There is criticism occurring in our everyday life, and sometimes we are the ones doing it unconsciously. One good example of something being constantly criticized would be films. The public always seems to seek out criticism of film to see if they are going to get their money’s worth. The videos “Honest Trailers- Frozen” and “Honest Trailers- 300” are based on criticism towards both the film and the director.
The video “Honest Trailers- Frozen” summarized the film into a short comical trailer o things that is not usually shown to the trailer released to the public. The film starts of by giving a little background on the creators and then goes on to talk about the main characters in the film. The way the creators of the film are
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In the video the narrator state, “From the studio that finally learned how to make Pixar movies.” Biographical Criticism is a criticism of the author’s biography. The way the words are organized shows …show more content…
The video starts of by using biographical criticism. The narrator states, “From the guy who made Batman comics cool again and the guy who’ll probably make Batman movies suck again.” The narrator starts of by introducing the directors of the film. He criticizes the directors based on their past work. Another form of criticism used is Jungian & Myth criticism. The narrator states, “...With mutant Persian goat men...” The goat shown in the video will be part of mythology in this case. The type of criticism that appeared the most was Gender Studies and Queer Theory. The narrator states, “Full of homoerotic undertones like men wearing thongs, men getting speared with phallic objects, men holding hands, men holding men tenderly from behind…” All of the scenes appear to demonstrate homosexuality or implying homosexuality. “Homosexual behavior has always existed, and was accepted throughout the ancient world; Greek kings and Roman emperors all engaged in it” (Lehrman). Homosexuality has always been around. The film “300” is an example how long it has been around. People usually feel uncomfortable around homosexual people but the way the film is organized makes it hard to catch it. It would require more
Firstly , Tannen introduces the term “culture of critique” by beginning three successive paragraphs with the term so that the reader will not forget it. Tannen then identifies the problem presented by the “culture of critique”, that is, a tendency to attack the person making an argument, or misrepresenting the issue, rather than arguing against their position itself. She points out that instead of listening to reason, people who are caught up in the culture of critique debate as i...
In 2012, Scott Thurman published The Revisionaries, a film that illustrates how the Texas edification organization has settled into a modern rise of outmoded, religious, and ideological wiles, with each associate fostering their dogmata’s of both ontological and theological complications in Texas education. Additionally, Thurman’s film also highlights how their programs have had the consequence of retelling critical creeds of America, and how that affects scholastic processes nationwide, for an ample aggregate of people to befall on. Likewise, The Revisionaries congregates on concerns that various scholars acquire conception of in their Texas Government lecture, such as, constituent turnout in Texas, politicization, the Texas learning structure,
Silver Linings Playbook is a 2012 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by David O. Russell, Cooper plays Patrick "Pat" Solatano, Jr., a man with bipolar disorder who is released from a psychiatric hospital and moves back in with his parents, played by Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver. Determined to win back his estranged wife, Pat meets recently widowed Tiffany Maxwell, portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence, who offers to help him get his wife back if he enters a dance competition with her. The two become closer as they train and Pat, his father, and Tiffany examine their relationships with each other as they cope with their issues.
Frozen: Hero’s Journey Film Analysis “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself” says Joseph Campbell. The protagonist Ana, in Frozen, goes on a journey in which she is in great jeopardy of her sister’s ice powers. Elsa, Ana’s sister, has just become queen in an opulent coronation when her ice powers go out of control.
A traditional method assumes that the criticism involves both explication of what actually went on when the speaker engaged his or her audience, and an evaluation of how well the speaker performed the task of changing the audiences’ perspective of reality. It is also assumed that the traditional method will create a feeling of identification and sense of relatedness between the speaker or writer and the
basic charge of this criticism can be stated in the words of a recent critic,
Stosny states that “criticism fails because it embodies two of the things that human beings hate the most: it calls for submission, and we hate to submit and it devalues, and we hate to feel devalued” (Stosny). Furthermore, he argues that criticism is used as a form of “ego defense” when we feel devaluated by behavior or attitude as opposed to disagreeing with their behavior or attitude (Stosny). Tony Schwartz, author of the article “There’s No Such Thing as Constructive Criticism” for HarvardBusinessReview.com, says that criticism “challenges our sense of value” and “implies judgement and we all recoil feeling judged” (Schwartz). Schwartz reiterates the point that constructive criticism is a useful tool that isn’t working or doesn’t exist simply because people don’t know how to properly give or receive constructive criticism. To prove this, he lists three reasons why we assume constructive criticism doesn’t work while in reality it actually does. “The first mistake we often make is giving feedback when we are feeling that our own value is at risk. That’s a recipe for disaster, and it happens far more commonly than we think, or are aware” (Schwartz). To summarize this reason he listed, Schwartz states that when we feel like we’re being
The trailer teases the menacing and violent nature of the film, through the filming techniques which continue to create suspense and anticipation within a responder.
In 1954, Federal Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, from Seattle travel to Shutter Island in Boston to investigate a disappearance of a patient there, Rachel Solando. The female patient was admitted to the institution after drowning her three children for no apparent reason. She suffers from delusions that her children are still alive and she is simply away on vacation. His ulterior motive for accepting this assignment is because he believes Andrew Laeddis is imprisoned in the C-Ward on the island, which is reserved for the most dangerous criminals, and wants to avenge his wife’s death. Teddy is a veteran WWII soldier, traumatized by the war experience in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp and the loss of his
Criticism is something that we all deal with daily and many of us believe that when we give criticism we are expertly doing so but as we receive criticism we tend to believe the other person is degrading us personally. Since criticism is mainly to judge merits and faults of a person or their actions, it is natural for us to feel defensive as we act the way we do based on the knowledge we have and we feel that the criticism questions our knowledge. Many of us may see criticism as such and act defensively towards it but according to an article called Giving and Receiving Criticism the author Sue Hadfield states, “Constructive criticism, however, can be helpful and lead to better working relations.” (Hadfield, 2013) With this in mind we can process that criticism can be used to give feedback to better ones position or knowledge in that which is being criticized. But how do we give criticism while staying in the favor of the criticized and when receiving criticism how do we differentiate between constructive and destructive criticism? Continuing in the article the author presents certain...
The Duke of York has suffered from a speech impediment all his life so his wife, Elizabeth, enlists the help of unorthodox speech therapist, Lionel Logue, to assist in improving his dreaded stammer. After his brother, Prince Edward, abdicates the throne as the successor to his deceased father, Bertie (the Duke of York) becomes the king of England thus making it even more vital that his continued work with Logue brings breakthrough, perhaps in more ways than one. The director, Tom Hooper, really sought to incorporate a variety of his own history into the film by constructing the idea and film off of his own mother’s experiences of being invited to act in a play entitled “The Kings Speech” as well as the fact that the film embodies narratives from his English father and
This approach is adamant in the use of an all white cast (aside from one Hispanic friend), and in the way the author/director uses the male gaze of a “dominant”, attractive, wealthy, white man to lure women into this BDSM lifestyle. The main male character, Christian Grey, displays this instinct of scopophilia in the opening scene of the movie (3:07-9:00). Freud described this instinct as, “taking other people as objects, subjecting them to a controlling and curious gaze,” (Mulvey 59) in this scene the audience gets it first look into the deep scopophilic gaze of Christian
The simple answer is the film met its genera’s expectations. Meeting expectations has a lot to do with personal preference. When expectations are not met, critiques
Criticism is something which all of us have to face in our lives. They are highly powerful and potent expressions. If taken correctly, they are like high voltage chargers which can push start your growth to a lighting speed. But at the same time it also has the capability to diffuse all your will power and confidence if misunderstood. What effect will it have on you is completely your choice.
Adam Sharpiro, Megan Schultz, Christina Roush, Cassandra Schofar, Emily Shilling, Tawnia Simpson, Natalie Sampiller. Portrayal of Homosexuality in Media. 26 March 2014 .