Presentation script plan

Topic: Kate and Leo's

Focus film: Revolutionary Road (2008)

Related films: Titanic (1997), The Holiday (2006) and Inception (2010)

Revolutionary Road

Behind the scenes: The making of: Revolutionary Road (part 1)
Start watching at 5:53

Favourite scene:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2lTpPptOWA

Titanic

Behind the scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra3eGAujZfc

Favourite scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MDPeL8lpzo

The Holiday

Behind the scenes:

Favourite scene: Tent scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjhUKCJYdFg)

Inception

Behind the scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhsA9QUHDQc

Favourite scene: Mal's suicide scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCTAJ00nIlI)

Presentation script

 

Video to start presentation: Kate and Leo - She's everything to me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJVwVWCaVN4)

Presenter:  For my project I am doing the relationship between Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio and how they partnership is so special, on-screen and off-screen.  I am also looking at their performances together on the 2 films they have been with together, and then 2 films that Winslet and DiCaprio have been separately. 

Presenter:  In this presentation I will cover (display them as bullet points on P.P )

• Explain that Revolutionary Road
• Mention the other three films I will be looking at (Titanic/Inception/The Holiday)
• Talk about G.G and T.H as they are the two films that Winslet and DiCaprio star in separately

Quotes Kate and Leo have said:  "laugh at the same things...she never lets me take myself seriously, even if I wanted to.  We have a special magic". LEO
 "We needed each other to lean on because we were very young and working all kinds of crazy bloody hours, and it was a shock to the system" KATE
Show these on PowerPoint as pictures

Photos:  Kate and Leo in Titanic and then in Revolutionary Road.  Show the difference in aging

Clip for Leo performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCTAJ00nIlI
Mal's suicide

Presenter:  I think that the performance in this scene is really good because you can see the pain in Leo/Dom's eyes when his wife is about to commit suicide.  This is a very sad scene to watch

What people have thought of Leo's performance:
Show screenshots on P.P

Titanic clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MDPeL8lpzo

Presenter: I really like this scene because I think it is very calm and romantic - this is when Rose and Jack start to fall in love.  The scene starts off with Jack looking out at sea and then Rose calls Jack looks at Rose in amaze and they way DiCaprio showed the audience that Jack was in love with Rose was his eye-contact and facial expressions.  The next clip I am going to show you is an re-enactment of the "I'm flying" scene but Leo is with Jonah Hill. 

Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3XK9FkNCY
Start at 4:55

Review on Inception

Hi guys!! On 26th December I watched Inception.  So I thought I would write a review on what I thought about it.

At first, I found the begging quite hard to follow which made it really confusing and difficult to watch.   I think after half an hour or so into the film I started to enjoy it and understand it a lot more.  I thought the idea of dreaming and reality was a very good idea.  The visual effects in this film was very good because it made the storyline really realistic which was very clever.

My favourite scene from the film was when Dom (DiCaprio) saw his wife (Marion Cotillard) commit suicide.  I know that this scene is very upsetting because it is the moment Dom loses his wife, but I feel that the performances in this are really good.  DiCaprio's performance in this clip is really good because he uses all sort of hand gestures in this scene and also by the way he is speaking it is very convincing.  Cotillard performed also really well because she has to pretend that she is crazy and is about to commit suicide because she still thinks that she is in a dream not reality. She feels that the only way to 'wake up' from her dream was get a 'kick' (used to wake up the person dreaming suddenly).   At the start of the clip you see Dom stepping into the hotel room looking for his wife, which he then finds out is outside about to jump off the opposite building.  Dom does a lot of persuading to do, this is shown by stern words and eye-contact, towards his wife but it still doesn't convince Mal that she is in reality.

Inception

Hey guys!! I watched Inception the other day so I thought I would add a blog entry about it.


Background information...

• Release date - 16th July 2010 (UK and USA)
• Cast - Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Livitt and Ken Watanabe
• Director - Christopher Nolan
• Budget - $160 million
• Box office - $825.5 million
• Distributors - Warner Bros Pictures

Official trailer...




Images related to the film...

Comparing Titanic and Revolutionary Road - performance wise

Hi guys! I'm back and today I am going to compare Titanic and Revolutionary in terms of performance.  I will talk about the performance in a scene from both and explain the performance, and then lastly I will compare each performance.

Titanic performance:

 

 

I really like this scene because this is when Rose and Jack share their first kiss – the scene is when Rose says “I’m flying Jack”.  The scene starts off with Jack starting out at sea and then Rose appears, Jack asks Rose to grab his hand which she does and he leads her to go in front of him.  Jack grabs Rose’s other hand and leads her onto the top step of the deck (Rose has her eyes closed when this is all happening).  Jack tells Rose to open her eyes and this is when she says “I’m flying Jack, I’m flying”.

 The performance in this scene is breathtaking because as the scene goes on you see that both characters become more comfortable together and then start to trust each other. Especially Rose, in this scene she finally starts to trust Jack.  Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) acting in this scene is remarkable.  This is because at the start of the scene you see Jack surprised to see Rose coming towards him.  Afterwards, he seems to take it all in and becomes more relaxed. You can tell he became more relaxed by his facial expressions. 

 

In an interview once, Kate said that she is embarassed by her Titanic performance - she said "even my American accent, I can't listen to it".  This shows that

Even though as an audience member I thought it was really good and very confincing, Kate doesn't think so.

 

 

 

Revolutionary Road performance:

  

 

 

 This scene is a lot different than Titanic because this is when Frank and April have a fight after April's first show at the theatre.  The scene starts off with an awkward silence in the car and then Frank pulls over and starts to slowly have a go at April.  This then turns into a very heated argument and it ends in April stepping outside the car and have a cigarette in order to calm down.  As Titanic is one of my favorite and I love the chemistry between Jack and Rose, I found watching this scene very difficult to watch as both characters are fighting all the time.

 

In this film Winslet had to do an American accent again.  I still think it is amazing and Kate did a really good job.

 

 

 

 

 

 



Revolutionary Road review

Hi guys! Today I am going to write a review on Revolutionary Road, the 2nd film that DiCaprio and Winslet starred in together. 

At first, I thought that this film was really interesting because it started from the past (when April and Frank first met).  After within 15 minutes watching it I did start to get a little bit uncomfortable watching it.  It is completely different from Titanic because Titanic is a romantic film whereas Revolutionary Road is drama.  I didn't like the fact that most of the scenes were about the 2 characters (April and Frank arguing all the time)

My favourite scene from the film was when April (Winslet) and Frank (DiCaprio) had their first major fight and this caused a lot of tension between the couple.  Kate and Leo's performances in this scene are incredible because they change emotion twice through out the scene which is very hard to do, and also when both characters shout each other it is very realistic.

Comparing Titanic and Revolutionary Road

Hi guys! This blog today is about comparing Titanic and Revolutionary Road.  I have included some similarities and differences.

• Both films have Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kathy Bates in them.

DiCaprio and Bates in Titanic

Kate and Kathy at an event

• In both films they mention Paris - in Titanic you see Rose looking at Jack's drawings he drew on French women in Paris and then in Revolutionary Road April wants to move to Paris to become an actress.



Titanic scene when Rose looks at Jack's drawings

• Titanic is a very romantic film and Rose and Jack are clearly deeply in love, Rose says to Jack "When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you" so this shows she is going to leave Cal for Jack.  However in Revolutionary Road, Frank and April DID love each other but then later on life they gradually started hating each other.  They were in a difficult and violent marriage - I found it quite hard to watch because I love Rose and Jack's love. 

Titanic

Revolutionary Road

• In Revolutionary Road April dies and then in Titanic Jack dies.

• Titanic's genre is romantic and Revolutionary Road's is drama

• Revolutionary Road is set in the late 1940's whereas Titanic is set in 1912 (28 years apart)

Titanic - dinner table scene

Hi guys! Missed me? Well I am back now and today I am going to talk about a scene from Titanic. The scene is when Jack is invited to first class and has dinner with Rose, Cal (her fiancée), mother and a few other first class passengers. I am focusing on performance.

Here are the videos...

Photos from the clips:

Meeting at bottom of the stairs:

Dinner scene photos:

The main focus during the clips isn't the dialogue, it is about what Kate and Leo do during the 2 scenes.  Eye-line match, gestures and finally their acting skills.  Eye-line match means that the gaze of a character in one shot has to line up with the next shot with a different character.   Examples of gestures are starring at each other, smiling, linking hands and laughing (all what Rose and Jack do).

Meeting at the bottom of the stairs clip.  In this scene, When Rose walks down the stairs, Jack just stares at her and Rose stars back.  When Jack kisses Rose's hand he said " I saw that in a nickelodeon one, and I always wanted to do it.". This makes laugh, Jack laughs as well.  This is showing that Rose and Jack are comfortable with each other and this is when they start falling in love with each other.  I really like the acting in this scene because Leo and Kate make it look really natural and also even though I have watched Titanic loads of times, this scene always makes me smile.

During the dinner table scene, you notice every once in a while you notice Rose and Jack exchanging looks and smiles.  For example when Jack is talking about how great is life is and how he loves waking up in the morning not knowing what is going to happen or who is going to meet, Rose just stares at him. Rose smiles at Jack which causes Jack to smile too.  I really like the acting in this clip because you are mainly focusing on the gestures and eye-line match between Leo and Kate.Also in this scene you can see Kathy Bates (Molly Brown) give Rose's mum (Ruth) the evil stare.  The evil stare symbolises that Molly doesn't really like Ruth. She is a little bit up-herself and also she is suggesting to Jack she has more power than him as Jack is third class and Ruth is in first class, this is shown by Ruth saying "you find this sort of things appealing do you?".  

When Jack says goodbye to everyone and then kisses Rose's hand again (just like the beginning of the night) and puts a note in her palm.  They share glances at each other and when Jack leaves, Rose/Winslet looks down and smiles. 

Script

I found the whole script for the film on a website and I found it very interesting to look at the script while playing the scene at the same time.  At some bits, it is hard to follow but Jack still says the same lines.

Link: http://sites.inka.de/humpty/titanic/script.html