The movie follows a theatrical discipline where no Hollywood movie had dared at that time, telling a story within a 24-hour period. Action condenses : rebel’s tale of gang, and chicken races with in the purpose to expose the anger and discontent beneath the prosperity and confidence of post-war society and to take the blame not at the adolencese but the society itself. It picks at out-dated family values, indicated that happiness is bound to a solid nuclear family. Teenagers are not so much the problem themselves as they inherit the problems created by the older and supposedly wiser, more mature generation. The juvenile delinquent raging against the square emptiness of the adult world and searching for teenage kicks harbour anger feeling and nameless yearning certainly is very discomforting, and the alienated teenager are certainly part and parcel of these homes.
Karate Kid (Past) vs. Karate Kid (Present) “Wax on, wax off,” is a saying made famous by a movie that came out in 1984, The Karate Kid. In the newer version of this movie, which came out in 2010, there’s a very similar quote which says, “Jacket on, jacket off.” Even though these movies seem quite different from the quotes above there are a lot of similarities and differences including but not limiting similarities of the plot, differences of the plot, and differences of the actors/actresses. First, I will compare the plot of both movies. In both movies the kids move from their homes to a completely new environment. Both kids are bullied by the local bullies who use karate to beat them up.
For example, in the film Sunset Blvd, you see how Hollywood can turn a famous person crazy. By this it shows the illusion of someone who used to be in spot light has instantly faded away by time. An example, is when Norma at the end of the film believes she is shooting a scene at her home, but in reality she is being question for the murder of Joe. This really demonstrates how crazy Norma has become within time, and what she’ll do just to her the spot light once again. The illusion of the film The Day of the Locust really show the dishonesty of what a person will do to get what they want.
This is when the viewer becomes aware that they are watching a movie that is not real and the love story that started the film, is now replaced with action scenes that put some hardcore action movies to shame. People bursting to coins when they die, foes making their grand entrances by flying in from some sort of invisble hole in the sky and characters with the ability to be thrown against buildings and not die are just some of the elements that thrust the viewer out of Scott Pilgrim’s world. Now don’t get me wrong, I LOVE THIS MOVIE!! But the nature of the story and the editing (the fast-paced editing techniques that are Edgar Wright) all make it hard to jump into the strange world of Toronto with these characters. Its hard to picture yourself in a world where everytime a loud noise is heard, the world for the noise is spelled out on screen.
1984 Essay Skeleton Outline Introduction History being lost, Free will is abolished by the falsification of history records, love being outlawed and the invasion of their privacy, Telescreens, Big brother, a world watched over and perfected. George Orwell created this world, quite hard to portray visually, setting a very dark and unwanted setting in which the dystopia of totalitarian surveillance and prevention of state is shown . Turning a good book into a good film in it’s whole glory isn’t as easy as it sounds .Michael Radford’s attempt to match Orwell’s descriptions of his exceptional book-- 1984 was indeed impressive and an exceptional ideal adaptation of such a deep book. It’s obvious that the movie can never be as good as the book,
Throughout its entire hour and 53 minutes, Memento does its best to leave the audience completely confused as to what is happening, and in what order. And it certainly works. The first thing you will probably notice about the movie, is that it is directed by Christopher Nolan, best known for his Batman trilogy, and the wonderful Inception. And indeed, Memento is very similar to Inception in the way it makes you feel as a viewer. The main character, Leonard, is a man who cannot make new memories since the rape and murder of his wife, and who has devoted his life to attempting to get revenge for his wife’s death.
Drew Barrymore has the distinguished title of executive producer on the film, as well as her wonderful performance as Donnie’s frustrated English teacher, Ms Pomeroy. Unknown at the time actor, Jake Gyllenhaal gives an astounding performance as the complex title character. Donnie is a confused and mentally unstable teenager, who is seeking the meaning of twisted visions of his doomsday demise. Other stars include, Patrick Swayze as local fraudster and sexual deviant, Jim Cunningham, who is brainwashing the community with his new age ideals. Jena Malone plays Donnie’s love interest in the film.
When their escape plans to get out of suburbia are shattered with the help of John Givings, played by Michael Shannon, their mirage of a perfect lifestyle takes a turn for the worst. This film serves as a warning to suburban husbands and wives. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly, Richard Roeper, and Jonathon Crawford would all agree that Revolutionary Road is a dark, depressing film that constantly leaves you awestruck with its outstanding performances. Owen Gleiberman sums up Revolutionary Road as “lavishly dark.” He feels that Sam Mendes does a great job of adapting the 1961 novel by Richard Yates. In his review, Owen Gleiberman interprets the suburbs at Frank and April Wheeler live in a state of mind and a myth, not a place on the outskirts of the city: The suburbs are comfortable, maybe even beautiful, but their serenity is rooted in a friendly American conformity, so that the people who live there have to repress their true selves, which will emerge when they drink too much and have affairs, or rage at each other for their dishonesty, which was all caused in the first place by… the suburbs (Gleiberman).
Nick Pinkerton from Village Voice uses descriptive and precise language to review this film. Season of the Witch takes place during the crusades in the 14th century. Pinkerton says that because of the terrible setting, it is unbelievable and only a dummy will be fooled. He even says that the 14th century theme is “about as immersive and real as the Ohio state renaissance festival” Pinkerton hits all aspects of the movie from the bad settings to the awful acting of “camaraderie” between Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman, who play the two main knights. The scenes of the movie were “hackneyed scenes” as he says.
In more recent times these common stereotypes have become considerably mainstream, making up many famous characters in todays Hollywood films. For example the 2008 comedy Role Models stars four very different characters, each depicting several common stereotypes that exist. This movie in particular uses these opposing stereotypes to perpetuate the humorous plot line while still fulfilling the negative expectations which the audience has about each of these main characters, forever implementing the thought of these stereotypes into this audience’s mind even after the movie is over. The first character to be stereotyped in Role Models would be Wheeler, played by Seann William Scott. Wheeler is the big, bad, white, muscular, sexually driven idiot who goes throughout the movie trying to get with as many girls as possible while simultaneously trying to Taylor 2 teach his younger buddy Ronnie how to do the same.