Le Pen is a French politician who is founder and former president of the Front National (National Front) party. He is the oldest candidate for presidential office in France. Le Pen focuses on immigration to France, the European Union, traditional culture, law and order and France's high rate of unemployment. He advocates immigration restrictions, the death penalty, raising incentives for homemakers, and euroscepticism. He strongly opposes same-sex marriage, euthanasia, and abortion.
He is relevant to the film 'La Haine', as from just the little information I have researched about this french politician, you can see that he concentrates more on the under privileged and the more poor areas of france. With the film, it focuses on the poverty of france and three people who live in these conditions and what there life includes in a normal day, also the conditions of these estates with the riots that occured in france in the late 90's. He seems to be able to relate to these people, and it seems that the underclass french public are very popular with Le Pen. It seems that he fights for what they beleive in and wants to make a difference to the more poor areas rather than the more richer areas that already have everything they need in life (wealth and power), this is exactly what is included in the film 'La Haine', the three youths realise how little they have and how much the inner city have and wonder why the government and France, itself, do nothing about this. Why should they live in Poverty? Why should they have nothing? Le Pen is the person who helps the youngsters of France answer these questions.
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
Fm2: Section A: Producers & Audiences
British Film Industry
In 2009 there were 2735 multiplex cinema screens in the whole of the United Kingdom. You can see with some independant cinemas the clear reason why audiences may choose to see their films at there rather than a mulitplex, it is because some of them such as 'The Electric' in Birmingham and 'The Broadway' in Nottingham are very modernised and more cultured cinemas whcih many teenagers and young adults would appeal to. Also some of the best independant cinemas have a very original and old fashioned style such as 'The Tyneside' in Newcastle Upon Tyne and the 'Duke of York's' in Brighton, much like a theatre which some of the older audiences will most definitely appeal towards.
This is a very helpful oppurtunity for the cinema industry as it gives them a chance to expand over cities and counties nearer to the people who love film and cinema, as it says within the telegraph article 'We are a nation full of people enthusiastic about film and these people don’t just live in our big cities, not only is this an imaginative way of making it possible for people to see a wider range of films, it’s also a great way of communities getting together to enjoy a unique cinematic experience with their friends, families and neighbours'. It's a chance for film lovers who have to travel a far distance to see one film, to have the oppurtunity and pleasure to travel round the corner to their local village hall and watch their favourite films. It is important that everyone within the country is getting the chance to watch brilliant films from brilliant directors, just like the rest of the UK.
The UK Film Council
The UK Film Council is the Government-backed lead agency for film in the UK ensuring that the economic, cultural and educational aspects of film are effectively represented at home and abroad.
Examples of 4 films are :
Clash of the Titans (Louis Leterrier, 2009)
Get Him To The Greek ( Nicholas Stoller, 2009)
The Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard, 2005)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2007)
Digital Screen NetworkDigital screening cuts the cost of releasing films.That's why UK Film Council and the Arts Council England have created the Digital Screen Network – a £12 million investment to equip 240 screens in 210 cinemas across the UK with digital projection. This ensures to give the UK audiences a much greater and wider choice.
This means that cinemas within the network can begin to screen non-mainstream films. Some of which they have already distributed, such as This is England, Good Night and Good Luck and the Oscar-Winning The Lives of Others.
The closure of the UK Film Council is regarded bad for the film industry for one importnat reason, the audience. The people who watch these fascinating films such as Vera Drake, The Constant Gardener and James Bond-Casino Royale will be the most affected as the UK Film Council has produced some of the best award winning films throughout it's years as a business.
Also the economical side to the closure of the Council, according to the film company it has invested more than £160m of lottery money in more than 900 films. They include Bend It Like Beckham, Fish Tank, Adulthood, Bright Star, In The Loop and The Last King of Scotland. But it has supported many less successful films, too - from Sex Lives Of The Potato Men, to 4321. Current lottery funding for films stands at £26m per year, which is expected to increase to £32m after 2012. This clearly shows that this business is a very successful and profit making business that deserves to carry on, as it brings a great deal of money into the film industry and if closed, figures would drastically change for the worse.
Warp Films
Launched in 2001, Warp Films leads the way in exciting and original British Filmmaking. The company has been behind an group of critically acclaimed and award winning films, including several BAFTAs. Warp Film productions include Rubber Johnny, Dead Man's Shoes, This Is England, Donkey Punch, A Complete History of My Sexual Failures and Four Lions. It is based in London, England and Sheffield, with a further office now in Melbourne. Warp Films funding comes from NESTA.
In 2009 there were 2735 multiplex cinema screens in the whole of the United Kingdom. You can see with some independant cinemas the clear reason why audiences may choose to see their films at there rather than a mulitplex, it is because some of them such as 'The Electric' in Birmingham and 'The Broadway' in Nottingham are very modernised and more cultured cinemas whcih many teenagers and young adults would appeal to. Also some of the best independant cinemas have a very original and old fashioned style such as 'The Tyneside' in Newcastle Upon Tyne and the 'Duke of York's' in Brighton, much like a theatre which some of the older audiences will most definitely appeal towards.
This is a very helpful oppurtunity for the cinema industry as it gives them a chance to expand over cities and counties nearer to the people who love film and cinema, as it says within the telegraph article 'We are a nation full of people enthusiastic about film and these people don’t just live in our big cities, not only is this an imaginative way of making it possible for people to see a wider range of films, it’s also a great way of communities getting together to enjoy a unique cinematic experience with their friends, families and neighbours'. It's a chance for film lovers who have to travel a far distance to see one film, to have the oppurtunity and pleasure to travel round the corner to their local village hall and watch their favourite films. It is important that everyone within the country is getting the chance to watch brilliant films from brilliant directors, just like the rest of the UK.
The UK Film Council
The UK Film Council is the Government-backed lead agency for film in the UK ensuring that the economic, cultural and educational aspects of film are effectively represented at home and abroad.
Examples of 4 films are :
Clash of the Titans (Louis Leterrier, 2009)
Get Him To The Greek ( Nicholas Stoller, 2009)
The Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard, 2005)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2007)
Digital Screen NetworkDigital screening cuts the cost of releasing films.That's why UK Film Council and the Arts Council England have created the Digital Screen Network – a £12 million investment to equip 240 screens in 210 cinemas across the UK with digital projection. This ensures to give the UK audiences a much greater and wider choice.
This means that cinemas within the network can begin to screen non-mainstream films. Some of which they have already distributed, such as This is England, Good Night and Good Luck and the Oscar-Winning The Lives of Others.
The closure of the UK Film Council is regarded bad for the film industry for one importnat reason, the audience. The people who watch these fascinating films such as Vera Drake, The Constant Gardener and James Bond-Casino Royale will be the most affected as the UK Film Council has produced some of the best award winning films throughout it's years as a business.
Also the economical side to the closure of the Council, according to the film company it has invested more than £160m of lottery money in more than 900 films. They include Bend It Like Beckham, Fish Tank, Adulthood, Bright Star, In The Loop and The Last King of Scotland. But it has supported many less successful films, too - from Sex Lives Of The Potato Men, to 4321. Current lottery funding for films stands at £26m per year, which is expected to increase to £32m after 2012. This clearly shows that this business is a very successful and profit making business that deserves to carry on, as it brings a great deal of money into the film industry and if closed, figures would drastically change for the worse.
Warp Films
Launched in 2001, Warp Films leads the way in exciting and original British Filmmaking. The company has been behind an group of critically acclaimed and award winning films, including several BAFTAs. Warp Film productions include Rubber Johnny, Dead Man's Shoes, This Is England, Donkey Punch, A Complete History of My Sexual Failures and Four Lions. It is based in London, England and Sheffield, with a further office now in Melbourne. Warp Films funding comes from NESTA.
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Jarhead Questions
How is music used in Jarhead to aid the narrative and mood of the film?
The music used in the film is contantly contrapuntal to the scene happening, which gives the audience a different sense of atmosphere or emotion.
Hip Hop music is played in one scene of the film, that the soilders can hear and are dancing to the music. You could say that they wanted to become these rappers and present the message of the song themselves.
Chemical Warfare clothing race scene has 'T-Rex - Get it on' playing as non diegetic sound in the background as it relates to the scene very effectively. Mendes purposely uses a fast paced song in a very fast and rushed scene to create urgency. Also the audience notice that it wakes the characters and themselves. Another link is that the name of the song 'get it on' relates to the soilders task.
In what way does the film meet your expectations of the war genre and hows does it challenge expectations of the war genre?
The mise-en-scene within the film signifies that is a war film that is contemporary and modern, realting to the weapons they use that would never usually be seen in early years. Also for example, the military uniform connotes the usual expectations in a war film that the audience instantly realise what type of film it is (due to the cinema code).
Also you see mise-en-abime within Jarhead, when you notice the soilders in their free time watch a very popular war film to influence and inspire the soliders to carry on with their training and fight. This again, suggests that this film is realted to war life and situations.
The music used in the film is contantly contrapuntal to the scene happening, which gives the audience a different sense of atmosphere or emotion.
Hip Hop music is played in one scene of the film, that the soilders can hear and are dancing to the music. You could say that they wanted to become these rappers and present the message of the song themselves.
Chemical Warfare clothing race scene has 'T-Rex - Get it on' playing as non diegetic sound in the background as it relates to the scene very effectively. Mendes purposely uses a fast paced song in a very fast and rushed scene to create urgency. Also the audience notice that it wakes the characters and themselves. Another link is that the name of the song 'get it on' relates to the soilders task.
In what way does the film meet your expectations of the war genre and hows does it challenge expectations of the war genre?
The mise-en-scene within the film signifies that is a war film that is contemporary and modern, realting to the weapons they use that would never usually be seen in early years. Also for example, the military uniform connotes the usual expectations in a war film that the audience instantly realise what type of film it is (due to the cinema code).
Also you see mise-en-abime within Jarhead, when you notice the soilders in their free time watch a very popular war film to influence and inspire the soliders to carry on with their training and fight. This again, suggests that this film is realted to war life and situations.
Robert Altman
February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006
Robert Altman was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.
Altman was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He was the son of Helen a Mayflower descendant from Nebraska, and Bernard Clement Altman, a wealthy insurance salesman and amateur gambler who came from an upper-class family.
In 1969 Altman was offered the script for MASH, an adaptation of a little-known Korean War-era novel satirizing life in the armed services, which had already been passed over by over a dozen other filmmakers. Altman agreed to direct the project, and though production was so tumultuous that stars Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland even attempted to have Altman fired over his unorthodox filming methods, MASH was widely hailed as an immediate classic upon its 1970 release. It won the Grand Prix for the Best Film at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival and netted six Academy Award nominations. It was also Altman's highest grossing film. Now recognized as a major talent, Altman's career took firm hold with the success of MASH, and he followed it with other critical breakthroughs such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), The Long Goodbye (1973), Thieves Like Us (1974) and Nashville (1975), which made the distinctive, experimental "Altman style" well known.
Altman died at the age of 81 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. According to his production company in New York, Sandcastle 5 Productions, he died of complications from leukemia.
Robert Altman was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.
Altman was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He was the son of Helen a Mayflower descendant from Nebraska, and Bernard Clement Altman, a wealthy insurance salesman and amateur gambler who came from an upper-class family.
In 1969 Altman was offered the script for MASH, an adaptation of a little-known Korean War-era novel satirizing life in the armed services, which had already been passed over by over a dozen other filmmakers. Altman agreed to direct the project, and though production was so tumultuous that stars Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland even attempted to have Altman fired over his unorthodox filming methods, MASH was widely hailed as an immediate classic upon its 1970 release. It won the Grand Prix for the Best Film at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival and netted six Academy Award nominations. It was also Altman's highest grossing film. Now recognized as a major talent, Altman's career took firm hold with the success of MASH, and he followed it with other critical breakthroughs such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), The Long Goodbye (1973), Thieves Like Us (1974) and Nashville (1975), which made the distinctive, experimental "Altman style" well known.
Altman died at the age of 81 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. According to his production company in New York, Sandcastle 5 Productions, he died of complications from leukemia.
The Hays Code/BBFC
Latest Releases
Mothers Day - 18 rated film.
The British Board of Film Classification decided to classify this film as an 18+ as it contains strong sadistic violence and gore. Also includes very strong language and some sexual content.
Son of Babylon - 12 rated film.
The British Board of Film Classification decided to classify this film as 12+ footage, as it contains images of mass graves and distressing scenes of grief. Also contains some mild langauge and no sexual references.
Mothers Day - 18 rated film.
The British Board of Film Classification decided to classify this film as an 18+ as it contains strong sadistic violence and gore. Also includes very strong language and some sexual content.
Son of Babylon - 12 rated film.
The British Board of Film Classification decided to classify this film as 12+ footage, as it contains images of mass graves and distressing scenes of grief. Also contains some mild langauge and no sexual references.
Monday, 7 February 2011
Synopsis Idea:War Film
In the late summer of 2008, in the town of Surrey. A young man called Jerry Witters is called out to the Charlie Regiment based in Afganistan and has to leave his mother, Jane and his younger brother Lennie. His mother suffers from lung cancer and has no idea how much longer she has to live. The highest officer of the regiment promises young Jerry that if he completes his combat for two years they will provide him with enough money for his mothers disease to be cured. Just before his two years are served, a letter is sent home to his mother to inform her that Jerry is missing, after tears and depression her youngest decides to become join the force and recieve the money promised to save his mothers life and also find his older brother Jerry. But with many adventures and challenges along the way, will he find his brother in the end? And will they both survive to help cure this terminal disease that their loving mother is soon to die from?
Codes and Conventions of the War Genre
Basically.....
War (and anti-war) films acknowledge the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat fighting (against nations or humankind) on land, sea, or in the air provide the primary plot or background for the action of the film. War films are often paired with other genres, such as action, adventure, drama, romance, comedy and they often take a negative approach towards warfare.
A movie genre where war is either the major action of the film or the essential background for the film's action. Though largely focused on combat or preparation for fighting, the genre also embraces other war-related subjects: prisoners of war, resistance fighters in occupied countries, spy activities during wartime. War can also serve as a context for highly dramatic situations though the characters may not be directly involved in the fighting. Although war is as old as mankind, the term war film is usually restricted to movies dealing with modern warfare and situations closely allied to war or armed forces. The movies dealing with more distant historical periods are better be described as historical films.
War (and anti-war) films acknowledge the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat fighting (against nations or humankind) on land, sea, or in the air provide the primary plot or background for the action of the film. War films are often paired with other genres, such as action, adventure, drama, romance, comedy and they often take a negative approach towards warfare.
A movie genre where war is either the major action of the film or the essential background for the film's action. Though largely focused on combat or preparation for fighting, the genre also embraces other war-related subjects: prisoners of war, resistance fighters in occupied countries, spy activities during wartime. War can also serve as a context for highly dramatic situations though the characters may not be directly involved in the fighting. Although war is as old as mankind, the term war film is usually restricted to movies dealing with modern warfare and situations closely allied to war or armed forces. The movies dealing with more distant historical periods are better be described as historical films.
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Todorov Method
Titanic (Correct)
Equilibrium - They both cruise the ship and the characters are introduced to the audience and to each other ( Jack Dawson and Rose Buckater).
Disequilibrium - They both fall in love with one another and undergo an adventure with each other upon the ship behind her families back. They then have sex for the first time.
New Equilibrium - The ship hits an ice berg and it begins to sink in the middle of the atlantic ocean, they both hold on to one another but in the end Jack dies and Rose lives on to tell the tale that they both experienced.
Shutter Island (Incorrect)
Equilibrium - The audience are introduced to the characters, Teddy Daniels and his partner who are involved in a case that involves an escaped prisoner from the mental institute that is situated on the island.
Disequilibrium - He encounters many challenges and confusing concepts that prevent him from leaving the island, and believes that the doctors are operating on these patients and brainwashing them.
New Equilibrium - He discovers of the cheif doctor that he is a patient himself and has been for the last two years but still beleives that he is a detective, as he killed his wife who murdered his children. At the very end, you notice he walks off with the doctors which leaves the audience in a confused mindset, as they never discover whether Teddy Daniels survives or not.
Equilibrium - They both cruise the ship and the characters are introduced to the audience and to each other ( Jack Dawson and Rose Buckater).
Disequilibrium - They both fall in love with one another and undergo an adventure with each other upon the ship behind her families back. They then have sex for the first time.
New Equilibrium - The ship hits an ice berg and it begins to sink in the middle of the atlantic ocean, they both hold on to one another but in the end Jack dies and Rose lives on to tell the tale that they both experienced.
Shutter Island (Incorrect)
Equilibrium - The audience are introduced to the characters, Teddy Daniels and his partner who are involved in a case that involves an escaped prisoner from the mental institute that is situated on the island.
Disequilibrium - He encounters many challenges and confusing concepts that prevent him from leaving the island, and believes that the doctors are operating on these patients and brainwashing them.
New Equilibrium - He discovers of the cheif doctor that he is a patient himself and has been for the last two years but still beleives that he is a detective, as he killed his wife who murdered his children. At the very end, you notice he walks off with the doctors which leaves the audience in a confused mindset, as they never discover whether Teddy Daniels survives or not.
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