Shadow Company, written by Shane Black and Fred Dekker, is an action-horror-thriller that primarily takes place in a small American town called Merit, 16 years after the Vietnam war ended. Our protagonist is Jake Pollard, a Vietnam vet and drifter who is barely scraping by and can’t even afford a grilled cheese at a diner. When Pollard discovers that 6 bodies that were found sealed in a Cambodian temple are being shipped back home he suddenly transforms into a man on a mission and for some reason he HAS to get to where these bodies are going. This is Pollard’s overall desire in the film. We as the audience are queued into the fact that this is a life or death situation for Pollard and we can quickly see the urgency and importance of the situation. The …show more content…
The soldiers interpret the town of Merit as their mission target and move in to destroy the town. Luckily, Pollard saves the day with the help of Kyle Trager, a classically angst fueled eighteen-year old whose dad supposedly died in Hanoi and who has a romance with Heather Stockton, a daughter of one of the dead Shadow Company soldiers. The story ends with lots of mayhem and action, which is where the script shines. The action is excellently written by Black, one of the best action writers around, and it is revealed that Pollard is the 7th member of shadow company and also Kyle’s father, which isn’t as surprising as it was meant to be. As a whole, the script tells a fun and original, yet slightly cheesy, action-horror-thriller. I personally think Black and Dekker do a good job of building the escalation and suspense in the first and second acts that builds into a really entertaining and exciting third. On top of this the dialogue and descriptions are quick, punchy and entertaining and classic of this type of movie. Black and Dekker especially excel
This vicious group gets its respite from the Mexican government by hunting for scalps in return for bounties in Chihuahua and the overlying regions. As their horrors increase day by day, and as death keeps visiting them in the vast Wild West, the gang’s thirst for gore goes into overdrive and they turn against the same people they were t protect. Under the philosophical guidance of Judge Holden a vicious, sly pedophile and murderer, the gang reaches a point of no return in their belief that their work is
The Hurt Locker is a war film that is set in Iraq during the Iraq War and fits in the adventure and action genre. The plot is about a three man bomb defusal team consisting of James, Sanborn, and Elridge finding themselves is extreme, life-threatening situations where they must defuse explosives over the violent conflicts. The director, Kathryn Bigelow, has done a good job with the mise-en-scene, making the setting overall extremely believable, giving a sense of realism in the film. The film’s mise-en-scene creates a believable Iraq War settings with the use costumes, weaponry, and all the grime and dirt present in places which sells the idea. Sounds and symbolism is used to show heavy tension amongst the soldiers .The film also contrasts James’s time in Iraq and his life back in America using the Supermarket scene. The idea portrayed in this film is the addiction to war which can be seen in James.
It was in the late afternoon when Johnny B. Marciano woke up to the voice of a crying baby. He ran to the front door to see what was going on, only to find out that the world was in trouble. Marciano asks his neighbors that are outside crying and yelling about how the biggest nuclear bomb might go off because it has gotten in the wrong hands. A gang named “The Snakes” stole the bomb and is planning to blow up the northern part of the United States of America. Marciano is frustrated; he is an undercover federal agent who is an expert in nuclear bombs. Marciano knows how lethal the bomb is and knows what the nuclear bomb is capable of. He is very afraid, but he knows his mission at this point; he has to save his country and be the hero of his great nation. It was a tragic day for Johnny, even though he stayed focused and confident.
The cruelty of life can change one’s perspective of the world. When people experience difficulties in life, like loss and grief, they sometimes struggle to come to terms with the sadness and the truths of the reality. Some may be sustained to get a revenge due to the sudden loss in order to cope with the sadness within oneself and sometimes may become stuck. In the anti-war film Platoon written by Oliver Stone, Chris Taylor is a naive adolescent, who volunteers to go to war to fight for his country due to his moral obligation. The death of his mentor named Elias completely ends the remainder of the innocence that Chris once had, but additionally, Chris Taylor has become the reluctance to leave the war at the end of the film.