In the film the King of Kong, it is seen that there are many possibilities to creating a thesis statement related to a known film since 2007, but the movie encounters a few similarities regarding both of the main protagonist of the film. In the King of Kong, Seth Gorden used his abilities as a director to show the audience that even though Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell were or are still rivals, they still had a similarity of deep comprehensive intelligence, and the documentation of their supporters. First of all, both Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell had the same deep comprehensive intelligence towards playing the Donkey Kong video game. During their younger days, they both possessed the same goal which was to receive the highest score of Donkey …show more content…
Kong, so they could be recognized as the World Champion of Gaming at the Twin Galaxies arcade. During the film, it is indicated that Billy Mitchell had a notebook where he kept his strategies for winning the game as well as Steve Wiebe where they could recognize when the next barrel will drop and how to successfully win the game, but the downside of holding all their strategies written down is that they cannot practice them while playing the game. For example, if Steve Wiebe was playing Donkey Kong and him had written strategies to assist him to help him get through the game, he could not practice them because people might trust it as cheating and another downside is that he cannot hold on to a notebook while he is playing because that will quickly make him stop focusing on the game and more on the notebook and it will result in him losing. That same effect will pass on to Billy Mitchell if he ever tested it. Both main protagonists have played throughout their youth to become the ultimate champion, but even though they were or are rivals, they had a similar concentration towards beating each other’s score. The Donkey Kong video game is very tricky when it comes to saving the little princess on the top. At the beginning, it might start out mild, but then all of a sudden the Gorilla who captured the little princess throws random barrels and bouncing springs to prevent participants from reaching him. Billy Mitchell has successfully won different rounds in the game and has exercised through the same situation as Steve Wiebe. The fact that both Steve and Billy had been through similar complications in playing a tricky game like Donkey Kong, it testifies that both of them have a tolerance for patience and proves they both demonstrate a deep comprehension of intelligence towards the Donkey Kong console. Even though they had lost in the past, achieving their goals of beating other competitor scores and becoming a gaming champion was one of the most significant opportunities both of these competitors had in common. The deep comprehensive intelligence of both rivals was impressive because both Billy and Steve had the same determination of learning the way the game plays out during their rounds as they pass to the next level. In some region of the film they wanted to mainly remember about the game code, that would help them pick out their comprehensive intelligence towards game planning. Another comparison between Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell was that they both shared the support from their fanatics.
When both Steve and Billy were in their past youth lives, they both were listed in the top 19 players with the highest scores on Donkey Kong. For instance, their family support kept them believing in themselves that they could be champions from the start. In the movie, both of the player’s family members were filmed on camera while being asked random questions about Billy and Steve’s rivalry. Both families supported them and wished them good luck through the years by understanding both players wish towards gaming. The organization of Twin Galaxies is a self-proclaimed “main scoreboard” for all video games; it is supposed pure intentioned organization that essentially ruins the movie by letting out the cults bureaucracy behind “official” video game scores. In like manner of what would appear to be the most comfortable task of putting two men in front of an arcade machine and saying “play”, the entirety of this 90-minute movie is a struggle to bring the two humans to meet each other. In reality, another sixty thousand points in Donkey Kong do not make them better or worse than the other, but Steve Wiebe needed this for himself, he needed the applause of the globe and to be recognized as excellent. His demand for being so capital is what empowers people just like Billy Mitchell. If both players have seen their own documentary movie based on their lives related to the Donkey Kong video game, they would realize they hold the same love for gaming. Gaming is one of the most common talents these two players have in common. Everyone strives to be the best, they idolize and envy those who are, believing that they must experience it all, and lead the lives normal folk can just daydream of. The adoration and respect of the public, inflate the heads of the winners, preventing them from the day of reckoning all of us need, making them nearly unbearable to be close
to. The classic gameplay, if that is how people call it, is filled with corruption, agendas, and unethical practices. This arrived as a genuine surprise to non-gamers that would not understand video games and are sponsors of both Steve and Billy in other careers they had, such as Steve Wiebe being a Washington high school teacher and Billy being an ownership of the Rickey's World Famous Hot Sauce. Some people would never have believed that there could be any dispute over a game-record with two of the greatest players. Both rivals even though they did not see eye to eye, they have the same mind and love for their passion, even if they did not see it, it could be understood throughout their common desire of gaming. To conclude, there are not many similarities towards the principal protagonists of the King Kong film. The director of the movie used his engineering talents to show the audience that even the rivalry between Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell they both hold the same deep comprehensive intelligence and the documentation of their supporters.
The film Jindabyne, is a story about death, marriage, and race in an Australian town in New South Wales called Jindabyne. In the film, four men go fishing, and one of them discovers the dead body of a young indigenous girl. Instead of reporting what they found to the police immediately, they decide to stay and continue fishing. They decide that there is nothing they could do for her, so they tie her legs to a tree and continue with their fishing, reporting the death only when they return home. After they are done with their weekend of fishing and report the incident, conflict starts, as the men are criticized for not respecting the dead. Through the story of the town’s reaction to the four fishermen’s response to the dead girl, the movie shows Australia to be fragmented and divided over white-indigenous relations.
Based on McKenzie Wark’s game theory written in his article called “Agony (On the Cave)”. Games, like our society, have its own rules that everyone should follow without questioning. Everyone is treated equally and can’t escape from these rules’ controlling power. The relationship between rules and games is also revealing in the film Wreck-it Ralph. The film talks about the main character, Ralph, leaving his own game, escaping to the “Sugar Rush” game, fighting with Turbo, and finally solving a big threat to the whole game world. In this scene, Turbo, the antagonist, disturbs the “Road Blaster” game because he envies its taking over his place and ultimately moving out from the arcade. In this essay, I will use Wark’s theory as the lens to discuss
Racist characteristics in films and stories are something that can be perceived in this generation, but was something that was normal and expected in the 1930’s. Sexuality and raciness were items that made films a commodity in the 30’s and King Kong uses both of these to attract a wide audience. These qualities are also a factor as to why King Kong remains a classic throughout the generations.
The storyline for many fairy-tales follow the same structure, there is a damsel in distress and a hero is there for the rescue. This simple concept is complexed within many classic novels. Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood shows how overcoming traumatic experiences may transform individuals from their state of despair into a peaceful mindset. On the other hand, Arthur Goldman’s Memoirs of a Geisha focuses on a girl who struggles to navigate through the constant obstacles of life. These two novels demonstrate how the lingering effects of a strained past may impact an individual significantly, yet coming across their own personal saviours allows their destiny to take a turn for the better. The protagonists exemplify a common theme throughout the novels: a feeling of betrayal and a saviour’s guidance. This generates inner strength from within the protagonists which allows them to overcome their respective pasts.
The pristine 1933 King Kong was constructed as a movie: to convey a story to entertain an audience. Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake took the substructure for King Kong and expanded upon it in virtually every way in order to “make again” the astoundment of the original for a modern-day audience. Audiences received the first King Kong very well. The stop-motion sequences of Kong were astounding for their time and the movie grossed over $90,000 in its beginning weekend. In order to bank upon its prosperity again, sequels were made and thus in 1976 a remake was made to amend upon the original. Paramount updated the movie to color, altered the story, and cast Jeff Bridges, a widely popular actor of the time, as the lead actor. Although the movie received stirred reviews, it did exceptionally well in the box office and tripled Paramount’s initial budget for the motion picture. Even though the movie wasn’t “as good” as the original, audiences still paid money to view it because of that hope that they would feel like they once did when they visually perceived the first King Kong. The remake add...
The Starving Games is a 2013 film directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. The film was created entirely to parody the ever so popular movie The Hunger Games. The Starving Games starred actors you’ve never heard of such as Maiara Walsh as Kantmiss Evershot and Cody Christian as Peter Malarkey. Maiara Walsh was possibly one of the only actors in the entire film who was actually known for anything due to the fact that production wasn't really that large and thus struggled to pull in anyone who had been in larger, more popular productions. One thing that was even more surprising about the inability to pull in any big names was that The Starving Games had a rather substantial budget of 4.5 million
... shadow of his narration suggests the significant influence of Joe’s bias on the manner in which the film is portrayed. The writer claims to represent the voice of empiricism, promising to deliver “the facts…(and) the whole truth” before the story gets “all distorted and blown out of proportion”, but his personality overlays the narration and his supposedly impartial retelling of the series of events contains opinions, editorials, and literary references all too reminiscent of a Hollywood drama. Joe Gillis, being a writer of fiction with an intense personal investment in the story he is telling, cannot be expected to adhere to scientific impartiality. Instead, he illustrates an essential tenet of storytelling and Hollywood mystique, the subjective nature of facts when coupled with human interpretation. Joe Gillis shows how a road can be more than a strip of asphalt.
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“Even those couples of nice teachers on the facility, there phonies too”. He says this because his hatred for adults is super big. Holden explains to his sister that he’s failing his classes but then he starts to explain why he said what he said.
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Both Orangutans and gorillas are in zoos. When you go to the zoo you will probably see
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Five hundred years ago, an obscure German monk published 95 theses for debate and unwittingly set off a revolution that continues to shape the church and the world to this very day (Christian History: Luther and the Reformation). In 2003, there was a movie released about a German monk, named Martin Luther, which depicted his life and journey during the time of the protestant reformation. The movie Luther was not made to be a history lesson, but was to portray the life of Luther, and the events leading up to the protestant reformation. Ever since the movie Luther, critics continue to debate whether or not the movie accurately communicates Martin Luther’s life and the issues revolving the Protestant Reformation?
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