Alfred Hitchcock Alfred was born in London on August 13, 1899, he worked for a short time in engineering before entering the film industry during the 20s. He left for Hollywood in 1939, where his first American film, Rebecca, won an Academy Award for best picture. Hitchcock created more than 50 films, including the classics Rear Window, The 39 Steps and Psycho. He was then nicknamed the "Master of Suspense," Hitchcock received the AFI's Life Achievement Award in 1979. He died in 1980. His stylistic trademarks include the use of camera movement that mimics a person's gaze, forcing the audience to engage in a form of voyeurism (secretively, obtaining sexual gratification by looking at sexual objects or acts). In addition, he framed shots to maximise anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used innovative forms of film editing. His work often features "icy blonde" female characters. Many of Hitchcock's films have twist endings and thrilling plots featuring murder and violence. Hitchcock's films also borrow many themes from psychoanalysis and sometimes feature strong sexual overtones. He became a highly visible public figure through interviews, movie trailers, and cameo appearances in his own films, and the ten years in which he hosted the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents.Hitchcock also uses no music in some of his films as this created fear and tension on its own. The entire movie ‘The Birds’ has no music. The only thing we hear is the sound of birds. This is how the film presents itself in a subtle way that you don’t even notice that there’s no music present. It shows that music isn’t always needed to capture an audience. Christopher Nolan Born in London in 1970, Christopher Nolan began making films at the age of 7 using his father's Super-8 camera and action figures. He graduated to making films involving real people, and his Super-8 surrealistic short 'Tarantella' was shown on P.B.S.' 'image union' in 1989. Chris studied English Literature at University College London while starting to make 16-millimetre films at the college film society. His short film 'Larceny' was shown at the Cambridge Film Festival in 1996, and his other 16-millimetre shorts include a 3-minute surrealistic film called 'Doodlebug'. Narration techniques: Christopher Nolan has a very different way of presenting a movie. He screws with your memory, his movies are edited in such a way that keeps the audience on their toes at all times. Sometimes so much that it becomes difficult to understand the movie completely if you miss the first five minutes. Extremely innovative photography and editing and more importantly a non-linear sequence, except for the movie Insomnia.
The Starting In almost every Christopher Nolan movie the first scene plays a key role later on in the film, which grabs the audience attention immediately in the first few minutes. Examples in Nolan’s films are the bank robbery scene in The Dark Knight, the plane hijack in The Dark Knight Rises, and the ocean scene in Inception. Christopher doesn't believe in slowly introducing the movie, he prefers to start with a huge bang and makes the audience sit upright in their chair. The Non-Linear Storyline Normally we see movies which strictly follows the usual chronological order. First the past, then the present and lastly, the climax. But for Nolan, this had never been true. Instead he likes to break up the entire narration into pieces and scatters them throughout the movie and expects the audience to connect them or make a meaning out of them. Which he did in Insomnia or Memento, he took a simple topic and made such a mess out of it, that it is very easy for the audience to become disorientated. The Theme of the Movie
Nolan also makes sure the theme of the movie remains central and at no point is side-lined by anything else, in the movie. To do this, he relates everything happening in the movie back to the same, one thing. In The Dark Knight's case, it was the Joker or be it Bane in The Dark Knight Rises.
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