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According to the Crash Course video, Why do cinema audiences end up with "only reboots and dystopian fantasies"? Hollywood is driven by trends and the success of one film or genre inspires the others. According to the Crash Course video, what is Classical Hollywood Cinema? A  particular style of filmmaking where he stories were chaste, formulaic and mostly upbeat. What is high key lighting and who uses it? A flat generic form of lighting that ensured the entire image was clearly visible. What happened in the European Film Industry after WW2? Italian Neo-Realism was created. Who was Roberto Rosellini and what did he do? A filmmaker who was a working director before the war and started shooting as soon as the fighting ended. Which film movement was he associated with? Italian Neo-realism What happened in the late 1950s in France? A  group of opinionated young film lovers started writing for a movie magazine called 'Cahiers du cinema', What did critics of the S

David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King

'Selma' Star talks about long path to becoming Martin Luther King Jr. Portraying Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma has been a 7 year journey for British actor David Oyelowo. The project was directed by Ava DuVernay , who had two small independent films to her name.The Selma script had been on the 2006 blacklist and it was a very highly rated script. When Oyelowo read the script, he described it as deeply spiritual and he felt as if God told him that he is going to play this role. He explains that it was bit confusing due to the fact that he is a British actor who had recently moved to the US and that he strongly felt like he was going to play the role of the most significant African-American figure of the 20th century. The original director didn't see Oyelowo as being Martin Luther King (MLK) which Oyelowo felt confused about but then the project fell apart with that director. The project had been passed around to several directors and Oyelowo had started to lose hop

Selma (Bridge Scene #2)~Microfeature Analysis

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