La La Land La La Land was a musical released on December 9th, 2016 with a genre of drama and romance. This film was written and directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. The theme of this film focused on the romance of two struggling old souls, trying to fit into an evolving world of music and film. The lead cast of this film, Sebastian Wilder (Ryan Gosling) was an impassioned jazz pianist who struggled to match his music taste with the audience of the restaurant in which he plays. However, he refuses to accept congratulations on his performance from the only person who was baffled by his music, Mia Dolan (Emma Stone), marking the start of a beautiful love story. The lead characters chosen for this film were perfect, Sebastian Wilder, a lonely guy in LA who was passionate about bringing Jazz back to life, and spent his last dime on trying and failing to open a jazz club in the city. His character was complimented by the passionate Mia Dolan, who was an exceptional ambitious actress who switches between working in a coffee shop and auditioning in various acting …show more content…
roles. They find each other and blend into each other’s lives, filling in the gap in their lives. The musical of course started with the song Another Day in Sun, which sets up an energetic mood in the beginning of the film, where the light of positivity is shown despite the presence of unsettling traffic.
The mood set in every song was picture-perfect, such as ‘A lovely night’, in which Sebastian and Mia dance under the moonlight, teasing each other and perfectly complimenting each other’s steps and the picturesque city view set the theme to really a lovely night. The lighting in every scene, especially in Mia’s auditioning scenes were flawless, which coordinated with Emma Stone’s stunning acting, making every scene real and full of emotions. Even though the pace of this movie was slow, it didn’t break its depth because the actions felt very genuine. However, as the movie progresses, complications start to rise between their romance, which obviously frustrates the
viewers. Overall, the movie was a surreal experience, which personally broadened my knowledge about the world of jazz and heightened my interest in musicals. The songs and the cinematography complimented each other, making it an incredible musical. What I loved most about this movie was that it emphasized on real life problems and how not every story has a happy ending. La La Land was a complete package of romance, music and passion and it’s definitely worth another watch!
Sunset Boulevard is a hollywood classic film that digs into the aftermath of the sound era caused. Sunset blvd came out on August 10, 1950. The film was directed by Billy Wilder, produced by Charles Brackett, and starred William Holden and Gloria Swanson. Sunset blvd shows us the aftermath of Norma Desmond and how she is stuck in the past of silent hollywood. The darkness and bitterness that many silent movie experienced after they were kicked to the curb once sound came. The film is has a classic dark drama/comedy that is one of the most acclaimed films in film noir history. The film touches on the loneliness and narcissism that silent legends were enduring. The mood of the film is immediately established as decadent and decaying by the narrator of a dead man floating face down in a swimming pool in Beverly Hills.
Besides an initial voiceover narration introducing Ray Kinsella (Kevin Cosner), his beloved wife Annie (Amy Madigan), and their young daughter Karin, this is the first scene in Field of Dreams, released in 1989 and directed by Phil Alden. The voice-over establishes the expectation of the film as being a sensible story about a loving couple trying to run a family farm in Iowa, and the subsequent scene (pictured above) quickly deconstructs that expectation. While working in his field one night, Ray hears a voice whispering “If you build it, he will come.” From then on, there are no more misconceptions about Field of Dreams being anything but an unapologetic fantasy in which an Iowa farmer mows down his fields to build a baseball diamond where
The film Sunset Boulevard, presented in 1950 is a black and white film. The film is about Norma Desmond an old actress, who has issues accepting that she is becoming old. The main actor in the film is Gloria Swanson, who plays Norma Desmond, an older woman who believes she is still young. Desmond is not content with the fact that Hollywood has replaced her with younger actresses. The next actor Nancy Olson, plays Betty Schaffer who falls in love with Gillis despite being engaged to his friend. The third actor is William Holden who plays as Joe Gillis, who has financial problems and decides to turn himself into a gigolo to earn money. The dilemma with Joe is he does not want Betty to know about his job because he knows he might lose Betty as
“There once was a time in this business when I had the eyes of the whole world! But that wasn't good enough for them, oh no! They had to have the ears of the whole world too. So they opened their big mouths and out came talk. Talk! TALK!” (Sunset Boulevard). The film Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder focuses on a struggling screen writer who is hired to rewrite a silent film star’s script leading to a dysfunctional and fatal relationship. Sunset Boulevard is heavily influenced by the history of cinema starting from the 1930s to 1950 when the film was released.
Chicanos and Chicanas are often stereotyped by people based on crude and unfair assumptions but at the same time, these stereotypes are often based on the truth. Movie directors are no exception as they attempt to understand and give representation to entire Chicano/a and Latino/a culture in society. The trailer of the film, La Mission, Che seems to be happy with his life until he realizes his son, Jes, is gay. Che then finds himself in a struggle to accept the homosexuality of his son while at the same time, Jes is struggling to find his own identity and to fit into society. The trailer has distinct ways in how it represents and shows the intersection and issues of gender and sexuality, race and ethics, as well as class. The trailer represents
The film, Fruitvale Station, is based upon a true story of a young, unarmed African American male, Oscar, who was shot by a Caucasian BART police officer. The film displays the final twenty-fours of Oscar Grant’s lives going through his struggles, triumphs, and eager search to change his life around. There will be an analysis of the sociological aspects displayed throughout the movie that show racism, prejudice, and discrimination.
This film also shows that people of different backgrounds can too be in love. This movie illustrates that even though there are differences between two people, doesn’t mean they cannot be together. In the world today, people of all different types are falling in love. This used to be unheard of, but is now becoming a way of life. I feel that this movie did a wonderful job of showing many aspects of love and the difficulties that people may come upon.
A League of Their Own (Marshall, 1992) explicitly characterizes an American era when a woman’s place was in the home. Even our modern perspective implicitly follows suit. Although women have gained rights and freedoms since the 1930’s, sexism remains prevalent in America. This film offers an illustration when men went to war and big business men utilized women as temporary replacements in factories, sports, and so on. Here, course concepts, such as gender socialization, gender expressions, role stereotypes, emotion expressions, and language, correspond to the film’s characters and themes.
The Bad and The Beautiful (1952) and State and Main (2000) are films within films that unmask Hollywood Cinema as a dream factory and expose the grotesque, veneer hidden by the luxury of stars. The Bad and the Beautiful, directed by Vincent Minnelli, is a black and white film narrated in flashback form. The films theatrical nature requires more close-ups than wide-screen shots to capture the character’s psychological turmoil. For example, Fred and Jonathan’s car ride is captured in a close-up to signify their friendship; however their relationship deteriorates after Jonathan’s deceit. While the camera zooms out, Fred stands alone motionless. Here, Fred is captured from a distance at eye-level and he becomes ostracized by the film industry and
Gran Torino is an interesting portrayal of communication dilemmas, spread out across several characters and in particular that of main character Walt Kowalski. After the death of his wife, Walt is bombarded with unwanted attention from several angles and attempts to “deal” with the attention to the best of his ability. There are many examples of communication struggles in the film, but they all seem to follow a similar pattern, and that is distance in time and culture. I’d like to focus on some of these communication barriers between his family, neighbors and priest and see how some of these walls got broken down, or could have been removed more easily.
African American representation in the film industry has always been a topic for discussion. Whether talking about character types and roles, the actors being cast or not cast, and the lack of diversity in front of and behind the camera. ‘The contemporary status of race in mainstream American culture is intimately bound to the process of representation within and through the mass media.’ (Rocchio, 2000, p. 4). Any role that was to be played by an African American kept in with the dominant stereotypes of the time of production; incompetent, child like, hyper-sexualised or criminal.
In this film we do not find a false step since the fraternal relationship between the two young women is very cleverly constructed and transmitted to the audience. We also feel that the two leading actresses, Silke and Candela Pena are up to the level of the rest of the film.
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of this rather old fashioned romance is how funny it actually is, while still maintaining a sense of subtlety throughout. This is not a story driven plot, but rather, a collection of charming and amusing moments that, when added up for the duration, becomes something quite substantial. The character development involved is flawless, as we grow to like, and in some senses love, the main players, thanks in large part to the terrific Academy Award winning screenplay by Dalton Trumbo here credited as Ian McLellan Hunter due to a blacklisting that forced him to write under a pseudonym. Even with the quality writing, none of this could have worked if overplayed by the director or if stars were cast who weren't as likeable, and on all fronts,
This movie was very romantic. This is the type of movie that I would love to take my girlfriend to go watch. It touches the romantic side of anyone who watches it, but it isn’t too cheesy either so guys will like it. Claudio and Hero’s love for each other made the movie very romantic. It seemed as if they would die f...
Inarritu highlights her seclusion from the hearing world in the nightclub scene. His choice of soundtrack is extremely effective as by choosing a well-known song many viewers will be anticipating the next chords of the song. By silencing the music and using an over the shoulder shot it acts as a participating camera- allowing the audience to understand how Chieko would view the scene. Through “Babel” the audience views how Chieko seeks acceptance and love, but is consistently rejected. This searching is due to the void left by Chieko’s mother’s death which causes her to compromise herself in the search for love. The director highlights Chieko’s rejection in the nightclub scene by muting the soundtrack, and by using sharp cuts between the view of Chieko’s friend kissing the male figure and Chieko’s face, whilst being in time with the strobe lighting. The strobe lighting is effective in displaying Chieko’s facial expression as it is displayed as single frames which allows for the change from joyous to rejection to be