a trip to the moon review
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A Trip the Moon Review (Tuesday 25 Sep. 12)
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A Trip to the Moon is an old black and white movie which was done in 1990. This movie is a
French black and white science fiction movie which its title is also knows at Le Voyage dans
la lune. This film was produced and directed by George Melies who was a French illusionist
and filmmaker, famous for most development in the early days of cinema.
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Plot
This movie was about a small group of astronomersin a small office deciding whether to visitthe moon. They all came to an agreement and created a rocket that would take them over to
the moon.
After they had landed in the moon and slept overnight, it then came that the moon wasnt
empty and there were creature or different form of species living in the moon. The men that
flew to the moon got captured by the aliens and were going to be sacrificed to the king of the
moon. The men who flew to the moon ran away to find theyre rocket and flew back to earth.
Because this was a silent movie, I liked the way they presented and made it funny without
hearing whats going on in the background, with only the music speaking to the audience. Le
Voyage dan la lune contains wonderful visual effects for its era, nice put rocket with smoke
effects Melies' familiar in-camera tricks and visual effects are put to good use inA Trip to
the Moon and, unlike some of his earlier films.(Dion Detterer)It was also well thought how the moon had a face in my opinion it shows that the moon is
alive and it had organic things within it for example; the mood did have mushrooms Its in
the details, however, where the real beauty lies, such as when an umbrella transforms into a
mushroom before our eyes.(Thom Ryan) (Figure 2)
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George Melie done a fantastic job with the use
of paintings in hes scene, they are highly
detailed and really bring out its effects that it
was actually there. Looking at the image below
it visualizes the use of the paining in the
backgroundA Trip to the Moon is a delight, a
work of pure, playful imagination, a picture-
book fantasy brought to life with intricate,
hand-painted sets and a whimsical portrait of
science as wizardry by way of the industrial
revolution(sean Axmaker) (Figure 03)
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Illustration
Figure 01:http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb58m2Uzh81qd7v5ao2_1280.jpg
Figure 02:http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/wpcontent/uploads/2006/05/melies.jpg
Figure 03:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YfumoNcZy-U/TEZ2bPDKcQI/AAAAAAAAAHo/-
T9Lp49ELSk/s1600/05+Expo+Melies+VOYAGE-DANS-LA-LUNE.jpg
Bibliography
Deion Detterer available at:http://dionattheflicks.com/2010/05/15/a-trip-to-the-moon/(accessed on 12
Oct. 12)
Tom Ryan available at:http://filmyear.typepad.com/blog/2006/07/1902_moon_wars.html (accessed on 12
Oct. 12)
Sean Axmaker available at:http://www.seanax.com/2012/04/11/cinema-landmark-a-trip-to-the-moon-
restored/(accessed on 12 Oct. 12)
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