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Singin' in the Rain 1952
Singin’ in the Rain, directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, set in the period when silent films are starting to transition into “talkies” and talks about the story of Don Lockwood, an actor who is used to acting without sounds, trying to adapt to this new style of motion pictures and remaking his latest film into a musical. Interestingly, the movie itself is also presented through a musical form with well-organized staging, or mise en scene. With a little…
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Kwaidan 1964
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Kwaidan, directed by Masaki Kobayashi, is a film which consisted of four different stories that were based on traditional Japanese folk tales. There are four different stories in this film, and the plot of this film is the combinations of these four stories. Within the first story, “Black Hair”, the director uses editing to show the young samurai’s feeling of missing to his old wife and uses distinctive sound choice to bolster horror at the end.
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The Matrix 1999
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The Matrix (1999), directed by the Wachowski Brothers (currently the Wachowski Sisters), starred by Keanu Reeves, Lawrence Fishburne, and Carrie-Anne Moss, is a science fiction film about a computer hacker, named Neo, uncovers the false reality of a A.I generated world, and rebelling against it. The overall story follows a general “Hero’s Journey” storyline, but the Wachowski brothers put in unique shots to deliver creative action scenes within it.
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Moonlight 2016
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Moonlight, directed by Barry Jenkins, is a film that portrays the life of an African American, name Chiron, from when he was little to a grown up and focuses on the process of Chiron exploring his innermost identity.
The story of this film ranges from when Chiron was a little kid to when Chiron becomes a mature middle-aged man. However, the plot of this story consists only several important moments of Chiron’s life, such as meeting his childhood “mentor” Juan,…Translated from by