The film “La La Land,” written and directed by Damien Chazelle, teleports you to another world through singing and dancing. It brings you to a place where jumping out of your car in the middle of awful L.A. traffic to sing a tune called “Another Day of Sun”- a bit about how each day brings new hope for these young wannabe artists- is normal, and thats just the opener. There really is no mistaking that this film is a musical from the start. The leading male, Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), or as we later know as Seb, is a young and passionate jazz pianist with a partially formed but enthusiastic goal of opening his own club and protecting his favorite music from going extinct. Mia (Emma Stone) is a talented woman who aspires to be an actress and whisks between unsuccessful auditions and working as a barista at a coffee shop on the Warner Bros studio lot. Both are looking for …show more content…
He honks his car horn at her and she replies with the finger. The second time they meet in a bar, after she hears him playing the piano from outside a restaurant. She goes in to compliment him and he brushes past, ignoring her. They meet again, at a party, and something clicks. The first significant scene takes place as the sun is setting over the Hollywood Hills, while Mia and Sebastian walk together from a party. They start to notice the similarities in one another. The attraction between them is clear and instant. So, even as they sing about how they’re not really a couple, and how its a “waste of a lovely night” because they’re not with their true partners, their body language tells another story with a dance that is choreographed to perfection. Stone and Gosling aren’t born singers or dancers, yet they bring so much spirit and dedication to every movement that it doesn’t matter. They’re fluid, engaged, and mesmerizing as we watch them fall in love with each other through
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
"Love in L.A.," written by Dagoberto Gilb, is a story full of irony and multiple themes. The story is set in Hollywood during the summer time. Written in third person objective, "Love in L.A." guides the reader along through the story as opposed to an omniscient point of view.
Two of the greatest stories told about the city of Los Angeles come from different art forms, but both tell just as equally thought-provoking tales. Twilight: Los Angeles, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith, is a one woman play that recalls several interviews of LA community members that talk about their experiences during the 1992 Rodney King trial verdict. Crash, directed by Paul Haggis, is a story about racial tensions amongst citizens of Los Angeles. Although both stories tackle similar issues, they differ in terms of critical race theory, feminist views, and their narrative structures.
“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.
Sebastian, the twin brother of Viola who was lost at sea after a shipwreck, and Lady Olivia are the first to marry, but things are not as they seem. During the weeks leading up to matrimony, Olivia fell madly in love with Cesario, who though looks and sounds just as Sebastian, is truly Viola dressed as a man. Sebastian does not realize this as he meets Olivia for the first time. He is amazed that a woman of her statue and beaut...
They fall instantly in love and meet in the middle of the dance floor and touch your hands.
La Jetée (1962) is a science fiction narrative directed by Chris Marker, base on a third-person narration. It is a 28 minute long film that comprise of black and white still images in sequence rather than a moving footage. It is set in a post World War lll in Paris whereby a survivor of this post apocalyptic was sent back in time by some scientists for their time travelling experiment due to his strong attachment to a memory that was haunting him as a child. The film is directed from the present to the past memories and to the future, but ended with a plot twist whereby the film when back to his past again. La Jetée started off with a description of a memory by a boy who witnesses the death of a man at the airport and ended with the same scene,
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
...s previous pairing received. Instead of making this moment tender and private, such as the scene on the soundstage, Lockwood turns their relationship into a public spectacle, establishing both of them as the new celebrity couple.
“The Conjuring” creeps nightmarishly, “Fast and Furious” fares recklessly. No overhyped nor forcibly pretentious as such , “La La Land” by Damien Chazelle is still hailed as a blockbuster although it starts with a rock-bottom budget and the plot mainly revolves around two sheer lives of two young people. Initially, I believed the reasons for that predestined success lay in the pageant of the film, which was brilliantly represented through colorful sequences, be it the part on a gridlocked freeway in which Angelenos pouring out of their cars twirling and dancing or possibly scenes in which two protagonists holding hands to cover Los Angeles with their bittersweet courtship. I also fell headlong for brilliant snatches of music by Justin Hurwitz
City of Stars A Review of the Musical La La Land The movie musical “La La Land,” which was released in December of 2016, is a film which grabbed the attention of critics and casual moviegoers alike. Although some criticize it for its musical inaccuracies, most can agree that the stunning cinematography and emotionally consuming plotline make up for its technical shortcomings. The film was also successful at alluding to classics such as Singin’ in the Rain and West Side Story without seeming unoriginal. Rather, it paid homage to past works while establishing itself as a new one.