World Cinema- Identifying Movie CINEMA PARADISO

Identifying Movie CINEMA PARADISO

Information
-Name of movie: Cinema Paradiso
-Production Company:  TF1 Films Production
-Production Area: Italy and France
-Directed By: Ji Saibei. Tornatore
-Screenwriter: Ji Saibei. Tornatore Vanna Paoli
-Type: Story
-Starring: Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Sava Terry Casio
-Release time: November 17, 1988 at Italy
-Dialogue Language: Italian, English, Portuguese

Synopsis
-The story is about a boy who growing up in Italian Sicilian village.
-The main character is a clever and mischievous child, while Ai costs as much as a "Paradiso Theater". Because of film, they build a mentor feeling. Projectionist played a leading role. Alfredo accompany Salvatore growth. After he pass away, he left a film box to Alfredo and its let Salvatore reviewing three decade memories and emotion.
-A small town at Southern Italy Kaldor, Salvatore is a child who like to watch movie and also like to see projectionist Alfredo to "cut" movie. (The Italian town in the 1940, before screening of the film, it should be check by the pastor and strictly cut the kissing scene). The theat always be lively.
-Salvatore treasure film and he dreaming to be projectionist like Alfredo.
-But Alfredo hoping Salvatore leave out this town and outward for development.
-Salvatore doesnt understand the good intention of Alfredo, persist in learn film in projectionist.
-Alfredo mind to let more people can watch movie, then he make a outdoor movie.
-Resulting film was on fire. Salvatore rescue Alfredo, but finally Alfredo is blind.
-Finally Salvatore become projectionist in the town.
-Salvatore continue to grow and fell in love with the daughter of banker Elena. But Elena's father oppose she falling in love with Salvatore. Finally they break up.
-Salvatore go for military service and Elena go to college.
-Under much persuasion of Alfredo, he leave the town to pursue his dream.
-After thirty years later, Salvatore go back to the town for farewell with his old friends. Alfredo left a film as a gift to Salvatore and he suddenly found himself and understanding everything in life.

Goofs
-When Salvatore was young as a child, we can see that he was a lefty during the exam, but in adulthood, he use his right hand to mark on the calender.
-During examation, Salvatoer throw answers to Alfredo, he throw out the first shot with the left hand and went back the next shot is right.

Conclusion
-Everyone have their own beautiful. Who's life is perfect?
-We all have our specializm cinema paradiso in our heart.

World Cinema- Identifying Japanese Movie DEPARTURE

Identifying Japanese Movie DEPARTURE

Movie: Departure
Category: Drama
Director: Yojiro Takita
Producer: Yojiro Takita
Screenwriter: Kundo Koyama
Movie Length: 130 mins
Languages: Japanese

-This is a universal theme movie that depicting the life and death.
-Which tells of paternity, the love of husband and wife, friendship and proud of the work of righteousness,bringing a unique touch.

Plot
-Daigo Kobayashi loses his job as a cellist when his orchestra is disbanded. He and his wife Mika move from Tokyo to his hometown in Yamagata. His mother was died 2 years ago so nobody at home. It is fronted by coffee shop that Daigo's father had operated before he ran off with a waithress when Daigo was six.

-Daigo find an advertisement for a job "assisting departure". Assuming it to be a job in a travel agency, he goes to the interview at NK Agent office and learns from the secretary Yuriko Kamimura. He will be preparing bodies for cremation in a ceremony known as encoffinment. Daigo is hired on the spot and receives a cash adcance from his new boss Sasaki. Gaigo is futive about his duties and hinds the true nature of the job from Mika.

-His first assignment is to assist with the encoffinment of a woman who died at home and remained undiscovered for two week. He is beset with nausea and later humiliated when strangers on a bus detect an unsavoury scent on him. To clean himself, he vesit a public bath which he had frequented as a child.

-Over time, Daigo becomes comfortable with his profession as he completes a number of assignment and experiences the gratitude of the families of the deceased. However, he faces social ostracism. Daigo refuses to quit, even after Mika discovers a training DVD in which he plays a corpse and she leaves him to return to her parents home.

-After a few months, Mika returns and announces that she is pregnant. She expresses that Daigo will find a job of which their child can be proud. Daigo receive a call for an encoffinment for Mrs Yamashita. Daigo prepares her body in front of both the Yamashita family and Mika, who had known the public bath owner. The ritual earns him respect of all parent, and Mika stops insisting that Dagio change his job.

-Sometimes later, they learn of death of Daigo's father. Daigo is at first unable to recognize him, but takes offence when local funeral wokers are careless with the body. He insists on dressing it himself, and while doing so finds a stone-letter which he  had given to his father, held tight in the dead man's hands. After he finishes the ceremony. Daigo gently presses the stone-letter to Mika's pregnant belly.


Anatomic Daigo's faced and Frame of mind
1) Disillusionment
- When Daigo finally cello artist for fews months, but orchestra is disbanded and he lose a job. He fell that as in the deepth of the tunnel, cant see any exit,

2) Anxious
-A job which do not ask the age, but also to ensure the generous salary? One "body" of the work immediately Dawu creepy, this stuff, how much mony is not capable pf theor own job.

3) Confuse
-Now Daigo is a helpness wretch, in the chi shen people photography room of the dead appeared to wear diapers. He cant face up the reality.

4)Struggling
-They are experiencing difficulty to a particular test? Is this a retribution?  To piano as partners to the piano for the music to panio live, why not this life?

5)Sudden From
- The "dirty"! Do not touch me! Mika out of the way to Daigo. While sad, her eyes fill with tears. Daigo first time saw mika sad like this since he marrige with Mika.

6)Realize
-But it was so cold in winter. Can be so easy to say this past laughing camel, Daigo years after thirty years.

7)Newborn
-Dead does not mean the end, but beyond, is passing through door, a journey for the next! all the way, we meet again.

8)Relieved
-From the need to bring...never forget.

World Cinema- Identifying Japanse Film Director Akira Kurosawa

Identifying Japanse Film Director Akira Kurosawa

Name: Akira Kurosawa
Born on: 1910/03/24
Nationality: Japan
Occupation: Film Director, Screenwriter

-Akira Kurosawa born on Tokya Shinagawa Oimachi, his father served as an army officer, than transferred to post-secondary director.
-He have 4 sisters and 3 brothers.
-Although his father was a soldier, he but refused to participate in military training.
-From the childhood that he have strong interest in painting and he keen on painting
-Once determined to be a painter. But in that period, painter is very hard to earn money, so that he try to find another job for make a living.

-1930, He discover one of the advertisement made by PCL Film Company and he write a films papers for interview, finally be a first assistant director in PCL Film Company.
-He apprentice to Jiro Yamamoto Kerry and be a assistant director 7 years ago.

-1943, he make a first movie "Sanshiro Sugata", this film is very popular in Japan.
-After that he direct a movie "Rashomon", but fail in Japan, unexpected this movie is popular in Franch.

-1960 to 1970, Akira Kurosawa faced the low tide period, he sudden rupture relationship with his partner Toshiro Mifune and never works together.
-John Sturge remake his movie "Seven Samurai" and name it to " Seven noble People".

-1968, 20th Century Fox Company entrust Akira Kurosawa to discribe a movie about The Grand Epic of the War of the Pearl Harbor RAID and be a Japanese part director.

-1970, He remake a novel "The city is not seasons" by Yamamoto to film but lost a box office, because of this he try to commit suicide.

-1972, Akira Kurosawa going to Soviet Union to directing Russain Film " Desuwuzha". Most of the crew is Soviet Union and the film done in 2 years.

-1975, Akira Kurosawa's "Desuwuzha", its movie of Russo-Japanese joint that gain Moscow International Film Festival Gold Award and Oscar Best Foreign Film.

-1976, Film of "Deer su. Wuzha La" gain Oscar Best Foreign.

-1980, Akira Kurosawa able to rely on foreign funding to complete the "Shadow Warrior".

-1978, will be a personal experience to written his autobiography and name it as "Toad Oil"

-1990, Gain Oscar history as the first winner of the lifetime achievement award of the Asian filmmaker.

-1998, Akira Kurosawa pass away, died at 88 years old.

World Cinema- Identifying Archetypes

Identifying Archetypes

Movie: Going Home
Direct by: Zhang Yang
Production Time: 2007
Production Area: China/ Hong Kong
Genres: Comedy
Duration: 110 minutes
Release Time: 2007-1-19

Synopsis
-Lao Zhao is one of the farmer more than 50 years old. He move to ShengZheng for temporary work. One day his friend Lao Lew die on site and Lao Zhao decided launching his journey that burying Lao Liew on Lao Liew's hometown. At the first, Zhao masquerading Lew as a drunker and take a long-distance bus. But unfortunately, they meet a gang of robbers blocking a road and plunging their wealth. Zhao preserve the compensation of Lew. Finally Zhao won the respect from robbers and rescued all the wealth of passenger. But he exposed Lew is a corpse, then he get off by passenger. After that he continue his journey, he try to stopping a car and masquerading Lew as a emergency patient. And he meet a good guy took them to hospital, but he quietly slipping away when they arrive at hospital. He night stay at simple and crude hotel and after one night he discover his money stole by someone. Zhao feeling sadly but he still persist his promise. He masquerading Lew as a bigger to solving the problem of the money; He went to other people's funeral to solving the problem of food; he request the salon girl to makeup for Lew to covering the limpidity; In one of the day he discovering Lew's compensation is false moneys; He is caught in debris flow and saving by one of a cop. Eventually he cremated Lew with a cop and the cop fetching Lew to destination. When they reach, Zhao discover the village were submerged under water and Lew's son had wrote a word on there. Its a new address. Zhao is cry again, but the cop mind to fetch him to there.

Identifying Archetypes
Lao Zhao
Lao Zhao is one of the farmer more than 50 years old. He move to ShengZheng for temporary work. One day his friend Lao Lew die on site and Lao Zhao decided launching his journey that burying Lao Liew on Lao Liew's hometown.

Lao Lew
-One of the labourer, friend's of Lao Zhao. accidentally alcohol death.

Song Dan Dan
-In order to provide and support his son advanced study at college, she do a blood selling in the city to earn money. But her son was dislike and avoid this dirty mother.

Truck Driver
-A taciturn  tough guy. He was wail, because of one song to evoked his memories of love.

Old man
-A lonely old man.

Traveler
-He riding a bicycle to Tibet to test his perseverance.

Beekeeper
-His wife accidentally disfigured. They decided move to suburb and being a beekeeper. He encourage Lao Zhao arrive the destination.

World Cinema- Analysis between China, Hong Kong and Taiwan Movie

Hong Kong Movie

-Normally they use a common cinematography but present in attractive story.
-Its also have their own culture background, props, traditional,  fixed format to present the storyline, environment, character style, feature, speech and etc.
-Normally have a own slogan in the movie.
-Strongly presenting in loyalty.
-Logic of the character are mostly under the influence of strong emotional and exaggerate to telling the story.
-The movie behind the standard of morality is not follow the modern legal, too much to emphasis  on a personal loyalty and relationship such as approach the enemies.

-One of the Hong Kong movie <<Zombie>>, direct by Juno.
-<<Zombie>> tribute to the traditional movie of zombie.
-The story beginning from the old actor Hao, he was actor of film zombie, he separate from their families and moved in mystery apartment.
-He just want to end their life on there and having a illusion since under hypoxia condition. He encounter ghost-ridden, then the Taoist priest Ah You is saving his life. He curiously knowing about the Albino boy Xiao Bai often peeping his room and a woman Yang Feng who eating ritual foods. The guard of apartment uncle Yen going to telling Hao, his room even had a bloody massacre, and the house owner is Yang Feng, because of that she severe trauma; One of the resistant apartment Uncle Dong is drop down from the high stair, his wife Mui Yi ask specialize black magic Ah Jiu to relive his husband. But Ah Jiu use a black magic to making Uncle Tong become a zombie. Finally Hao and Ah You are fighting with the zombie.

Hong Kong movie is strongly present in:
1) Attractive story

-An example for this movie: Hao end his life and before die he having a illusion fighting with zombie, Albino boy with a woman eating ritual foods, Ah Jiu using black magic to summon zombie, twins Japanese ghost, twins Japanese ghost mix with traditional zombie and etc. All the characters and story are attractive the audience.

2) Traditional and culture background

-A guard of apartment Uncle Tong is follow the traditional, before live in the empty room must burning the stick incense.
-Taoist priest is cooking a fried rice to dead soul.

-The zombie is wearing the traditional cloth with the mask made by copper cash etc.

-All the props and environment is strongly present in Hong Kong style.

3) Movie is not follow the modern legal.

-Good woman Mui Yi send Xiao Bai to zombie Uncle Tong as a food.

-Ah Jiu killing Uncle Tong because he want to use Uncle Tong's corpse to summon zombie.

-Mui Yi killing Uncle Yan because Uncle Yan knowing their secret.

-An about is the example that the movie is not follow the modern legal.

Taiwan Movie

-Normally the Taiwan movie more attention to beauty between the nice angle and the beauty environment. Some of the cinematography will shooting the characters with the beauty environment as Taiwan scenery video.
-And every character have their strongly and special style.
-The Taiwan movie also have their own culture background, props, traditional,  fixed format to present the storyline, environment, character style, feature, speech and etc.
-Its unique consciousness to aesthetic concept and screen space  environment create.

-One of  the movie <<Cape 7>>, direct by Wei Te-Sheng.
-The story beginning in one held in HengChun Peninsula beach resort on the beach in the summer concert. Opening band will be performed by local musicians group, so postman Ah Kah, millet wine salesmen Ma La Sang, car repairer Xiao Wa, aboriginal police Lao Ma, Old postman Mao Bo and Student Da Da. They piece together to form a "scrap metal" bands and the supervision is You Zi.

-Taiwan is strongly present in:
1) Nice scene with the character
-An example for this movie: they using a standard cinematography, but at the same they also shooting the nice place with the character. Too showing the beauty of scene.
Beauty beach, Taiwan style building, beauty and wide cliff and etc, they hopping the actors can mix with the beauty environment.

2) Special style of character
-Each characters have their strongly and special style and you may not knowing why the characters can be joying together.
-The postman which easy to angry, occupational disease millet wine salesman, a car repairer who fall in love with other people's wife, aboriginal police who even fighting with the postman, old postman of music lover and student.
-They use different style of characters and joining together. Finally getting  success.

China Movie

-The movie from the form to contain is very rich in ethnic and feature.
-Particularly the spirit of character, environment and culture.
-Normally grasp the detail of true story in their life and using strong emotional to attract audience.
-The development of china movie is continuously improving in quality of movie, expose new themes and genres, inherit and carry forward the traditional of Chinese movie, researching foreign movie for movie reference, produce with Chinese character, ethnic style with international standard movie.

-One of the China movie <<Going Home>> ,direct by Zhang Yang.
-The story begging form one of the promise between main character Lao Zhao and his best friend Lao Lew.
-Lao Zhao is one of the farmer more than 50 years old. He move to ShengZheng for temporary work. One day his friend Lao Lew die on site and Lao Zhao decided launching his journey that burying Lao Liew on Lao Liew's hometown. At the first, Zhao masquerading Lew as a drunker and take a long-distance bus. But unfortunately, they meet a gang of robbers blocking a road and plunging their wealth. Zhao preserve the compensation of Lew. Finally Zhao won the respect from robbers and rescued all the wealth of passenger. But he exposed Lew is a corpse, then he get off by passenger. After that he continue his journey, he try to stopping a car and masquerading Lew as a emergency patient. And he meet a good guy took them to hospital, but he quietly slipping away when they arrive at hospital. He night stay at simple and crude hotel and after one night he discover his money stole by someone. Zhao feeling sadly but he still persist his promise. He masquerading Lew as a bigger to solving the problem of the money; He went to other people's funeral to solving the problem of food; he request the salon girl to makeup for Lew to covering the limpidity; In one of the day he discovering Lew's compensation is false moneys; He is caught in debris flow and saving by one of a cop. Eventually he cremated Lew with a cop and the cop fetching Lew to destination. When they reach, Zhao discover the village were submerged under water and Lew's son had wrote a word on there. Its a new address. Zhao is cry again, but the cop mind to fetch him to there.
-China is a practice oriented nation and advance in practical rationality.

-China movie is stronger presenting in:

1) Spirit of character

-Each characters are strongly present in china style and spirit.

- Lao Zhao is main actor which carry out the promise between his friend burying his corpse in the hometown, be strength to faced the problems even the journey is not easy, stick to the principle and preserve the compensation of Lew even faced the robbers, positive and optimistic to faced the problem.

-Its also strongly present in the human touch of character.

2) Culture background and environment of China

-The speech of China accent.

-The action and facial expression.

-The cloth of actors are strongly present the China traditional.

-Each environment are presenting in traditional of China.

-For example: one of the scene for funeral rites, its describe in special and delicate.

-And the building site also presenting in environment only can discovering in China.

-Illegal trading activity, natural disasters, living standard of resident China is the reference normally appearing in China movie for carry the style of China movie.

Understanding Film as Art Form

4 Hundred Blows

Basic Information

Name:                          400 blows

Production:                   Les Fils du Carrosse and Sedif Productions

Company of issuing:     Cocinor

Area location:               Franch

Shooting:                      10 November 1958- 5 January 1959 (1 month and 25 days)

Directed by:                  Francios Truffault

Screenwriter:                 Francios Truffault

Producer:                      Francios Truffault

Type:                            Story

Trailer:                           99 minutes

Release time:                 3 June 1959

Dialogue language:         Franch

Color:                            Black and White

Synopsis

-At Paris school, Some of the student read a pair of beautiful picture card and pass it to each other.

-Until the turn of Antoine was discover by teacher and punishment.

-After returning home, the parents are not in Antonie is preparing the homework. His mother came home, she gruffly to told Andonie to buy a flour.

-He bought flour, and stepfather to go home. They eat dinner together.The relationship of them are not very well.

-The next morning, Antoine got up late, when he was encounter students Reyna, they suddenly decided to skip class to the street to play.

-But he was in the street to see the mother and kissing another man, and the mother also saw Antoine.

-After the mother came back in the evening, then both parents had a fight.

- The next day, the father knowing that Anthony did not go to school yesterday through his classmate, he very angry.

- And Antoine back to school, he lied yesterday did not go to school because his mother died.

-Soon, the parents come to the school to find Anthony and beat him.

- Anthony angrily decided not to go home, Reyna gave him an idea, let Antoine go to his uncle's an old printing plant overnight.

-Noisy plant makes Antoine could not sleep, so he went shopping at the streets.

-Next  day, mother take him home, and she was very gentle treatment and aim Andonie that wont to told his father about her betrayal.

-Antoine borrow language novels of Balzac wrote an article, but the teacher was reprimanded for "plagiarism" and to punish him.

-He escaped to live in Reina's home, play with him every day.

-Because of lack of money, Antoine decided to steal his father's typewriter for money, although steal a typewriter, but not sell.

-So he put the typewriter back in place, but it was caught in time.

-His father very angry and send him to a police.

-At the station, stay a night later, he was sent to the reformatory.

-Reformatory's management is very strict, and parents ignore him, Anthony did not want to stay any longer.

-He run out during the playing time.

-He got rid of chasing him, running all the way, in the direction of the sea.

About the movie

-400 blow turned out to be a fixed phrase in French. Meaning is beating bad children about 400 blows so that he he can become good boy.

-Discript one of the children Andonie in everyday of life.

-In this order Truffault own childhood experiences as the background of the movie, Andonie dont like the class,  beautiful pictures circulated in the classroom, painting on the wall.

-He was not likeable by other people, it makes teachers and parents think he would lie, and what are doing bad things out.

-He stole his father's typewriter unit, did not sell, but was captured, they were sent to juvenile detention.

-Because of lack of care and love, children often make use of these so-called "rogue" to release the inherent innocence, to express silent revolt, but it also often not waiting for his care and love appear, and is  "four hundred blows" is covered with barbed wire in juvenile detention.

-Director selected schools, homes, police stations, and other locations as a juvenile reformatory Andonie pressure from places where Andonie forever in a passive role.

-"Four hundred blows" is the complaint of this social phenomenon.

-Is a story present in direct way, audience will easy to undersand.

-Andonie can see the sea, but can not see freedom.

About the director

-Truffaut was originally a street, camped orphans, have been locked up for stealing a juvenile prison.

-Fortunately, a man named André Bazin who took him out from thence, and brought him grow up.

- In Bazin, this insightful and perceptive and compassionate hearts of people, to cultivate Truffaut became a movie fan, and later, to become a world-class director.

Cinematic Value

-Use a lot of long shot.

-Because want to presenting pure and clean.

-Low-angle shot of Paris street, or a physical education teacher to lead the students jogging, all the students went away later that overhead vision lens, with relax and funny soundtrack.

-Anonie walk on the street at mid night.

-This movie is full of dark, lonely atmosphere, even in the back Andonie running into the street where the flow will stop rolling kind of lonely endeavor.

-Not much close up shot.

-The first long shot about one minute twenty seconds, Andonie left out from the painting, jumping axis, emphasizing changes in mood.

-Last more than one minute long shot of the film, the performance is still running, panoramic, Andonie off from the shore, went to the beach, to continue to run to the right of the screen, the camera slowly began to move to the right rear, shaking.

-Andonie ran to the sea, in the sea sideways a few steps to the right, but looking back to the camera came into the picture frame and a pair of his confusion, melancholy eyes, close-up, music, and sound of the waves continued, drama end.

Mistake

-At the end of the gravity rotating machine that paragraph, when camera shake to watch the crowd, recording microphone appeared on the screen.

-When Anthony and Levin went inside to the cinema, Lenne wearing a black jacket, but in the next shot, he was wearing a jacket.

-When Anthony look in the mirror, his father standing behind him, the camera is also being reflected in the mirror.

-When the end of the movie, when Anthony reach water, shadow staff appeared on the beach.