FILM STUDIES

  ALICE'S RESTAURANT  Arthur Penn (1969)  Arlo Guthrie - also co-screenplay writer.  Alice. Ray.  Entrenched in the hippie culture and sitting outside of societies norms.  TRUE EVENTS: - Based on Arlo's own attempts to avoid being drafted into Vietnam War.  - He visits his friend Alice - having been asked to leave college. - Thanksgiving. - He and a friend dump rubbish and are arrested. - He comes before the law for this.  THEMES AND PENN'S AUTHORSHIP: Quintessentially confer cultural - rebellion  Youth - new generation "hippy" culture  Anti-Vietnam  Old vs young  Linear narrative  Post Hays Code - freedom into expression in film  The title sequence includes non-diegetic sounds, as if the story is continuing with no visuals.  Broken America Recklessness Arlo goes to school in the hopes of getting out of being drafted in the war. Goes to Alice after dropping out of school for smoking weed in the dorms. Alice ...

  AUTEUR REVIEW:   Explain what is meant by a film auteur? Auteur is a French word for author. A film auteur is a film director with a profound sense of personalization towards their films and the many aspects of cinematography and film form. They can be the equivalent to a novelist or play director, which usually have certain elements personal to their desire within most of their books or productions.    Explore why Billy Wilder is an auteur? Of course, Billy Wilder is profoundly known for excellent film making and enthralling his audience, drawing them in so much that they actually forget they are watching a film and in a theatre. Personally, I believe his success is down to the reflection of powerful drives and controversial elements within his films, otherwise not spoken about in day to day American life. Bringing multiple problems faced by society but held under minimal supervision to the screens of America symbolise his personal ideologies, this can be through ...