Interview with John Greenwood

Interview with John Greenwood 'Bruce Almighty', 'Pearl Harbour' and 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'. All of these films look very different but they all contain scenes of violence, or of a disturbing nature. Even 'Bruce Almighty' contains a scene where a monkey comes out of a man's butt. However, what do these films have in common? Well, they were all directed by film director John Greenwood. Last week I had the privilege of being granted an interview with this famous man. I went to see him on the set of his new film, on the outskirts of London. I was a little overwhelmed by all the famous people whom I saw walking about the set. I made my way to his luxurious caravan where I was greeted by the man himself. He was dressed in casual attire with some very dark sunglasses despite the gloomy weather. John Greenwood left school with a high grade in English, and went to drama school. However he lived on his parent's money for two years before entering the film industry, at the age of twenty. This was because he was inspired by seeing the film 'The Lion King.' He was very impressed and so he decided he would like to be a film director. He entered the film industry and soon was making a name for himself. I asked him "How did you become a celebrity?" He replied "Well, I had a very rich life style, wrote lots of scripts and worked with the stars". Me: "What do you enjoy

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Discuss 'Apollo 13' a space drama, Directed and produced by Ron Howard.

Apollo 13 Apollo 13 a space drama, Directed and produced by Ron Howard and was made in...... It was made to look as realistic as possible without it being a documentary; no original footage from the launch was used, apart from a few embedded images like in the news on TV. Howard used many different techniques to achieve realism: weightlessness, camera angles, special effects and historic words phases and speeches, but before he even started filming he had a good idea of the astronauts backgrounds, the flight plan and the exact events that happened on the mission. He spent a long time with the astronaut Jim Lovel researching the events. One technique used was weightlessness, in many of the scenes Howard needed to have the feel of weightlessness and he was lucky that NASA let him use their aeroplane KC135. This is a normal plane but not like a passenger aircraft, it has no seats and the insides are built to look like that of a shuttle. This plane was taken to huge altitudes and dropped to give the feeling of weightlessness; real astronauts used this in their training. Howard had to get 3 men and a camera crew onto the plane, and film good quality realistic scenes. I feel that this is a major part in the making of he film and the film couldn't be made well without it. The launch was a very realistic part of the film and Howard put a lot or work into it. With the combination

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The fact that the characters in "Indiana Jones and the temple of doom" are all stereotypes made the film successful, discuss.

By Joe Abbott Coursework Media essay The fact that the characters in "Indiana Jones and the temple of doom" are all stereotypes made the film successful, discuss We are going to look in to adventure films in this essay " Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom" I am going to look at other adventure films to see what is typical in them and to compare them to the adventure film I have studied. I am also going to look at the characters, the setting, the plot and the filmmaker's technique. A typical hero is Superman, Superman has super strength, x-ray eyes, laser eyes, can fly and it has to be kept a secret. When you compare him to other heroes they all have a special skill and quilt. James Bond has special gadgets to help him and doesn't seem to get hurt much and always survives impossible odds. Batman he is very strong and also has lots of special gadgets and a helper sidekick robin. But Indian Jones doesn't have any of them things to use. All he has is a whip and he is just lucky he dost have thing special all he has apart from the whip is his sidekick "Shorty". Indiana Jones doesn't dress like a hero as well, He dresses very cashel and tacky. He is not smart and don't care about his looks. He has a attitude he don't care about people apart frame his sidekick and he treats the heroin "Willie" but he can have a nice and passionate side to him to as you can see in the

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Analyse and explain the way in which a moral issue has been dealt with in a film Intro This essay looks at the film Brokedown palace

Analyse and explain the way in which a moral issue has been dealt with in a film Intro This essay looks at the film Brokedown palace. It looks at the two main characters, Alice and Darlene as they finish school. The film focuses on the lies they tell and the severe consequences that result from their lies. In this essay I will consider each of these lies, the consequences that result. I will analyse how the film deals with this. Lie one What looks like an insignificant lie at the start of the film turns out to have major consequences for Alice and Darlene. Darlene lies to her parents about where they are going. They tell their parents that they are going to Hawaii but actually they are going to Thailand. When they go to jail, Darlene realises that her parents have no idea where she is and they won't be able to contact her. The film highlights the consequences for each lie. I think it does this well because it shows the lie being told and then later on in the film it shows the consequences in good detail. Lie two Other lies that the two girls tell change their lives very much, making the audience understand what can happen when you lie. It makes the audience reflect on this as the consequences are so bad. Lie three The difference between Alice and Darlene puts emphasis on the moral issue of lies. This is emphasised when they both go to prison and Alice realises that

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Auteur Theory Shortly.

Auteur Theory Shortly The most influential speaker for the auteur policy is Francois Truffaut who complained during the 50s the dominant tendency in French film in 1940s and 1950s. His essey was published in 'Cahiers du Cinema' where he was working as a film critic. Truffaut, Godard, Rohner and Chabrol - a bunch of intellectual film critics from the Cahiers magazine became later the main and the most important directors of the French new wave. The first new wave film is considered to be Jean-Luc Godard's 'A bout de souffle' (Breathless) which was made in 1960. In Breathless and generally in the other new wave films the used production teqhniques were these: location shooting, hand-held camera, natural lighting, casual acting with no star actors and dismissing the traditional rules of editing. The main idea was to make a film very cheaply instead of the classical expensive and internal costume dramas. The most important aesthetical features were slowly paced editing, strong 'authorical' voice of director, realism and unhappy endings. In Breathless' opening sequence there were the folowing elements: frenetic shots, location shooting on a highway, mobile and shaky camera, natural exterior lighting (sun shines directly into the lens), Belmondo's acting, use of jump cuts, change of direction during the chase and discontinous editing. Beside mentioned backers of auteurism, Andrew

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Analysis and evaluation of my advert - The advert that I have drawn myself is set out in New York city and the picture was taken on a boat, and the picture is the city's buildings of New York City.

Irfan Serce Monday, 16 October 2000 The advert that I have drawn myself is set out in New York city and the picture was taken on a boat, and the picture is the city's buildings of New York City. I have deliberately used small people in the advert so I can emphasise the size of the buildings, and it makes the buildings very, very big when you have small people in the advert. The objects I have used are mostly the scenery of the New York City from the sea, and the objects are the buildings, I have used these objects to represent the city and the life in the city. There are also boats in the bank and that suggests business and life again. The colour in the advert is just skylight and the sun rising up, I think the sun looks very good behind those buildings, and ads colour to the poster the other colours are blue- for the sea, blue/grey- for buildings windows. I have used blue colour for the buildings because more buildings in New York City have glass on them and when the sea reflects to it, it makes it look as if they are blue. The type of shot is a long show because I wanted all the buildings within the shot of the poster. The name of the film that I have advertised for is called 'Romeo Must Die 2' which is the continuing part from 'Romeo Must Die'. The layout of the advert is as follows: I have put the name of the film at the top left hand corner and I have put a big

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Lord of the Flies - Comparison between Novel and Film Version.

Lord of the Flies - Comparison between Novel and Film Version Many novels are so successful that producers can't wait to adapt the story into a film. The majority of times, however, the original novel is much stronger than the movie because it is able to capture the emotions of each character, all the symbols and meaningful events. Due to the novel's flexibility, readers are able to extend the use of their imagination. Similarly, this was the case with William Golding's masterpiece, Lord of the Flies. Overall, the novel is far superior to the film because it has thorough descriptions of a character's feelings and depictions of symbolic meanings concerning the objects and important happenings. First of all, the movie version of the classic, "The Lord of the Flies," seems to be lacking in detail involving the characters. Mainly due to the limited length of the movie, a character's role and his feeling are non-existent. In the novel, readers can clearly notice how Piggy feels and that he is being treated as an "Outsider", but the film version restricts the audience's comprehension of Piggy's emotions. In the same way, other characters such as Simon and Roger are so unclear in the movie that they may puzzle viewers because the movie fails to distinguish their role. The cinema is unsuccessful in establishing Simon as a "Christ" figure and Roger's murderous

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Comparison Between Novel and Film Version of "Lord of the Flies"

Comparison Between Novel and Film Version of "Lord of the Flies" Many novels are so successful that producers can't wait to adapt the story into a film. The majority of times, however, the original novel is much stronger than the movie because it is able to capture the emotions of each character, all the symbols and meaningful events. Due to the novel's flexibility, readers are able to extend the use of their imagination. Similarly, this was the case with William Golding's masterpiece, "The Lord of the Flies." Overall, the novel is far superior to the film because it has thorough descriptions of a character's feelings and depictions of symbolic meaning concerning the objects and important happenings. First of all, the movie version of the classic, "The Lord of the Flies," seems to be lacking in detail involving the characters. Mainly due to the limited length of the movie, a character's role and his feeling are non existent. In the novel, readers can clearly notice how Piggy feels and that he is being treated as an "Outsider" but, in the film version it restricts the audience's comprehension of Piggy's emotions. Similarly, other characters such as Simon and Roger are so unclear in the movie that they may puzzle viewers because the movie fails to distinguish their role. The cinema is unsuccessful in establishing Simon as a "Christ" figure and Roger's murderous nature. On the

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Anchorman-Reviews Broadsheet style

Write Two Reviews For The Film Anchorman. Cert. Broadsheet Version. This 90 minutes of manic male manifestation, set in the glitz and glamour of 70's San Diego, although filmed in the very apt and sunny Long Beach California has our top headlines for sure. It's packed with popularity, celebrity faces and style. The film itself raises the issue of women, sexism and female liberty in 70's America. This era/attitude is portrayed well by the actions of one arrogant man and his comical news crew. Ron Burgundy, the 'legendary' San Diego head anchorman is played by Will Ferrell (Elf) who plays the part perfectly. His trusty side kicks; Brick Tamland, Brian Fantana and Paul Rudd, all entertainingly and stereotypically ridiculous, help build up the intense awkwardness present that is in this film. Most notably, Brick, played by Steve Carrel who has history of other embarrassing roles, (such as in Bruce Almighty), plays the stupidly unintelligent nonce, Brick, who with an IQ of 48, shouldn't open his mouth, but always manages to. The Channel 4 news team, full of laugh-out loud characters survive enemy encounters, comical confrontations and even treacherous combat with fellow competitive news teams, to defend their untouched reputation. Veronica Corningstone, played by Christina Applegate (employee of the month), plays the part of a confident, brave and able newsreader with big

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"When We Were Kings" Muhammad Ali, Documentary!!

Media Assignment "When We Were Kings" Muhammad Ali, Documentary!! Cassius Clay (aka Muhammad Ali) was born January 17th, 1942 in Louisville KY. He was a well-admired man who showed charisma and greatness in both physical and verbal skills, as a showman and extraordinary boxing talents. He won the Olympic Light-heavy weight championship in 1960, and then beat Sonny Liston for the heavy weight title in 1964. In 1967 following conversion to Islam, the world boxing association took away his title after he refused to serve the US Army. In June 1971, the US Supreme Court upheld Ali's appeal on religious grounds. He regained the title in 1974 and for a record third time in 1978. An extrovert and charismatic showman, whose slogan "I am the greatest" became a catchphrase. He is generally regarded as the most skilful and stylish boxer in the history of the heavyweight boxing division. The Documentary "When We Were Kings" is also known as Reportage, as it reports and informs its audience about the history of Muhammad Ali, and the controversial topics that surrounds it. This compilation film is comprised of mainly interviews, archival and footage from the relevant events, without a Narrator. According to Michael Rabiger's suggested criteria for documentaries, "When We Were Kings" is a proper documentary as it adheres to certain conventions, i.e. It tells a good story about

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