Film Noir - Double Indemnity Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity is almost like a basic outline for the Film Noir genre. Film noir settings normally take place in city streets, railway stations, the underground, warehouses or even bars. These atmospheres create a scary feeling and with the big amount of space, it leaves many hidden mysteries or secrets. Other genres can be based nearly anywhere and still create the same impression, but with the use of equal lighting on the setting and characters the impression of Film Noir is made. The many Film Noir conventions through characters is seen in Double Indemnity.
VA0525 (2) Technology, Culture and Design 11. How does Robocop satirise the values of contemporary American society? Pay attention to the cultural, political and economic contexts in which the film was made. Robocop is a science fiction film directed by Paul Verhoeven, released on 17 July 1987. Set in a not to distant future in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The noir stories that are known as the most characteristic tell of people trapped in unwanted situations, generally they are striving to achieve something, but more frequently than not, they are doomed to fail. The lighting aspects in the films, black-and-white at the time, lent more psychology to the viewer. Filmmakers allowed spectators to distinguish their own plots through the use of lighting. Sunset Boulevard gave the end of silent film cinema and the emergence of Classical Hollywood narratives. Both in Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard, each played a role in the progression of the characterization of the femme fatale.
Full Sourcing I Am Legend, Village Road Show pictures, Associated with Warner Brothers Pictures. Content an explanation of why you chose this text for your AOS I have chosen this text because it is an unusual, unexpected thriller/action movie. I also enjoy this movie because it has blood thirsty mutant zombies that are taking over New York. It is a very sad, strong and emotional story about a man named Robert Neville who is a military Virologist who is trying to find a cure for an incurable virus. This contagious virus infects the whole human race of New York City and turns them into flesh and blood thirsty mutant zombies.
In ancient times, the gods led by Zeus, Poseidon and Hades betrayed their parents, the Titans, and banished them to the Underworld with the help of the Kraken, a sea monster born of Hades. The gods divided the Universe among themselves; Zeus took the skies, Poseidon took the seas, and Hades, tricked by Zeus, was left with the Underworld. The gods created the mortals, whose faith in them assured their immortality. However, as time passed, mortals began to question them. A fisherman called Spyros finds a casket floating in the sea, containing the corpse of a woman holding a still living baby.
Soon after making contact with the satellite, while giving a transmission back to base, the men suddenly die. The military then finds out that everyone in the small town is dead. This alerted the military that there might have been some kind of extraterrestrial organism on the satellite. They then decided to activate project Wildfire. The team was selected to study extraterrestrial organisms.
A superhuman criminal named Yu Law, once a member of the "Multiverse Authority" (MVA) that polices interdimensional travel (via detecting wormhole openings, which can be predicted like the weather), seeks to hunt down and kill variations of himself in alternate universes. By killing his other selves, (becoming the last version of himself) and absorbing their power, he thinks he will become "The One", a god. Yu Law is briefly captured by MVA agents Rodecker (Delroy Lindo) and Evan Funsch (Jason Statham), only for Yu Law to escape from captivity during the final phase of his sentencing. The last alternate, Gabriel Law, works in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. For two years he has been experiencing increases in strength, speed and mental ability but neither he nor his wife, T.K.
“V for Vendetta” and Animal Farm: A Comparison The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that's a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V (Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman (Portman) from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally. Written by Siriuslydead (source: imdb.com) In this obscure and Gothic tale, adapted from David Lloyd's graphic novel, one attractive girl, Evey gets involved accidentally in a terrorist attack, perpetrated by a masked and megalomaniac character, V. V is following the same steps of Guy Fawkes, a sort of terrorist of the XVII century, who wanted to blow up the English Parlament in London. However, in the present time, the Orwellian London lives under the fascist government of chancellor Adam, and V will fight against his regime, using the power of powder, blowing up important buildings.
Caruso (Disturbia), penned by no less than five writers, and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Eagle Eye is a cyberspace cat and mouse caper where humans find themselves at the mercy of the hi-tech world they've created. And we're not just talking about the shrill special effects hide and seek frenzy of this movie. Eagle Eye begins at a US military control center, where the brass is hedging bets about conducting a fateful target assassination missile strike against what may or may not be a fake Afghan funeral, and with a most wanted insurgent possibly in attendance. And the bombing sets off a wave of retaliation against the US internationally, in its wake. Submitted by: Grace Jhane C. Avila
Set on the planet Pandora, Avatar is a sci-fi story of a mercenary-backed corporation’s attempt to confiscate and mine the land inhabited by humanoid aliens known as the Na’vi. Enter Jake Sully, the paraplegic U.S. marine protagonist who joins the science and anthropology wing of the operation as a substitute navigator for his deceased twin brother’s avatar. Early in the film, we discover that the avatar is an expensive high-tech clone that allows its user to temporarily experience and subsequently infiltrate the Na’vi community. After a series of unexpected events during his first avatar excursion, Jake finds himself living amongst the Na’vi clan known as the Omaticaya where he becomes an apprentice to the female tribe member Neytiri. From that point, the film revolves around the internal and external conflicts that arise as Jake bonds with the Omaticaya and struggles between his mission and his allegiance to the aliens.