Reboots and remakes are a huge phenomenon in Hollywood today and why shouldn't they be? Film and television studios want to make money first and foremost. If there is a movie or television series that pulled a good audience in the past few years or decades then that seems a safe bet for being able to attract an audience today. Part of such an audience will be new, young people, but remakes have the advantage of attracting those who enjoyed the original show or movie. "Mad Max: Fury Road" is one example of a successful movie reboot that did very well at the box office this year and "Terminator Genisys" was an example on the other side of the spectrum with very disappointing performance. On television, the sequel and reboot trend includes a
Hollywood has played a big part is our lives. Growing up we’ve seen numerous movies, some that scared us others that touch us, and those images stayed with us forever. So what happens when Hollywood takes a classic piece of literature such as Frankenstein and turns into a monster movie. It transforms the story so much that now some 50 years later, people think of Frankenstein as the monster instead of the monster’s creator. It became a classic monster movie and all the high values of the original were forever lost.
In partial agreement of Medved’s claims, I too see that the overall quality of American films is continuously dropping. I have seen many recent films in which the only element that could possibly keep the viewer interested are the constant actions of violence. One particular film that falls into this category is the 1999 release, The Matrix. This science fiction/action film is about a group of technologically advanced pioneers who venture into a parallel world to stop an unnamed enemy from doing some unnamed bad thing. The film was a series of chasing and fighting scenes in which they just kept coming up with new ways for the good guys to escape or shoot the enemy and new ways for the enemies to die. The climax of the story was at the end when the main good guy, Neo, had one last fight with the main bad guy. The fight ends when Neo is finally killed but then he is suddenly resurrected and he kills the bad guy; the world is safe again. The plot was nothing more than the overdone myth of "good verses evil," in which after a long struggle, good wins.
Film makers use many historical events to spark up and idea for a movie. One historical event that is commonly used is war. One advantage a film maker has when using war as a movie plot is that there is already a lot of drama in war. This may seem like a good advantage for the film maker, however focusing on all of the drama of war leaves much of the actual info. When watching a war movie, you may feel like you have an understanding about the war, but when you really compare a war movie to an actual war you find that there is a lot of factual information left out. One may ask why would directors and film makers leave out the facts of war and focus on the drama? After reading The Faces of Battle by John Keegan and reviewing war movies such as Saving Private Ryan, and Pearl Harbor, one can clearly see what makes the Hollywood version of war different from real life war.
With all of these great influences, how is it that a formerly great series turned so terribly wrong? Well, this is where I think they went wrong. The original writers of the first two movies were obviously nowhere to be found in this attack on recent flicks. Instead, this movie was passed on to Pat Proft, writer of Police Academy, Hot Shots, and Naked Gun, and David Zucker, writer and director of the Airplane and naked gun Movies. Granted, all of these movies are extremely funny, but they were made for a different generation.
When something is created it is a given that it will be picked apart, dismantled, will evolve into something even greater. It has become the norm in film-making to play by these rules of deformation. Movie makers have stretched the definitions of genre to encompass the given criteria set up by the very people who created these staple types of films that movie goers are used to. Today we can watch romantic comedies that take place in outer space, or horror where no one is killed. It seems as though as soon as you find a clear definition of what a specific genre is, someone comes along and reinvents the category.
Millions of people around the world attend the movie theatre and among those millions of people they all share the same thing; the love for movies. There are movies of all genres that appeal to each person in this world, and yet many people find themselves sharing the same love for classic original movies; such movies in particular may include: Carrie, Godzilla, Footloose, and Psycho. Once someone has seen a movie and is en-captured by what the film means, how it was able to tug at their heart strings, the way a horror film was able to give them the chills, and the connection they made to the main character; people do not want anything about the film to change. For many remaking a classic film takes away the quality from the original film
This is working and causing dumbed down shows to be shown more frequently compared to more mature shows. The term dumb down is used in the cartoon community when a show thinks viewers are stupid and give them jokes that a four year old could understand. This sounds like it could be ok, but it makes older audience members feel like this is a kid’s show. One example of this that I see is a lot of people are reusing the same idea over and over again.
The Reasons Behind the Popularity of Action Films In this essay I am going to explore the conventions of action films and their popularity. People love action films, and when they go to see one there are conventions you would expect to see in the film All plots of action films are based on the same outline, Hero and villain meet, there's a disruption of order, and mission, then everything is sorted out when the villain dies and everything returns to normal. There are Stock characters that you expect to see in this genre of film, the hero, the villain and two attractive ladies. The main action is around a male hero, however, modern films have featured female heroines for example Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider'. If the hero is male he is always good looking, intelligent, brave, chauvinistic, and manages to escape from life threatening situations, however the hero will always have a weakness, and if the hero is male the weakness is normally women.
It’s no question that genre is a very important factor in a screenwriter’s pursuit of creating a highly marketable film. Considering genre types in writing a script for an upcoming film is important to not only the target audience, but the technical characteristics of certain genres. Every film created is categorized into a specific genre based on elements of that genre type, as well as accompanied by technical aspects that classify a film as a specific genre type. Some films are finalized as purely one type of genre, while in other instances the film gains the classification of type different genre types. Sound, cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, and narrative are the formal elements of film that help determine a final product into a genre class, or multiple genre classes. Yet even dwelling in the subcategories of major genre types, like science fiction or action, films also have the ability to shift genre within their screen time and not only be placed in a genre category but jump genre types as well. This is caused greatly by the blending of genre types that have elements that complement each other’s qualities well and can easily be transitioned from one type to the next. Where Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) series prequel Prometheus (2012) began under the science fiction type genre and develops a gradual transition into horror, Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard’s Cabin in the Woods (2012) flips the two genres, beginning as a horror genre than transitions into a science fiction category.
People tend to believe easily in numbers shown online (even before the show starts) and oversimplify the matter. Varied ratings on media and the comparison with the original On YouTube, the Ghostbusters reboot trailer triggered more”dislikes”, which was believed to be concerted by some fans of the original version of Ghostbusters. One of the media that gave the movie four stars in a UK-based The Guardian, saying the movie’s director Paul Feig’s female boot is a blast.
In the history of film art, there was a range of films that created long-lasting trends and resulted in a number of subsequent films. Similar to the Star Wars that caused a revolution in the film industry, the Alien that was released in 1979 and directed by Ridley Scott experienced immense success. This film reaches its main aim of appealing to the viewers in terms of the content, the created tension, and the cinematographic techniques applied for the creation of the movie. The movie cannot leave anyone watching it indifferent and tends to impress. The film Alien defined the mainstream tendencies for a long period, and even nowadays its impact on the film industry is still quite visible.
Many people don’t think about it so much, but movies (or just film in general) have become such a big part of our lives that we don’t think much of it because it just feels like a usual part of living. But have you ever wondered why this is, and how far back film started? Movies and film have been around for a long time, have developed in big ways throughout time, and has advanced in such a big and new way to this day.
The film industry has always been somewhat of a dichotomy. Grounded firmly in both the worlds of art and business the balance of artistic expression and commercialization has been an issue throughout the history of filmmaking. The distinction of these two differing goals and the fact that neither has truly won out over the other in the span of the industry's existence, demonstrates a lot of information about the nature of capitalism.
In the following text I am going to answer this questions focusing on television and movies in the near future.
The white tent was huge holding all of the creame de la cream of the upper crust of society. I was looking ahead into the field and watching the game and I still do not know who is winning when I felt someone beside me. I turn to my left and see Charles holding two flutes of Champaign. “Thank you.”