Pierrot L Godard Film Analysis

7.0 ANALYSIS OF TWO FRENCH NEW WAVE FILMS 7.1 A BOUT DE SOUFFLÉ - 1960 This classic film was directed by famous French New Wave filmmaker, Jean-Luc Godard in 1960, this is one of the film which most impudent debuts in film record. The storyline is regarding a young criminal Michel who steals a car in Marseille and murdered a policeman rashly. He has been wanted by the authorities, but he mats a hip American journalist student in the capital. The girl agrees to help to hide him after he tried to persuade her to leave with him to Italy, but the girl betrays him when the police about to caught him.

The film adaptation of the religious musical Godspell composed Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebleak attempts to revitalize Christianity by expressing the teachings of Christ as expressed in the Gospel of Matthew in contemporary terms. Structured through parables primarily sung but also enacted through puppetry, storytelling, and skits; the main point of the film is to translate complex philosophical ideas into terms easily understood by a modern-day audience. In the Bible, Jesus illustrates his teaching to his disciples through stories of everyday situations. The play/film accomplishes the same task, but because Godspell is set thousands of years later, the details of the stories are once again modernized to the intended audience. The

Throughout the essay, many references and comparisons are made to other films. Also incorporated in the essay is the use of advance terminology; Giving indication that the author is very knowledge about film. Haslem mentions in her essay “Neon Gothic: Lost in Translation”, “In many ways Coppola’s film exhibits marks of classic European art cinema. Specifically, in her interest in stillness rather than action, Coppola recreates a similar impressionistic resonance that was initially established by filmmakers like Carl Dreyer in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) and elaborated by Michelangelo Antonioni in films like L’Eclisse (1962) and L’Avventura (1960)”

Whether it’s chaotic scenes from the Moulin Rouge filled with outrageously dressed characters or the revolutionary remake of the classic Romeo and Juliet film, Baz Luhrmann is yet to come short in terms of excellences in creating cinematic masterpieces. ‘Theater, circus, film – to me it’s all one’ says Baz Luhrmann. [Bergin; 2016] Some critics label Baz Luhrmann’s work as ‘Over the top’ and others fiercely state that his unique style is justified when one looks at the full meaning, message and context of his work. With the knowledge I’ve accumulated about the filmmaker Baz and how I have understood his work, I can agree with the critics in making such views about his cinematic styles.

The movie focuses mainly on Paris in the 1920’s and immerses the main character, Gill, in the times of great painters, writers, musicians, and other influential figures from the period. Although

In “Aesthetic of Astonishment” essay, Gunning argues how people first saw cinema, and how they are amazed with the moving picture for the first time, and were not only amazed by the technological aspect, but also the experience of how the introduction of movies have changed the way people perceive the reality in a completely different way. Gunning states that “The astonishment derives from a magical metamorphosis rather than a seamless reproduction of reality”(118). He uses the myth of how the sacred audience run out the theater in terror when they first saw the Lumiere Brother Arrival of the train. However, Gunning does not really care how hysterical their reaction is, even saying that he have doubts on what actually happened that day, as for him it the significance lied on the incidence--that is, the triggering of the audience’s reaction and its subsequence results, and not the actual reactions and their extent. It is this incident, due to the confusion of the audience’s cognition caused by new technology, that serves as a significant milestone in film history which triggered in the industry and the fascination with film, which to this day allows cinema to manipulate and

Louis Giannetti’s extensive critique chapter in his book, Understanding Movies, thoroughly explains several different theories that film critics use to evaluate a film. Giannetti explains a theory as, “an intellectual grid, a set of aesthetic generalizations, not eternal verities. Some theories are more useful than others in understanding specific movies. No single theory can explain them all” (452). The chapter explores five different theories: realism, formalism, eclecticism, structuralism/semiology, and historiography.

Over the fifteen weeks of the first semester of film school, we were taught many interesting types and styles of early world cinema which were extremely informative and influenced the filmmaking style of the whole class and made us better filmmakers instantly. One such ‘ism’ which inspired me the most was German Expressionism which is a unique characteristic of Weimar Cinema. In this essay I am going to talk about the history of this ‘ism’, its impact on cinema, some significant works and how it inspired me and influenced my filmmaking style. German Expressionism is one of the earliest artistic genres to influence filmmaking, and one that ostensibly prepared for some other cutting edge artistic styles and techniques. It is an artistic genre

The imagery and filming devices used for the production of this masterpiece were so innovative and astonishing at that time that are still object of filmography study. One of the unarguable strong points of the movie, in

Cinematography is critical to the success of any movie. Cinematography uses composition, lighting, depth of field, and camera angles to determine what the audience sees. Casablanca’s cinematography directs the audience’s attention, shapes the audiences feelings, and reveals the theme of the movie.

The scene where Victoria is showed on a stage, tied on a chair to a big audience is the turning point of the episode. At this scene, the rhetorical appeals are strongly used by the author. For example, the announcer comes up on the stage wearing an impeccable suit, perfect hair and using a persuasive speech demonstrating knowledge

Queen Elizabeth's speech was given at a time of great worry and upheaval. Her rhetorical strategies are composed of repetition, juxtaposition, persuasion, amplification, and diction. The opening line of the speech that reads, “My loving people,”(40), suggests a positive relationship between Elizabeth and her subjects. In the next line she starts off the sentence by using “we” thereby establishing a common ground with the troops. Elizabeth decided to make her speech an emotional argument, which instils a sense of nationalism.

Speakers use this technique to audience so they can think and engage what the answer can be. It used to make the audience agree with speaker. Churchill always made an excellent use of this method, especially in this speech, whenever he uses this device, the audience would think deeply about the penalties of what was going to happen to Britain. For example, “You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime.

It was the very mother who Abdias Nascimento received the first lessons of how it should behave in life on the issue of blackness. A child in Franca, São Paulo, when he attended owner Josina resolutely, taking a black and orphaned child from the hands of a white neighbor, who beat her. His mother, always so sweet and calm, filled with unexpected fury, ran in defense of the boy. This scene marked the beginning of my awareness of the reality of the black situation in Brazil Born in 1914, only 26 years after the abolition of slavery, he took a fighting stance and face for the rest of life, as the account in the documentary Abdias Nascimento, directed by the Bahian filmmaker Antonio Olavo.

Animation has been an art form that I personally have found dear to my heart because of how it brings the aspect of illustration to life. Like novels, animations are able to remove people from their own lives to experience the lives of others; Eventually teaching people to appreciate the different things that they might never experience within their own lives. With this and my experience in arts, I feel that reviewing “Persepolis” was something I was able to do with both a fondness and open mind. This traditional 2D piece was notable for a series of both historical and artistic reasonings that drew to its greater significance.