Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Music Report Ferris Bueller is a young, rebellious, high school senior who gets away with just about everything. One day, he decides to play hooky and skip school for the ninth time. He tricks his parents into thinking he is sick with his signature fake stomach cramp and clammy palms. After his parents leave for work, Bueller calls up his rigid, hypochondriac best friend Cameron to join him on his day off. Initially refusing to leave the comfort of his bed, Cameron finally is persuaded to not only join Ferris, but to also bring his Father’s precious Ferrari out on the town. The first stop on their rebellious journey is to bail out Bueller’s girlfriend, Sloane, from school. They do so by calling Ed Rooney, …show more content…
Ferris finishes the day off with an extravagant performance of “Twist and Shout” and, despite Rooney’s efforts, makes it back to his bed just in time to fool his parents …show more content…
In this scene, unbeknownst to Cameron and Sloane, Ferris sneaks on top of a float in the Von Steuben Parade and lip syncs the famous song “Twist and Shout”. Ferris’ objective is to prove to Cameron that life can be exciting and fun. Furthermore, he teaches his best friend, and the audience, that you don’t always have to worry about what the future holds but rather focus on the present day. This parade scene features a marching band equipped with numerous aerophone instruments. Among these brass instruments include: a trumpet, French horn, and trombone. Drums, bass guitar, piano, and cymbals can also be heard. The texture of the music is homophonic with one melody, sung by Ferris, and subordinate accompaniment, the marching band. The harmony of the music is consonant rather than dissonant as there is an agreeable combination of music tones that provides resolution. Conjuct melodies are also featured which are created by small intervals. The music in this scene would be diegetic because the sound source is visible on screen and it specifically affects the characters of the film. There are numerous cues to the audience that allow them to understand that what they are hearing is coming from the fictional world of the film. One cue is that Ferris is actually singing, or lip syncing, the song being playing. Another cue is that the sounds are made by objects in the story,
Can you recall the very last night that you spent with your high school buddies before packing your bags and leaving for college? The films American Graffiti and Dazed and Confused bring you back to that through the recreation of those great experiences. American Graffiti is based on a closely-knit group of teenagers who will all be leaving each other the next day for new adventures. This gang of teenagers, despite their differences, all goes out together and share their last memorable evening. Throughout the night, friendships are strengthened, conflicting struggles arise, and romances are created and disrupted. Dazed and Confused dealt about life during wartime – the wartime of high school, where the faculty is irrational, the parents are
Furthermore, to increase dread and trepidation, affect the audience’s feelings, and intensify fear the film director skillfully uses the non-diegetic music. “Filmmakers carefully choose which sounds to include on the soundtrack, knowing that emphasizing a particular sound helps to shape the audience...
The bunch of law-breaking teenagers from 70’s in Brooklyn were presented as a fearsomely resilient and incredulous who brings their own dose of happiness fever every Saturday night.
“Seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary” is the sentiment new teacher Mr. Keating leaves with his students after the first day of class at Welton Academy (Weir). Mr. Keating teaches in an unorthodox manner, evident on the first day of class when catching the boys off guard by calling the introduction of their poetry textbook “excrement,” and instructing the boys to rip that section out of their book (Weir). His unique style of teaching forces the boys, who face immense pressures from their parents to excel, to think on their own. Using this idea of living for today, a group of boys reestablish the Dead Poet’s Society, which Mr. Keating describes as “dedicated to sucking the marrow out of life” by reading verses of famous poetry (Weir). This live-for-today mentality
Although this gave away the plot of the film it did not make the film
When looking between the four corners of a rectangular frame there is a piece of art. It is often filled with color, light, angles, and shapes. But what is more important than the mechanics of the painting style, or the ideological perspective it is intended to garner, there is a connection between the painting and the viewer. This connection is lasting, and deeply personal. In the concept musical of Sunday in the Park with George, Stephen Sondheim uses this quite literally. He tells a story about a man named George Seurat. George is a nineteenth century painter, obsessed with his work. And in Act II, he is his great-grandson, also named George, and also an artist. However, these similarities are not what necessarily connect the two. Instead, it is their relationship with the same woman, Dot. She is the glue that eventually unites the two Georges through time. It is this connection which brings together the emotions and hope from the man of one generation, to the man of another. Like a spectator laying eyes on a beautiful painting for the first time, Dot holds the connection between the old and the new, the unrealized and the realized, and between the real and the imagined. These interlocking pathways between the characters are expressed best in the two songs “We Do Not Belong Together”, sung in Act I, and “Move On”, sung in Act II. Together, these songs, as well as others, explore Sondheim’s use of connection, which ties the relationship of people to art, but more importantly, to each other.
Happy is a documentary that brings to light the different types of livings of people around the world and contrasts how they define happiness. The movie starts out in Kolkata Slum, India, with a man Manoj Singh. Manoj is living a relatively impoverished life. His house isn’t the best, in fact the roof is just a tarp however he says “my home is good.” Manoj is quite happy with his life and it’s not because of his minimal possessions but the community around him. His happiness lies in the fact that he can see his son smiling every day and he is so grateful for his neighbors and friends. He even states himself that he doesn’t consider himself as “poor but the richest person.” Manoj’s happiness is described as the same as the average American.
Although I have watched the movie, Crash, many times, I had never looked at it through a sociological perspective. It blew my mind how much you can relate this movie to sociology, but also the more I got to thinking about it, the more it seemed to make sense. Everywhere I looked I found someway to connect this movie to some sort of sociological term, which I thought was pretty cool.
Adaptation is an essential part of the motion picture industry, with a majority of films based on literature and other forms of source material coming out of Hollywood every day. One of the most controversial examples of adaptation, at the time, was the great Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 dystopian drama A Clockwork Orange, based on the novel by Anthony Burgess. In a futuristic society ruled by gangs, corruption, and “ultra-violence,” psychotic teen Alex (wonderfully portrayed by Malcolm McDowell) volunteers for a government-regulated experimental treatment to rid himself of his wrongdoings after committing an act of murder. Through the film, we follow this tragic anti-hero’s journey to discover the central theme of fate - whether the government controls human order, or if there is a freedom of choice. Although the film was originally blasted by critics for its excessive use of violence and sexuality, it has since become recognized as one of the most psychologically captivating pieces in cinema, earning its place among AFI’s “100 Years...100 Movies” list. Clockwork Orange’s fascinating mise-en-scène (staging, lighting, costuming), cinematography, music selection, use of voice-over-narration, and narrative structure brilliantly establish the novel’s realistic satire of the dystopian future, making the film one of Kubrick’s most successful adaptations.
Pulp Fiction is a movie that not only entertains, the goal of any movie, but causes you to think. The dialogue is the key to this movie. For example, the scene wear Vincent shoots Marvin in the face. They are having a conversation regarding the validity of Jules’ supposed miracle, when Vincent accidently shoots Marvin in the face. The viewer becomes invested in the conversation, only to shocked back into reality by the shooting.
As the clip begins to play the first scene is about a young man getting ready for prom, however, as the scene continues the audience finds out that he is going alone. With a kindhearted audience this sympathetic view draws them in closer to connect with the character. His mom encourages him to go and states that nowadays people go by themselves, on the other hand his little sister barks back with “no they don’t”. The remark made by his little sister gets the young man down about going to prom, once again. His dad seeing his current mood tosses him the keys to the Audi, which lifts his mood immediately. Focusing more towards a neutral audience, once he is in the car, they take a glimpse at the automobiles body style and how fast it takes off from a stoplight. As the clip continues to roll the young man arrives at prom only to find him parking in the principles parking spot and then walking straight up to a girl at prom and kissing her, once again captivating the empathetic audiences’
The film exhibits and analyzes the story of NFL player Michael Oher’s life through high school as he endures various adversities and difficulties in his life. It tells Oher’s story of being the son of a cocaine addictive mother and absentee father, who is homeless due the circumstances of his family. Despite not having either of his parents in his life he did have Big Tony, who was his friend’s dad. Big Tony would allow Michael to sleep on his sofa some days when he did not have anywhere else to live and he also was the main cause to Michael being admitted to the Wingate Academy Christian School. At this school Michael meets S.J., who is the son on the Tuohy’s. S.J. begins a friendship with Michael at a time when no one else would and on a rainy day after S.J.’s thanksgiving play, the Tuohys see Michael walking. They ask him ...
1. "Let the Good Times Roll" talks about how important Mardi Gras is and how the New Orleanians carry out the traditions of this celebration. Chris Rose states that Mardi Gra shouldn't be canceled, and it should be celebrated fully, just like they do it every year. He also states that the state of Louisiana needs Mardi Gra in this bad time to cheer up everyone. Chris also argues that people judge this holiday based on Mardi Gras being a parade, "an alcoholic binge" or "the girls that flash on French Quarter balconies". No matter where you are, you should gather up people, go to a park, make lots of food, play music, and have a good time.
The film The Internship is the story of Billy McMahon (played by Vince Vaughn) and Nick Campbell (played by Owen Wilson) who lose their jobs as salesman when the company they work for closes down. They then manage to get internships at Google in an attempt to reinvent themselves and to eventually get jobs at Google. The only problem is that Billy and Nick are going to Google which is a technology giant but they themselves do not have any tech skills which makes them unsuitable for the internship. One of the people working at Google who are helping to select candidates for the internship then convinces the company to give these two men a chance. When Nick and Billy arrive at Google for their summer internship they find themselves in
This movie starts off as Jordan Belfort, the main character in the movie, losing his job as a stockbroker in Wall Street. After losing his job, he goes and gets a job in a Long Island brokerage room. In the brokerage room, he sells penny stocks. Thanks to him being aggressive in his selling skills, he was able to make a profit. With the new income, he gives his wife a bracelet and she asked him why doesn’t he go after the people that can afford to lose money, not the middle-class people or lower income people. That is when he gets the idea to get a lot of young people and train them to become the best stock brokers.