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I would like to inform everyone that the movie Tombstone began as an act of violence. At the beginning, Curly Bill and his boys shot and killed several people at a wedding, including the groom in Tombstone, Arizona. Shortly after, Wyatt, his brother, and their wives decided move to Tombstone and settle down and make money. Wyatt wanted to start a new life in Tombstone without partaking in law enforcement. Soon afterwards, Wyatt saw an old friend named Doc Holiday once he moved to Tombstone. Holiday was gambler and he developed Tuberculosis that was gradually taking over his health. Later, Wyatt was making money from gambling and he finally met with the bad boys and their leader Curly Bill. Even though Wyatt was not a part of law enforcement;
however, this encounter with Curly Bill influenced him to change his mind. In this movie, the Criminal Justice system in unjustifiable because Curly Bill shot and killed the marshal and he was found not guilty, due to the fact that no witnesses were available to testify against him. Later, a gunfight occurred and some of Curly Bill’s cowboys were murdered. Afterwards, Wyatt’s brother Morgan was killed, and the other brother Virgil was left handicapped by the cowboys. Finally, Wyatt was ambushed and he shoots Curly Bill in a gunfight. This concludes that justice was finally served.
Max Brooks explains in his article ‘’The Movies That Rose From The Grave’’ [2006], that zombies and the supernatural forces have impacted and have become popular in the world today. The first main idea that Brooks points out is the way society has changed the meaning and glimpse for the supernatural creatures like zombies causing them to become increasingly popular. To support this zombie movies have changed from darkness and mystery to violent and bloodier scenes therefore making them more prevailing. The second main idea that is discussed by Brooks is how the media has helped to increase the popularity of zombies, vampires, ghosts. Highlighted by the author particularity both ‘’resident evil,
The auteur theory is a view on filmmaking that consists of three equally important premises: technical competence, interior meaning, and personal signature of the director. Auteur is a French word for author. The auteur theory was developed by Andrew Sarris, a well-known American film critic. Technical competence of the Auteur deals with how the director films the movie in their own style. Personal signature includes recurring themes that are present within the director’s line of work with characteristics of style, which serve as a signature. The third and ultimate premise of the Auteur theory is the interior meaning which is basically the main theme behind the film.
Western movies have always been attempted and have strived for perfection. There has been a few that really captured the motion picture, history, and of course the actual story itself; but of course only one can take the cake. The movie, Tombstone is an action-filled film that is sure to entertain no matter what audience. Based on true events, the movie does an excellent job of portraying the correct history about the events that went on in Tombstone, Arizona. Everything from wardrobe, slang, props, and much more that was displayed in this outstanding movie couldn’t have hit the nail on the head any better. Just in case you may not have seen Tombstone, I believe it’s beneficial to know the plot, important details, history and information about
Hollywood has an unquestionable tendency to dramatize events to make them more appealing to the audience. This happens to be the case in The Gunfight at the OK Corral. Although Hollywood documented the events leading up to, and the actual gunfight relatively accurate, they failed to include some small incidents and confrontations that may have very well contributed to the outcome in Tombstone.
Even though George Romero, director of the film, Night of the Living Dead, did not intentionally intend to create racial controversy, the film broke a lot of ground considering the year it was filmed in 1968. By making a black character, Ben, the most intelligent and resourceful of all the white characters, as well as the protagonist, Romero, shattered racist stereotypes in the horror movie genre as well as mainstream film. This was mainly due to the fact that Night of The Living Dead was one of the first films to follow a black protagonist who was filmed in a positive light. Ben’s personality was possibly the most subversive aspect of the whole film. Ben was a brave and quick-witted character who was able to see what needed to get done in order to ensure survival from the zombies. The fact that Ben was portrayed as the most composed character, especially out of the cast of distraught white characters only emphasized his position as the most important character. Without Ben, the other characters would have most likely died. Overall, despite the fact that Night of the Living Dead did not intend to make a racial statement, I believe it ended up symbolizing the progress African Americans made during the civil rights movement, yet certain points in the film such as the power dynamic between Ben and Harry, the zombies attacking Ben, Ben’s death scene, and the photographs at
An early scene in George Roy Hill’s film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) shows illustrious bandit Butch Cassidy walking into a bank and observing a series of security upgrades (e.g. an alarm system, a safe, and several different locks). As Butch Cassidy exits the establishment, he asks the security guard, “What happened to the old bank?” The guard responds, “People kept robbing it.” Butch remarks, “Small price to pay for beauty.” Although Butch Cassidy’s disappointed assertion may have been rooted in disappointment for the loss of a heist rather than the loss of architectural merit, it leads one to question: To what extent are cultural attributes lost at the expense of new technology? I will consider this question as I examine the ways in which Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid highlights the
Amy Heckerling’s movie Clueless focuses on an upper middle class 16-year-old girl, Cher, who lives in a nice neighborhood with her father and stepbrother, Josh. Cher and her friend, Dionne, take in a new girl, Tai, to help her fit into their high school. All of the major characters in the movie are in adolescence, which ranges from 10-19 years of age. In adolescence, teenagers undergo cognitive and emotional development. According to Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory, adolescents are in formal operational period from 11-20 years of age. During this period, adolescents develop abstract thinking and rational decision making. They experience two aspects of adolescent egocentrism, imaginary audience
Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday, and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral were they really fighting for justice or revenge. In the attempt to serve “justice” they blurred the lines of the system to their gain. This essay is prove a point that the marvelous western hero lived a much darker live fueled by revenge, bribes, and gambling.
The Cuban historical film, La Última Cena, or The Last Supper, takes place at a plantation in Havana at the end of the 18th century. In an effort to respect the holy week and to teach his slaves about Christianity, a sanctimonious plantation owner invites twelve of his slaves to dinner with him to reenact the last supper. During the dinner, the Count tries to influence his slaves towards Christianity and feeds them religious rhetoric. As the night goes on, the Count gets drunk and begins to make promises to his slaves in an attempt to seem more Christ-like. The next day, Good Friday, his promises are not kept and the slaves revolt. Because of the rebellion, the twelve slaves that ate dinner with the Count are all hunted down and killed except for one. This film can be further explained through the concepts of three theorists, Aimé Césaire, Homi K. Bhabha, and W.E.B. DuBois.
John Woo is one of the most celebrated Asian filmmakers in the West, with his even directing films in Hollywood. This title is his most renowned.
What if you could forget all your worries and cease to care? What if you could avoid all the stresses of being a teenager in high school, all the expectations teachers, parents, and society impose on you, and simply be free and careless? Would you decide to take action? Would you risk everything to have a permanent feeling of euphoria and liberty? Would it be worth it? In the fictional world Chuck Palahniuk creates in his short story “Zombie”, there is a way to make this happen. Nonetheless, this fictional world is not impossible, it is improbable.
The book I read for this reflective essay is called The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. This novel is an intriguing tale of gruesome murder, friendly specters, an unknown creature, a desire for unexplainable knowledge, and the Freedom of the Graveyard. One night, a man was walking about the house, his knife dripping wet. He had already killed the parents and the oldest child. He only had the baby to take care of. He approached the crib. He saw the shape of the child. He raised his knife, aiming at the chest. Suddenly, he lowered it. There was no child, just a teddy bear. He hadn’t realized the baby had snuck out of the house, and had crawled up to the graveyard. The man, known as Jack, smelled the child, and followed the scent into the graveyard.
An undeniably common theme shared between There Will Be Blood and Citizen Kane is the pursuit of the American Dream. Both Daniel Plainview and Charles Kane share an immense strive for ambition, achieving their success, and failures, in much different ways, with ultimately the same outcome, isolation due to negligence. The drive both protagonists share leads to their wealth, as well as their many losses, personal, physical, emotional, and psychological. The American Dream consists of the achievement of wealth, status, success, and love, which both Plainview and Kane struggle to achieve throughout the two films. The films illustrate how pursing this American Dream eventually leads to downfall, corruption and complete isolation. Ironically, the
John Woo’s film The Killer (1989) became a pivotal film in Woo’s career, as it generated western audience’s interest in Hong Kong New Wave cinema and integrated Woo into the Hollywood industry.
The movie On the Job featured the different angles and degrees of crime and corruption in the Philippines. What is most striking about the film is that it is based on real events. In this aspect the movie served as an eyeopener to those who doesn’t know the clandestine transactions and processes in the different social system of our country specifically, the government.