My essay will be about a film from the horror genre and the cinematic techniques that help to establish a theme in the film. My chosen film is entitled The Godfather. This is a film that was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Setting takes place in New York during the 1940s. According to Scott Eyman of Palm Beach Post, "The Godfather is the mob movie to end all mob movies" (2001). It tells the tale of leaders of a New York crime family. The film centers on Michael Corleone being transformed
After harnessing the power of sound in our film, film editors then find ways to apply colors on film. Innovators like Thomas Edison and George Mellie would painstakingly paint on film to give them color and to make them all the more wondrous. Color has been used to set the mood the atmosphere, to bring life to a the world around the character's, but those are just a few uses that colors can be used. The use of colors in films has been a powerful technique used
who came in large numbers and formed ethnic enclaves. In order to ease anxiety, WASPs used stereotypes to spread discrimination about ethnic groups they did not like. Often, immigrants’ lack of education, and competition for low paying jobs and housing resulted in hostility toward them. Although the Irish, Chinese and Southern Italians all had violence associated with them, the stereotype was perpetuated and used differently among the three groups. During the mid-1800’s,
Shakespeare’s Richard III explores the tension between providentialism and the uprising of free will, as a result of the renaissance, demonstrating Shakespeare’s engagement with political machinations of the state. The political instability within England, which resulted from War of the Roses, has been influential to Shakespeare's text. At the turn of the 15th century with the rise of humanism, Shakespeare responds to the shift in the political paradigms by portraying Richard as a tyrannical king