Film Studies Essay Examples and Topics. Page 10

The events in the film take place in Poland in 1939 depicting the relocation of Polish Jews to the Krakow Ghetto.

So, let us consider the film "Dirty Dancing" in all its aspects through the prism of arts, including plot, screening techniques, the cast of the actors that played in it, and the influence it had [...]

To make his way to the bus, to fake his death and to problem-solve scenarios to be with Leo and his family, Bob overcomes his fears or at least uses humor and a sense of [...]

The training for such programs enable the candidate to become well versed with the different features in regard to handling time and frame based subtitles, checking and fixing of errors in the subtitles, getting frame [...]

He gave the shark a signature in the sound track that warned the audience and set up what Hitchcock called that anticipation which was better than the actual act.

The movie provided a sharp critique on the media represented by television in redirecting public focus and opinion as well as on the control and influence of advertisers on political matters.

Born in Austria, von Stroheim was considered a military expert, and his popularity was such that he could get away with making long films of up to eight hours duration which remained popular for the [...]

Benedick is an in depth character and he plays a key role in the movie in a variety of ways. Benedick was unmasked when he overheard Leonato, Don Pedro and Claudio in the garden talking [...]

In the film, one of Plainview's workers dies in the oil fields and the man's son becomes an orphan that Plainview takes under his wing.

In analyzing the characters, it should be mentioned that due to the style of narration of the film which is divided to chapters the cast of characters is very diverse and viewers can decide which [...]

In the current paper I will speak of two of them: the call for actions of the US government concerning the video games and the way the US government reacts to emergency situations.

In this paper, both of the movies various perspectives would be analyzed and contrasted n order to determine the way they portray relationships and the way people are caught at cross roads.

To begin with, it is necessary o mention, that Hollywood had attained a reputation as the propagandist of the American ideals and American way of life.

The plot of the film concentrates on the attempts of the person to hold his family together. The father is gradually sinking in the eyes of the public; his wife Ling intends to leave him [...]

It involves the knowledge of numerous techniques and methods of filming used together with the background of the film and the two contexts the one in which the film was created and another one in [...]

In science fiction movies such as The Terminator I and Terminator II and Blade Runner, by creating characters that are half-human and half-machine, the might of technology is explored as something to be both celebrated [...]

The main protagonist of the movie is Forest Gump, whose life has been shown in the movie and the villain is Gump himself.

In the movie Spanglish, Flor wanted a better life for her daughter and for her daughter to keep her native language and heritage.

The 1932 film adaptation of Hemingway's novel is centered on the theme of love that will endure everything in the world.

The point is that at the very beginning of the movie, it seems to them that they will hardly talk to each other when their detention is, however, it happens to be just the opposite [...]

The dialogue between the narrative that constitutes the bulk of the movie indicates that expeditions are only a form while human relations are the main focus of this film The main limitation and a negative [...]

The actors like Charlie Chaplin made a great contribution to the development of the film industry on the whole, and to the development of the comedy genre in particular.

The current paper is devoted to comparison of the two portraits of the famous artists: Rembrandt's Woman with a Pink and Hans Holbein the Younger's Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap.

The movie presumes that people feel bitterness and prejudice towards members of different groups, and helps its viewers see the consequences of such mentalities."Crash" combines the stories of blacks, whites, Koreans, Iranians, Latinos, police, criminals, [...]

In the movie, director Alien Berliner plots the Ludovic character of a small boy who crosses dresses himself and generally behaves like a girl, and he wanted to marry his neighbor's son.

The movie was mostly shot in France upon the insistence of Frederick Loewe as a condition of his writing the lyrics for the score by Lerner.

In traditional societies, the family system tended to take the form of the extended family. Thus, the gender aspect is reversed and the male is found to be dominated by women in the movie making [...]

The movie appealed to the conscience of the people of the world and explained how poverty broke human relations, created vulnerabilities, and seriously affected human society.

It is natural to feel overwhelmed by the intricacies and complexities of the many environmental problems confronting society and by the belief that an individual is at the mercy of all the variables that threaten [...]

The deep involvement of the residents with the team and the winning-is-everything attitude is a theme common to the book and movie.

In the sequels, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Schwarzenegger reprises the role, but with a twirl: Schwarzenegger is the hero but not the criminal, playing a dissimilar but visually [...]

In fact, the abundance of comments and the close depictions of the characters point to the fact that they have plenty of time to get to know one another better because of the boredom of [...]

During the last generation the term has acquired a central position in psychological and social theory due, perhaps, to greater awareness of the dislocations in the relationship between individual and society that characterize the process [...]

It is so far out of the circle that when Ted Koppel held a "Nightline" town gathering in the armed force stranglehold of Decter, Mich, after the violence, the language blockade was so said he [...]

For Ditie therefore to attain his dreams, he has to have knowledge to be the best of what he wanted. The story of Ditie's had become more interesting with his meeting the girl in his [...]

It's an unusual film because it is set all in one room and the courtyard. I enjoyed the film and thought Hitchcock did it very well.

This paper explores the aesthetic importance, artistic style and appeal as well as other aspects of David Lynch's three films Eraserhead, Lost Highway and Inland Empire basing on Michel Chion's ideas and perspectives as well [...]

On the right, her son Harry unplugs the television and asks his mother for the keys to the padlock, chaining it to the radiator; on the left, Sara, her nerves frayed from having seen this [...]

In order to properly describe the technical setting that includes the color palette and set design for the movie Pan's Labyrinth, it is necessary to understand the most about the film why such set design [...]

The rest, as the saying goes, is history.'Jaws,' a movie based on a novel of the same name by Peter Benchley, featured a killer shark viciously attacking people, with Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss in [...]

At the same time, his ability to be a successful gambler is threatened because of the spotlight on his wife's personal and public life.

In The Prestige, the effects of film noir are employed to create a mood of mystery, suspicion and the darkness that is at the heart of passion.

Its symbolic theme is set in the world of an authentic mental hospital, a place of insurgence exhibited by a vigorous, flamboyant, wise-guy anti-hero against the Establishment, institutional authority and status-quo attitudes.[Forman himself noted that [...]

The sense of mystery established at the opening of the film, with the discovery of the famously lost squadron of torpedo bombers incongruously set down in the Sonora Desert in the middle of a dust [...]

So, this essay will be dedicated to the analysis of the depiction of death in the works of art, and in the movie "Dying Young" in particular.

The plot revolves around two prominent events in Frida's life - the trolley car accident in 1929 that breaks her back and dooms her to a life of excruciating pain, and her marriage to Diego [...]

Yasujiro is also remembered for the unlikely revelations that may well leave the viewer a little derailed, eventually paints a nuance that deepens the emotional impact of the material.

He wants to be part of the Gattaca's project in going to the space. This is the start of a 'symbiosis' between Vincent and Eugene.

In 2005, director Christopher Nolen was successful in reintroducing the apotheosis of Batman to the modern world with his film "Batman Begins" This film depicts the birth of the god-like figure known as Batman.

Through the usage of color scheme, props, and the setting of the last mise en scene, A Matter of Life and Death facilitated the propagandist message of Anglo-American understanding within the pursuit of individual happiness.

The movie spans the last years of Egypt before it became a Roman province, with the political intrigue around it and the emotional intrigue that Cleopatra stirred with her wit, beauty, and ambition.

Roberta is one of the central characters in the movie Desperately Seeking Susan, and her cinematographic portrayal is crucial for the plot of this firm.

A significant part of the scene's appeal is its meaning, which was unusual for the time and revolutionized the concept of storytelling in films.

Further, the guys in the cabin find the entrance to the basement where the main character Dana finds a diary and reads a spell, thereby summoning the family of the dead murderers.

The portrayal of urban landscapes in film noir is a notable example of this interrelation, as it reflects in the issues of control, surveillance, and policing in a big city.

Shore focused on the utilization of flute, clarinet, and vibraphone in this piece to emphasize a kind of mystery and uncertainty.

Thus, the film directly deals with the question of spirituality because it represents the journey of Chris in Heaven and Hell.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a tragicomedy that combines the actual depictions of life in the United States and exaggeration to demonstrate cultural features and values such as justice and intolerance towards discrimination.

The first scene that illustrates DiBattista's quote about fast-talking dames and patriarchal femininity is the court scene in which Amanda uses her final argument to defend Doris.

The quality of the chosen images and entourage can be defined as one of the first reasons why it is wrong to think that Beauty and the Beast is a failure or a bad movie.

Thus, the movie The Thing from Another World can be applied to the category of marvelous films, as it shows the encounters of human beings with representatives of other planets and worlds.

The film The Help was a story about the problem of segregation in American society of the 1950s and 1960s when the Civil Rights Movement of Blacks had just begun to appear.

Disney's world of magic earned popularity in 1937 with the theatrical premiere of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. The main reason why Disney's idea of remaking the good old classical animated films is not [...]

This paper aims at reviewing the movie Greta and analyzing the director's principal claim, the moral of the movie, and the techniques which the director used to bring his ideas to the audience.

Despite bringing World War II to an end, it took the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people and brought significant destruction both to the nature of Japan and the well-being of the population.

From the beginning, the directors of the film warn the viewer that the movie is about at least two things: hunting and death.

Therefore, the popularity of American cinema and, particularly, the Hollywood cinema, may be defined by the general appeal of the broad themes that they choose for their movies."The Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol.

What is the main situation of the movie, and how it is related to the immigration problem? The minister of defense Delacourt makes all the efforts to strengthen the control over the unauthorized attempts of [...]

To establish a fundamental starting in the analysis of the rhetorical function of fantasies in the movie "The Island", directed by Michael Bay, the foundations of structural-functional theory will be described in context.

The problem of discussing the film "The Quiet Man" directed by John Ford as rather Irish or American can be considered controversial because of the fact the plot of the story is based on the [...]

However, here we could also see a lamp, telephone, sandwiches, and some other objects that contribute to the creation of the less tensed atmosphere.

In his film Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee focuses on stereotypes that exist within a neighborhood, which allows him to show how the representatives of the general public face societal issues, emphasizing that their [...]

The development of the plot and characters is more pronounced in the film than the effects are. The movie shows that there are positive and negative sides to every person's character, and it depicts the [...]

The topic of the essay will be focused on the aspects of the plot, character, and cinematography that differed from previous comic films and will seek to explain the effect that the Dark Knight trilogy [...]

This paper includes an analysis of the final quote of professor Louis Levy concerning the meaning of human life and the way the words relate to the film.

Moreover, the film raises questions about death and immortality, justice and belief in it, meanness and unfairness of reality, evil and kindness."The Green Mile" is about the miracle.

One of the scenes that were reminiscent of an entomological fact was the one where a person was waving his or her hand to chase away mosquitoes.

I feel that the appropriate choice of colors and music used in the movie helps to reveal the urgency and seriousness of the message it conveys.

The lights in the scenes where Buggin' Out confronts Sal about the pictures on the wall through the point where the fight breaks out are dull. The power of lights is used to manipulate the [...]

Furthermore, science fiction films can be considered as the sub-class of horror films because both genres depend on the Discovery Plot which focuses on establishing the presence of the specific monster in the film, and [...]

Ever since the invention of motion pictures, the movie industry has been organized as a business. The first period is known as the silent period, which ran from the year 1895 to the year 1919.

The planners in this town are not able to balance their personal needs and the growing needs of the town. The politicians were in control of all the resources, and this explains the ordeal of [...]

Despite the fact that the narrative of the film follows the rise and the fall of a businessman, it is far from the typical "poor boy made good" ideology since the main character is not [...]

In this paper, the possibility to transfer one's political sensibilities, the correlation between movie texts and feature-length non-documentary texts, and the way My Own Private Idaho has influenced my personal political sensibilities are examined.

The most notable of them is the image of the character of Amy, who drinks some hard liquor straight from the bottle, wrapped in a paper bag in the same way that it is being [...]

Polanski utilizes the city of Los Angeles, particularly the neighborhood of Chinatown, as the symbolic representation of all that is "...unknowable, terrifying..".and beyond the scope of law and order.

The hardships of assimilation are put to the fore in the film In Between Days. It is necessary to note that the vast majority of the challenges immigrants face are not in the spotlight.

The social mask of Kang is that of the unpredictable cop who can break the law for making a profit. The concept of "throwness" is used to describe the experience when the person has to [...]

The picture keeps an eye on the steps of the day-to-day existence of a dysfunctional family, where the three brothers and a sister one by one decided to return to their family home and live [...]

The validity of the suggestion can be well illustrated in regards to the recently produced 'Bond movies', which appear only slightly less sexist, as it used to be the case with the same category of [...]

Discussing the movie from the viewpoint of Freudian identification, the main protagonists have been the brightest examples of expressing two opposing instincts, or drives, existing within the human being those of creativity, sexuality, and construction [...]

Barthes noted that the primary goal of wrestling is to demonstrate the irrelevance of the purely moral concept of justice. The concepts of social injustice and wrestling as the best way of understanding things offered [...]

Speaking of the issue that must be the one of the most interest to the audience, that is, the episode with the crosscutting, it must be noticed that it was not the initial idea of [...]

In the beginning scene, how does the sound of the train interact with the situation? What is the role of the sound of the falling rain in the movie?

To evaluate the role of City of God in forming the audience's vision of the favelas' reality, it is necessary to focus on such criteria as the depiction of the film's characters, specifics of cinematography, [...]

It started with the departure of Skywalker to a distant galaxy on rescue from slavery by the knights. The mythical patterns in this film attracted the contemporary audiences due to the exemplary plot.

I agree with the author, as I also think that the movie is a set of ideas and opinions that are still in the air.

The call of adventure for Luke in the film is shown when Obi-Wan requests him to accompany him and acquire ways of the force.

One of the main characters was a boy Hiccup, who was considered to be the son of the tribal chief. When the attack of dragons happened again, the boy decided to kill the Night Fury [...]

According to Gondry, Melies was "one of the first guys to see the first screenings of the film, and he was the first guy on the earth to think of the camera as an extension [...]

Thus, the meat on the table is a symbol of death, which is near and which is expecting for the protagonist and the men.

As critics go on debating whether the play should be a tragedy or not, a moving social documentary, a confirmation of the spirit of Americans, or a conveyance of the salesman's life, people in the [...]

The following paper presents my impressions about the movie and some thoughts about the plot, characters, and the emotions it awakens.

The plot of the story is set up in the great depression. Joad gets back home to discover the astonishing effects of the depression on every person in the area.

It is an integrated musical in the sense that both songs and dances are merged perfectly well alongside with a story that gives it a fine and appealing taste to the public. Although the film [...]

In Lion's Den, Trapero acts as a representative of the latter category of filmmakers, as he is focused on narrating the story of the main character and not on making the viewer experience certain emotions [...]

The author initially explains the concepts of marianismo and mariana identity by stating that they originated in the legacy of the Catholic Church, in which women are seen as "subservient and docile"; the reason for [...]

The purpose of this paper is to explore the philosophical foundation of that theory and see how it is tied to the basis behind The Matrix.

Although The Seventh Seal incorporates the elements of tricking death, which would, later on, become rather cliched tropes, the underlying message of studying one's fears and limitations allows delving into the study of the human [...]

This essay will explore the defining characteristics of Peckinpah's films that affected the development of the Western genre in the future.

The Fifth G films depart from the Chinese visual arts and the fashion of film narration that prevailed in the domestic market before, yet it is possible to say that the movie discourse of that [...]

In "Dances with Wolves", one of the most obvious non-verbal cues that occurred in the communication between the American soldier, Lieutenant Dunbar, and the representatives of the Sioux tribe was the greeting.

At the beginning of the movie, we mistakenly take his attitude for granted, but the development of the plot discloses the negative consequences of the Professor's actions.

In his review of the American cinema and the city, Clapp1 argues that immigrants played an important role in the development of American film.

Another innovative step in merchandising, typical for high concept movies, is the graphic novel Mad Max: Fury Road that was a prequel to the movie.

The movie The King and the Clown is one of the first films in contemporary Korean cinema to portray open homosexuality on screen.

This made Park Chan-wook a transnational auteur as his vision and style in the movie became symbolic of South Korean cinema as a whole, primarily due to the numerous opportunities to commercialize a phenomenon that [...]

The plot and cinematography maintain a somber tone that genuinely reflects the dark world of the protagonists but is cleverly contrasted with the sentimental symbolism of a daisy flower.

Japanese occupation Korea over the course of decades had significant impacts on the country's film industry."This period of Korea's 'occupied cinema' is best understood within these multiple contexts created by the pressures exerted by a [...]

Rapid industrialization and modernization of South Korea resulted in the class divide and evident social dysfunction as communication became broken down, and the working class was isolated."Tribulations of two young men, symbols of the minjung, [...]