His Girl Friday Analysis

Frank Capra’s 1934 black and white romantic comedy It Happened One Night set the pattern for future “screwball” romantic comedies. The story is set during the depression era and focuses on the unlikely paring of an heiress and an unemployed news paper journalist. The conceited and spoiled heiress has rejected her lavish lifestyle and ran away. The film clearly projects how love is able to cross over class conflicts and monetary differences. Unexpectedly, the film became a runaway box office sleeper hit, and won the top five Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Adaptation (Robert Riskin), Best Director (Frank Capra), Best Actor (Clark Gable), and Best Actress (Claudette Colbert).

In “Good Country People”, O’Connor uses humor. The humor is found among the characters. She uses humor to create plot twists. The way the humor is set up ends in a tragic event.

Using movies as a way of teaching a specific time period is an entertaining but often fictitious method to education. Especially, when Hollywood blockbusters like Gladiator (2000) are involved. However, some Hollywood pictures that do a sufficient job of showcasing a time in history. Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man, also starring Russell Crowe, is a rarity in the world of historical fiction film. While it is still not 100% factual, it does do a fantastic job of featuring the atmosphere of the early 1930’s.

Mise-en-scéne is crucial to classical Hollywood as it defined an era ‘that in its primary sense and effect, shows us something; it is a means of display. ' (Martin 2014, p.XV). Billy Wilder 's Sunset Boulevard (Wilder 1950) will be analysed and explored with its techniques and styles of mise-en-scéne and how this aspect of filmmaking establishes together as a cohesive whole with the narrative themes as classical Hollywood storytelling. Features of the film 's sense of space and time, setting, motifs, characters, and character goals will be explored and how they affect the characterisation, structure, and three-act organisation.

Honestly, the part that made me laugh at in the film is when Sandra Bullock and Brendan Fraser are talking and ended up fussing about the door locks. Bullock takes out her anger on a Mexican locksmith who is changing their door locks at home. Bullock said your “Amigo in there is going to sell our keys to one of his homeys.” And its a little bit funny when the mexican guy puts the keys down and calmly walking out at the end. But I just felt bad for him hearing those words and its heartbreaking to know that these things happen every second.

Walter’s statement tries to tell the women that he didn’t try to make the world the way it is now. Yes, he wants luxurious items for him and his wife. However, even though he seriously messed up, he’s still the man in the family and will continue to make the decisions for the

‘Daddy’s little girls’ is a touching movie. The movie incites sadness in its viewers, the anguish felt by the protagonist and his children is one that many can identify with and understand. The central character Monty was an ambitious young man who grew up in an inner city community, he had three beautiful girls with is former partner, Jennifer. Monty’s daughters remained his priority throughout the movie and he fought tirelessly for the benefit of his children. Monty had to endure the selfishness of Jennifer, her poor parenting skills and her bad ill sense of judgement.

Showing such everyday characters win truly connects audiences to the narrative. The ability to relate to the characters, despite the whimsical setting and issues, puts this movie on a higher level. The astounding and perfectly stylized visuals thoroughly sets this movie as a classic as well. It is no wonder that this movie has found a new cult status among viewers in this

The mood of the movie at this point shifts from dark and solemn to alive and talkative. The active dialogue and intonation used by the actors made the storyline interesting. For example, the news reporters exemplified the very image of a news reporter back in the day: curious, chatty, and amusing. Their somewhat boisterous nature is countered by unconventional lighting, as the audience hears their conversation but sees mostly shadows or just glimpses of their faces.

While the protagonist tries to help find out the criminal who steals the golden watch in his girlfriend’s house, it turns out that he is framed to be the thief by the real traitor, the rival. As a result, he is banished from the house. Even though he tries to shadow the rival to find out the truth and saves his own reputation, the result for his action makes him humiliated by the rival. In addition, he is modest even over-humble in reality. He is always in powerless stage, especially the dollar bill scene.

The late 90’s and early 00s is the Golden Age of chick flicks, which is a movie genre that has women as the primary-targeted audience. There’s countless of iconic films from the perspective of teenage girls or young women as they navigate high school and real world. That’s the era of romantic comedies where the tone of the storytelling is sardonic and swoon worthy. Couples have meet-cute moments, high-school-dance scene where the hero sweep off the heroine’s in her feet. Mean Girls do fall into this genre’s convention.

The script is driven by the theme of second chances. The story offers romance, deceit, betrayal, and fantasy. There’s a three-act structure.

Jesse’s Girl is about a girl named Maya Henry who goes to a school at Hundred Oaks High School, Tennessee. She loves to play guitar and sing with her band. For her school every student must do a shadow day which is when you shadow a person for a day. The person you shadow is someone who has a job close to what you want to be. Maya wants to be a musician and her principal Dr. Salter is the uncle of famous country singer Jesse Scott.

Small lines and actions give clear insight to the theme of a struggle for power between genders. Through lack of following the script, ignoring stage direction, and undeveloped characters the production of Trifles directed by Nancy Greening is an insufficient presentation of a

With roles in movies like The Fast Lady, Fahrenheit 451, and the film adaption of Far from the Madding Crowd, Christie established herself as one of the foremost actresses of the swinging London era. Because she did the bulk of her work in the 60s, when the motion picture industry was still in its artistic infancy, many of Christie’s early movies are pretty tame, if not all of them. But in 1973, the award-winning actress would shock her fans and the general moviegoing public when she appeared as the female lead in Don’t Look Now. An independent British-Italian film, Don’t Look Now gave Julie Christie and her co-star Donald Sutherland a level of artistic freedom that neither had experienced before.