Abstract
This film review will discuss Clint Eastwood’s 2004 movie Million Dollar Baby. Like a deluxe restaurant meal, veteran movie director and lead actor Eastwood carefully selected unique, high-quality ingredients for the script and co-actors, and skilled chefs – i.e. film artisans - to plan and create something exceptional. The final result leaves a subtle, distinct and memorable flavor. A Million Dollar Baby (MDB) film reviewer suggests that Eastwood’s “touch only gets lighter with time”. (Grey, 2005) MDB won the Academy Award for 2004’s Film of the Year as well as Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Supporting Male Actor - this reflects the calibre of the chosen contributors, and clearly exemplifies it as a film masterpiece. Bittersweet and controversial, the film delivers an unforgettable impact.
My Darling, My Blood
An aspiring boxer, Maggie (portrayed by Hilary Swank), convinces a gruff trainer, Frankie Dunn (Eastwood), to prepare her for competition. Frankie, his hard outer shell eventually revealing affection and generosity, reluctantly takes her on and they develop an intimate relationship, shored up by his friend, former competitive boxer and employee, Scrap (played by Morgan Freeman). Scrap admires and quietly supports Maggie’s dedication to her dream. Maggie works with fierce determination and eventually fights for a championship when ill fate deals a cruel blow: she falls awkwardly, breaking her neck and becoming a quadriplegic. Frankie, who has become her closest friend and a father figure, at her fervent request, takes her life.
Clint Eastwood is a thinking moviegoer’s actor and director, his career evolution is satisfying to follow. Since the mid 1950’s, he has been nominated fo...
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...have created a feast for the senses and an enduring performance.
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Think about your favorite movie. When watching that movie, was there anything about the style of the movie that makes it your favorite? Have you ever thought about why that movie is just so darn good? The answer is because of the the Auteur. An Auteur is the artists behind the movie. They have and individual style and control over all elements of production, which make their movies exclusively unique. If you could put a finger on who the director of a movie is without even seeing the whole film, then the person that made the movie is most likely an auteur director. They have a unique stamp on each of their movies. This essay will be covering Martin Scorsese, you will soon find out that he is one of the best auteur directors in the film industry. This paper will include, but is not limited to two of his movies, Good Fellas, and The Wolf of Wall Street. We will also cover the details on what makes Martin Scorsese's movies unique, such as the common themes, recurring motifs, and filming practices found in their work. Then on
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“Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine, some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything’s okay. I don’t make those kinds of movies. That, to me, is a lie. Everything’s not okay.” - David Fincher. David Fincher is the director that I am choosing to homage for a number of reasons. I personally find his movies to be some of the deepest, most well made, and beautiful films in recent memory. However it is Fincher’s take on story telling and filmmaking in general that causes me to admire his films so much. This quote exemplifies that, and is something that I whole-heartedly agree with. I am and have always been extremely opinionated and open about my views on the world and I believe that artists have a responsibility to do what they can with their art to help improve the culture that they are helping to create. In this paper I will try to outline exactly how Fincher creates the masterpieces that he does and what I can take from that and apply to my films.
A modern tragedy of today and a tragedy of ancient Greece are two very different concepts, but ironically, both are linked by many similarities. In “Poetics”, Aristotle defines and outlines tragedy for theatre in a way that displays his genius, but raises questions and creates controversy. Aristotle’s famous definition of tragedy states: