gangster movies

americans like gangster movies so much because they are so entertaining to watch and americans want to her the slang that comes out of the movies. They like the story lines. It says that alot of people fantasize about being a gangster and what life would be like being a gangster. It says alot of our people in our culture that they could be violent like a gangster. Some of my favorite movies are scarface, donnie brasco, the departed, godfather, and running scared. The bad guys usually die or get arrested and the good guys win.

practice test

Buster Keaton

1.He keeps a serious face because it was funnier and he learned that as a young child acting with his parents.

2. He doesn't do things on purpose and he is always the little guy in the movies, just like Chaplin.

3. He performed all his stunts without the help of special effects and film techniques.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

1.The set design reflected the character's set of mind as well as giving the feeling of eeriness and despair. The jagged edges of the buildings and the odd and bizarre angles all reflect Francis's self-disfiguration.

2.German Expressionism delved in more human emotions, so the acting was more realistic.
3.Dr. Caligari used the contrast between light and dark effect called chiaroscuro. This enables the feeling of mystery, somber, and fear. There are overcasting shadows, especially whenever Dr. Caligari is in a scene, that shows a sense of surrealism- like a nightmare.

Modern Times

1. Charlie Chaplin based his movie Modern TImes on the great depression because he wanted to bring a positive influence on the great depression and tell what's its going to be like in the future.

Eisenstein

1.He uses the film to further develop his theories of film to develop his theories of film structure by using a concept he described as "intellectual montage".

2. Intellectual montage is the editing together of shots of apparently unconnected objects in order to create and encourage intellectual comparisons between them.

The Last Laugh

` 1. It was because the time it came out before the first world war and everything. Also this was one of the movies at the time that German Expressionism came out of. Also just because he just wanted to film some artists love to film and sometimes it takes them time and he did it in the German Expressionism Era.

2. It was because during the German Expressionism time many movies like Metropolis and The Cabinet of Dr Caliagari they expressed what they had to say with silent film. Also with that they used emotion and title board between scenes to show the horror and what characters had to say.

3. Well there was some German Expressionism Characteristics like using Shadow when the former Hotel door man speaks. Also the anger when he lost his job they put some shots of the suitcase he had. Also when it showed some chiaroscuro lighting when he was just standing still gazing.

Metropolis

1. false

2. freder

3. true

4.To make it look like Hel.

5.He changed it to look like Maria.

6. The Thin Man