Friday, April 29, 2011

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The Musical





















Female Characters

- Main characters
- talk alot
- tease guys
- all very pretty


Stagecoach Convention

In my opinion yes, stagecoach does follow the conventional western. The main character is usually a guy who breaks the law for the better and characters had cowboy hats, pistols and smoking. Most of the conflicts deal with the Native Americans with very long fighting scenes. Locations consisted with real horses out on real land, also in bars.

Hong Kong

- Hong Kong is known for their intense combat fighting style
- Hong Kong created the revenge plot in movies which is used in America
- biggest effect on hollywood
- Matrix came from the kung fu movies
- Bruce lee was born in San Francisco

Rashamon vs Citizen Kane

In Citizen Kane, the point of view of the characters were very truthful, they didn't have to lie and had no point in lieing. In Rashamon's point of views, the characters lied or even added or took things away from the story, so we never got the real truth. Their themes are that humans are selfish and won't put people before themselves.

Favorite Directors





























Keynotes

Australia:


-none correct spokenn language

-Hugh Jackman

-Peter Jackson




Japan)


-Samurais

-Horror films



China:


-Propaganda

-Bruce Lee

-Kun-Fu Films




UK:


-Kitchen Sink Era

-Documentary




Italy:


-Facist movies

-Neo-Realism

-Depressions




Spain:


-Spanish director forced to leave Spain

-working class

-Antonio Banderas famous actor






France:


-Jean-Luc Godard


- Where Cinema was born


- wanted to be different


Cinema Iran

Three Facts:
1. People are nice and friendly in Iran.
2. Much like America with their celebrations
3. Have same routines as American, and are not much different.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Cross- Pollination Between Hollywood and The world.

Hollywood has given many techniques to the World and the World has given many techniques to Hollywood. For example, comedy started in Hollywood by Charlie Chaplin and erupted from there. Animation is known to be Hollywood's speciality because we are the top in technology.Rashamon came by Japanese Cinema. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was introduced by the Germans which was the first horror film.

Western



I haven't seen any western movies. Nor have I heard about any. Some characteristics of western would be action, good guy bad guy act and cowboys.

The Rashomon Effect


Put some pictures of movies you've seen that play with time or multiple perspectives. What do these movies have in common? What are some of the differences?

Monday, January 10, 2011

Italian Neorealism

What is Italian Neorealism? How do the films we've seen demonstrate its characteristics?


Italian Neorealism is about the whole after affect of World War 2. It talks about the struggles about the middle class life and deals with the constant disappointments of life.