The scene I chose goes from minute 15:27 to minute 16:27, which while short, reflects the relationship in between humans and machines that is portrayed throughout The Terminator; by analyzing the elements of image and movement in the scene it is possible to demonstrate this statement. The first frame shows a suburban street taken from a low camera angle, almost parallel to the pavement. The scene has very vivid colors; it looks like the perfect day, you can even see two elders playing with their grandsons in the sidewalk. A young girl in a pretty dress is mounting a tricycle, the frame is wide so that you can see the girl riding the tricycle towards the right. The next frame shows a close-up of a blue toy truck in the pavement; because of …show more content…
the close-up, the spectator is only able to see the running feet of the boy who was playing with the truck before being smashed by a car tire. The focus changes to a pair of leather boots getting off the car, proceeded by a full body shot of The Terminator’s outfit: a “bad guy” style with very dark colors, leather gloves and metal applications.
This small portion of the scene establishes the difference between the joy of humanity and the dimness of machines. The fact that he almost ran over a boy also exposes the indifference that The terminator has towards human lives. The frame after moves with The Terminator with a special focus on his movements. A frame of a dog barking to The Terminator is an important foreshadow to how the dogs, a man’s best friend, can perceive the difference between machines and humans. In the following frames, the camera focuses merely in faces of Sarah and The Terminator utilizing a first-person point of view and a very dim light. After the terminator forces its way into Sarah’s house, the viewer sees Sarah’s forehead with a laser dot. The camera then only shows the gun shooting in direction to the floor, we can assume that Sarah fell after the first shot and The Terminator is simply making sure that she is not alive. This last part of the scene is crucial because it shows the methodic and systematic procedures of The Terminator; there is no hesitation, doubt or
reasoning. The movement in the scene changes its pace frequently. It starts as a steady image and changes when the girl appears riding her tricycle; the camera starts following her and stops when the spectator is able to see the feet the boy quickly stepping off the ground. The transition between the truck and the boots is direct yet paced, creating tension in the scene. After this the camera abruptly changes to see a full body shot of the terminator, this quick change is a confirmation of the expected danger. The camera follows the terminator in a nonstable shot. This gives the spectator the feeling of being an observer in the scene. There is an abrupt change to a first person point of view to see the dog barking from The Terminator’s perspective. When The Terminator knocks on Sarah’s door the camera position returns to a spectator point of view. The frames of the dialogue between the two characters have a fast transition varying from different viewpoints. After the terminator smashes the door to shoot Sarah everything happens in slow motion. This change of pace creates tension and adds drama to the scene. One of the most important aspects of this frames is that when The Terminator aims at Sarah the viewer is in The Terminator’s perspective, allowing the audience to feel as a machine. The message of the scene is concise and straightforward: machines are the antagony of humanity. Even though a machine is capable of processing information it is not capable of going beyond of what it was programmed to do; in this case it is not capable of not shooting the wrong Sarah Connor, simply because he was programmed to exterminate a Sarah Connor that lived in a certain area.
Anyone can teach others from leading by example. Showing others what you can accomplish establishes confidence in others to try out their own dreams, wishes, and goals. A great example of leading by example is Gus, Clark, and Richie in the movie The Benchwarmers. These men meet Nelson, a stereotypical nerd that is bullied by baseball jocks every day just because he wants to play with them. This little boy inspires the men to show others that everyone should have the same opportunity to play baseball, no matter the skill level.
Humans are funny creatures. We judge and classify others and ourselves into groups. We tear apart others esteem to feel stronger. And we put limits on ourselves, whether they are thought up by our imagination or other’s. The truth is, we aren’t perfect, but we can become better, that is, if we choose to. Benchwarmers captures that thought perfectly. Though it is a comedy, and a very hilarious one at that, it provides some very true points to consider. Benchwarmers is a great movie to watch because within this side-splittingly funny movie, there are important messages such as: bullying is a double edged sword, stereotypes can be overcome, and that diversity is what makes life exciting.
The film Sunset Boulevard, presented in 1950 is a black and white film. The film is about Norma Desmond an old actress, who has issues accepting that she is becoming old. The main actor in the film is Gloria Swanson, who plays Norma Desmond, an older woman who believes she is still young. Desmond is not content with the fact that Hollywood has replaced her with younger actresses. The next actor Nancy Olson, plays Betty Schaffer who falls in love with Gillis despite being engaged to his friend. The third actor is William Holden who plays as Joe Gillis, who has financial problems and decides to turn himself into a gigolo to earn money. The dilemma with Joe is he does not want Betty to know about his job because he knows he might lose Betty as
This paper entitled, Imitation of Life is based on the movie Imitation of Life. This movie is set in the 1940s. In the movie, an African American woman by the name of Annie becomes the care taker of a Caucasian woman's (Lora) daughter, Susie. In the movie, the caretaker Annie has a daughter named Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane is the product of a rape, performed by a Caucasian man, which results in her being fair skinned and able to pass as a Caucasian woman, which she does for a long time. Due to the fact this movie focuses on the themes of identity and class, I will use the following psychological views and tests to discuss how psychology can be demonstrated every day. The Kenneth
“There once was a time in this business when I had the eyes of the whole world! But that wasn't good enough for them, oh no! They had to have the ears of the whole world too. So they opened their big mouths and out came talk. Talk! TALK!” (Sunset Boulevard). The film Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder focuses on a struggling screen writer who is hired to rewrite a silent film star’s script leading to a dysfunctional and fatal relationship. Sunset Boulevard is heavily influenced by the history of cinema starting from the 1930s to 1950 when the film was released.
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.
It appeals to the audience emotions because it shows that the dog is more than just a pet to the guy. As the guy leaves with his friends the guy says “see you later buddy” to show the audience that the guy plans on coming back. The music is also very important because as the dog waits the music starts to slow down until the dog finally loses hope and the music stops. Then when the guy walks through the door the happy music starts up. When the black screen and white letters show up it grabs the attention because it interrupts the video and it usually means something important. When the guy arrives he immediately hugs and plays with the dog. It shows that he cares and was also worried about the dog. He then explains to the dog why he didn’t come home that night. He repeats “im back” to show that he is glad that he decided to not drink and
Saw is a American horror film directed by James Wan. The film is about a killer who calls himself the Jigsaw. He kills and/or “teaches” his victims to respect life. He watches his victims and then abducts them when learning their problems in life.
As a fan of cinema, I was excited to do this project on what I had remembered as a touching portrait on racism in our modern society. Writer/Director Paul Haggis deliberately depicts his characters in Crash within the context of many typical ethnic stereotypes that exist in our world today -- a "gangbanger" Latino with a shaved head and tattoos, an upper-class white woman who is discomforted by the sight of two young Black kids, and so on -- and causes them to rethink their own prejudices during their "crash moment" when they realize the racism that exists within themselves.
Thesis: We will take a look at the opening scene of Dark Knight. The highlight of the scene for most moviegoers was the joker’s reveal at the end of the robbery where he removes his mask. We are all surprised, and in all truth we should not have been surprised. The movie gives us obvious clues to show that the man in the mask is the joker. This analysis will focus on some of those clues and give you a scene by scene analysis of the many different characters involved to understand better the distractions in place to ensure the Joker’s identity remains anonymous. With the help of critics and scholars, the clues throughout the movie confuse the audience and the identity of who the real villain is.
The film The Green Mile was originally written by Stephen King and later directed by Frank Darabont. It is based on the guards and inmates of a penitentiary’s Death Row during the great depression. There is a certain monotony that comes with working on Death Row and Paul Edgecomb, played by Tom Hanks, has become numb to the fact that he is paid to take lives; that is until John Coffey gets sentenced to death and is sent to Paul’s “green mile”. John Coffey is a very large black man that was accused of rape and murder of two little girls, and in the 1930’s having charges like that brought upon you was grounds for the death penalty, especially for a black man in the south.
Spike Lee’s film Do The Right Thing is a film that explores race relations within the United States. Some of my favorite shots of the film are part of the scene at Sal’s when Buggin Out returns with Radio Raheem and Smiley, demanding that black people be added to the wall. This scene begins with a medium shot of Buggin Out, Raheem and Smiley as they enter Sal’s. The camera then pulls out into a medium long shot of the group. Once they advance, the camera tilts upwards into a medium shot of Raheem and a medium close-up of Buggin Out. The medium shot remains throughout the beginning of the scene. The shots change as the group and Sal exchange words. The use of the dutch angle is what makes this scene so visually striking for me. The camera is
Fruitvale Station (2013) is an American realistic drama film that was written and directed by Ryan Coogler. The film tracks the story of Oscar Grant, an ex-convict who becomes determined to get his life back on track for the sake of his daughter Tatiana, and Girlfriend Chantay. However on New Year’s Eve Oscar was shot and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) officer and later died in hospital. Bride and Prejudice (2004), directed by Gurinder Chadha, is an adapted style of the classic novel; Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen. The film is a Hollywood based musical comedy incorporating and discovering the blend of Westernised and Indian Cultures between an Indian farm girl Lalita Bakshi and Will Darcy, an American Hotel Inheritor
Hollywood is an interesting entity, it provides the world with entertainment that is exciting, emotional, unique and so much more. At the same time, however, it’s hard not to see Hollywood as a money grubbing industry, full of sleazy deals, awful movies and it has even produced films completely diluted of originality. One style of filmmaking that often gets this label of unoriginality is remakes, which “While genre films, cycles, and sequels… have found their legitimate place in film theory and criticism, the same cannot be said for the remake, which at least since the fifties, has been treated as a less than respectable Hollywood commercial practice.”
The art or science of the picture that photographer put into the scene in the film is that The Matrix is set in a dystopian advanced, world where computer machines have taken over the world. The computers oppress human’s to generate electronic power by their brains and body heat to power them in the absence of the Sun. Looking to the point where by Neo gets the truth and decided to go deeper into the Rabbit Whole to find the truth if he is “The One”, by joining Morpheus and Trinity. We see that The Oracle who predicted that Neo is The One to end the war between humans and machines. I can emphasis that by putting the scene where by Agents kill Neo before even escaping The Matrix. Neo is then recharged by a kiss from Trinity in the real world