The Age of Innocence/Brysen Uhalde

Title/Year:

The age of Innocence 1993

Director/Birth Country/Year Born:

Martin Scorsese/ New York/ 1942  

Budget:

30,000,000

Gross:

32,000,000

Synopsis;

A young lawyer falls is engaged to a beautiful woman. Her cousin comes to town and he begins a romance with her. The two fall in love, but she moves away so that he doesn't make the same mistakes that she did.

Narrative and Visual Keywords:

Romance, Drama

Characterization/ Dialogue:

The film is very dialogue driven. It is old English, yet easy to follow.

Camera/lighting/editing technique:

There was great lighting. lots of natural light. no fancy after effects. it was dialogue driven.

 Political/ Social Commentary :

This was a political movie in the sense that people of that time period had to act in a certain way especially the aristocrats.

Historical Relevance/ Recognition:

The book won a Pulitzer Prize in 1921, Oscar for best wardrobe, Winona Ryder was nominated for best supporting actress.

Random fact, Etc. :

Jurassic Park and Schindlers list came out in 1993

Information gathered from IMDB