Tuesday, November 18, 2014
German Expressionist
Nosferatu
1922
F.W. Murnau
The reason why this is expressionism is because how they use the subjective point of view shot, and how you see the monster for a while in a shadow form and then you actually see it and how weird and maybe disgusting it looks.
One film that it might of inspired would be the movies Insidious because during the whole movie you don't see what the monster looks like it is just a drawing of an outline, but then when it comes up in the end then it actually hits you as wow this is what it looks like.
The Last Laugh
F.W. Murnau
1924
This whole movie shows a great subject view because it is about one guy and he was at his "A" game then gets kicked down by being demoted it a job and his life gets turned around.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927
F.W. Murnau
This movie is also really well in the fact that it is a defining movie about love and how in the end it works out, but the one dies and it is lost forever. It is almost like the basic plot line of "A Fault In Our Stars". It emphasizes anti-heroic means.
Metropolis Review
Film Analysis
Film Director- Fritz Lang, looked it up on IMDB or on the end Credits. You can tell the film makers took a long time to create this film, mainly because all of the backgrounds or stages were all built from hand.
From watching the movie there were a lot of major themes including father and son, the rich people or owners to the working class, man versus machine, biblical references, there was a love connection and a chasing film for him chasing after his loved one. One other thing you can tell from Fritz Lang, is that he had a deep passion with this movie including the facts of him making all of these films a different type of movies nowadays. Now there is a thriller movie or even a romantic films, because of Fritz Lang.
We can tell what was going on because there was a lot bigger corporations and they have the big dollars and they were hiring people to do their work. But then also the owners were actually getting greedy so they wanted to change it to machine corporations, kind of like the themes from Willy Wonka and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. After there was the World War 1 going on and there was battles their, so maybe that is where he got his violence from.
For who it was made, it was mainly the audience of the 1927 people, and really it was to entertain them back then, but now, not as much because of the time period we are in, and really how we are so in depth with action movies. I saw the movie, it was an excellent movie when you are critic, most people would say it was boring, but how I saw it was on a restoration movie, because most of the film was lost over the decades, and therefore when it was just words for a while, those are the parts that are lost, and the other big thing was there was commentary. The movie would be a bit difficult without knowing some of the background, because some people might not of gotten the references to the bible or anything. So there it was an excellent piece of art to view as a film maker
Other references to other movies, include Star Wars IV V VI, or even Star Trek. But really any movie could be related like father and son, like there was a new movie out now called The Judge and that is about father and son, and some brainstorms when they were thinking about it probably Metropolis came up.
The other connection like traditional movie, I don't believe this has a traditional movie because I feel like it was the creator of all movies, it was the defining movie of every movie, you could say it was the building block of every movie nowadays, because of all of the issues it brings up; including the father/son rivalry, and without this movie maybe Star Wars would of never been created, or even movies like the Godfather. Categories like horror, action, suspense, this movie Metropolis had it all including action with the chase sequences and the over exaggerated fighting. It had horror with the creepy science man Rotwan. It even had suspense when how would you know who was going to die the fake Maria or the real Maria.
In Conclusion, Metropolis excellent piece of art to enjoy for Film Making.
Film Director- Fritz Lang, looked it up on IMDB or on the end Credits. You can tell the film makers took a long time to create this film, mainly because all of the backgrounds or stages were all built from hand.
From watching the movie there were a lot of major themes including father and son, the rich people or owners to the working class, man versus machine, biblical references, there was a love connection and a chasing film for him chasing after his loved one. One other thing you can tell from Fritz Lang, is that he had a deep passion with this movie including the facts of him making all of these films a different type of movies nowadays. Now there is a thriller movie or even a romantic films, because of Fritz Lang.
We can tell what was going on because there was a lot bigger corporations and they have the big dollars and they were hiring people to do their work. But then also the owners were actually getting greedy so they wanted to change it to machine corporations, kind of like the themes from Willy Wonka and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. After there was the World War 1 going on and there was battles their, so maybe that is where he got his violence from.
For who it was made, it was mainly the audience of the 1927 people, and really it was to entertain them back then, but now, not as much because of the time period we are in, and really how we are so in depth with action movies. I saw the movie, it was an excellent movie when you are critic, most people would say it was boring, but how I saw it was on a restoration movie, because most of the film was lost over the decades, and therefore when it was just words for a while, those are the parts that are lost, and the other big thing was there was commentary. The movie would be a bit difficult without knowing some of the background, because some people might not of gotten the references to the bible or anything. So there it was an excellent piece of art to view as a film maker
Other references to other movies, include Star Wars IV V VI, or even Star Trek. But really any movie could be related like father and son, like there was a new movie out now called The Judge and that is about father and son, and some brainstorms when they were thinking about it probably Metropolis came up.
The other connection like traditional movie, I don't believe this has a traditional movie because I feel like it was the creator of all movies, it was the defining movie of every movie, you could say it was the building block of every movie nowadays, because of all of the issues it brings up; including the father/son rivalry, and without this movie maybe Star Wars would of never been created, or even movies like the Godfather. Categories like horror, action, suspense, this movie Metropolis had it all including action with the chase sequences and the over exaggerated fighting. It had horror with the creepy science man Rotwan. It even had suspense when how would you know who was going to die the fake Maria or the real Maria.
In Conclusion, Metropolis excellent piece of art to enjoy for Film Making.
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