American film directors Essays

George Lucas is an American movie director and entrepreneur. He is mainly recognized for being the director of Star Wars, and Indiana Jones. He is the creator and founder of Lucasfilm, THX, and Industrial Light & Magic. He was born in Modesto, California on May 14th, 1944, to Dorothy and George Lucas. They owned a store and a walnut ranch. He acquired a passion for cars and racing. He wanted to become a professional racecar driver, but he changed his mind after he got in a really bad accident. He

The director, producer, and co-author of the film Citizen Kane is Orson Welles. The main characters of this productions are Charles Foster Kane, Jedediah Leland, Susan Kane, and Emily Kane, Mr. Bernstein, and Jerry Thompson. The main conflict is Jerry’s troubles of uncovering Kane’s story. In this film, reporters are try to decode the last words of Charles Foster Kane. Kane’s life is played through flashbacks that start when he was a young boy and show his rise of riches to his eventual downfall

the most widely used formula for writing movies in American cinema. Some swear that this structure is the perfect formula for creating a successful film that will top the charts and bring in the most revenue. As the name states, it is composed of three distinct acts: the setup, the confrontation, and the resolution. Each of these three acts has their own partitions called beats. The beats are checkpoints for important events that screenwriter and film analyst Blake Snyder says are imperative for writing

actuality, the characters in the movie are composites, drawn from the lives of several famous American tycoons, but Hearst was the most obvious. Photography Gregg Toland, the cinematographer for Citizen Kane, considered the film the high point in his career & thought he might ‘learn something’ from the boy genius (Welles). Welles, used to setting up his own lights in the live theater thought the movie directors were also responsible for the lighting. Toland would let Welles determine the design of

Facts and Fiction: A Manipulation of Language in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood English is a fascinating and riveting language. Subtle nuances and adjustments can easily change the understanding of a literary work—a technique many authors employ in order to evoke a desired response from their readers. This method is used especially in In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, a literary work which details a true event about the murders of four members of the Clutter family in the small community of Holcomb

Citizen Kane Review Citizen Kane (1941) is a drama movie directed by Orson Welles, who also has the main role in the movie; his character: Charles Foster Kane. The story starts at the end of the life of the tycoon Charles Foster Kane, at his very last breath, which he uses to pronounce the word “Rosebud”, while a snow globe falls from his hands. This beginning is what catches the spectator’s attention within the first thirty seconds into the movie: The mystery about the meaning of that scene, that

Overlook Hotel looked much less creepier than it was perceived as in the text and it revisions the whole ending of the story. This movie made it clear there was another author in the making of the story and that is the director. The main ideas were clearly modified in the movie by the director. The name of the novel is The Shining. The reason to the name is because of Jack and Wendy's son Danny has the ability to shine. Throughout the novel it focuses on his ability to shine and what it is to be able to

One of the most interesting adaptations of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is Michael Almereyda's 2000 film, which sets the story in modern-day New York City. The film, starring Ethan Hawke as Hamlet and Julia Stiles as Ophelia, keeps the same basic plot points and characters as the original play but reimagines them for a contemporary audience. One of the main ways that Almereyda's adaptation parallels the original work is through its exploration of themes such as revenge, madness, and mortality. Hamlet's

This paper highlights close proximity with feminism and post colonialism in Atwood’s novel, The Edible Woman. Woman’s colonization, victimization, humiliation and silence disrupt or increase her pace towards survival and freedom. Women as well as countries are displaced and deteriorated incessantly. Weak bodies and fertile lands are raped and conquered. The complicated relation between consumer culture, the health and beauty industry, patriarchy and gender roles is made explicit. Unrealistic expectations

and marriage- a thematic approach Alfred Hitchcock was a successful English film director and producer. He was often known as “the master of suspense.” He filmed psychological thrillers, one of these thrillers include “Rear window” which in mostly all of his films, he portrays women to look and act a certain way. Two significant themes portrayed throughout this film include marriage and the gender roles within the film. Rear window is about Jeffries, a man who is isolated in his own apartment,

actively deceived throughout the film to believe the convenient truth to what his heart or sex life desire. To better understand what I have just thrown on you I should probably better explain the circumstance of this deception. Beginning with the back story behind the deception Scottie faced through out the film, and how his own mental issues played into it. We must also analyze Scotties obsession and we can do so by analyzing one of the most pivotal scenes in the film, which I will call the neon green

Stephen King a famous Author,once said,”Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.” Truly, apples and oranges taste completely different just like books and movies. Although the book or the movie might give you more understanding. Just like the raisin in the sun the book and movie are completely different. The movie A Raisin in the Sun is better than the book because it has better understanding of scenes and other big problems. Asigai appears

Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon is a frame story set in the Heian period of Japan. Based on a short narrative by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Rashomon recounts the incident of a murder of a man and the rape of his wife. To investigate this tragedy, the film revolves around the eye-witness recollection of this occurrence through of several onlookers such as a woodcutter, a bandit, a samurai, and the samurai’s wife. To exemplify one of the witnesses, the first person to be summoned to testify is the woodcutter

The final poem of significance is Jazzonia, in which Hughes experiments with literary form to transform the act of listening to jazz into an ahistorical and biblical act. Neglecting form, it is easy to interpret the poem shallowly as a simple depiction of a night-out in a cabaret with jazz whipping people into a jovial frenzy of singing and dancing. But, the poem possesses more depth, when you immerse yourself in the literary form. The first aspect of form to interrogate is the couplet Hughes thrice

Of the films that I have seen of John Huston and Martin Scorsese it’s hard not to notice their similarities and numerous differences. Perhaps the most obvious comparison to make is how they use decor and costumes, both of their films, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and Taxi Driver (1976), take place at the time of their release, so the costumes and settings are realistic and most importantly lived-in. How these locations are lived in are portrayed a little differently through lighting and

Crimson Peak Crimson Peak is an American gothic romance/horror movie that came out in October of 2015. It was written and directed by Guillermo del Toro — whom is famous for producing other American movies such as: Hellboy, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Pacific Rim, Mama, and many more. Toro has always loved monsters, he considered them to “symbolize great power.” His new movie, Crimson Peak is “ about a house that has a memory and induces horror” (Biography.) A ghastly warning from a mother should

In Ursula Le Guin's short story "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" the city of Omelas is described as a place made up of a almost perfect society, keep in mind how I said “almost perfect”. A utopian city, Omelas during the Festival of Summer, is characterized by its happiness and perfection. "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" presents a challenge of conscience for anyone who chooses to live in Omelas. With the backstory of this joyous and peaceful city comes a sinister consequence in which leaves

prior production of a film, including techniques, advertising, and choice of cast. So much so that they are considered to be the "author" of the film. Alfred Hitchcock has no doubt left an indelible and engraved mark on all of cinematography as one of the most successful and influential auteurs of all time, as seen through the wide range of techniques Hitchcock employed throughout his films such as voyeurism, doubleness, and the famed magcuffin, as can clearly be seen in the film "Rear Window" as well

The 400 Blows is a famous French New Wave Style film directed by François Truffaut in 1959. Inspired by his own childhood experience, Truffaut depicts a misunderstood and troubled adolescent, Antoine Doinel, who shares the same childhood experience with Truffaut and is viewed as a troublemaker by his parents and teachers. Antoine is always bullied and oppressed by authorities(parents, teachers, and state officials). Being an unwanted child in his home and unpopular student in school, he is unhappy

the similarities and the differences of two film adaptations of Hamlet. A version is the one by Michael Almereyda which was released in the early 2000 while the other is by Kenneth Branagh which was released in an earlier date of 1996. Both of these were similar to one another to an extent as they were based on the true original text of the play Hamlet but at the same time presented in two different ways. As the plot stayed the same within the two films there were other factors that made it different