Film Studies

INT. pharmacy - day Pharmacist hands prescription to MC. MC's face is completely covered with scribbles (black, yellow, blue). Sound and dialogue is all muffled and hard to hear like you're underwater. MC Thanks Title shows up on screen. INT. house / kitchen - day Time skip to when MC is back home walking through her front door. Tracking shot of MC's feet walking towards the kitchen. Cut to MC laying out 2 pill bottles labeled happy and sad. MC opens the bottle labelled happy and takes a pill. The scribbles on MC's face start to form into the classic yellow smiley face and the sound starts becoming less distorted and easier to hear. EXT. park - day Tracking shot of MC as they walk through the park. The smiley face starts switching back and forth between scribbles. Montage of MC walking through the park with the smiley face constantly switching back and forth between the scribbles and face, sometimes being a sad face. The sounds of nature cut in and out along with the sc...

No Country For Old Men (2007) Component 1 section B spectatorship and Ideology Ideology - Values and Ideas American dream? Coen brothers Distinctive filmmakers within wider context of US contemporary production Auteurs This is based on a book of the same name by Cormac Macarthy released in 2005 Overview US values and ideologies (further down the like) - our spectatorship and spectatorship issues Differences between Gen Z and Millennials  Values Speech Views on certain topics - political views Internet Technology Opening scene for No Country for Old Men  Accent and language used seems very Country/Western Voiceover Talks about older generation? Younger generation? Willing to die for the job - says younger generation wouldn’t Cant compare yourself to the old timers Thinks older generation is somewhat better? More respectful to the older generation than the younger Younger generation doesn’t carry a gun Likes to hear the story for the old timers - respectful...

  The director is always the most important influence on a film [40]   The two auteurs, Arthur Penn and Billy Wilder always found way to bring the unconventional and controversial topics of their times into conversation. You can usually tell who directed a film based of the many aspects of film form and cinematography. Directors can have specific themes that you can see repeatedly brought up in all their films which could also suggest auteur-ship.  Wilder was a film maker during the time of the Hollywood Golden age, whilst laws such as the Hays code and Systems such as the Star system and Studio System were still in play, Whilst Penn was a film maker whilst these laws and systems were being dismantled. Wilders movie ‘Some Like it Hot’ was set in 1929 during the great depression, and made in 1959 during a time of societal change as they were shifting away from conventional attitudes and lifestyles. Similarly Bonnie and Clyde was set in the 1930s which once again was d...

  Sequence analysis of opening sequence - No country for Old Men The opening sequence of No Country for Old Men represents the Idea of the old and new generation through the voice over. The man who is speaking in the voice over mentions how different and the younger and the older generations are yet seems to put the older generation on a pedestal. The voice represents the older generation as he states how he feels that the younger generation aren’t willing to die for their job. He goes on to talk about how the younger generation don't like to carry guns and how he has more respect for the older generation and how he’s proud of the legacy they’ve created with the younger generation following in their footsteps. The use of mise-en-scene in the opening sequence is quite stereotypical for western movies. They show a montage of pictures from open desert spaces and mountains and the man in the voice over has a western accent. At some point throughout the montage they show a police car...