Practice Test: Film Studies

Buster Keaton <3

1. He keeps a serious face because during his younger years working with his parents, he noticed that he got a bigger laugh from the crowd when he wouldn't make a face.
2. He's like Chaplin in a way that they both do things on accident and is always the little man in the film.
3. Buster performs all his stunts without the help of special effects and film techniques.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

1. The significance of the set design is to show what state of mind the characters are in and to give us a feeling of eeriness and despair.
2. The difference of German Expressionism acting than from Hollywood was that German Expressionism was more realistic and got into emotions.
3. Lighting in the film gave us a feeling of fear and uneasiness using chiaroscuro. The scenes had a lot of shadows and used a lot of contrast between the light and dark.

Modern Times <3

1. Chaplin based his movie on the Great Depression to show how things really were and how tough it was during that time. He wanted us to see how much the machines and continuous working affected the workers.

Eisenstein

1. He also directed the movie October.
2. He uses the film to develop his theories of film structure by using intellectual montage. This was when he would edit two shots together to make some sort of comparison between them.

The Last Laugh

1. Murnau decided to use German Expressionism because at the time this style of filming was very popular due to the war that was going on.
2. The movie was made silent so that what the director was implying about that era would be told through mainly actions. This was a stronger way to get points across and show how the characters were feeling.
3. The type of lighting they used was mainly chiaroscuro. Scenes were flooded with darkness which showed how the former doorman felt about loosing his job.

Metropolis

1. False
2. Freder
3. True
4. Rotwang originally created his robot to destroy the town. He knows that everyone listens to the real Maria preach so he figured that if he made one to look like her, she could convince the town to destroy itself.
5. He changed it to look like Maria.
6. He sent the Thin Man to spy on his son.