The heroes in these movies are apparent. Even if the viewer is ignorant to Joseph Campbell’s stages of a hero, they can clearly acknowledge the journey and the hero standing at the end. The Hero inspires us to take our own journey into the unknown and find the beauty within ourselves. One of the most beautiful heroes comes from the film called Memoirs of a Geisha. This movie takes the viewer on a journey with a young Japanese girl by the name of Chiyo.
Dietria Smith English 116 W Bortolotti Movie Essay 21 Dec 2011 Steel Magnolias: Southern Belles Comedy Steel Magnolias, Herbert Ross’s laugh-getting, tear –jerking audience manipulation, is practically critic proof. According to Christopher Null the film was overly saccharine, yet somewhat satisfying tale of southern romance and tragedy. While Robert Ebert goes on to say,” Steel Magnolias is willing to sacrifice its over-all impact for individual moments of humor.” The plot is six Louisiana women in three generations facing birth and death, abandonment and reunification, who find immense personal strength despite grave personal weaknesses through a fellowship rooted in faithfulness and Truvy’s beauty shop (Truvy played by Dolly Parton).
But what specifically do the critics like about Casablanca that has resulted in its popular appeal? From a woman’s prospective, Lauri Boeder writes on About.Com that “Casablanca is a great romance, a stirring wartime adventure, a suspenseful action movie, and in the end, a terrific buddy movie.” She further states that “Casablanca is thrilling on the first viewing, and so richly textured it rewards being watched over and over. The dialogue is clever, touching, and dryly funny by turns and utterly irresistible. See it once and then see it again.” is what she recommends. But what does Roger Ebert say about Casablanca?
The film writers, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, supposedly based this film loosely on their personal experiences during their own awkward teenage years. Though I’m not sure how true this actually is, the film is excellently written. There is sensitivity in superbad that other teen movies such as American Pie don’t achieve, this gives the film heart. This is also the main reason that Superbad works so well, it gets away with being immature and crude by using well-written and well-acted parts to create a sense of vulnerability and loveable geeky awkwardness in the three main characters, who constantly attempt to appear cool and confident, particularly around their high school crushes, desperately fabricating stories, with hilarious
Unfortunately, the wannabe aims to please the Queen Bee, doing anything to get in her good grace. The movie Mean Girls will illustrate the evils of social acceptance, either you’re in the ‘in’ crowd or you’re out. Directed by Mark Waters, from a screenplay by Emmy winner Tina Fey, Mean Girls is a fictional comedy based on Rosalind Wisemans’s New York
There are moments straight out of left field, as when Duvall and the family's new maid (the formidable Theresa Merritt) get into an impromptu shoulder-punching contest. There are moments so unpredictable and yet so natural they feel just like the spontaneity of life itself. And the movie's conclusion is the same way: sentimental without being corny, a tearjerker with dignity. The Great Santini is a movie to seek out and to
Family Fun The famous wizard of words, Dr. Seuss, has done it again with his newest movie Horton Hears A Who. There are many aspects of Horton that make it the best animation it is. The Dynamic plot, the all star cast, and the puts the movie as the best book turned movie by Dr. Seuss. The animation in my opinion is the best particularly Who-Ville , that speck-borne town with its architecture masterpieces and wondrous designs. The town, throughout the movie makes you feel as though you are in the town along side of whatever character we are focusing in on at the time .The Jungle of Nool, where Horton passes his time and fights for survival of the Who’s, is threatening and fun.
However, I believe it is an excellent movie because it captures a true life story and makes the audience feel a part of it. The Vow won my heart as one of my favorite movies in 2012 with its accountable flashbacks, heartwarming narration, appropriate settings, and overwhelming scenes and dialogue. When movies are based on a true story, the audience expects it to be as close to the truth as possible and try to feel what the actors are feeling. In, The Vow, Tatum and McAdams play the roles of Leo and Paige who were a married young couple for about 5 years. They were madly in love with each other and were hoping to become parents soon.
The Lovely Bones By Alice Sebold The Film ‘The Lovely Bones is so awesome. At first, there are so many scenes that totally mysterious and full of suspense .The viewers mind will definitely function to think if what is that for? etc..This Film is full of excitement .I salute to Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens who has a intelligent mind to wrote this film with the help of their director Peter Jackson. A great director who is also the director of the movie “The Lord of the Rings”. The Lovely Bones is from the one of the best seller 2002’s novel by Alice Sebold.
In the opening sequence of “clueless” the film maker has already captured the attention of the audience by the sound/music and camera techniques the title which could suggest it is it show how one girl could be rich, popular, and more but still be so “clueless” The film maker has based this film on a young life style of a young girl so the genre of this film is a teenage comedy. We know this because, in the opening sence they use child like and very feminine colours so this is defiantly going to appeal to teenagers. They then go on to show teenage issues e.g. gossip which Cher can’t live with out, clothes and fashion are very important to a popular girl and even when they can’t buy they can still look. Money is very important to a teenage girl in there eyes you can never have too much, money also