Equity and Trusts
April 1, 2020
Winning high school term paper
April 1, 2020

Documentary film

Documentary film
Parades are usually organized for celebrations ? they are also important to documentary filmmakers. Documenting parade is not merely for the purpose of commemorating celebrations; directors often use them to convey certain ideas to support the film?s main objective. In Roger and Me, Michael Moore uses parades in Flint, Michigan in order to show the ignorant celebrities; in Hearts and Minds, Peter Davis includes parade to show pathetic realty of US soldiers; in Happy Mother?s Day, Richard Leacock uses parade to show the mother?s public life. All of the films contain common America parade but support the main themes of each film differently.

 

 

and here is some information I wrote about my thesis:

the “story” was allowed to emerge from what the filmmakers experienced before the camera.

Parade often involve with celebration of the community.

In Happy Mother�??s Day, Richard Leacock uses parade to show the mother�??s public life.

– Mrs. Fisher had just given birth to quintuplets in the city of Aberdeen, South Dakota. �?? American small town, Midwestern people
– In 1963, before the advent of fertility drugs, the birth of quintuplets was worldwide news.
– Exploitation
– The entire community and parades.
– NO condescension, glorification �?? Direct Camera, cinéma vérité
– Grant Wood�??s American Gothic.
– The Saturday Evening Post and ABC where expecting. They cut and broadcast a different version.

Mother:
– surrounded by the news media firing questions at the shy country mom, who is clearly uncomfortable with the attention
– an unexpected tension between the family’s values and those of the intruding world — namely the town leaders hoping to capitalize on this rare event.

Roger and Me:

– irony + Sardonic statement
– This was one of the most important irony moments that Moore used to influence the audience to think more about the actual situation.
– the crowd of thousands of jobless citizens seemed not only to be a rhetorical tactic but also a rhetorical question.
Parades are usually organized for celebrations �?? they are also important to documentary filmmakers. Documenting parade is not merely for the purpose of commemorating celebrations; directors often use them to convey certain ideas to support the film�??s main objective. In Roger and Me, Michael Moore uses parades in Flint, Michigan in order to show the ignorant celebrities; in Hearts and Minds, Peter Davis includes parade to show pathetic realty of US soldiers; in Happy Mother�??s Day, Richard Leacock uses parade to show the mother�??s public life. All of the films contain common America parade but support the main themes of each film differently.

In those three documentary films, directors use the celebration of the society to expose the ugly truth in their society. As audience, through the directors�?? lens, we reveal what under the cover of those fancy costumes and floats.

Parades are often related with celebrations of an entire community. People of the same community join together to watch the achievement of their society. However, in those three movies, the directors use parades to expose the reality of those celebrations in society.

 

MOVIES ARE:

M.Moore Roger and me: parade at Flint, please work on the interviews during parade (ms american) with all those jobless people and so on…

Hearts and Minds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d2ml82lc7s