As some of you probably know, I am still in the midst of a quest to see every movie to win the Oscar for best picture. As you may also know, two of the filmmakers I most want and need to see more of are the Coen brothers. Combine those factors, and you have one of the movies I have been most anxious to see: “No Country for Old Men.” I finally caught up with 2007’s best picture, and it almost lived up to the hype. Set in Texas in 1980, this film follows a trio of men. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is a retired welder who stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong while out hunting. Besides the bodies and massive amounts of heroin, Moss also finds $2 million in cash. He takes the money, of course, prompting the ruthless killer Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) to come looking for him. These two men are pursued by small-town sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones). I’ve mentioned before that I’m not a huge fan of Tommy Lee Jones, but he performs admirably here. He brings his typical laconic, world-weariness to the role, and the Coen brothers use it quite effectively. It’s an above average performance from the actor, but still nothing …show more content…
The reason for this is twofold. First, I had a bit of a problem with the unconventional narrative the Coens employ. As I said, this film has a bunch of great scenes, but the film occasionally has trouble building on these wonderful moments. It feels a little disconnected in some way. I think part of the reason for this is the slow pace of this film. It works pretty darn well, but it did take me a little while to get into the same rhythm as the movie. Plus, since the pace is so deliberate, any scene that throws of the momentum of the film – and there are a few – is that much more egregious as it might take the movie longer to get back on track. For the most part, I was onboard with this movie, but for whatever reason I was never totally
simple nature. For example, the lines “--those dying generations--at their song” and “Whatever is begotten, born, ...
We are all different. We are all at least biased on one topic. Some people just look at the surface, while others dig deeper into the facts that were given. Reginald Rose demonstrated these points beautifully in 12 Angry Men. All of the Jurors bring a special part of their personality to the jury room, which is the beauty of having a jury. All of the jurors are different in their own unique way,
Ken Kesey's award-winning novel, "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", was adapted into a film in 1975 written and directed by New York City native Bo Goldman and Czech director Milos Forman. Towards the end of the novel and film, Chief Bromden escapes from the ward. This scene is conveyed differently in the novel and film; however, there are evident similarities between each form of media. This scene is important to the plot because it wraps up the entire storyline. In the film and novel, similarities within Chief Bromden’s escape from the ward include the way Chief escaped, how he couldn't hear anyone in the ward due to being deaf, and how McMurphy assisted Bromden with gaining his confidence to lift the panel and throw it through the window. McMurphy essentially changed Bromden to help him break out of the asylum and back into the real world.
The movie I chose to watch was A Few Good Men directed by Rob Reiner and written by Aaron Sorkin. A few good men is about military law primarily. The case that the movie revolves around starts off with two marines stationed at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. In the first scene of the movie it show’s marine Lance Corporal Harold W. Dawson and PFC Louden Downey beating up one of their fellow marines on base. The movie begins with the scene of the crime. The marine being beaten was PFC William T. Santiago a marine who was never good at being a marine in general. Santiago would fail miserably on runs and workouts which would only make the rest of the marine squad look bad as each marine depends on one another. The night that Dawson and Downey beat up Santiago they shoved a rag into his mouth. Santiago started bleeding and within hours died. Corporal Dawson and PFC Downey were
In one particular scene, director was truly a great one, featuring special focus on his dad life and the Colorado River. It was so cool to highlights of the movie by one of his favorite poem written by his dad when he was born, the Important Place. Also, this film was a good length, not excessively long but long enough to tell the story. This is really important today there were no such unwanted scene in the film, which literary the most closely and accurately delivered. In my opinion, this film is forced to possess the characters of a great aspect, and turns to make for quite the adventurous. There was no special character encounter rather than his dad, learned something from the secret Colorado River. Another great aspect of the film was the special footage that were introduce in this film was an enjoyable aspect to be a good documentary film, and that’s how this film is different from the rest.
Gone with the Wind is a classic fictional love story that depicts life in the old south before, during and after the Civil war. The book was originally written in 1936 by Margret Mitchell, the movie adaptation was released in 1939, directed by Victor Fleming, and staring Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh. Ms. Mitchell grew up listening to Civil war stories from confederate veterans. It was reported that they told her everything; everything that is, except that they had lost the war, she found that out when she was 10 years old. Though the book was written 71 years after the Civil War ended, Ms. Mitchell did her research and appears to have drawn inspiration from those childhood stories that she was told. This is apparent in the detailed description of the clothing, houses, and everyday discussions and interactions of the characters throughout the book. Though not all historically correct most of what is in the book is accurate. During the time the movie was released, “damn” was considered to be vulgar and controversial and they used the term “darkies” to describe the slaves.
This film would best be described as an edge of your seat suspense, yet includes moments of dry, yet twisted humor. This movie makes you wonder what’s going to happen next and does not fully give away the plot until later in the movie, unlike most do. No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American Western thriller directed, written, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen that takes place in 1980 in West Texas.
As the good prince of Arragon, Denzel Washington did a superb job, and as Claudio, the love-struck innocent, Robert Sean Leonard performed great just as he has done in any other theatrical movies that I have seen him in.
Editing: The best editing done in the movie in my opinion was the lighting that they put the capitol in when Mr. Smith first arrived at Washington. They made the capitol look very official and intimidating, which contrasted with Mr. Smith’s innocent nature therefore foreshadowing the conflict the two will have in the future
No Country for Old Men is a 2007 thriller directed, written and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name. The film was nominated eight times in the 80th Academy Awards Ceremony. The film won four awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Director. In addition, the film also won three British Academy Film Awards including Best Director, and two Golden Globes. The American Film Institute gave it their prestigious award as an AFI Movie of the Year.
The Odyssey and O Brother Where Art Thou are considered a representation of each other in some ways and prove more similar than it is commonly thought. Although the overall persona of each portrayal is quite different, it still illustrates the same message. A good lesson to be learned from this comparison is to contemplate your actions to prevent bleak situations from occurring. The characters in these tales had to understand the consequences by experiencing it themselves. Acknowledging the time period that these voyages took place in, they didn't have anybody to teach them proper ways to go about situations.
In Cormac McCarthy’s spine-chilling novel No Country For Old men, the main characters, Anton Chigurh, Llewelyn Moss, and Sheriff Bell possess noticeably different characteristics; However, by far the most different is their morals, which play an immense role in this book. The theme of morality is established throughout the novel and is manifested as the morals of the characters, what choices they make, and how do these choices impact them. I intend to analyze the instances of Moss’s morals, Chigurh’s morals when it comes to killing, and Bell’s morals as a sheriff.
“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise (Margaret Atwood).” While physical maturity is inevitable, emotional maturity is not as certain. Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is a distressed teenager who has been expelled from his fair share of boarding schools. He now wanders New York, trying to find his place amongst society. Since his brother's death Holden began to discover himself stuck in a perpetual state of discontent, feeling alone in his struggle to find his place in the world. Holden is no longer a child but he still doesn't fit in amongst adults as they are corrupt in the ways they live and act. Holden wishes to remain surrounded by innocence in order to avoid the
...a repulsive story of two mindless young lovers, Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory (Juliette Lewis), who blaze their way across the Southwest, killing everything in their path while becoming famous. According to the script, they indiscriminately kill fifty-two people before they are caught. It seems like many more. Then they manage to kill at least fifty more as they escape from prison. They free themselves, have children, and are at last seen happily rambling down the highway in a Winnebago (346-347).
The movie 12 Angry Men depicts the story of 12 men serving on a jury who must determine the destiny of a young man charged with murdering his father (Lidz, 1995). This study represents the analysis of 12 Angry Men movie by applying Tuckman's Stages, to determine if these men acted as a group or a team, as well as analyze the dynamics of this group of men as they weighed the confirmation, demonstration, and personal agendas.