Themes in Australian Movies Essay

KPB203 Australia Film Look Both Ways Look Both Ways is an Australian independent movie, written and directed by Sarah Watt. It was shown in 2005. The film was funded by the Adelaide Film Festival fund where it opened (Wikipedia 2005). It is a sucessful movie and has been shown at the Toronto International film festival (Discovery Award). The genre of this movie are drama and comedy. Look Both Ways takes a look into lives of different people drawn together by this tragic accident on the railway

viewing habits of audiences all over the world. Glocalisation refers to the adaption of a product or service specific to each locality or culture in which it is sold. Holly wood and commercial films have been glocalised around the world by integrating themes from places into the film as well as hiring actors from all around the world rather than just the United States. Evidence from the past 20 years shows that Hollywood is expanding its embrace to include actors from Hong Kong, scripts written from South

Schindler’s List is 1993 Oscar nominated movie directed by Steven Spielberg. This movie is based on the 1982 biographical novel published by the Australian author Thomas Keneally. It is an R rated movie with a 185 minutes running time. The main character of the movie, Oskar Schindler is played by Liam Neeson. The movie portrays the story of the German businessman who tried to preserve the lives of some Jewish refuges during the holocaust. In times past, the Jews have been victims of ethnic prosecutions

Dressmaker”. Some similar cinematic techniques include camera angles and shots, setting, costuming and themes. These techniques were captured by the director to engage the modern audience. Camera angles and shots are essential technique for the director to draw meaning to the character’s stories. A key camera angle is a high angle. In classic westerns the antagonists are presented in high

story is true success, and Leonardo DiCaprio, spotless, we enter into a New York post-war fantastically. Moreover, the dialogues are superb, and above all, they are no better than Tobey Maguire. Australian screenwriter, producer and director Baz Luhrmann's fifth feature film which he co-wrote with Australian screenwriter Craig Pearce and co-produced, is an adaptation of a novel from 1925 by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby, set in New York 1922, is narrated by Nick Carraway (Tobey

Shaken or Stirred? How alcohol in the media affects young minds. Media plays a big part in portraying alcohol to be something that young Australians feel they need to try. Media does not just refer to their portrayal in television shows and movies, but also the role advertisements have on television, radio, music, billboards, internet, signs, video games, public transport and magazines. Television advertisement plays a major role in the attraction of alcohol to adolescence, and a key aspect of

The external environment of the theme park industry on the Gold Coast plays a significant role in determining if the industry is profitable. According to Hubbard, Rice and Beamish (2008), the external environment is the factors outside the organisation that influence strategy and is made up of two environments; the macro-environment and the industry environment. The macro-environment includes the general factors that affect growth of an industry, whereas an analysis of the industry environment determines

television sets, children spend an average of a quarter of their spare time in front of the television. Often cartoon characters would be launched as movies, and be followed up by a television series and then be merchandised on hundreds of products from t-shirts to toys. The head of Disney explained to Advertising Age in 1989 how

The later 20th century saw the manifestation of the Post-Modernism, in which the use of appropriation and re-contextualisation was developed to test previous conventional depictions of gender in the visual arts. Artists Yasumasa Morimura, Julie Rrap, Anne Zahalka and Cindy Sherman have each employed the use of appropriation to question the historical ideologies of gender, particularly in relation to women, and their role in art and society. They all borrowed past paintings and promoted them with

The Intouchables The movie “The Intouchables” (first released on November 2, 2011 in Belgium and directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano) is the factual story of an unconventional relationship between a millionaire quadriplegic from the ritziest neighborhood in Paris and his Senegalese caregiver from the ghetto—a bond that begins as a working one but builds, through trust and care and shared experiences, into a lasting friendship that changes two unhappy lives forever. In Paris, the upper-class