Film Concepts

       Realism is the interest and concern for the actual or real, a tendency to view or represent things as they really are. This term pretty much means giving us a completely true example of how things actually are. This is showcased in Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter, which in my eyes best portrays realism in a film. The movie gives the perfect example of showing everything exactly how it is. Antirealism an interest in or concern for the abstract, speculative, or fantastic. This term is best characterized as an altered form of reality that does not necessarily have to be formed through the expectations of the real world as we belong.  An example of this could be Donnie Darko. I feel this is true for this film, because it starts out pretty normal with a regular suburban teenager, but then the completely skewed world of Donnie’s is formed. Verisimilitude is the concept of achieving a film that combines both the realistic and antirealistic together into an extremely convincing appearance of the truth. It involves a clear concept of realism that includes extremely convincing, yet very unreal aspects of antirealism. This to me is best portrayed in the Titanic. In this film, they have the real ship disaster mixed with fantasy and romance making this a great example of a very skewed reality.

The amazing genre of Film Noir is classic American thriller. Mainly based off novels, these hardcore detective movies will give you entertainment through out the film. These dark films always have two certain types of characters in each film. The main character is normally a very strong willed detective who is more of an anti- hero. The story often takes place following this character on his journey through the movie trying to figure out exactly what is going on. Then there is the female Fatale is almost every Film Noir. This character is always a beautiful, deceptive, and empowering woman. She always tends to make the anti-hero detective fall in love and then at the last minute flip everything around in his world. This character makes for an extremely engaging story and an awesome ending in almost all of these films. These two characters are classic Film Noir and make the genre truly unique.