As I've watched the film about
the Hollywood style, it made me realized that there are big differences between
the Hollywood movies and the local movies. Hollywood movies, as opposed to
international films, have been defined as having unique and distinct characteristics.
These films are described as an art form necessitating a great deal of skill in
order to be created. The question is what makes a Hollywood movie a Hollywood
movie? I think the characteristics of a Hollywood movie are invisibility,
editing style, and narrative story. The Hollywood style is fundamentally built
on the principle of continuity editing or "invisible" style. That
is, the camera and the sound recording should never call attention to
themselves (as they might in films from earlier periods, other countries or in
a modernist or postmodernist work). I can say that the Hollywood
style is much more advanced in terms of technical etc. I also noticed in the
film, the Hollywood movie is continuous, since non-linearity calls attention to the illusory workings
of the medium. The only permissible manipulation of time in this format is the
flashback. It is mostly used to introduce a memory sequence of a character.
The
unifying force behind the classical Hollywood style is motivation and
conventions. In the development of the narrative every event is motivated,
follows a causal relationship. In the same way the use of cinematic style is
generally motivated by the narrative. The connection between narrative and
cinematic style is highly conventional. Due to the dominance of the style
viewers come to expect certain stylistic choices for certain narrative
situations. All of the above results in what Bordwell has called "an excessively obvious cinema,". in that it follows a set of norms,
paradigms, and standards that match and gratify viewers expectations. In other
words by the end of a classical Hollywood film answers for all questions have
been provided and one doesn't leave the cinema perplexed and startled as one
would after some New Hollywood films or European Art films.
The Hollywood style can teach us more techniques in terms of making film that
can make the viewers more interested and amazed. Many of us have watched the
Hollywood movies than the local movies because of their styles, techniques and
how they begin and ended the story. The Hollywood style draws the audience into
the story making them feel like they are taking part in the story. I would say
that a movie that has poor editing distracts the audience and pulls them
outside the story. The film we've watched about the Hollywood style helps me to
understand the styles, the way they act, the narration and etc. This made me
more interested in watching movie and understands it well.
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