West Side Story: Changing the Musical Film Genre The musical film West Side Story (1961) was greatly successful. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards and receiving ten, this movie rose to the top of everyone’s expectations. It changed the genre of musicals and film elevating the story to a new level where it prospered and flourished. This film did something other films and musicals never did before; taking a classical Shakespearian play, Romeo and Juliet and modernizing it. The musical revised a well-known
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“O Brother Where Art Thou” review by Nicholas Drake “O Brother Where Art Thou” is a film, that if you have not yet seen it, you should do so. It takes little to know time to recognize the influence of Homer’s The Odyssey in the film, as it is based off of the epic. Set in rural Mississippi in the 1940’s, we join the story where Ulysses McGill (George Clooney), Pete (John Turturro), and Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) are escaping prison in a search for a “hidden treasure”. Along their journey, the three
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15, 2013 Deepa Mani | Geetika Shah Sony Music (India) February 2012. Vivek Paul, Director of Digital Media Initiatives at Sony sat with Shridhar Subramaniam, President, India and Middle East, Sony Music Entertainment, in his Santa Cruz, Mumbai office and mulled over the remarkable changes that the music industry in India had witnessed over the past few years. With the rapid growth in Internet penetration and usage, technology was driving music production, access and consumption. Sales from
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Name Course Tutor Date Honor of Chinese culture in film. The Hero is a Chinese film based in Hong Kong China, and it is entirely a wuxia film. It is a martial art film, and it depicts the Chinese culture and unity. The king in the film is trying to bring together warring kingdoms and also come up with a standard Chinese language among the variations. There is a conflict depicted in the film that of who to trust. The king is almost lured to believe an assassin who finally forgives the king. There
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survivor remains.” (www.thehungergamesmovie.com) Prior to being a film, The Hunger Games was an award winning novel. The film was transformed from novel into a successful award winning fantasy film that captured the hearts of audiences world-wide through storytelling, acting, cinematography, editing and sound. The purpose of this review is to explore those elements and the film’s overall textual themes from a formalist approach. The film derives from the science fiction novel written in 2008 by Suzanne
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main themes the film Cinderella (1950) portrays is how the “Dreams come true.” However, when I watched Cinderella (1950) again, my attention was brought to this one scene of Cinderella at the grand ball (51:24-56:00). Disney put out a branched out theme of when the main character’s dreams come to face the reality. The scene starts with Cinderella dancing with her Prince Charming at the ball to a soft music that allows both sense of magic and elegance to step in. This diegetic music played by the
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Three basic types of music that are heard throughout Birth of a Nation include adaptation, arrangement, and original music. Adapations or the extended quotations of classical music can usually be heard alongside large action scenes. Dramatic scenes are also often related with adaptation. Adaptation can be heard during the assassination of President Lincoln as well as the ending of the movie. The biggest thing about adaptation is that it is most commonly heard throughout the action scenes where a
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1) Describe the three basic types of music heard in original scores during the silent film era and cites specific examples from The Birth of a Nation. (10 points) a. The three basic types of music heard in original scores during the silent film era are adaptions of classical works, arrangements of well-known melodies, and music that was newly composed. Adaptions of classical music were often times accompanied by large action scenes. However, an exception was made in the passage from a mass, which
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Question 1 The three basic types of music that is heard in The Birth of a Nation are adaptions of classical works, arrangements of well-known melodies, and newly composed music. Dramatic scenes and large scale action are what classify adaptions of classical works for the most part, however it usually borrows a significant portion of another composition for use in a film. In the Birth of a Nation, Lincoln’s assassination used an adaption of a piece by Mozart. With arrangements of well-known melodies
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Source Code is an incredible film that exhibits multiple examples of narration throughout a movie. As soon as the open credits finish, the plot kicks in, viewers are immediately aware that something is not right due to the music being played in the background of the film. As the music continues on, it begins leading the viewers to come to a conclusion that the music was indeed playing to signify diegesis behavior in the form of nondiegetic, which allowed the viewers to get “in the moment” and to
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