The movie came at a time when worst crimes were committed in New York and the United States as a whole hence had several scenes of violence, prostitution, and cheap drugs. It introduced a technique in the film industry that transformed violence into art in the film industry. However, the amount of violence in the movie is overwhelming killing the viewer’s admiration for the movie. Personally, I found the movie to be interesting, but non-conventional because it depicts Travis, a cold-blooded killer as a hero. In as much as, he is delivering justice to wrongdoers for crimes committed and in so doing saving innocent people such as the twelve-year-old child forced into prostitution, killing criminals is not best the solution.
Motion pictures and television have brought entertainment and joy to millions if not billions of people around the world, but along with the good comes the bad. Society has evolved a great amount over the past century, but one aspect that has seen rapid change over the past few years are moral values. Taboos from the past are now becoming norms of the present, but this is how history has worked since the beginning of civilization. However, there are those who are having trouble making that transition. As a result, the government set up the FCC, or Federal Communications Commission, to not only act as a watchdog of the content of television shows, but to regulate other facets of the telecommunications industry as well.
“Rod Serling used fiction to explore negative consequences of the labels we attach to ourselves and others” {Facing History and Culture 2013). For many Native Americans this kind of discrimination is a part of daily life. The film industry has for many years stereotyping Native Americans to extremes. Only our own Government knew the film industries for a time in history as the second greatest enemy of Native Americans. The first greatest enemies of Native Americans during this same time our own Government.
The film was viewed by many because in the days we live in now, drugs are becoming more and more socially accepted by the public in general, as shown in how many people enjoyed the movie. On a different note in the movie, the music played in the movie is very appealing to me, it was very thought out on how the song would be placed in the moment to add the extra “hype” to the movie. Such as in the beginning of the film, to me, I feel like Electric Avenue was very well placed while Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) rode in his vehicle down the street. Pineapple Express by no means was an under budgeted film. When you take a look at all the effects that the movie had you can see that no money was wasted in any special effects such as a man being shot in the head, another person being shot in the stomach twice, gun fights, and etcetera.
Intercultural Barriers in Film Jesse Power University of Phoenix XCOM/200 David Harris September 21, 2014 Introduction All of us have probably had the experience of dealing with intercultural communication barriers at some point in our lives. Intercultural communication barriers are so prevalent in our lives that they are often depicted on the big screen. Many films have been made over the years that focus on topics of diversity and intercultural communication barriers. These movies, while often fictional, can be very informative, and sometimes even educational. In the following essay, we will look at the 2004 film, Crash, to identify and discuss some intercultural communication barriers that are fairly common.
Common reasons are to prove that we are not afraid of the horror movies, to feel normal, and for fun. It is a human being’s mentality that fun comes from watching someone threatened and sometime dead. He said there is a potential lyncher in almost all of us. When a superhero kills villains, we don’t think about lynching, we just enjoy it. We watch movies for enjoyment and try not to compare them with real life.
During the course of the twentieth era in addition to the twenty-first, movies ensure moviegoers a variety of experiences that either acknowledged or move away from their own values. Therefore I will investigate the interrelationship between culture and the visual entertainment media; By exploring the various forms of visual entertainment media that shaped American culture and its values, the social influences whether positive or negative and then summarize how visual media either reflect or influence social behavior and attitudes. Visual entertainment tells various forms of stories that bring to mind and shape our most long-term values and culture. There have been many movies that have displayed the culture of times in them such as “Smoke Signals, “The Cosby,” “Out of Africa,” and “The Brady Bunch.” They remind and signify universal themes of social familiarity. Entertainment media helped us understand and respond to past events and heartbreaks, which has enable us to reconsider ideas for the most part in terms of how we think about race, spirituality, and sexuality with such films as “In the Heat of the Night,” “A Stranger among Us” and “Brokeback Mountain”.
How violence in entertainment affects our society by Andrew Bogucki This was a paper that I wrote for school pertaining to the topic of violence in entertainment. Excessive violence in movies has become a popular trend with Hollywood directors lately. Vivian C. Sobchack, author of "The Postmorbid Condition," wrote "Instead of caressing violence, the cinema has become increasingly careless about it: either merely nonchalant or deeply lacking in care. "(Sobchack 378) The violence displayed in these movies, such as the Kill Bill series, attracts a large audience worldwide because the viewers are guaranteed to see adrenaline pumping action and gore. Thane Peterson, author of "Too Much Kill in the Kill Bills," states "Kill Bill: Vol.
American independent film is somewhat of a mystery to many American’s these days. A majority of the movies American’s view today, are the ones that tend to do the best in the box office and when they are released on DVD, are those made by major Hollywood directors and writers with the big name actors. Many of them have a similar story line: boy falls in love with girl, boy loses girl, boy fights to get girl back, and they live happily ever after. They are there mainly to entertain people with their graphics or special effects. With those films, there is not much a message, it is something we see time after time, and people do not leave the theatre saying “Wow!
They make money and have no problem luring in the opposite sex at a bar or a party. They have all the hook ups and most likely have an “in” at the local police station. Everything goes well for these characters in the movie, and they are all perceived by the viewer as great, a hero, and the man. This behavior often influences crime in the real world by people that take the movie too seriously. They take something very entertaining, intriguing, and suspenseful and try to make it real, but they forget and ignore the fact that the majority of these movies are fictional, and if they are fiction they are most likely exaggerated to a point where it could not happen in the world today.