“To a great mind, nothing is little.” This means that we can look at absolutely anything and our outcome will be completely different than the person sitting next to you. Not only is this true but your imagination will expand your ideas to a whole different image. We perceive things differently because of our imagination. “La Luna” and “Paperman” are two short films that were made using imagination. The producers of these two short films used their creativity to convey a message to the audience. They demonstrated that even though we may not like the situation that you may be in we still have to work as a team and put our differences aside. Also to take chances, don’t let your chances slip away. “La Luna” is a short film that describes …show more content…
a little boy, his grandfather, and his dad, who are out on the lake waiting for the moon to come out. While they sit and wait they try to figure out their differences between each other to work as a team. For example, the grandfather and dad argued on how the big star should be rid of. Although while they were arguing over how to do that the boy took things into his own hands and figured out that he can just break it into multiple stars. Besides all of these differences the three worked together and got a crescent moon out of their hard work together. “La Luna” is a film that shows even though the work is difficult or different anybody can still get it done.
I think that the three men in this film are related because of the way they treat each other, because the old man is wanting the boy to where his hat a little bit up and the dad wants him to wear it down to where it touches his eyebrows. The grandfather and dad also want him to act like him and to follow their every move. Waiting for the moon and creating it into a crescent moon may be a tradition for the family. Also, it could be passed down to generation, for example, the young boy’s father could have done it when he was his age and now he is doing it. This short film has multiple meanings with it, ideally, it could, mean putting aside your differences and work together to make things …show more content…
better. “Paperman” is another short film that has a completely different perspective.
It describes a boy and a girl meeting for the first time around the 1960’s in New York. This time might be because of the kind of cars and the setting in the film. This film might have been described to be after the War, because of the clothes that was worn. For example, the way the little boy in the bus was dressed. Everything in the film is in black and white plus the people in it also look bored. The man works in a business where everyone has and probably will be working for a long time. The boss in the film is very much characterized as mean. For instance, the boss has an angry/ long face which makes him look mean all the time and makes all the employees not like him. This might be because as soon as he came into the room everyone immediately turned around and did their work. The young man shows a lot of sadness before he met this girl. When he was at his work he looked bored and not happy. There are a lot of older people working at his job which can mean he will be stuck working the same job as long as
them. There is a girl in the production where she seems to be different. The girl is unique and gives off this kind of light about her (even if she is in black and white). The girl’s lips are the only thing colorful, which make her lips the focus of the film. Her lips also paint the mood in this film, for instance, it shows that everything's boring until he met her. The girl and the boy both have defining features, similarly they are thinner than the rest of the characters in the film. This film has multiple meanings depending on how you look at it, such as taking chances. The boy did not stop thinking about her because obviously when he saw her his whole mood changed. He went after her and thought that there could be a chance between them. On the other hand, it also could mean not giving up on what you have your eyes on. He sure did not when he took charge. The man tried and tried throwing paper airplanes to grab the lady’s attention. Even though he ran out of papers. The man also did not let his boss stop him, he chased after the lady. Furthermore, Both of these short films have a meaning of not giving up, working together, and to follow your heart.” La Luna” shows that you can do anything by yourself and you do not need anyone to tell you who you are or not. Teamwork, it’s better working together rather than against each other. “Paperman” is a film that views that taking chances is not the worst thing in the world and that being unique can make your mood brighter. So take chances, and put aside your differences because most of the time it is better working as a group than by yourself.
A young boy gets older and even though they struggle financially his parents make sure they teach him the honest values of life. But in this film George Jung is a high school football star and wants to see other options and forget what values his parents have taught him. The young man from a small place gets millions from distributing cocaine and ends up losing it all. The behaviors of George Jung become intense with curiosity as he arrives in California to attend college with his friend Tuna.
The film starts with an uprising after a white storeowner kills a black teenager. This incident Highlights Prejudices. The teenager was labeled a thief because of the color of his skin and the unjustifiable murder causes racial tensions that exist as a result of the integration of the high schools.
The film that interested me for this assignment was “Boyz n the Hood”. The movie was about a Los Angeles neighborhood expanding of drug and gang culture, with increasingly tragic results. It was about how one teen had family support to guide him on the right path in life regarding the social problems around him. The other two teens in the film wasn’t as fortunate and fell into the social problems of drugs, violence, and gangs; where one ended up dead.
Another aspect of the dull factory work highlighted in the film is the grim, stern boss/CEO of the factory, an authority figure who despite his supposed great wealth and success, spends all his time dismally watching his gloomy workers and ensuring they never veer off their given tasks. After his invention of the Bliss Glasses, the main character is named Greatest Invention Ever, and lauded as a hero in his community as he grows wealthy and ascends to CEO of his own company. Despite his honorable intentions to translate his inspiration into something meaningful, the protagonist, once a lowly worker, became the menacing boss who spends all his time dreadfully keeping watch and yelling at his employees. This ironic twist of fate proves once again that in order to realize his dream, once the momentary happiness he attained through his invention and success has fled, he has lost his true self and, as a result, transformed into the authority figure he once
The story of this poem tells about a young boy that is lured in by the sensuousness of the moon, and then dies because of his own desire for her. The symbolic meaning is much more hidden and disguised by the literary elements of the poem. The storyline and aspects of the literal story add meaning when searching for the figurative meaning. The warning learned from this poem is that infatuation with anything can lead to a downfall. The moon seemed to offer a comfort that attracted him, but it was only a disguise to lead him to death. The passion the young boy felt for the moon can easily be modified to describe the passion a person can feel for anything. The young boy saw safeness in the moon that brought him closer to her. Any obsession will seem to offer the same comforts that the young boy also saw, but this poem warns that death can always disguise itself.
New York circa 1950 to 1960, when the film would take place, was full of gang violence and juvenile delinquents.... ... middle of paper ... ... She serves as a distraction and nuisance to them – until the end, where they finally accept her.
The film being analysed is the Breakfast Club, directed by John Hughes. Trapped in Saturday detention are 5 stereotyped teens. Claire, the princess, Andrew, the jock, John, the criminal, Brian, the brain, and Allison, the basket case. At 7 am, they had nothing to say, but by 4 pm; they had uncovered everything to each other. The students bond together when faced with the their principal, and realise that they have more in common than they think, including a hatred for adult society. They begin to see each other as equal people and even though they were stereotyped they would always be The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club highlights a variety of pressures that are placed upon teenagers through out high school. One of the most challenging aspects of screenwriting is creating characters that an audience can identify with, relate to, and be entertained by.
This movie takes place in Los Angeles and is about racial conflicts within a group of people which occur in a series of events. Since there are a wide variety of characters in this movie, it can be confusing to the viewer. In the plot, Graham is an African-American detective whose younger brother is a criminal. His mother cares more about his brother than Graham and she wants Graham to bring his brother back home, which in turn hurts Graham. Graham?s partner Ria is a Hispanic woman who comes to find that her and Graham?s ethnicities conflict when she had sex with him. Rick is the Los Angeles district attorney who is also op...
We walk down the streets of Harlem with Ellsworth Johnson (Bumpy) and Frank Lucas who’ names we learned from other characters. The streets and storefronts feel like it is 1960’s, 1970’s Harlem, New York. The characters are dressed right to that era and everyone on the street as well as the cars are exactly right for that generation. Bumpy Johnson and Frank Lucas walk into and old electronic super store. This scene fo...
... It states that there is different inequality socially and politically. Inequality is determined by people’s ideals of what they were taught and society projects as the superior and inferior races. This film shows that there is a way to change that if you make the other side see how they affect the people they are discriminating against.
The film that is being used for the movie analysis is “Enough”, this movie was chosen due to the fact that it is based on domestic violence towards women. The movie begins with in Los Angeles diner were a waitress named slim works with her best friend Ginny (Kazan, 2002). While working her shift slim has a customer that starts harassing her over the name she has, but the companion of the annoying customer defends slim, which in turn starts a romance, later to become a marriage between the two (Kazan, 2002). The couple is later blessed with a daughter they name Gracie, and at the beginning the marriage seems to be a fairy tale out of a story book (Kazan, 2002). The fairy tale becomes a nightmare as time moves forwards for the couple,
Gran Torino is a suspense film directed by Clint Eastwood, which portrays the relationship between a 78-year-old Koran war veteran and his neighbors who are from Laos. The main character, Walt is a racist who still has memories from the horrors of war and has a dislike for anyone, including his own family. After his young neighbor Thao is coerced by his cousin’s gang into stealing Walt’s prized Gran Torino, a unusual relationship forms between the pair. Walt starts to respect Thao and his culture while fulfilling a fatherly role that Thao is lacking. Eventually, Walt has to confront the gang knowing that the confrontation will end in his death. Apart from the stereotypical, get off my lawn quote, this film depicts the relationship of family concerning the care for older adults, the struggle with despair and meaning later in life, and the morality of a good death. This paper will address each of these themes.
The movie Crash is in the streets of Los Angeles. If you notice all of the characters seem to play the victim and accuser in different racial situations. There is a story behind each character over a two day period. There is the detective who is prejudice against his own race whose younger brother is a criminal. There is Jean who is prejudice against black people after getting robbed. John is the cop who is racist against all black people and sexually assaults Christine in front of her husband. This movies show’s so many of the social psychological principles through the story of each individual.
“We fight each other for territory; we kill each other over race, pride, and respect. We fight for what is ours. They think they’re winning by jumping me now, but soon they’re all going down, war has been declared.” Abuse, Pain, Violence, Racism and Hate fill the streets of Long Beach, California. Asians, Blacks, Whites and Hispanics filled Wilson High School; these students from different ethnic backgrounds faced gang problems from day to night. This movie contains five messages: people shouldn’t be judgmental because being open-minded allows people to know others, having compassion for a person can help people change their views in life, being a racist can only create hate, having the power of the human will/goodness to benefit humanity will cause a person to succeed at any cost and becoming educated helps bring out the intelligence of people.
"A picture can paint a thousand words." I found the one picture in my mind that does paint a thousand words and more. It was a couple of weeks ago when I saw this picture in the writing center; the writing center is part of State College. The beautiful colors caught my eye. I was so enchanted by the painting, I lost the group I was with. When I heard about the observation essay, where we have to write about a person or thing in the city that catches your eye. I knew right away that I wanted to write about the painting. I don’t know why, but I felt that the painting was describing the way I felt at that moment.