On one hand we have “Dr. Strangelove” who makes us laugh about what we should be concerned and worried about, and the film transforms this horrible idea about the bomb and massive destruction into something funny and peculiar that we should accept as part of our normal life. In this film all the characters seems to be unreal and mentally insane. A human sickness is the one who determines when, where, and how we should drop a bomb. On the other hand, we have “Fail-Safe” that, from a very serious point of view, exposes the problematic of nuclear bombs.
In the original film (Hitchcock) the old dark and colorless film, the creep music provide the viewers an idea that something wicked is about to happen. Therefore again both directors did provide enough action to carry over to each scene. In the remake the casting was truly wrong; For instance the infamous character Norman Bates, the psychopathic motel owner was played by fast talking, macho man Vince Vaughn. In the remake the Norman appears to be more of a sexual predator, whom would actually please himself as he watch Marion through a peephole in the shower scene; which gives the audience a different point of view about this film and van sant character Norman. However in the original version Anthony Perkins plays Norman Bates, who truly fit the character with calmer attitude, and good boy looks as Norman.
In his essay, “Why We Crave Horror Movies,” Stephen King tells us that some reasons we like a good horror flick are: to prove that we aren’t afraid of things that go bump in the night, to make us feel “normal,” and to have some good old-fashioned fun. Upon reading these assertions, I began to reflect on my own attitudes about the horror film genre. I have never considered myself to be a horror film fan. I tend to shy away from movies with extreme gore, violence, and gratuitous blood shed. They aren’t fun.
The man leaves after making her feel dumb and useless. She tracks him down to a town called Bodega Bay, where Mitch stays with his mom, Lydia and sister, Cathy. She arrives asking around town where he lives and how she could get there sneakily. She is told to go through the Bay and right to his dock. On her way back she is hit by a seagull she had noticed
By definition an honorable suicide is a process whereby a person commits suicide to escape the shame of an immoral action. In my opinion, the issue was the controversial incest aspect of remaking the film. American film goers gravitate towards action packed thrillers, horror or murder films, and on some occasions success is found in gore or torture pieces. Lee’s remake of South Korean and Japanese Classic don’t appeal to our society’s ideology. Consanguinity is the challenge and key issue that imitates the entire plot of the film.
One day, Carl stumbles upon an energetic and somewhat crazy tomboy named Ellie, who is also a Muntz fan. She tells Carl about her desire to move her "clubhouse" which just happens to be an abandoned house in the neighborhood, to a cliff overlooking Paradise Falls, making him promise to help her. Carl and Ellie eventually get married and grow old together in the restored house, Carl working as a toy balloon vendor, and Ellie a zookeeper. When they are told by a doctor that they are unable to have children together, they repeatedly pool their savings for a trip to Paradise Falls, but end up spending it on other important things. An elderly Carl finally arranges for the trip, but Ellie suddenly becomes ill and dies, leaving him alone.
As the director Michael Bay stated, he wanted to lure audience to get into this “idyllic lifestyle” through a love story which focuses on two young pilots’ stories with a beautiful nurse. Also as the producer Jerry Bruckheimer said, this fiction “would be interwoven with actual events” and he further conceded “as far as accuracy of the film, the film captures the essence of [Pearl Harbor attack]” (qtd. in Suid 649), in order to “pay tribute to the American heroes of Pearl Harbor” (Suid 658). However, Pearl Harbor received criticism from historians for its historical inaccuracies (Bay), it is misleadingly called Pearl Harbor to give audience the sense that the story about two pilots is the overall picture of Pearl Harbor attack (qtd. in Operation
Vertigo Film Essay Many directors use little details in movies to describe what is happening. In the film Vertigo, director Alfred Hitchcock used the colors red, yellow, and green to symbolize what was going on in the movie. Each color symbolized its own thing: red was deception, yellow was sanity, and green was obsession. Often in the film when Hitchcock used the color red, he was suggesting to the viewer that John Scotty was being misled. This is where it is evident that the color red symbolized deception.
Its immediate popularity is evidenced by two events--winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and being adapted into a successful movie in 1962. At least part of its appeal is its commonly recognizable themes. To Kill a Mockingbird deals with prejudice, courage, and pride in the context of a brother and sister growing up in the Deep South. Lee wrote the novel in the Southern Gothic style; a style in which disturbing or even other-worldly events occur. A final reason for the appeal of To Kill a Mockingbird is its semi-autobiographical nature (Hamburgler
Darkness is like the unknown, it can't be seen nor understood. The unknown can be bone chilling, danger is shrouded in it's unfathomable depths, yet the potential of a new discovery draws people to the unseen. The horror and science fiction film Alien, relies heavily on the element of lighting to powerfully, and dynamically display itself. Throughout the movie, numerous mysterious and frightening scenes are the result of creative lighting. It is shown through the contrast of illumination and darkness; the blackness and lifelessness of space, and light -- the aura of humanity.