Film Studies Group Project 1935

 

Title: Partition de l'amour (partition of love)

 

Studio: MGM. We chose MGM because the studio is known for its sex appeal and glamour which shines in our film.

 

Genre: Drama

 

Main Actress: Greta Garbo. We chose Greta because she was one of the highest paid actresses at the time and we needed someone who would succeed at a difficult role. She was also involved with MGM.

 

Main Actor: Robert Montgomery. We chose Robert because his first film ever was with MGM and he as nominated for 2 Oscars, so he is pretty well-known.

 

Supporting Actress: Leila Hyams. We chose Leila because she works for MGM and the role is not too big so she can handle it.

 

Director: Clarence Brown. Clarence is an American film director and he worked with Greta Garbo on multiple films so he knows her really well. Also, he was involved with MGM.

 

Publicist: Irving Thalberg

 

Make-up Artist: William J. Tuttle. Tuttle is the "master of make-up" for MGM Studios and he has spent 15 years doing make-up for famous actors and actresses. We needed an experienced make-up artist for our movie because of the women in the film.

 

MYST POST #1: Fight Club

                             Fight Club 

       "This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time."

David Fincher brings us Fight Club (1999), which stars Edward Norton and Brad Pitt. Edward Norton plays the narrator, who works as a product recall specialist for a car company. Because of the stress of his job, he begins to suffer from recurring insomnia.The narrator then meets Tyler Durden and both men find that they enjoy fighting so they move in together and establish a "fight club", drawing numerous men with similar desires and put on fighting matches. (Spoiler!) Towards the end of the movie, Norton figures out that he really is "Tyler Durden" and the Tyler that he has been seeing is really a hallucination. He was suffering from multiple personality disorder. 

Trailer for Fight Club: 

https://www.youtube.com/watchv=J8FRBYOFu2w

When this film was first released, apparently it "failed" at the box office. This movie is somewhat hard to follow and may be almost disturbing at some points. 

I chose the focus on the opening scene of the film. The movie starts with all the focus on the narrator. As we meet Jack we have little information as to what is happening or who Tyler is, or why he would be holding a gun in Jack's mouth. Regardless, this type of opening grabs our attention and instantly invests us in what is happening because we want to understand what we are seeing. 

The scene where Jack flips through the pages of the magazine in his apartment, the pages come alive and pieces of furniture appear around him, complete with price tags. The visual effects in this scene are unreal. The visual effects sequence places Jack inside the advertisements themselves. He is trying to live a life that he has seen in advertising.

Jack's voice-over throughout the film, especially in the beginning of the film, really helps to inform and keep the viewer focused. "Without the voice-over," Fincher stated, "the film would be far more depressing and disturbing to watch.