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Introduction Bicycle Thieves is a 1928 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. This movie is talk about a real life of a father after post World War II. This film had adopted the theory of Italian Neorealism. According to the David Bordwell, Cesare Zavattini was the theoretical founder of neorealism in 1942. He had suggested a new form of Italian Cinema that abolishes contrived and planned plots, use real people and locations so that direct contact is established with contemporary social reality. For Zavattini view, the plot means as a fake structure of “everyday life”, professionals actors complimented the falsehood, and contemporary social realism means that unconditional emphasis on the ordinariness of Today. Next, neorealism was known as a cinema of poverty and pessimism. It declines began in the fifties when the times were changing for the better. It is revolutionary and happened during a time of non-revolutionary transition towards prosperity and affluence. Not econom...

Introduction The film that we had watched on last Friday is The Maltese Falcon (1941). This film is directed by John Huston. The Maltese Falcon is a film noir when 1941. I will be discussing what is the film noir in this journal. Film noir is a term coined by French critics in 1946. The period of film noir emerged was 1941 – 1958. In film noir, it features a world of criminals, of darkness and violence with characters’ central motives are usually greed, lust, and ambition, drenched in fear. In film noir, most of these films are the film in black and white. T heory Discussion – Semantic and Syntactic Approach Semantic = Visual ·          Mise-en-scene -           -  Locations / settings -           -  Makeup and costume -           -  Lighting -           -  Actors’ behaviors & movement Syntacti...

Introduction  Sleepy Horror can be considered as a Gothic horror film. It is directed by Tim Burton. The theory that had been applied in Sleepy Horror is German Expressionism. This filmic style that emerged in Germany from 1919 to 1926. There have several themes are involved which are revolt, self-analysis, madness and primitive, sexual savagery. In this film, the style includes like distorted bodies and shape, bizarre and incongruous settings, high contrast lighting and lightning, and gothic content, about unnatural acts. The semantic and syntactic approach is used complimentary in this film. The filmmakers use these two approaches to classify the genre of the movie. The semantic approach can bring visual aspects such as characters, shows, locations, and sets in term of mise-en-scene. However, the syntactic approach can bring thematic aspect. It can be derived from the narrative of the film such as the type of characters, heroes, and antiheroes, etc. Synopsi...

Introduction In the Mood for Love is not the normal romantic love movie that we usually expect. It certainly is not a simple love to each other and stays with each other happily. The audiences cannot miss every scene in this film because every scene of this film had expressed a great meaning. The meaning of the film is not about whatever we had watched but the meaning is behind their action and interaction with each other. This film is directed and produced by Wong Kar Wai (2000). It adapts French Impressionism, Surrealism and German Expressionism. French Impressionism triggered off due to lack of interests by mass, rising production costs. The characteristic of French Impressionism is it explores psychological causes and it gives narration considerable psychological depth, revealing play of the character’s consciousness, concerns mental states, dreams or fantasies. It also Manipulates plot time and subjectivity or showing flashbacks/memories. Surrealism start...

Introduction Coraline is a 3D dark fantasy stop-motion film. This film was released on 2009. This film has written and directed by Henry Selick and it was produced by Laika. To this journal, I would like to share about what are the genres have been used in this film. The kind of the genres that have been used in this film is genre bending. This is because this kind of film included many genres such as horror, action, adventure, fantasy, and comedy. To me, I am not sure this kind of film is suitable for kids or not but it can reflect to our life sometimes. In fact, this film has given many values to us after watching. Theory  In this film has included many genres. First of all, the part of the horror genre. The scene that I feel horror is the “other” mother want to sew the button on Coraline’s eyes. The “other” mother want Coraline stays with her forever and needs Coraline to sewed up her eyes. I can’t look into the “other” mother’s eye because her eyes were sewed by th...

I had watched the horror film, Final Destination (2000). Final Destination (2000) is directed by James Wong and produced by James Wong, Glem Morgan, Jeffrey Reddick. This movie can be classified in horror genre. Final Destination is the next teen horror franchise to be launched. The Semantic Approach can be applied in this movie. Semantic includes area such as a location, character, props, costume and so on. Besides, the mise-en-scene theory also had approached in this movie. The setting (the place they shoot) and props (the things that around them), costume (the clothes that the teenagers wore) and makeup (the teenager’s makeup), lighting (the brightness of the environment) and actor’s movement (the behavior or the facial expression of the teenagers) are fully used in the movie. In additional, explosion of the flight is edited like a real. For me, I do not like the film like this kind. This is because the film makes me feel disgusting and gore. In fact, everybody should end their ...

When 4 th June 2017, I had watched a film, Scott Pilgrim vs The World. This film is a comedy film and produced by Edgar Wright. This film is totally different with other films. This is because the editing skills that used by this film has shown out what the actor was presented while other films are most likely use the editing skills that behind the scene. The Mise-en-scene also has applied in this film. The film is shot in the different setting. Every actor has wore the suitable costume such as the 7 evil exes and makeup. The lighting also has applied in. When Scott Pilgrim fight with the 7 evil exes, the actions have involved in actor’s movement.  Scott Pilgrim, is the main actors in this film. He is a bass guitarist in Sex Bob-Omb. He lives in Toronto. In the beginning, he is dating with a Knives Chau. However, he has seen a girl in his dream that he really loves, Ramona Flowers and starts lose interest in Knives. He starts to have a date with Romana. The conditions fo...