Hum 150 Film Matrix

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LTB HUM 150 April 4, 2013 Janine Powers University of Phoenix Material Film Matrix Complete the following matrix by filling out each category. Provide a brief description of how each component was used in the film you selected. For example, if you selected the film The Shining, in the first column, you would explain how the film’s setting was used and what it was. 1. Name the film you watched Learning Team B choose to watch the movie Dumb and Dumber (1994) 2. What genre do you believe it falls under? Dumb and Dumber (1994) is classified as a comedy. |Setting | The film is settings change throughout the movie. Rhode Island is the starting point of the film but then Lloyd (Jim Carey) | | |falls in love with Mary Swanson (Lauren Holly) who is heading on a trip to Aspen, Colorado. As Mary Swanson (Lauren Holly) | | |attempts to enter a plane she leaves behind a brief case which the clueless Lloyd (Jim Carey) acquires and wishes to return to | | |her. The suite case would then prompt Lloyd (Jim Carey) to convince his roommate Harry (Jeff Daniels) to embark on a cross | | |country road trip to unite the suit case with Mary (Lauren Holly). The setting then changes to the Pennsylvania forest area, | | |Nebraska plains, and finally the mountains of Colorado. Aspen would be the final point of the cross country trip and would be the| | |main area of focus for the film. A majority of the scenes show in Aspen would be centered around the area’s snowy landscape and a| | |hotel. | | |

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