Luis Silva English 225: Introduction to Film

Danny Lloyed

The Shining Acting and Acting Styles

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Writers: Stephen King

(novel), Stanley Kubrick(Screen Writer)

Stars

Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyed

"A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future"(IMDb).

Jack Nicholson

Shelley Duvall

This week Blog I will classify the actors from the film The shining. I have identified three actors form this film they are Jack Nicholson (JackTorrance), Shelly Duvall (Wendy Torrance), 

and Danny Lloyed(Danny Torrance).

 

Shelly Duvall would fall into the classification of character actors "Character Actors are able to fit invisibly into a wide variety of disparate characters, adapting to the needs of each script and director they work with"(pg3.4)(2011). Duvall gave an acting of an innocent wife seemed like she had gone through a lot in her life and was to vulnerable. 

Danny Lloyed the child actor to me would be considered a "Bit Parts actor a short character appearance with few or no lines, rarely more then a days work for the actor if that, yet sometimes these roles can become memorable with the right actor"(pg3.4)(2011). Lloyed was chosen from a search of thousands of children, he was six years old with no acting experience. For a kid with no acting experience he sure did a great job. He scared me as a kid with his ride along the hotel, meeting up with the twin girls.

 Jack Nicholson acting would be considered to be a "Personality Actors an actor whose own personality tends define all the characters he portrays, so that the actor's name alone lets audiences know what their screen character will be like"(Goodykoontz,2011). Jack Nicholson would also be considered a Star, he is so famous people are curios about his personal life as well. A "Star is a distinctive screen persona who is well known and popular with the movie going public"(pg3.4)(2011).

Jack Nicholson has been acting since 1958, he has been in many films such as The Little Shop of Horrors,Easy Rider, Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, Batman, and many more. All these films with many types of genres, from horror, drama, and adventure. Jack Nicholson also acted in other roles Impersonating  Jimmy Hoffa, In a biographical film he acted as a Union Leader. I think he is a wild card actor a "wild-card actor is described as “an actor who is difficult to classify as one certain type, often because he or she can play a wide variety of characters equally well without becoming typecast”(pg3.4)(2011). Jack Nicholson is a leading man of Hollywood, very flexible and could act in many diiferent rolls. 

Refrences:

Goodykoontz, B., & Jacobs, C. P. (2011). Film: From watching to seeing. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

The Shining (1980) - IMDb

www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/

The Shining Official Trailer 1980 - YouTube

 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b726feAhdU

images:

dailymail.co.uk mad Jack in The Shining,306 × 350 - 26k - jpg

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ephemeralbk.blogspot.combe Shelley Duvall... well...400 × 400 - 33k - jpg

SHANE

I will analyze the different types of sound at work in a film and assess how they contribute to the overall sense of meaning in the film Shane. 

Director: George Stevens
Writers: A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Release Date 24 September 1953

Cast : Alan Ladd (shane), Jean Arthur (Marian Starrett), Van Heflin (Joe Starrett), and Brandon De Wilde (Joey Starrett).

The three basic categories of sound are Dialogue, Sound Effects, and Music. Dialogue is spoken words by two or more characters in a scene that may be (animation). Sound Effects are enhanced sounds created artificially, popular sound effects are isolated sounds like doorbells, car horns, and telephone rings. Foley sounds are synchronized with the visuals of the film.  Music is a basic element as crucial to the movie going experience used to add emotion and rhythm to film.  In the film Shane that I would be analyzing I would explain the three basic categories of sound.

The film Shane a western film about a weary gunfighter who attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act (imdb). 

As for Pfeiffer Shane is about “Joe Starrett (played by Van Heflin) is a hardworking farmer who lives with his wife, Marian (Jean Arthur), and their young son, Joey (Brandon deWilde), on a homestead in Wyoming. Starrett and his fellow homesteaders are being terrorized by Rufus Ryker (Emile Meyer), a cattle baron who resents the farmers’ use of precious grazing land. Ryker uses increasingly ruthless methods to drive the farmers off their land, but Starrett, as their unofficial leader, urges his friends to resist. Into the situation rides Shane (Alan Ladd), a quiet man with a mysterious past”(2014). This film uses many sounds to help elaborate the genre of a western. Isolated sounds like cattle roaming with cowbells, to gunfire from shots of a gun and rifle. There’s fight scenes that use sound effects to enhance the hit of a fist or slap. Music is also used to add emotion and rhythm, like the scene of the Fourth of July wedding. The use of sound is used as a language we all can relate to. The sounds in this film gave us the frontier sound that relate to a western theme genre.

 

              

References:

Goodykoontz, B., & Jacobs, C. P. (2011). Film: From watching to seeing. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046303/

Shane (1/8) Movie CLIP - Shane Comes to Town (1953 ... - YouTube

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Rosemary's baby

Lighting impacts the creation of meaning of a film, and gives the viewer the perception and intensity of direction the film is going. In the movie Rosemary’s Baby I will identify the type of lighting used, what are benefits of style of lighting. And how did the technique contribute to the theme.

The movie Rosemary’s Baby 

release date June 12 1968

 Directed by Roman Polanski and based on the Novel by Ira Levin.

 The cast is Mia Farrow, John Casssavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, and Maurice Evans. 

The Genre of this film is Horror with a sub genre of Thriller, Suspense, Drama, and Supernatural. This movie is in chronological order from beginning to the end.

The movie is about a Newlywed Couple Rosemary and husband Guy Woodhouse, who move into a new apartment with a history. The husband becomes friends with the neighbors, who Rosemary at first avoids. One night the neighbor presents Rosemary with a dessert that she eats out of politeness. Rosemary then becomes dizzy and remembers that she was having intercourse with a demon in front of a cult. The husband try’s to assure her that it was he and not a demon. She then becomes pregnant, and becomes sick. The friend of the couple then tries to help her out but gets into a comma and dies. Rosemary delivers a son whom they said died at delivery, but time goes by and she hears a baby cry from the neighbor’s apartment. Rosemary armed with a knife goes into the Castevets apartment and discovers her son in a black crib.

In this Movie a low key lighting was used to give a dark dramatic scene of horror   

Under lighting was used in the convenient scene to give it that unnatural situation. Light Placement creates a scene that looks shadowy within the environment it is shot in. The benefits that this style of lighting gives us, is the mood the movie is trying to simulate. with a low key light the shadows and dark scenes capture the element of suspense. This technique contributed to the movie, bringing the horror to a movie in its time. The dark shadows with the one light source gave it that intense look.



Refrence:


Goodykoontz, B., & Jacobs, C. P. (2011). Film: From watching to seeing. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

ROSEMARY'S BABY 2014 - Trailer - LATIN HORROR - YouTube

Rosemary's Baby (1968) - IMDb

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Babel

Babel Written by Guillermo Arriaga

Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

cast:
The major actors in this film are as follows. Brad Pitt as Richard Jones, Cate Blanchett as Susan Jones, Mohamed Akhzam as Anwar, Said Tarchani as Ahmed, Mustapha Rachidi as Abdullah, Abdelkader Bara as Hassan, Adriana Barraza as Amelia, Gael Garcia Bernal as Santiago, Rinko Kikuchi as Chieko Wataya, and Koji Yakusho as Yasujiro Wataya. 

Release Date:
The film was released in October 27, 2006

 This movie is filmed in non-linearly, a story line combining four stories together from one dramatic gun shot.

Babel - Trailer - YouTube

Babel is a story that evolves around one rifle that connects four different families of different cultures.  It is set in Morocco, Southern California, Mexico, and Japan. The storyline starts with a tour guide that was given a rifle from a businessman from Japan, who then sales the rifle to a friend who needs to shoot wolfs. The sheepherder’s sons then take the rifle and decide to shot their dads rifle upon a bus. The bus-carrying tourist was struck hitting the Jones Family (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett) traveling on a tour bus in Morocco. An investigation then proceeds of an international shooting. Connecting the gun to the owner living in Japan.  The aesthetic choice is the cinematography, which marks time and place with simple establishing shots. (Harrisburg, PA), 

References 

Patriot-News, The (Harrisburg, PA), November 10, 2006 Life FINAL, 2pp

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzrHrTVaqJs