Cinema
Cinema of the 1950s
Cinema in the 1950s, film director Alfred Hitchcock film Dial M for Murder (Dial M for Murder), Rear Window (Rear Window) and Vertigo (Vertigo).
Elia Kazan and Marlon Brando discovers together make On the Waterfront (Waterfront) and A Streetcar Named Desire (A Streetcar Named Desire / A Streetcar Named Desire).
The models of feminine beauty, styled by Hollywood, brings common features: the "naive chic", embodied by Grace Kelly Audrey Hepburn; of the femme fatale, embodied by the actress Rita Hayworth and Ava Gardner, and finally pin-ups, blondes and big busts. In the latter category, with elements of the second, the two biggest icons of feminine beauty embodied by the cinema of this decade: Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe. [1]
The young rebel emerges as a model of carelessness in dress and behavior, in addition to Marlon Brando, in 1951 (A Streetcar Named Desire), James Dean immortalized to this stereotype, in 1955 lived in Rebel Without a Cause (Fury of living / Youth erring) [1] and died shortly afterwards.
The cinema of this decade presents a wide variety of styles. Due to the popularization of television studios sought new attractions to bring audiences back to theaters. Thus, we used the technique quite a film in widescreen Cinemascope in various methods such as, VistaVision and Cinerama and the first experiments of 3D movies. The big movie productions and spectacular epics had great popularity, both historical and fictional, like The Robe (The Robe / The Robe), The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men, The Ten Commandments, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad or Ben Hur. Other films outside the United States also used the resources of the big screen, as the works of the Soviet director Aleksandr Ptushko epics in Sadko, Ilya Muromets and Sampo, or Japanese Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai in history, and Kumonosu-jō Kakushi Toride in san akunin.Toshiro Mifune, who starred in Kurosawa's films, also starred in the trilogy color Samurai Trilogy Hiroshi Inagaki
In Brazil, the film industry witnessed a turnaround in quality. At the advent of television has joined the Company's founding Film Vera Cruz, by Assis Chateaubriand and Franco Zampari, which aimed to produce Hollywood quality movies, thus forcing Atlantis Film, who had settled in the previous decade with production of carelessly chanchadas to improve its quality. Actors and technicians were hired foreigners, especially Europeans, consolidates the pair of comedy actors, Oscar and Big Othello.