Theater 102 Review for Final

Review for final exam

Theater class 102

1. Goodfellas

• Based on a true story of central character life : Henry Hill
• Using tracking shot – Walking in Henry’s shoes
• Academy award : Joe Pesci
• How Henry betrayed? He breaks the code of silence – O’ Me thus or O Mit
• At the end -> Henry is in witness protection program
• Directed by Martin Scorsese
• Screenplay written by Nicholas Pileggi and code writer Martin Scorsese
• Using dialogue – True
• Use flashback to help with position (ex: Brokeback Mountain, Citizen Kane, Singing in the rain, Double Identity)
• Respect and Reputation, Violence, Tradition and Customs, Family and Loyalty, Power,
• Genres: Crime Drama

1. Unforgiven

• Genres, Sub genres: Dark Western
• One of 3 win the Oscar for best picture
• Show violence to go against violence
• The film that he saw: Taxi Driver
• Los Angeles, 1922, Gene Hackman
• Came out 1992
• 2 other titles before the film release: Caught was killing, William Money Killing
• Character: Money and Property
• Director, Lead actor, Produce, author: Gene Hackman
• Motivate final gun is the death of his buddy – Ned Logan
• True: discuss myth of the old west, Adjust Redemption, Condense Violation
• Italian Cast, American Western Style
• Directed Spaghetti Western? Sergio Leone

1. Goodwill hunting

• Drama
• Written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
• Robin William – Psychologist
• True: Pure commitment, Child abuse. False: Sexual abuse
• Openity scene: Will and John meet, Will use the painting as a weapon
• John convinced Will Skylar is not perfect by using his wife
• Last line: Son of a bitch, He stole my life
• John teaches Will that it’s okay to have emotion risk and Will teaches John the same thing
• Professor teaches Math
• Chucky reacts when Will said that he wants to work in the construction forever: He pissed and wanted Will to do something else and get out of the construction
• Will go to California to find his girl

1. Brokeback Mountain

• Genre: Neo Western / Romantic Drama
• Based on the true story of Annie Proulx – who wrote the short story
• Directed by Ang Lee
• Calderite – Cheaper, the film costs so little to make
• In what symbolic place that Jack hides his shirt? In his closet
• Tag line use to advertise – Love is the force of nature
• Jack and Ennis go all the time
• How does Jack kill? He beaks his out lame onto a wrong person
• Does the wife know? Both know
• When Anne visits Jack parent, does Jack father give shirt? No – He refuses to take the scatter, he describes his relationship
• Why Anne keep rebuffing Jack?

+ Afraid of being murder

+ Afraid of exposed sexual abuse

+ He cannot help the world keep inside him

• Themes: Sexuality, Repression, Intolerance, Manliness and Masculinity, Memory and the Past, the power of love: true, Gay rides: False

1. Lone Star

• John Sayles – Written, Directed, Screenplay, Edited
• Kolas kills Charlie Wade
• Exposition used flashback
• Narrator
• Of all the theme, 2 stands out: Borders and Buried history
• Genre: Neo Western/ Murder mystery
• Man, shots violation
• Camera works: pan one side to the other side, never change place only change time
• Rewrite history: no, Challenge a pot: no, Both stand wrong: no, Murky: Yes.