Exam 2 American film Culture

According to the “Ultimate Guide to Film Composition and Framing,” what is the difference between color and tone?

Color is about color while tone references the brightness and contrast within an image

How does “Composition in Storytelling” define composition at its most basic level?

how the elements inside the frame are positioned and exhibited to the viewer

Fill in the blank. According to Hitchcock, the size of the object in the frame ….

should equal its importance in the story in that given time

According to Roger Deakins, the best indication off successful cinematography is that …

it goes unnoticed by the viewers

Visual non-diegetic elements include

title cards and captions

Three examples of non-diegetic sound named in the video on sound are

narration, soundtrack, sound effects

In “Masters of Cinema,” what qualities does the narrator ascribe to Kubrick’s films?

they span many genres, aggressive, perfectionist

A point of contention arises around Brazil’s running time. What rationale is offered as to why running time matters to the studio?

current length restricts number of theaters showtimes for exhibitors

Gilliam attempts to screen the film for students at USC. What complicating factor derails

the screening?

students advertise the screening, Gilliam is mobbed by fans, the film reels don’t arrive on time

In Richard Corliss’s “Happy Ending for a Nightmare,” he says of the world portrayed in

Brazil, that “[E]very romantic impulse is stifled by the system’s suffocating

incompetence.” What example of this incompetence does he provide?

the elevator won’t stop when Sam spots Jill

Bernstein discusses Kubrick’s performance as a student. What does he report?

Kubrick was an indifferent student / school misfit

What did Kubrick dream of as a career before he took up photography?

jazz drumming

How did Kubrick’s early films, The Day of the Fight, Fear and Desire and Killer’s Kiss

perform in terms of box office?

he didn’t profit from any of them

According to Berstein, how did Kubrick come to direct Spartacus?

Kirk Douglas suggested him as a replacement for Anthony Mann

In reading all he could find about strategies of nuclear conflict, what did Kubrick discover?

all of the strategies ended in paradox

How did Berstein come to meet Kubrick?

Arthur C. Clarke introduced them

Berstein discusses the number of hours Kubrick and Clarke spend writing in comparison to the run time of the finished film—what is the ratio of one to the other?

20-1

According to Berstein, Kubrick referred to the model-building studio at Boreham Wood

Studios as

Santa’s workshop

Berstein reports on Kubrick using a polaroid camera to

check subtle lighting effects

Agel quotes Kubrick on his approach to trimming 2001 after its first screenings. What motivated Kubrick’s cuts?

his own sense of what works after seeing the first screening

Agel quotes Kubrick on his logic for using Strauss’s Blue Danube waltz for the first

sequence in space in 2001. Kubrick claims he used it because

it beautifully illustrates grace and beauty in turning, and it escapes cliches of “space music”

Agel discusses casting for the man-apes, claiming the actors cast needed to be quite thin. Why?

so they didn’t look like humans stuffed into ape suits, and because the man-apes are supposed to be starving

Kubrick and his crew ran a computer model to see how long it might take them to

manufacture the costumes for the man-apes. What result did the model return?

9 years

In a statement from F.C. Durant of the National Air and Space Museum, Durant comments that building machine intelligences that have sensory and emotional capacity would likely result in

neurotic machine intelligences

Clarke describes the diet of the man-apes as consisting of

lizards, roots, and berries

Clarke names the one delicacy available to the man-apes as

Honeycomb

What does Clarke have to say about the outcome of previous skirmishes between the two tribes of man-apes?

their thick hair and lack of claws limits injury, and dominance alternated between the two tribes

What does Clarke name as the outer limit of life-expectancy for the man-apes.

30

Why do the man-apes decide the monolith is of no importance to them?

they could not eat it, and it could not eat them

When the monolith first probes one of the members of Moon-Watcher’s tribe, what does it push the man ape to attempt?

tie a knot