Cinema is one of the most successful inventions
of the 20th century. It "presents us with a view of the action which
is absolutely under the control of the director at every moment. When the
camera moves we move, when it remains still we are still.” (Sontag 243) Various
cinematic techniques can have a great influence upon the meaning and structure
of any film. The unique and diverse combination of these techniques can make a
film a real masterpiece or a mere failure. This essay is dedicated to a real
masterpiece of cinematography of the 20th century: "The Silence of
the Lambs” (1991). "The Silence of the Lambs” is a film directed by Jonathan
Demme. His intention was to blur the boundaries of the genre, combining
elements of serial killer horrors, women’s pictures and slasher films.
"Grease" is a movie that was produced in 1978
and directed by Randal Kleiser. It was based on Jim Jacobs's and Warren Casey's
musical. It was about two lovers in a high school. The film stars Olivia
Newton-John, John Travolta, Jeff Conaway and Stockard Channing. This movie was
a real success. The soundtrack album of the movie became one of the
best-selling albums in pop movie history. It also provided chart hits for the
original artists and some others.
There are three major conflicts in the plot of
the movie that contribute greatly to the popularity and greatness of the film.
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Since the
cinematography was invented movies became an integral part of our lives. We
cannot live without them because they tell us about our and the other people’s
life and still every time we watch them we find something new. They tell us
about ourselves, that is why movies attract our attention so much. Films are
often described as "life 's visual representation” (Tran, 2008). Everything we
encounter in our daily undertakings is reflected in numerous movies. Movies
create dreams and enjoy people. They depict our everyday life but still
cinematography is something fantastic, mysterious and enigmatic. Each and
everybody of us can be related and associated with protagonists or antagonists
of a movie. We see ourselves in movies, that is why we are so interested in
them. We want to find answers to our numerous questions.
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Pedro
Almodóvar, the Spanish film-maker, has always been considered in Hollywood to
be a "woman’s director” (Maddison 2000). This definition actually connoted
latent homosexuality and female-identified melodrama. However, this
characteristic of Almodóvar’s works seems a little bit superfluous, as his
films are best known for the mixture of reality and fiction, extraordinary
messages and unique plots.
Fiction and
reality go together in the films by Pedro Almodóvar. Sometimes it is next to
impossible to differentiate between them, to decide what comes from real life
and what was the play of director’s imagination. One thing is true for sure:
all films by Pedro Almodóvar are united by the same central issue: the question
of identity (Marsh 2006). He engages this issue in many different ways from the
earliest work "Pepi, Luci, Bom y las otras chicas del montón” (1980) to his
most recent film "Volver (Return)” (2006). This is a key feature of Pedro
Almodóvar and it is consistently depicted through the motif of writing. He
writes reality into existence and thereby changes it through fiction. Thus, the
film-maker interrogates all forms of subject formation and subjectivity. The
films of Pedro Almodóvar abound in "characters who adopt multiple pseudonyms,
the repeated images of typewriters, the information transmitted through found
notes, the eerie presence of ghostwriters” (Marsh 2006).
Сравнительный анализ фильмов "Молчание ягнят" и "Чужой"
Cinema is
one of the most successful inventions of the 20th century. It
"presents us with a view of the action which is absolutely under the control of
the director at every moment. When the camera moves we move, when it remains
still we are still.” (Sontag 243) Various cinematic techniques can have a great
influence upon the meaning and structure of any film. The unique and diverse
combination of these techniques can make a film a real masterpiece or a mere
failure. Two films will be observed in this essay: "The Silence of the Lambs”
(1991) and "Alien” (1979). "The Silence of the Lambs” is a film directed by
Jonathan Demme. His intention was to blur the boundaries of the genre,
combining elements of serial killer horrors, women’s pictures and slasher
films. "Alien” was created by Ridley Scott. It represents a vivid example how a
horror film could become a real masterpiece. It also demonstrated how the
filmmaking can produce an effective contrast. Being a horror film, "Alien”
achieves its goal by blending different genres. First an unusual setting was
chosen. The haunted-house horror film was taken into distant, empty, cols
space. That fact made the film merge with the genre of science-fiction. Thus,
the filmmakers invited the audience to compare the picture with other films
performed in the genre of horror film before and to enjoy the new variation of
a horror picture.
Deepa Mehta
is an Indian-born film director who lives and works in Canada. In 2005 her film
"Water” was released. "Water” is the third and the last part of her Element’s
trilogy. The trilogy consists of three films: "Fire” (1996), "Earth” (1998) and
"Water” (2005). All three films are dedicated to India: its history, culture,
religion and the problems that arise in the country and in the society
particularly due to different reasons. "Water”, the last part of the trilogy,
concentrates on the social state of a woman in Indian society, especially on
the social position of a widow. The film tells us about a small eight-year-old
girl who was unlucky to become a widow at the very beginning of her life. Life
of widows is not only difficult, it is also rather unfair. She cannot live with
her parents.
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