Title: Theme, Tone, and Presentation | An Introduction to Film Analysis
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Theme, Tone, and Presentation
Week 1: Theme, Tone, and Presentation
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Content: A theme is the overall message or argument that a film is trying to make. Movies (and all other works of art) are about something. Even bad movies are about something. Even Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is about something. It has a theme, even if it doesn’t want to. Screenwriter Paul Schrader says, “When you write, you have to know in some way what you are about to do… There has to be some sense of why you are doing this.” For some movies, the theme is obvious. Spiderman: With great power comes great responsibility;