Unforgiven is an incredible movie directed and produced by Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood also plays the lead role as William Munny. Unforgiven revolves around a pig farmer who has long retired from his outlaw and killer ways; however, due to the daily struggles of the west, Munny needs money to support his children. Unforgiven is relevant to the class due to our studies of the settlement out west. The three literary devices best captured in Unforgiven are setting, plot, and characterization. The first literary device Clint Eastwood effectively captures is the setting in Unforgiven. The most notable is the opening scene. In the opening scene we see Munny digging the grave of his late wife Claudia. Her grave is placed under a single tree as …show more content…
As we know, Munny is a “known thief and murder, a man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition”. Now out of practice, Munny has become a poor pig farmer. He has two children with no means of taking care of them. One day, The Kid put an idea for easy money in his head; however, it would require him to return to his old ways. Munny decides to take the job anyways and head out with his partner, Ned, to kill two cowboys for money. The climax of the movie occurs when Ned is killed and Munny sets on the destructive path to avenge his friend’s death. Ultimately, Munny does avenge his friend’s death by killing the sheriff Little Bill. In the conclusion of the ending scene, we learn that Munny has returned to his ordinary life. He currently resides in San Francisco were he has prospered in dry goods. With an effective plot, Eastwood is able to captivate the …show more content…
The protagonist of Unforgiven is William Murry. Murry’s values stem from his late wife Claudia. With Claudia’s help, Murry has turned from his murderous and drunken ways. Now that Murry is left to fend on his own, he has decided to return to his old ways. He feels guilty because Claudia would not want this, but he feels that he must do it for his children. Murry reflects on his old ways and feels guilty. Ned tells him that he is not like that anymore and to no worry about it. Ultimately due to Ned’s death, Munny begins to drink and returns to his murderous ways. With the effective use of characterization, the audience was able to sympathize with Munny, due to the death of his wife. The audience also felt apathy once he returned to his old
The 1996 film of The Crucible is a historical drama inspired by the Salem witchcraft trials. The film has won a multitude of cinematic achievements and continuously blows audience members away with the accuracy of the historical events and portrayal of the characters by the actors and actresses. The profound work of Arthur Miller is also expressed within the written play of The Crucible. However, the film did the best job of portraying characters that were both historically accurate and believable to an audience member. One main character from The Crucible that is both historically accurate and extremely believable in the film is Abigail Williams. Winona Ryder, the actress of Abigail Williams, did an impeccable job portraying her character and became widely known for her work through several achievements and film reviews. The recognition that she and the rest of the cast received due to the characterization in this cinematic production is what made the film do the best job of portraying characters as historically accurate and believable to an audience member instead of the written play. Although the written play describes the actions and thoughts of the characters very precisely, the film did the best job of portraying characters as historically accurate and believable to an audience member through the achievements and film reviews received from actors and actresses such as Winona Ryder, the recognition the cast as a whole earned, and the actions and emotions the actors and
Based on Laura Hillenbrand’s 2010 best seller, the film Unbroken is an inspiring, three-time Oscar nominated, World War II biography that tells the story of a young man, Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O’Connell), enduring the unimaginable brutalities of war. Directed by Angelina Jolie and produced by Erwin Stoff, this film is a story of survival, resilience, and redemption. Although this movie has some tear-jerking moments and a few memorable quotes, it seems to have fallen flat when it comes to the emotional aspect of the lead character’s experience.
Based on the novel by Melina Marcetta and directed by Kate Woods, the film “Looking for Alibrandi” highlights the importance of the personal search for identity and sense of belonging. The film explores the story of Josephine Alibrandi, who struggles to discover her true identity as she is unable to relate to her Italian heritage but also does not feel like she fits in with her Australian friends either. Coming from none – Australian background, it was impossible for me to not relate to her situation. One technique that Woods used to convey this theme is voice–over narration, as used at the beginning of the play, during the national Italian festival “The Tomato Day”: "You may think this is all quirky and cute but I actually find it really embarrassing".
The Help is an inspiring movie, centralized on themes of showing courage in the midst of adversity and racial desegregation. The selection of actors with specific attributes, lighting/camera angles, and music, allows the movie to entertain in detail, and highlight the prime issues of the 1960s. With the movie being directed with these specifities in mind, the author, Kathryn Stockett, is able to successfully relay her message in the screenplay.
One day Logan tells Janie that he is going out to buy a mule, and wants her to do hard labor while he is gone Janie does not like this and offers to cut some potatoes instead. While Logan is out Janie meets, a man named Joe Starks from Georgia, who she describes as a citified stylishly dressed man, who to Janie is acting white.
The thriller film ‘Witness’, directed by Peter Weir in 1985, tells about cultural conflicts between the Amish of Western Pennsylvania and Modern American corruption and violence. Philadelphia Police officer, John Book was obligated to hide from the three brutally and corrupt police officers as they were looking for a little Amish boy, Samuel Lapp. The boy witnessed the brutal killings and identified the killer as the three police officers. The ‘Witness’ strongly displayed many images of people and incorporated several techniques and images in various scenes to portray the contrast between two different worlds.
Spike Lee does many fascinating things from a directorial standpoint, which makes his film (dare I say, joint), Do the Right Thing so interesting to watch. Writer, director Lee makes much use of the high and low angle shots. He does this to draw clear contrasts between the two elders of the block, Da Mayor and Mother Sister and to make conflict more apparent.
In Unwind the reader notices how ignoring what’s happening around you, or accepting the things that have become typical in the world isn’t always the right thing to do. Connor, Risa and Lev all have certain skills that set them apart from the others, allowing the reader to connect to different characters on different levels. Each character in the story served a specific purpose in showing the importance of teamwork, observance, protecting oneself, and being kind to others, to show the reader how one's life is all dependent on the small decisions we
At the time the movie was made, for instance, terrorism was at its lowest point it had been in twenty years which clearly resembles Munny’s dormant living style. The Schofield Kid (Jaimz Woolvett) interrupts Munny’s quiescence way of life, trying to get Munny to assist him in the killing of two hooligans that beat an innocent woman until she was bruised. The Schofield Kid was acting as the instigator, which resembles the enemy of terrorism (William Munny). Munny seems unsure of the uncivil act of disobedience until he comes to the conclusion that his family is in dire need of money to pay for the bare necessities of life.
The 1992 film Unforgiven, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, has a central theme that is one of good versus evil in which good overcomes evil by bringing justice to those who are evil. Munny has changed from the vicious murderer he was in the past and now wishes to bring justice to evil men who harmed the innocent prostitute Delilah and his friend Ned. The film is not quite the traditional Western film by any means as Eastwood’s character Will Munny has not always been a moral man. Nevertheless, Will Munny through the use of violence sets out to balance out the battle of good and evil by seeing that evil men get what is coming to them, even though Munny is no saint himself.
'Shawshank Redemption' directed by Frank Darabont is a compelling film about the life of one of its prisoners, Andy. many film techniques were used through out the film as a clever way of conveying main themes. This essay is going to examine how Darabont used camera angles and colour effectively in this film to portray the idea of power.
For more than fifty years, Clint Eastwood has been actively defining and redefining cinema as an art form. His experiences as an actor on television and in film have greatly influenced his directing style. Across his films, Eastwood incorporates several issues and techniques that help the audience to identify said films with Eastwood's directorial style. Eastwood's aim in his films is to tell stories of the human experience. Francois Truffaut and Andrew Sarris have aimed to define the qualities that make a director an auteur whose works stand out above the rest. The qualities defined by Truffaut and Sarris can be seen in Eastwood films including Unforgiven (1992), Million Dollar Baby (2004), and Changeling (2008) and help to establish Eastwood as an auteur.
Being a science fiction fan during his childhood, he worked his way in producing several highly acclaimed science fiction movies such as Avatar, Aliens, and the Terminator. Born on August 16, 1954, in Ontario Canada and later moved to California to finish his college at California State University. In order to pursue his dreams in cinematography, he worked as a truck driver and would work on screenplays. Then his career began from an art director in Battle beyond the Stars (1980) to directing various films. Now, he is an Oscar-winning director whose films Titanic (1997) and Avatar (2009) remains the top grossing films of all time. He has won various awards from different sides of the world, Norway, France, and the United Kingdom. Mise-en-scenes were well incorporated in each of James Cameron’s movies especially for science fiction movies that used elegantly crafted visuals.
Lastly, framing in Two Sisters and The Uninvited further differentiate the films. Jump cuts to several memories with Su-mi in center frame pictures actual events imposing on her fabricated reality, again emphasizing the genre’s psychological focus. Because it is clear that Su-mi is mentally unstable at this point, medium shots focus on Eun-joo’s gestures exude deadly intentions, i.e. vigorously cleaning her hands and wiping her throat in a slicing manner, is Su-mi’s way of subtly demonizing the woman that ruined her family. Conversely, Uninvited uses shot-reverse-shot between Rachel and Anna, both in center frame, to concentrate on Rachel’s reaction after Anna reveals that she knows her past as murderer. These cuts build suspense for an
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind(Tim Burton). Who knew that a movie could be so much like the real world events? Two subjects projected in two single clips. One from sorrow and the other formed by fright, yet you can only overcome a fear if you face it. As shown in the Tim Burton clips.