Blog Post 5 Gone With The Wind

I never saw the movie Gone With the Wind until this class. I had always heard great things about it. I know its a classic and i was excited to finally watch it. To my surprise, I was kind of dissapointed in it.  I didnt really know what the movie was about prior to watching it but I expected it to be completely different then it was. When everyone started dying one by one i felt like I was watching sothing from shakespear because he is known to do that in his scripts. I am not saying that I hated the movie, It was interesting to watch and kept me engaged. The whole movie, I was confused with the whole marrying his cousin thing. I dont understand why that happened in the first place. Was that ok to do back then because no one seemed to care? 

I tried finding an article that got into that more but I couldnt find one. 

The article that I found talks about how the media portrays different prospectives on race in a white society during civil rights. It talks about the different faces that scarlett has and how each face she has connects with the prospectives of blacks and whites.

Film History - It Happened One Night Blog 3

 We have entered the world of sound! In this class we discussed the transition between silent films and talking films. When we talked about the problems with early sound, and how microphones had to be placed in positions where the actors could be heard, all i could think about was The movie Singing in The Rain. I feel like that movie perfectly describes this transition into talking films. We also talked about how woman were portrayed in films as sexual and then changed to elegant and classy.

 The article I found focuses on the first talkie film created called The Jazz Singer. It was a long process to create this film because there is a lot of detail involved. Microphone setting is really important. The article explains that synchronized sound is complicated and movie making was going to be more difficult to make, especially with comedy.

During this period of film, Men and woman competed to be the best. In class we watched a talking film called  It Happened One Night. During the scene where the main characters Peter and ... are trying to find a ride on the side of the road, Peter spends hours trying to wave down cars that never stop for him. wanted to give it a try but since she is a female he thought she had no chance. She got a car to stop right away. This is the competitiveness shown between males and females.



Work Cited:

Zhao, Jin. "Talking Was Golden: Actors And The First Talkies In America: 1927-1930." Atlanta Review Of Journalism History 9.(2010): 46-68. Communication & Mass Media Complete. Web. 1 Oct. 2014.

Film history- The Gold Rush Blog 2

1. In class we talked about Charlie Chaplin  and the Gold Rush. We talked about how Chaplin uses comedy and emotions in his films to capture the audiences. The Gold Rush had a lot of humor in it. because it was a silent film the gestures were exaggerated more, which made it enjoyable to watch.

2. Charlie Chaplin Created a character that will always be remember throughout film history. In this article, It talks about Chaplin's character, The Tramp, and how this character is somewhat made to be awkward and isolated. The article says "For his identity is that of the outsider, rejected rather than admired by the community inside his films, even though his fans in the movie theater roundly applaud him. The Tramp's very isolation seems to make him wish for an audience. But his performance usually confirms the absence of an audience". The Tramp is an interesting character, and Chaplin is a personality actor. He makes this character real with the different scenarios he is placed in.




3. This article helped me understand the character of the Tramp. The movie the Gold Rush really highlighted his characteristics. The Tramp liked the girl Georgia but she seemed to care less and was somewhat embarrassed by him. When he became rich at the end, he got the girl and it was a happy ending

4.I really like this movie. It is very relate-able with the pathos that is portrayed in the Tramps character. It makes the audience feel upset for him when he gets stood up by Georgia. All he wants is for her to like him. There are many movies that have relationship plots that cant seem to work out. It is a reoccurring theme.  some other things in  noticed in this movie reminded me of some other movies ive seen. Towards the end, In the cabin when the snow storm hits, as the cabin was spiraling out of control and ended up in a new location, it reminded me of that scene from the wizard of oz. This makes me think if that idea came from this early film?


Work cited

Jaffe, Ira S. "Chaplin's Labor Of Performance: The Circus & Limelight." Literature Film Quarterly 12.3 (1984): 202. Communication & Mass Media Complete. Web. 1 Oct. 2014. 

film history- The beginnings blog 1

1.  In Class, we talked about the early influences of film. Hearing that motion is an optical illusion, is so interesting.The Zoetrope toy, discussed in class with the still pictures of a horse made by Eadweard Muybridge. I remember as a kid, having a toy similar to that, with the click of a button it would turn to the next picture in a sequence. In class we also watched A Trip to The Moon. , a short film with some of the first visual effects. I thought it was a cute and creative. I liked it a lot.  The last thing we watched in class was The Birth of A Nation.  I am not into watching war movies so this one did not interest me too much.


2.I found an article that talks about Eadweard Muybridge and his aabilityto be remembered for the making of motion images, and in his lifetime he never created a film.  He was a photographer and took his photos in series to make it seem story like.  The article talks about how Muybridge's images influenced early film makers, where films were made based off of his work. 


3. In class we talked about the beginnings of film history and the early influences. The article is proof that Eadweard Muybridge was very influential to the early films with the creation of animation.

4. A Trip to the Moon, being one of the first animated films was pretty good in my opinion. I love watching animated films, and I can see how animation today has grown from that. In a Trip to the Moon, it is cheesy and playful how the moon has a face and the rocket lands in its eye. Animation still has that similar humor to it and that is what makes watching it so much fun.








Work cited:

Counterfeit Motion: The Animated Films of Eadweard Muybridge

Amy Lawrence

Film Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Winter 2003-2004), pp. 15-25