If there's two genres that director Quentin Tarantino excels at, it's crime and western. So when he had announced that his 8th film, The Hateful Eight, was going to be a mystery-crime-western combo, many people already knew that his film was going to be great. Once it finally did premiere on December 25th, it did not disappoint. The Hateful Eight tells the story of bounty hunter John Ruth, notoriously known for hanging the criminals he captures rather than killing them, on route to the town where his prisoner will hang when they get caught in a blizzard and are forced to stay in a haberdashery, or goods store. On the way there they pick up Major Warren, another well known bounty hunter, and Sherriff Mannix, who is the new sheriff of the town and proceed to go to the cabin and stay with various other characters. While there, John Ruth suspects that one of the men is there to free his prisoner. …show more content…
First, the acting.
Quentin Tarantino is known for working with the same group of actors for all of his films, and the Hateful Eight is no exception. The majority of the cast here features actors that he has worked with before and they are all phenomenal. Kurt Russel kills it as the brutal, big mustached, John Ruth, and Samuel L. Jackson brings in his best performance in a long time as Major Warren. Of course, you can't go without mentioning Walton Goggins as Sheriff Mannix, Tim Roth as Oswoldo, Michael Madsen as Joe, and last but not least, Jennifer Leigh as Daisy (The Prisoner) who was nominated in the Golden Globes for best supporting
actress. Next, the cinematography. The Hateful Eight is probably the second most beautiful movie I have seen in a while, right behind The Revenant. The movie was filmed using actual 65mm film and was released in some theatres on 70mm film, in a rare process called Ultra Panavision 70. Tarantino did this because it appears much more crisp and clear on the screen, and allows the viewer to see much more detail as well. Although I wasn’t able to see the film in this format, the cinematography was still breathtaking and featured many great shots of the nature around the characters. Probably the best part of the entire film, which is usually the case with most Tarantino films, is the dialogue. Being a fan of Tarantino myself, I feel that the dialogue in all of his films is unlike any other director. In The Hateful Eight, it was a treat to experience just the conversations that the characters would have amongst each other, because of how captivating Tarantino's writing is as it pulls you into the scene so simply, and is helped come to life by the great acting. After having seen the film and had the time to really process it, I think its definitely safe to say that this is one of Tarantino's very best films yet and is for sure on the list for best of the year. So if you're in the mood for a visceral, beautiful, and captivating film, then the Hateful Eight is a must see.
Vengeance plays a key role in causing the mass hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials. Abigail Williams, who?s probably most to blame for the trials, acts out of revenge. She and John Proctor have had an affair and when Elizabeth Proctor finds out, she throws Abigail out of their house. During the trials, Abigail is still in love with John Proctor and goes after Elizabeth out of vengeance. Elizabeth tries to explain this to John, who is in disbelief: she ?thinks to kill me, then to take my place? (61). Abigail?s main motive for destroying Elizabeth is revenge for being thrown out of the house and for having John Proctor, the man that she loves. Another character who seeks revenge is Mrs. Putnam, who has had seven children die shortly after childbirth and blames her midwife, who has many children. Rebecca Nurse is charged ?for the marvelous and supernatural murder of Goody Putnam?s babies? (71). The trials are an opportunity for Ann Putnam to seek vengeance against Rebecca for having healthy children and grandchild...
The 1986 film “Sixteen Candles” tells a timeless tale of growing up in suburban America. The film’s star, Sam, played by Molly Ringwald, wakes up with big expectations on her sweet sixteenth birthday only to be completely disappointed. Not only does she find that she looks exactly the same as when she was fifteen, but her family is so preoccupied with her older sister’s wedding that they forget her birthday altogether.
Juror #1 originally thought that the boy was guilty. He was convinced that the evidence was concrete enough to convict the boy. He continued to think this until the jury voted the first time and saw that one of the jurors thought that the boy was innocent. Then throughout the movie, all of the jurors were slowly convinced that the boy was no guilty.
It has been said that the Declaration of Independence was more democratic and for equality and the Constitution was more for a republic that benefited only some people. The Declaration was idealistic the Constitution realistic. That 1776 gave us liberty and 1787 gave us order. Although as unfair as it may sound this seems to be true. After gaining liberty this country had to establish a system that would have order.
...sening up in this country, although not quite to the extreme as in Natural Born Killers. Despite the controversy caused by the assumed message that "killing is cool," there is important ideology embedded within the film. There is sanity within the insane. The film, in a sense, displays the consequences caused by the suppression of the inner, free soul. We've all seen instances of people "cracking" under the pressures of modern society. I'm not suggesting that we live like wild animals, but I do think that Natural Born Killers is an excellent movie which made a natural attempt to kill standard ideology.
On March 3, 1915 the movie The Birth of a Nation was released at the Liberty Theatre in New York City. This film was financed, filmed, and released by the Epoch Producing Corporation of D.W. Griffith and Harry T. Aitken. It was one of the first films to ever use deep-focus shots, night photography, and to be explicitly controversial with the derogatory view of blacks.
A person clad in a ratty bathrobe and dark sunglasses shuffles up to a cash register to write a $0.69 check for a carton of Half & Half. This was the first glimpse the world would see of this person, actually a man, who would set fire to mixed reviews. In March 1998, viewers of the film nationwide labeled him a slacker, bum, nihilist, deadbeat, etc. He was a man who lived off necessity not want. His home was a small condo. He dressed in worn out, baggy clothes with shower sandals regularly. He had a thick goatee and long shaggy hair. His employment status was unemployed… actively. He drove a rusted out car with no concern for its aesthetic appeal. His daily plans were full of White Russians, marijuana, and bowling. His cares in life seemed
The story begins abruptly, as we find our mock heroes out in the desert en route to the savvy resort of Las Vegas. The author uses a tense hitchhiker as a mode, or an excuse, for a flashback that exposes the plot. An uncertain character picked up in the middle of the desert who Raoul Duke, the main character, feels the need to explain things to, to help him rest easy. They had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers....Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw either, and two dozen amyls. They were on assignment from a fashionable sporting magazine in New York, to cover the 4th Annual "Mint 400" dirt bike and dune buggy race.
Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 film Inglourious Bastards entails a Jewish revenge fantasy that is told through a counterfactual history of events in World War II. However, this story follows a completely different plot than what we are currently familiar with. Within these circumstances, audiences now question the very ideas and arguments that are often associated with World War II. We believe that Inglourious Basterds is a Jewish revenge fantasy that forces us to rethink our previous understandings by disrupting the viewers sense of content and nature in the history of World War II. Within this thesis, this paper will cover the Jewish lens vs. American lens, counter-plots with-in the film, ignored social undercurrents, and the idea that nobody wins in war. These ideas all correlate with how we view World War II history and how Inglourious Basterds muddles our previous thoughts on how these events occurred.
The Shawshank Redemption is a prison movie that is based on a book by Stephen King and directed by Frank Darabont. The movie is not the average bloody horror movie; instead, it takes you to a place where your worst nightmares come alive. The tremendous performance by Morgan Freeman and other actors has truly brought this film to life. The emotions characters portrayed were so real that every one could feel compassion toward them. The Shawshank Redemption, a contribution to the working man, illustrates the dark side of the prison and the power of hope within that helps a prisoner to survive.
Quentin Taratinos’ Django Unchained (2012), is a bloody, eccentric, and revenge filled western, which exploits the abdominal chapters in American history. A pre-civil war western that explores what slavery might have been like during the mid-1800. The movie is partially based on the films Django (1966) and Mandingo (1975). But Taratino incorporates his own style, with excruciating gore, action, wit, cinematography and eccentric characters. Incorporating it all into a solid plot makes the movie believable and makes it the most unique western every made.
For my third quarter book report I read The Green Mile written by Stephen King. This book is about an old man, Paul Edgecomb, recalling his experiences when he worked as the cell block captain in Cold Mountain state penitentiary. Paul was the cell block
The movie Fight Club made a great achievement in the film industry, and significantly depicted the social system of the late 20th century. According to most of the reviewers, the success of the film lies behind the fact that almost every American man over 25-years of age is going to inevitably see some of himself in the movie: the frustration, the confusion, the anger at living in a culture where the old rules have broken down and one makes his way with so many fewer cultural cues and guideposts.
I spent a lot of time considering what movie I would watch to write this essay. I listed off the movies that I would like to watch again, and then I decided on The Notebook. I didn’t really think I could write about adolescence or children, so I thought that, maybe, I could write about the elderly. The love story that The Notebook tells is truly amazing. I love watching this movie, although I cry every time I watch it. The Notebook is about an elderly man that tells the story of his life with the one he loves the most, his wife. He is telling the story to his wife, who has Alzheimer’s Disease, which is a degenerative disease that affects a person’s memory. She has no recollection of him or their life together, or even her own children. She wrote the story of their love herself, so that when he read the story to her, she would come back to him. There are three things that I would like to discuss about this movie. First, I would like to discuss their stage of life and the theory that I believe describes their stage of life the best. Second, I would like to discuss Alzheimer’s DIsease and its affect on the main character who has it and her family. Third, I would like to discuss how at the end of the movie, they died together. I know it is a movie, but I do know that it is known that elderly people who have been together for a long time, usually die not to far apart from one another.