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Above the patient clouds sits a strong building, patiently it waits. Calm snow settles against the frozen window seals. Warm food scented air sits around the loud tables and counter. A pottle of chips waits to be collected by a happy boy. Cold with fragments of ice and snow, the carpet shivers.

Listen. Boots stomp like giants jumping. Ice and snow fall from the boots and is crushed. The chilled crisp carpet melts the snow with haste. Overlapping chatter rings out through the building. More hungry boots enter the room.

The line grows longer with every second. People wait in the queue, warm happy food growing cold and sad. Further into this building are doors. Doors that are constantly being slammed open and shut. From inside the hot air escapes into the cold free-roaming air of the mountain.

Look. A kid, Running. The boot slams into the leg of a strong table. His balance off, he can not recover. Hot chips spread across the hungry snow. Tears shatter against the ground. He stands and looks into the pottle. One chip for five dollars.

A stranger calmly approaches the boy.

“It’s ok, here go get your self another. Remember, not too speedy this time”. The boy smiles at you “Th-Thank you”. You feel the unforgiving cold air against your face. The warm protecting balaclava comes on and you walk to the chairlift.

Sat in the middle of a room was a silk blue cheer. the floor, covered in books. the very walls of this room are books, jagged and broken, stacked upon one another. Siting on this cheer was a girl with neatly tied hair and a green shirt. reading a book with a tall room lamp shining over her and the cheer. The city behind her is made off books. some of these books are floating in mid-air as if they are a flock of birds taking off. The sky is blue and red with clouds floating smoothly in from the left.

Fargo is a film by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen or better known as the Coen brothers. This film was released on 8 March 1996 (USA). Fargo is a crime drama set in Minnesota in 1987. Film techniques such as lighting and camera angles were used to convey the idea of greed through the text, I will be covering how these film techniques conveyed the idea of greed in this essay.

The Coen brothers utilized film techniques to display the idea of Greed. One of these techniques was lighting, in film, there are many types of lighting techniques, these are things like key lighting. Key lighting is a lightning technique used to show a character in full light and usually used to “put on display” there facial features and expressions.

Facial expressions are a key part of the audience knowing the emotions and intentions of the characters. Key lighting was utilized perfectly to display the idea of greed throughout this film. Key lighting can also be used to display how good or bad a person appears to be, this is shown in the starting scene of this film.

At the start of this film, a character named Jerry Lundergard arrives at a pub and sits down to talk to two men, when Jerry is talking to the men about how the two men will kidnap Jerry’s wife; Jerry: ‘Okay, see, it’s not me payin’ the ransom. The thing is, my wife, she’s wealthy. Her dad, he’s real well off. Now, I’m in a bit of trouble–‘ the light is only hitting one side of his face, this helps to improve the feeling of greed by making Jerry appear as though he has a dark and light side to him.

The director’s purpose in using key lighting in this scene was to reinforce the greed in Jerry’s words. The Coen brothers used key lighting to perfectly show the idea of greed.

Camera angles are also another tool the Coen brothers used to display the idea of greed through the text, they did this with a low shot camera angle. The low shot camera angle shows that the character in the shot has authority in the situation.

This camera angle displays to the audience an idea of greed when used on a character with bad moral intentions. This is used in Fargo on a character named Jerry, Jerry is a man with what most people would call bad morals and a bad intent. This camera angle is used to show that as Jerry communicates with two other men, that he does it with an intention of gaining money and is driven by greed.

This camera angle is also used in the bar at the start of the film, it is used alongside the key lighting. We can see this camera angle is used as Jerry meets with the two other men, straight away there is already a feeling of power put over the character Jerry, so when Jerry begins to explain his plan to the two men, greed is displayed as the key reason to why he is doing so.

The Coen brothers used the low shot camera angle to show the idea of greed in this film. Camera angles were put to use perfectly in this film and displayed the idea of greed.

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen used lighting techniques and camera angles in their film Fargo to display the idea of greed. I have covered how the use of film techniques such as key lighting and the low shot camera angle display greed in the text.

In the film Gattaca by Andrew Niccol there are many ideas behind the genetic formula and how it can be changed to make perfect people that are destined for greatness, however in this film Niccol shows what could be seen as the main drive of this film, and this is that there is no genetic formula for the human sole. he shows this through the partnership of characters vincent and jerome. 

 

In act 1, scene 5 shakespeare shows conflict through metaphors such as,

“That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”

Lady macbeth is in this scene speaking to the supernatural(witches, wizards, god…etc) and is saying she wants to have her feminine qualities removed because she is sick of the way she has to ask as a woman an not a man. therefor in this scene she is provoking the supernatural because she is defying how the world is being run by the kings. the reason it is dangerous to disobey the kings is because people believed that the kings were chosen by god and to disobey the kings is therefore defying god.

 

You are able to tell the average age of someone by what they say and how they say it, in a text conversation.

The one key difference between modern and older texting language, is that most older generations will miss the fact that using slang is more efficient and much easier to use rather than using formal language, which takes longer and contains less emotion. This is one of the ways you can tell if the texter is older or younger, because they will use either formal language or modern texting slang.

Another useful concept about modern text language is that it supports the texters privacy more, this is because there are more people that will understand formal language rather than modern text language, this means that if an older generation were to read a younger generations text conversation they probably would not be able to understand it.

For example, generally older texters will use more formal language compared to younger people who will use more modern slang to communicate over text. For a further example the use of the letters “lol”, in the modern text conversation means laugh out loud, however to many adults “lol” would mean lots of love, this is a classic and there are many other like it.