Roger Deakins

While directors are more likely to be household names, that doesn’t change the fact that there are several notable cinematographers as well. Roger Deakins is among many that deserve recognition, and has been a part of several projects such as “No Country for Old Men”, “Skyfall”, and “Sicario”. Deakins is also known for his work with the Coen brothers and Denis Villeneuve. While directors and actors are likely the first to be remembered by name for their work on films, the cinematographer’s work is

Roger Deakins is a cinematographer who is well known for his work on award-winning films that include Fargo, The Shawshank Redemption, No Country for Old Men, A Beautiful Mind, True Grit, and more. He has earned nine academy award nominations on his work. He has also partnered with the Coen brothers. Roger Deakins studied at Bath Academy of Art and then extended his education later on and went to study at the National Film School. He started out as a still photographer, but went on into the motion

Locked up for a murder he did not commit, that is the situation Tim Robbin’s character Andy Dufresne was experiencing in The Shawshank Redemption. After befriending a fellow inmate named Ellis “Red” Redding, played by Morgan Freeman, they spend twenty years together in prison. During this time, Andy and Red encounter many obstacles, including a feeling of hopelessness. Contrary to what they may feel, hope is how they endure this time. The Shawshank Redemption was adapted by Frank Darabont from a

Final Film Critique Richard Hogan ENG 225: Introduction to Film October 25, 2011 Final Film Critique Introduction The movie, The Shawshank Redemption (1994), is based on a character Andy Dufresne. Andy is a young and successful banker who is sent to Shawshank Prison for murdering his wife and her secret lover. His life is changed drastically upon being convicted and being sent to prison. He is sent to prison to serve a life term. Over the 20-years in prison, Andy retains optimism

Rosalind Harrell Film 1010 Final Paper American Violence – A Critical Film Analysis of No Country For Old Men A violent contract killer, a blue-collar welder, and a weary sheriff are all players in the ensemble No Country for Old Men. The Coen Brothers adaptation of the novel written by Cormac McCarthy is a multi-genre, visual buffet about a man’s strength of will and dedication. It’s about death, fate and American violence. It is set in 1980 and centers around the chaos of questionable

The auteur theory is best described as a director taking the role of author. Auteur comes from a French word, meaning author or originator. Just as a reader can detect patterns in written works of the same author, viewers can detect patterns in films directed by the same director(s), if they’re auteurists. They control as many aspects of the film as they can in order to fully embed it with their vision. The Coen brothers do just that; they, down to the writing of the script, work to control many

Analyzing Shawshank Redemption Crystal Gayle Frapp January 31, 2014 Analyzing Shawshank Redemption The film that will be analyzed and discussed is the Shawshank Redemption, which was Director by Frank Darabont and is a Story by Stephen King. It is based in 1946, a man named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of killing his wife and her lover, and him going to prison and dealing with the struggles of prison life as a truly innocent man. . “He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank

Discovering meaning in anything throughout one’s life is completely subjective to the individual. The same can be said about films. Not one person will be affected in the exact same way as another just by viewing the same film. The complexities of individuality create a bank of receptors to be reached by creative minds; at times they are successful and other times they are not. Films are filled with a variety of meanings that can easily conflict with one another. In 1996, Ethan and Joel Coen created

The film O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a reinterpretation of the epic poem The Odyssey. The Coen brothers, writers and directors of the film, did not over analyze their representation. “It just sort of occurred to us after we’d gotten into it somewhat that it was a story about someone going home, and sort of episodic in nature, and it kind of evolved into that,” says Joel Coen in Blood Siblings, “It’s very loosely and very sort of unseriously based on The Odyssey” (Woods 32). O Brother, Where

GE3401 – TB2 Exploring English Cinema Scene Analysis “Scattering Donny’s Ashes” Scene in The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1998) Student Name: Fan Ho Nga, Gloria Student ID: 52948216 “Scattering Donny’s Ashes” Scene in The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1998) The Big Lebowski (1998) by the Coen Brothers is no doubt a comedy film about friendships between three bowling buddies with differing personalities who met and stuck together as friends by choice in Los Angeles