Final Flashcards
Persistence of vision
The eyes ability to bridge the gap between the moving pictures to allow pictures linked consecutively look like they are actually moving and one solid moving image as opposed to individual pictures.
Hollywood System
Controlling every part of the movie making system, production, exhibition and distribution let this monopoly go for 30 some years
Dream Factory
Movies created dreams and this was the name of Hollywood back then
Paramount decision
1948 the government decides that they can’t control every aspect and must drop one of the processes and they decide to drop exhibition because there is no money in it. The war and the women working and people just not caring enough to go out and see a movie when they have a television right in their living room helped with this decision
European Art Films
Pacing, unsure of the plot due to the films not following what we normally expect to see in films, racier, people were interested in things that “didn’t matter” because there was more free time and no worry of working and going to school and trying to get a job
Film School/ Midnight Movies
Spielberg and others go and study older movies and practice their art and refine it and they produce films such as jaws and others that are major blockbuster hits and turned the movie industry on its head. They also take “nut job” directors who create movies that are to be aired at midnight, they are repulsive and weird and confusing and overall leave the audience disturbed and wanting more in most cases.
David Lynch
Elephant man was able to take the normal idea of Midnight films and take a theme as disgusting as fetus deformation and change it so people became sympathetic to the character and how he was treated. Also directed Eraser Head.
Independent Film making
People could create low budget self-produced films without needing help from major studios and they could create more artistic pieces and not follow the classic Hollywood style
Movement into digital films
Cuts down expense of films significantly, cameras in most cases are more compact and allow for different movements and stylistic elements that one could not attain before with the bulky films cameras. It also increased the production of independent films and non-studio based films when digital cameras such as handycams and little handheld digital camcorders.
Sunset Blvd.
Amazingly shot, overall great movie, good story, extremely claustrophobic
Blow Up
Suggests that the only way to make sense of life is art, take an artistic view on life
Living in Oblivion
Shows the independent film making process in a satirical way and the problems encountered
Gods & Monsters
Won Oscar for best screenplay, Final days of James Whale the creator of Frankenstein movies and shows it in a dark and light side, getting a commercially recognizable actor to play a gay male since it is harder to create a gay film with males and have it be successful than it is with lesbians, turned into him wanting to die not have sex with him
Sweeny Todd
Johnny Depp, musically oriented, a line between dreams and nightmares
Don’t Look Now
Mystery and a long slow set up to a not so scary and kind of confusing ending, the murder was a strange elderly dwarf female, the editing during the sex scene, box office success, about clairvoyance
