Re: Stanford Field Trip

1. It came from Outer Space

2. The Day the Earth stood still

3. Spiral Stair Case

The day that would interest me the most would be Saturday. For the sake that, that day is the most greatest day that we can all hang out on a saturday to see a movie. Common' who doesn't want to see a movie on a saturday night?

My parents, unfortunately can't go. :/

Re: Eisenstein and Hitchcock

In the film Battleship Potemkin what had happened was that there was some intense close up shots. That shows the emotion of the film, how the characters react. It also shows how Eisenstein liked how he had used the film's close up shots at a very good angle. There were some low angle shots, and also a stationary camera. In the shower scene that we previously seen in Psycho, that had also the extreme close up, medium shot, also the high angle shot. The scene was memorable first, the taking place of a shower was pretty interesting. The certain film techniques, I also know that Hitchcock rarely even uses the close up, so that makes it memorable. Eisenstein was also probably influenced by German Expressionism characteristics, Hitchcock used his own methods as any other director the Auteur Theory.

Re: The Master of Suspense

He surely kind of goes back to German Expressionism. Also how he uses the Camera that makes lots of sense. The point of view and the montage that is used is quite unique I would have used those characteristics. It makes perfect sense and we also go back to the same stuff that other directors use. Well I have seen some Panning shots in Rear Window. It's a really good film, it shown the famous Pan shot in the beginning. Using Humor to break tension is one of the reasons why suspense is the big part of the film.

In the beginning, long shot was used to show the show down battle ground and also the camera spinning around when Tuco was looking around. Close up was used when Blondie dropped the rock on the ground, and also close ups were used on the three men right before they shot their guns. Medium shot was used to show the men's bodies from the waist up. The camera had shots that cut from person to person. Eye line match was used to show how the characters were looking at one another. There was a high angle shot of the rope of when Blondie wanted Tuco to put his neck through. The music was very dramatic and powerful. He creates a very strong show down that heightens with all of these shots and creates a montage of all these images put together.

Re: Evolution of the Western

Western has changed over time because of the increase in western television series, ideology formed the western was becoming outmoded in the new permissive society and the rise of violent spaghetti westerns. This reflect changes in the world because these story plots of these westerns influenced Japanese samurai films.

Re: Reinventing the Western

Characteristics of a western genre are heroes (cowboys)/and or outlaw heroes, good vs. evil, and the battle between cowboys and native americans and the usual setting takes place in western nights. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a western because the battle in the movie is between the outlaw and official hero. The setting was taken place in a western town. The Good, Bad, and the Ugly is different from the The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance because there is more of a western theme song, more intense battle scene wise and there's more of mysterious twists in the film and more film techniques.

Re: Film Timeline and Film Techniques

On the film timeline, we are studying the year 1959. The next unit will be focusing on films made in the 1960's. Different film techniques that deal with the International Cinema unit are jump cuts and tracking shots. Jump cuts were introduced in the film Breathless and tracking shots were used in the films The 400 Blows and Children of Heaven.

Re: Film Festival Reflection

Cost of a Soul! Oh, how the chills begin! Well those who saw "Cost of a Soul", really say that it's been one great movie, from one great independent film director. Those who aren't recognizable with the film "Cost of a soul" would be in the category of Film Noir/Crime/Modern-Gangster movie. The movie was overall great, I really did get the movie from start to finish, and it wouldn't be great without all the people just being they're BAD-ASS self. Yes, even the little girl, she was the best! "Cost of a Soul" can connect to a lot of the films we studied, but mostly about all of the film techniques, and the actors actually as well. There was a-lot of Invisible Editing, the editing would be natural, you wouldn't really know if they are just depicting a shot or just making it feel normal and just go with the flow of the characters. There was a bit of Method Acting coming from the main character, he really hit the spot for just acting as he would in the movie and then become as a normal person in modern life. There was also a part that the "old lady" stuck up to me, on how she really isn't a true actor after all, she actually went through the times with her family relatives that have been close to her in real life, and that reminded me a bit of Italian Neo-Realism in a way. I would give a bit of improvements, and a bit of work in the field of film. The suitcase would be just a bit to cheezy, we would actually get the same reaction with the suitcase in "Pup Fiction". Now don't get me started the Suitcase really means a lot, but the fact of the whole suitcase just tips the scale of "TOO MUCH!". For the actors, well there wasn't really that much of an improvement, they all made great progress with the type of film. Overall, this film was great! It really got me at the edge of my seat in some scenes, and I LOVED IT! I give the movie 4 ½ "ANGRY SHOOTING GRANNY'S" out of 5!