Citizen Kane: The Most Controversial Film

Mystery of a Lifetime (Film review on Citizen Kane by Orson Welles) Our life is full of mysteries; we arrived in this world with unsure purpose. Death comes in our life in its most untimely visit. A story about being told to answer a subtlety death of a well-known English man is now claimed as one of the greatest films in cinema history.

Both the protagonists, John Travolta and Nicholas Cage seem to been having fun during the movie, portraying each other not just as characters but as actual actors, too The American audience seemed to enjoy the role reversal between the two actors and its stylized and violent action scenes and the film ended up as the 11th highest domestic movie of 1997. John Woo netted a number of awards for his direction including the Saturn Award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. 7. Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979) Before John Woo turned his attention exclusively to gangster films, he shot a number of kung fu movies, with this one, which was a tribute to his mentor Chang Cheh, being the best of them.

I assumed PA2 was also directed by Oren Peli given the style of film making, but I was surprised to learn that Tod “Kip” Williams took over. The Door in the Floor Williams directed The Door in the Floor, which won the National Board of Review Award for Excellence in Filmmaking. Williams did a wonderful job taking over Peli’s role as director, though you could notice Peli’s influence.

This shows what a horrific world Winston lives in. Anything that someone thought of had to be in accordance with the party’s regime, anything else would be considered a thoughtcrime and would be punished severely. Considering the mechanisms of control and the possibilities of freedom that follow we will explore the extent to which George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is a pessimistic and dystopian novel.

The Great Gatsby , a film that stars a man by the name of Jay Gatsby, but originally named James Gatz, who grew up in a low status household. As an officer in the war, Jay met the love of his life, Daisy, who he could not marry due to his low status and the fact that he was in the war. Later, after the war, Gatsby disguises himself as an upperclassman who rich and tries to earn Daisy back- through the effort of her cousin, Nick Carraway, who also lives next door to Gatsby- but now, happily married. The film finishes with the death of Gatsby. Midnight in Paris, a film about a man named Gil Pender, who traveled to Paris with his wife.

What is distinctively ‘Hitchcockian’ about Rear Window? Alfred Hitchcock, an important figure in film history, uses his creativity to make a perfect combination between entertaining and aesthetic. Therefore, his unique method of telling a story and theme choice is studied as the name of ‘Hitchcockian’, such as psychological complex and giving suspense. While Hitchcock built up his personal style, he still went through several periods to grow his recognition towards the film industry. And Rear Window, a highly successful film at the box office and being listed among best one hundred American films of all time in 1998 (Cowie, 2005), is an example of Hitchcock’s ‘mature’ period, shows the audience some distinctive parts of ‘Hitchcockian’ way

He vanishes after this starting episode and is supplanted by an a great deal more cocksure Captain when Roddenberry attempted once more. What's more terrible is we learn that the entire motivation behind why Talos IV is a taboo world is on account of the government became tied up with the Talosians' silly fear that securing a normal exchange relations would bring about their energy of illusions spreading, destroying others as they've crushed themselves. This fear is a trashy defense for notwithstanding any fly out to or communication with Talos IV and a far more atrocious avocation for upholding such a nonsensical law by instituting capital punishment. I was trusting for some new work that may at any rate endeavor to issue some normal explanation behind the presence of such a draconian law, however the episode didn't even truly

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” – Alfred Hitchcock. Suspense is a technique used by film directors to bring excitement to both short and feature films; leaving the audience feeling helpless yet engaged. Alfred Hitchcock, a world-renowned English director, has long been considered the ‘Master of Suspense’(Unknown, n.d.). Hitchcock spent most of his 60-year career refining suspense techniques within his films.

This compelling narrative warns of egocentric tendencies that unleashes uncontrollable desires, which sows the seeds for bloodshed and widespread devastation by detailing the downfall of the once regal Macbeth, and through this, aims to deter people from following the same accursed path he has walked

Despite his English upbringing, Alfred Hitchcock has become one of the biggest and best-known names in the history of American cinema. His knack for producing dramatic, psychological thrillers earned him the apt title of “Master of Suspense”. While his films were wildly popular upon their releases, one was a notable failure at the box office, only later to be deemed “Alfred Hitchcock’s Masterpiece”. In 1958, Paramount Pictures released Vertigo, Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions’ latest thriller.

Of the three acts, the Sedition Act was clearly the most harmful to the American people of the time by transgressing upon the constitutional rights of citizens by removing their freedom of the press, through inhibiting progress of America as a government through silencing the people, and by reverting the society back to a power construct similar to that of British rule by instating a jaundiced

Paine undermines the king in his writing by using rhetorical devices to help destroy America 's loyalty to the king. The monarchy can make anything look appealing

In the movie, Citizen Kane, charterer’s actions and makeup play an important role. In the beginning, when Mr. Thatcher first meets Charles Foster Kane, Mrs. Kane and him both are shown to have black hair while Charles father had white. This might symbolize that they both liked Charles but his father’s love is slowly disappearing similar to the color change in his hair. Mrs. Kane’s hair is also tightly pushed back with clips and hair ties, which symbolizes that she does not want to look like a mess, rather presentable to show that she’s not upset about Charles leaving but rather happy because he is going to live a good life.

In the creative scene, there are painters to their paintings, sculptors to their sculptures, authors to their novels, and then there are auteurs to their films. What all these different artists have in common is authorial-like control over the creation of their art and their works. What makes films different from the rest is the amount of work put into a film and the involvement of many other people. There are some film directors that are not the possess complete authorial-like control over their films and there are auteurs, such as François Truffaut and Orson Welles, that do. Within Truffaut’s 400 Blows and Welles’ Citizen Kane, it is evident that both directors had creative control over their projects which allowed their films to truly become their individual works through their specific uses of cinematic language, mise-en scene, cinematography, and, in Welles’ case, narrative structure.