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“Breathless, the Hollywood Renaissance” is a French film based on New Wave. The camera happens to alternate around the character Michel. Most of the scenes and shots have included jump cuts on them. Therefore, the lighting happens to be uneven and the camerawork for the most part is handheld. So Michel gets a close up of himself and the woman and the close up makes them closer together, but when the wider shots occur, then they’re not closer. There’s also a jump cut to long shot of Michel fleeing himself on the scene and it’s not clear enough to look at. For the most part, this turns out to be an interesting French film with barely English spoken and got the sense on how life is in France.
In the movie breathless the director Jean-luc uses many cinematic techniques to shape the film. In the scene where the convertible has been stolen by Michel the director chose to have several jump cuts and that effected the scene greatly. Jump cuts can be used to accelerate a conversation like, when Michel was describing Patricia in the car jump cuts were used leaves the viewers hearing less and viewing less then what occur. The reason jump cuts are use is because a cut can be longer then expected so instead of keeping the film in a slow pace they use a jump cut to move it along. The movie was more subtitled then what I expected makes I more attention to what they are saying then to the camera techniques. Other then tha
The film uses a lot of jump cuts throughout the film. Also making the character Michel, a Frenchman, uncultured and Patricia, an American, is cultured. Usually in real life it’s the other way around. The scene with Michel and Patricia in her room for 20 minutes without any cuts in between made their relationship feel real. Michel stays the same throughout the film and he does not change his character.
I really like Jean Paul Belmondo he was in many classic french movies but i have to admit i never saw this one before it seems to be a very experimental movie, even considering you said we might probably hate it i enjoyed some parts of it as well as the atmosphere in this movie. The movie uses a lot of jump cuts in the sames scenes to skip uninteresting actions and still stay on the same scene.The characters represents anti cliche in this picture and a lot of new unseen features were present in this movie such as the fact there is a scene in one room over 20 min witch is never seen before in movies as for the fact Jean Paul looks at the camera and many other small details witch are not for costume in movie industry, this picture was the precursor of many other experimental movies and a new wave of movies as well.
Breathless is a French film made in 1960 by Jean-Luc Godard. I’ve never seen this before but from what I saw I quite enjoyed it. The only real critique I have is at times the cinematography gets a bit repetitive for my taste. Well and I also can’t say I’m a fan for extensively handheld cinematography although he does switch to a more stable style occasionally for most of the film that I was able to watch he used primarily the handheld method. Along a similar topic the lighting didn’t exactly match perfectly from scene to scene. However, I applaud Jean-Luc Godard and appreciate his work as a filmmaker. Breathless was a game changer for film evoking the Hollywood Renaissance Movement bringing us films such as Bonnie and Clyde.
Breathless is a classical Hollywood film about a man named Michel who after stealing a car, kills a policeman and is then on the run. He falls in love with an American lady, Patricia, who allows him to hide out at her apartment, unaware that he is on the run. Unfortunately for Michel, Patricia rats on him when she finds out the police are looking for him and he gets shot by the police dying “out of breath.” There are a lot of editing techniques used in this film that we have not seen as much of in the other films. There are a lot of jump cuts through the film to pass time and weed out any useless, boring parts between the scene. For example, when Patricia and Michel are in the car, the screen keeps jumping, skipping through time to fasten the overall time spent in the car. Also, before the scene with Patricia where he is about to make a call, the scene iris’ in and than iris’ out to add a smooth transition. This film went against the 3 arch system when Patricia and Michel are sitting on the bed for almost 20 minutes on screen. The entire film is stopped just for that. I think its because the directors want us to feel how they feel, being stuck in a room all hours of the day because as a criminal he is not to be exposed. But 20 minutes long is a little much….
breathless was a film that meant to challenge all norms about what cinematography can do. instead of the normal good guy we have a man named Michel who is a lazy scumbag who has no redeeming personality traits whatsoever that we are meant to root for. he was one of the few anti heroes you rarely saw in film up into that point. this film strives to be different by the way it is shot. the multiple jump cuts it uses through out the whole film and that one long scene in the apartment is the director trying to break the mold. and because of his bold experimentation it led to a bunch of other directors wanting to experiment too.
The black and white movie Breathless is a great example of a film using different forms of cinematography. One one aspect that I really never understood was what a jump cut really was. Breathless uses a jump cut effectively many times most notably in the scene where Michel steals the convertible to take Patricia out. The focus on their heads shows us jump cuts if we observe closely. The shot never is off their heads but we see a slight jump and a slight move of either of their heads
Breathless was made during the time of the New Wave, so there elements of experiments in the movie, it broke a lot of the tradition of Hollywood movies, this movie came before the “chaotic” sixties, the sexual revolution, the drastic change in music and so on, yet it was very much not like your movies of the golden age of Hollywood. For instance a man and woman were very very rarely seen as close as Michel and his “girlfriend”. Violence was shown many times, thievery among others, so what I guess you could say stood out to me most about this film was how it broke a lot of rules and became a movie that defined rebellion in Hollywood. As far as cinematography goes, this film had plenty of jump cuts to last, with the camera being handheld most of the time, I feel this is done so we feel the movie is more authentic and close to us. Other than these thing I will honestly say I couldn’t enjoy this film too much as hard as I tried.
French New Wave movie, Breathless, succeeded by breaking the rules of cinematography-many jump cuts, running right-to left, iris in/out, long dissolves, arial shots. Explicit meaning: cop killer and implicit meaning: freedom; French to English and English to French. A motif was the love of American cars. A serious love of American Jazz-soundtrack awesome. Definitely an auteur film-Goddard did it his way. Kudos. The 60s were revolutionary in America, still had married people sleeping in separate beds. Breathless had Patricia in bed under the covers with boyfriend, Michel!
The film Breathless, by Jean-Luc Godard, is a film centered on Michel, an antihero, and his attempts to evade arrest after killing a police officer. An example of the French New Wave, the director utilizes jump cuts and hand-held cameras. Michel idolizes Humphrey Bogart, whom the director also likes, emphasizing the character in several close ups of a poster of Bogart’s picture. Breathless follows a standard 3 act story narrative structure but the use of jump cuts during several scenes, which draw the audience’s attention to the film, briefly separating them from the “reality” of the film’s world. Several scenes utilize these techniques including Michel shooting the cop and dialogs involving Michel and Patricia—especially in the car—that effectively utilized the technique. Besides containing a familiar crime storyline Godard alters the narrative by incorporating a prolong dialog between Patricia and Michel in her bedroom, giving time to a scene which does not move the plot forward. Although not integral to the plot inclusion of this prolonged scene, the handheld cameras, and jump cuts went against the mold established by previous Hollywood films. The result would be a new time of film editing, challenging the domination of the cinematic and narrative structures of Hollywood. Breathless would help fuel a revolution in cinematic and editing techniques thereby evolving filmmaking.
“Breathless, the Hollywood Renaissance” is a French new wave film. During this film it was time of focus on anti-hero, our anti-hero in this film is named Michel, somewhat of a gangster. They shot an extensive amount using the handheld method, in attempt to give it a more natural and real life feel. I feel as it was over used and gotten quite repetitive, along with their over-usage of jump cuts. Nevertheless, I always have respect for an experimental movie that goes against the norm. Although it wasn’t the first, this was a precursor to other experimental movies, as well as a pioneer, to new wave of movies.
Breathless, a film by Jean-Luc Godard, embraces France’s New Wave movement to the highest degree. The film follows a free-flowing narrative as opposed to direct and straight narratives that were common of films considered mainstream at the time. In addition to a free-flowing narrative, Breathless is filmed in a way that also reflects New Wave style. With a DIY vibe in mind, cameras are handheld and present a dimensionality unlike any other. The film also incorporated a lot of jump cuts, which follow suit to the free-flowing narrative and simulate direction of subject matter without stressing so much on the tying together of narrative.
This was a strange film. The director conveyed meaning in a very unorthodox way. By dragging certain scenarios much longer than they should be. an example of this would be the conversation between the main character and the girl in the bedroom. It seemed the plot had a lot of moments that seemed irrelevant. Which ultimately to were useless. This film utilized a lot of jump cuts. The characters were bland and uninteresting and this was a movie I did not like.
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“Breathless, the Hollywood Renaissance” is a French film based on New Wave. The camera happens to alternate around the character Michel. Most of the scenes and shots have included jump cuts on them. Therefore, the lighting happens to be uneven and the camerawork for the most part is handheld. So Michel gets a close up of himself and the woman and the close up makes them closer together, but when the wider shots occur, then they’re not closer. There’s also a jump cut to long shot of Michel fleeing himself on the scene and it’s not clear enough to look at. For the most part, this turns out to be an interesting French film with barely English spoken and got the sense on how life is in France.
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In the movie breathless the director Jean-luc uses many cinematic techniques to shape the film. In the scene where the convertible has been stolen by Michel the director chose to have several jump cuts and that effected the scene greatly. Jump cuts can be used to accelerate a conversation like, when Michel was describing Patricia in the car jump cuts were used leaves the viewers hearing less and viewing less then what occur. The reason jump cuts are use is because a cut can be longer then expected so instead of keeping the film in a slow pace they use a jump cut to move it along. The movie was more subtitled then what I expected makes I more attention to what they are saying then to the camera techniques. Other then tha
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That it was a good film.
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The film uses a lot of jump cuts throughout the film. Also making the character Michel, a Frenchman, uncultured and Patricia, an American, is cultured. Usually in real life it’s the other way around. The scene with Michel and Patricia in her room for 20 minutes without any cuts in between made their relationship feel real. Michel stays the same throughout the film and he does not change his character.
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I really like Jean Paul Belmondo he was in many classic french movies but i have to admit i never saw this one before it seems to be a very experimental movie, even considering you said we might probably hate it i enjoyed some parts of it as well as the atmosphere in this movie. The movie uses a lot of jump cuts in the sames scenes to skip uninteresting actions and still stay on the same scene.The characters represents anti cliche in this picture and a lot of new unseen features were present in this movie such as the fact there is a scene in one room over 20 min witch is never seen before in movies as for the fact Jean Paul looks at the camera and many other small details witch are not for costume in movie industry, this picture was the precursor of many other experimental movies and a new wave of movies as well.
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Breathless is a French film made in 1960 by Jean-Luc Godard. I’ve never seen this before but from what I saw I quite enjoyed it. The only real critique I have is at times the cinematography gets a bit repetitive for my taste. Well and I also can’t say I’m a fan for extensively handheld cinematography although he does switch to a more stable style occasionally for most of the film that I was able to watch he used primarily the handheld method. Along a similar topic the lighting didn’t exactly match perfectly from scene to scene. However, I applaud Jean-Luc Godard and appreciate his work as a filmmaker. Breathless was a game changer for film evoking the Hollywood Renaissance Movement bringing us films such as Bonnie and Clyde.
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Breathless is a classical Hollywood film about a man named Michel who after stealing a car, kills a policeman and is then on the run. He falls in love with an American lady, Patricia, who allows him to hide out at her apartment, unaware that he is on the run. Unfortunately for Michel, Patricia rats on him when she finds out the police are looking for him and he gets shot by the police dying “out of breath.” There are a lot of editing techniques used in this film that we have not seen as much of in the other films. There are a lot of jump cuts through the film to pass time and weed out any useless, boring parts between the scene. For example, when Patricia and Michel are in the car, the screen keeps jumping, skipping through time to fasten the overall time spent in the car. Also, before the scene with Patricia where he is about to make a call, the scene iris’ in and than iris’ out to add a smooth transition. This film went against the 3 arch system when Patricia and Michel are sitting on the bed for almost 20 minutes on screen. The entire film is stopped just for that. I think its because the directors want us to feel how they feel, being stuck in a room all hours of the day because as a criminal he is not to be exposed. But 20 minutes long is a little much….
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breathless was a film that meant to challenge all norms about what cinematography can do. instead of the normal good guy we have a man named Michel who is a lazy scumbag who has no redeeming personality traits whatsoever that we are meant to root for. he was one of the few anti heroes you rarely saw in film up into that point. this film strives to be different by the way it is shot. the multiple jump cuts it uses through out the whole film and that one long scene in the apartment is the director trying to break the mold. and because of his bold experimentation it led to a bunch of other directors wanting to experiment too.
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The black and white movie Breathless is a great example of a film using different forms of cinematography. One one aspect that I really never understood was what a jump cut really was. Breathless uses a jump cut effectively many times most notably in the scene where Michel steals the convertible to take Patricia out. The focus on their heads shows us jump cuts if we observe closely. The shot never is off their heads but we see a slight jump and a slight move of either of their heads
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Breathless was made during the time of the New Wave, so there elements of experiments in the movie, it broke a lot of the tradition of Hollywood movies, this movie came before the “chaotic” sixties, the sexual revolution, the drastic change in music and so on, yet it was very much not like your movies of the golden age of Hollywood. For instance a man and woman were very very rarely seen as close as Michel and his “girlfriend”. Violence was shown many times, thievery among others, so what I guess you could say stood out to me most about this film was how it broke a lot of rules and became a movie that defined rebellion in Hollywood. As far as cinematography goes, this film had plenty of jump cuts to last, with the camera being handheld most of the time, I feel this is done so we feel the movie is more authentic and close to us. Other than these thing I will honestly say I couldn’t enjoy this film too much as hard as I tried.
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French New Wave movie, Breathless, succeeded by breaking the rules of cinematography-many jump cuts, running right-to left, iris in/out, long dissolves, arial shots. Explicit meaning: cop killer and implicit meaning: freedom; French to English and English to French. A motif was the love of American cars. A serious love of American Jazz-soundtrack awesome. Definitely an auteur film-Goddard did it his way. Kudos. The 60s were revolutionary in America, still had married people sleeping in separate beds. Breathless had Patricia in bed under the covers with boyfriend, Michel!
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The film Breathless, by Jean-Luc Godard, is a film centered on Michel, an antihero, and his attempts to evade arrest after killing a police officer. An example of the French New Wave, the director utilizes jump cuts and hand-held cameras. Michel idolizes Humphrey Bogart, whom the director also likes, emphasizing the character in several close ups of a poster of Bogart’s picture. Breathless follows a standard 3 act story narrative structure but the use of jump cuts during several scenes, which draw the audience’s attention to the film, briefly separating them from the “reality” of the film’s world. Several scenes utilize these techniques including Michel shooting the cop and dialogs involving Michel and Patricia—especially in the car—that effectively utilized the technique. Besides containing a familiar crime storyline Godard alters the narrative by incorporating a prolong dialog between Patricia and Michel in her bedroom, giving time to a scene which does not move the plot forward. Although not integral to the plot inclusion of this prolonged scene, the handheld cameras, and jump cuts went against the mold established by previous Hollywood films. The result would be a new time of film editing, challenging the domination of the cinematic and narrative structures of Hollywood. Breathless would help fuel a revolution in cinematic and editing techniques thereby evolving filmmaking.
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“Breathless, the Hollywood Renaissance” is a French new wave film. During this film it was time of focus on anti-hero, our anti-hero in this film is named Michel, somewhat of a gangster. They shot an extensive amount using the handheld method, in attempt to give it a more natural and real life feel. I feel as it was over used and gotten quite repetitive, along with their over-usage of jump cuts. Nevertheless, I always have respect for an experimental movie that goes against the norm. Although it wasn’t the first, this was a precursor to other experimental movies, as well as a pioneer, to new wave of movies.
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Breathless, a film by Jean-Luc Godard, embraces France’s New Wave movement to the highest degree. The film follows a free-flowing narrative as opposed to direct and straight narratives that were common of films considered mainstream at the time. In addition to a free-flowing narrative, Breathless is filmed in a way that also reflects New Wave style. With a DIY vibe in mind, cameras are handheld and present a dimensionality unlike any other. The film also incorporated a lot of jump cuts, which follow suit to the free-flowing narrative and simulate direction of subject matter without stressing so much on the tying together of narrative.
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This was a strange film. The director conveyed meaning in a very unorthodox way. By dragging certain scenarios much longer than they should be. an example of this would be the conversation between the main character and the girl in the bedroom. It seemed the plot had a lot of moments that seemed irrelevant. Which ultimately to were useless. This film utilized a lot of jump cuts. The characters were bland and uninteresting and this was a movie I did not like.
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