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Elements of a narrative movie
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The movie, Mune: Guardian of the Moon, introduces a new and interesting world. In this world the moon and the sun are pulled across the planet to create night and day. The sun was harpooned and pulled towards the planet by the first guardian of the sun and the moon was carved from the world of dreams by the first guardian of the moon. The sun and moon are passed down from guardian to guardian to keep the plant balanced. Mune a small creature of the night is pronounced guardian of the moon. After becoming the guardian of the moon Mune loses control of it causing chaos and leading to the sun being stolen. It is up to Sohone, guardian of the sun, Glim, a wax girl, and Mune to return the moon and sun to their original condition. When the movie …show more content…
starts off the world is identity established with a story talking about how this world came to be.
The guardian of the sun regulates the seasons, the crops, etc. The guardian of the moon is also known as the guardian of dreams. In this world there are three distinct types of creatures. The creatures of the day tend to be loud, energetic, and arrogant. They live out in the open lands by the mountains. They resemble rocks and the music used during the day is like a brass band. The creatures of the night are as far from day creatures as possible. They are more quiet, reserved and naive. They live in the forest and the music that plays during the night is whimsical and light. Like fairy music. Then there is the wax people. They cannot survive in the two extremes. They melt during the day and freeze at night. The animators of this movie introduce this world through music, visuals and designs of the characters. Shortly after Mune is deemed guardian of the moon Necross, the main antagonist who was banished to the underworld, makes a deal with a lesser antagonist; Leeyoon. Their plan is to take control of the moon and sun. Leeyoon will become the guardian of the moon and Necross will become the guardian of the sun. I believe this is the inciting incident because before this point nothing particularly
bad happens. Since Leeyoon felt that he was entitled to the moon so it was easy for Necross to corrupt him. The tides change becoming increasingly more challenging for our young protagonists. As our characters continue on the moon breaks free, the sun is stolen. Once the sun is stole we can see the changes to the world. With the sun gone day turns to night. It’s disappearance also causes the moon to fade. When the moon has faded completely the whole world is plunged into darkness. The people of this world cannot survive without the moon and the sun. As time goes on the safety of the entire planet is in jeopardy. I believe the climax is the battle with Necross. Mune and company fight him in order to save the sun from his hands. This battle will determine the fate of the entire world. Once Necross is defeated and the moon and sun returned to their rightful places everything goes back to normal. Specifically when Mune pulls the viper out of necrosses heart
One life changing event can change anyone’s perception of how people should spend their time with their love ones. Eugenio Derbez is best known as Mexico’s famous comic actor. Derbez started as a main character of the movie Under the Same Moon and also Instructions Not Included. Instructions Not Included was distributed by Lionsgate Films 2014 and the main performers are Eugenio Derbez, Jessica Lindsey, Loreto Peralta, Daniel Raymont, and Alessandra Rosaldo. Our protagonist, Derbez, Valentín Bravo goes through life changing events throughout the film he faced many challenges, but as he accomplishes each and every one of those challenges, he kept something with him. Bravo mentions while he walks on the shoreline, “I'll always carry with me the
One Night the Moon (2001), is based on the events that took place in the harsh Australian outback in the early 1930s. The film evolves when a young girl, Emily, goes missing into the mountainous terrain of the Australian outback one night to follow the moon. Her family, European settlers, though desperate to find her, fail to employ the skills of a local Indigenous tracker, Albert Riley, due to their own racism. Perkins uses many literary elements such as camera angles, music, dialogue and editing to shape meaning and to influence her audience. One Night the Moon, introduces song into the Australian landscape, Indigenous people have always used song to talk about the land, and song itself has always been one of the central means of land management. One Night the Moon has been described as “A beautiful, seemless film with the ability to transport the audience.” Perkins endorses the idea that White settlers have failed to learn anything from the original inhabitants of this land and to support this statement, she layers the literary elements to highlight the racism, connection with the land and also contrasts the two male protagonists in the film.
If we choose to view the creature as an individual, and consider its growth from child to adult in that manner, the obvious choice is to look at the creature's relationship with knowledge. The creature seems to crave knowledge, as is evident from its explorations at the beginning of its narrative. This craving for knowledge is what makes it human; this is especially characteristic of children, who know very little and have a large vacuum to fill. Like any human being, the creature gains its knowledge by its senses - thus, it figures out how to use its sense before doing anything else. At the beginning of its narrative, we see the creature's utter naïveté about the world, as it looks at the moon: "I started up and beheld a radiant form rise from among the trees" (Shelley 99). Significant here is the creature's lack of initial comprehension of the world, just like any human child.
Night is dangerous to all people and even in a fort-like hall, warriors sleep with “each man’s kit kept at hand” (1244). However, the morning relieves all endangered men by unveiling all hidden dangers and monsters. “The hall towered, gold-shingled and gabled, and the guest slept in it until the black raven with raucous glee announced Heaven’s joy, and a hurry of brightness overran the shadows” (1799-1803). The morning renders everyone relieved that light returns and casts them into a safe net of luminescence. Day symbolizes safety and reassurance in the book, an important proponent of everyone’s desire to feel secure. Without shouting or making any noise, light awakens the lands, frightens evil, and protects the unsheltered. Darkness hides danger, thieves, and evil in its black cloaks of hidden malice.
The 1991 movie My Girl tells the story of 11-year-old Vada Sultenfuss who, having lost her mother at birth , lives with her dementia-ridden grandmother and her job-oriented father in the funeral parlour that he owns and operates. The story follows Vada, an extreme hypochondriac who has many strange misconceptions about death, through a variety of life-changing experiences, including the engagement of her father and the devastating loss of her best friend, Thomas Jay. Through these experiences, the audience witnesses Vada’s social, emotional, and intellectual growth, as well as her changing views of death.
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A Genetic Odyssey’ is an interesting movie to watch. There were many thoughts that passed my mind as I watched the movie. First of all, it was interesting to visualize the movie back in the day, assuming how one single man lived in Africa approximately sixty thousand years ago. It is quite amazing to have traced the records so far behind to find that Adam could be the father of homo sapiens after all. The better question arises when there are different sizes, races and shapes to each human being.
The relationship of the speaker to his surroundings is introduced into the main narrative in the opening of the poem, and is specific to when this occurrence is taking place, “At midnight, in the month of June”. June is the month in which the summer solstice takes place, in the Pagan culture of this time “Midsummer was thought to be a time of magic, when evil spirits were said to appear. The pagans often wore protective garlands of herbs and flowers.” (chiff.com) Today this concoction is used by modern herbalists as a mood stabilizer. Midnight is also known as the witching hour when ghosts are considered to have their most power. Black magic is also thought to be infallible at this hour as well. The speaker of the poem describes himself as standing beneath the moon, this sublunary expulsion is pertinent to the narrative of the poem, and he is admitting his mortality in this line. The moon is personified in the fourth line “Exhales from her out her golden rim”, which is ...
Archaeologists in the media are more often then not portrayed as young fairly good-looking men dressed for an adventure where ultimately they will be the heroes. They will deliver the treasure and rescue the young beautiful damsel in distress, which is not the case in the film The Fifth Element. The movie opens with an older man who has a scruffy white beard and white hair with a thick European accent on an excavation. He is in what seems to be either an old Egyptian cave or pyramid deciphering old drawings and inscriptions. He has a minimal staff, which includes a young boy holding a mirror against the sun as a source of light and a young man sketching what is supposedly on the walls. No women are present in this scene. There is no appearance of a woman during this archaelogical expedition.
A Lunar is a human race who lives on the moon and has powers linked to their brain called Bioelectricity. After she found out about her being Lunar, she kept it to herself while trying to lead a normal life. Then she went to the Ball to warn the prince about the war that will happen if he marries Queen Levana. “Terror wrapped around Cinder’s throat as the queen’s eyes seemed to pierce right through her. The queen knew she was Lunar. She could tell”(351). Except she was not what the queen thought she was, even though after her glamour came out the queen knew exactly who she was.” My dear girl you are Princess Selene”(379). Now that Linh Cinder knows she is really, Princess Selene she know has to figure out how to get to her rightful place of
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Moonlight is that rare movie that succeeds in almost every way possible for a film of its kind. It’s the story of how to save a child by teaching him self-acceptance. This film is really not a love story in the traditional sense, it is a self-love story. The very core of this story is about a boy we all knew, but didn’t uplift and support like we should have. Moonlight told one of the most compelling, consistent and specific stories you will ever witness, which is fairly hard for a film about people of color to do. It changes everything.
Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, and critic has beautifully portrayed the natural phenomenon of eclipse. She has also enlightened the importance of the sun. She has narrated the essay dramatically and has regarded sun as an actor that was going to come on the stage to perform as if a drama was going on. The sky served as a stage. She has made the scene vivid and ravishing by the usage of colors, images and similes. The way she has described it is so highly coloured and realistic that the readers visualize the eclipse to be occurring before their eyes. People were anxiously going towards a hilltop from where all would view the sun with reverence. People had gathered on the hilltop and stood in a straight line that it seemed they were statues standing on the edge of the world. As the sun rose, clouds glowed up. Light gleamed and peered over the rim of the clouds. The sun raced towards the point where eclipse had to take place. But the clouds were impeding it. The sun with a tremendous speed endeavoured to escape the mist. At some point it came forth then again was shrouded by the fleecy clouds. The sun then appeared hollow as the moon had come in front of it. A substantial proportion of the Sun was covered and the loss of daylight became noticeable. The writer has efficaciously described the sun’s efforts to break free from the cloudy hurdle. She has continuously personified sun as it was putting its best efforts to make its face appear before the world. The clouds were stifling the sun’s speed. The sanctified twenty-four seconds had begun but still the sun was entrapped and was striving to disencumber itself from the clump of clouds. “Of the twenty-four seconds only five remained, and still he was obscured.” The time of the eclipse was passing and it seemed that the sun was losing. It was continuously obliterated by the clouds. The colours of the valleys seemed to disappear. Everything was fading as ‘All the colour began to go from the moor.’ The colours were changing, “The blue turned to purple, the white became livid as at the approach of a violent but windless storm. Pink faces went green, and it became colder than ever.” The light and warmth were vanishing.
Director of the 2015 adaptation of Macbeth, Justin Kurzel, takes a couple of risks throughout the film. The mood of the film was more calm and relaxed which added a different feel. Kurzel was able to achieve this mood with his excellent casting selections. Marion Cotillard delivered a rather heartfelt performance as the "fiend-like queen" Lady Macbeth. Compared to a more cynical and dramatic performance by Kate Fleetwood in the 2010 adaptation of Macbeth directed by Rupert Goold. The two actresses took very different approaches to bring Lady Macbeth to life, during the scene where Lady Macbeth has lost her mind after the guilt consumes her, the actress differences are highlighted. Fleetwood took the more traditional route but brought it to
Hard science fiction takes a scientific concept and creates a story around it. It is written to be very realistic and even predictive. Although the story’s universe revolves around said scientific concept, this genre of fiction ultimately concerns the human experience and how science influences it. Moon, directed by Duncan Jones, is a prime example of hard science fiction. There are no fantastic special effects or whimsical extra-terrestrials. It delves deep into how a man and his humanity suffer the consequences brought by the advancements of technology.