Formal Elements in the Film, "Snowpiercer"
FOR THE PAPER OPTION: • Write a 3 or 4-page film review on a film playing in the theatres, using the terminology covered in class. • Note that you will be expected to cover significant ground and use terminology extensively (to show your grasp of the content in the first half of the semester)! • Film reviews are promotional pieces of writing; differently from film analysis papers, which are interpretive (and avoid evaluation), they evaluate films and aim to tell the audience if and why a certain film is worth seeing (Check Film Comment Links to an external site. or Roger Ebert's site Links to an external site. for shorter examples). • Mention the film's formal elements that stand out and make it worth seeing in your review. That will give you the opportunity to apply terminology. • The paper should follow essay formatting, with cohesive paragraphs. • No citations required, unless you choose to do research for your paper and use ideas from external sources. • Any forms of plagiarism will result in a grade of 0 (applicable to the assignment only).
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Film Review: Snowpiercer
Humanity's final survivors ride the Snowpiercer train through an icy wasteland in a post-apocalyptic future. In Bong Joon-ho's 2013 film "Snowpiercer," a disastrous climate experiment has plunged the planet into an ice age, stranding humanity on a train hurtling worldwide. Based on the French graphic novel "Le Transperceneige," this South Korean masterwork excels in storytelling, cinematography, production design, and social critique. This study will examine the formal elements that make "Snowpiercer" a must-see.
Background Information
"Snowpiercer," a South Korean film, was produced on a budget of $40 million and was released in South Korea and the US in 2013 and 2014 (The Numbers). It is based on Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette's "Le Transperceneige" comic book. The film's director is Bong Joon-ho, and it starred such actors as Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, Song Kang-ho, Jamie Bell, Ed Harris, Ko Asung, Ewan McGregor, and Octavia Spencer (IMDb[a]). A failed climate experiment has plunged Earth into an endless ice age in "Snowpiercer"'s dystopian planet. The final survivors of humanity live on the Snowpiercer, a massive train powered by a perpetual motion engine. Social classes aboard the train are the privileged elite at
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