When we go see a movie we never really know every detail about it. Sometimes people don’t even know who directed the movie. As I researched the movie District 9 there were many things that I didn’t know about and I’m sure a few of us didn’t either. We never really know little details because that’s not we go to the movies for because we just want to see the big picture ,well that’s how I am I only see the movie on the screen and that’s all , I never really go into depth of what I am watching unless of course its base on true events . But as I watched district 9 I wondered how they got the aliens make us feel so bad for them to make us the viewers want to help these creatures. So as I researched I found a few things that were pretty amazing, things we didn’t know about. I will be focusing on the hidden thing in District 9 that wasn’t ever brought to our attention. Another thing I will talk about is this viewer Emily Perrin who tells other viewers what District 9 has taught us .
Its amazing right how directors have this amazing story to be told that comes from their head. Well this director went a different way to filming this, some of the most major scenes in this film were improvised, cool !huh ?Yea I couldn’t even believe it that the director Neill Blomkamp thought it would be better because then it’ll feel more real. His viewers would get a sense of realness in his movie. Talk about realness he also interviews real interviewers for his film.
“But what many people don't realize is that he created Alive in Joburg's footage of people being interviewed about aliens, by using real interviews…I was asking black South Africans about black Nigerians and Zimbabweans. That's actually where the idea came from was there are aliens li...
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... be comfortable because they couldn’t go back to where they were from. But the people there wanted nothing to do with them so they forced them out. Wikus makes these decisions to help one of the aliens out in the end. That just showed us that when you get to know someone we know them from the inside not the outside. You know the saying “don’t judge a book by its cover” well Wikus got to know this alien and he helped him out. We gain so much insight from this film things like the real interviewers and the spot where the shot the scenes. It’s amazing isn’t it to finds things like this. Even if this is a science fiction movie it teaches us so much about the world that we live in.
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"The Urge to Flee the Theater: What District 9 Taught the World | Tor.com." The Urge to Flee the Theater: What District 9 Taught the World | Tor.com. N.p., n.d. Web
the film was going to show. The film gave us an insight into what the
...the predominant theme of disorientation and lack of understanding throughout the film. The audience is never clear of if the scene happening is authentic or if there is a false reality.
Veidt wields his influence to manipulate others to do his bidding. By using his influence and charisma, he successfully manipulated missing writers and artists into creating the “alien” creature (8.11.1-6; 10.17.1-4). However, Veidt disposed of them because they are no longer of use to him and it ensures that his plan would operate successfully (10.18.4). Moreover, despite Veidt using his influence to control what movies to air (3.11.2; 5.18.2; 8.3.3), this may noticeably be an act of kindness; this is because it sublimely manipulates the public to be more receptive towards alien invasions. By exposing the public to apocalyptic scenarios in the form of movies (3.11.2; 5.18.2; 8.3.3), it would have lessened the damage on the minds of people and they would quickly be able to recover from the initial shock. Veidt’s personality is two forms from the opposite ends of the spectrum, in which his character can fluctuate between the realms of heaven and
Baz Luhrmann has done this film in a unique and brilliant way, with help of the above, and of course a great loved story as a base.
Whilst this plot has a similar outline to my own, the main concept I gathered from re-watching this clip was the way in which director Brad Bird and editor Stephen Schaffer achieved a fast-paced scene. Whilst this is an animation, there are plenty of techniques that were used to increase audience engagement and initiate the style of the film.
District 9 is a science fiction film produced by Peter Jackson (2009). The story is established through a mix of third person camera and documentary footage that takes place in present time. This is a twist of regular science fiction that typically takes place in the future. The film takes place in a “colony” of alien refugees (Prawns) are forced by humans to live in a South African slum. This is an example of social satire as it presents a critique to the injustice with which we treat those who are different from us. The nature of racism is shown by the metaphors of science fiction with the ideology and discourse to deal with those who are different than us whom we fear or despise. The low budget film has no flair no big budget special effects, casts no name actors and is generally considered an anti-Hollywood film. The story line is that of an extraterrestrial race that ultimately makes contact with Earth and the relationships between these aliens and humans within society.
make us see exactly what he wants us to and this film is a very good
...movie that I fell in love with. But most of all I love how the story line is a great overlap into the cinematically engaging movie. There is a great use of camera, timing, shots and story line that are portrayed in this movie without being too overwhelming. This allows the audience to relax during the movie and just take in the scenes as a story from reality. To this day, and even still doing this paper I still come to find different aspects of the movie that I missed the previous times I have watched it.
Teaching is one of the most well-known professions all around the world. However, it is also extremely underestimated, especially when it comes to teaching elementary school students. Jenny Peters, writer of the article Confessions of An Elementary School Teacher, observes that it is indeed a “challenging career” that in the end has “immeasurable rewards” (1). However, no matter what you have to do, it seems as though those rewards overrule anything and everything as long as your heart is in it, not only for the students, but for the drive to teach them and lead them to bigger and brighter futures.
While District 9 directed by Neil Blomkamp is a trangressive, and highly entertaining sci-fi movie about Wikus van der Merwe’s journey from a normal blue-collared worker to becoming a fugitive, battling to save his life and human identity. The movie is also a blatant metaphor for oppression, prejudice, xenophobia and the power of media all intricately weaved together through its mockumentary style narration. The marginalization of the aliens speaks to the prejudice concurrent in society, reinforced by the media. The aliens or ‘prawns’ - as the humans refer to them, are depicted as human-cockroaches; the ‘bottom feeders’, living on rubbish dumps, feared and alienated by society, they are the ‘other.’ Contrary to what the media depicts of them, the
Are we alone? Is any higher power watching out for us? Many have those questions run through their mind when tragedy strikes in their lives. Director M. Night Shyamalan effectively explores those questions in his film Signs, in which a family is at a critical point as they face an alien invasion. As the story develops, Shyamalan reveals the universal theme of man’s struggle with faith through the use of symbolism, conflict, and flashback.
The camerawork in the movie is good, but it doesn’t have attention drawn to itself. It is based around the event that happened in 2010. Not every single part of the movie happened in real life, however it still follows the storyline. Berg himself was inspired by the true story and the things that the men and women endured, and it became his passion to accurately bring the story to life. The story intrigued him, especially the facts that weren’t necessarily well known by the public.
despite him being my favorite director and I just watched it few weeks ago. By watching that film you can see his unique style and the technique he used to shot that film which is amazing.
I also liked the angles of the film. I feel like every angle of each scene was perfect. The angles definitely made the picture better; also the setting of the movie looks brilliant. Even though, it was just the desert; I feel like they caught the scenes at the right time, an also well constructed. The angles made the landscape very captivating; and it was put together
...have the same emotional and interesting results to me as the novel. A reason for this may have been because if the director followed every minor detail of the novel the film would be too long to be shown. I believed that the novel conveyed the background information in a better manner giving the reader insight to setting, history and the nature of characters and their relationships clearer. A reason why I liked the novel better is that there were missing events in the film, therefore when viewing the film I was confused as it skipped events. Another reason why I believe the novel was better is that my imagination was a core aspect whereas when I viewed the film the surroundings, characters and everything overall was already presented. I quite enjoy the aspect of imagination and the details of events in the novel therefore to me I believe that the novel was better.