Re: Italian Neo-Realism

The origin of Italian Neo-Realism is in Italy when Mussolini got Italy under his power. After World War II, Mussolini was a Facist leader and it was a totalitarian government back then. The Films of Italy show us, "the Amuricans", that we have a paradise of the world and it shows that everyone wants to live in it. It portrays that Americans lives are peaceful. People were shown the glories of their 'roman' past. The movie of Italy doesn't want to show Fascism and promote Socialism.

The American influences for them was used for films, like film techniques, high angles, low angles, and a lot of other important film techniques.

Re: International Cinema vs. Hollywood Cinema

Hollywood Movies:

- The General

- Modern Times

- His Girl Friday

- Double Indemnity

- Casablanca

- Citizen Kane

- Angels w/ Dirty Faces

- It's a Wonderful Life

- On the Waterfront

- Rebel without a cause

International Movies

- Arrival At a Train Station

- A trip to the Moon

- Battleship Potemkin

- Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

- Metropolis

- The Last Laugh

Well, both of the Cinemas have great and some have understandable story lines. Only international movies have less restrictions. The acting styles are pretty much the same, how the character is portrayed, and how good he plays his part. The differences are that the stories don't end the same, and the heroes are more or less different than the average hero is.

Re: Method Acting

Method Acting is probably not the well known acting, but its known and used by actors. There's nothing different for using method acting. Relaxing helps the actor to reach a higher state of concentration, to help themselves in what they are focused for. Sense of memory helps recall certain senses that reminds actors and/or actresses of objects and experiences, such as bumps, scratches, curves, or any other detail they feel in the object they are focusing on. The emotional memory is used by actors to sense memory to recall emotional experiences. Characterization seems to be key in the set of exercises that help actors become more of a believable character, this will truly help them on what they have to do in a scene and/or in a performance in the scene and/or play.

Re: Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando, is possibly never mind cross that the best actor ever to be on the face of the eaohth'. There are a lot of examples my friend of him being his 'badass' self and making those hollywood corporation puppies purr like a walrus. Well there is a part in the movie of On the Waterfront that takes acting to a whole new level, like the scene where Edie and Terry are in the town park and Edie seems to drop her glove (which was an accident but was then taped) and just like the good ole' Marlon he takes the scene a bit more serious and to show his intimacy with Edie, he gets her dropped glove and puts it on. Great scene am I rite or what? Mr. Schrieber come on man, why would we compare the great bambino' to second class actors like Will Ferrel and that other guy, whats his name? Oh yeah! Tom Cruise. In conclusion my friend this great man has served the acting, movie, and mafia' business and needs to be credited for. Thanks Brando for those 80 years of you man, you deserve it!

Re: Western Films

The Westerns is a fiction based art, that are devoted to tell a story. Its sets primarily in the half of the 19th century in what became the Western of The United States or for you old youngens the American Old West or Wild West. Most Westerns have an official hero and an outlaw hero. Westerns usually often portray how primitive and obsolete ways of life confronted modern technological or social changes. This may be depicted by showing conflict between natives and settlers or U.S Cavalry or between sheep and cattle farmers, or by showing ranchers being threatened by the onset of the Industrial Revolution. The Man who shot Liberty Valance is classified to be a western because well its directed by one of the most Western Directors John Ford, and the overall bad-ass in every western movie John Wayne. The Story takes in the Western of the United States, even though it was a spaghetti-western, and there is a total conflict with society in the city and people.

Film Noir

1. For me Film Noir is a cinematic term used to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.

2. For critics Film Noir is not a genre its a way of art in the making of the dark ages of cinema

3. All the films I have seen that are film noir is Double Indemnity, and Blade Runner. Fritz Lang, and Otto Preminger.

Film Studies Binder Check

1. I have organized my binder, Chronologically how Mr. Schreiber gave me the papers

2. We do very informative assignments. We study movies from head to toe, on how we look at things in a very imperfect point of view.

3. We are at 1940 - 1945. Where Orson Welles makes Citizen Kane, and during World War II, propoganda films are made for the first time en masse.

4. Yes, it has changed. I used to think films were boring, but actually they seem to be living beings and that they represent the true artist in a director

5. We have done impressing projects, that really help us on how to understand the history of film and film techniques.