Acting and Act Styles in the film “The Godfather”

Title: The Godfather

Writer: Francis Ford Coppola and Maurio Puzo

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Year:1972

The three actor I chose are Marlon Brando, Robert Dinero and Al Pacino.

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I consider Marlon Brando as a wild card actor.He played a wide variety of characters in his career so you can’t really put his acting style in a box..

It’s strictly business

i would consider Al Pacino to be a Personality actor.He played in alot of crime and genre films. I think that his character in the Godfaher helped with molding the personality of all the characters he played in other films.

I consider James Caan to be a wild card. I think that you have to be very flexible in order to play in movies that are nothing alike. The movie The Elf is nothing like the Godfather.

Categories and functions of Sounds in Django Unchainedd

Title: Django Unchained

Writer: Quenton Tarantino

Director: Quenton Tarantino

Year: 2012,

Actors:Jamie Fox, Quento Taratino, Christoph Waltz and Leonardo Dicapri

Story: Django (Fox) and Dr. King Shultz (Waltz) Team up as bounty hunters and to find Django’s wife Broomhilda but this mission proves to be easier said than done.

This movie used sound effect like gunshots and whipcracks, These sound effects plus the music that was played in the background made this movie feel like you were watching an old school western. If these sounds were not present that the intent of the film would not cam across as heavy as it does with the sounds., When I heard the sounds of the whips, I cringed as if I was the slave being beat with a whip.

Week 2 Blog Post- Lighting in The Godfather

Title: The Godfather

Writer: Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzzo

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Release Date: March 24, 1972

Actors: Marlon Brando and Al Pacino

In this film, low-key lighting was used. This type of lighting was used in order to convey the seriousness of the film. By using low-key lighting, it helps to intensify the drama as well. Low-key lighting helped with feeling the  intensity of the violence in the movie and it also helped taking the hardness of each character seriously which is important in this genre. If another type of lighting was used, I don’t think that anyone would have taken the personas of each character and the plot as serious.

References

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Annie (2014)

Writer: Will Gluck and Aline Brosh McKenna

Director: Will Gluck

Year: 2014

Actors:  Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, Cameron Diaz

Story: This version of Annie  has been modernized. Annie is a foster child living in an apartment with other foster kids instead of being classified as little orphan Annie like she is described in the prior two films. ” she’s been situated within a universe that’s contemporary, but which nonetheless connects forcefully with the Depression-era landscapes of the stage musical, the ’99 and ’82 films, and the source material that inspired all them, Harold Gray’s comic strip. All were about maintaining one’s optimism in the face of personal misfortune exacerbated by a Grand Canyon-vast gap between rich and poor; they were about the difficulty of staying sensible, and sensitive, in world in which everyone but the very wealthy had to struggle constantly, and deny themselves pleasures, and some essentials.”  (Sietz, 2014).Annie’s life changes when she meets a man whom is running for Mayor by the name of Will Stacks

Plot: The film starts of with students from Annie’s class having to do individual presentations in front of the entire class about former presidents. Annie did her presentation on Franklin D. Roosevelt. Annie turn her presentation into a musical form. Annie works hard to gather information about her birth parents only to not find much information on them.  She was almost hit by a car. Will Stacks who is played by Jamie Foxx saved her life by pushing her out of harms way. Someone caught this on camera. Will Stacks was running for mayor so his campaign team thought that it would be great P.R. for him to capitalize on this incident. Annie new what they were up to and agreed to be apart of it. Stacks later becomes her foster parent. Annie’s presence soften William Stacks hard exterior.  Later in the film they go to a Stacks Mobile event at a museum. Annie is asked to read a screen but runs away. William Stacks chases her where she reveals that she can’t read. He got her a tutor. Guy who is played by Bobby Cannavale comes up with  a plan that involved hiring actors to pretend they are Annie’s parents but Ms. Hannigan played by Cameron Diaz reveals Guy’s plan. When Annie and William Stacks reunited Stacks and Annie discuss Stacks’ intentions with her and he adopted her.

Chronology: This film had a consistent sense of chronological order. The film did not start of with what happened prior to Annie becoming a foster child. However, it showed events leading up to her meeting William Stacks but the chronology was not really strong. If this film t unfold in  non-linear then I think this film might  have lost the interest of the audience.

Resources

“Annie (2014) (2014) – International Box Office Results”. Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved January 11,2015.

Zoller Seitz, M. (2014). Roger Ebert. Retrieved January 12, 2015, from http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/Annie-2014.