Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Decker
Student’s email: simpledecker@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
‘Sullivan’s Travels’ was a film that took on the story of a well-off man, Sullivan, who was looking to direct his next film with a new perspective. The film started off with a clip of two men fighting each other on a moving train and trying to kill each other. This clip being used as an introduction made me think that was what the movie was about. I think that if that clip wasn’t used as an introduction, it may have been hard to see why Sullivan was motivated to expand his awareness on ‘trouble’. Growing up with privilege, Sullivan did not know what trouble was so he sought out to find it for the sake of his film career. On his travels, he encounters many troubling situations, though hes always led back to the safety of his real life. It is not until the end when Sullivan is not trying to look for trouble, that he finds it. Perhaps that shows that although he was purposefully trying to put himself in that situation, it was not the same as the real thing. I noticed that a lot of the time, when a scene was over, it faded out into the next scene. That let us know a scene was ending and moving on to the next. The camera was mostly fixed throughout the movie and gave us a clear view of each scene. The closeups came in the right moment and highlighted the characters reactions. Sullivan’s Travels was definitely an adventurous film that featured a point in Sullivan life that was different from the life he was living before.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Kim H
Student’s email:helsinkiv@aim.com
Number of questions: 8
Percent correct: 80%
Sullivan’s Travels was interesting in the aspect of a wealthy white man went out of his way to get into trouble. He lived like a regular working class person of the time. Sullivan ends up getting into trouble and going to jail. They end up finding out how wealthy he is and who he is and then let him out of jail. The blurred view to show how out of it he was gave us an idea of how he felt.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Melissa Gumtang
Student’s email: missy.gumtang@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Melissa Gumtang
Student’s email: missy.gumtang@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
The film called “Sullivan’s Travels” seems to be a funny, slapstick kind by writer/director Preston Sturges. It seems to be like a confusion of prison film, serious drama, social documentary, but it seems to be more of slapstick. Sullivan has been notified as the big shot Hollywood director of crazy comedies to bring out suffering in the world when he films his next one that has to do with hardship. The other thing that’s interesting was it also focuses on “Veronica Lake’s on the take” like her hair and stuff. There are just mostly funny parts like in the beginning there were two men fighting in and out of the train, as well as the cross country car chase and the scene of the swimming pool in the mansion when Sullivan and the girl get into fights and wind up pushing each other in the pool. During the rest of the film, they end up hitting the road together and stop by diners to eat when they get hungry. For the most part, this seems to be the most whacky film of all.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Melissa Gumtang
Student’s email: missy.gumtang@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Melissa Gumtang
Student’s email: missy.gumtang@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
I apologize if my first comment didn’t go well. So I’m doing it again. “Sullivan’s Travels” was somewhat funny and dramatic in between. It starts out with two guys fighting in the train. The scenes that were hilarious was when Sullivan and the girl were fighting and getting to know each other. They wind up hitting the road together and become very close. Sullivan is almost like one of the most outstanding filmmakers of all by filming his best ones.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Melissa Gumtang
Student’s email: missy.gumtang@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
I apologize if my first comment didn’t go well. So I’m doing it again. “Sullivan’s Travels” was somewhat funny and dramatic in between. It starts out with two guys fighting in the train. The scenes that were hilarious was when Sullivan and the girl were fighting and getting to know each other. They wind up hitting the road together and become very close. Sullivan is almost like one of the most outstanding filmmakers of all by filming his best ones.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Melissa Gumtang
Student’s email: missy.gumtang@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
The film called “Sullivan’s Travels” seems to be a funny, slapstick kind by writer/director Preston Sturges. It seems to be like a confusion of prison film, serious drama, social documentary, but it seems to be more of slapstick. Sullivan has been notified as the big shot Hollywood director of crazy comedies to bring out suffering in the world when he films his next one that has to do with hardship. The other thing that’s interesting was it also focuses on “Veronica Lake’s on the take” like her hair and stuff. There are just mostly funny parts like in the beginning there were two men fighting in and out of the train, as well as the cross country car chase and the scene of the swimming pool in the mansion when Sullivan and the girl get into fights and wind up pushing each other in the pool. During the rest of the film, they end up hitting the road together and stop by diners to eat when they get hungry. For the most part, this seems to be the most whacky film of all.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04 , 05
Student’s name: Jacob
Student’s email: jwurz1@students.solano.edu
Number of questions: 10 , 15
Percent correct: 100% , 100%
Sullivan’s Travels is about a wealthy comedic director with the dream of making a film adaptation of a fictional book on the great depression called Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?. Sullivan feels like he can’t create a film adaptation because he hasn’t experienced enough hardship in his life and thus his goal and our plot is him trying to experience true suffering. In terms of camera work, the cuts are similar to other movies around the same time with fading out along with the soundtrack. The sound design was good but definitely older and makes me question if the soundtracks of todays movies will be seen as cliche in fifty years. Storywise, I enjoyed how he didn’t truly understand what suffering was until he accidently hit rock bottom by ending up in jail, probably because it followed the 8-arc system. Sullivan’s Travels still holds up to todays standards in film.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Jason C
Student’s email: jcsd83@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Jason C
Student’s email: jcsd83@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
The film Sullivan’s Travels is written and directed by Preston Sturges. The story is a satire (comedy genre) and a drama about a Hollywood comedic director who decides that he wants to stop directing comedies and instead direct a drama, but finds that comedies contribute to society and decides to continue directing them. The plot of Sullivan’s Travels (a 3 Act Movie) focuses upon Sullivan who wants to write a film adaptation of Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, which is a book that discusses the social inequalities existing in America. The catalyst of the film occurs when Sullivan is convinced that in order to gain a better perspective of poverty and understanding of what the books is about, decides to do a case study by becoming poor and living the life of the working class. The first culmination of the film is when Sullivan along with “The Girl” spend time in shanty-town and decides that the experiment is over. The “singing in the rain” moment is interrupted when Sullivan, in an attempt to give away money to the homeless, is knocked unconscious and arrested for assaulting a railroad worker. This failing action is followed by Sullivan being sent to a work camp (a major obstacle) where he sentenced to 6 years hard labor.
During Sullivan’s captivity the inmates are walked, chained together across a swamp to a church. In that scene the director utilizes chiaroscuro to cast shadow on the inmates as they walk to the brightly lighted church in the background. Sturges does this in order to contrast the inmates’ almost hopeless lives compared to the enjoyment the church offers them. The church, specifically the cartoon that is shown, offers the inmates a reprieve from their routine and harsh existence. Recovering his memory and unable to convince anyone that he is the Sullivan the director, the character asks for a plot twist. This satirical reference to a common theme in 3 Act movies and is probably influenced by Sturges’s role as a director and writer. The plot twist of the movie is when Sullivan announces that he is his own killer. Finally getting media attention Sullivan is freed, is able to marry “The Girl” due to his supposed death, and with all obstacles gone makes a character change caused by his development over the course of the story (making him a round character). The plot comes full circle in sequence 8 when the protagonist, realizing the benefits comedies have on his viewers, (via the viewing of a Walt Disney cartoon in a church) accomplishes the goal that he originally set out to do but resulting in an different outcome.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Ashley Stern
Student’s email: ashley.mae459@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 90%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Ashley Stern
Student’s email: ashley.mae459@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
The film Sullivan’s Travels is about a young film maker, Sullivan, who is curious and fascinated with finding trouble and knowing how poor people live. The film shows his adventure of how he finds trouble, with his side kick “the girl”. Sullivan’s Travels is from 1941 and follows the 8- arc system that film makers still use today.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Jessica Vela
Student’s email: jessica.vela24@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
I think that he genre of Sullivan Travels is comedy despite the fact that he did not originally want it to be. The plot is that Sullivan does not know what trouble is but he wants to experience it first hand so he travels around as a hobo until he experiences human suffering even after finding himself back in the same place over and over. After the crisis of Sullivan waking up in another city with no memory and ends up going to some jail like place, his goal is to return home. This is also the climax because his real experience of trouble begins. The theme is to make people laugh because Sullivan believes it may be the only thing some people have as we saw in the scene where they were watching the movie in the church. I enjoyed the hour and a half duration movie and the way it followed the 8 arc system.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04, 05
Student’s name: Vinnie Witel
Student’s email: vwitel@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10, 15
Percent correct: 100% 93%
Sullivan’s Travels is originally thought not to be a comedy but turned out to be one. Sullivan never really knew what it meant to struggle in life and decides to go out on the streets and live a couple of weeks to know what it’s like to be homeless. Film starts to reach the climax when Sullivan gets more than what he bargains for by getting attacked, finding himself in a different city not knowing what’s going on facing legal trouble for something he did not realize what he did. Towards the end he eventually realized that making comedies and making people laugh is most likely the only thing they will have in their life. That was realized during the scene inside the church when watching a Mickey Mouse clip.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Justin Edwards-Lantican
Student’s email: justiin_ryan@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
The movie Sullivan’s Travel is about a film director who wants to make a serious movie about the homeless. To make this movie he wants to experience being homeless first hand. Through the trials he has gone through he finds out that he wishes to not make a movie about it after all. The struggles that the homeless go through that he’s experienced has made him reconsider his film. Overall it was a good, comedic movie that I enjoyed.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Austin Agudelo
Student’s email: austin_agudelo416@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 93%
Sullivan’s Travels was a very interesting film to watch. I’m never really interested in watching movies that are more than 20 years old but this one really caught my attention. I never knew such an old film can hold so much humor! The story line is really interesting too. How the director put himself out there to see how it is to live homeless and ends up meeting a girl that he doesn’t see himself being with at first but in the end they end up being perfect for each other. She was always there to help him when he was down and out. I also love seeing some of the cheesy, fake backgrounds they used throughout the movie.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: vino Dolor
Student’s email: vino_dolor@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 90%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: vino Dolor
Student’s email: vino_dolor@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 93%
From what I can remember, I think Sullivan’s Travels is the first black and white film I’ve ever watched. This movie was very different from what I normally watch, but I actually liked it. I thought this movie was going to be serious but it ended up being a kind of serious, love comedy. My favorite scene was when Sully hitches a ride with a KID and ditches his entourage. So much going on in one scene. Entourage chasing Sully, cop chasing the entourage, and the entourage falling all over the place, etc. The amount of cuts in this scene showed the intensity of what was going on. The sound affects in this scene, and throughout the rest of the movie made it so much funnier.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04,05
Student’s name: Elizabeth Stetson
Student’s email: elizabethstetson12@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10,15
Percent correct: 100%,100%
As I was reading the comment above me from Austin, I couldn’t agree more on the statement he made on how it caught his attention seeing how an old film such as this could hold so much humor. I wasn’t expecting it myself because I’m not too familiar with old films but I stereotypically expected them to be more serious.
Anyways, In “Sullivan’s Travels”, this movie director is on a quest to find a new serious meaningful film. Throughout this film he disguises as a “tramp” or homeless to get himself into troubling situations to see what its really like to see the sorrows of humanity, since he is originally privileged and wealthy, he wouldn’t know of these troubles. Therefore he does this for a closer depiction. Throughout the way he meets Veronica Lake, to whom becomes his travelling companion. After Sullivan tries hard to get himself into trouble, its of course when he doesn’t want to anymore where it finds him. And eventually he ends up making the comedy instead.
What I noticed cinematography wise were the fade outs and the fixed camera shots. Also the music. I felt like all these combined are typical characteristics of films from this time period. So that the style isn’t outdated but it fits its time era perfectly.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter number: 04
Student’s name: Devinder Bans
Student’s email: Bansdevinder@yahoo.com
number of questions: 13
percent correct: 100%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter number: 05
Student’s name: Devinder Bans
Student’s email: Bansdevinder@yahoo.com
number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 93%
The film “Sullivan’s Travels” was about a wealthy filmmaker that wanted to understand the suffering of those less fortunate. The reason for his sudden interest, was because he undertook the task of create a film that captured the struggles of the lower class. I like how Sullivan’s character acknowledged the fact that he never knew such a life. He wanted to experience the life for himself so he set off. I really admire that about him. It shows his devotion to his craft and his passion for telling an accurate story. I like at the end he decides to make a comedy instead. He stated that he had not suffered enough. He kept using who he was to get out of trouble. Through his travels he realized the power and solace laughter can provide. Even in the midst of suffering one can still have a good laugh. Sullivan said “It may not be much but it’s all some people have”. This showed the development of his character, how he grew and changed through his experiences. I liked the scene at the church where Sullivan discovered the blessing of laughter. I though it was hilarious I liked how intensely everyone was laughing at cartoon humor.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Mikaela T.
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 90%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Mikaela T.
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 93%
Sullivan’s Travels makes use of physical comedy, more notably towards the beginning of the film. The use of physical comedy (i.e. the scene inside the tour-bus-like-vehicle where everyone inside was being thrown around during the car chase) was most likely used where it was to highlight the fact that Sullivan, our protagonist, was not seriously enduring harsh times and trouble because his normal life (i.e. the readily available tour bus and staff aboard and all of his money) was close by. This movie also makes use of assumed time lapses throughout the entirety of it, and only seems to use on montage-like sequence (i.e. when Sullivan and the Girl are in the shelter and going through the trash etc.).
(Spoke to you after class about my quiz results. I have been emailing them to you. You told me to post them to my next blog post)
Quiz 1, 2, 3
Number of Questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Holli Barton
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Holli Barton
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Sullivan’s Travels was an interesting movie in the sense that the main character of the movie, Sullivan, was a director. Throughout this satire viewers see Sullivan utilize elements of cinema to stage out his own life as if it was a movie and the people he encounters on a day-to-day basis are the viewers. Sullivan’s Travel’s gives the viewer an inside look into what it means to be a director. The viewer is allowed behind the scenes, so to speak, and able to view the decision making process of a director trying to convey hopeless poverty to those he encounters along the trip. Starting with his choice of clothing: we see Sullivan trying on different raggedy garments trying to find the perfect look of “poverty” that will be so convincing that even the poverty stricken tramps in the shanty towns will not be able to tell him apart from themselves. From there it progresses into actions (i.e. Sullivan and “The Girl” sleeping on the floor, showering in groups, and searching through the garbage for their next meal). Much like viewers of a movie, viewers of Sullivan’s life see him as nothing more than a tramp, not knowing the carefully planned out precision that he put into the effort of making them come to that conclusion without questioning why they feel how they do. Sullivan’s mise-en-scene evoked a feeling of hopeless suffering to those around him, allowed for the viewers to see the conditions of that era and the thought he put into the composition of the life of his tramp character.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Luis Perez
Student’s email: thatdudedavii@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 80%
Sullivan’s Travels was a film about a director who was living a great middle class life but wanted to get the perspective of a world of a man who is in “trouble” in order to make his movie a hit. He first has a hard time finding trouble as he always finds his way back to the “good life” in Hollywood, no matter how close he got to his goal his real life always came right back at him, as if it was where he belongs. Soon after he finally finds trouble after forgetting who he was he realized that those who have nothing, always have something even if its not a physical object, it can be laughter or love.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Jovanny Medina
Student’s email: Jovannymedina15@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 90%
Sullivans travels really made me see movies that are only in black in white in a whole new different way, I thought I was going to get bored of watching the film but after about only 20 minutes into the movie I started enjoying it. The thing I liked most is how they made the audience belive that after Sullivan met the girl that it was going to be a romantic film. Sullivan really wanted to know what it really ment to get in trouble while most of us wanted him to work on getting the girl. Something I noticed was how the music changed when the day changed from night to day or when scenes faded out.
Sullivans is a really interesting movie. Usually this kind of the story doesn’t happen in the movies. This movie starts with to guys fighting each other. It’s a movies about a director who wants to feal the feeling about people who are in trouble. He wants to do something really different then othe directors do. So he goes to live a life of trouble. As he living his life of trouble, he finds a girl which later in the movies they both like each other and both starts living the life of trouble. As he gets tried of living the life of trouble, he plan to give money to the poor because he know how hard is to be poor. From doing good thing he gets in trouble and goes to jail. Which he wasn’t expecting to get but later gets out by his know of wealth. I did notice the sound of the change everything something really important happened. Also in the movie all the scene were really detailed and I never took my eye off the screen because the whole movie was so interesting.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Ajaypal Singh
Student’s email: Singhajaypal95@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
Sullivans is a really interesting movie. Usually this kind of the story doesn’t happen in the movies. This movie starts with to guys fighting each other. It’s a movies about a director who wants to feal the feeling about people who are in trouble. He wants to do something really different then othe directors do. So he goes to live a life of trouble. As he living his life of trouble, he finds a girl which later in the movies they both like each other and both starts living the life of trouble. As he gets tried of living the life of trouble, he plan to give money to the poor because he know how hard is to be poor. From doing good thing he gets in trouble and goes to jail. Which he wasn’t expecting to get but later gets out by his know of wealth. I did notice the sound of the change everything something really important happened. Also in the movie all the scene were really detailed and I never took my eye off the screen because the whole movie was so interesting.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Bobbie Mitchell
Student’s email: Mitchellbobbie95@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Sullivan’s Travels is one of my favorites we’ve watched up to this point. This is the first time I’ve seen it. It follows the standard story structure appropriately making the film very easily followed in terms of technical structure. The film I felt like was exceptionally well done for the time period. I actually didn’t expect it to be as good as it was. Too my surprise I was entertained the entire time. It’s a clever film and I very much appreciate that. Preston Sturge the director/screenwriter mixes drama and comedy. On one hand Sullivan’s Travels is full of comic relief but there is this grim undertone. Sullivan is tired of lighthearted comedies and wants to make something heaver. He can’t seem to make it out of Hollywood and find any real trouble no matter how hard he tries. He can’t achieve his goals as a filmmaker/ person. Then finally things do take a turn for the worst for him. This is what he wanted all along but he didn’t intend to get thrown in prison, pronounced dead and be stuck on a chain gang. For a while we’re left to wander if he’s ever going to make it out of there and back to his life in Hollywood. There is a plot twist when he decides to say he murdered Sullivan. This ends up being what saves him because it gets his face in the paper and his producers and the girl recognize him. After his experiences on the chain gang he decides he wants to make more comedies because he now recognizes the value in making people laugh. I liked the church scene. I felt like that was an important personal turning point for Sullivan. The music also helped reinforce the prisoners predicament.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Frank
Student’s email: frankcdelarosa@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
I actually love this move Sullivan’s Travels because it had a nice sequential plot because as things happen as you would reasonably expect but has a twist towards the end where Sullivan is arrested but comes up with the idea to confess as the murderer of himself thus getting his face in the paper which led to his freedom. I find it interesting that he chose to do a comedy for his next movie because he suffered so much from his travels and he realizes the power of a smile and laughing.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Brayan Ambriz
Student’s email: ambrizbrayan96@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 90%
Let me start off by saying I loved this movie so much I did a little more research on it. I found out that Sullivan’s Travels got an 100% rating on rottontomatoes which doesn’t surprise me because of the fantastic plot. The twist at the end really surprised me as I would have never thought John Sullivan would confess as his own killer. This led to his release and freedom. I thought this was brilliant and only added to the many great aspects of the movie. Black and white movies aren’t my preference but I definety enjoyed Sullivan’s travels.
Sullivan’s Travels
My analysis of Sullivan’s Travels has the main character with a clear goal he wants to achieve: understand poverty, to know and be in trouble. Sully’s position in a life of privilege and curiosity, makes decisions answering only to himself. He has personality traits that are noble and likeable. The narrative structure is simple: beginning, middle, and end of story. The non-diegetic elements: the music scores, sound effects or lack of as well as humor/parody of the warden in boat with a canopy overhead protecting him and the dog from the sun were essential to the narrative of class and power.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Tobias Guidry
Student’s email: tobiasguidry@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
I liked the irony of the whole movie. At the beginning, in the movie, he did not want to make a comedy, instead he wanted to create an accurate and educated film about poverty. Not only was this actual movie a comedy, but in the end he ultimately decided to make a comedy. Along his quest, and through his antics, he realized that his original way wasn’t the right one. The plot had also developed nicely with his new friend “The Lady.” Starting his journey as a tramp, he sets off and meets her. She decides to join him, as the story reaches its climax, so does there relationship.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04,05
Student’s name: Maria Salazar
Student’s email: lupe.salazar94@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10,15
Percent correct: 100%,100%
Sullivan travels was an interesting and good movie to watch. For being my first black-and-white movie I’ve watched I really enjoyed the film. Sullivan is the big Hollywood director who wanted to make a meaningful film. So he decided to dress like a homeless person and sets out to find trouble. On his way to doing so he meets the girl who ends up going on a adventure with him after convincing him. They experience a good time but Sullivan still didn’t have anything good for his film. They go home but the plot twist was when Sullivan decides to go alone and hand out money to the homeless people in the train. it doesn’t end very well for Sullivan he gets knocked out and robbed wakes up on the train gets into trouble and he is sent to jail. At this point the girl and everyone else believed Sullivan was dead but in reality he was serving time in jail after he figures out a way to get out. He realizes the movie that he wants to make will be a comedy.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Zackary Kehr
Student’s email: Zacktactoe@aol.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Gulliver’s travel was a very enjoyable film. It used many of the techniques that we’ve discussed in class. The use of medium range shots placed emphasis on the characters and forces you to focus on their story, not the things going on around them. The use of angled camera and split shots that gave a sense of disorientation gave clues about Sullivan’s memory loss even before it was stated in the film. Also, the use of music by the editors in the background set the tone for many of the scenes. You could always tell when something awful was happening and vise versa.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04,05
Student’s name: Kile Grayson
Student’s email: Kilegrayson@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
Sullivans travels is a story of a man named Sullivan who was a accomplished director. As a accomplished film director and someone passionate about his work, Sullivan becomes driven to make a movie from a completely different perspective, and in doing research so he could convince funders to let him make it he discovered how little he really knew about the subject he was trying to make a movie about. Sullivan learned the world was way deeper than he had ever seen before
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Miguel Garcia
Student’s email: MiguelGarciaKC18@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
I have always had an appreciation for older films such as this movie, Sullivan’s Travels. There was no CGI the humor could genuine and appreciated, the actors did their very best. The entire story was well written i believe. This physical comedy was quite well structured. Camera techniques were well executed given the time era this was made in. Fuzzy images and a tilting camera gave us the sense that something strange happened to Sullivan at one point. Being that this movie was about a man who makes movies there were nods to things like plot twists which gave me as the viewer as moment of “aha!” The underlining principles of the film were also seamlessly woven into the overall film were greatly used. Seeing Sullivan’s character growth was quite rewarding in the end. And character growth i myself very much appreciate in any well written movie such as this/
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Julianne D
Student’s email: julie.dolor@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
I can’t recall the last time I’ve watched a film noir, or ever watching one at that, so watching Sullivan’s Travel I didn’t really know what to expect. I was first confused to the storyline til it started making sense towards the middle of the film. I think the fast pace talking of the characters made it hard for me to keep up with what was going on.
I did like the church scene. One because it really caught my attention to actually watch and be interested in the film because it was different from the previous scenes. Like how they used shots of an outside view of the church to shots from inside the church, the low angle shots to focus on the chains on the men’s’ ankles while walking into the church, and also how much they focused on the men laughing up a storm as the camera kept reflecting on Sullivan as if all the laughing had an impact on him, which it actually did as we see towards the end of the film.
So overall, the film ended up being better than I thought other than being confused in the beginning and I’d give a film noir another chance.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: jamila garrett
Student’s email: jamila.garrett18@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 80%
Sullivan’s Travels tackles the interesting idea of wanting to know suffering. most people go out of their way to avoid suffering and trouble, but Sullivan goes out of his way to find trouble. for anyone who’s an artist, its understandable to have the desire to know pain as it inspires creativity and realism. his goal though odd is one rooted in passion which makes it understandable and this connects him to the audience. because the movie is so old, the filmmakers relied heavily on the angles of the shot to convey messages. when the scene becomes twisted or fuzzy and the use of montages help convey the gravity or lightheartedness of the scene. the screen writers did a good job of displaying serious moments but then relieve them with some comedy.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Dana Johnson
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
I would be interested in finding out how well Sullivan’s Travels fits Syd Field’s Paradigm theory. (I did look for a pdf of the script but no luck) Some scripts down to the page are a perfect fit and it wouldn’t surprise me if Sullivan’s Travels came very close. Field’s 3 act structure has becomes so ubiquitous that many feel it is ruining Hollywood. But whether you agree or not I think in the case of Sullivan’s Travels the structure fits. What worked in this film is that the Paradigm supported the script instead of the script being forced into the structure. An idea that I think has been lost on modern movies.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies 4e
Chapter Number: 4
Students Name: Elliot Bonnett
Students email: elliot_bonnett@hotmail.com
Number of Questions: 10
Percent correct: 90%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies 4e
Chapter Number: 5
Students Name: Elliot Bonnett
Students email: elliot_bonnett@hotmail.com
Number of Questions: 15
Percent correct: 87%
This was the second full black and white movie that i have watched all the way through. I think this film really follows the screenwriting outline. Every key point and twist is distinguishable. Personally i thought this movie was pretty good. While some of the scenes in this movie were added just for the audience i think the story line in this movies was good. Sometimes you need to a experience things first hand before you can make a movie as in this case. I also appreciated the part where Sullivan begins to appreciate why laughter is necessary for some people.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Catherine Cooke
Student’s email: slysnide@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Preston Sturges thinks he can get away with making a social commentary on poor people by having his characters acknowledge that they’re not from that background, as if it gives him license to do the same. This is similar to how Wes Craven thought that by merely pointing out bad clichés in “Scream” would thus give him license to still use them. It doesn’t. Undoubtedly Sturges used actors for all the roles in this movie. Granted he may possibly have picked some actors from somewhere besides Hollywood, like some small town theater, it still makes for a bizarre film. For on the one hand as I pointed out, he acknowledges the irresponsibility of making a film about a culture he doesn’t understand via his main character Sullivan, but the fact that he makes the film still work by following clichés of old Hollywood films says something. For it’s a safe bet that Sturges didn’t go on his own crazy adventure before making this film. In fact, few filmmakers do when it comes to making films about people or cultures they don’t understand. This and its consequences was practically the subject of Film 105 (Theory & Criticism) which I took last semester). However, this doesn’t make the film bad for it. It was quite enjoyable all the way round, and clearly followed the general rules of filmmaking, as well as George Craft 101, better known as HRS-169 (Hollywood & America).
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Kevin Vasquez
Student’s email: Kevinvasq@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 90%
Even though it was really hard to get through an old black and white movie, I did enjoy Sullivan’s Travels. The story was pretty cleaver, having a rich movie producer go out into the world an see what ” Trouble,” is like in real life. The way the film has a lot of overlapping scenes that also having a lot of fading in and out is pretty big for it’s time. Also the cars driving with the screen in the back was very revolutionary, making it seem like the main characters where actually driving on the roads. In movies now when you see people driving in cars they don’t have a screen behind them, they have a camera mounted on the car itself facing the people in the car. This technology allows us to really feel the car moving and the scenes in the background being real, instead of feeling the the fake rolling screen in the back of the car.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Jordan Vang
Student’s email: jordanvang@hotmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Jordan Vang
Student’s email: jordanvang@hotmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
In my opinion I didn’t really enjoy this movie. Im not sure what it is about black and white movies. I think its interesting how in this movie it showed the major difference of high class and lower class. Then there is the “girl” who seemed to be middle class. Not sure if thats what the film maker wanted to portray. I thought it was interesting about how this movie was about making a film but not a documentary if you know what I’m trying to say there. It was real cliche in my opinion and the acting was “meh” but maybe acting wasn’t necessarily that great back then. Im not sure what kind of genre id consider this film, but i wouldn’t watch it again for fun.
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: jeff R
Student’s email: jrutland78@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
sullivens travels is about a man who wants to make better movies then he is now. so what he did was try to get some real world experience. its a film about one trying o be better then what he is. even if he is a successful person he wants his work and his life to have more meaning it is a good character moment because characters evolving to be more drives the plot in a great way.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Alyssa Miller
Student’s email: blueyez02@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
Sullivan Travels is a very good movie in my opinion. He wants to make a different type of film than he is used to making, I thinking goin out into the works was a really good idea for making the movie. I believe the film was very big for its time maybe even ahead of its time. I think it’s really interesting that he wanted to know suffering from other people’s points of view.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 03
Student’s name: Jasmine
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 80%
In Sullivan’s Travels, The famous Hollywood director John L. Sullivan wants to earn the proper incite into creating his film known as “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” In order to create this film Sullivan wants to see how people on the poorer end of the spectrum have to survive. He lives in their areas of town for a little bit and ends up getting into a fight at a train station. Sullivan goes on to lose his memory and becomes unable to prove his innocence and is thrown in prison for 6 years. Sullivan was pronounced dead by the community that he once thrived in and he had to try his hardest to prove he was alive and make his way out of prison.
The editors of the film use dark lighting when there is an act of trouble and they tend to use up beat music and lighting angles to show his excitement. When he found a way to get himself out of prison it was a very bright, airy moment. When he was stuffed into the sweat box it was dim and depressing.
Quiz Name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s Name: Samantha T Navarrete Silva
Student’s Email: snavar11@students.solano.edu
Number of Question’s: 10
Percent Correct: 80%
Quiz Name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s Name: Samantha T Navarrete Silva
Student’s Email: snavar11@students.solano.edu
Number of Questions: 10
Percent Correct: 100%
Music throughout the film adds to the silliness and seriousness of the film it creates the mood and the character’s state of mind in that moment. The exaggerated acting and rapid movement or slow movements in this film help describe the scene further more and helps the viewer to go along the same lines of speed while watching the film. The in-camera effects used in this movie help show the transition of time and what goes on in different places at the same time. There’s a lot of low angle shots in the movie, for example when the guard that keeps on picking on Sullivan sends him to the box he gets a low angle shot to show in a way his authority.
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Garaude Valeriy, Nicolas
Student’s email: Garaude.nicolas@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15a
Percent correct: 100%
it was a first time for me to see this movie and i enjoyed the plot and the values it was convening, the story was elaborated and and the plot strong comic of situation and irony are here. The producer did a good job in telling the story. Preston Sturge the director/screenwriter mixes drama and comedy in this movie. On one hand Sullivan’s Travels is full of comic action but the dramatic atmosphere is never too far. He struggle to get out of Hollywood and cant find any real trouble no matter how hard he tries. Then finally things do take a turn drastically worse for him but he didn’t intend to get thrown in prison, pronounced dead and be stuck on a chain. Then we’re left to wander if he’s ever going to make it out of there and back to Hollywood. Finally after finding a trick to get his face in the paper and get out as it gets his face in the paper and his producers and the girl recognize him. After his experiences imprisoned he decides he wants to make more comedies because he now recognizes the value in making people laugh the therapy it has on everyone especially poor souls in trouble like in the church scene. The music also helped reinforce the prisoners reactions. Overall it is a movie ill recommend or re-watch on my own. What Hollywood had to offer at the time seems refreshing even in our days.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Decker
Student’s email: simpledecker@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
‘Sullivan’s Travels’ was a film that took on the story of a well-off man, Sullivan, who was looking to direct his next film with a new perspective. The film started off with a clip of two men fighting each other on a moving train and trying to kill each other. This clip being used as an introduction made me think that was what the movie was about. I think that if that clip wasn’t used as an introduction, it may have been hard to see why Sullivan was motivated to expand his awareness on ‘trouble’. Growing up with privilege, Sullivan did not know what trouble was so he sought out to find it for the sake of his film career. On his travels, he encounters many troubling situations, though hes always led back to the safety of his real life. It is not until the end when Sullivan is not trying to look for trouble, that he finds it. Perhaps that shows that although he was purposefully trying to put himself in that situation, it was not the same as the real thing. I noticed that a lot of the time, when a scene was over, it faded out into the next scene. That let us know a scene was ending and moving on to the next. The camera was mostly fixed throughout the movie and gave us a clear view of each scene. The closeups came in the right moment and highlighted the characters reactions. Sullivan’s Travels was definitely an adventurous film that featured a point in Sullivan life that was different from the life he was living before.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Kim H
Student’s email:helsinkiv@aim.com
Number of questions: 8
Percent correct: 80%
Sullivan’s Travels was interesting in the aspect of a wealthy white man went out of his way to get into trouble. He lived like a regular working class person of the time. Sullivan ends up getting into trouble and going to jail. They end up finding out how wealthy he is and who he is and then let him out of jail. The blurred view to show how out of it he was gave us an idea of how he felt.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Melissa Gumtang
Student’s email: missy.gumtang@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Melissa Gumtang
Student’s email: missy.gumtang@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
The film called “Sullivan’s Travels” seems to be a funny, slapstick kind by writer/director Preston Sturges. It seems to be like a confusion of prison film, serious drama, social documentary, but it seems to be more of slapstick. Sullivan has been notified as the big shot Hollywood director of crazy comedies to bring out suffering in the world when he films his next one that has to do with hardship. The other thing that’s interesting was it also focuses on “Veronica Lake’s on the take” like her hair and stuff. There are just mostly funny parts like in the beginning there were two men fighting in and out of the train, as well as the cross country car chase and the scene of the swimming pool in the mansion when Sullivan and the girl get into fights and wind up pushing each other in the pool. During the rest of the film, they end up hitting the road together and stop by diners to eat when they get hungry. For the most part, this seems to be the most whacky film of all.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Melissa Gumtang
Student’s email: missy.gumtang@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Melissa Gumtang
Student’s email: missy.gumtang@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
I apologize if my first comment didn’t go well. So I’m doing it again. “Sullivan’s Travels” was somewhat funny and dramatic in between. It starts out with two guys fighting in the train. The scenes that were hilarious was when Sullivan and the girl were fighting and getting to know each other. They wind up hitting the road together and become very close. Sullivan is almost like one of the most outstanding filmmakers of all by filming his best ones.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Melissa Gumtang
Student’s email: missy.gumtang@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
I apologize if my first comment didn’t go well. So I’m doing it again. “Sullivan’s Travels” was somewhat funny and dramatic in between. It starts out with two guys fighting in the train. The scenes that were hilarious was when Sullivan and the girl were fighting and getting to know each other. They wind up hitting the road together and become very close. Sullivan is almost like one of the most outstanding filmmakers of all by filming his best ones.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Melissa Gumtang
Student’s email: missy.gumtang@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
The film called “Sullivan’s Travels” seems to be a funny, slapstick kind by writer/director Preston Sturges. It seems to be like a confusion of prison film, serious drama, social documentary, but it seems to be more of slapstick. Sullivan has been notified as the big shot Hollywood director of crazy comedies to bring out suffering in the world when he films his next one that has to do with hardship. The other thing that’s interesting was it also focuses on “Veronica Lake’s on the take” like her hair and stuff. There are just mostly funny parts like in the beginning there were two men fighting in and out of the train, as well as the cross country car chase and the scene of the swimming pool in the mansion when Sullivan and the girl get into fights and wind up pushing each other in the pool. During the rest of the film, they end up hitting the road together and stop by diners to eat when they get hungry. For the most part, this seems to be the most whacky film of all.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04 , 05
Student’s name: Jacob
Student’s email: jwurz1@students.solano.edu
Number of questions: 10 , 15
Percent correct: 100% , 100%
Sullivan’s Travels is about a wealthy comedic director with the dream of making a film adaptation of a fictional book on the great depression called Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?. Sullivan feels like he can’t create a film adaptation because he hasn’t experienced enough hardship in his life and thus his goal and our plot is him trying to experience true suffering. In terms of camera work, the cuts are similar to other movies around the same time with fading out along with the soundtrack. The sound design was good but definitely older and makes me question if the soundtracks of todays movies will be seen as cliche in fifty years. Storywise, I enjoyed how he didn’t truly understand what suffering was until he accidently hit rock bottom by ending up in jail, probably because it followed the 8-arc system. Sullivan’s Travels still holds up to todays standards in film.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Jason C
Student’s email: jcsd83@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Jason C
Student’s email: jcsd83@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
The film Sullivan’s Travels is written and directed by Preston Sturges. The story is a satire (comedy genre) and a drama about a Hollywood comedic director who decides that he wants to stop directing comedies and instead direct a drama, but finds that comedies contribute to society and decides to continue directing them. The plot of Sullivan’s Travels (a 3 Act Movie) focuses upon Sullivan who wants to write a film adaptation of Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, which is a book that discusses the social inequalities existing in America. The catalyst of the film occurs when Sullivan is convinced that in order to gain a better perspective of poverty and understanding of what the books is about, decides to do a case study by becoming poor and living the life of the working class. The first culmination of the film is when Sullivan along with “The Girl” spend time in shanty-town and decides that the experiment is over. The “singing in the rain” moment is interrupted when Sullivan, in an attempt to give away money to the homeless, is knocked unconscious and arrested for assaulting a railroad worker. This failing action is followed by Sullivan being sent to a work camp (a major obstacle) where he sentenced to 6 years hard labor.
During Sullivan’s captivity the inmates are walked, chained together across a swamp to a church. In that scene the director utilizes chiaroscuro to cast shadow on the inmates as they walk to the brightly lighted church in the background. Sturges does this in order to contrast the inmates’ almost hopeless lives compared to the enjoyment the church offers them. The church, specifically the cartoon that is shown, offers the inmates a reprieve from their routine and harsh existence. Recovering his memory and unable to convince anyone that he is the Sullivan the director, the character asks for a plot twist. This satirical reference to a common theme in 3 Act movies and is probably influenced by Sturges’s role as a director and writer. The plot twist of the movie is when Sullivan announces that he is his own killer. Finally getting media attention Sullivan is freed, is able to marry “The Girl” due to his supposed death, and with all obstacles gone makes a character change caused by his development over the course of the story (making him a round character). The plot comes full circle in sequence 8 when the protagonist, realizing the benefits comedies have on his viewers, (via the viewing of a Walt Disney cartoon in a church) accomplishes the goal that he originally set out to do but resulting in an different outcome.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Ashley Stern
Student’s email: ashley.mae459@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 90%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Ashley Stern
Student’s email: ashley.mae459@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
The film Sullivan’s Travels is about a young film maker, Sullivan, who is curious and fascinated with finding trouble and knowing how poor people live. The film shows his adventure of how he finds trouble, with his side kick “the girl”. Sullivan’s Travels is from 1941 and follows the 8- arc system that film makers still use today.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Jessica Vela
Student’s email: jessica.vela24@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
I think that he genre of Sullivan Travels is comedy despite the fact that he did not originally want it to be. The plot is that Sullivan does not know what trouble is but he wants to experience it first hand so he travels around as a hobo until he experiences human suffering even after finding himself back in the same place over and over. After the crisis of Sullivan waking up in another city with no memory and ends up going to some jail like place, his goal is to return home. This is also the climax because his real experience of trouble begins. The theme is to make people laugh because Sullivan believes it may be the only thing some people have as we saw in the scene where they were watching the movie in the church. I enjoyed the hour and a half duration movie and the way it followed the 8 arc system.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Jessica Vela
Student’s email: jessica.vela24@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04, 05
Student’s name: Vinnie Witel
Student’s email: vwitel@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10, 15
Percent correct: 100% 93%
Sullivan’s Travels is originally thought not to be a comedy but turned out to be one. Sullivan never really knew what it meant to struggle in life and decides to go out on the streets and live a couple of weeks to know what it’s like to be homeless. Film starts to reach the climax when Sullivan gets more than what he bargains for by getting attacked, finding himself in a different city not knowing what’s going on facing legal trouble for something he did not realize what he did. Towards the end he eventually realized that making comedies and making people laugh is most likely the only thing they will have in their life. That was realized during the scene inside the church when watching a Mickey Mouse clip.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Justin Edwards-Lantican
Student’s email: justiin_ryan@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
The movie Sullivan’s Travel is about a film director who wants to make a serious movie about the homeless. To make this movie he wants to experience being homeless first hand. Through the trials he has gone through he finds out that he wishes to not make a movie about it after all. The struggles that the homeless go through that he’s experienced has made him reconsider his film. Overall it was a good, comedic movie that I enjoyed.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Austin Agudelo
Student’s email: austin_agudelo416@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 93%
Sullivan’s Travels was a very interesting film to watch. I’m never really interested in watching movies that are more than 20 years old but this one really caught my attention. I never knew such an old film can hold so much humor! The story line is really interesting too. How the director put himself out there to see how it is to live homeless and ends up meeting a girl that he doesn’t see himself being with at first but in the end they end up being perfect for each other. She was always there to help him when he was down and out. I also love seeing some of the cheesy, fake backgrounds they used throughout the movie.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: vino Dolor
Student’s email: vino_dolor@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 90%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: vino Dolor
Student’s email: vino_dolor@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 93%
From what I can remember, I think Sullivan’s Travels is the first black and white film I’ve ever watched. This movie was very different from what I normally watch, but I actually liked it. I thought this movie was going to be serious but it ended up being a kind of serious, love comedy. My favorite scene was when Sully hitches a ride with a KID and ditches his entourage. So much going on in one scene. Entourage chasing Sully, cop chasing the entourage, and the entourage falling all over the place, etc. The amount of cuts in this scene showed the intensity of what was going on. The sound affects in this scene, and throughout the rest of the movie made it so much funnier.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04,05
Student’s name: Elizabeth Stetson
Student’s email: elizabethstetson12@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10,15
Percent correct: 100%,100%
As I was reading the comment above me from Austin, I couldn’t agree more on the statement he made on how it caught his attention seeing how an old film such as this could hold so much humor. I wasn’t expecting it myself because I’m not too familiar with old films but I stereotypically expected them to be more serious.
Anyways, In “Sullivan’s Travels”, this movie director is on a quest to find a new serious meaningful film. Throughout this film he disguises as a “tramp” or homeless to get himself into troubling situations to see what its really like to see the sorrows of humanity, since he is originally privileged and wealthy, he wouldn’t know of these troubles. Therefore he does this for a closer depiction. Throughout the way he meets Veronica Lake, to whom becomes his travelling companion. After Sullivan tries hard to get himself into trouble, its of course when he doesn’t want to anymore where it finds him. And eventually he ends up making the comedy instead.
What I noticed cinematography wise were the fade outs and the fixed camera shots. Also the music. I felt like all these combined are typical characteristics of films from this time period. So that the style isn’t outdated but it fits its time era perfectly.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter number: 04
Student’s name: Devinder Bans
Student’s email: Bansdevinder@yahoo.com
number of questions: 13
percent correct: 100%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter number: 05
Student’s name: Devinder Bans
Student’s email: Bansdevinder@yahoo.com
number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 93%
The film “Sullivan’s Travels” was about a wealthy filmmaker that wanted to understand the suffering of those less fortunate. The reason for his sudden interest, was because he undertook the task of create a film that captured the struggles of the lower class. I like how Sullivan’s character acknowledged the fact that he never knew such a life. He wanted to experience the life for himself so he set off. I really admire that about him. It shows his devotion to his craft and his passion for telling an accurate story. I like at the end he decides to make a comedy instead. He stated that he had not suffered enough. He kept using who he was to get out of trouble. Through his travels he realized the power and solace laughter can provide. Even in the midst of suffering one can still have a good laugh. Sullivan said “It may not be much but it’s all some people have”. This showed the development of his character, how he grew and changed through his experiences. I liked the scene at the church where Sullivan discovered the blessing of laughter. I though it was hilarious I liked how intensely everyone was laughing at cartoon humor.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Mikaela T.
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 90%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Mikaela T.
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 93%
Sullivan’s Travels makes use of physical comedy, more notably towards the beginning of the film. The use of physical comedy (i.e. the scene inside the tour-bus-like-vehicle where everyone inside was being thrown around during the car chase) was most likely used where it was to highlight the fact that Sullivan, our protagonist, was not seriously enduring harsh times and trouble because his normal life (i.e. the readily available tour bus and staff aboard and all of his money) was close by. This movie also makes use of assumed time lapses throughout the entirety of it, and only seems to use on montage-like sequence (i.e. when Sullivan and the Girl are in the shelter and going through the trash etc.).
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(Spoke to you after class about my quiz results. I have been emailing them to you. You told me to post them to my next blog post)
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Number of Questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Holli Barton
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Holli Barton
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Sullivan’s Travels was an interesting movie in the sense that the main character of the movie, Sullivan, was a director. Throughout this satire viewers see Sullivan utilize elements of cinema to stage out his own life as if it was a movie and the people he encounters on a day-to-day basis are the viewers. Sullivan’s Travel’s gives the viewer an inside look into what it means to be a director. The viewer is allowed behind the scenes, so to speak, and able to view the decision making process of a director trying to convey hopeless poverty to those he encounters along the trip. Starting with his choice of clothing: we see Sullivan trying on different raggedy garments trying to find the perfect look of “poverty” that will be so convincing that even the poverty stricken tramps in the shanty towns will not be able to tell him apart from themselves. From there it progresses into actions (i.e. Sullivan and “The Girl” sleeping on the floor, showering in groups, and searching through the garbage for their next meal). Much like viewers of a movie, viewers of Sullivan’s life see him as nothing more than a tramp, not knowing the carefully planned out precision that he put into the effort of making them come to that conclusion without questioning why they feel how they do. Sullivan’s mise-en-scene evoked a feeling of hopeless suffering to those around him, allowed for the viewers to see the conditions of that era and the thought he put into the composition of the life of his tramp character.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Luis Perez
Student’s email: thatdudedavii@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 80%
Sullivan’s Travels was a film about a director who was living a great middle class life but wanted to get the perspective of a world of a man who is in “trouble” in order to make his movie a hit. He first has a hard time finding trouble as he always finds his way back to the “good life” in Hollywood, no matter how close he got to his goal his real life always came right back at him, as if it was where he belongs. Soon after he finally finds trouble after forgetting who he was he realized that those who have nothing, always have something even if its not a physical object, it can be laughter or love.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Jovanny Medina
Student’s email: Jovannymedina15@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 90%
Sullivans travels really made me see movies that are only in black in white in a whole new different way, I thought I was going to get bored of watching the film but after about only 20 minutes into the movie I started enjoying it. The thing I liked most is how they made the audience belive that after Sullivan met the girl that it was going to be a romantic film. Sullivan really wanted to know what it really ment to get in trouble while most of us wanted him to work on getting the girl. Something I noticed was how the music changed when the day changed from night to day or when scenes faded out.
Jovanny Medina
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Sullivans is a really interesting movie. Usually this kind of the story doesn’t happen in the movies. This movie starts with to guys fighting each other. It’s a movies about a director who wants to feal the feeling about people who are in trouble. He wants to do something really different then othe directors do. So he goes to live a life of trouble. As he living his life of trouble, he finds a girl which later in the movies they both like each other and both starts living the life of trouble. As he gets tried of living the life of trouble, he plan to give money to the poor because he know how hard is to be poor. From doing good thing he gets in trouble and goes to jail. Which he wasn’t expecting to get but later gets out by his know of wealth. I did notice the sound of the change everything something really important happened. Also in the movie all the scene were really detailed and I never took my eye off the screen because the whole movie was so interesting.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Ajaypal Singh
Student’s email: Singhajaypal95@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
Sullivans is a really interesting movie. Usually this kind of the story doesn’t happen in the movies. This movie starts with to guys fighting each other. It’s a movies about a director who wants to feal the feeling about people who are in trouble. He wants to do something really different then othe directors do. So he goes to live a life of trouble. As he living his life of trouble, he finds a girl which later in the movies they both like each other and both starts living the life of trouble. As he gets tried of living the life of trouble, he plan to give money to the poor because he know how hard is to be poor. From doing good thing he gets in trouble and goes to jail. Which he wasn’t expecting to get but later gets out by his know of wealth. I did notice the sound of the change everything something really important happened. Also in the movie all the scene were really detailed and I never took my eye off the screen because the whole movie was so interesting.
Ajaypal Singh
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Bobbie Mitchell
Student’s email: Mitchellbobbie95@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Sullivan’s Travels is one of my favorites we’ve watched up to this point. This is the first time I’ve seen it. It follows the standard story structure appropriately making the film very easily followed in terms of technical structure. The film I felt like was exceptionally well done for the time period. I actually didn’t expect it to be as good as it was. Too my surprise I was entertained the entire time. It’s a clever film and I very much appreciate that. Preston Sturge the director/screenwriter mixes drama and comedy. On one hand Sullivan’s Travels is full of comic relief but there is this grim undertone. Sullivan is tired of lighthearted comedies and wants to make something heaver. He can’t seem to make it out of Hollywood and find any real trouble no matter how hard he tries. He can’t achieve his goals as a filmmaker/ person. Then finally things do take a turn for the worst for him. This is what he wanted all along but he didn’t intend to get thrown in prison, pronounced dead and be stuck on a chain gang. For a while we’re left to wander if he’s ever going to make it out of there and back to his life in Hollywood. There is a plot twist when he decides to say he murdered Sullivan. This ends up being what saves him because it gets his face in the paper and his producers and the girl recognize him. After his experiences on the chain gang he decides he wants to make more comedies because he now recognizes the value in making people laugh. I liked the church scene. I felt like that was an important personal turning point for Sullivan. The music also helped reinforce the prisoners predicament.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Frank
Student’s email: frankcdelarosa@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
I actually love this move Sullivan’s Travels because it had a nice sequential plot because as things happen as you would reasonably expect but has a twist towards the end where Sullivan is arrested but comes up with the idea to confess as the murderer of himself thus getting his face in the paper which led to his freedom. I find it interesting that he chose to do a comedy for his next movie because he suffered so much from his travels and he realizes the power of a smile and laughing.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Brayan Ambriz
Student’s email: ambrizbrayan96@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 90%
Let me start off by saying I loved this movie so much I did a little more research on it. I found out that Sullivan’s Travels got an 100% rating on rottontomatoes which doesn’t surprise me because of the fantastic plot. The twist at the end really surprised me as I would have never thought John Sullivan would confess as his own killer. This led to his release and freedom. I thought this was brilliant and only added to the many great aspects of the movie. Black and white movies aren’t my preference but I definety enjoyed Sullivan’s travels.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Brayan Ambriz
Student’s email: ambrizbrayan96@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
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Sullivan’s Travels
My analysis of Sullivan’s Travels has the main character with a clear goal he wants to achieve: understand poverty, to know and be in trouble. Sully’s position in a life of privilege and curiosity, makes decisions answering only to himself. He has personality traits that are noble and likeable. The narrative structure is simple: beginning, middle, and end of story. The non-diegetic elements: the music scores, sound effects or lack of as well as humor/parody of the warden in boat with a canopy overhead protecting him and the dog from the sun were essential to the narrative of class and power.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Tobias Guidry
Student’s email: tobiasguidry@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
I liked the irony of the whole movie. At the beginning, in the movie, he did not want to make a comedy, instead he wanted to create an accurate and educated film about poverty. Not only was this actual movie a comedy, but in the end he ultimately decided to make a comedy. Along his quest, and through his antics, he realized that his original way wasn’t the right one. The plot had also developed nicely with his new friend “The Lady.” Starting his journey as a tramp, he sets off and meets her. She decides to join him, as the story reaches its climax, so does there relationship.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04,05
Student’s name: Maria Salazar
Student’s email: lupe.salazar94@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10,15
Percent correct: 100%,100%
Sullivan travels was an interesting and good movie to watch. For being my first black-and-white movie I’ve watched I really enjoyed the film. Sullivan is the big Hollywood director who wanted to make a meaningful film. So he decided to dress like a homeless person and sets out to find trouble. On his way to doing so he meets the girl who ends up going on a adventure with him after convincing him. They experience a good time but Sullivan still didn’t have anything good for his film. They go home but the plot twist was when Sullivan decides to go alone and hand out money to the homeless people in the train. it doesn’t end very well for Sullivan he gets knocked out and robbed wakes up on the train gets into trouble and he is sent to jail. At this point the girl and everyone else believed Sullivan was dead but in reality he was serving time in jail after he figures out a way to get out. He realizes the movie that he wants to make will be a comedy.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Zackary Kehr
Student’s email: Zacktactoe@aol.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Gulliver’s travel was a very enjoyable film. It used many of the techniques that we’ve discussed in class. The use of medium range shots placed emphasis on the characters and forces you to focus on their story, not the things going on around them. The use of angled camera and split shots that gave a sense of disorientation gave clues about Sullivan’s memory loss even before it was stated in the film. Also, the use of music by the editors in the background set the tone for many of the scenes. You could always tell when something awful was happening and vise versa.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04,05
Student’s name: Kile Grayson
Student’s email: Kilegrayson@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
Sullivans travels is a story of a man named Sullivan who was a accomplished director. As a accomplished film director and someone passionate about his work, Sullivan becomes driven to make a movie from a completely different perspective, and in doing research so he could convince funders to let him make it he discovered how little he really knew about the subject he was trying to make a movie about. Sullivan learned the world was way deeper than he had ever seen before
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Miguel Garcia
Student’s email: MiguelGarciaKC18@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
I have always had an appreciation for older films such as this movie, Sullivan’s Travels. There was no CGI the humor could genuine and appreciated, the actors did their very best. The entire story was well written i believe. This physical comedy was quite well structured. Camera techniques were well executed given the time era this was made in. Fuzzy images and a tilting camera gave us the sense that something strange happened to Sullivan at one point. Being that this movie was about a man who makes movies there were nods to things like plot twists which gave me as the viewer as moment of “aha!” The underlining principles of the film were also seamlessly woven into the overall film were greatly used. Seeing Sullivan’s character growth was quite rewarding in the end. And character growth i myself very much appreciate in any well written movie such as this/
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Julianne D
Student’s email: julie.dolor@yahoo.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
I can’t recall the last time I’ve watched a film noir, or ever watching one at that, so watching Sullivan’s Travel I didn’t really know what to expect. I was first confused to the storyline til it started making sense towards the middle of the film. I think the fast pace talking of the characters made it hard for me to keep up with what was going on.
I did like the church scene. One because it really caught my attention to actually watch and be interested in the film because it was different from the previous scenes. Like how they used shots of an outside view of the church to shots from inside the church, the low angle shots to focus on the chains on the men’s’ ankles while walking into the church, and also how much they focused on the men laughing up a storm as the camera kept reflecting on Sullivan as if all the laughing had an impact on him, which it actually did as we see towards the end of the film.
So overall, the film ended up being better than I thought other than being confused in the beginning and I’d give a film noir another chance.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: jamila garrett
Student’s email: jamila.garrett18@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 80%
Sullivan’s Travels tackles the interesting idea of wanting to know suffering. most people go out of their way to avoid suffering and trouble, but Sullivan goes out of his way to find trouble. for anyone who’s an artist, its understandable to have the desire to know pain as it inspires creativity and realism. his goal though odd is one rooted in passion which makes it understandable and this connects him to the audience. because the movie is so old, the filmmakers relied heavily on the angles of the shot to convey messages. when the scene becomes twisted or fuzzy and the use of montages help convey the gravity or lightheartedness of the scene. the screen writers did a good job of displaying serious moments but then relieve them with some comedy.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: jamila garrett
Student’s email: jamila.garrett18@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 80%
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Dana Johnson
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
I would be interested in finding out how well Sullivan’s Travels fits Syd Field’s Paradigm theory. (I did look for a pdf of the script but no luck) Some scripts down to the page are a perfect fit and it wouldn’t surprise me if Sullivan’s Travels came very close. Field’s 3 act structure has becomes so ubiquitous that many feel it is ruining Hollywood. But whether you agree or not I think in the case of Sullivan’s Travels the structure fits. What worked in this film is that the Paradigm supported the script instead of the script being forced into the structure. An idea that I think has been lost on modern movies.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies 4e
Chapter Number: 4
Students Name: Elliot Bonnett
Students email: elliot_bonnett@hotmail.com
Number of Questions: 10
Percent correct: 90%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies 4e
Chapter Number: 5
Students Name: Elliot Bonnett
Students email: elliot_bonnett@hotmail.com
Number of Questions: 15
Percent correct: 87%
This was the second full black and white movie that i have watched all the way through. I think this film really follows the screenwriting outline. Every key point and twist is distinguishable. Personally i thought this movie was pretty good. While some of the scenes in this movie were added just for the audience i think the story line in this movies was good. Sometimes you need to a experience things first hand before you can make a movie as in this case. I also appreciated the part where Sullivan begins to appreciate why laughter is necessary for some people.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Catherine Cooke
Student’s email: slysnide@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Preston Sturges thinks he can get away with making a social commentary on poor people by having his characters acknowledge that they’re not from that background, as if it gives him license to do the same. This is similar to how Wes Craven thought that by merely pointing out bad clichés in “Scream” would thus give him license to still use them. It doesn’t. Undoubtedly Sturges used actors for all the roles in this movie. Granted he may possibly have picked some actors from somewhere besides Hollywood, like some small town theater, it still makes for a bizarre film. For on the one hand as I pointed out, he acknowledges the irresponsibility of making a film about a culture he doesn’t understand via his main character Sullivan, but the fact that he makes the film still work by following clichés of old Hollywood films says something. For it’s a safe bet that Sturges didn’t go on his own crazy adventure before making this film. In fact, few filmmakers do when it comes to making films about people or cultures they don’t understand. This and its consequences was practically the subject of Film 105 (Theory & Criticism) which I took last semester). However, this doesn’t make the film bad for it. It was quite enjoyable all the way round, and clearly followed the general rules of filmmaking, as well as George Craft 101, better known as HRS-169 (Hollywood & America).
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Kevin Vasquez
Student’s email: Kevinvasq@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 90%
Even though it was really hard to get through an old black and white movie, I did enjoy Sullivan’s Travels. The story was pretty cleaver, having a rich movie producer go out into the world an see what ” Trouble,” is like in real life. The way the film has a lot of overlapping scenes that also having a lot of fading in and out is pretty big for it’s time. Also the cars driving with the screen in the back was very revolutionary, making it seem like the main characters where actually driving on the roads. In movies now when you see people driving in cars they don’t have a screen behind them, they have a camera mounted on the car itself facing the people in the car. This technology allows us to really feel the car moving and the scenes in the background being real, instead of feeling the the fake rolling screen in the back of the car.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Jordan Vang
Student’s email: jordanvang@hotmail.com
Number of questions: 15
Percent correct: 100%
Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Jordan Vang
Student’s email: jordanvang@hotmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
In my opinion I didn’t really enjoy this movie. Im not sure what it is about black and white movies. I think its interesting how in this movie it showed the major difference of high class and lower class. Then there is the “girl” who seemed to be middle class. Not sure if thats what the film maker wanted to portray. I thought it was interesting about how this movie was about making a film but not a documentary if you know what I’m trying to say there. It was real cliche in my opinion and the acting was “meh” but maybe acting wasn’t necessarily that great back then. Im not sure what kind of genre id consider this film, but i wouldn’t watch it again for fun.
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Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: jeff R
Student’s email: jrutland78@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
sullivens travels is about a man who wants to make better movies then he is now. so what he did was try to get some real world experience. its a film about one trying o be better then what he is. even if he is a successful person he wants his work and his life to have more meaning it is a good character moment because characters evolving to be more drives the plot in a great way.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s name: Alyssa Miller
Student’s email: blueyez02@gmail.com
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 100%
Sullivan Travels is a very good movie in my opinion. He wants to make a different type of film than he is used to making, I thinking goin out into the works was a really good idea for making the movie. I believe the film was very big for its time maybe even ahead of its time. I think it’s really interesting that he wanted to know suffering from other people’s points of view.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 03
Student’s name: Jasmine
Number of questions: 10
Percent correct: 80%
In Sullivan’s Travels, The famous Hollywood director John L. Sullivan wants to earn the proper incite into creating his film known as “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” In order to create this film Sullivan wants to see how people on the poorer end of the spectrum have to survive. He lives in their areas of town for a little bit and ends up getting into a fight at a train station. Sullivan goes on to lose his memory and becomes unable to prove his innocence and is thrown in prison for 6 years. Sullivan was pronounced dead by the community that he once thrived in and he had to try his hardest to prove he was alive and make his way out of prison.
The editors of the film use dark lighting when there is an act of trouble and they tend to use up beat music and lighting angles to show his excitement. When he found a way to get himself out of prison it was a very bright, airy moment. When he was stuffed into the sweat box it was dim and depressing.
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Quiz Name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 04
Student’s Name: Samantha T Navarrete Silva
Student’s Email: snavar11@students.solano.edu
Number of Question’s: 10
Percent Correct: 80%
Quiz Name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s Name: Samantha T Navarrete Silva
Student’s Email: snavar11@students.solano.edu
Number of Questions: 10
Percent Correct: 100%
Music throughout the film adds to the silliness and seriousness of the film it creates the mood and the character’s state of mind in that moment. The exaggerated acting and rapid movement or slow movements in this film help describe the scene further more and helps the viewer to go along the same lines of speed while watching the film. The in-camera effects used in this movie help show the transition of time and what goes on in different places at the same time. There’s a lot of low angle shots in the movie, for example when the guard that keeps on picking on Sullivan sends him to the box he gets a low angle shot to show in a way his authority.
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Quiz name: Looking at Movies, 4e
Chapter Number: 05
Student’s name: Garaude Valeriy, Nicolas
Student’s email: Garaude.nicolas@gmail.com
Number of questions: 15a
Percent correct: 100%
it was a first time for me to see this movie and i enjoyed the plot and the values it was convening, the story was elaborated and and the plot strong comic of situation and irony are here. The producer did a good job in telling the story. Preston Sturge the director/screenwriter mixes drama and comedy in this movie. On one hand Sullivan’s Travels is full of comic action but the dramatic atmosphere is never too far. He struggle to get out of Hollywood and cant find any real trouble no matter how hard he tries. Then finally things do take a turn drastically worse for him but he didn’t intend to get thrown in prison, pronounced dead and be stuck on a chain. Then we’re left to wander if he’s ever going to make it out of there and back to Hollywood. Finally after finding a trick to get his face in the paper and get out as it gets his face in the paper and his producers and the girl recognize him. After his experiences imprisoned he decides he wants to make more comedies because he now recognizes the value in making people laugh the therapy it has on everyone especially poor souls in trouble like in the church scene. The music also helped reinforce the prisoners reactions. Overall it is a movie ill recommend or re-watch on my own. What Hollywood had to offer at the time seems refreshing even in our days.
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