Thursday, October 7, 2010
Fistful of sand
Bonjour,
The next topic I would like to cover is that of the western movie. I really love western movies, not just for the gunfighting and duels and whatnot. I also really enjoy the whole ambiance and scenery of movies that are set in the southwest. According to the AFI a western is a film "set in the American West that embod[y] the spirit, the struggle and the demise of the new frontier."
The whole concept of a person setting out to conquer a new and untamed land is an extremely romantic idea. I think genre as a whole really depicts what life was like in the west at that time. Actors such as John Wayne, Lee Van Cleef, and Clint Eastwood all made careers out of acting westerns.
Below are a few clips of some western films:
The next topic I would like to cover is that of the western movie. I really love western movies, not just for the gunfighting and duels and whatnot. I also really enjoy the whole ambiance and scenery of movies that are set in the southwest. According to the AFI a western is a film "set in the American West that embod[y] the spirit, the struggle and the demise of the new frontier."
The whole concept of a person setting out to conquer a new and untamed land is an extremely romantic idea. I think genre as a whole really depicts what life was like in the west at that time. Actors such as John Wayne, Lee Van Cleef, and Clint Eastwood all made careers out of acting westerns.
Below are a few clips of some western films:
I dream of silence
Hi All,
This is my very first blog post. Each week I will be posting a topic or two that holds some relevance to the cinema class I'm currently attending. Now to the meat of this post, the silent film. Broken down to its core elements a silent film is just what it sounds, a film lacking any synchronized sound or music. Up until the mid 1920s the ability to synch sound with film was nearly impossible. Technology had not developed to a point where audio amplification was readily available. Another aspect of note during the silent movie era was that of dyeing film. Frequently a filmmaker would dye a strip of film a color to signify a specific mood or feeling that the film was trying to convey. Below is a list of the highest grossing silent films of the given time period, between 1894 - 1929
This is my very first blog post. Each week I will be posting a topic or two that holds some relevance to the cinema class I'm currently attending. Now to the meat of this post, the silent film. Broken down to its core elements a silent film is just what it sounds, a film lacking any synchronized sound or music. Up until the mid 1920s the ability to synch sound with film was nearly impossible. Technology had not developed to a point where audio amplification was readily available. Another aspect of note during the silent movie era was that of dyeing film. Frequently a filmmaker would dye a strip of film a color to signify a specific mood or feeling that the film was trying to convey. Below is a list of the highest grossing silent films of the given time period, between 1894 - 1929
- The Birth of a Nation (1915) - $10,000,000
- The Big Parade (1925) - $6,400,000
- Ben-Hur (1925) - $5,500,000
- Way Down East (1920) - $5,000,000
- The Gold Rush (1925) - $4,250,000
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) - $4,000,000
- The Circus (1928) - $3,800,000
- The Covered Wagon (1923) - $3,800,000
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) - $3,500,000
- The Ten Commandments (1923) - $3,400,000
- Orphans of the Storm (1921) - $3,000,000
- For Heaven's Sake (1926) - $2,600,000
- Seventh Heaven (1926) - $2,400,000
- Abie's Irish Rose (1928) - $1,500,000
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