CASABLANCA Throughout history, the film industry has seen many directing styles and techniques. The early part of the 20th century saw a factory style of film production, but as the years went by, director's began to employ new and untried techniques in their pictures. One such technique which these director's implemented was a new approach to the use of the camera and camera angles. "Casablanca," an Academy Award winning film of 1942 saw director Michael Curtiz manipulate the camera in ways others
director study I knew exactly who to choose. I believe Tarantino has perfected his craft over the years and kept his distinct directing style and made it easier for audiences to enjoy his violent and gory movies. I'm going to be covering the films Reservoir Dogs, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained, and The Hateful Eight. Tarantino has certain characteristics and directing styles that make his films distinctly his. If you watch any number of his films you’d find that he is a master of dialogue and
Did John Woo's Style of Directing "The Killer" and "Mi2" are not very alike in style. "Hard Boiled" is similar to The Killer and "Hard Boiled's" and "Face off's" shootouts are very similar. In Mi2 a lot of the ideas for the action scenes were developed before the making of the film. This would explain the lack of substance in some of the action scenes. When I say substance I mean action with a purpose. (Show the mountain climbing scene of Mi2) But then again, Woo did not write Mi2
Directing Romeo and Juliet Being a director in a production such as Romeo and Juliet is no easy task, and I enter into this paper with that in mind. My goals are to be creative, and do things differently from the many versions of the play we have viewed in class. Each of those directors took the original text, written by William Shakespeare, and turned it into a unique version of their own; unique in the sense that they changed the tragedy by taking out lines, conversation or even entire scenes
Comparing Baz Luhrman and Zefferelli's Directing styles of Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet in 1598, and since this time the play has been modified to suit many different directors styles and their interpretations of Shakespeares work. In the different versions of Romeo and Juliet that we saw there were 4 main contexts for us the viewer. The first context is n 1998 Baz Luhrman produced the film to appeal to a modern audience, but Zeferelli made his version of Romeo and
Indisputably, Tim Burton has one of the world’s most distinct styles when regarding film directing. His tone, mood, diction, imagery, organization, syntax, and point of view within his films sets him apart from other renowned directors. Burton’s style can be easily depicted in two of his most highly esteemed and critically acclaimed films, Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Burton ingeniously incorporates effective cinematic techniques to convey a poignant underlying message
An archetype, as defined by Literary Terms, is an idea, symbol, pattern, or character type that appears repeatedly in stories from cultures worldwide, symbolizing something universal in the human experience. There are three types of archetypes: symbolic, character, and situational. In her memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls employs each archetype to capture her difficult life growing up due to her father's alcoholism and inability to hold a job. These archetypes also play a crucial role in
Diction The novel in general is written in formal language because of its complex wording and sophisticated style. Hawthorne uses imagery as well as metaphors and irony. The language is flowery at instances and plain in others. His use of diction does not indicate his social status, education or region. Dialogue makes up about half of the novel. The dialogue from character to character is a bit distinct but the language is pretty similar even little Pearls language is very sophisticated. Select
Sandra Cisneros’s short story “Eleven” brilliantly characterizes the immature, shy, and insightful Rachel and illustrates her rejecting attitude towards the sweater, which represents the transition from her adolescence into adulthood. Cisneros primarily uses point of view, childlike diction, and syntax to portray Rachel’s juvenile and timid character. The story opens with Rachel engaging the readers using second person point of view and expressing her outlook on age in a more factual than opinionated
Lowry expresses both satire and seriousness in her style of writing. Through the use of syntax, diction, point of view and formality, Lowry conveys her attitude and opinion towards events in the novel. The narrator of the story writes from Jonas` perspective. The reader learns about the world around Jonas along with Jonas. Next, Lowry uses the narrative technique of withholding knowledge from the reader until the protagonist receives it which affects the way the reader interprets information. It
consciousness that the exchange of language between the speaker and addressee occurs. (HCAL, 349) The second method is the Formalistic Approach, which allows the reader to look at a literary piece, and critique it according to its form, point of view, style, imagery, atmosphere, theme, and word choice. The formalistic views on form, allow us to look at the essential structure of the poem. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray shows aspects of both Dialogical and Formalistic Approaches
Narration Techniques Add Interest in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland In today's popular horror movies, one common element is that the audience always knows what is going to happen. The main character, of course, is clueless. The girl always runs up the stairs when she should be running out the door or into the woods when she should be running to an open area. I am usually forced to yell in exasperation at the TV screen, always hoping that the girl will hear me. Somehow, she never does.
exemplifies an author bestowed underserved popularity and success perpetuated solely by that popularity. Examining both his work and his lifestyle brings to light a dull drive for obsolete accomplishments. While his plotlines can be considered classic, his style portrays an overzealous attempt at sophistication. Hawthorne’s desire to be considered a great writer takes away from the raw content of his works, and leaves the text dry and dull. His work is no longer relevant to a broad audience, further depreciating
Christopher John Francis Boone is a teenager, who is thought to have Asperger Syndrome. Though it is not explicitly stated, he displays all symptoms. Asperger Syndrome is a high functioning branch of Autism and is becoming a more common topic in our everyday lives. I feel that I find a large amount of imagery in this novel is because I have personal experience with Asperger Syndrome, this has given me a whole new understanding of how it must feel to have this syndrome. I also had a chance to observe
The heart of poetry is in its imagery, which leads the reader to perceive all of the senses the poet was feeling – the sights, sounds, scents, touches. A poet uses imagery to evoke these emotions in the reader to paint a mental picture – to “show” the reader the experience that inspired the poet, not just “tell” the story. In “A Noiseless Patient Spider,” Walt Whitman’s use of metaphor and powerful imagery emphasizes the speaker’s own search for soulful connectedness to the world. As written in
“Hyena” is a thought-provoking poem written by Edwin Morgan in the form of a dramatic monologue. Through the poem, the Hyena is portrayed as an unpleasant, calculating character. Edwin Morgan uses various techniques to help the reader understand the character of the Hyena, such as word choice, sentence structure, sound effects and imagery. The poem is written in the second person, and is narrated by the Hyena. This provides the effect of the Hyena speaking directly to the reader, or perhaps, mankind
writings, she describes two different dinners: one at a men’s college, and another at a women’s college. Using multiple devices, Woolf expresses her opinion of the inequality between men and women within these two passages. She also uses a narrative style to express her opinions even more throughout the passages. One of the most prominent rhetorical devices Virginia Woolf uses throughout both pieces is imagery. She uses imagery in order to make the ideas and situations become more personal. An even
A poem is a work of art. It needs more than just a rhyme or a simple meaning to be great. “Abandoned Farmhouse” by Ted Kooser explains human nature by making metaphors and inferences about different objects a family of three left behind on their property after a disaster. It also works very well using descriptions to create a lucid image in the reader’s head of the message the poem is trying to convey. There are many more components that add to the poem to make it unique. Theme, alliteration, diction
Distant Grief Author Seamus Heaney, in the poem “Mid-Term Break,” gives the reader a snapshot of death, detached from any emotional perspective, using narration, imagery, and foreshadowing. This event greatly affected the young poet and he recalls to the reader his memory the events precisely to the hour, with bells dismissing classes at two o’clock, to the ambulance arriving at ten o’clock. The speaker in the poem, assumed to be the poet himself, a young college student returns home mid-semester
What we hope for is not always what we need. This is prevalent in the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston where the characters have his or her dream crushed for the sake of fate. This is especially true for Janie who strives throughout the novel to have her dream of “the pear tree” realized, and Hurston shows this using a variation of metaphor, imagery, and personification. Janie’s attempts at achieving her own pear tree and fails, nevertheless this is done so that she can