Arival: A Film Analysis Of The Movie Arrival

To begin with, Cassie Sullivan is on a mission to find her brother during a alien invasion. She has to infiltrate through many obstacles to get him back. One word to describe the plot is mystifying. One notable example is the scene where Evan tells Cassie that the “others” (aliens) have been living inside the humans body’s for many years with no idea that they were there, (Yancey 368). In short, this connects to the word, mystifying because it throws off all of Cassie’s and the world’s knowledge about earth. The “others” have been living in humans for many years, waiting for the signal to come. This is mystifying because thousands of them have been on earth, living with the humans. With all this in mind, I think the author did a good job on creating the plot. He did a good job by intriguing us

The vision Christopher Nolan had for The Prestige (2006) was to add to the outbreak of street magician film, whilst playing a large dramatic subplot equal in grandeur to the magical performances within the film. In the final sequence of the film, I will analyse how the cinematography and sound resolves the plot so that it summarises the themes present in the film, whilst also invoking a response from the audience. Nolan predominantly uses close up shots, non-diegetic sound (music) and dialogue collaboratively to convey the dramatic, personal subplot of the characters and their relationships, whilst appealing to the audience bringing forth an emotional response from the audience. The heavy, slow, dramatic atmosphere of the ending sequence uses various techniques to summarise and uncover the underlying mysteries of the events throughout the film and consolidate themes introduced during the exposition.

In “The Alien”, Delanty explains the anxious feeling that parents have before having a baby and uses the motif of space to try to explain how parents try to answer some of the questions they have. As the experience of having a child is new to these parents, they use a metaphor to compare their child to an “alien” and a “martian” (Delanty 9, 11). This demonstrates that they are anxious because they neither know how the child will behave nor how to cooperate with the new child. They also have other questions about their coming child, expressed when Delanty writes, “we’re anxious/ to make contact, to ask divers questions/ about the heavendom you hail from, to discuss/ the whole shebang of the beginning&end,/ the pre-big bang untime before you forget the why”

My initial reaction to the film was of utter shock at the brutally raw reality of the film. Upon reflection and commentary from other sources, the film’s simple yet vastly effective filmmaking techniques of developing the explicit and implicit meaning of the film. The explicit meaning, as

The Alien is a science fiction horror movie. Its setting in space and the presence of technology and artificial intelligence empathizes on its science fiction genre. Moreover, the presence of the Alien and the fact that it is a threat to human lives reflects it is also a horror film. The movie revolves around seven human beings that have the mission to return to earth from the space.

The 2012 movie Argo is based off of a true event in 1979. During the Iranian Civil War, President Jimmy Carter gives the Iranian Shah refuge in the U.S. due to his illness. In retaliation, Iranian activists invade the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran and the staff are taken as hostages. This is famously known as the Iranian hostage crises. Although six of the staff members escape and are taken in by the Canadian Ambassador. Determined to rescue the six, Tony Mendez, who is our main character, from the CIA is brought in because of his expertise. After talking to his son one day while watching a science fiction program on TV, he comes up the idea to go into Iran, under the guise of Canadians

Another thing that makes Arrival a great film is that Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner do an amazing job portraying Ian and Louise in Arrival. “Amy Adams is a miracle worker of an actress – she makes us believe in whoever and whatever she's playing” (Travers). That quote can’t be truer. Amy Adams really makes the viewer believe that she is a linguistics professor who has previously worked for the military and is now acting as a liaison between the aliens and the humans. The first encounter with the aliens when Amy Adams is experiencing all of this for the first time, you can tell it is suspenseful because she is not sure what is going to happen making all these questions arise within the film. During the third encounter with the aliens Adams and Renner take off their hazmat suits. Adams touches the glass to try to almost connect with the

One of the main themes the author conveys is fear. In the teleplay, neighbors are afraid of each other because they don’t know who the aliens are and what they will do next. An example of fear is when Charlie shoots Pete Van Horn. Pete was walking back to Maple Street, and Charlie shot him, thinking Pete was the alien. “But.. I didn’t know he was… He comes walkin’ out of the darkness. How am I supposed to know he wasn’t a monster

The film Close Encounters of the Third Kind drew upon the alien and UFO craze that was going on in the 1970s. The film was written and directed by Steven Spielberg and released in the year 1977. This film doesn’t have any superstar actors or actresses but interestingly enough, Meryl Streep auditioned but was not given a role in the film. Many things about this film are quite interesting, including the movie being filmed in an unused airplane hangar and the aliens being played by schoolgirls. The behind the scenes elements would make you want to believe that this movie would end up being a disappointment, but this assumption couldn’t be more wrong.

Watching this movie, I felt I could relate to them, as I think everyone does, having experienced life so far. It’s confusing and frustrating sometimes. I’m sure everyone has times where they feel like an alien

“Aliens” was directed by James Cameron. James Cameron is 62 years old and he is a Canadian filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, inventor, engineer, philanthropist and deep sea explore. “Aliens” is a horror, science fiction and blood-thirsty film. This movie was released in 1986. The main character was a woman called Ellen Ripley. She was the only survivor on the spaceship and was saved by a crew from a company called Weyland-Yutani Corporation. She has been asleep and drifting for fifty-seven years. On an interview with all the executives from the company, they wanted to know testimony about the Aliens. However, everything that Ripley told them was all true, but the executives think the things that Ripley told them regarding to Aliens are made up by her. Therefore, the executives still decided to go on an expedition to that spaceship, also they want Ripley to go with them. They went on to spaceship and they found a girl called Newt. They went through a few fierce battles and this story end up with only a few survivors. In this movie there are many examples of gender stereotypes.

The low-key lighting makes everything in the ship seem like shadows; the drastic change of the set and lighting leaves the audience uncomfortable and tense. In the office scene, the props behind the main character are books and computers, which depicts that he is intelligent and holds some importance. Another element telling the audience that the character speaking to us is of importance is his microphone since he is appearing ‘front and center’ in this “documentary”. The setting of Johannesburg sets a different expectation for the viewer, as most Hollywood alien movies take place in major American cities; the foreign setting automatically distinguishes the film’s unique

This movie was very different from most of its predecessors in the sense that it challenged traditional narrative and technical elements of classic Hollywood cinema. One of the ways it bucked tradition was in in the fact that the

Starting from the film’s cover, one can already know what the film entails. The cover has

What would happen if alien life forms landed on earth? How would we communicate and cooperate with them? If there was a conflict, how would we fix it? The movie Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve attempts to answer these questions.