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Rosetta Bailey
Dr. Joyce Rheuban
American Film
26 April 2010

Sunrise Paper
I will prove that the director F.W Marnau, somewhat portrays the movie, Sunrise, as a vampire story through the qualities he gives to the Antagonist and the film’s lighting.
In the film, the Antagonist’s appearance is vampire-like. The character who’s called the city woman plays a prominent role in the film. She is the other woman in the film. She’s the one that tries to convince the husband to kill his wife. The city woman skin is very pale. Her eyes were evil. She had sharp and somewhat curved nails. All of these things are characteristic of vampires.
The director indicates through the character behavior that she is a vampire. The entire film she‘s always wearing black clothing. Black clothing is associated with death. The Antagonist was very aggressive towards the husband. Even when the husband tried to resent her, she came on stronger. The man even smacked her and it only aroused her even more. She forced the man to do something that his conscious knew was totally wrong. The man didn’t understand how this woman possessed a certain hold over him. It is evident that the moon’s reflexion turns her on even more. From folklore we are aware that the moon is one of the vampire’s driven forces.
The part of the title of the film which states the “the tale of two humans”, is the one of the main forces behind the movie. The statement means that the wife and city woman are total opposites from each other. The wife is shy, childlike in a sense, and a committed housewife. The wife does her share of work on the farmer. She also appears to be depressed, because the husband doesn’t spend any time with her. However she keep spend her emotions inside. She probably of what the husband is doing, but never once did she bring it to his attention. She is a conservative woman who doesn’t even where makeup.
The shoot when the husband is in the bed room looking at his wife while she feeding the animals, and he starts to visualize the woman. This is an example of Super impression. Also how he told the city told him to kill his wife came to his image. The lighting of the shot at the lake sets the tone of a vampire movie. The light is dark. The camera is forced on the moon. The man and the Antagonist is shot long range medium key. The camera comes in for a close up as the couple kisses.
The contrast in the movie of the wife and the city woman demonstrates the difference between good and evil in the man’s character. He’s faced with an inner conflict whether to kill his wife or not. In the church shot he asks the wife to forgive, because that was like the person who tried to kill her on the boat wasn’t really him at all. That other person even scared him. The wife is a forgive woman, so she forgives husband and then they go off to the city together. They are so into their renewed love, they can’t even see the traffic.
In the sequence at the barbershop it looks as if the city woman is deliberately trying to make the wife jealous as she asks the man if he wanted a manicure .Also the barber is trying to take the husband attention of the wife as another man was trying to approach her. It looks like the barber was working along with the city woman. I believe that he was a vampire too. The barber and the Antagonist probably attentionally had that man in the suit to come and distract the wife. However what they were trying to do didn’t work. It just argued the husband more. Another example that the barber appeared to be a vampire to me was when he was using the razor to shave the husband face he look like he want to cut him and make him bleed. The barber was pale looking just like the city woman. Vampires need blood to survive. That is probably why the woman wanted the wife died so she can live off of her blood.
Another prime example that he’s under the city woman’s spell is that when he arrives home from the lake. The first thing we are shown as viewers is the large spider web. This can be an indication that the city woman has a certain hold over him. He was trying to fight the lust and temptation he was feel, however this vampire was too strong for him to fight off.
The sequence on the boat, various shots shown us the viewers the inner struggle that the man was faced with about killing his wife. The dog in the sequence sensed that something was wrong and dived in the water in the attempted to rescue the wife from her possessed husband. Wife unaware of what was going on was in shock, when she sees her husband try to push her into the water. The wife was so happy at first, with just the thought of spending time with her husband. Eventually the husband good side that loves his wife won the inner conflict and he was unable to go through with it. When the wife and husband are traveling back home from the city on the boat, the wife is knocked overboard. This is ironic because this is how this is how the husband was supposed to kill her. Like the saying “what goes around, comes around”. The point where he realizes that he loves his wife is the same point where he may lose her.
In the lake shot the director cuts from the lake back to the house where the wife is with their child. This shot is to show us the viewers where he’s at and where he should be. There do this technique so well, through parallel editing.
In conclusion the 1927,film the Sunrise, is a story based on a vampire that is trying to stealing a man away from his wife and family for her own twisted reason, and this is made clear through her appearance, behaviors, and lighting of the file

blog 13(the rough draft of paper) sunrise

I will prove that in the movie Sunrise the director is making the city woman appear to be a vampire and the husband as if his possessed by her.
First of all I believe that the woman’s appearance plays a prominent role. The woman was very pale. There is not any color in her face. Her nails were very sharp. The woman also had evil eyes. Every time she embraces the husband, she looked as if she wanted to bite him and eat him alive. She also was very aggressive; she put herself on this married man. The husband did tried to fight her off but she was too strong. The harder he fought the more it turned this monster on.

Blog 12

For the last fifteen minute of class, I have been researching television and does it have any effect on children. I have been looking for statics that will help me in my argument. Over the weekend I'm going to try to organize my thoughts and make some sense out of what I am saying. I also need to narrow my research down and stay focus on my prompt. This weekend I will write out my rough draft

Blog 11

Today in class I determined a claim. I believe that violence on television has some inference on criminal acts that are commented; however it is not the sole reason. There are other factors that play a part. Like for example I believe that an individual’s upbringing plays an important role. I started my research on the home page, and I found some evidenced to support my claim. I use the home page of our school library. I clicked on the link to find books and articles; however when I tried to search for “factors that affect a rise in crime”,no results were to be found. I think that means I have to put my search in shorter terms. I think it would be easier for me to interview people or to get information from a book, because it a little challenge to resource off the computer. I also came up with some reasons for my claim, because there are some people that never watch television and still they commit crimes. It can also be the way the person envision reality from fiction. Another reason can be that they had violent acts oppose on them or someone they love. Look at the Chris Brown story, he claimed it was because he witnessed his mother getting abused that why he abuse his girlfriend

BLOG 10

In class today we wrote a response to another class Nings. This is a website that is similar to blogging. The other class had an assignment to choose an article and describe the article in their own words. Then I was assigned to comment on their description of the article. There were two people that I responded to.
First there was Reynaldo. Reynaldo choose an article that figured a man and woman. He viewed the article as if it was based on domestic violence, which I felt to be a sensitive topic for a male to address, however he did a good job doing it. I felt that he had a great interruption of the article. It’s also a good written reaction to the article. It had few mistakes. He was able to write it clean, where it was easy for the reader to get through. I feel like he will be a good writer, because he made it is easy to view the picture in his way. The article was also a good choice to write about. I liked the way the article appears gray. Also the fact that the male and female were attractive, because that show that can happen to anyone.
Secondly was Giselle, she chooses an article about dolls. She compared it to everyday women. I think she selected a good article. It was different from her other classmates. I like the way she describe the article. It was just a little problem with the grammar, and I told her that she is fond of the word seem. However to me it seems that she did well on the assignment. I liked the way she discusses the outfit they had on. She said that these dolls were dresses as working woman, and they were from head to toe. They were Barbie dolls, and you know as a little girl we all looked up to Barbie. Barbie had everything.
This assignment was fun to interact with another class, and to see other student’s ideas. I hope that they like it to. I also hope they take the feedback and improve on whatever it may be they have to improve on.

Blog 9

1. A thesis statement is something you own, it is your idea. It is the beginning of your essay. It helps the reader figured out is your essay even worth to read.
2. For example: The glass is greener on the other side. Now it is my job to prove to you why my statement is true. The thesis statement is essential in any essay or paper.
3. Research: It is the investigation of your claim or argument. For example: What make what I say to you the truth. It is my job to research it and convince you that my idea is true.
4. Argument: Why the other claims are false and mine is the truth. For example: We need to build a recreational center instead of the newer lunch room , because the children need that space to play. Now they have no space to play.
5. Reasons: the ideas that are the support of your claim. For example: They don’t need the lunchroom, because the one they have now was just built two years ago.
6. Evidence: something that would prove my claim. It is clear that Michael Jackson is died because his body is cold and his not moonwalking around anymore.
7. MLA Citation style. It is the places that you got all of your research for your paper. Author’s name, title of the book or website, title of article, title of periodical, volume (the amount of pgs you gathered your information from).
I believe that all of these factors are going to play an important role in the way I start my research. It will allow me to be able to organization my truth and ideas. By doing all of this steps my claim will be supported well. I gathered my information from dictionary.com and Google search

Blog 8- The reflexion of the day at the museum!

Our class went on a trip to the musuem of movable image. On this trip we learned alot about media and the way that images are displayed in society. What I find most interesting about this trip is the old video game system they had there. Like for me being a 80's baby I know how to appreciate games such as the first Nintendo system. The whole trip I was drawn to that game system, I don't know if it's because it reminded me of a better time when there weren't any bills. I love the first mario game. I also believe that in that time children really appreciate and value certain things,not like today. Back then if a children got a fifty dollar game they had a good reportcard or something. Now a days the children own aleast three game systems, which are three hundred dollars a pop. At the musuem I also enjoyed seeing the picture of the old actors like Marliyn Moore, Dorothy Dandrige, Bill cosby, and others. It was also very cool to see the old time movie cameras. I wasn't aware that the first camera was actually sharped like a gun. That was very interesting to find out. It was also cool to see actual outfit that movie stars wore in some of their films. For example they had Eddie Murphy outfit from Beverly Hills cop, that was cool to see. Sarah Jessica outfit from on of her first film,and freddy's outfit from the nightmare on Emerstreet was interesting to see. The actual fake hand that Freddy used was on display, and you can visualize that sense of fear that you apppeanced with the movie. I feel as if that what the musuem wanted to created , and the fact that you are able to feel that emotion. In a way you get the opportunity to connected with the characters without actually being there persay.
1.Why was the security so tight at the museum?
2.Why was the first camera created, sharped like a gun?
3. Why there weren't anymore costumes of more well known movies such as Star Wars or the Martix?
4. Why wasn't a tour guide there to show us around?
5.Why was the cameras created after the gun camera was so large?
6. There was a image shown of the movie the wizard of oz, why does the image look as if it were a blueray picture?
7. Why were the television and radios back then a combination?
8.Why was the flipbook so cool?
9.How is it that the people back then didn't need sound to get their ideas across?
P.S. In the same group with Ahmed and Christopher M