...Theories Represented In the Film – Waking Life” [Name of the Writer] [Name of the Institution] [Name of the Subject] [Date] “Psychological Theories Represented In the Film – Waking Life” Introduction The movie, Waking Life, is a profound manifestation of the connection between the real world and the dream world. The whole movie is Rotoscoped i.e. filmed with real characters but remade into animated scenes. It is a movie that has several scenes that are interrelated in meaning with one another. The different scenes also serve a purpose of helping the protagonist accept the invitation of God through his own free will. Most parts of the movie are so deep that they are hardly comprehensible and give vast meanings that can be interpreted independently through the eyes of the observers. However, one can easily say that the movie is based on the psychological and philosophical norms, in fact, most of the characters are even directly referring to the different psychological theories like nihilism, free will, dream consciousness etc. In this paper, the different theories in the movie, Waking Life, are discussed as represented through the narrative, story, characterization, and cinematography of the film. Discussion The three most exquisite elements of the film are its cinematography, the stellar soundtrack and the philosophical scenes which add to the viewers’ interest in the movie. The director, Richard Linklater, has filmed this movie with the use of the Rotoscopy technique...
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...“Waking Life” is a philosophical, art film released in 2001. “Waking Life” was directed and produced by Robert C. Linklater. The film consisted of actors such as Wiley Wiggins, Ethan Hawke, Nicky Katt, Adam Goldberg, and Julie Delpy. This movie contains a unique element on how it was produced. This animated movie used advanced rotoscoping and digital technology to create scenes that seem to resemble an impressionistic painting. The film is first shot on a digital video and then traced over by animators creating a life-like, moving painting before your eyes. This type of imagery corresponds to the dream theme of the movie. Wiley Wiggins is the main character in “Waking Life”. Throughout the movie he is in a dream that he cannot get out of. In his “dream” he encounters different people who converse with him on different philosophical theories and dreams. He is constantly figuring out ways on how to return to reality but along the way he questions his existence and what consciousness is. This relates to the larger theme behind the movie. The larger theme alludes to the idea that our purpose of existence on earth is unknown and we have the power to question it all. This original script makes this movie very interesting. Instead of containing a consistent plot, it is mostly made up of a series of dialogues on different topics put together in one film. There is no narration in the film and many times you do not know where he is going and what he will be doing next. It...
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...Introduction The report is based on a movie “Kinky Boots” and the character ‘Lola’ who has played a strong and inspirational role, with great lessons for the people in our society. As a student, it is a good movie to watch and learn many things from the character Lola. The story of the movie revolves around the character “Charlie Price”, who was forced to step in and save his family’s shoe factory, due to the sudden death of his father in Northern England. Charlie was helpless and has no idea how to save his company from bankruptcy. He found an unexpected inspiration in the form of Lola, a fabulous drag performer. Lola helps Charlie discover that there are cross dressers who demand high heeled boots and there is an opportunity to serve this niche market segment. The movie shows how an unsuccessful business can be transformed into a successful business. How leaders should play its role, what kind of approach is required to make a difference. The movie has many lessons on leadership, personality, & behavior for business school students. How an effective leadership of Lola brought changes in the life of Charlie. It all became possible through acceptance of diversity, commitment and bringing new ideas to the table, an important message for the business owners of today. The report will focus on the character ‘Lola’ in relation with the class lectures. Discussion Identification & Application Kinky Boots is a great inspirational movie, with strong lessons for business leaders...
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...Professor Abott Life in Day The film, “Life in a Day” showed me that people that live all around the world can be similar and completely different at the same time. This movie was very interesting and eye opening to me. I learned that even though people around the world could have different cultures and beliefs we could all be the same in many other ways. The part of the movie that interested me the most was when different people were asked what was in their pockets. This interested me because even though the people that were asked had little to no similarities all of their answers were generally the same. Some people stated there was money and others stated that there was nothing. The people that had nothing thought that it wasn’t important to have anything because family was all they needed. I think that family was an important factor in the movie as well. Few of the people in the movie stated that they wanted family and a lot of the answers they got were family related. I think that that is fundamental because no matter where you go in the world people always stated that family was important; making everyone in the world more relatable to each other despite their cultural differences. The part of the movie that shocked me the most was when we saw the way they butchered the cow. It was shocking because I’ve never thought of where our food came from or how it got in the packaging. There was not a part in the movie that I particularly disliked, the movie was a real eye opener...
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...When a book is made into a movie, many things are left out. The movie may depict characters in a completely different way than the novel. Another thing that may be changed during production is theme. A movie version of a novel might not include a big theme of a novel or the movie may have a completely different theme than the novel. In most movies, scenes are deleted or completely made up in order to make the movie more entertaining and to get the story told quickly. Like any movie based on a book, there are some differences in the movie Blow. Examples of differences are some characters have been changed and some have been added, also many scenes and events from the book are left out, and finally some scenes have been completely changed from the novel to the film. There is one character in the movie that was completely made up. Her name is Barbara Buckley. She plays George’s first real girlfriend. She is added to help show the theme - money is not everything. During the movie, she gets cancer and is told that she only has around a half of a year left. As a result, George takes a break from smuggling drugs into the United States and moves down to Mexico, because this is the only place he can live freely. This is one of the first times that George puts love before money. If he would have stayed in the United Sates then he would have been sentenced to a couple months in jail instead of the mandatory three year sentence. He would also make millions of dollars as a result...
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...THE BUTLER Yashika Westmoreland Ashford University ENG 255: Introduction to film Instructor: Stephanie Micolt 12/22/2013 I will start off my paper by introducing some of the main cast members and the parts that they play in this film The Butler which was released on August 16, 2013 and directed by Lee Daniels who also took part and helping with the production of the film along with Buddy Patrick, Cassian Elwes, Pamela Oas Williams and Larua Ziskin who died while making the film in 2011. This film was also written by Danny Strong. The actors who played in this movie and their roles are as followed. (Forest Whitaker) as Cecil Gains a African American man who ends up becoming one of the best servers in the white house. (Aml Ameen) who plays Cecil when he was younger. (Oprah Winfrey) as Gloria Gains Cecil’s wife. (David Oyelowo) as Louis Gains Cecil’s and Gloria’s oldest son who is all about the civil rights of blacks and participates in a lot of speeches about the rights of blacks. (Elijah Kelley) as Charlie Gains Cecil’s and Gloria’s youngest son. (David Banner) as Earl Gains Cecil’s father who was killed by plantation owner Thomas Westfall. Who killed Earl after he protested that he had raped his wife, played by (Alex Pettyfer). (Mariah Carey) as Hattie Pearl Cecil’s mother. (Terrence Howard) as Howard the Gaines’s neighbor who is trying to pursue Gloria. (Adriane Lenox) as Gina (Yaya DaCosta) as ...
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...3/8/12 The 400 Blows by François Truffaut The movie 400 Blows, a film that was created over 50 years ago is as modern and extraordinary as any film presently released today. It was made during the French New Wave timeframe which was a completely different style compared to many other films during that period of time and honestly was similar to most of the “Hollywood” movies that I am used to in this country. This new wave of films fundamentally surrounded itself by creating a feel of real life and personality on the screen that would captivate its viewers, and the movie 400 Blows did everything and more than I expected. This movie exclusively left out a realizable plot, but there is one thing that it did not do. It kept the life that Francois Truffaut was telling as real and as close to authentic as he possibly could. It was shot in first person singular which allows the viewer to imagine exactly what is going on inside the head of the protagonist, in this case Antoine Doinel. We as viewers, are able to follow the childhood of young Antoine as he constantly gets into trouble and ultimately how he deals with living with an uncaring and very difficult family in Paris during his adolescent years. It’s very easy to become captivated with the dialogue and acting within this picture because at certain points you feel the characters emotions and daily struggles as if they were your own. During the time of watching this movie I immediately felt like I was sitting in the classroom...
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...read the book/movie A Raisin in the Sun. They were both very good in different ways. But they did have many differences. In the movie the characters developed different. Walter was mean and nasty in the beginning of the movie. As it went on you could see the change in heart. He became more sweet and caring. He started acting different and everyone could tell. Now Ruth was aggravated and tired in the beginning, and she became more relived towards the end. She was happy about her new life and how much her life changed. Mama was very sad because of the loss of her husband, Walter Lee Sir, in the beginning. As the movie continues she becomes happier knowing that he is now in peace and things are looking up for their family. Now don’t even get me started on Bennie, disrespectful and very annoying. Her heart changes a little towards the end though. She becomes kinder to Walter in particular. Everybody will have different opinions on the acting in the movie. In my mind it was horrible. There is one scene in particular that made me think this. When Ruth fainted it looked so unreal, good actors learn to master things like that. Also the emotions they showed were portrayed badly. They didn’t know how to really show what the characters were portraying. When actors and actresses have that ability people can really feel what role they are trying to play. The book and the movie have many differences. The book focuses more on the plant and the one window then the movie does. Also the...
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...Life is Beautiful/ Night Compare & Contrast Essay During WWII one of the most horrific, crimes of mankind occurred under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. This crime was the Holocaust, which imprisoned many Jewish people in internment camps, and slaughtered over six million. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel and Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful they both convey their message about the holocaust in similar and different ways. In the book and movie they both had a motif of god, and his relationship with man. In the book Wiesel reflects on god in many ways. During the beginning of the book Elie was very religious, he even said “by day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to synagogue and weep over the destruction of the temple” (Wiesel 3). This shows the Wiesel was very religious and did infact believe in God at the beginning of the book, but throughout the book Elie does begin to question God and even...
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...The movie Precious directed by Lee Daniels like most novels turned movies was a lot like the the novel Push by Sapphire . Although similar not exactly the same. When a novel is turned into a movie the director and the crew can only do the novel but so much justice. They are able to capture the important moments but at the same time incorporate moment they feels make a great addition to the already developed storyline. Because the movie usually can not embody everything the novel is able to there is usually significant differences between the two. Difference such as characters physical appearance or characters having larger roles in the movie than they did in the novel or vice versa. Or something a reader felt belonged in the movie that...
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...Unexpected Change People in the world today all end up in different situations that they have to face in their lives. The movie “Crash” brings out many different problems and racial stereotypes between people. The two most changing characters in the movie are Officer Ryan, who plays the Police Officer, and Anthony, who plays the thief. This movie shows many different points of view from black people and how life as a police officer. Racism is shown in various ways in this movie and one way was throughout the eyes of Anthony, aka Ludacris. In the beginning of the movie Anthony seems to feel he is the victim and seems to be the good guy, but turns out to be contradicting to himself and doesn’t realize that he is the one who contributes to the stereotype he is trying to infer. In a scene in the movie Anthony says, “That waitress sized us up in two seconds. We’re black and black people don’t tip. So she wasn’t gonna waste her time.” Then Peter responds, “So, uh… how much did you leave?” Anthony says, “You expect me to pay for that kind of service?” This shows how big of a hypocrite Anthony is in the beginning of the movie. Anthony is the racist in this scene because he thinks he is the one who is being viewed as one but really his actions make him the racist. Anthony then steals a white couples car, so he is obviously the bad man in this movie so far. Throughout the movie Anthony comes off as an untrustworthy criminal character, who steals car for a living. In another scene...
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...INTO THE WILD 10.09.13 Task 1 The movie focuses on different values of life. That you should be grateful for the things that is right in front of you. And that we as humans, should not take things for granted, and not always choose the easiest way out of situations. That is the reasons for the movie being so likeable, in my opinion. Because of the way the movie is being told, the watchers can almost feel the adrenalin kick Chris gets every time he sees a potential food source. We, who live on this earth, often forget about the beauty we are surrounded with every day. There are so many values in life, but in our daily life we are quickly to forget about them. And this movie really is a reminder. And because of this, I like the movie. We get to see life in an entire different setting. In the movie we clearly see the contrast in which ways different people want to live their life. And some watchers may feel that it is hard for them to comprehend why some of them would choose to live a life without a TV or a cellphone. For me it’s inspirational. Not in a way that it makes me want to go out into the wild and live without money and a reliable food source, but it makes me want to appreciate life even more than I already do. Instead of sitting inside in front of the TV, I should rather be outside, looking at the sunset. When it comes to the acting, it was excellent. We have Chris’ parents who are very focused on living a materialistic life, and then we have the ones Chris...
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...Inside out movie is one bizarre, imaginative and authentically psychedelic animation as anything produced animation directed and co-written by Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen as a co-director. This 102 minutes story is about a girl named Riley Andersen who was born in Minnesota. The headquarters in her mind automatically installed as she was born. In the headquarters, there are five emotions such as Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear and Anger in her mind that created over time. As she grows up, all her experiences become memories which are saved in the crystal balls with different colours. Different colours of crystal balls indicate the different five core of emotions. All the crystal balls of memories will be sent to the long term memories every...
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...assistant, Igor, zaps life into a grotesque monster within medieval castle under the cover of a dark and stormy night. At the epicenter, a creature awakens while the mad scientist cackles maniacally. It would be equally shocking for most, however, to find that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the original, poses a quite different, almost anti-climatic, scene–void of any shouting, Igors, and with no clear depiction of the creature’s endowment of life-giving forces. In fact, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein contrasts heavily to the pop culture Frankenstein in many aspects, namely,...
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...Gran Torino The movie “Gran Torino” is based around an older racist man named Walt. The movie starts with Walt being an old grumpy man who lives in the ghetto by himself, due to the recent death of his wife. After Walt finds the boy who lives next door named Thao trying to steal his car; Thao’s family orders that Thao will now work for Walt to repay his debt to him. Walt at first does not care for Thao and his sister Sue because they are asian, but after getting to know them Walt secretly warms up to them. Through the movie the pastor keeps on eye on Walt to see how he is doing and offers to talk with Walt if he needs it. Walt usually shuts him down on the spot and doesn’t want to talk to him at all. Walt soon finds out that it was Thao’s cousin and gang where the ones who put Thao up to it to steal Walt’s car. Walt tries to help Thao and gets him a job as a construction worker. Soon after that the gang approaches Thao while he was walking home from work one day and attack him and burn his face with a cigarette. After Walt finds this out, he goes to one of the gang member’s houses and beats him up warning him not to mess with Thao anymore. The gang counter attacks by raping Sue and attacking her and doing a drive by on Thao’s house. Walt knows that for Thao and Sue to have better lives in the future he was going to have to get rid of the gang. Walt goes alone and sacrifices himself so that they gang would get locked up and sent to jail were they couldn’t hurt Thao and Sue...
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