Film Appreciation - Key Concepts
Action Movies
Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist or protagonists are thrust into a series of events that typically include violence, extended fighting, physical feats and frantic chases. Action films tend to feature a resourceful hero struggling against incredible odds, which include life-threatening situations, a villain or a pursuit which usually concludes in victory for the hero (though a small number of films in this genre have ended in the victory for the villain instead). Advancements in CGI have made it cheaper and easier to create action sequences and other visual effects that required the efforts of professional stunt crews in the past. However, reactions to action films containing significant amounts of CGI have been mixed, as films that use computer animations to create unrealistic, highly unbelievable events are often met with criticism.
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Gun (1986) – Ideologically driven movie (Action)
Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks were part of earlier action films.
1940’s 50’s Cowboy movies.
1960’s Bond movies.
1970’s – Urban drama and Angry young man movies.
1980’s - Rambo, Die Hard series.
1990’s – Sequels,
2000 - Onward the cinema action included science fiction and super hero film such as the star war and the dark knight trilogy the expendables the action cinema never goes out of favour.
Ø Disaster Films
Ø Martial Art Movies. Far East intake.
Androgyny –
It is basically and literally concept in cinema. it will not so well accepted but then any way there are some film particularly art or
Cinema where concept of androgyny is also can also be seen occasionally. So androgyny in terms of general identity is a person who does not fit neatly in to the typical masculine and feminine general characteristics of this society. This may be as in fashion general identity sexual identity or orientation and it may refer to biological inter sex physicality. One reason for interest in androgyny. For the surge of second way feminism is in which encompassed nuclear families, working women and their financial independence and collapse of traditional father and mother role models. There is a major book by
The Feminine Mystique
Book by Betty Friedan
Androgyny Example Figures:
Klaus Sperber (January 24, 1944 – August 6, 1983), known professionally as Klaus Nomi, was a German countertenor noted for his wide vocal range and an unusual, otherworldly stage persona.
Nomi was known for his bizarrely visionary theatrical live performances, heavy make-up, unusual costumes, and a highly stylized signature hairdo that flaunted a receding hairline. His songs were equally unusual, ranging from synthesizer-laden interpretations of classical opera to covers of 1960s pop standards like Chubby Checker's "The Twist" and Lou Christie's "Lightnin' Strikes". He is remembered in the United States as one of David Bowie's backup singers for a 1979 performance on Saturday Night Live.[1]
Nomi died in 1983 at the age of 39 as a result of complications from AIDS. He was one of the earliest known figures from the arts community to die from the disease.[2][3]
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (sometimes called Bowie 1973) is a 1979 documentary and concert film by D. A. Pennebaker. It features English singer-songwriter David Bowie and his backing group the Spiders from Mars performing at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on 3 July 1973.[1] At this show, Bowie made the sudden surprise announcement that the show would be "the last show that we'll ever do", later understood to mean that he was retiring his Ziggy Stardust persona.[2][3]
The full-length 90-minute film spent years in post-production [4] before finally having its theatrical premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival on 31 August 1979.[5] Prior to the premiere, the 35 mm film had been shown in 16 mm format a few times, mostly in United States college towns.[4] A shortened 60-minute version was broadcast once in the USA on ABC-TV in October 1974.[1][6][7]
In 1983, the film was finally released to theatres worldwide, corresponding with the release of its soundtrack album entitled Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture.[6][8] The following year, in 1984, the film was released to home video under the title, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture. The film was first released on DVD in 1998.[6] A digitally remastered 30th Anniversary Edition DVD, including additional material from the live show and extras, was released in 2003.
Velvet Goldmine is a 1998 musical drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes from a story by Haynes and James Lyons. It is set in Britain during the glam rock days of the early 1970s; it tells the story of a fictional pop star, Brian Slade. The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival and won the award for the Best Artistic Contribution. Sandy Powell received a BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design. The film utilizes non-linear storytelling to achieve exposition while interweaving the vignettes of its various characters.
The Nomi Song is a 2004 documentary about the life of singer Klaus Nomi, written and directed by Andrew Horn. The film debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2004,[1] where it won a Teddy Award for "Best Documentary Film.
Anthology Film
Also called as omnibus film, portmanteau film- film consisting of several different short films often tied together by only a single theme from eyes brief and interlocking event.
e.g., New York Stories is a 1989 American anthology film; it consists of three shorts with the central theme being New York City.
The first is Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Richard Price and starring Nick Nolte. The second is Life Without Zoë, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and written by Coppola with his daughter, Sofia Coppola. The last is Oedipus Wrecks, directed, written by and starring Woody Allen. In foreign theatrical releases, the order of the three films was altered, Coppola’s being first, followed by Allen’s, and finishing with Scorsese’s.
Ø There is a single theme that runs through some time
Ø The theme is a person for example in four rooms and it can also be a theme
Ø Sometimes anthology films feature a top level a story has a binding agent and a framing device to help establish the frame work of narrative for the rest of the films.
Love at Twenty is a 1962 French-produced omnibus project of Pierre Roustang, consisting of five segments directed by five directors from five countries. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.[2]
Dead of Night is a 1945 British anthology horror film, made by Ealing Studios. The individual segments were directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer. It stars Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes and Michael Redgrave. The film is best remembered for the concluding story, which features Redgrave and concerns a ventriloquist's malevolent dummy.
Darna Mana Hai (English: Fright is Forbidden) is a 2003 Indian anthology horror drama film. The film consists of six different short stories. It stars Saif Ali Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani, Shilpa Shetty, Sameera Reddy, Isha Koppikar, Nana Patekar, Sohail Khan, among many others. Its basic premise is loosely inspired from the movie Campfire Tales . Upon release it met with extremely positive response, making it as a cult classic movie, later in 2006 Verma spawned Darna Zaroori Hai, a sequel with a different ensemble cast, six new cinematographers, seven different directors. Only Rajpal Yadav and director Prawaal Raman were back from the previous installment.
Dus Kahaniyaan (transl. Ten stories) is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language
anthology film comprising ten short films telling ten different stories which
are directed by a host of six directors: Sanjay Gupta, Apoorva Lakhia, Meghna
Gulzar, Rohit Roy
Hansal Mehta and Jasmeet Dhodhi. The film features an ensemble cast comprising
Sanjay Dutt, Suniel Shetty, Nana Patekar, Naseeruddin Shah, Manoj Bajpayee,
Arbaaz Khan, Jimmy Sheirgill, Amrita Singh, Minissha Lamba, Sudhanshu Pandey,
Anupam Kher, Aftab Shivdasani, Diya Mirza, Mandira Bedi, Mahesh Manjrekar, Neha
Dhupia, Shabana Azmi, Masumeh Makhija, Rohit Roy, Anita Hassanandani, Anuradha
Patel, Dino Morea, Tarina Patel, Neha Oberoi, Parmeet Sethi and Anup Soni.
The film was released theatrically on 7 December 2007.
Buddy Movie
Ø friendship between the two films two people or two men
is the key relationship in the buddy film that two men often come from different background
this is defining feature
Ø It goes back to ninety centuries of the mark twain whose characters
Huckleberry finn and toms well as well as in adventures of hakim barry fren are wel
Dil Chahta Hai (transl. The Heart Wants) is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama film, marking Farhan Akhtar's directorial debut, as well as his debut as a writer. Starring Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Preity Zinta, Sonali Kulkarni and Dimple Kapadia, the film is set in present-day urban Mumbai and Sydney, and focuses on a major period of transition in the romantic lives of three college-graduate friends.
In 2001, the film won National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.
Zindagi na milegi do bara.
Cinemascope
CinemaScope is an anamorphic lens series used, from 1953 to 1967, and less often later, for shooting widescreen movies that, crucially, could be screened in theatres using existing equipment, albeit with a lens adapter. Its creation in 1953 by Spyros P. Skouras,[1] the president of 20th Century Fox, marked the beginning of the modern anamorphic format in both principal 2.66:1, almost twice as wide as the previously common Academy format's 1.37:1 ratio. Although the technology behind the CinemaScope lens system was made obsolete by later developments, primarily advanced by Panavision, CinemaScope's anamorphic format has continued to this day. In film-industry jargon, the shortened form, 'Scope, is still widely used by both filmmakers and projectionists, although today it generally refers to any 2.35:1, 2.39:1, 2.40:1, or 2.55:1 presentation or, sometimes, the use of anamorphic lensing or projection in general. Bausch & Lomb won a 1954 Oscar for its development of the CinemaScope lens.
Ø cinema is scope was not without problems close
up shots would slightly over stretch in actors face and it often cause glow brightness and green image on screen and magnetic story prints were twice as expensive to produce the normal
Ø price and not all theater have big expensive four track magnetic studio sound systems
Ø The Robe is a 1953 American Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman military tribune who commands the unit that is responsible for the Crucifixion of Jesus. The film was released by 20th Century Fox and was the first film released in the widescreen process CinemaScope.[4] Like other early CinemaScope films, The Robe was shot with Henri Chrétien's original Hypergonar anamorphic lenses.
Ø How to Marry a Millionaire is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed by Jean Negulesco and written and produced by Nunnally Johnson. The screenplay was based on the plays The Greeks Had a Word for It (1930) by Zoë Akins and Loco (1946) by Dale Eunson and Katherine Albert.
Ø Kaagaz Ke Phool (Kāgaz kē Phūl, transl. Paper Flowers) is a 1959 Hindi film produced and directed by Guru Dutt, who also played the lead role in the film. The film is regarded as the first Indian film in CinemaScope and Dutt's final film as director.
Ø Sholay (Hindustani: [ˈʃoːleː]
(
listen), transl. Embers) is a 1975 Indian action-adventure
film written by Salim–Javed, directed by Ramesh Sippy, and produced by his
father G. P. Sippy. The film is about two criminals, Veeru and Jai (played by
Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan respectively), hired by a retired police
officer (Sanjeev Kumar) to capture the ruthless dacoit Gabbar Singh (Amjad
Khan). Hema Malini and Jaya Bhaduri also star, as Veeru and Jai's love
interests, Basanti and Radha, respectively. Sholay is considered a
classic and one of the best Indian films. It was ranked first in the British
Film Institute's 2002 poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time. In
2005, the judges of the 50th Filmfare Awards named it the Best Film of 50
Years.
Cinerama
Ø is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, subtending 146° of arc.[clarification needed] The trademarked process was marketed by the Cinerama corporation. It was the first of a number of novel processes introduced during the 1950s, when the movie industry was reacting to competition from television. Cinerama was presented to the public as a theatrical event, with reserved seating and printed programs, and audience members often dressed in their best attire for the evening.
3D films
Are motion pictures made to give an illusion of three-dimensional solidity, usually with the help of special viewing devices (glasses worn by viewers). They have existed in some form since 1915, but had been largely relegated to a niche in the motion picture industry because of the costly hardware and processes required to produce and display a 3D film, and the lack of a standardized format for all segments of the entertainment business. Nonetheless, 3D films were prominently featured in the 1950s in American cinema, and later experienced a worldwide resurgence in the 1980s and 1990s driven by IMAX high-end theaters and Disney-themed venues. 3D films became increasingly successful throughout the 2000s, peaking with the success of 3D presentations of Avatar in December 2009, after which 3D films again decreased in popularity.[1] Certain directors have also taken more experimental approaches to 3D filmmaking, most notably celebrated auteur Jean-Luc Godard in his film 3x3D.
Kaagaz Ke Phool (Kāgaz kē Phūl, transl. Paper Flowers) is a 1959 Hindi film produced and directed by Guru Dutt, who also played the lead role in the film. The film is regarded as the first Indian film in CinemaScope and Dutt's final film as director.
Counter Culture Cinema
Ø It crosses the boundary between literature and cinema.
Ø A sub culture that opposite challenges and rejects significant elements
Of the prevalent and dominant culture of a land
Ø Various socio political factors the literary environment of the time to faster.
Between the change and ravelry america saw the rise of the beet generation in literature with writers a like william ginsburg william barrows coming together to specialize in ah Certain new and radically style of writing.
A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores.[1][2] A countercultural movement expresses the ethos and aspirations of a specific population during a well-defined era. When oppositional forces reach critical mass, countercultures can trigger dramatic cultural changes. Prominent examples of late modern countercultures in the Western world include the Levellers (1645–1650),[3] Romanticism (1790–1840),[citation needed] Bohemianism (1850–1910), the Non-conformists of the 1930s, the more fragmentary counterculture of the Beat Generation (1944–1964), followed by the globalized counterculture of the 1960s (1964–1974), usually associated with the hippie subculture[4] as well as the diversified punk subculture of the 1970s and 1980s.
Example: The Wild One is a 1953 American film noir crime film directed by László Benedek and produced by Stanley Kramer. It is most noted for the character of Johnny Strabler (Marlon Brando), whose persona became a cultural icon of the 1950s. The Wild One is considered to be the original outlaw biker film, and the first to examine American outlaw motorcycle gang violence.
Ø This was a trend setter of biker films.
Ø Drifter, youngster, anti social misfit culture was glorified.
Ø Blowup (sometimes styled as Blow-up or Blow Up) is a 1966 mystery thriller film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and produced by Carlo Ponti. It was Antonioni's first entirely English-language film, and stars David Hemmings as a London fashion photographer who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film. The film also stars Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Tsai Chin, Peter Bowles, and Gillian Hills, as well as 1960s model Veruschka. (Part of Swing 60’s)
Ø Easy Rider is a 1969 American independent road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South, carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal. The success of Easy Rider helped spark the New Hollywood era of filmmaking during the early 1970s
Ø On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. The novel is a roman à clef, with many key figures of the Beat movement, such as William S. Burroughs (Old Bull Lee), Allen Ginsberg (Carlo Marx), and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty) represented by characters in the book, including Kerouac himself as the narrator Sal Paradise
Ø Philosophy was that any one who is on the move and has the sense of adventure was free.
Ø One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. The film stars Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy, a new patient at a mental institution, and features a supporting cast of Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif, Will Sampson, Sydney Lassick, William Redfield, Danny DeVito, and Christopher Lloyd in his film debut
Ø Part of American New wave cinema.
Ø Performance is a 1970 British crime drama film directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, written by Cammell and photographed by Roeg. The film stars James Fox as a violent and ambitious London gangster who, after killing an old friend, goes into hiding at the home of a reclusive rock star (Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones, in his second film).
Emblematic Shot
Ø great train robbery directed by Edwin porter and which was released in nineteen not three one of the earliest examples of cinema the film has shot of gang leader holding
a gun point shoot that became an emblematic shot.
Ø emblematic shot communicates extra complex and associative ideas and review the special connection between usually elements within the frame.
Ø When placed at the end it is the narrative closure.
Example: My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown, also known simply as My Left Foot, is a 1989 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jim Sheridan adapted by Sheridan and Shane Connaughton from the 1954 memoir of the same name by Christy Brown. Its stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Ray McAnally, Hugh O'Conor, Fiona Shaw, and Cyril Cusack. The film tells the story of Brown, an Irish man born with cerebral palsy, who could control only his left foot. Brown grew up in a poor working-class family, and became a writer and artist.
Gangster Cinema
Ø A precursor to film noir.
Ø The gangster and western cinema historically is influenced by two socio economic events; prohibition and the great depression.
Ø prohibition from 1919 in the US
to nineteen thirty three and Great Depression . This played an important role in bringing the underworld in to national prominence.
Ø
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.
Ø cinema is often associated with the great american dream they play on the american meet of a democratic class society gangster gang star cinema expose the deep social divide in American society.
Ø sub version of traditional values and the period of under wold counter culture which became a main stream.
Ø a contradiction in thought between america
is a land of opportunity and the vision of a classless democratic society the classic gangster hero.
James Francis Cagney Jr. (/ˈkæɡni/;[1] July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986)[2] was an American actor and dancer on stage and in film. Known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing, he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances.[3] He is remembered for playing multifaceted tough guys in films such as The Public Enemy (1931), Taxi! (1932), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), and White Heat (1949), finding himself typecast or limited by this reputation earlier in his career.[4] He was able to negotiate dancing opportunities in his films and ended up winning the Academy Award for his role in the musical Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). In 1999 the American Film Institute ranked him eighth among its list of greatest male stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood.[5] Orson Welles described Cagney as "maybe the greatest actor who ever appeared in front of a camera"
The Hays Code was the informal name for The Motion Picture Production Code, adopted in 1930 but not seriously enforced until 1934. The Code was a set of rules governing American filmmaking that shaped—and in many ways stifled—American cinema for over three decades. It also happened to completely overlap with The Golden Age of Hollywood.
ROBINSON, Edward G.
Nationality: American. Born: Emanuel Goldenberg in Bucharest, Romania, 12 December 1893; acquired U.S. citizenship papers on emigrating with his parents at age 10. Education: Attended Townsend Harris Hall High School, New York; Columbia University, New York; American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York, 1912–13. Family: Married 1) Gladys Lloyd, 1927 (divorced 1956), son: Emanuel; 2) Jane Adler, 1958. Career: 1913—member of Binghamton Stock Company, New York; 1915—Broadway debut in Under Fire; served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; 1923—film debut in The Bright Shawl; 1927—leading role in stage play The Racket (also co-wrote it); 1931—contract with Warner Brothers; 1937–40—in radio series Big Town with Claire Trevor; 1946—formed Film Guild Corporation production company; 1956—on Broadway in Middle of the Night. Awards: Best Actor, Cannes Festival, for House of Strangers, 1949; Special Academy Award, 1972 (awarded posthumously). Died: 26 January 1973.
Scarface is a 1983 American crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone, produced by Martin Bregman and distributed by Universal Pictures.[6] It is a remake of the 1932 film[7] and tells the story of Cuban refugee Tony Montana (Al Pacino) who arrives in 1980s Miami with nothing and rises to become a powerful drug lord. The cast also features Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Robert Loggia.
Historic Movies
Ø All historical films closely follow cause and effect relationship in scene construction
And follow and linear narrative.
Ø Sub-genre include war, epic films, biopic films, meta historic, costume drama and docu-dramas.
Troy is a 2004 epic historical war drama film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by David Benioff. Produced by units in Malta, Mexico and Britain's Shepperton Studios, the film features an ensemble cast led by Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, and Orlando Bloom. It is loosely based[4] on Homer's Iliad in its narration of the entire story of the decade-long Trojan War—condensed into little more than a couple of weeks, rather than just the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon in the ninth year. Achilles leads his Myrmidons along with the rest of the Greek army invading the historical city of Troy, defended by Hector's Trojan army. The end of the film (the sack of Troy) is not taken from the Iliad, but rather from Quintus Smyrnaeus's Posthomerica as the Iliad concludes with Hector's death and funeral.
Gladiator is a 2000 British-American epic historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott and written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson. The film was co-produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Universal Pictures. It stars Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Ralf Möller, Oliver Reed (in his final role), Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, John Shrapnel, and Richard Harris. Crowe portrays Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is betrayed when Commodus, the ambitious son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, murders his father and seizes the throne. Reduced to slavery, Maximus becomes a gladiator and rises through the ranks of the arena to avenge the murders of his family and his emperor.
Icons and Iconography
Ø Iconography is the way through usually motives and styles can be categorized.
it can and en compass me as
saw objects and sometimes even closed and hair styles of characters
Ø Gate way of India, haji ali, the marine drive, the beach.
Ø Iconography as a strong connect connective power and a helps us associate meanings with the image.
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Notes continued in Key Concepts 2
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