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  1. Mar 2021
    1. Like most other film genres, fantasy films are part of arich history that extends itself well before and beyondcinema into folk-tale, fairy-tale, myth, legend, chivalricromance, Gothic, Romantic,

      I feel the fantasy genre is the most groundbreaking and most profitable genre to this day when u think about the likes of PIXAR, MARVEL, DreamWorks, and Disney. i feel there is generally more content to write about that cam stay fresh and not overused in the fantasy genre in contrast to Gangster movie where u see different renditions of the same story.

    2. The gangster film literallybegan with stories ripped from the front pages of thenation’s newspapers

      I have have always found that the inspiration to crime movies always tied back to real life events. story's like al Capone and the ever so great inspiration films always get from the Sicilian Mafia (Italy)

  2. Feb 2021
    1. The ultimate issue is not who owns the movie companies but whomanages them

      i feel like the worry was in the trade off of saving a finically crippled studio but also dealing with new people in power who gained power not through knowledge and experience in the industry but through money and ownership.

    2. censorship and self-regulation

      This whole theme being talked about in the context off this era reminds me of the propaganda push that effected theaters and movies during war time. pushing the agenda of a nation to reach its people. Great example of this was in Nazi German.

    1. For example, have you ever noticed that fi lm characters rarely turn and look precisely at the camera and speak directly to you in the audi-ence?

      this is true but like jim halburt from the office, it is proven that that can still happened even in a film/show that is suppose to portray reality or real life,

    2. 61EDITING: FROMSHOTTOSHOTfi lmmakers viewed montage as imaginative and dynamic. By splicing together snippets of photographed reality, these fi lmmakers understood that something new was being created

      in todays film, as film watchers we see montages as ways to speed up the story or tell a smaller story that is necessary to the main plot but there isnt just enough time to tell it without increasing the length of the film drastically

  3. Jan 2021
    1. In addition to subject-camera distance, directors employ diff erent cam-era angles to provide expressive content to the subjects they fi lm

      The idea of the implementation of something that can be easily overlook can mean so much to a scene or a shot. Camera placement can easily provide the audience with a deeper feeling on a scene and can easily change the tone and gravity of the situation being filmed.