Everyone assumes that directors and writers decide what happens in a movie, but many times the movie star is the most powerful person involved with the project. For instance, when Jim Carrey wanted to make a movie about his favorite number, The Number 23 hit theaters across the country. A much more entertaining abuse of this star power occurs when huge movie stars decide they look awesome doing something, and proceed to force that something into every movie they make. For instance ... #5. Tom Hanks' Career is a Urinary Morality Play Most movie stars use their careers to build up enough credibility to avoid urinating onscreen.
He wins the twenty million rupees but that is not his first apprehension, Latika is. The director, Danny Boyle and co-director Loveleen Tandan use powerful tracks to shift the tone and mood in the film. The music used in Slumdog Millionaire helps the viewer easily differentiate the scenes from Jamal’s daunting yet blissful past and his poor-spirited present. A.R. Rahman was hired to create the score for this magnificent piece of art.
Daniel was orphaned as a result of Roman oppression. His father, in an attempt to save his brother from imprisonment for failure to pay harsh Roman taxes, was caught and crucified. His mother died from grief. His younger sister, once sweet and open, is thereafter terrorized by fears and demons. Daniel and his sister are left in the fate of their poverty stricken grandmother, who apprentices Daniel to the local blacksmith.
He took Lil Wayne to the top and even though he had to drop out of high school it was wroth it because he is now worth over 24 Million dollars. Some obstacles Lil Wayne had were the death of his father and having a daughter at a young age. Even though Lil Wayne's father was a drug dealer and pimp, Wayne always admired
There are millions of different types of movies, and hundreds of different targeted audiences, but all of these movies have one thing in common-to catch the eye of their specific audience. Movies such as comedies, documentaries and dramas can have a negative effect on children of today’s society. The big screen movie Ted is a perfect example of a comedy bearing negative influence on its viewers and consumers. A marketing strategy used a lovable cute kid’s toy and turned him into a cursing, sex loving, marijuana smoking stuffed animal. This strategy was able to attract children of all ages to the movie theater to watch a cute little toy bear become a grown man’s best friend that leads to all type of negative behaviors.
The case study briefly discusses the successes of criticisms of the motion picture, “Slumdog Millionaire”. “Slumdog Millionaire” was a 2008 film done by British director, Danny Boyle. The film depicts the life of a child who grew up in the slums of Mumbai in India. The youth appears on a television game show, and throughout the duration of the game show, he reflects on the different experiences he’s had growing up. These various experiences ultimately aid him in winning the game.
The competitive forces that have challenged the movie industry are YouTube, google and other online sources where customers can download and watch movies/Television shows for free. The development of the movies and TV shows online has become a major problem for the movie/tv industry. YouTube, which started up in February 2005 quickly made the most popular video sharing website in the world with over 100 million views daily. Soon enough, video clips of copyrighted Hollywood movies and television escalated on YouTube. The media had to go through $1.25 billion in damage and lost battle.
The Hangover vs. Coming to America Comedy films have been entertaining the world for years, and as the years pass, filmmakers are constantly changing their humor and delivery to adapt to our rapid fast paced culture and society. While film directors Todd Phillips (The Hangover) and Jon Landis (Coming to America) have both created some very memorable, yet humorous films. Phillips’ film embodied one of the insane thoughts one would consider when having a bachelor party in Vegas. Landis’ film told a story of a Prince from Africa seeking to dismiss tradition in his family and search for his bride. Although they were created about 20 years apart, both comedies shared the same dry sense of humor, silly random characters and similar male oriented
The main characters in the movie are three slumdog children, there were two brothers named Jamal Malik and Salim Malik, and there was a girl that the brothers basically adopted to live and survive with them name Latika. There are ten main subjects that we see in the movie, authority, family, caste, class, education, work, corruption, violence, human trafficking, and religion. The movie demonstrates Indian culture and society. The movie also shows how one of the brothers got all the answers right on a game show because of all of his experiences as a slumdog. Slumdogs in the Indian society are the lowest of low people in the caste system.
Slumdog Millionaire is one of the most celebrated films in recent times. This independent, low-budget film that swept the Oscars is a rags-to-riches story of a boy who with a little help of destiny overcomes his beginnings of back when he used to live in the slums to now being a nouveau riche and is reunited with his love, more than he could ever hope. The film seems like an authentic representation of the lives of Indiaʼs urban poor so therefore, the scenarios of Slumdog were inspired by a sad reality present in India where corruption is rampant and beggar-makers collect orphans and mutilate them so they become more sympathetic. This film is full of contrasts such as those between the rich and poor, the wild and the sentimental, the light and the darkness and the good and the bad, that in the long run help you realize how serious the problems in this place are. " The movie begins with a shocking scene of Jamal in prison being tortured by men that wanted to find out how he knew all the answers to the questions he was asked in a local gameshow where he had won a substacial amount already, either if it was by cheating (because they suspected someone had been telling him the answers), just pure luck or destiny had this experience in store for him.