Classic Movie "Sunrise"

Movie: Sunrise(A Song Of Two Humans)

Staring: Lon Chaney, Mary Pickford, Clara Bow

Director: F.W. Murnau

The classic romantic movie ever. When I watched it I found this movie is a masterpiece. I liked it and recommend it to watch....

"Once picked in Cahiers du Cinema as ‘the most beautiful film in the world,’ Sunrise remains a virtual motherlode of expressive silent movie-making techniques. While the story is bone simple, its telling is anything but. With his gracefully floating camera, montages, dissolves and multiple-imaging, Murnau creates a world of suggestive visual poetry that exists somewhere between dramatic enactment and idealized fantasy."

That’s Geoff Pevere in the Toronto Star, referring to F. W. Murnau’s melodrama Sunrise (aka Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans), made for Fox in 1927. In the film, female Human Janet Gaynor (wearing a godawful blond wig) plays the country girl whose beloved male Human (George O’Brien) is seduced by an Inhuman city vamp (Margaret Livingston).

Many find this tale of lust, love, sorrow, and ultimate redemption (the happy ending was insisted upon by the studio) one of the greatest films of all time. I’ve seen it three times, and — despite several good moments, Charles Rosher and Karl Struss‘ poetic lenses, and Murnau’s camera virtuosity — I’ve never been able to warm up to either the characters or the storyline. Personally, if I were O’Brien, I’d definitely have dumped Janet Gaynor for sultry Margaret Livingston. (True, I wouldn’t have tried to strangle Gaynor, though I’d most likely have set her wig on fire.)

Janet Gaynor, one of the biggest stars of the 1920s and 1930s, could be quite appealing — Lucky Star and Street Angel come to mind — but I find her performance in Sunrise to be more than a little cloying. She and the usually likable George O’Brien are supposed to be archetypes, but they — and Livingston’s vamp — come across as one-dimensional stereotypes. Whenever that happens, the meanies usually have the upper hand, as stereotypical goodness tends to be insufferably dull.

At the very first Academy Awards ceremony, Sunrise won three awards: Best Actress (Gaynor, who also won for Street Angel and 7th Heaven), Best Cinematography (unfortunately, the currently available restored print of Sunrise still looks like the dupe of a dupe of a dupe — the original nitrate print is apparently lost), and Unique and Artistic Picture. That was the only time the "Unique and Artistic Picture" award, basically a "best art-house film award," was handed out. Sunrise reportedly won in that category because MGM head Louis B. Mayer, one of the Academy founding members, refused to allow his studio’s downbeat money-loser The Crowd to win. (Or so later said The Crowd director, King Vidor – whose film, in my opinion, should indeed have won.)

About Class Detail

Class is about:
This class is about how to interpret a Text. Analyzing the text in this course some major point are also discussed. Like Denotation, Connotation, Myth, Representation, Men and Women in the Media, Power and Knowledge etc

My Knowing in this Course:
Text is a combination of image and word. Which I realized from this course. Word analyzing is not that much difficult but image analyzing so difficult. we can analyze an image in so many ways. An image can have different denotation, connotation, Signifier, Signified so that, it is very difficult to interpret. But in this course we learn some technique by which we can analyze the text.

Genre

Favorite Movie:


http://www.impawards.com/1981/gods_must_be_crazy.html

The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)

Director: Jamie Uys
Writer: Jamie Uys (writer)
Genre:
Action, Comedy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080801/


https://www.allposters.com/-sp/Spider-Man-Posters_i2622495_.htm

Spiderman(USA)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi and Thriller
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145487/


http://www.filmjabber.com/movie/details/1480/photos/1/

Around the World in 80 Days
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Director: Frank Coraci
Writer: David Titcher, Tim McCanlies, Steven Peros
Cast: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Cecille de France, Jim Broadbent, Kathy Bates, John Cleese, Sammo Hung, Johnny Knoxville, Ian McNiece, Karen Mok, Rob Schneider, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wim Wenders, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Richard Branson
http://www.filmjabber.com/movie/preview/1480/


Favorite Books:


https://www.allposters.com/-sp/Spider-Man-Posters_i2622495_.htm

The Old Man and The Sea
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Country: United States
Language: English
Genre: Tragedy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea

Gora
By Rabindranath Tagore
Genre: Political, Romantic, Logical

Garvadharini
By Shomoresh Majumder
Genre: Young Fantasy, Thriller

Colonialism

Definition of Colonialism:
Colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another. One of the difficulties in defining colonialism is that it is difficult to distinguish it from imperialism. Frequently the two concepts are treated as synonyms. Like colonialism, imperialism also involves political and economic control over a dependent territory. Turning to the etymology of the two terms, however, provides some suggestion about how they differ. The term colony comes from the Latin word colonus, meaning farmer. This root reminds us that the practice of colonialism usually involved the transfer of population to a new territory, where the new arrivals lived as permanent settlers while maintaining political allegiance to their country of origin. Imperialism, on the other hand, comes from the Latin term imperium, meaning to command. Thus, the term imperialism draws attention to the way that one country exercises power over another, whether through settlement, sovereignty, or indirect mechanisms of control. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/colonialism/

Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory beyond its borders by the establishment of either settler or exploitation colonies in which indigenous populations are directly ruled, displaced, or exterminated. Colonizing nations generally dominate the resources, labor, and markets of the colonial territory, and may also impose socio-cultural, religious, and linguistic structures on the indigenous population (see also cultural imperialism). It is essentially a system of direct political, economic, and cultural intervention and hegemony by a powerful country in a weaker one. Though the word colonialism is often used interchangeably with imperialism, the latter is sometimes used more broadly as it covers control exercised informally (via influence) as well as formal military control or economic leverage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism

Image of Colonialism:

http://www.ralphmag.org/DH/lions.html


http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/history/bi/hst388-thomas/


http://www.flagshipgames.com/RampantColonialism.htm


http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/black_imagery_gallery_04.shtml


http://www.easternct.edu/personal/faculty/mcneilk/Victoriansyll.html


http://www.chopra.com/files/images/british.jpg

Power Vs Knowledge

Power and knowledge always related to each other. In our society we always see how knowledge use power as a weapon. One the other hand power holders are also controlling the knowledgeable or wisdom person for their own purpose. So, power and knowledge are inter-related.

In the 14th December 1971 Pakistan wanted to killed all the intellectual people of our country. It was a last attempt by an occupation army to leave a nation they had been unable to subdue, crippled intellectually and culturally. They think Knowledge is the only things which can be a protection of Bengali people. If we Destroy it then Bangladesh will be powerless country and we'll be winner. But they were not gain because of mass people of Bangladesh. Although Bengal people have no knowledge power at all, but they have unity and these unity become the power for the them.

Pakistan used their knowledge as well as their power over the people of Bangladesh. They did it because authority was in favor of them and it was the inspiration for used their knowledge for their erroneous entity of Pakistanies are into this country.

Human nature is like that, they always tried to use knowledge as a weapon or power. For that reason knowledge and power become contradictory issue for each other. If knowledge used for to do good things or invent somethings then again it become an weapon or power.


http://www.movieposterdb.com/poster/9f9d4fca

As we see in the movie "Enemy of the State", power comes through the knowledge and also knowledge is used by the power. In this movie when we see the hero Will Smith become a doll of agencies when agencies had the power. After that Will Smith gain the knowledge and he became a powerful man. Now he has the weapon or power which can help him to protect himself and able to destroy agency bureaucratic network.

Stereotype of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

The thing ‘Stereotype’ depend on time, situation and also place. Sometimes it can influence and comes through the religious point of view, country and status. The representation of black people in advertising and commercial products has changed over the past century in west. But in East it also appears in a different way, mainly it shows on the advertisement. How black people have been portrayed in every day objects and how that representation has changed with society and the people who act on it. People also think that way what the way has media present to them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/02/uk_black_representation_in_advertising/html/1.stm

A news story is influenced by the attitudes and backgrounds of the reporters, photographers and editors who select and edit the images and information they offer us. A photographer or a reporter or the editor what think in their mind that is reflect in the report which they did.


Stereotype of India:

India a country where traditional stereotypes and emphasis on marital status is important fact. India has a lot of prejudices about women, culture and their day to day life. The traditional stereotype of a woman is slowly changing though as western culture influences the Indian mindset and the urban Indian mindset more specifically. But as we think in our mind first we can recall that Indians are more patriotic for their country. Whatever they do in Cricket, Movie and other sector always they try to relate their country in their every work.
http://duckdown.blogspot.com/2007/09/george-p-alexander-diversity-and-india_17.html

In our country the Muslim and the Hindu people has quite different connotation in their mind about India. Some Muslims are in our country think that, Indian people are conservative to their Hinduism and they don’t like Muslims. Indian people are very much selfish they have no hospitality to their neighbor etc. But Hindu people in our country always try to say about India in very positive way. But I think India has a very good platform to live Hindu and Muslims all together very friendly, but sometimes it is hampered by some people who actually don’t like their country.

Indian people are very much conscious about their tradition, heritage and their resources. India is more advance in terms of technology, education, economy etc.

Stereotype of Pakistan:

http://www.pakistanlink.com/images/Entertainment/12.jpg

This is a positive image of Pakistan which actually use for tourist attraction but people from other country don't think in this way.

Pakistan is a country which has very conservative Islamic minded people who are involve with so many Dogma and Prejudice. That's why they were barbaric in 1971 in our country. Muslim militant are very strong in Pakistan they are involve with mass destruction around the country. There has so many historical place in Pakistan but they are not aware of it. Terrorism activity and some evidence shows that it has many terrorist who involve with terrorism.


Stereotype of Bangladesh:

Bangladesh is a village oriented, liveried green developing country which has a long historical movement for its emerge. The Bangladeshi people are very friendly and they love to enjoy their life. Bangladesh stands on a very strong cultural value and it has a rich cultural identity. Bangladeshi people are very much emotional which sometimes cause of their aggressiveness.

Although these stereotype comes from only my mind but it also create by our social structure, time, history and off course media what they present about the country and its people. This concept not only in mine but there are so many people has in our country who has the same perspective about these country.

Different meaning of the symbol 'Swastika'

A word has no any individual meaning on it, when people use it for their different purposes then the words change it’s connotation. For example, the sign ‘Ok’

is use for something measure to right in west but its have a vary bad connotaion in our country. This is how the way a symbol can change its connotative meaning.

The symbol ‘Swastika’

has also used for over 3,000 years in different region with different conotaion. Eastern countries are used this symbol with a positive purspective (from the religious view) but in west it used in a different way.

For Buddhists and Hindus, the swastika is a very religious symbol that is commonly used. These conflicting meanings are causing problems in today's society. The swastika has also different name in different country like-

Ø China – wan

Ø England - fylfot

Ø Germany - Hakenkreuz

Ø Greece - tetraskelion and gammadion

Ø India – swastika etc.

The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit svastika - "su" meaning "good," "asti" meaning "to be," and "ka" as a suffix. But its a indian concept of using the word swastika but if we look into west thinking then the meaning will change because of its uses.

West has also used the swastika in many for many good reason throughout the past 3,000 years to represent life, sun, power, strength, and good luck. Even in the early twentieth century, the swastika was still a symbol with positive connotations.

For instance, the swastika was a common decoration that often adorned cigarette cases, postcards, coins, and buildings. During World War I, the swastika could even be found on the shoulder patches of the American 45th Division and on the Finnish air force until after World War II.

But when Nazis used this symbol for Nazis' national flag, the swastika soon became a symbol of hate, antisemitism, violence, death, and murder.

Source:

http://images.google.com.bd/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nsm88.org/merchandise/patches/patch-swastika.jpg
http://www.white-history.com/hwr5d_files/hitswas.jpeg
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/swastika/a/swastikahistory.htm