Cinematography Essay Examples and Topics. Page 25

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Culture Artifact Film “Into the Great Pyramid”

The film "into the Great Pyramids", answers some of these views including the culture of the people who built the Pyramids and also how they accomplished this phenomenal engineering feat.
  • Subjects: Documentaries
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 920

“The Wild Bunch” (1969) by Sam Peckinpah

The movie is a 1969 movie directed by director Sam Peckinapah centered around a group of outlaws, an outlaw gang, on the border of two states that of Texas and the state of Mexico.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1072

The Movie Troy by Warner Brothers

This sustains the meaning of the film that a man is his honor and pride because in years to come, people are led to believe that Achilles death was caused by one shot on his [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1122

Arguments in Star Trek Movie

There is conflict between Maddox and Captain Picard when the admiral introduces the commander and reveals that he is intending to work on the android that is Data.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2293

To Kill a Mockingbird: Movie Analysis

Speaking of the movements which convey the essence of the film without any speech "intrusion", it would be a good idea to drive the example of Boo Radley standing in the darker corner of the [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 575

An Analysis of Films

Scene selected: The prison camp in the movie: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The prison camp scene of the movie is selected for this analysis.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1599

Analysis of Planning Issues – Maria Full of Grace

The people in charge of urban planning and design can not afford to ignore this very fundamental issue. The globalization process has strengthened the development of global communities which have led to social and economic [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 468

Monsters (2010) by Gareth Edwards

Director Gareth Edwards makes use of black and white footage in the beginning of the film, which at the end of the movie, is revealed as actually what happens after the lead characters are rescued [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1725

Editorial Cartoon NFL Tragedy by Rob Tornoe

In the cartoon, the artist tries to depict the reaction of other people to this tragedy and show how trifle other problems are comparing to the sufferings experienced by the Japanese people.
  • Subjects: Animated Films
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1670

Thelma and Louise (1991) by Ridley Scott

Thelma and Louise is a title of the movie that itself illustrates two characters of the movie. The movie, Thelma and Louise has managed to enhance the significance of the role of women.
  • Subjects: Comedy
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1184

The Movie “Batman Begins” – the Story About Hero

This includes the call to adventure, the encouragement of a wise old man, the hero falls in love, the hero is in the belly of the whale, magic flight and help from friends, battle with [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1547

Videocracy: A Double-Sided Sword for the Fame-Hungry

A snapshot of the life path of the great, the miserable plebs and the cunning in-between specific social layer, journalists, the movie director has managed to show the amazing fusion of tragedy and mockery of [...]
  • Subjects: Documentaries
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1764

“Monster” by Patty Jenkins

An examination of the budget for the film shows that a total of $8 million was used in filming Monster as such the sparseness may either be due to the limited budget or the intentions [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1302

Feminism in Roger and Dodger Film

The plot of the movie tends towards portraying women as inferior to men given majority of the women in the movie fall into traps set by men very easily.
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1135

Aging in Society and Community

The superb comedy movie also looks at the major life changes, such as retirement and life of widowhood, transformations in living arrangements, and economic and political issues that define the habits of the old people [...]
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  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 543

TV Reality and People’s Lifestyle

What makes it offending to the ladies in their lives is that they never watch the matches in their houses because they like watching the games in the company of their fellow men and they [...]
  • Subjects: TV
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1251

Battleship Potemkin

Both individuals tended to perceive the process of movie's editing as being similar to the process of composing music just as composer constructs a melody out of individually sounding and often dissonant musical notes, film's [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1134

Fight Club – Analysis of Consumerism

If the cost of a recall is expected to be higher than the cost of dealing with lawsuits, initiated by unsatisfied customers, the car-manufacturing company will not move a finger: "Take the number of vehicles [...]
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1379

Sidney Lumet and His Concerns

The story told in the movie A Stranger Among Us is similar to all stories used by Sydney Lumet where the director manages to introduce characters who by all means choose the side of observing [...]
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1088

Exploring Autism in the Drama Film Rain Man

Charlie Babbitt, the brother to Raymond, is the actor who portrays Raymond's autism on the way to Los Angeles to secure his fair share in the Babbitt's $3 million fortunes in form of inheritance.
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1114

Racism in the “Crash”

It is worthy noting that, all the characters in the film are victims of crashes and none is free of sympathy. The wouldisappearance' referred to by Graham is that of racism.
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1216

“28 Days” by Betty Thomas

All other inmates assisted her to realize herself as she tries to come back to her senses and deal with her alcoholism, at the end, she tries on giving up the alcoholism. She ended up [...]
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1146

My Opinion on the Movie Titanic

Upon the knowledge of the portray, Dawson Calvert contacted Lovett, she was asked if she knew about the necklace and she said that indeed she was the one Rose DeWittone of the passengers deemed to [...]
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 859

Seven Years in Tibet Movie

The movie tells the true story of Heinrich Harrier, who with his great passion and courage, journeys for several years from Austria to the city of Lhasa in Tibet to meet Dalai Lama, a spiritual [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 573

Avatar Movie Analysis

For instance, in one of the interviews Cameron denoted that he was sure in the success of his project since he saw what characters and settings were possible to create with the help of technology: [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2158

The Genre of Crime and Gangster Movies

The gangster movies always tend to idolize the gangster figures with a relation to the sinister activities that always define crime and the lifestyles of the gangsters.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1856

Michael Curtiz: Casablanca (1942)

The things that are brought to light in the paper concerning the movie are; summery of the plot, characters, music used, reception, awards and finally errors and inaccuracy in the movie.
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1292

Film Analysis – “A History of Violence”

"A History of Violence" is a 2005 American thriller movie that is based on a novel bearing the same name and it tells the story of Tom Stall, a restaurant owner in the small town [...]
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1041

Compare Two Movies Related With Human Rights

In the Name of the Father is a movie that portrays an innocent arrest of Gerry Colon and subsequent torture for him to confess the terrorist's crimes he did not commit and enduring long legal [...]
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 907

Roman Patriotism in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator”

The gladiator Maximus, and the general in one person, embodies the greatest Roman patriotism, in the name of which he sacrifices his wife and son, loses his liberty and wastes his precious life.
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1237

Movie Characters and Their Influence on the Plot

Here, he means that he can help the king to get rid of the prisoners; it is evident that his sole purpose is not to help the king; he wants to make more and more [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1060

Film Character Analysis

Rushmore is a brilliant example of a boy's life where it is necessary to perform a number of particular roles without considering personal ambitions and interests; the boy finds it interesting to use his funny [...]
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1242

Film History as Cultural Myth-Making

The director of the film utilizes the visual stereotypes of the Australian desert landscapes for producing the effect of isolation of the country from the rest of the world.
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 834

“The Time Traveler’s Wife” Film Analysis According to the Book

The latter had been found in the 5th edition of Interpersonal Relationships, outlining the processes of formation, development, and deterioration of human connections, explaining the problems and the roots of these problems of human relationships, [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2297

Pulp Fiction: Moral Development of American Life and Interests

Quentin Tarantino introduces his Pulp Fiction by means of several scenes which have a certain sequence: proper enlightenment, strong and certain camera movements and shots, focus on some details and complete ignorance of the others, [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2282

The Corporation & Our Media, Not Theirs

Of course, a lot of negative things about corporations are revealed, but still the film shows that it is possible to influence corporations; this film makes the viewers not only see and admit the facts [...]
  • Subjects: Documentaries
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1109

Guns, Germs and Steel

In the movie, Jared uses the conquest of the Spaniards over the Incas to illustrate how geography contributed in a big way to the development of some cultures such that they became superior over others. [...]
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 876

Review of the Film Eat a Bowl of Teiasa

The work is a depiction of the clashes between Chinese culture and way of life and the American ideas existing at the time in Chinatown of the City of New York in the period after [...]
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 892

The Crucible (1996) by Nicholas Hytner

Although Miller has never consented to the historical accuracy of the story, most of the events in the story match up with the occurrences in Salem, Massachusetts during the seventeenth century.
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  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 544

“Ocean’s Eleven” (2001 film)

They disclose to him the scheme of stealing money from the vaults of the Bellagio, The Mirage and the MGM Grand casinos owned by his former rival in the same business, Terry Benedict.
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 856

What Can Make People Blind?

Probably, one of the goals he wants to achieve is to find a person to whom it is possible to pass his knowledge about pansori.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 817

Saving Private Ryan:

Saving Private Ryan is a brilliant movie about the war and people in it; a true story of life, created by Steven Spielberg; a piece of art that awakes the kindest feelings and emotions.
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  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 851

Citizen Cane: the Significance of Rosebud

As it finally turns out, the sled, which the Rosebud eventually turned out to be, appears to be the symbol of Kane's childhood and everything that being a child involved, that is, having fun and [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1082

Does Cinematography Leave no Place for Imagination?

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is one of the most famous and most loved fantasy novels for children all over the world. However, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 867

Propaganda in the “Triumph of the Will”

This is propaganda because the development of Germany was not based on the efforts of the labor force alone, but also on all German citizens and the world at large. He is often heard saying [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 899

Issues of Japanese Cultural Identity

The other way the anime productions deal with the issues of the Japanese and their cultural identity is by presenting the aspects and ideas that define the people of Japan.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 832

Censorship for Television and Radio Media

This paper seeks to provide an in-depth analysis of censorship with the aim of determining the extent to which content on broadcast media can be censored. A good example of a situation in which moral [...]
  • Subjects: TV
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 846

A Beautiful Mind: A Mental Health Portrayal

He is the central character in the film and he ends up in conflict due to the struggles that he faces after being diagnosed with a mental disorder.
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 549

Ted: Not Really a Kid’s Movie

In Ted movie, there is throwing in of some excellent action scenes and all the characters in the film have this laid back technique which makes the movie to feel a bit more natural.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1687

Fried Green Tomatoes Movie

Throughout the movie, we are kept entertained by the mix of comedy as well as a bit of drama. At this juncture, the movie is probably trying to explain the irony of life.
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 994

Persepolis: Movie vs. Book Comparison Essay

But it is still easy to realize that two chapters in the book have been completely done away with in the movie: those of 'The Letter' and 'The Jewels'. The scene at the end of [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1100

The Movie Exhibition Industry

The exhibitors are overcharging the customers and this has reduced the number of people willing to go to the movies. For exhibitors to create a great experience for movie goers they can improve the food [...]
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 577

“Metropolis” by Fritz Lang

The role of the slaves living in the subterranean region is to work in power stations to ensure that their masters and other people in authority live comfortable lives.
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 608

Dubbing in France: 1920’s To Date

The film Europe policy of 1920's allowed importation of films into the French market, thereby increasing the number of films coming in from other European countries especially Germany at the expense of the local industry.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 979

“Shadow of Hate” Film Analysis

Irish Catholics were also the subject of hate propaganda and were viewed as agents of the Vatican and the Pope; hysterical American Protestants used all means to stop the spread of Catholicism in America, and [...]
  • Subjects: Documentaries
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 598

Slumdog Millionaire

The bulk of the story entails the life experiences of the boy, which justify his ability to answer all the questions in the quiz.
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  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 839

The Cove Documentary

In spite of awareness, there has been sufficient evidence that hunting of dolphins is increasing by the day. From the film, it is evident that a small proportion of dolphin is consumed locally while the [...]
  • Subjects: Documentaries
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 617

“Gone Baby Gone” Movie

Corruption and conspiracy are some of the negative aspects of the community that the film has used as one of its main themes.
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 643

Wladyslaw Starewicz vs. Walt Disney

This paper compares and contrasts the lives and works of these individuals since they are the animation kings of the twentieth century."Wladyslaw Starewicz was born in Poland in the late 1800s".
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1091

Film Criticism: Literature Overview

The author of the book had provided a critical overview of a number of theories devoted to films and supported those with the examples to show that his words are not empty. The great part [...]
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1107

Annie Hall by Woody Allen

The events of this affair since its on set, when they fall in love, the disagreements while in love and eventually the disintegration of the relationship are captured in the film.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2108

“World in the Balance: China Revs Up”

It must be noted that cars are one of the primary contributors to the release of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere, with the growing car population in China it is to be expected that the [...]
  • Subjects: Documentaries
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 671

Woody Allen’s “A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy”

The film embodies the art of comedy, which portrays how humans manage to laugh and accept the diversities of life and on how to cope with the painful experiences that somehow contribute to the character [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 599

Principles of Management / Film Review

On the other hand, Commodus who is now the defunct heir to the throne throws a fit after learning from his father that he will not become Emperor to the kingdom. Lucilla and Maximus had [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2172

An Artistic Criticism of the Film Syriana: The Multi-Plot Flick

The movie to some extent purports that the US Congress can participate in numerous discussions about the profits realized by oil companies without ever establishing the real core of the matter because even the individuals [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1261

Rio Bravo: A Western With Deep Relationship Insight

Wood calls that relationship a family relationship, where Chance is "Father", "the master of the "home" but with the freedom to move outside"; Stumpy is "Mother", who almost never leaves "the home/jail"; Dude and Colorado [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1131

Documentary “Super Size Me”

On the other hand, the sugars which are said to be in almost all McDonald's products, made Spurlock addicted to the food that he ate and made him always coming back for more.5.
  • Subjects: Documentaries
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 770

“The Visitor” by Thomas McCarthy

These features of the movie are developed as the protagonist, Walter, tries to mourn and recover from the death of his wife.
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 587

Father and Son Relations: Analysis of the Movies

The situations and backgrounds, presented in all these movies help to comprehend and describe the obligations, which dads have to their sons: some dads want to protect their sons, other dads think that their duty [...]
  • Subjects: Movies Analysis
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 673