarchal and family value orientated society of the time. I feel that it is often the black and white representation of good and evil that creates such an atmosphere of predic...
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