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Humanities

ENG225

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Select a movie from AFI’s 10 Top 10 lists and explain how three cinematic techniques and/or design elements have helped establish a major theme in that film. Note: While you are allowed to choose a film that does not come from the AFI lists, you are strongly encouraged to email your professor to receive approval before doing so.

In 800 to 1200 words

  • Describe a major theme of the movie you have selected using evidence from the movie itself as well as course resources and other scholarly sources to support your position.
  • Identify at least three techniques (cinematography, lighting, acting style, or direction) and/or design elements (set design, costuming, or hair and makeup), and explain how these techniques and/or design elements contribute to the establishment of the theme. Reference particular scenes or sequences in your explanations.
  • State your opinion regarding the mise en scène, including
  • How the elements work together.
  • How congruent the design elements are with the theme of the movie.
  • Whether or not other techniques would be as effective (Explain your reasoning).

Note: Remember that a theme is an overarching idea that recurs throughout the plot of a film. It is the distilled essence of what the film is about, the main design which the specific scenes and actions lead a viewer to understand.

Your paper should be organized around a thesis statement that focuses on how the elements of your chosen feature-length film both establish and maintain one of its major themes. Review the Week Three sample paper,

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It’s A Wonderful Life

The movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” was produced by Frank Capra, in the year 1946. The
film or the Movie comprise of an American Christmas fantasy comedy based on the short story
“The Greatest Gift” that was written around the year 1939 and later on published in 1945 by Philip
Van Doren Stern. The primary theme of the movie is that each life is vital (Capra et al.2017).
Henceforth, one of the main reason that It’s a Wonderful Life is that it accentuates that each life is
far much important. Therefore, during the era of the magic and wealth, people started to develop
a feeling that their lives have never been good sufficiently. Based on this, hence the kind movie or
the film is kind of reminder to the viewers, in that even those who have the least important living
standards may have the opportunity to make the highest influence on their fellow men.
In the movie, the principal protagonist’s life, George, was wasted on an act of doing the
usual daily undertaking of the life. In the process instead of becoming a famous big-name engineer
or rather a hero in the war, the protagonist takes his life as it seems that it developed the b...


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