Creating your own Art Film

My favourite part of battleship Potemkin is the men yelling and looking shocked as the baby carriage is falling down the stairs.

My favourite part of Metropolis is the man at the end showing a fearful face and pushing his body very close to the wall behind him.

My favourite part of Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is the ending were the detective is boarding the train and the bag gets stuck to the bottom of his shoes and he tries to take it off with his other foot.

For my movie, I would like to show the man stepping out of the car, and then a different man being shocked once the man steps out of said car and sees him, then people running away from a burning building which is going to explode, and after show more faces of horrified people once the man looks behind him.

I'll be using clear clips of a smoke effect overlaid in my film to show the beginning and end of the man’s flashback to a burning building which he remembers escaping from. I’ll also use clips of flames and explosions to show the burning building that it will soon explode at the end of the movie. Also filters that look old, crackled, and a pop spatter look to blend the clips to together to make them look like they all belong to one specific time point. I’ll also try and use coloured filter to show that some parts are in the present time and black and white to show that some is to be in the past.

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How is Hero an Art Movie?

Question 1:
Hero could be considered an art movie by one, the movie is very focused on the dream of Nameless, who wants to assassinate the King of Qin. Another way Hero shows that  it could be an art movie is by having the scenes made in mixed order, so the sequences of the movie don't have an exact start, middle, and end. The last way Hero could be an art movie is the tone of the movie is serious and not to be taken as funny or in a comical way.

Question 2:
How the director made Hero a movie for everyone is by having the viewer somehow wanting to see what happens next by leaving a mini cliff like hanger at the end of the three different stories of the King's three greatest enemies. Also, the director has the fighting scenes made in an interesting way and not just straight forward and have lots of blood and gore like things happen, instead the fighting in a way was peaceful and mystifying. Another way the director made the movie for everyone is by having the movie made in a way that the historic parts in the movie weren't boring and didn't drag on.

Question 3:
I really loved the movie Hero. Why I liked the movie was for one I love foreign language movies, so Hero was a very enjoyable movie for me. Also I liked how the movie was made and it to me was very well thought out and planned. Another reason why I liked the movie was the use of colours, like in the scene where Broken Sword and Flying Snow is at the King's palace fighting him surrounded by drapes the colour of green.

Question 4:
How Zhang Yimou made the colours emphasized in the scene where Broken Sword and Flying Snow are attacking the King is by having the drapes in green a very key aspect part in that scene by having Broken Sword dressed in green to match the drapes so he could hide in among them when he was fighting the King and made the king in a way panic because he couldn't find Broken Sword til he stepped out from behind them. Also the colour green in Chinese means many different things and one of the means is patience vs anger and to me patience is the King and anger is Broken Sword. Another way that the colour green was used effectively in the attack scene was sensitivity, both Broken Sword and Flying Snow were very sensitive during this because both wanted the King assassinated for all the wrong he has done.

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