The document discusses Clive Owen's role in the stage play and film versions of Closer. Owen originated the role of Dan in the play, which had a different ending than the film. Owen and Natalie Portman won Golden Globes for their roles in the film. The document also provides background on the differences between story and plot, and discusses various filmmaking techniques like symbols, motifs, and points of view.
1. Closer
Clive Owen originated and played the role of Dan (Jude Law’s
character) in the stage play
The ending of the play was changed for the film.
The original ending shows Dan and Anna talking about how
Alice was hit by a car and killed.
Owen and Portman won Golden Globes for their roles.
7. The screenplay is the skeleton of the film
the inner thoughts of the character are often omitted
8. A figurative technique: “An artistic
device that suggests abstract ideas
through comparison, either implied or
overt” (Gianetti)
9. Motif: so much a part of the film
(almost) an invisible symbol
10. Motif: so much a part of the film
(almost) an invisible symbol
A Motif: technique/object: that is
repeated and doesn’t call too much
attention itself
18. First person: Narrator tells personal story (the entire
film is seldom told this way)
Omniscient point of view: narrators are not
participants (all-knowing observers)
19. First person: Narrator tells personal story (the entire
film is seldom told this way)
Omniscient point of view: narrators are not
participants (all-knowing observers)
Third person: a nonparticipating narrator tells the story
from the consciousness of a single character
20. First person: Narrator tells personal story (the entire
film is seldom told this way)
Omniscient point of view: narrators are not
participants (all-knowing observers)
Third person: a nonparticipating narrator tells the story
from the consciousness of a single character
Objective point of view: does not enter the
consciousness of any character
22. Literature into Film
Three types of literature to film adaptation
1.Loose: an idea , situation or character used
from source
23. Literature into Film
Three types of literature to film adaptation
1.Loose: an idea , situation or character used
from source
2.Faithful: attempt to re-create/ as close to
original as possible
24. Literature into Film
Three types of literature to film adaptation
1.Loose: an idea, situation or character used
from source
1.Faithful: attempt to re-create/ as close to
original as possible
2.Literal: usually restricted to plays and
subtler in their modifications
29. NON-FICTION FILM
- Early Lumiére films basic documentary
- Recordings of actual events
- No actors, no screenplay
30. NON-FICTION FILM
- Early Lumiére films basic documentary
- Recordings of actual events
- No actors, no screenplay
-However, they lacked any type complex narrative
34. MODERN DOCUMENTARIES
- Deal with real people
- Places and events
- No actors, no screenplay
-Documentarians like fiction filmmakers superimpose a
narrative structure over the footage
Can a documentary tell the TRUTH?
35. • 500 Days of Summer
• dir Mark Webb (2009)
• Joseph-Gordon Levitt
• as Tom
• Zooey Deschanel
• as Summer
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