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Animation in modern cinema
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit The film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, was directed by Robert Zemeckis and released in 1988. This film is quite different than the films I usually watch because I am not a big fan of cartoons, however, it was a pretty decent film. The film immediately begins with a cartoon scene full of color and disaster. As the cartoon scene ends, there is a very noticeable difference in the colors of the setting. The cartoon characters were so bright and colorful compared to the shadowy “real life” setting. The wardrobe of the actors were also very dull and unpleasant compared to the bright colors of the cartoons. I do not know if this is entirely true, but it seems like the “bad” cartoon characters were not as bright and full of life
On the night of October 1, 2017, a gunman rained fire down on a crowd of concert goers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, leaving 58 people dead and 546 injured. There are three key points of interest and discussion about this tragic event that have stuck out to the American and global publics as well as to journalists, politicians and social critics around the world. These are, who was the assailant and why did he do what he did, how did this incident affect people in America and affect America as a whole and
The movie, The Outsiders, starts with the Curtis parents on their weekly, Saturday evening drive to the baking store to buy some ingredients for their boys’ favorite Sunday morning, breakfast treat: chocolate cake. The Curtis boys love their chocolate cake for Sunday breakfast not only because they love it, but also because they appreciate how hard their parents have to work to save the monies necessary for the morsels that put smiles on their faces!
In the essay “Who Framed Roger Ebert?” (291), Rich Stanton explains Roger Ebert’s comments on video games and why he himself considers video games to be a form of art. He establishes that the comments made by Roger Ebert are opposing the idea that video games are a form of art. Then he gives examples of others that either agree with Ebert and believe that video games are not a form of art or disagree with Ebert and believe that games are indeed a form of art. Stanton believes that there are many problems with Ebert’s arguments and finishes with “It's bunk - Ebert doesn't know about games, which is fine, and there this should have ended” (292). He goes on to describe the amount of reaction from Ebert’s comments many from games media outlets
I have decided to write about the movie Cloverfield because the scenarios remain etched inside my head. I can replay certain parts of the movie, especially violent or gory scenes, vividly in my head over and over again. For example, the part that is the most clear to me is when Marlena claimed that she did not feel well which led to being taken away and restrained by paramedics. She was dragged behind a curtain and just basically popped and blood just splattered everything. That scene made me cringe for a few minutes because it was so shocking. The reason I think this happens is because of the gross and violent scenes incorporated into this movie. In the beginning, a group of friends and acquaintances gather together to host a goodbye party
Emmett Ray is a fictional character played by Sean Penn in Woody Allen’s “Sweet and Lowdown” film. After doing some research on the film, I have come to the conclusion that Emmett Ray was never a real person, or at least not based on a real person. Ray was played by Sean Penn, and the music he pretended to play was actually played by guitarist, Howard Alden. Alden was a real jazz guitarist, who was associated with Concord Jazz, and played all the guitar solos in the film. He even taught Penn how to play the guitar so that he would be better prepared for his role in the film. Woody Allen created this character, Emmett Ray, and portrayed him as a cocky and selfish guitarist who was known as the second best guitarist in the world, behind Django
The 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit references the scandal. Scriptwriters Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman explained “the Red Car plot, suburb expansion, urban and political corruption really did happen. In Los Angeles, during the 1940s, car and tire companies teamed up against the Pacific Electric Railway system and bought them out of business. Where the freeway runs in Los Angeles is where the Red Car used to be.”
Imagine a world where a person cannot differentiate between what's real and what's not. Although it's hard to believe it's a real brain problem which effects a good portion of today's people, “Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that affects the way a person acts thinks and sees the world” (“Schizophrenia” 1). Most commonly in schizophrenics they feel and experience things that aren't really there and alter the way they hear and see things. In a fiction book, “ The Hitchhiker” written by Anthony Horowitz the main character Jacob does many things that lead the reader to have inquiries about what his problem is. Jacob obviously has schizophrenia because he has insane delusions and vivid hallucinations.
Little Red Riding Hood’s Journey to Grandma’s House “Come, Little Red Riding Hood, here are some cakes and a flask of wine for you to take to grandmother; she is weak and ill, and they will do her good.”(pg. 14, Grimm’s), says her mother to Little Red Riding Hood. Because Grandma wasn’t feeling the best, the wolf was easily able to overcome her. And so the wolf easily devoured her grandmother. The Hero’s Journey in Little Red Riding Hood is Little Red Riding Hood on her way to her grandmother’s house, by leaving the house, traveling through the woods, and arriving at her grandmother’s house.
In the film Midnight Cowboy, audiences are treated to the very different Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) and Joe Buck (John Voight) trying to survive in New York City with the hope of making it big. Despite their differing circumstances, both share tragic pasts and a hope for the future which is accessible to the audience throughout the film by various editing techniques, such as use of non-simultaneous and bridging dialogue, flashbacks, musical score, expository dialogue, and montage sequences. Joe and Rizzo have very different pasts which are revealed through these editing and sound techniques, yet despite their roles as foils for each other within the film, they both look to the same future and bright ideal of the American dream, symbolizing
Often, hardships such as war, separation from the ones you love, terrorism, and bullying can bring your self esteem, motivation, and even personality down to a lower level. It can be difficult to stay strong and keep progressing with the many misfortunes that can occur. Likewise, Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump shows how the protagonist, Forrest Gump, deals with and reacts to all the adversity that happens in the society and in his family and friends as well. Forrest Gump is set in the 1950s-1980s in Forrest’s hometown, Greenbow, Alabama. Forrest Gump was a simple man who had an I.Q. of 75. He was always bullied by kids because he wore braces on his legs and was considered dumb. Fortunately, he was able to meet his best friend, Jenny, of whom they grew up together into adulthood. Forrest fell in love with Jenny and never stopped thinking about her even though she has taken many wrong turns in her life. Forrest decided to join the army to fight against Vietnam and along the way met a new friend called Bubba, who can’t stop talking about shrimp. Throughout his life, Forrest had achieved many medals, inspired people, and even got to meet the president several times, but in the end, his heart and mind always went to his childhood sweetheart, Jenny Curran. Despite lacking the true realities of life, Forrest Gump uses cutting-edge special effects in the plot with funny characters and its heroic protagonist to capture the viewers’ hearts.
Throughout the world, there are many artifacts ranging from Literature, Music, Social Media, Fashion, Toys, Technology, and many other ones. Every single one of these artifacts has a special meaning to them such as, the Statue of Liberty which represents freedom. The National Museum and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum both contain many different types of artifacts that represent our history, as well as sharing a special meaning that can affect a person individually or even shape our society. "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" was a book written by John Boyne, which should be considered an artifact in the Holocaust Memorial Museum or the National Museum, because it represents the history of the Holocaust, as well as by symbolizing
I will be comparing Jackie from “the busy blue jay” and the rabbit from “The Velveteen Rabbit”. The author in “the busy blue jay” is olive thorn miller. This story is about a blue jay that was abandoned by his parents then a girl found him and is now his owner. He is a very active bird he always finds something to do. That is a little bit about jakie from “the busy blue jay”. The author from the velveteen rabbit is Margery williams. This story is about a rabbit that is abandoned by his owner since he was shabby and full of germs. He was abandoned because they thought the bunny gave his owner the scarlet fever. That is a little about the rabbit from “the velveteen rabbit”. The two characters have many similarities and also have many differences.
Zootopia (Byron Howard Rich Moore 2016) is an extremely successful film about a bunny named Judy. Within the film there are many direct and obvious themes, but a more implicit theme that I found while watching was, Our preconceived fears about certain groups as a society are directly reflected in Zootopia. I will be using the formal elements: camera angle, camera distance, and sound to argue my point. In the scene I will be analyzing, Judy just finished her press conference and claimed that all predators were savages. She gets off the podium and has an encounter with her friend, Nick, who is a predator. He is mad that Judy made this general statement about predators. Nick scares Judy and acts as though he has
Thousand of years before the white settlers came to conquer Australia, many of the Aboriginals used tracking as a life skill. It was frequently used as an everyday tool to explore the landscape of Australia. In a spiritual way, the Aborigines have a close to connection to the nature surrounding them. Through the years and experience of tracking and exploring their environment, the Aborigines had a clearer depiction of the environment they lived on. Ultimately, the native people adapted themselves to live and survive in Australia. In the first chapter of Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, Pilkington demonstrates the training the Aborigines have to hunt in their surroundings when the tribes would come together in the winter, “to set fire to areas
Alice in Wonderland belongs to the nonsense genre, and even if most of what happens to Alice is quite illogical, the main character is not. “The Alice books are, above all, about growing up” (Kincaid, page 93); indeed, Alice starts her journey as a scared little girl, however, at the end of what we discover to be just a dream, she has entered the adolescence phase with a new way to approach the mentally exhausting and queer Wonderland. It is important to consider the whole story when analyzing the growth of the character, because the meaning of an event or a sentence is more likely to mean what it truly looks like rather than an explanation regarding subconscious and Freudian interpretations. Morton states “that the books should possess any unity of purpose seems on the surface unlikely” (Morton, page 509), but it’s better to consider the disconnected narrative and the main character separately, since the girl doesn’t belong to Wonderland, which is, as Morton says, with no intrinsic unity. Whereas, there are a few key turning points where it is possible to see how Alice is changing, something that is visible throughout her journey. Carroll wants to tell the story of a girl who has to become braver in order to contend with challenges like the pool made by her own tears, or assertive characters, like the Queen.