Film 1023 Notes

Julie Van Der Wal

Stagecoach (1939)

Director: John Ford Writers: Ernest Haycox and Dudley Nichols

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and
learn something about each other in the process.

-Dallas (Claire Tevor): She is the hoar on the trip and the one that falls in love with Ringo.
-Ringo Kid (John Wayne): He is the main outlaw and the one that falls in love with Dallas.
-Doc Boone (Thomas Mitchell): He the doctor and also the drunk.
-Mrs. Mallory (Louise Platt): She the formal lady that is trying to get to her husband that is the
general.
-Buck (Andy Devine): The stagecoach Driver
-Curly (George Bancroft): He is the Marshal that is really coming along only to protect Ringo.
-Gatewood (Berton Churchill): He is the banker. He steals money and in the end ends up going
to jail.
-Hatfield (John Carradine): He is the gambler that only comes along to protect Mrs. Mallory.
-Samuel Peacock (Donald Meek): He is a whisky sales man that is from Kansas City, Kansas.

Genres: Adventure, Western and Redemption Type of movie.

Its main point was to make money and entertain us the watcher.
It originally came out March 2, 1939 in the USA.
It won 2 Oscars (one in Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Music Scoring)
Also won Nation Board of Review (Top Ten Films), National Film Preservation Board, New
York Film Critics Circle Awards (Best Director) and Online Film & Television Association
(Motion Picture)

3 Main types of Movies

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Narrative: The story presented and the process of its telling or narration.
Documentary: Is a movie that intends to document some aspect of reality, and to maintain
a historical record.
Experimental: An amalgam of ideas forced together by the filmmaker without any regards
for characters, structure, or theme.

The Template that all Hollywood makes uses to make their movies
Act 2
Act 1
Inciting Incident

Midpoint Pinch

30-60
30

Act 3
Minutes

30

Surprise + Suspense

Protagonist Goal
High Art Requires a certain amount of skill and stand the test of Time.
Low Art Does Not stand the test of Time.
Hollywood Movies are made to entertain us and to make money. Make most Movies, Make the
most Money. Also all of their movies are going to have a message.
1915: Omaha vs. Ohio Court Decision Movies are a Business not an art.
1922: Censorship office Begins Hayes MPPDA (Becomes MPAA) when they started to say what
you can and cant show on the Big Screen.
1934: Censorship CODE enforced by Breen
1952: Miracle Decision Movies declared Art & Business
1839: is when the first picture was taken.
1890: is when the first film came out.
2 Physiological Phenomena for Illusion of Movies

1) Persistence or Vision: the optical illusion whereby multiple discrete images blend into a
single image in the human mind and believed to be the explanation for motion perception
in cinema and animated films. Your eye retains the last thing it saw for 1 more second
after seeing it.
2) Phi Phenomenon: is the optical illusion of perceiving a series of still images, when viewed in rapid
succession, as continuous motion. Like the arrows you see on the roads that blink.

4 Father of Film History

1)
2)
3)
4)

1895 Edison
Lumiere Bros
George Melies
D.W Griffith Birth of a Nation 1915

-Edison and Lumiere Bros us to feed off each other and steal ideas from each other. Their movies
where only about 1 minute each.
-George Melies was originally a Magician who then when to the Lumiere Bros and asked for a
camera. They told him to forget the idea and move on because it would destroy him. He went
and found a camera from someone else and made his first movie called a Trip to the Moon 1902.
He was the first to make a 11-minute movie that had a story and that had animation. Also he had
the first kind of Magic tricks with people appearing and disappearing with transitions between
scenes. Later he did run out of money and the lumiere bros were semi right that it would ruin
him.
-After George came out with Trip to the moon Edison want to make a move like him and came out
with the Great Train Robbery 1903. This movie had the first pan shot and didnt need any
narration to tell the story, you could just understand it by watching it. Also had the first color
when Edison went back and colored all the shots with the womens dress in.
-D.W Griffith was the first director to know how to really us close ups. He was also a big racists.
His movie a birth or a nation was 3 hours long and was a big influence for the KKK.
Movies:
Strong Man 1897 Great Train Robbery 1903 Arrival at the station 1896
Trip to the Moon 1902
Scarface 1932
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama and Thriller
A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's
accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war.
Director: Howard Hawks
Writers: Armitage Trail (Novel), Ben Hecht (Screen Story)
Tony Camote (Paul Muni): The main character that is the kid that rises from poor to riches.
Poppy (Karen Morley): She is Johnnys girlfriend that later becomes Tonys. She is the slut.
Cesca (Ann Dvorak): She is Tonys sister.
Johnny Lovo (Osgood Perkins): He is a mobster that makes Tony his partner.
Rinaldo (George Raft): He is Tonys second hand man that marries his sister but later is killed by
Tony.

Won National Board of Review (Top Ten Films) and Won National Film Preservation Board in
1994.
Came out April 9, 1932 in the USA and its runtime is 93 minutes.

Cinematic Invisibility: when the modes of cinema (The production design, editing,
cinematography, sound ect.) Do NOT call attention to themselves. This is when shots flow
seamlessly and you get caught up with the story and nothing else.
Cultural Invisibility: exist in Hollywood movies that do Not want to teach anything new or
contradict popular beliefs. These are employed by the filmmaker to reinforce the casual viewer's
subconscious beliefs or worldviews.
Mater Shots Shooting Techniques

Wide Shot, Middle Shot and Close up

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

Director: Benh Zeitlin
Writers: Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin
Genres: Drama / Fantasy
Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her
ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn
the ways of courage and love.
Hushpuppy (Quvenzhane Wallis): The main character that is 6 years old.
Wink (Dwight Henry): He is the father of the main character, Single father and has medical
problems.
Miss Bathsheba (Gina Montana): She is the school Teacher.
Winston (Joseph Brown): He is the black guy that is classy that is always dressing nicely.
Walrus (Lowell Landes): The old White bearded man that is always drunk.
The Bath Tub: The fictional place where they live. (Southern Delta community at the edge of
the world)

Its runtime is about 93 minutes.

Opened January 20, 2012 (Sundance Film Festival)

Form (Style)
How

vs.

Content (Theme)
What
-Survival
-Grief
-Poverty
-Life

Big 5 Production Companies

1) MGM
3) Paramount
2) RKO
4) Universal

-Existentialism
-Freedom

-facing your fears

-Parenting

5) Warner Bros.

The Role of Cinematographers

1) Shots
Extreme Long shots
Medium Long shots
Medium
Close ups
-Long Shots
Medium Shots
Close up Shots
Extreme
Close ups
2) Angles: Normal, High (Bird eye), Low, Oblique (Slanted), Point of View (POV)
3) Light + Dark (Color): High key, Low Key, High Contrast, Backlight, Natural Light
4) Movement: Pans (Side to side), Tilts (Up and downs), Dolly (Moves with you), Crane (up and
moves like a dolly), Aerial (Up in the air looking down), Handheld (like the show cops{action and
shaking}), Zoom (Just zooms strait in)
5) Misc. Technical Specifications: Lenses, Filters, Stocks, ect
Citizen Kane (1941)
Director: Orson Welles
Writers: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
Genres: Drama, Mystery
A group of reporters are trying to decipher the last word ever spoken by Charles Foster Kane, the
millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud." The film begins with a news reel detailing Kane's life
for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kane's life. As the reporters
investigate further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he
eventually fell off the top of the world.
Kane (Orson Welles): He was the main character that didnt know how to love.
Thatcher (George Coulouris): He was the banker that took Kane and raised him.
Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotton): He was Kanes friend that went to school with him and worked
with him until her was fired by Kane for writing a bad review of his second wifes performance.

Raymond (Paul Stewart): He was the butler.

Susan Alexander Kane (Dorothy Comingore): She was Kanes second wife and the one that was
a singer.
Jerry Thompson (William Alland): He was the report that was trying to find out what Rosebud
meant.
Mr. Bernstein (Everett Sloane): He was the Manager at the New York chronical.
The Seventh Seal 1957
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writers: Ingmar Bergman
Genres: Drama and Fantasy
Country: Sweden
A Knight and his squire are home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As
they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. The knight
challenges Death to a chess game for his life. The Knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil
envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the
plague has caused.
Antonious Block (Max von Sydow): he was the main character that is the knight and that played
chess with death.
Jons, squire (Gunnar Bjornstrand): he was the squire that isnt religious at all and is kind of a
hero.
The Silent Girl (Gunnel Lindblom): she is the girl that is quit and then in the very end says it is
finished
Jof & Mia (Nils Poppe & Bibi Andersson): they were the actors and that had a baby named Michael
that their family represents Mary and Joseph and baby Jesus.
Lisa & Plog {Blacksmith} (Inga Gill & Ake Fridell): they were the family that just tagged along and
were having marriage problems.
Raval (Bertil Anderberg): he was the man that sent Antonious to war and kind of a bad guy.
Death (Bengt Ekerot): He was death that came when it was time for the people to die. Also
played chess with the knight.
Mise-en Scene
Production design (Costumes, Sets, Props)
1) Staging of acting
2) Physical setting + dcor
3) The manner in which materials are framed
4) The manner in which they are photographed
Other Terms
- Loose framing vs. Tight framing
- On location shooting vs. studio
The Bicycle Thief 1949
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Writers: Ceasre Zavattini and Victtorio De Sica
This movie had tremendous influence on the development of Italian neorealist cinema and is
considered one of the best films ever made. The simple but riveting story centers on the
desperate search of an impoverished Roman bill poster for the man who stole his much-needed
bicycle.
Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani): The man that got his bike stolen and is trying to find it
back the entire movie.
Bruno Ricci (Enzo Staiola): He is Antonios son that is helping look for the stolen bike.
Form vs. Content = Form is on location armatures. Content is ordinary people/ problems and
Desperation.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920
Director: Robert Wiene
Writers: Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz
Genres: Horror,
Mystery, Thriller
Dr. Caligari's somnambulist, Cesare, and his deadly predictions. Example of German
Expressionism (1919-1931)

Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss): He was the man that controlled Cesare and also the director at the
insane asylum.
Cesare (Conrad Veidt): He was the somnambulist and the man that was committing all the
Murders.
Francis (Friedrich Feher): He was the man that was trying to prove that Dr. Caligari and Cesare
are bad and are Murderers.
Form vs. Content = Form is exaggerated, distorted, sets, costumes and props. Content is
Murderer.
Antirealism

Realsim

Types of Actors
1)Personality Stars (Typecast)
2) Star who go against personality
3) Chameleons
4) Non-Professionals

Type of Acting Roles

1) Major (Stand ins, Stunt Doubles)
2) Minor Characters)
3) Bit Players, extras
4) Cameos + walkins

Bernie 2011
Director: Richard Linklater
Writers: Skip Hollandsworth (Based on true story)
Bernie Tiede (Jack Black): He was the man gay guy that was the Funeral director and the old
ladies friend.
Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine): She was the old lady that was abusive to Bernie and was
somewhat his friend.
Danny Buck (Matthew McConaughey): He was the DEA that was trying trying to get Bernie in
jail.
Lloyd Hornbuckley (Richard Robichaux): He was Marjories investor and the man that caught
onto Bernie.
Section 2
Bridge or Spies
2015 Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Matt charman, Ethan coen
Drama, History,
Thriller
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court,
and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy
plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance): He was the Russian Spy
James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks): He was the main lawyer that was helping the Russian and did
the negotiation.
U2 Pilot (Wes McGee): He was the pilot that was shot down and captured by Russia.
Vogel: he was the German man that was trying to exchange Francis with the USA.
Sehischkin: He was the Russian KGB member that was trying to exchange the us spy with the
Russian spy.
Hoffman: he was the CIA guy
Franicis Gary Powell: he was the student that got taken by the Germans.
JSA: Joint Security Area 2000
Director: Chan-wook Park
Major Sophie E. Jean (Yeong-ae Lee): she was the main women trying to find out what
happened in the killing.
Sgt. Lee Soo-hyeok (Byung-hun Lee): He was the soldier on the South Korean Side.
Sgt. Oh Kyepng-pil (Kang-ho Song): He was the soldier on the North Korean Side.
Nam Sung-Shik (Tea-woo Kim): He was the soldier on the South Korean Side.
Ha-Kyun Shin (Jeong Woo-Jin): He was the soldier on the North Korean Side.
Major General Bruno Botta (Christoph Hofrichter): He was the swidish man that had sophie
looking into the case.

Continuity Editing
1.Matching Action
2. 180 degree Rule
3. Egeline Match
4. Reverse Angle shot
motion, split screen

vs.

Discontinuity
-Soviet Montage 1924-1930
-Sergei Eisentein
-Other alternatives: Battship Potemkin
Jump cuts, Flash back, fast/slow

Transitions
Straight, Dissolves, Fades, Wipes, Irises, Graphic Matches
Cabaret 1972
Director: Bob fosse
Brain Roberts (Michael York): he was the main guy that feel in love with sally and taught
English.
Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli): She was the main girl and a show girl that would sing.
Mazimilian (Helmut Griem): He was the millionary that was hanging out with Sally and Brain.
Fritz wendel (Fritz Wepper): He was the man taking lessons from Brain and fell in love with
Natalya.
Natalia Landauer (Marisa Berenson): she was taking lessons from Brain and fell in love with
Fritz.
Master of Ceremonies (Joel Grey): He was kind of like the ring leader for the show at the night
club.
Sound Terms
-Diegetic: sound that the characters hear with us
-Non-Diegetic: Sounds that we can only hear and are there for our benefit.
-Asynchronous Synchronous
-ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement)/ Dubbing
Sound Designer
1)Dialogue (location Mixer/Boom)
2)Sound effects (Foley Artist)
-Ambiance: Background Noise
-Montage (Counter Point)
3)Music (Composer)
-Silence, Leitmotif