This film is in a non-serious tone. In a plan to yield enough credibility, reefer madness has a moral and serious form of dressing. Other names in reference to this American film of exploitation are doped youth, the provocative question, love madness and Doped addict. The music satire and a film base in 2005 got inspiration from this film. This film starts with classic styles and effects most eminent in movies of its time.
Back in mythical times, stories of legends were often told and of course they were mostly exaggerated. The same exaggeration rule applies today. "American Sniper" was a book written by Navy Seal veteran Chris Kyle. This book was an autobiography of Kyle's life that started just before he signed up for the Navy and ended just before his death. Clint Eastwood, a very famous actor and director, had decided he was going to make a movie (loosely) based on the book "American Sniper".
Amanda Jennings Hancock English 111-001 12 March 2012 Spiderman as an Outlaw Hero In Robert B. Ray’s essay, “The Thematic Paradigm,” he writes about American cinema and dichotomies within movie and film. Ray explains and compares the difference between outlaw and official heroes. Ray writes about how an official hero falls in the category of “good good boys” and how they embody the best attributes of adulthood (379). Traits of an official hero include, sound reasoning and judgment, wisdom and sympathy based on experience. Various examples of an official hero include Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.
Ivan Lopez Karen Rasmussen COMM 301 November 23, 2012 Fahrenheit 9/11 In 2004 Michael Moore released his highly anticipated documentary film titled Fahrenheit 9/11. The title is a play on “Fahrenheit 451,” the temperature at which paper burns, and a novel by Ray Bradbury about a future totalitarian state in which reading and independent thought are forbidden. The documentary film closely examines the war on terror, the Bush presidency, and how they were portrayed by the media. The film starts off by questioning the accuracy of the 2001 election that resulted in George W. Bush winning the election. Fahrenheit 9/11 is the highest grossing documentary film of all time.
Hannah Aerts PHIL 1102-101 Movie Review #3 Tuesday 24, 2012 Ms. Carr Gattaca Proving people wrong. Countless movies, newspaper articles, books, and revered heroes are all about the same story, coming from the bottom and proving what everyone or the majority of what society thought to be right, wrong. The movie Gattaca not only addresses an underdog rising to the top storyline, but also the moral question of genetically engineering humans. This concept has many pro’s and con’s depending on who you ask. Since we are in a philosophy class, asking three modern and celebrated philosophers what they might think would be the best way to start this sort of debate.
Antigone's Everlasting Conflict A Comparison between a Legendary Tragedy and a Modern Drama Before 445 B.C Sophocles wrote a now historically famous tragedy entitled Antigone. In 2010 director Debra Granik released a drama adapted from Daniel Woodrell’s novel of the same name “Winter’s Bone”; this movie was praised by A.O Scott who is a prominent leader of film critique as “the modern day Antigone”. Overall the comparison made is extremely accurate; this comparison is drawn based on the movie and tragedy’s similar conflict and the reaction of the female protagonist throughout the respective stories. These observations can be taken directly from each narrative’s text and are important to recognize these conflicts from Antigone being used as we can as readers we can see that people in seemingly powerless positions taking control of their life and challenging the status qua in society, which are timeless conflicts. Now, the character Antigone is a woman in a very patriarchal society, ancient Greece was not a place where women could easily undermine a man's authority.
Running Head: ELEMENTS of SEABISCUIT!! Elements of Seabiscuit February 17, 2011 Submitted By: Adrian Martinez English 2341 Abstract The goal for the director and producer of this movie was to mainly tell a story of a time like the great depression. The true life stories an undersized horse and an oversized jockey is just what they needed. This film has elements of every order to analyze and define. This film “Seabiscuit” directed by Gary Ross is the best example of cinematography and all the elements of what a great movie is.
An A&E original movie, The Lost Battalion first aired in 2001. Directed by Russell Mulcahy (The Shadow) and starring Rick Schroder (NYPD Blue) as Major Whittlesey, the movie employs the action techniques that proved so effective in Saving Private Ryan -- e.g., hand-held cameras focused tightly on the action. Here too, the effect is to render the horror of combat in graphic and relentless images. The cast, especially Schroder, is solid and the screenplay is serviceable. Schroder bears a striking resemblance to the real Major Whittlesey and plays him as the citizen-soldier facing -- and ultimately defying -- overwhelming odds that he
Prize-winning author Ann Patchett ("Bel Canto," "Truth and Beauty," "The Magician's Assistant") once confessed that the single most important artistic influence on her work is "The Poseidon Adventure," the 1933 Paul Gallico potboiler that was made into a classic 1970s action-adventure-disaster movie featuring Gene Hackman and Ernest Borgnine fighting their way out of a luxury liner capsized by a 100-foot tidal wave. Patchett explained, "['The Poseidon Adventure'] was the first time I saw something that made me think, Oh, that's what plot is: you're going along, it's fine, then everything turns upside down; people band together, sacrifices are made, there's passion, there's loss, there's a journey and at the end you cut a hole in the boat and
Touching the heart (2003) This emotional, breathtaking, Bafta award winning film is the soul and heart of British film making. Director Kevin MacDonald takes you through a heart chilling documentary of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates’ perilous journey up the west face of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. This 2003 first class film has won 5 awards and has had 7 nominations due to its amazing cast; Nicolas Aaron (Simon Yates), Brendan Mackey (Joe Simpson), Richard Hawking, Simon Yates and Joe Simpson. This extraordinary must see movie is “Touching the Void”. “Touching the Void” brings you on the unbelievably crazy trek of Simon Yates and Joe Simpson to touch the heavens.