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In Production Design and the History of Film, C.S. Outstanding production design allows viewers to feel like they were undergoing these events. Only few people experienced the sinking of the Titanic or what it was like when Abraham Lincoln finally passed the Thirteenth Amendment. Production design is the secret behind the magic.īecause of production design, movies have overcome the constraints of time and wealth. If the story is fictional or based on a real event, movies can take the viewer to any location, time period, or economic status that they’ve never experienced before. A large attraction to cinema is its ability to transport an audience to an entirely new world. Whether it is for the story, characters, atmosphere or the simple joy of spending time with friends and family, cinema is an essential part of our culture. Going to the movies is an activity all Americans love. This paper shows how production design effectively transported the audience to a different time period. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel would not have resonated with the film’s audience. Without the intricate and well-planned production design, the themes of the F. Analysis of The Great Gatsby showed that production design reflected an Art Deco style, the period of 1920s, and the representation of characters in the film. This study revealed that accurate and creative production design is essential to success in film.

This paper reviewed scholarly articles on the evolution of production design and applied her findings to analysis of Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 rendition of The Great Gatsby. It's just that the whole concept is inappropriate.The author examined the significance of production design in film. (It comes as a bit of a shock to remember that politicians were once articulate and sounded like they knew the meanings of the words they were saying.)īut why make "Bobby," which screened at the Toronto Film Festival as a "work-in-progress"? Why turn this traumatic national event into a Hollywood soap opera? The performances are fine for this kind of glitzy manufactured melodrama ("Where Were YOU When They Shot RFK?"), and on that level it's swell, trashy fun. Kennedy, talking about how the country has lost its way in the quagmire of Vietnam, and championing rights for minorities and low-wage workers, etc., etc., etc. On the screen, on TVs in hotel suites, over the soundtrack, are actual speeches and sound bites from Democratic senatorial candidate Robert F.

Sure, the requisite modern political parallels are present, as they are in virtually every film at the Toronto Film Festival this year. And "Bobby" treats the assassination as an event as strangely distant from its own present-tense as "Grand Hotel" was from 1968. They talk about the movies - new stuff like "The Graduate," "Bonnie and Clyde," "Planet of the Apes" - but a retired doorman played by Anthony Hopkins explicitly invokes the model for "Bobby" and and its ilk: "Grand Hotel," the 1932 picture with Greta Garbo and an all-star cast. It's "Airport." It's "The Towering Inferno." A whole bunch of familiar actors play "colorful" characters swarming around the hotel, and their day will culminate in the death of a Kennedy. It's "Earthquake" with the RFK assassination as the disaster. We're told that Emilio Estevez's "Bobby" takes place at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, but it feels like it was originally released back around then. Wayne Newton and Suzanne Pleshette - er, Emilio Estevez and Demi Moore stud the all-star cast of "Bobby." Besides, it was a nice afternoon in Vancouver and her condo has a view of False Creek.smile. For of all the friends I have, she's the most different from myself the contrast between us, a never-ending source of delight. I saw her recently and took photos so that I might show and tell, in here. We lost touch after high school, moving in different directions til in the wake of a trip to Venice and eager to practice my bad Italian and bore friends with tales of my travels abroad, I sought her out again.We've kept in touch ever since, meeting whenever schedules permit Marta traveling more than most (she's a wine Sommelier) living partly in Lucca, Italy, and happily in sin with her significant other, the great Francesco. Micheal's where I met my Canadian-Italian chum, Marta Chiavacci (key-a-vah-chee) who was born here to Italian immigrants. Peter's, Our Lady of Mercy (which was anything but) and finally St. Marie writes: I attended three different elementary schools St.