Film 9:27 - Lecture notes On the waterfront, Casablanca PDF

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These are Professor Miles Doleac notes given for our quiz on On The Waterfront and Casablanca. ...

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Story by McKee

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Any great movie is about story and characters.

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Casablanca: (1942)

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French North Africa

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German and French Soldiers

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Important conflict is Rick deciding to either do what is best for him or best for others.

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Bogart on Top 10 list of actors.

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Bogart is very expressive

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#2 out of 100 American Films

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Directed by Michael Curtiz

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Never turned down a film

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Anti-Hero

What makes a good story? -

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Eternal o

Stereotype – NOT useful or interesting

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Archetype – Universal theme (I.E. heartbreak, familial conflict)

Conflict is the heart of drama.

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Sense Memory – Utilizing past memories in use of a role.

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Stella Adler – American actress and acting teacher. She founded the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York.

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James Dean – American actor. Cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause.

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Marlon Brando – A Streetcar Named Desire (written by Tennessee Williams)

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Realism – Drawing on your own experience; method acting. Becoming the character. Can be taken to the extreme.

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On the Water Front (1954) -

Original script was called ‘The Hook’

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Written by playwright Arthur Miller

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Directed by Elia Kazan / extremely controversial / 1909-2003 / The best actors director ever produced in America / controversial because he famously testified for HUAC / came up with the group theatre and some of

Film 9/27 them dabbled in communist propaganda / Elia named people’s names that he saw at communist meetings at the HUAC testimony and since that moment he has been a very divisive figure / won an award in 1999 / says he was given an impossible choice so he chose the lesser of two evils / after testifying, Arthur Miller told him to go straight to hell / Elia hired a new screenwriter named Bud Schulberg / Frank Sinatra originally to play main character but it all went downhill after the testifying / Sam Spiegel became producer of film at Columbia. / Brando got cast for the role instead of Sinatra and Sinatra became furious / Kazan had a way of alienating people, but he was a master / he had a gift -

On the Water Front won an academy award for best actor, Marlon Brando.

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#8 - #19

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Stereotype vs. Archetype

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Mano Kaminer – Minaly Kertesz – Michael Curtiz

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1886-1962

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28 years old at Warner Brothers – 86 films

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Rule vs. Principle

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Rule – Stringent (ex: you must do it this way)

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Principle – What is best for you / a moral guideline

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Sometimes in film, you have to bend the rules

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Principles are more like a compass, things that have been proven to work

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Stereotype When you take a certain perception about a particular culture, place, etc. and apply it to a broad term. Offensive. (ex: all back people like hot wings)

 Archetype - Universal theme / a common thread that any geographical / ethnic group can understand. - (ex: hero, sage, martyr) - Aspire for the archetype, not the stereotype....