Another great example for production design in science fiction movies is the movie Ex Machina. To begin with, production design includes the design of sets which makes set design one of the most important aspects while producing a movie. For example, one of the points set design deals with is the location where the film is going to be shot. Funderburg (2015) explained that in the movie Ex Machina, they used two Norwegian locations both designed by the architects Jensen & Skodvin. One of the locations is a private mansion and the second one is the Juvet Landscape Hotel, which consists of single suites secretly linked to the fjord and forest around them (para. 2).…
The western world of the United States experienced a great amount of attention during the second half of the nineteenth century. This period, commonly referred to as the Wild West, was the time in which cowboys represented the area. This period, however, was also the time in which excessive crime and violence characterized the area. With the opportunities to start farms and ranches and mine precious metals, thousands of Americans on the east coast began to move west. As a result, numerous small towns quickly erupted across the western states.…
The year is 1974. America is introduced to the F-16 Fighting Falcon, People Magazine, and India’s first nuclear bomb. The Universal Product Code is first scanned for the purchase of Wrigley’s gum. Ronald DeFeo Jr murders his family in what would become the inspiration for The Amityville Horror, the introduction of the Rubik’s cube and the world gets to meet “Lucy”.…
Introduction The Longest Yard, featuring Adam Sandler, as an ex-pro football player and present convict named Paul Crew, is a story of the struggles and tribulations prisoners endure during their track to becoming free citizens. The movie starts with Paul Crew being arrested for a DUI in the state of California and being sentenced to a prison called Allensville Penitentiary in Texas. While in this prison, Crew discovers what it is really like to be a convicted felon and what it is like to have to deal with other convicts, prison guards and the officials of the prison. Right off the bat Crew gets off to a bad start, which is not his fault, he gets in an argument with the warden of the prison about being the coach for an inmate football team that…
The lessons that can be learned from the debacle of Operation Fast and Furious to me would be to first gather more information regarding the trafficking and also they should have asked for more help once they were overwhelmed. They also should have gone ahead and made the necessary arrest when they had sufficient evidence on the criminals. It may have reduced the amount of people killed on American soil and across the border. However, Operation Fast and Furious was a good idea regarding the gun trafficking but should've had more thought on how long the sting would last. Especially since so many people were murdered with the guns they let the criminals obtain.…
Mad Bullets displays the demand of capturing leisures accompanying silly toon exteriors and also sharp controls. It's not an extensive encounter by any sort of approaches, nevertheless there's substantial quantities of things to obliterate in a singular run, which is all you really need from the course. The task is on-rails.…
Changing Ways Realizations are the cause for many people go through major changes in their lives. When referring to a realization, it is meant that people have sudden change in perspective and thought. Events throughout a person’s life or things that they experience can change them drastically. In the movie “Crash”, many of the characters involved have huge realizations and their lives change forever. Many of the realizations in the film are based on the problems the characters run into with stereotypes and racism in America.…
The film, Crash, written and directed by Paul Haggis, tells the story of different people and the issues that they face regarding their race. The films main aspect was to look at racial profiling, as well as, the stereotypes that occur with every race. Throughout the movie there remains the constant issue of being able to trust people of different races and how they do not seem to be able to accomplish it. Throughout the movie, the audience constantly sees issues that these people face in their everyday lives. Although I have no experience with racial injustice, I find Crash to have successfully shown racism in the way that people prove to be excessive and insensitive to the subject matter.…
"Wanted" is basically from a comic book that has limited series written by Mark Miller and J.G Jones, it is about an amoral protagonist (Wesley Gibson) who is discovered as the heir of super assassin. Russian director, Timur Bekmambetov, he is the cream of the crop, he turns this comic into a movie that make the viewers not sit still and make their adrenaline and cortisone levels spike with the actions. Bekmambetov used the similar style of shots and angles with his previous movie, Night watch. It's more to wide angle (long shot), so we can see the terrifying background like one of the scenes in the torture room, where Wes has been beaten up by the butcher. Not even that, there are many special effects that Bekmambetov applies in this movie, like slow-motion with sound effects that certainly provides that "ouch" reaction from audiences.…
Both the 2013 novel The Darwin Elevator written by Jason M. Hough and the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road directed by George Miller, explore the challenges of post-apocalyptic futures. Hough and Miller focus on the ideas of war and survival. Hough challenges the reader to view the idea of war and survival through the use of literary techniques. Miller conversely uses film techniques to display this same idea of war and survival however in a distinctly different environment. Hough and Miller both explore disease and disaster in their texts and how this can lead to the downfall of a once functional society.…
Whiplash: A Path of Self-Destruction Whiplash directed by Damien Chazelle, perfectly entails the journey of one’s self-destructive path to greatness. Set in a modern day music school, Andrew Niemen, an ambitious jazz drummer wanting to become “One of the greats” is met with an opportunity to join studio band with a well-known teacher Fletcher. A psychological mind warfare ensues between the two with Fletcher pushing Andrew to his limits ultimately setting him on his path of self-destruction. Chazelle portrays Andrew’s descent into his pure devotion to drumming through many techniques such as music and sound effects, colour symbolism, montages, camera angles and movements. One scene that is brilliantly crafted is the final scene with Andrew…
Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Study on Aaron Stampler in Primal Fear The movie Primal Fear explores the journey of defense attorney, Martin Vail, as he defends his client, Aaron Stampler. Aaron is charged with murdering the Archbishop of the Catholic Church in Chicago and appears to be just a young altar boy with a speech impediment.…
Mad Max: Fury road is a riveting new take on the classic series, and it keeps the audience captivated the entire film. Besides the non-stop action and intense imagery, the film has a surprising amount of depth and character development throughout it. The movie reflects real ideas of nuclear disaster, war, slavery, sexism, propaganda, god status, oppression, and relentless vestiges hope. Mad Max: Fury Road is a fast-paced post-apocalyptic action film directed by George Miller that focuses on revolution and redemption. The movie is set in the near future, in which the world has become a barren dystopian wasteland ruled by bike gangs, outlaws, and authoritarian governments.…
Artistic expressions, such as film, have the capacity to influence the perception of both our past and present. Mass media has been constantly validating how powerful ideas are. There is just a great amount of authority gained just by having something presented in the channels of media. All that it takes is a powerful production. The art form of illustration and film is effective in three things.…
The movie I have chosen for a film analysis is called, San Andreas which relates to an environmental disaster that is unpredictable and results in a serious effect on the environment (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2015). The San Andreas shows one fascinating aspect of American disaster film that presents two apocalyptic, an earthquake and a tsunami by addressing the most-commonly portrayed environmental disaster. Along with showing the powerful natural disaster, this film concentrates on informing catastrophe and post-apocalyptic disaster. To begin with, the San Andreas is set in the city of Los Angeles, with San Francisco Bay Area and follows the story of San Andreas fault. The main character of this film is named Raymond Gaines, who is a helicopter…