B movie Essays

  • Movie Industry: Cecil B. Demille

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    The youngest films of the movie industry were not sheer matter of creative worth, but moderately scientific creations. At the time of the early 20th century era of making films, a cluster of scriptwriters, producers, and directors gradually transformed films into an intermediate tool for expression. A key player to the American film industry was Cecil B. Demille, an American film director and producer, known for both his renowned films in both the silent era and post silent era. DeMille is credited

  • Edward Wood vs William Castle

    1811 Words  | 4 Pages

    If there were one thing that filmmakers William Castle and Edward D. “Ed” Wood, Jr. had in common, is that both were at the forefront of 1950s low-budget, B-movie filmmaking where independent studios assigned small budget to filmmakers to create B-movies and release them widely in order to gain higher profit returns during release. Both directors enjoyed their creative freedom with their limited budgets and both of their movies showed passion and energy in their scenes that many “A” film struggle

  • Universal Studios Halloween Horror Night: What makes it scary?

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    alas there is someone out there who knows what they’re doing, and it quite possibly could have to do with the fact that they are connected to the movie studio that did invent the horror film genre. But what makes Universal Studios Halloween Horror night so sinister? Universal Studios has a way where they take you out of reality and place you in a horror movie where you encounter many horror mazes, and also by the way they attack your senses in unexpected ways. Upon walking into Universal Studios again

  • Princess Of R & B: Aaliyah Movie Review

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    PR0J01 Aaliyah; Princess of R&B Movie aired on Lifetime Saturday, November 15 and honestly I believe that it was the worst biopic I have ever seen. The reason I felt it was such a bad movie was because of the acting, the way Aaliyah was portrayed and the rushing of it, and when Aaliyah's family publicly disapproved of the role and denied Lifetime any legal rights to Aaliyah music. In June of this summer, it was announced on social media that an Aaliyah movie would come into the making and Zendaya

  • Hollywood California Essay

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    roaring 20s MGM dominated the movie business

  • The Studio System

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    cinema chains at which their movies were run. They would release blocks of movies with one A-class movie that featured the best actors and actresses and held a premium budget, and accompany it with a few low budget A-rank films that may had lower production quality, with additional B-movies of varying genres and subjects. Contractually, when the theaters played the A-movies they had to take the B-movies as well, so all levels of quality in film production were sold to the public. The A-ranked

  • Porter's Five Forces Analysis For The Movie Industry

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    Competitive Rivalry (Medium to High) Movie theaters are conglomerates in the film industry. Only a few competing firms. Offer the same ticket prices and provide the same products and roughly the same services to customers. Threat of New Entrants (Low) There are high entry costs to enter the market. The large industry competitors already have captured the market share. Threat of Substitutes (Medium to High) It can be difficult to re-create the experience of going to the movie theater. However, home theaters

  • Drive In Movie Theater History

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    Working Title Drive in movie theaters were the a pretty popular thing from the 1940s through the 1960s for many friends and families across the United States. They were reportedly created because the creators mom had a hard time fitting in traditional indoor theaters, and so he played a movie with a projector on the hood of his car and a screen. The first official dive-in movie theater was created in New Jersey Drive-in movie theaters were the star of the 1940s-1960s for groups of friends and families

  • Independent Film Vs Blockbuster

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    each year relying on a small number of highly budgeted movie releases that can be extremely profitable or prove significant loss. Independent featured films are produced differently from the blockbuster because independent films are produced outside of the major film studio system and are distributed by independent entertainment agencies. The independent-movie began in the 1980s and 1990s, and some films were accidental as long as the movie stayed in toe with the blockbuster formula. Independent

  • Rhetorical Analysis Of A Movie Theatre

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    Positive A: Positive Description of a Movie Theatre While walking in the doors of the movie theatre on Schillinger road, the most delicious smell of popcorn came across my nose. As I am walking in the theatre, I see that everybody is at the counter waiting to order popcorn, candy, or either a soda pop. Most of the people that are standing in the line is either just standing or communicating with each other. While walking to the concession to order a side of popcorn and a soda pop, the employees

  • Ladder 49 Movie Review

    1068 Words  | 3 Pages

    When we see movies we often expect a happy ending with the conflict of the movie to be resolved. Ladder 49, however, doesn't end with a happy ending. In my mind I wanted everything in the end to be ok. As Americans we are so used to seeing the "happily ever after" endings. So when we see bad endings, they leave us uncomfortable, replying in our minds what had just seen. My expectations before I saw the movie were that I was going to see firefighters in action with a few conflicts that they would

  • Comparing and Contrasting Shakespeare's Play Romeo and Juliet and the Movie Version

    1971 Words  | 4 Pages

    Comparing and Contrasting Shakespeare's Play Romeo and Juliet and the Movie Version "[. . . E]mblems of mafia gang-land hostility: guns, fast cars, and tattoos [. . .]" (Walker 5) are not the usual images found in a Shakespearean play. Baz Luhrmann's 1996 production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is: [. . .] told in a setting [. . .] that is modern and yet unfamiliar: a world where the youth might conceivably always go armed; a world where love can still be so thwarted and endangered;

  • Stephen King

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    BIOGRAPHY ON STEPHEN KING Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947, the son of Donald and Nellie Ruth king. His father, a merchant seaman, deserted the family in about 1950. His mother took a succession of low-paying jobs to support him and his brother, David. A lonely, rather introverted child, King invented a more outgoing alter ego – Cannonball Cannon, a daredevil who “did good deeds” – and derived other vicarious thrills from listening to tales of horror on

  • Albert Camus': Summer in Algiers

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    articulation of lucidity and the exemplification of it in the artistry of the essay itself presents us with a challenging concept of knowledge. I attempt to explicate this concept with the help of two images, one from the musical Hair and one from the movie The Pawnbroker, thus seeking to reinforce Camus' reliance upon image as the equivalent of idea. This is a paper about Albert Camus' understanding of what it means to know as he eloquently expressed it in the essay "Summer in Algiers." To begin it

  • Drive Ins Research Paper

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    Drive-in Movie Theaters America is home to many unique things. For instance, movie entertainment is native to the United States. In the early nineteen hundreds, Americans combined two of their favorite things: cars and movies. They were called drive-ins and they were very popular in the United States. Drive-in theaters, which werealso known as ozoners, open-air operators, fresh-air exhibitors, outdoorers, ramp houses, under-the-stars emporiums, rampitoriums, and they were even known as auto

  • Rapunzel Research Paper

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    after more than a decade in development, the movie was rumored to have cost about $260 million to make, which would be more than any other animated film to date. (Teeman 6) Another reason was that the animated feature Disney had released prior to Tangled, The Princess and the Frog, did not do as well as expected at the box office. This lack of success was attributed to the fact that The Princess and the Frog was strongly marketed as “princess movie,” and therefore alienated young male audiences

  • Ernst Lubitsch's 1940: The Shop Around The Corner

    864 Words  | 2 Pages

    Hollywood has been remaking more classic films than ever before, and the trend is nothing new. Movie studios have been redoing movies since almost the beginning of the industry. In fact, some of our favorite films in recent years have been remakes of films produced years before. Here are five of the best remakes in recent years. 1. REMAKE: YOU’VE GOT MAIL (1998) ORIGINAL: THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940) Most people are completely unaware that the very popular and successful 1998 romantic comedy

  • Comparing the Book and Movie Version of The Grapes of Wrath

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    The Grapes of Wrath: Comparing Book and Movie Ford attempted to establish a sense of historical context by inserting two paragraphs of prose on the screen immediately following the opening credits: ' In the central part of the United States of America lies a limited area called 'the Dust Bowl', because of its lack of rains. Here drought and poverty combined to deprive many farmers from their land. This is the story of one farmer's family, driven from their fields by natural disasters and

  • Monsters In The Blade Runner

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    This assignment starts with notes to give you a general sense of the evolution of monsters, and some info to help you generate ideas. The monster through time: pre-WWII, movie monsters tended to be human-sized, and human-like. A werewolf is a man transformed by a curse into a beast and back. In his beast state, he has no human inhibitions, but in his human state he feels remorse. The invisible man is transformed by science, a potion, but is still himself (though the potion begins to eat away at

  • To what extent was Paramount typical and representative of the major Hollywood studio corporations in the 1930s and 1940s?

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    1930s and 40s. I will be discussing how Paramount’s methods as a corporation such as exhibition, distribution, star system and genre to see how it is a typical representative of a Hollywood studio corporation. I will be using material such as Richard B. Jewel’s The Golden Age of Cinema, Hollywood 1929 – 1945 to go into detail in explaining my points. Para 1 – Exhibition Many of the studios in Hollywood owned their own cinemas, in fact the big five, MGM, Paramount, RKO, Warner Bros’ and Twentieth