The Seven Tenants Of Classic Hollywood Cinema

1. The film I chose that has the Seven Tenants of Classic Hollywood Cinema is The Lucky One. This movie adapted from a fictional book by Nicholas Sparks. As a romance movie, it continues to follow each one of the Seven Tenants of Classic Hollywood Cinema. The first tenant listed is the idea that the film is set in present day, the audience is an observer. You may even get a point of view show of what the actors see. In this movie, you are quite the observer of the story that is unfolding. It begins with a scene where two platoons cross paths, at night overseas during an ambush. In this very scene, you watch as an observer the two platoon’s cross paths. The camera guides from looking at Logan, who is the main character, to looking at two troops

In this movie, the main character is Logan. However, this is not the only distinct character we focus on. The other character is Beth, who is who Logan falls in love with. The film mainly revolves around the two of them. Other characters like Beth’s ex-husband, her mom, and her son, are still important to the movie. However, the number of scenes that Beth and Logan are in, separately and together, cannot compare to the amount the other characters are in. Even with Beth having so many scenes, the main character is still Logan. Evidence for this can be that from the beginning to the end of the film, we watch Logan’s life. We see him fighting overseas, we see his trek across the country to find the woman in the picture he picked up from the ground. We the see him falling in love, moving into a dirty house and cleaning it up, see him walking his dogs, and so many more that stem from the point of view of

This includes classic scenes like kissing in the rain. In the film, during a rain storm, Logan and Beth run from the barn indoors and kiss outside. It also has other techniques like using sunsets as critical background and setting like many other films use for romantical scenes. There are also different techniques like spinning around the couple while they are kissing or using different lighting techniques for different moods. For example, a lot of lighting for happier scenes with brighter colors and darker colors with cool lighting for the more sad, angry