Imagine that you were a police officer, dedicating your life to make your jurisdiction a better place. Would you allow an FBI agent to barge in and save the day? Or would you continuously fight to be seen as an equal partner in the case? In The Heat Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) attempts to kick Boston police officer Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy) off a case that involves taking down the leader of a major drug ring in the Boston area. But, Mullins will not have it, so she fights to keep her spot on the case and teams up with Ashburn. Although an unlikely pair that cannot be any more opposite, the two complement one another extremely well during their efforts to take down Larkin.
Special Agent Sarah Ashburn is an uptight,
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quiet, yet confident FBI agent sent to Boston from New York City to assist Boston police in apprehending a major drug lord known as Larkin. Shannon Mullins is a crude, hotheaded Boston police officer whose jurisdiction is where Larkin supplies his drugs. Their polar opposite personalities cause them to have several arguments mainly due to Ashburn not wanting Mullins’ help and Mullins’ determination to crack the case. But, the two are able to put their differences aside and team up to take down Larkin. The pair begins to follow leads, starting with a known drug dealer in Mullins’ area, Rojas (Spoken Reasons), who was able to give them information on his supplier, Tatiana (Kaitlin Olson). While in Tatiana’s house Ashburn and Mullins pick up a cigarette that they later sent to the lab and discover that the DNA on it traces back to a man named Hank LeSoire (Adam Ray), the drug distributor. LeSoire owns Club Ekko in Boston, which gives the pair the perfect in. Ashburn and Mullins go the Club Ekko and put a tracker in LeSoire’s phone. Once they leave the club they immediately notice they have a tail that could not be lost. The vehicle following them turns out to be the DEA (Taran Killam and Dan Bakkedahl), who have been hiding out in a van outside the club tracking activity in the club through monitors for three months. The DEA wants Ashburn and Mullins off the case, but they refuse. Ashburn and Mullins begin investigating different leads and are able to find a clue. All of the victims killed by Larkin have a powder coating on the bottom of their shoes. This coating is only found in old paint factories, one in particular stands out due to it’s location in the middle of Mullins’ jurisdiction. The pair then ascends upon the paint factory, on a mission to take down Larkin. Bullock and McCarthy did a terrific job portraying and exaggerating and personifying the differences between the two characters that was written in the screenplay. As previously mentioned, Bullock played an extremely strait-laced and confident individual who is always in full suits and whose hair is always done, this leads the audience to believe that Ashburn is extremely image conscious. While McCarthy portrayed a crude, foul mouthed cop who does not take “no” for an answer, Mullins (McCarthy’s character) appears not to care about her image with frizzy undone hair and dirty clothing that is worn days in a row. Throughout the movie the pair were able to be good cop, bad cop. Ashburn being the good cop who is extremely professional and believes in doing everything (like questioning a suspect) the way she was taught during training. She is extremely calm even when those she interviews are swearing at her and making a scene. While Mullins is quick to start yelling profanities at someone if the person is rude/ disrespectful to her or if he/she refuse to answer her questions. The complete opposite personalities of the main characters add humor to the film. Bullock and McCarthy take the traditional good cop, bad cop roles, respectively, but add a fun twist to it. In the movie Ashburn will try to leave Mullins out of the interrogation and go in calm and collected, but before she can utter a sentence Mullins comes in guns blazing with a completely different tactic. This occurred throughout the movie, Ashburn does as taught, while Mullins follows her own path and is quite successful doing so. The film begins following Ashburn through an FBI search through a known drug house.
Ashburn is able to pick up on details that her crew missed in their search; for instance, she is able to collect both drugs and guns which allowed her to arrest two men. In this scene, both Bullock and the director (Paul Feig) worked together to portray Ashburn as the screenplay writer (Katie Dippold) intended; an extremely confident and intelligent agent. But, once she meets Mullins, the audience is able to observe how strait-laced she is. The dramatic difference between Ashburn and Mullins only solidifies how stuffy Ashburn is. However, as Ashburn spends more and more time with Mullins, she begins to relax, say what she feels, and no longer hesitates to do something without thinking it through beforehand. This is a complete one eighty from the Ashburn the audience was introduced to at the beginning of the film. As the film progresses Bullock and Feig succeeded in creating a solid character out of Ashburn by continuously adding depth to her …show more content…
character. Although The Heat is an extremely enjoyable film, there were a few inconsistencies Feig missed.
One hour and thirty minutes into the film, there was a scene where Ashburn and Mullins were arguing and between cuts Ashburn’s hair was not behind her hair in one shot while the next it was without Ashburn moving her hair. Then eighteen minutes later, Mullins was given a medal and it was placed around her neck, originally the medal was twisted, but between shots the medal fluctuated from being twisted into being straight to being twisted once again. These inconsistencies did not take away from the plot of the film, however it was distracting. As the positions changed between shots it was difficult for me to focus on what was occurring during the scene because I was not sure at first if the hair and medal actually changed position. I actually rewound the film to see if they moved. These petty errors in editing took away from the audience’s focus. This only happened twice, toward the end of the film, in basic scenes, but the errors slightly disengaged the audience and took away from the action/comedy. Feig and the editing crew should have picked up on these beginner mistakes before the film was published.
The Heat took the traditional good cop, bad cop roles and put a spin to them, adding humor between the polar opposite (in both looks and personality) main characters. The film had its weaknesses with inconsistencies in filming, nonetheless Feig was able to direct a solid action buddy
film with humor embedded throughout. Feig, Bullock, and McCarthy did a fantastic job working together to create depth in their characters as well as making them relatable to the audience. This is a must watch film for those who love to get some laughs in while completely immersed in the plot of an action that holds some mystery to it.
Anyone can teach others from leading by example. Showing others what you can accomplish establishes confidence in others to try out their own dreams, wishes, and goals. A great example of leading by example is Gus, Clark, and Richie in the movie The Benchwarmers. These men meet Nelson, a stereotypical nerd that is bullied by baseball jocks every day just because he wants to play with them. This little boy inspires the men to show others that everyone should have the same opportunity to play baseball, no matter the skill level.
Too many horror films provide scares and screams throughout their respective cinemas. Not many viewers follow what kind of model the films follow to appease their viewers. However, after reading film theorist Carol Clover’s novel, watching one of the films she associates in the novel “Halloween”, and also watching the movie “Nightmare on Elm Street” I say almost every “slasher” or horror film follows a model similar to Clover’s. The model is a female is featured as a primary character and that females tend to always overcome a situation at some point throughout the film.
Electrick Children is a film released in 2012, written and directed by Rebecca Thomas. Screened at film festivals including South By Southwest, this film tells the story of fifteen year old Rachel McKnight. Rachel is a member of a fundamentalist Mormon community. Rachel finds herself to be pregnant and believes that she was impregnated by a voice she heard on a cassette tape after listening to it for the first time. Although she firmly believes in this immaculate conception, her family and the rest of the community believes that she was raped by her brother Mr. Will, and so he is exiled from the community. Rachel’s father arranges a marriage for Rachel, but rather than go through with it, she runs away from the community, escaping to Las Vegas.
In today’s world we tend to be caught up in our own personal bubbles. We don’t realize what goes on outside of our world and the myriad of subcultures that exist. The main problem with this is, once we become aware of the people that live outside of our culture and our norms, we tend to not understand their lifestyle and think that they are abnormal or psychotic. Through the various documentaries that we have explored this semester, I have experienced a change in emotion and thought. Every documentary we watched did not make sense to me. However, I realized that once you really dig deep and try to understand these people and their motives, you can uncover the way they affect our society.
For years police corruption has been a major problem in American society but where is the line between moral and unethical police corruption, many modern movies address this vary issue. Some films portray how types of police corruption can have a positive influence on society, while others show the dark side of police corruption. Many law enforcement agents join the criminal justice with the basic idea of “justice for all,” however, most of them do not realize that the nice guy doesn’t always win. Even though there are vast amounts of movies which specifically address police corruption we will use three main movies for our argument today, mostly LA Confidential, however, also Training Day.
poster typically has the white cowboy large, presented front and center, with the antagonists and co-stars all behind him. An iconic western, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, has a poster picturing the white cowboy alone. Clint Eastwood stands there tall, stoic, and singular. Typical of most other westerns, the white cowboy is the center of attention. Here, however, there are two non-white figures presented: Bart, the Black cowboy, and a large Native American chief. This movie poster has the same style as other westerns with the color and layout, but is unique in the fact that a black man is presented where a white man would normally be dominating. Once again, this makes a statement about racial improvements. Previously having a black man at
This documentary directed by Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio follows the Staten Island urban legend ‘Cropsey’. Cropsey was originally thought to be nothing more than a boogeyman used by parents to scare children out of trouble. Rumored to be lurking near lakes and woods come nightfall, Cropsey took the form of an axe wielding, escaped mental patient who would prey on young children. According to Staten Island natives, exploring Cropsey’s home, Willowbrook Mental Hospital, was a popular pastime amongst the youth who thought him nothing more than myth. However, in the summer of 1987, when 12 year old Jennifer Schweiger disappeared, the legend of Cropsey resurfaced. This time, he posed a much realer threat to the children of Staten Island. With the community in outrage over the loss of one of their children,
Tim Jenison, the man behind the documentary film entitled Tim’s Vermeer set out to replicate a painting in the style of the beloved artist Johannes Vermeer. In order to do this, Jenison replicated a system of lenses that he believed Vermeer had used hundreds of years before him for the sake of duplicating the correct light variations around the objects of his muse. The course of the documentary showcases Jenison as he first constructs this hypothesis of Vermeer mastering light, moves on to Jenison's development of his lense device, and finally to Jenison using his device to paint a work of art in hope that it will be comparably close enough to the work of Vermeer that his hypothesis can be proven. Whether or not Jenison succeeded can be debated and was one of the topics that the panel of professors including Professors Baugh, Gorchoff, Myers, Willhardt, and Wright discussed at the convocation.
The Film of my choice is "13" by Ava DuVernay. The film is a documentary about mass incarceration and slavery. According to Michelle Alexander, "Civil rights activists began to be portrayed in the media and among many politicians as criminals, people who were deliberately violating the law, segregation laws that existed in the South." Meanwhile, the baby-boom in 1948 to 1953 caused mass incarceration to began in the 1970's on the account of crime rate increasing. I believe the Author's intended audience is for anyone throughout the world, especially the users if Netflix. In addiction, she wanted to inform the viewers about racial inequality that lead to mass incarceration. Ava Duvernay also make another documentary called Seima which was about
When the 13th amendment was ratified in 1865, its drafters left themselves a very exploitable loophole of an easily missed clause in its definition. That clause, converts slavery from a legal business model to an equally legal method of punishment for criminals. This is exactly the subject of the documentary “13th.” by Ava DuVernay. Throughout the film a few people in particular are interviewed, including liberal scholars and activists for the cause like Angela Davis, Henry Louis Gates, Van Jones, and even conservatives like Newt Gingrich and Grover Norquist. Each interviewee is shot in a location that replicates an industrial setting, this visually supports the theme of prison as a factory churning out the free labor that the 13th Amendment
I have been mulling over this topic, it is just one of those awkward topics. This theory conceptualizes races, and separates white people from non-white people which seems to be counterintuitive. The assumption is that all white people are born into privilege and that is just not true. Don’t get me wrong, I do believe racism exists, assumptions get made, and it is a social issue, but it isn’t just white and non-whites.
Pruning takes part in the development of the teenage brain as important connections. The brain decides by how frequently what connections are being used often and will tell whether or not which ones will stay. The branches that may be confused throughout the development into an adult would be the changes in the frontal cortex. “Unexpected growth spurt an overproduction of cells just before puberty,” which is determined on the behavior accordingly, this is still being developed during the years of becoming an adult. In the documentary, a lady named Ellen Galinsky, who is a social scientist states that “ relationships, connections, people in children’s lives who make the biggest difference.” This takes a role in the way
Did you ever sit down and think to yourself: What movie should I watch? The answer is The Shawshank Redemption. The story was written by Stephen King, and then Frank Darabont wrote the screenplay and directed the movie. The legendary Morgan Freeman plays Red, and Tim Robbins plays Andy Dufresne. They did an amazing job playing the role that they were supposed to. In this movie, you will be able to see how much of an impact one person can make. How one person showed an inmate that no one should let the prison get to you. Andy Dufresne proved to Red that even in prison you should have hope and dreams for a better future, that way you don’t forget who you are, who you were.
As the movie went on the portrayal of the characters stayed at a consistent level. Sinise did a good job portraying the father figure of George. It really felt like Sinise and Malkovich had known each other for their entire lives. However, some of the characters like crooks and other ranchers didn't do as well of a job acting their parts. They seemed kind of bland and always rushing the few lines they had in the movie. But, Sherily Finn did a great job of portraying the flirtiness and attitude in her character. (Curley's Wife.) Casey Siemaszko Also did a fantastic job playing the role of curly. The way he acted out the scene where Lennie crushes his hand felt like it wasn't rehearsed and came straight out of reality.
The movie “This is England” was released in 2006, written and directed by Shane Meadows , a story taken, in part, from his life as a boy growing up in the Midlands of England. Mr. Meadows work presents to the viewer a representation of the cultural depiction of the street gang known as Skinheads, in a non-stereotypical light. This is England is a drama combining peer pressure, gangs and gang violence, social gatherings, loss and companionship of youths in a working class environment of a small town in England. This is England has been nominated and has also won multiple awards, according to IMDb.com, several nominations are from the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA), Golden Kinnaree Award for Best Film, Best Screenplay for British Independent Film Awards and won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film additionally won Best European Film from the Mons International Festival of Love Films. This film stars Thomas Turgoose as Shaun, the 12-year-old troubled youth whom this film revolves around, Stephen Graham as Combo and Joseph Gilgun as Woody. Shaun's troubles seem to begin with the loss of his father, an officer, killed during the Falkland War. Subject to bullying from other local gang types, Mods, New Romantics . . ., depression takes it toll on young Shaun. Seemingly, being a loner, Shaun happens upon a small group of older teenage kids, Skinheads, led by a charismatic boy named Woody. Woody takes an immediate liking to Shaun and invites him to join his group. Shaun finds camaraderie in being a part of this group, and they all enjoying the carefree life of being kids, although sometimes the play progresses into vandalism like where a small group of abandoned, derelict housing units meet further destruction a...