Tinman and Alice Comparison

These two films were directed by Nick Willing and are both adaptions of claasic stories, The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland. The films are both added with extra elements of sci fi and other elemnets in the plot that give the story a sort of modern twist you can say.

Alice revolves around a young martial arts instructor who accidentally falls into the "looking glass" into Wonderland where its a 150 years into the future since alice actually entered wonderland. But all in all alice brings down the queen of hearts again and her whole operation.

Oz goes into the story of a girl named DG who feels she doesn't belong in this prarie life that she lives in. But soon she discovers and is thown into The O.Z(Outer Zone) by her "parents". But she soon finds out the truth and learns that she's a princess of The O.Z. and her sister is trying to take control. The story sort of goes through the same process as the original Wizard of O.Z.

The directing of both films are sort of similar in make but that's expected due to the fact of the same diector. But Tinman seems to use more blurred and zoom motion effects than Alice. Such as in the scene where Tinman is fighting Zero in the palace there is a lot of blurred fighting scenes where for every hit the scene goes blurred. Seems as though the director was trying to get across the feeling of the person geteting hit. But also the scenes in the city seem very digital made like you can actually tell its computerized also special effects inside the show of the wizard. And it is done beautifully. Ther is also te scene such as the palace where the setting is cold and it seems like a real cold a nd bitter place. But that' s probably done intentionally to set the mood because of all the bad and evil things that tok place there. The whole palce is vacant and there is no life to the place. Just as the Witch's palace its dark all over and very evil looking. That's also done intentionally due to the evil demeanor of witch and her evil deeds. Also the prairie scenes in the begining is so scenic and beautiful to give the effect of a wonderful life but is done intentionally because DG says she doesn't like it. There is also a foretelling of the things to come because the pictures that she painted foretold the tornado to come and a whole bunch of other stuff. Which is done intentionally fro added effect.

Now in Alice there are several more use of computerized imaging and scenes because the whole city with the heights are dine by computers and you can tell it is. Also when it comes to setting about the casino and stuff teh lighting is very bright and vibrant which in fact is due to teh fact that they are looking for all positive feelings and emotions so the room is painted all white and filled wioth bright lights. Also the jungles and woods in the film isn't very dark or ominous like other jungles scenes in other movies but the setting reflects the sort of feeling it reflects. The little reflection room with all the eyes where theyy put Jack cHase is meant to have al eyes oin him.But there isn't much special effect in this movie and specuial angles in this film as there was in tinman.

Dr. Strangelove

Well Dr. Strangelove is a film directed by Stanley Kubrick and goes through the story about how a rogue commanding officer . The movie really is sort of humorous when you actually understand the storyline and watch some of the antics that some of the characters do.
To start the movie is shot in completely black and white so that's an effect in itself. But at the beginning of the film there is a scene where the officer Ripper is contemplating and really is thinking bout the events to come. And he is sitting in his desk shrouded in darkness other than a light beaming him from overhead. This adds another dimension to the scene where the mood reflects the characters feelings at the time. The film also consists of many behind the head shots where you see the scene from a characters point of view, and teh characters head is partially visible.
Furthermore this film consists of many grounds shots where the camera is set on the ground and you see the scene from that viewpoint. This is used at various points in the movie and in various ways that enrich it. The war room where all of the heads of state meet to discus teh whole situation is dark with no to bright of lighting. Since this is supposed to be a room where important decisions are to be made its understandable the sort of dark setting to evocate tension in teh scene. To continue the many battle scenes in the movie where the bas of Commander Ripper is being attacked teh scenes look like old war movies where the screen shakes when a bomb explodes and you see soldiers running across the screen. The film looks like one of the classics especially with the balck and white aspect being added to it.
In accordance to teh costume or makeup the costumes helped lend the authortive army aspect to it. It did get sort of humorous like when the other commander was in his hotel room with his girlfriend.