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Act I The Hook Diarios de Motocicleta was directed by Walter Salles and published in 2004. Before it begins to tell the story, it gives the viewers the quotation of Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, who is well known as revolutionaries, “This isn’t a tale of heroic feats. It’s about two lives running parallel for a while with common aspiration and similar dreams.” Moreover, as soon as this quotation disappears, Ernesto Guevara comes out and tells his plan about traveling South America. The quo… Continue

Four choices the director made in The Sound of Music The director of The Sound of Music, Robert Wise, used 4 strategies to develop as great movie. First, Robert introduced the setting of the film by some camera techniques such as long shots and left-to-right pan. Long shot with slow movement of left-to-right pan through the clouds and cross the valleys and Alps mountains illustrates Austria where the setting of The Sound of Music clearly, beautifully and peacefully. After showing… Continue

In "Blood Diamond" , the director, Edward Zwick, well illustrated the settings of the peaceful Africa before the war by using several techniques of camera. In the first shot, the main character, Solomon Vandy(Dijimon Hounsou), is introduced by medium shot. The director used fade in to show the character's appearance more detailed and also indicates that the morning is comming. And then, the director used few shots to introduce the family members of Solomon Vandy. This scene makes the view… Continue