1. Relate what was discussed in class or the text to the screening. The Italian film industry took shape in the early 1900's. It was not until 1913 that that Italy had become the home of the first avant-garde movement in cinema. The italian film industry strugled against rising foreign competition in the years following World War I. various film studios decided to collaborate in effort to keep the industry alive. In the the late 1940's Hollywood began to shift film production over seas. During this time the most famous names began to travel to Italy to produce films.
2. Apply the article and summarize the content.
Giuseppe Tornatore's "Cinema Paradiso," takes place in Sicily in the final years before television. There wre to main charactes who were Alfredo (Philippe Noiret) who rules the projection both, and young Salvatore (Salvatore Cascio) who makes the booth his home The young boy is amazed at how Alfredo works with the machine and how the images are projected on the screen. After many failed attempts to chase Salvatore away, the old man finally accepts him into the booth and treats him as a father.
We become familiar with some of the regular customers at the theater. They are a noisy rude critics, who shout suggestions at the screen and are scornful of heroes who do not take their advice.Romances are launched in the darkness of the theater, friendships are sealed, wine is drunk, cigarettes smoked, babies nursed, feet stomped, victories cheered, sissies whistled at, and god only knows how this crowd would react if they were ever permitted to see a kiss.
The story is told as a flashback; it begins with a prominent film director Jacques Perrin, learning in Rome that old Alfredo is dead and making a sentimental journey back to his hometown. Then we see the story of the director's childhood (portrayed by Cascio) and his teenage years. The earliest parts of the movie are the most magical. Then things grow predictable: There are not many rites of passage for an adolescent male that are not predictable and not many original ways to show the death of a movie theater, either.
3. Apply the article to the film screened in class.
I believe the article did a great job at summarizing the film. I agree that the direct did a great job with the dreamy effect to lull the viewer into a willingness to switch from a sentimental mindset to one of humor. Alfredo satisfies the unruly mob by projected images onto a whie wall. This was the main event of the own and something that people of all ages had look forward to.
4. Write a critical analysis of the film, including your personal opinion, formed as a result of the screening in class discussions, text material and the article
Cinema Paradiso reminds us that we want to be transported to a imagined lost way of life from time to time. We are also moved by glimpses of our own wants, as reflected back at us in this beautiful story of family, community, love and loss of friendship. Sometimes, it is okay to be happy with an emotional response too, and the mystery of why something moves us. It is a movie about memory, and for many generations cinema was a place to congregate, a magical place to let your imagination to run free.
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7) (x) I did nor over-use direct quotations that the paper lacks interpretation or originality.
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Name: ___Carleen Oliver______ Date:_____March 2, 2018
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