Film Techniques In The Princess Bride

William Goldman has a talent of teaching life lessons through his work. In The Princess Bride, he teaches and shows the unfairness of love and life. His choice of characters and fairy tale help set the story’s tone. The fairy tale is a whirl wind of adventure keeping the story from any boring parts, since it is known as the abridge version. [The Princess Bride by William Goldman portrays the struggles and reality of love and the fact that life is not fair through comedic relief.]

Dirty Dancing was released in 1987. The film clip I chose was from the end of the season talent show. Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) approaches Baby’s (Jennifer Grey) table and tells her father “Nobody puts baby in a corner.” In this scene, Johnny grabs Baby hand and escorts her towards the stage while everyone looks shocked even to see him. The individuals on the stage are singing their farewell song, but they immediately stop to let Johnny capture the spotlight. The cinematography used throughout this scene focuses mainly on Johnny and Baby. The lightings utilized in this clip were low-key and three-point lighting. These different lighting techniques are applied in the movie to help set the tone and mood for the film scene. The

•In Flannery O ' Conner 's “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the roles of chance and fate help to drive the plot to its high point. Chance is present when the grandmother, at the preamble of the story, refuses to be persuaded to travel to Florida in fear of a loose criminal nicknamed The Misfit. Instead, she decides on a whim to visit a friend in Tennessee. She shows this determination when she says she "wouldn 't stay home to be queen for a day" and she "wouldn 't stay home for a million bucks". Fate plays it 's cards when the grandmother finishes telling her story to her grandchildren. She suddenly realizes that there was a route that they

First of all, The Princess Bride is a movie about love, vengeance, and companionship. The story focuses on a farm girl, Buttercup, who has been chosen as the prince's bride to Prince Humperdinck. However, Buttercup does not love him, as she mourns the death of her one true love, Westley. She is later on kidnapped by a band of bandits: Vizzini, Fezzik, and Montoya. However, they are chased by Dread Pirate Roberts himself, aka Westley and attempts to rescue Buttercup. Either way, we shall be focusing on how the production features help create Westley in The Princess Bride. Considering this, filmmakers utilize costumes, acting, camera angles and shots to help develop Westley.

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition of revenge is “to inflict injury in return for.” In To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM) by Harper Lee, Scout, and Jem explore Civil Rights and racism in the segregated Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930s. Expressed through the eyes of 7-year-old, you learn about her father Atticus Finch, an attorney who desperately tries to prove the innocence of a black man falsely accused of rape; and about Boo Radley, a mysterious neighbor who saves Scout and Jem from being slaughtered by Bob Ewell. In the scene when Jem and Scout are attacked by Bob Ewell, Lee develops the theme, revenge brings consequences through external conflict, and symbolism.

Tim Burton uses many different cinematic techniques to achieve very specific effects in his movies. The most important cinematic techniques that he uses to create his unique style are Non-Diegetic sound, lighting, eye level, and zoom. These techniques that can be seen in the films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Corpse Bride, create the effects of sadness, dark moments, express the feeling of other without telling. He uses Non-Diegetic sound when he puts a song, he uses sad songs, happy songs, and more to show the feeling of the character, to give us like a hint of something that is going to happen, if it’s going to be bad or sad. He uses lighting to make the moment or scene sad or mysterious. He uses eye level

Forrest Gump (1994), an American comedy-drama film based on the novel by Winston Groom, with the screenplay adapted by Eric Roth, tells the story of a mentally disabled and very kind-hearted child that comes to lead an extraordinary life. The movie revolves around the irony that the protagonist, Forrest Gump, even though the most simple-minded character in the film, becomes the most successful, as his talents involve him in US history's most prominent historical events between the 50's and 80's. The storyline is very character-driven and resembles a ‘vignette into one's life' as opposed to having a traditional story structure. This is seen through the feather motif and the well-known

Edgar Allan Poe is most famous for the gothic themes he presents in his writings, this was no exception for Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”. Several important ideas are brought up about the story’s central theme of revenge. These ideas can be broken down into 3 parts: the incentive, the extent, and the reaction of the person partaking in revenge. It is essential to consider these ideas while reading Poe’s story, in order to comprehend his views on revenge. It also provides the reader the ability to question their own views on revenge as well as compare it with Poe’s. However, with most readers having no major revenge experiences such as the one in the story or some extreme cases in general, it is somewhat hard for the average reader to relate

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Mary Shelley shows the endless amount of revenge and that it is driven by pure hatred and rage. The monster was not created to be vengeful, he was kind hearted but when he was poorly treated by Victor and then by the Delacey family, he turned cold. In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley displays the immorality and destructive effects that revenge can have through Frankenstein and his pursuit of the creature.

Count Ruegan is the right-hand man to the main antagonist, Prince Humperdink, in the movie, “The Princess Bride”, which is written by William Goldman and directed by Rob Reiner. In this movie Count Ruegan is a dishonorable liar who does not have any respect toward others or their lives. Count Ruegan is a coward and runs from a fight in order to save his own life. He also loves torturing people and takes pleasure in doing so. In many ways Count Ruegan is the opposite of a good person.

The 1970 released musical Cabaret, directed by Bob Fosse shows a clear use of film techniques that enables the audience to both admire and condemn certain characters in the film. Set in the early 1930’s, Cabaret follows the dramatized world of Berlin, Germany before the Second World War occurred. The musical song “life is a cabaret” perfectly describes how the depraved Berlin formulates a destructive and confusing array of characters. The film techniques of costume, camera angles and mise-en-scène create a variety of different perspectives with the audience able to see how the ignorant idea of “life being a cabaret” is tested by the atrocities committed by the Nazis, the mystery of Sally Bowles pregnancy and separation of Sally Bowles and Brian

Revenge is getting even with someone who did you wrong in your own eyes. Revenge can drive someone crazy, just like how it drove Jimmy crazy for revenge on a hot summer night. Jeremy thought it would be funny if he slipped laxatives in Jimmy's drink after a long session of basketball at the outdoor basketball park. Jimmy was practicing his free throws as he slipped a quarter of the container into Jimmy’s soda. What Jeremy did not know is that Jimmy saw him when he carried out the cruel act. What do you think Jimmy would have done? Certainly not let it slide. In life many inhumane things, or crimes, are carried out through revenge. In these stories revenge is expressed through literary elements such as characterization, setting, tone, and mood.

The Dressmaker is an Australian production drama film based on the novel by Rosalie Ham. It is directed by an Australian writer and a film director Jocelyn Moorhouse. The story revolves around the life of Tilly Dunnage, who returns to her small hometown from which she was disgracefully banished as a ten year old. She returns to solve the half remembered mystery of her banishment due to the murder allegations. The director Jocelyn Moorhouse presents many themes such as inferiority and the role that community plays in considering it. Another theme that is explored is the gain in power and liberation through finding or disclosing the truth. These themes are accompanied by an insightful use of cinematography, which enhances the audiences’ engagement

How does the animation style used by Folman allow him to express his interviews and memories in a way to educate an audience?