I have decided to write about the movie Cloverfield because the scenarios remain etched inside my head. I can replay certain parts of the movie, especially violent or gory scenes, vividly in my head over and over again. For example, the part that is the most clear to me is when Marlena claimed that she did not feel well which led to being taken away and restrained by paramedics. She was dragged behind a curtain and just basically popped and blood just splattered everything. That scene made me cringe for a few minutes because it was so shocking. The reason I think this happens is because of the gross and violent scenes incorporated into this movie. In the beginning, a group of friends and acquaintances gather together to host a goodbye party …show more content…
Surprisingly, there was because this movie is about the United States being infiltrated by a party from another country. This is an example of steganography, which is the art of conveying hidden messages through advertisement, entertainment, or other forms of media. This movie is really about the terrorist attack that occurred on 9/11 and the creature represents Al-Qaeda. Even just by looking at the movie’s poster, the image is similar to an iconic picture taken during 9/11. After I realized the message, it made me think about other movies that hint at the United States fearing another invasion or terrorist attack. It already happened once so there is always a chance that it will happen again to this country. In my opinion, movies that are about the destruction of iconic cities in the US want the audience to think that the country is never one hundred percent safe. One way I can tell the difference between entertainment and political propaganda is who, what, and where is involved in the movie. For example, if the President and the White House is involved in the movie then it is usually trying to keep the President from getting killed by assassins. Historically, some of our Presidents have been assassinated before so it is imperative to keep them alive. Entertainment, to me, is usually just comedic and does not have any violence and relations to death. If I were to be really honest, I
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
When people think of the movie Hoosiers, they visualize a small town basketball team in Indiana that wins the Indiana State Basketball tournament against all odds. However, when I think of the movie Hoosiers, I am reminded of Eureka College's Basketball team that won the NAIA National Championship back in 1994. This team was lead by Hall of Fame coach Dave Darnall.
The film Friday Night Lights, directed by Peter Berg explains a story about a small town in Odessa, Texas that is obsessed to their high school football team (Permian Panthers) to the point where it’s strange. Boobie Miles (Derek Luke) is an cocky, star tailback who tore his ACL in the first game of the season and everyone in the town just became hopeless cause their star isn’t playing for a long time. The townspeople have to now rely on the new coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton), to motivate the other team members to be able to respect, step up their game, and improve quickly. During this process, racism has made it harder to have a success and be happy and the team has to overcome them as a family.
The movie, The Outsiders, starts with the Curtis parents on their weekly, Saturday evening drive to the baking store to buy some ingredients for their boys’ favorite Sunday morning, breakfast treat: chocolate cake. The Curtis boys love their chocolate cake for Sunday breakfast not only because they love it, but also because they appreciate how hard their parents have to work to save the monies necessary for the morsels that put smiles on their faces!
The Boondock Saints movie exhibits and demonstrates many possible causes and reasons for social deviance. One example of this is shown in the Subjective view of deviance through a Constructionist Theory. The Subjectivist believes that a deviant person is a conscious, feeling, thinking subject and that one should understand the experience of that person. From a Constructionist perspective, deviants are actively seeking meanings in the deviant activities. The brothers in the movie are seeking meaning from their killing. They believe that they are on a mission from God, and that they will be protected and blessed for doing this.
Over the years Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner has become a cult classic in the science fiction and film noir genre. The film covers a wide variety of reoccurring themes and motifs throughout the entire film, such as the most noticeable ones like the reoccurring eyes representing the window to the soul and the origami figures symbolizing artificial representation. While those motifs are on the surface and are relatively noticeable to the first time viewer, other themes are not so obvious and won’t appear until reviewing the movie over several times. As one begins to break down Blade Runner from scene to scene, they will discover these larger underlining themes seamlessly woven into the mise en scene
Why did they listen to that director to make it look more spectacular. I should’ve know something like this would happen the moment his personal assistant remarked that Kyle was far beyond most of the pretty boys in town and that he was downright gorgeous. It was the director and his jealousy as the reason why the bouncers were instructed to thrown him on the ground. I can’t be blamed for that. if anything, it was the director’s personal assistant who had caused this mess. However, getting an additional two movie fully funded by his father and a twenty percent pay
The film industry had to postpone and/or cancel the film shooting in New York and took the time to rewrite the script. If the producers and directors are planning the set the movie in New York City, they need to be aware that “while they are filming in New York in the wake of the devastation…went to great lengths to avoid any references to the tragedy”(Harrison-Kahan). A large number of films set in New York had the Twin Towers in the background shot and it needed to be either digitally removed, delete the scene altogether, or leave it as it is; except for films that are set on a time period before 9/11 by digitally adding the Twin Towers. It is indeed hard for Hollywood to rethink and follow the guidelines to censorship and avoid offending the audiences who experience trauma over 9/11. Author Lori Harrison-Kahan writes, “In the aftermath of 9/11, Hollywood feared that its standard fare of murder and mayhem might alienate American [audiance], from those who directly witnessed, experienced, and lost loved ones in the attacks to those compelled to watch the towers fall over and over…”(42). So, audiences will fear that, for example, action movies will contain explosions and collapsed buidings. It is best for people who experience lost and witnessing the attack to avoid certain genres that will cause them
After getting many recommendations to read Unbroken by Hillenbrand, I was glad to see the book on our school reading list. I had high hopes for this book and it did make most of them.
Film Analysis - The Notebook Introduction The film is portrayed in the past and present scenario setting. It is based on a young couple’s love and passion for one another, but are unexpectedly separated due to the disapproval of the teen girl parents and the social differences in their life. At the start of the movie, it displays a nursing home style setting with an elderly man named Duke (James Garner), reading to an elderly woman named Mrs. Hamilton (Gena Rowlands), whose memory is inevitably deteriorating. The story he reads to her is a love story about two teenagers named Allie (Rachel McAdams) and Noah (Ryan Gosling), that met in the 1940’s at a carnival in Seabrook Island, South Carolina.
Mental health and its disorders are an intricate part of the individual and society. Mental health incorporates our emotional, psychological and social well-being. Understanding human behavior and the social environment in conjunction with biological, social and cultural factors helps in diagnosing and treating individuals accurately. Film can be used to understand and visualize how mental disorders may affect one’s life. This paper examines the film “Primal Fear” and explores the character Aaron Stampler and his mental illness, reviews literature on the diagnosis given and critically analyzes the film’s portrayal of the disorder.
The movie I chose to review was The Help. The Help takes place in the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi. The movie focuses on the lives of two African-American maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson. Aibileen worked for a family who had a young girl that she helped to raise. The other maid, Minny, got fired from the first house we saw her working in because she used the homeowners’ bathroom without their permission. She ends up finding work with Celia Foote, who is not very popular among the other women in the town. After Minny found out Celia was having complications with her pregnancy, the two became very close. Celia even spent a whole night cooking a meal for Minny.
As college professors, do you ever consider exploring the world? Christopher McCandless once stated, “The core of man's spirit comes from new experiences.” This quote resonates throughout the movie adaptation, Into the Wild. Based on a true story in the 1990’s, the film explores a man’s existence and the meaning of life. Although released in 2007, I discovered the movie three years ago through the internet. Instantly, it became my favorite movie. Into the Wild describes an eye-opening adventure, an influential message, and a story that I, and possibly others, can relate to.
With self-driving cars, facial-recognition software, mobile phones that listen to our very command and even robot-butlers, the future is now.
The movie A Beautiful Mind, directed by Ron Howard, tells the story of Nobel Prize winner, and mathematician, John Nash’s struggle with schizophrenia. The audience is taken through Nash’s life from the moment his hallucinations started to the moment they became out of control. He was forced to learn to live with his illness and learn to control it with the help of Alicia. Throughout the movie the audience learns Nash’s roommate Charles is just a hallucination, and then we learn that most of what the audience has seen from Nash’s perspective is just a hallucination. Nash had a way of working with numbers and he never let his disease get in the way of him doing math. Throughout the movie the audience is shown how impactful and inspirational John Nash was on many people even though he had a huge obstacle to overcome.