Film Presentation“Slumdog Millionaire”

Presented by:Amel Mohammed 200710289Shamma Al Falasi 200705489

Created by: Shamma Al Falasi

Outline About the movie.Lets watch! Concepts: 1-Plot 2-Characters 3-Dialogue 4-Flashback

Techniques:1-Camera 2-Lighting 3- Sounds 4-Narrative Structure.

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About the movie:A Mumbai teen who grew up in the

slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of "Who Wants

To Be A Millionaire?" He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events

from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the

answers.*

* According to IMD (Internet Movie Database).

Ratings:

It won 8 Oscars and 53 nominations.

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Let’s watch !

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The Plot (in this part)

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Jamal's reaching the final questionHe randomly picks Aramis, which is the right answer, and wins the grand

prizeA Bathroom door broke down, Salim kills Javed, followed by Salim's death at

the hand of Javed's men.With Salim’s dying breath, he gasps that God is great.

Later that night, Jamal and Latika meet at the railway station The movie ends with a dance scene on the platform to “Jai Ho”

Main Characters

Dev Patel & Freida Pinto Saurabh Shukla

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Dialogue Slumdog Millionaire is mix of: Indian and foreign talent. English and Hindi dialogue.

Flashback There are series of flashbacks:

It appears in each question, when he use to answer depending on his memory.

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Narrative Structure• A non-linear structure.• Including flashbacks.

Sounds

• The heart beat sound.• Door knocks.• Hands claps.• Train sound.• Slow music.

The movie has strong “moments” of love, anger, orphaned existence, communal riots, beggary, brother seducing a brother’s love,

betrayal, and honesty versus crime. For example:

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Techniques:

Camera

Lighting The lighting symbolized the characterization, the mood,

the ambiance and the settings throughout the whole film.ex: the bright light symbolizes the happiness and the preciousness of their meeting.

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Slumdog Millionaire was complicated, partly because of the scene locations that were chosen; like the Red Light District and the train station.

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References• Internet Movie Database at, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/• World films at, http://worldfilm.about.com/od/independentfilm/fr/slumdog.htm

The Glossary of Film Analysis Vocabulary:• This glossary was compiled and adapted from following: Thomson and Gale, Free

Resources (http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/glossary/ ),• Wikipedia and from Dino Feluga's module on narratology (the University of

Purdue) • (http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/narratology/terms/), Steve Dennings

website at ( http://www.stevedenning.com/What_story.html), The Seventh Art site at: http://www.geocities.com/the7thart/film-terms.html

• and the Yale University Film Studies website: (http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/index.htm)

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