“The 1970s marks Hollywood’s most significant formal transformation since the conversion to sound film and is the defining period separating story telling modes of the studio era and contemporary Hollywood” Name of the dude who said that An era that started off by breaking new ground and later become what would be a profitable era of block buster entertainment, New Hollywood is recognised as a period where some of the most revered directors rose and some of the most memorable films ever to come out of the American film industry were made, all thanks to a new generation of film makers that would later be known as the ‘Movie Brats’. But before Jaws and Star Wars, before the millions of dollars that were made, the box office records smashed, and…
Everyone loves a good robot fight, and that is exactly what Director Neil Blomkamp had in mind when he brought Grant Hulley on to stunt coordinate Chappie. Set in South Africa, the film takes place in the future where crime is patrolled by an oppressive mechanized police force. Chappie, a robot, gets stolen and reprogrammed. The result is a robot who can think and feel for himself.…
The issues relating to the discerning use of technology has continually caused the attitude and perceptions to the social and ethical considerations of the use of technology. Stereotypically shown in the movie Die Hard 4.0, the unethical use of technology (Hacking/cracking) and other techniques was frequently used to achieve and set the tone of the movie. Unethically used by the main antagonist of the film “Thomas Gabriel” Used these techniques to create a “fire sale” which is broken down into 3 stages. To take out the transport networks, then utilities such as electricity and the water grid. Finally, to infiltrate secure financial records to gain a monetary boost to the attacker from the so called “fire sale” This example demonstrates how…
Intro: “Calling it a job don’t make it right boss” (Luke, Cool Hand Luke). Within the films Cool Hand Luke and Shawshank Redemption, one can discover that through drinking issues of each character that prison is in fact obviously terrible. However, with the fact that prison does also come to an end for some the friendships and plans that are made, are forever lasting. Between the two films Cool Hand Look and The Shawshank Redemption, there are a number of similarities and differences expressed through each of the given reviews such as with symbols, plot, and the theme of each film.…
Bene Viera’s “An Open Letter to Tyler Perry” was a response to Tyler Perry’s different works as an artist but his personal response, his latest letter to his fans “Kim Kardashian in Marriage Counselor” Her evidently strong beliefs that Tyler Perry only portrays the women in his films in certain ways is the divine influence beneath her motives in writing this letter, which allow her to present her refutes. In this letter, Viera commits numerous divergent fallacies in which they ineffectively benefit her assertions towards Tyler Perry. While appealing to the readers emotions, ethics and logics, Viera erroneously weakens her argument throughout her open letter . In response to Tyler Perry’s numerous films, Ms. Viera attempts to appeal…
When you are stuck in a difficult situation, you can always find a source of help, whether it is advice from a person or maybe even the Internet. In the end, multiple solutions to resolve the problem are found. Both the film High Noon and the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" happen to not have this in common with you, but they have that in common with each other. High Noon is a film that takes place in a small town, but the people are not very helpful when the time comes. Although, "The Most Danegrous Game" takes place on an island with very few people, those people become the problem, instead of the help.…
Time and time again people come to the common question of, “Movies vs. books?” Many movies follow their books word for word whether its character development or plot development, whereas other movies change and twist the book’s stories in unimaginable ways, yet people are still faced with the question, “Movies or books?” An example of how books and movies can differ is in the story “The Outsiders” written by S. E. Hinton and produced by Francis Coppola. Although there are many similarities that both the book, The Outsiders, and the movie share, there were many noticeable differences in the appearance and personalities of all the characters. Three of the main characters, Pony, Johnny and Soda, will be reviewed in particular.…
Response Paper #3 Mise-en-scene in True Grit The movie True Grit is based back in the old western times. This is a story of a girl who seeks revenge where our main character in Mattie aims to kill Tom Chaney who has killed her father. This movie has been one, that many believe has challenged the norms of a traditional western.…
The parts he plays are small and would go unnoticed by most but it is quite clever for the director to appear in his own movie as not many directors…
A civilian once bombarded me with question over my war experience. As days began to drift by with no immediate end, I rebutted with a question. “When I say war, what do you think about?” He was hesitant, but he responded: Soldiers, enemy combatants, ships, tanks, Humvees, helicopters, jets, weapons, chemical weapons, the atom bomb, and death. I smiled, as if to say, that’s it.…
In Deadpool (2016), Ryan Reynolds plays a character called Wade Wilson, also known as the superhero Deadpool. The film follows the life of Deadpool and the many adversities he faces, such as finding out he has cancer, having to leave his girlfriend, and going through an extremely painful treatment. It also shows the entertaining parts of his life where he is a hit man, and his many drunken experiences. This superhero challenges the traditional hero narrative because although he helps many people throughout the film, he does not conform to the ideal of a hero. These differences between a usual superhero film and Deadpool make for an interesting twist in the cliché superhero story that viewers are so used to seeing because he doesn’t want fame…
“The Hound of the Baskervilles” written as a novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, then later reimagined as a film directed by Paul McGuigan, both share many similarities and differences that have been transformed to match the setting for the 21st century. With similarities being the same characters used, same locations and the same quotations used, with also the differences being from situations and characters that have been transformed or new situations added to be matched for the modern day audience, with these similarities and differences being noticed throughout the novel and film. A similarity between the novel and the film are the characters along with some altered and completely new characters added to the film. With having a majority of the…
“The world is made up of two classes- the hunters and the hunted.” This famous quote can be found in Richard Connell’s short story The Most Dangerous Game. This quote is also mentioned in the film version of this short story. This is one of the similarities between these two versions. However, there are also differences between the two, including characters besides the two main, Robert Rainsford, and General Zaroff, plot events, setting, and resolution.…
Having an underrepresented director may have facilitated more underrepresented characters being cast on screen in film, television, or digital series. Additionally, communities are aware of Hollywood views but are inactive in fighting the stereotypes. A study, “The Multicultural Economy by the University of Georgia”, notes that Latinos make up 25% of movie ticket sales and “command roughly $1 trillion in spending power.” This illustrates how Latinos are able to use their power and boycott the films that have negative stereotypes towards Latinos. The communities can look back at the 1922 Mexico boycott against Hollywood films.…
There are a wide range of differences in the film versus the text. These differences range from something as little as the appearances of main characters to the depiction of major events and…