Essay #2
Contrast Paper
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Topic:
Choose a movie that has been remade. A remake is when the story and elements of plot are identical to the original.
Do not choose Psycho.
Do not choose animated movies please.
You will then contrast the two films. Find a different area of contrast for each body paragraph. You might choose characters, theme, dialog, mood, cinematography or any other element of the films that seems different between when the first version and the next. Make sure you put the differences in social context.
What I mean by this is that you will find out how the time the films were shot affected the content of the film. Films shot in the 60s might have a rebellious nature. What was happening at the time each film was shot? How does that influence the final film.
It should be at least five paragraphs, between 5-7 pages long (do not write under three pages under any circumstances), and it will be due Monday June 24th.
I expect three sources per body paragraph (three pieces of research included in each). What kind of research? Let’s say that you believe that weather is an important factor in the remake of a certain war movie. Is there any research that can be done on the ways weather is created on set? Are there mistakes made in different kinds
of climates? Is it harder to shoot film in rain? Is it harder to shoot digital? Are there books written by soldiers that
include weather as a topic? Is there a psychology to weather? Very often this will be from a newspaper, journal, or published books. Each source should have an author, no quote pages or web pages with no names attached.
No use of first or second person is permitted in this paper.
It should be double-spaced 12-point font is required.
Begin the paper with a quote, stat or anecdote.
No Wikipedia or any other pedia.
Late papers will not be accepted.
This is a paper that makes us look at films in a different light. Instead of the common metric that is used in society where we are always looking for things that we like and don’t like, this assignment asks us to find the differences between two productions of the “same” film. Can two works of art really be the same? No, but a remake of a film should be an interesting challenge to find substantial difference. This paper has completed this task very well. I see the clear topic sentences that indicate difference between the film. The support is consistent and used throughout the paper. The level of scholarship of the support is not completely even, but I see enough here to say that you know how to use academic support well. The paper is the right length. It is complete. There are interesting social influences brought up during the paper regarding the differences in the film. I believe the word that is used in film (and other artistic productions) is bravo. 🙂
