These films targeted audiences of urban black people and primarily starred black characters. One popular type of blaxploitation films was the action film. These usually took place in the ghetto in an atmosphere of hit men, drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes. They included ethnic slurs pertaining to whites and blacks. The 70’s were also a time when women entered film genres that had always been thought of as exclusively male.
Jeff reflects our feelings towards the antagonist, Thorwald. The set design of Rear Window, which the construction was supervised by Hitchcock personally, helps to create the atmosphere of a cinema. When watching a movie, we are engaged with the mise-en-scene of the film that we forget our personal realities and Jefferies too, shows this depth of interest when observing his neighbourhood. While there are various distractions in a cinema of modern day, cell phone ringing and people talking, we tend to tune them all out to focus on what is happening on screen. Lisa, Jeff’s love interest, engages with Jeff in a kissing
The main part of the lecture that surprised me was his skectches for the movie wall-E, he showed us a whole profolio for Wall-E and the actual work he had done in the movie and how so many drawings took place in the movie for just a couple of seconds. visually seeing his art work come alive was amazing. It shows us students how a small art design/ illustration can take you
When hip hop, during this time period adopted this look, it fit into the notion that one was not cool unless one did time. Ice T and other famous rappers took notice and started performing shows that were globally seen and started the trend that is now considered to be a gangsta look. Since the majority of prisoners were young African American and the main musical influence was hip hop, it is no mystery as to why this became the fashion icon for that musical niche. Another origin suggested that sagging your pants in prison was a prisoner’s way of saying he was sexually available to another prisoner. By exposing your underwear or your ass
Force of Evil It seems difficult enough for Joe Morse to defend a client whom is a powerful gangster but it’s even more surprising when the lawyer joins hands and becomes partners with him. When a lawyer who is familiar with law crosses that ethical line with his gangster client, Ben Tucker then trouble is ahead. The two got a scheme to shut down all the illegal banks in the city, and buy up the ones they want. Joe has an older brother, Leo, a man with heart trouble; Knowing that Leo, an essentially honest man in a dishonest business, will resist joining the syndicate, Joe goes to visit his brother but Leo denounces the proposed alliance with Tucker, then excoriates his brother's lack of principles and reminds him of the sacrifices that he has made to put him through law school. The trouble is, Leo is happy with his small, if not quite ethical, business.
He is completely ignoring the true stance of the opposing position and offering an exaggerated and misrepresented version. Most rappers get money and move out of their old neighborhoods, away from the old life style which is obvious proof that they don’t find thug life a topic of celebration. It is important to remember that by embracing their roots rappers may not be celebrating where they came from but rather the success of overcoming the struggle to get where they are now. Often throughout the article McWhorter uses rap lyrics to prove how violent and degrading they are which is a logical fallacy called circular reasoning. We understand that the lyrics are offensive, that doesn’t add to his argument that they are detrimental to society when considering the counter argument that society produces the music, not the other way around.
The movie’s characters also describe the feeling of euphoria heroin gives them and all agree there is noting that can compare hence why they continue to use. The main character contuially going to court. He goes from heroin to cocaine. Scence when ex-drug user goes to a job interview on cocaine. I think its odd how he is trying to better his life by quitting drugs and getting a job but uses cocaine to perk himself up for the interview.
Rap music is a genre of rhythm and blues music that consists of rhythmic vocals asserted over musical accompaniment. Music on early rap records sounded like the black music of the day, which was heavy funk or more than often disco music. Music has been around for centuries but probably the music that has the greatest influence on me has to be the rap/hip-hop industry. Unfortunately, rap music is not perceived by many people, young or old, as an art form, but as a fad that they hope will soon “fade away.” Hip hop has historically provided a voice for the silenced minorities and these roots have allowed for its rhythmic flows to transgress many nations’ borders, providing a global musical outlet for the disregarded. Rap’s early stars, from Grandmaster Flash to Public Enemy and LL Cool J, touched on humour, politics, ghetto life and realities they faced.
Joe sacrificed his honour in his struggle to make his family wealthy and strong as Joe denied his part in the shipment and blamed it all on Steve. Three and a half years later everything is coming back to haunt Joe, including truth behind his son Larry’s disappearance during the war. Director John Cooper revived the intense Arthur Miller classic and made it into an exciting production full of high emotion and great acting. The play All My Sons deals with two plot twits, Chris Keller the son of Joe and Kate has invited his brother Larry’s old fiance to the house so that he can marry her. However, before that is to happen they must convince Kate who still strongly believes Larry is still alive, that he
Lord Henry’s obsession with Dorian leads Dorian to a life full of immoral activities such as drugs, meaningless sex, and the murder of famed artist and friend, Basil Hallward. Dorian explores these sensations as he looks to feel something real, but his entire life now revolves around his appearance and his state of self-denial. “Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself,” (Wilde Chapter II) throughout the novel, Lord Henry influences Dorian’s decisions to be a pleasure seeker, to date only the elite, and to act in an high class manner.