Christopher McDaniel Professor Miller Mass Communications Spike Lee Option 1: Textual Analysis Shelton Jackson “Spike “Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. He is a graduate of New York University who currently serves as professor and artistic director at the university. Lee has won numerous awards including an Emmy, two a Academic Award nominations and the 2013 Gish Prize for “…unwavering courage in using film to challenge conventional thinking.” His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule film works, has produce over 35 films since 1983. His movies examined race relations, colorism in the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues. Prior to
It stars Robert dinero who is one of the greatest and most respected actors of all time starring in over 90 movies his net worth is 185 million. This movie was his first time directing. Di nero character in A Bronx Tale was captivating because many have grown to know him for his pivitol and violent roles such as The God Father, The Untouchables, and other mob roles. In a Bronx Tale Di nero plays the father named Lorenzo of the main character. He is a good guy who is a working man trying to provide for his family the legal way.
Some of his most acclaimed work has been from movies that were based on true stories. When Washington does these real life stories he finds characters that have over come many difficulties in their lives and end up winning. So by Washington starring in roles where he always ends up a winner he is creating an image in the viewers mind that he is a winner. When the audience leaves the movie they remember what great things Washington did to turn out the way he did. Many people have a hard time separating movies from the real world and some people assume the character is that person in real life Denzel Washington is the first African American male to win an Academy Award for the Best Male Actor category.
Behind this action thriller lays a powerful piece of scripture. The movie satirizes many themes within American society. The seduction of TV media, consumer goods, and the practices of our own culture, economic and political institutions. Robocop to this day is a forward thinking premonition and vigorously satirizing of American beliefs in the 21st Century. Due to the fact that America exists today as a corporate owned and run nation, something that Robocop predicted twenty-three years ago.
In 1933, “Scarface” won the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, and was nominated in 1932 for Best Picture by the National Board of Review. The main aspect of this films captivating storyline is about the predictable but tragic rise and demise of a notorious gangster. Tony Camonte becomes Johnny Lovos’s second in command for the Southside gang. However as time passes Tony beings to think more independently, and is not afraid of anyone or anything, especially not in treading on the Northside, run by an Irish gang and led by a man named O'Hara. Tony's actions put a strain between him and Johnny, to the point where the two of them know that they can't exist with the other, in the end Tony kills Johnny.
What cinematic techniques are used to create sympathy for the death of Michael Sullivan? Director: Sam Mendes Genre: Drama | Detective | Mystery The movie Road to Perdition is an adaption from the graphic novel written by Max Allan Collins, Richard Piers Rayner. Sam Mendes incorporates a range of cinematic techniques in the final chapter of the film in order for the audience to feel sympathy for Michael Sullivan (played Tom Hanks) One of the main features he uses is sound. Sound is used extensively in filmmaking to enhance presentation, and is distinguished into diegetic and non-diegetic sound. In this scene, when Michael is looking from the window balcony at his son Michael JR (who is outside playing with the dog on the beach) we only hear the sound of the waves (contrapuntal sound) as the audience, we recognize this particular sound and we expect something bad to happen, this makes the scene more intense.
In the movie “the untouchables” Al Capone and his gang are portrayed as strong Italian men who had a very big influence on life during the 1920s, with Elliot Ness constantly on his case trying to find something that will lock Capone up for life. The sources which i have found will help to confirm that the way we know Capone from the movies is very similar to the way he really was back in the 1920s. Looking at the sources, there are a few factors which confirm the statements given in the movie, such as the Cartoon (source 5) which shows Elliot Ness in comparison to the Loch Ness Monster, showing us how Capone would have felt towards Ness while he was constantly after him trying to find evidence against him that would send him to jail. In the movie Ness does everything in his power to try get something on Capone that would lock him away which is in a way the vibe we get from this cartoon where Ness is a monster in the eyes of Capone and the gangs of New York during the 1920s. The photo (source 1) gives us an idea of what these gangs looked like and how they appeared to the rest of society.
The film centers a young Jewish man (Jakie Rabinowitz) aspiring to be a jazz singer on Broadway, however his father, a cantor opposes to the idea believing in tradition. The Jazz Singer and its reception can be interpreted to
The first movie was Vertigo. I first watched this with my dad and was amazed by how good the acting was. In the movie he is a retired cop who is asked by an old friend to watch his wife’s strange actions. I thought movies made in the forty’s and fifty’s were not as good as film in the modern age of film. But I soon found out that this movie was by far better than any movie I’ve seen during that year.
Over the years, Batman's greatest nemesis has undergone a multitude of changes. 1940s saw Joker as a homicidal psychopath, then as a notorious and inexorable maniac in the 50s and in a perilously murderous form in the 70s. Although Jack Nicholson’s interpretation of Joker was well appreciated in the late 80s, but one can't compare Ledger's joker to Nicholson's , just the same way as one can't compare Burton's movies with Nolan's. Without a shadow of doubt, in The Dark Knight, Ledger has given us our most convincing Joker yet. The role of a paranoid schizophrenic psycho has been justified by Ledger’s acting prowess.