“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self.” A line from 2015 film Kingsman: The Secret Service, directed and written by Matthew Vaughn, director of 2011 superhero movie X-Men First Class, is a humorous take on spy movies alike. The R-13 movie revolves around a rookie street kid that is recruited into a secret organization just as a new threat becomes prominent. As per any film there is, it has its highlights that creates tension that viewers are sure to like and its lowlights that makes one wish to just skip it until the movie ends. For the reason of wanting to expound on the knowledge of Hollywood films, this is a critique for a movie that is incredible if you don’t think about it. Gary “Eggsy” Unwin (Taron Egerton) whose late father worked for a secret organization, lives in South London as a street thug slowly going down the path of crime and into the closed bars of a cell, but when agent Harry Hart (Colin Firth) recruits him to be a trainee into the secret organization his life begins to change. There he started to train to be a spy all the while the world faces a new threat in the …show more content…
At first glance it seems like any other spy movie with the; cool gadgets, explosions, and jumping out of planes, and in actuality, it is, it’s just another one of those movies that seem to be quite a stretch from reality with all it’s impossible themes and stories, yet what makes it unlike any other spy movie is its boldness and unique style. Imagine it in the sense of Bond movies but with bolder lines and more graphic scenes, Kingsman is basically a Bond film without the sophistication, although it still has a bit of finesse when it deals with the theme of being a gentleman and an honorable person, all this is overshadowed by humorous lines, profanities and sexual
This movie was a tale of an immigrant seeking money and power who untimely set up his own demise. The producers did a good job at pointing out certain features that let you into the life of an organized crime leader. He tells of his humble beginnings and shows you in details how he rose to the top. The producer had a point to make and I took that point as being you can never get and stay someone good while being bad. The sound effects and graphics also makes this movie. They show just enough to intrigue you but yet not to completely make you sick to your stomach. The music is very telling and
The Hollywood blacklist and the subsequent Paramount decision altered the direction of U.S. moviemaking in a big way. While both events are important in filmmaking history, the opinions on the legality, necessity, and effects of these events vary widely depending on who you ask. While the filmmaking industry management opposed the blacklist and the Paramount decision, some management executives may have taken advantage of the blacklist by negotiating stricter contracts based upon extortion, in that to be blacklisted, one only needed to be rumored to be associated with communist ties (Lewis, 2008). The employees, such as actors, directors, and writers of the large studios were also opposed to the Paramount decision and the blacklist, but the ability actors, directors, and writers to fight for and gain large contracts has improved since the Paramount decision, as it cast the studios as advantageous, money hungry totalitarian fraternities. I would argue that the Paramount decision and the
Beginning the mid 1920s, Hollywood’s ostensibly all-powerful film studios controlled the American film industry, creating a period of film history now recognized as “Classical Hollywood”. Distinguished by a practical, workmanlike, “invisible” method of filmmaking- whose purpose was to demand as little attention to the camera as possible, Classical Hollywood cinema supported undeviating storylines (with the occasional flashback being an exception), an observance of a the three act structure, frontality, and visibly identified goals for the “hero” to work toward and well-defined conflict/story resolution, most commonly illustrated with the employment of the “happy ending”. Studios understood precisely what an audience desired, and accommodated their wants and needs, resulting in films that were generally all the same, starring similar (sometimes the same) actors, crafted in a similar manner. It became the principal style throughout the western world against which all other styles were judged. While there have been some deviations and experiments with the format in the past 50 plus ye...
The film received mostly positive reviews. Roger Ebert praised the film as "one of those stories with the quality of a nightmare, in which foolish young men try to out-macho one another until they get trapped in a violent situation which will forever alter their lives.”
The movie I chose to write about was the “Secret Window”. The main characters were Mort, Shooter (a hallucination of a person made up by Mort), Amy (Mort’s ex-wife), Ted (Amy’s boyfriend). The movie starts out with Mort, a published author, finding out that his wife was having an affair and wanted to leave him. In the same time he was having strife with another “author” Shooter, who was accusing him of plagiarizing his story. Events occurred in the middle where Mort was trying to find proof that Shooter was incorrect and that the story was his first, and he was also having issues with his wife who was pleading with him to sign divorce papers. Leading to the end, I’m not sure if Mort realized that he was Shooter and it was someone he had made up, but the director of the movie made it clear to the viewers this was happening and Mort ended up murdering Amy and Ted and completely losing sight of reality. The movie ends with him eating corn and implying that he buried their bodies in a corn field outside the secret window of his cabin home.
...ulture. Together the characters of Watchmen reflect an unflattering image of American identity. We sacrifice morals to defend principles rather than saving people. We sacrifice ourselves for commercial gain and for the fame that comes from the worship of strangers. We worship our own achievements, obsess over time and in the end we lose what makes us human as we continue down a path that takes us farther away from each other and deeper into ourselves.
When American Sniper opened in theaters January 2015, the world was shocked and excited that a film about a war has finally shown the emotional and psychological pain a soldier goes through. To many this was a new concept but, what the public did not realize, was in 2014, a World War II film, Fury was released. Fury is an insightful film about a tank crew surviving through World War II through the emotional and psychological hardships. The film takes place in April 1945, five months before WWII ends (Fury, IMDb). There are many key points to which makes Fury a modern war film from the extent of backstory each character has, to the prescreening prep and training, to the research of the props. Though American Sniper and Fury differ in wars and
After watching two James Bond films, Casino Royale and Tomorrow never dies, I found the way these two films handle climaxes are very different. Firstly, I would like to briefly summarize the climax within these two films.
can deny the fact that, that Bond is it's own genre and an on going
The film then releases the full fury of what corrupt politicians can do to a truthful man. The plot of the film will grab the viewer within the first five minutes and will not let go until the astonishing end. Even though this type of thing is implausible it's still very funny and unique in its own way. The acting was superb! James Stewart will always represent the good guy trying to make his way
When you hear surveillance you think cameras, videos, and eavesdropping, but the Hollywood meaning is protecting all mankind for the better. Author Wille Osterweil, a magazine journalist, of “Hollywood’s Love Affairs with Surveillance” written on 12 May 2014, claims that Hollywood makes surveillance seem like a casual dilemma, although the people are blinded to what Hollywood is really doing. Wille uses movies like Captain America, RoboCop, and The Hunger Games to foreshadow the scenes and the effects they give their audience; allowing them to believe that surveillance is a helpful tool to all governmental activity and the citizens. Osterweil also adds that tactics used by Hollywood are very subtle, without notice, and many people are
...n (Director) mistakenly seems to believe can carry the whole film. On the strength "based on a true story", he has rejected attention-grabbing characters, an imaginative plot, and unforgettable villains.
The film industry has always been somewhat of a dichotomy. Grounded firmly in both the worlds of art and business the balance of artistic expression and commercialization has been an issue throughout the history of filmmaking. The distinction of these two differing goals and the fact that neither has truly won out over the other in the span of the industry's existence, demonstrates a lot of information about the nature of capitalism.
The Reasons Behind the Popularity of Action Films In this essay I am going to explore the conventions of action films and their popularity. People love action films, and when they go to see one there are conventions you would expect to see in the film All plots of action films are based on the same outline, Hero and villain meet, there's a disruption of order, and mission, then everything is sorted out when the villain dies and everything returns to normal. There are Stock characters that you expect to see in this genre of film, the hero, the villain and two attractive ladies. The main action is around a male hero, however, modern films have featured female heroines for example Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider'. If the hero is male he is always good looking, intelligent, brave, chauvinistic, and manages to escape from life threatening situations, however the hero will always have a weakness, and if the hero is male the weakness is normally women.
Many people don’t think about it so much, but movies (or just film in general) have become such a big part of our lives that we don’t think much of it because it just feels like a usual part of living. But have you ever wondered why this is, and how far back film started? Movies and film have been around for a long time, have developed in big ways throughout time, and has advanced in such a big and new way to this day.