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Watergate. What was that famous big fuss about nearly five decades ago? Explain what happened from the time a security guard discovered the entry at the Democratic party offices in the Watergate complex to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. How did the Washington Post uncover the huge scandal that underlay what appeared to be a petty break-in? Who were the principal miscreants and what happened to them? Please elaborate and explain. I suggest you start by reading All the Presidentâs Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (both of whom are still alive, active and commenting on TV on the actions of Donald Trump).
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Jeunet also uses close-ups to mark the end of sequences: âLooping crane shots, rapid zooms, and dizzying montage passages give way to several seconds of Tautou, absolutely still, staring directly into the camera, an object of our lingering gaze.âAs with every other aspect of the film, Tautouâs face does not escape Jeunetâs aesthetic edits, serving the superficial narrative as much as-if not more than-the fantastical Paris. As a shot, close-ups, in the terms of Eisenstein, are both individuals and collectives. In presenting Amelie through close-ups, she is presented as an icon, both an âimagined friend and an inaccessible idealâ. The combination of proximity and distance that enables the success of a media icon is an ideal employed by Jeunet. Like a media icon, Amélie provides the audience with traces of reality: opportunities for autonomy, references to past-cinema, while simultaneously isolating the world of the movie through the heavily stylised aesthetics and edited visuals. The close-up presents a dualistic paradox for the viewer. There is an intimacy in the proximity of the shot which, as severed from the âbigger pictureâ, necessitates the abstraction of information; the close-up, in its narrow perspective, refers viewers beyond the immediate. The multitude of close-ups of Tautouâs face, presents Tautou iconically, as they create a pause in the film, providing the audience with multiple instances to reflect on the image in and of itself. The power of the close-up comes from the referential value attributed to it. The close-ups of Tautou therefore give the audience an opportunity for their own autonomous imaginative response to the film by pausing the action visually and temporally. As such, the close-up is a strategy that exemplifies greater themes of the film: the spectator and the significance of the image. In presenting Tautouâs face so iconicly throughout the movie, Jeunet is provoking the relationship between film and spectatorship and subverts Hollywoodâs mindlessness through creatin>
Jeunet also uses close-ups to mark the end of sequences: âLooping crane shots, rapid zooms, and dizzying montage passages give way to several seconds of Tautou, absolutely still, staring directly into the camera, an object of our lingering gaze.âAs with every other aspect of the film, Tautouâs face does not escape Jeunetâs aesthetic edits, serving the superficial narrative as much as-if not more than-the fantastical Paris. As a shot, close-ups, in the terms of Eisenstein, are both individuals and collectives. In presenting Amelie through close-ups, she is presented as an icon, both an âimagined friend and an inaccessible idealâ. The combination of proximity and distance that enables the success of a media icon is an ideal employed by Jeunet. Like a media icon, Amélie provides the audience with traces of reality: opportunities for autonomy, references to past-cinema, while simultaneously isolating the world of the movie through the heavily stylised aesthetics and edited visuals. The close-up presents a dualistic paradox for the viewer. There is an intimacy in the proximity of the shot which, as severed from the âbigger pictureâ, necessitates the abstraction of information; the close-up, in its narrow perspective, refers viewers beyond the immediate. The multitude of close-ups of Tautouâs face, presents Tautou iconically, as they create a pause in the film, providing the audience with multiple instances to reflect on the image in and of itself. The power of the close-up comes from the referential value attributed to it. The close-ups of Tautou therefore give the audience an opportunity for their own autonomous imaginative response to the film by pausing the action visually and temporally. As such, the close-up is a strategy that exemplifies greater themes of the film: the spectator and the significance of the image. In presenting Tautouâs face so iconicly throughout the movie, Jeunet is provoking the relationship between film and spectatorship and subverts Hollywoodâs mindlessness through creatin>
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