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The Product of their environment One way in which the Characters of the film are a product of their environment is the theme of pub vs restaurant that is present throughout the whole movie and is a divider between Liz and Shaun. Liz has overall more middleclass views, believing that she doesn’t want to spend the rest of her life spending everyday down at the pub, presenting the overall idea that Restaurants are better, and the more “grown up” (lamer) option. We can assume that, like the majority of characters within the film, Liz had a middle-class upbringing, therefore her views on restaurant over pub are probably a product of her upbringing, after her parents own relationship. Her whole aim is to try and turn Shaun into a middle-class adult, and to her, the only way to truly be an adult is to be a middle-class adult, she doesn’t consider the life that Shaun is living as an adult life. Another way we see the middle-class ideals of the film is through Shaun’s friend, Yvonne,...

  Film Essay Shaun of the dead is a hybrid of many different genres that mix together to make an interesting story. It is a comedy, a romance, and most obviously, a zombie film. The film uses its hybrid of different genres to fix problems and re balance the equilibrium. The use horror within the horror allows this movie to tell much darker jokes than if the film chose to stick with one genre. Edgar Wright uses visual comedy to tell the story within this film, a key example of this within the open if the film is the use of the gore. When Shaun and ed find a girl in their garden they are still blatantly unaware that they have been torn from the world of rom-coms and hurled into a zombie film, until, Shaun impales the zombie through the chest with garden furniture (the deadliest of all weapons). Edgar Wright literally puts Shaun and Ed inside the zombie by having the framing show them through the circle through the zombie’s chest. The film then uses typical zombie conventio...

Studio System  During which decades was the Hollywood studio system at its most powerful? the studio system was most popular between the 1920s and the 1960s, (this was also known as the "golden age" of Hollywood) when studios made hundreds of movies a year, not all them were successful, but many of them were (for example Casablanca).   What were the major "big five" studios? The ‘Big Five’ were the main studios that were making movies in Hollywood. They were MGM, 20th Century Fox, RKO, Paramount and Warner Bros. There were other film studios at the time, but none of them were as successful or as well known as the "Big Five" What areas and roles in film production did the studio system have direct control over? the studio system meant that the studio had control over basically every part of the film, hence why in Casablanca the director (Curtiz) is referred to as a "director for hire" as he wasn't really involved in the film as...

Casablanca Scenes The opening bar scene The performance in the opening scene in Ricks bar creates a sense of isolation in the bar, everyone has their backs turned, and they all sit in groups of two or three, the biggest grouping being around six people This shows the danger and untrusting nature of those who are stuck in Casablanca. While Ricks is one of the happier places in Casablanca, it still has a melancholy tone to it, for example, the two men having a conversation (albeit a one-sided conversation), about he is never going to get out of Casablanca, the other man is uninterested, shown through uneven eye-lines and body language, suggesting this is a common occurrence in Casablanca. The camera during the opening shots uses a lot of movement in the bar scene, panning around the bar from right to left. It also uses establishing shots at the start of the scene. This is the typical style of classical Hollywood. The camera is also never really still, moving from conversation to ...

                                       -Casablanca- Rick Rick is the main character of Casablanca, he plays a man who was left by someone he loved (Ilse) and was changed forever. Rick is one of the people who are happy to settle down in Casablanca and isn't attempting to reach America (as he isn't allowed back into the country). Rick doesn't "stick his neck out" for anyone, and at the beginning of the film he is happy to just stay and run his cafe without being disturbed by anyone, however, toward the end of the film we see his aims change, he wants to help Ilse escape Casablanca with victor, he doesn't care what happens to himself, he just wants to protect his lover. Rick is meant to portray America at the time, who weren't currently involved in world war two) Ilse Isle is victors wife, and Ricks former lover, who left him in Paris. In the film we see her torn between Victor, her ...

Film Review  12/09/19 Movie: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a fantasy-comedy-horror movie directed by Tim Burton in 1988. It is a great movie because while it follows many of the typical conventions of the horror/comedy genre, it's also a little crazy, with things such as a giant sandworm, a strip club, and an impromptu wedding between the "villain" of the film and Lydia. The film allows the main "villain" of the plot to be more of an antihero than anything else. This allows the film to create a good balance between the "horror" and the comedy, relying more on props and makeup to scare people, rather than the jump scares that are typical of comedy/horror films. The narrative is also a little different than most typical films, having more "friendly" ghosts, and the humans in the story being portrayed as the "bad guys" subverting the typi cal genre of humans vs ghosts. This movie is typical of Tim Burton, as he likes the darker sid...

film form 10/09/03 cinematography: use of camera and lighting angles shot types (close up) movement (zoom, pan, tracking) Editing: It creates a   Relationship between the shots Mise-en-scene: what's in the shot (scene, costume) sound: Music, sound Fx, spoken word performance: the actors