The film Mad Max Fury Road is a visually stunning film set in a post apocalyptic world. It follows the stories of protagonists Max and Furiosa as they take a group of runaway wives to “the green place”. It is a very action driven film that relies heavily on visuals. One such aspect is that of costumes. The costumes are affected greatly by the harsh environment the world of Mad Max takes place in. Resources are not bountiful and the weather and climate are vastly different from the present time. In addition, societal values have changed in this world. Positions of power are determined by the access to resources and are reflected through costume. The costumes in Mad Max Fury Road expresses the positions, traits, and lifestyles that the characters possess. …show more content…
All five of the wives are dressed in white cotton clothes. They appear to be sheets of white cotton that are wrapped around them in various ways. They are rather scantily clad. The clothing reflects how they lived a rather pampered lifestyle. They had shelter and access to food and water so they do not need clothes to protect them. They were able to wear white clothes that stayed white and had no reason to wear anything that covered more than the essentials. Regardless they were slaves and were considered to be breeders. They were considered the property of Immortan Joe so they wore chastity belts. They remove these as early as they could. This depicts how they were done with being seen as things and strived to be seen as people. The white of their clothes also represent purity for they must only be touched by Immortan Joe. It also illustrates fertility because their purpose was to birth a male hair. As the film progresses, their clothing become more dirtied and they lose some parts of their clothing. This represents how they are exposed to the outside harsh environment and are learning to help and protect themselves with what they
Clothing that is worn by the actors during the play can be a reflection of the characters personalities. Nick, Lucy, Lewis and Julie all seem to be in normal clothing, reflecting the fact they are relatively normal, and don’t show signs of extreme ‘Madness.’ Ruth wears simple, old, and neat clothes that reflect her OCD, and the colours and patterns that Roy wears reflect his crazy and upbeat personality. Meanwhile, Henry wears business-like outfits that you would expect to see a lawyer wear. This helps to inf...
Clothing is a necessity that is need throughout life for protection and comfort, especially in a lifestyle that leads one to have direct contact with the outside environment and a life in the fields. With the low income that a sharecropper and his family had to work with, being fashionable was not one of their top priorities. Even having sufficient clothing at all was a struggle for the family. The clothing that they did have was “coarse, crude, and not warm enough” (Gentry 138). The typical attire for men was “denim overalls”, and...
Mad Max: Fury Road follows the heroine, Imperator Furiosa, with the help of Max Rockatansky, as she attempts to save five women from the clutches of a ruthless desert gang leader, Immortan Joe. In Furiosa’s trials to save the wives of Immortan Joe, she also comes across the Vuvalini clan, a group of older women who have toughed it out in the desert wasteland. There is debate as to whether or not that this film could be considered a feminist film. It seems as if the film’s main goal was not to be seen as a feminist film, but rather to aid in breaking stereotypes about feminists and who can be considered a feminist. Mad Max: Fury Road focuses on the strength and independence that are main factors in the feminist movement, the film also focuses
Napoleon Dynamite is one of the best movies portraying loneliness and nerds. It is the story of Napoleon in high school and his lonely adventures. All the main characters feel separated, misunderstood, and have nobody to relate to. Napoleon has no friends and lives in his own fantasy land. He is avoided by everybody. His brother seems to be mislead, wanting to be a cage fighter but staying home all the time hopelessly trying to find love and attention on the internet. Their grandmother is never there for them, though she lives her own life right beside them. They live next to a huge field, reinforcing their isolation. Practically every home in the film is
The clothing also represents the breakdown of the society. To begin, most of the boys were wearing school uniforms and some were wearing choir robes. This shows they are educated, civilized young men, who are most likely from, or around the city. As time passes, the boys do not remain fully clad. They shed their shoes and shirts. Their hair grows longer, and they are dirtier. This resembles their civilized ways beginning to fade. They also started using face paint for camouflage, and it eventually becomes a ritual.
The film Mad Max Fury Road is set in a post apocalyptic world and has a cast of varied characters. One of the protagonists of the film is Max. His costume consists of rather practical clothing. He lives in a harsh environment and in a world where resources must be scarce thus he sticks to the basics. He wears a shirt, pants, jacket, scarf, and boots. These clothes are enough to cover him sufficiently from the sun and the sand. Naturally these clothes are also very worn and dirtied. The clothes were muted in colors. They were shades of tans, browns, and blacks which did not stand out from the colors of his world. Throughout the movie his costume does not change much. He loses a couple articles of clothing when he is kidnapped at the start of the movie and is used as a blood bag. At that moment, he still has a shirt, pants, and shoes which is considerate of the war boys considering the fact that resources must be scarce and Max is only seen as a blood bag. The fact that they left his clothes on shows some level of either decency or laziness. Later on in the film Max kills the Bullet Farmer and acquires a vest containing bullets and weaponry. The last article of clothing Max acquires is that of a scarf from the Vuvalini. Max as a character does not change much throughout the film which is reflected through
The costume designers really bring the actors to life in the multitude of outfits to correspond with what they were doing at the time. Layering of clothing were very common in these times, and the costume designers definitely took that idea and brought it to life. The costume designers even used the choice of no clothing as a costume in a love scene. Although many say that the use of no clothing was
The movie The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978) by John DeBello is defined as a musical-horror-black-comedy, but most importantly it is known as a cult film. The movie depicts a world in which tomatoes are killers. Due to attacks, the president must create a specialist team to take down the killer vegetable. The team, composed of a lieutenant who never abandons his parachute, an underwater expert, and a master of disguise, must try and fight the seemingly indestructible tomatoes across the world. However, in the end it is a screechy teen pop song, “Puberty Love”, that makes the tomatoes retreat and the town rejoice. The B level film, produced by John DeBello with less than a hundred thousand dollar budget, was released in the United States
Piatti-Farnell (2013) stresses the symbolic value of costume in cinema, and its effect on characterisation and the relationship between a character and its audience. Morpheus once lived as a human in the matrix, he wears mostly black, including full length leather trench coat, mirrored sunglasses and black combat boots. Street (2001) talks of costumes that power to make individuals stand out and to show an individual’s affiliation to a group. Although we are first meeting Morpheus, we are able to establish a lot about his character. We can link him to the matrix, and his coat makes us feel fearful of his authority and power.
The movie, McFarland, USA was inspired by the true story of a high school track team from McFarland, California. At first, the football coach, Jim White (Kevin Costner) had a little incident with one of the players, where he accidently throw the ball or the shoe into the guy's face; therefore, he was fired. However, McFarland high school offered him a job, which is becoming a biology and PE teacher. When his family moved into Mc Farland, they found themselves in a poor, Latino community. On his first day of being a teacher, he was unmotivated like he was just there to do the job. Gradually, he got interested in cross country when he saw a boy, Thomas, who ran so fast through the field. With the help of his student, Johnny, he created a cross country
Public perception of the Vietnam War and World War II influenced the creation of Apocalypse Now and From the City, From the Plough. Apocalypse Now helps to reiterate the public perception that the Vietnam War was a directionless, pointless war. The movie reflected the overall feeling of confusion about the war. The fact that many people were drafted into the war did not help the public’s perception. Others also believed that this was simply another way for America to assert its growing power. This is in sharp contrast to the overall opinion of World War II. This war was described as “The People’s War” and was seen as a fight for the greater good.
Women’s hanbok reflected the Confucian ideal of modesty. Although people generally considered that modesty could be achieved by concealing the female form, the hanbok’s unique design was concealing, yet revealing at the same time. According to Kyung (2010) “the status and rank of their husbands defined the dress of women during the Joseon dynasty” (para. 17). Sumptuary laws mandated that certain fabrics and accessories could be worn only by those who held an appropriate rank. Nonetheless, the categories were eroded over time, and restricted articles came into general use. Kyung (2010) found that geumseonhye, high-quality silk shoes once reserved for members of the royal family, became popular among ordinary people during the nineteenth century (para. 17). Confucian tenets stressing the importance of brides to families as the bearers of sons of the next generations resulted in elaborate marriage clothing that copied the court’s, such as the wearing of marten fur or deep-green-dyed clothes along with jokduri, coronets, and binyu, hairpins, both of which were prohibited several times by special edicts. When women went out in public, a seugae, or veil, was worn to hide their faces from men. Jangot, a long coat, was another type of face-covering headdress used by upper-class women, as it was worn over their heads to cover their faces in public (Kyung, 2010, para.21).
Rocky Balboa is the sixth film in the Rocky series that tells the story of an underdog boxer who rises from the pit of poverty into a life of wealth. Only striving for what is earned out of life, Rocky struggles throughout the film series trying to achieve a sense of happiness. In the sixth film, Rocky Balboa, some of the struggles he undergoes is the abandonment of his son, Robert., and losing his wife, Adrian, to cancer; forming the discontent he has with himself for feeling that has failed the ones closest to him. Looking for a sense of completion, Rocky attempts to renew his boxing license with The Pennsylvania Athletic Commission. Initially I viewed the Rocky series as a franchise that focused primarily on brawns rather than brains; a preconceived notion that lead me to believe the
Quentin Tarantino’s auteur is one that speaks of gore, racism, and certain shot techniques. Above all, the aspect that Tarantino is best known for in his long history of filmmaking is the fact that he only uses traditional, or analog, filmmaking techniques. In fact, Tarantino believes that digital cameras used to shoot film will lead to the eventual demise of filmmaking. His views and ideas of digital vs. traditional filmmaking and how his films could be impacted if they were shot in a digital format are explored.
The appearance is very important for people who are watching a movie, so they can see what the person is like. By looking at a person’s clothes you can see what sort of style they have and therefore what kind of person they are. Agatha Trunchbull wears a green knee length coat with a leather belt, with white shirt and tie underneath it. On her feet she wears knee high