Axel+Budtron

Modern Times was filmed in 1936 by the greatly skilled and socio-politically conscious Charles Chaplin. Modern Times focused on the economic hardships of the time, The Great depression was on, and radicalist labor organizers were at large, as is shown in the movie. Chaplin is infinitely frustrated in the film because of constant strikes by the labor organizers keeping him out of work, and his lady friend is plagued by charges of vagrancy because of the poor economic situation. It transcends time and penetrates the hearts of viewers easily, by communicating the hardships of recession, which happen inevitably even in OUR modern times, due to the cyclical nature of the economy. The Godfather, from Mario Puzi.

The lord of the Rings, from hobbitdom Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, By George Lucas and Steven Spielberg

Snow White, From your kindly Disney Overlords

Sunrise, presumably from the natural workings of the solar system and earths orbit The General, From Buster Keaton

VOCABULARIANISMS

Bookends - Using the same shot to open/close the movie

Lightning mix - Mixin' it up wit da lightning

Symbolism - The use of a scene/object/whatever to be a symbol of/represent something else

Chiaroscuro - artistic use of light and SHADE

Wipe - transition from scene to scene

MacGuffin - An excuse to be telling a story that intrigues the viewer

Forced perspective - using distance from camera to object to impose a false sense of the object's actual size

Dissolve - transition where the screen dissolves, like a nazi face in a groundbreaking adventure film

Deep focus - A type of camera shot that keeps things from

Film within a film - exactly what it sounds like.

Subjective camera - Camera is like eyes on a humanoid

Narrative structure - the structure of the narrative

Censorship - not allowing things to be shown/depicted for moral reasons and such.