...Inside out movie is one bizarre, imaginative and authentically psychedelic animation as anything produced animation directed and co-written by Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen as a co-director. This 102 minutes story is about a girl named Riley Andersen who was born in Minnesota. The headquarters in her mind automatically installed as she was born. In the headquarters, there are five emotions such as Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear and Anger in her mind that created over time. As she grows up, all her experiences become memories which are saved in the crystal balls with different colours. Different colours of crystal balls indicate the different five core of emotions. All the crystal balls of memories will be sent to the long term memories every...
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...Yamei Chen 1/16/2012 The Joy Luck Club, I’ve watched that movie many times, when I was a lot younger and also recently, because of my age, what I’ve experienced in life, each time I viewed the movie, my mind set are different as well, yet everything I watch this movie it brings tears into my eyes. When I was younger viewing the movie, which was very close to reality to what actually happen to women in China in the time, I think now when I view the movie, I’ve missed the whole point of the movie, it was really describing the relationship between mother and daughter in different time zone and culture background. “As cultural institutions, mass media often reflect some aspects of the society in which they operate. The critically acclaimed film The Joy Luck Club (1993) reflects diaspora experiences of Chinese immigrant women and depicts intergenerational tensions between Chinese mothers and their American-born Chinese daughters. It also reflects the struggles, dilemmas, and conflicts in the search for identity and self-development among Chinese and Chinese American women.” (Yea-Wen, C. (2007). The storyline is centered upon Jing-Mei Woo also referred as June, who struggles to deal with the recent death of her mother Suyuan Woo, throughout the movie. The movie takes place at a reception held on June’s behalf before her trip to China to meet her twin half-sisters who were abandoned by their mother many years ago. June struggles with her mother’s past which she never fully understood...
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...3/10/16 P.2 Joy Ride Joy Ride starring Paul Walker, Steve Zahn and Leelee Sobieski is a mystery movie that is about a group of kids travelling across the country and pranking a lonely trucker over a CB radio. The trip starts because Lewis Thomas(Paul Walker) is going home for vacation and decides to pick up his high school sweetheart Venna(Leelee Sobieski) in Colorado on the way to New Jersey. He then gets a call from his mother and has to bail out his brother Fuller(Steve Zahn) from jail in Kansas and take him home. On the way to pick up Venna they stop to get gas and end up getting a CB radio and prank a trucker. They end up convincing the trucker that they are a girl named candy cane and that they want to meet in a motel room. Then the trucker gets there and it ends up being a random guy that ends up getting kidnapped. Then the sheriff comes and takes them to the hospital to show them what happened to him. He ended up having his jaw torn all the way off and was left on the side of the road. They end up being stalked throughout the movie and eventually make it to their house in New Jersey even though it has been really tough because he ended up escaping from the police and now their are two sequels. The composer for this film is Marco Beltrami. He has made scores for tons of movies for example two big name movies are 3:10 To Yuma (2007) and Scream (1996). I chose Joy Ride because I am interested in mystery thriller movies and it is not a big name movie which i like because...
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...emotions inside her mind – Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, and Anger – as they guide her through this drastic change in her life. As the story progresses, we follow Joy and Sadness as they attempt to return back to Headquarters, after Sadness and Joy squabble with each over Riley’s core memories; ultimately leaving Riley only with Disgust, Fear and Anger to guide her, eventually allowing her to slowly fall into depression. The film is quite...
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...The Joy Luck Club “The Joy Luck Club” is a movie about women and about their pursuit of happiness. The film depicts the stories of four Chinese women who moved to the United States and their daughter who was born and grew up in America. This film introduced us to four different stories conflict between mother and daughter. In the film, every mother has a bygone age of marriage sorrow and the same result can be said with their daughters. In order to have the appearance of a good marriage, they have to endure their husbands, but with their mothers’ constant encouragement and help, they actively pursue and finally found the real happiness. It was an indefectible and unaffectedly moving film. The movie tells the story of their each mother and daughter’s life experience. Camera lenses constantly switch between the mothers’s past sufferings to the development of the daughters in the United States. Each of the internal relations about this movie’s plot is very real and true. The film’s depiction of old China is extremely explicit, it covers almost all the bad habits of the Old China. For example, marriage is built on the base of love, but there were a lot of belly pointed marriages in the ancient time. Of course, those were bad habits and ideas acquired in the old society and very far away from our present life. By contrast, the most unforgettable of the movie is the friction between the mother and their American-born daughters. The whole movie deeply discusses the Chinese way of...
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...between races and ethnicities at all levels of society. This area encompasses racism, segregation, and other complex social processes between different racial and ethnic groups. The movie poster precisely portrays the idea and concept of the film. The door being guarded by the African American serious father, the bouquet of colorful flowers held by the white, Caucasian boyfriend, and the in love African-American daughter standing behind her boyfriend reflects one the most important details that illuminate in the movie poster. The daughter of the house brings her white, Caucasian boyfriend home to meet her parents on the occasion of her parents’ 25th wedding anniversary. Her father dislikes him almost immediately because of his race. The movie poster reflects how he is guarding and controlling the door of the house symbolizing how he doesn’t want his daughter’s boyfriend to enter and become part of the family nor part of his daughter’s life because he belongs to a different race. It seems that he believes that if the white, Caucasian man enters the house, he is approving an interracial relation between his daughter and her white boyfriend. While the Caucasian boyfriend is entering the house with his daughter, the father’s facial expression seems of mistrust towards the white boyfriend, while his daughter is full of joy and excitement. Back then, black race people where mistreated because racism was controlling the world. White people believed they...
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...Joy is a more simpleminded and less ambitious work than writer/director David O. Russell’s last effort American Hustle, but that doesn’t mean that it’s a worse film. American Hustle was a slight, and kind of funny story that couldn’t really work because none of the world that it had built up seemed to be very authentic. It wasn’t the 70’s. It was a cheesy and stupid looking version of the 70’s that seemed boring in contrast to other films that had presented this period in time. Joy almost solves this problem by completely throwing out any type of outside existing world whatsoever. This does mean that it completely sacrifices any sense of weight or any really existence beyond its frames, but that’s not bad. The fact is Joy is a film chiefly...
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...“He who is greedy is always in want”. (Horace). That was a characteristic of a man named Ebenezer Scrooge. The script and movie of “A Christmas Carol” tells the story about him. On Christmas Eve Scrooge is visited by three spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Over the three visits, Scrooge sees how he will die alone if he doesn’t stop caring about money and himself. “A Christmas Carol” script and movie have their differences, but they do have the same moral. In the play when Past visits Scrooge, Past renews memories of Scrooge’s childhood, which contained of only preparing to have financial success when he grew up. Past also shows when Scrooge is a middle-aged man and his girlfriend breaks up with him because he spends all his...
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...Colegio de San Juan de Letran Niceforo Vince A. Balbedina III Midterm Requirement General Psychology Movie Reaction Write-up Disney’s Pixar’s Inside Out Born in the 21th century, I was blessed enough to grow up in the luxury that is modern animation in entertainment. I remember the first animated movie I saw was DreamWorks’ Prince of Egypt. From then on, my fascination over animation and cartoons ran like water. I was five years-old when my mother let me watch my first Pixar film which was “Toy Story”. From that moment on, Pixar never failed to fascinate me. Last Wednesday, cinemas nationwide premiered Pixar’s latest work, Inside Out. I already saw the movie trailer before I went to watch the movie itself. The movie teaser was very intriguing. In the 4 minute video, they showcased all of their classic movies and the emotions that they threw towards the audience. After the memory montage, they introduced five characters each symbolizing the five root emotions of man; Joy; shown as a yellow figure that resembles the shape of a star, Sadness; shown as a blue character that resembles the shape of a tear-drop, Anger; the red fellow in the shape of a box, Fear; the purple figure that resembles the shape of a question-mark & Disgust; shown as a green character that resembles the shape of a broccoli. The plot of the story was as simple as it was intricate. It was about the struggle of a young girl, named Riley Andersen, as her emotions meet a dilemma...
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...How many humans in our society just sit on a couch and do nothing? Everyone does something to entertain themselves. Whether it be watching tv, playing a board game, or listening to music, entertainment is nothing more than a way to spend spare time doing something. Even though entertainment is depicted as a menace to society it has its perks, such as bringing joy and happiness to the population and shedding awareness on serious matters all around the world. Many folks believe that entertainment has the ability to “ruin” society; however, entertainment is meant to bring joy and happiness to the population who watch or listen. There are a lot of different types of entertainment today that are used to make the public enjoy time with their friends and families by either viewing a movie, watching a play, or even seeing a concert. All of these activities are meant for society to have a good time and forget about all the stuff that stressed them out for a period of time. In Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, Neal Gabler wrote, “One does not necessarily have to cluck in disapproval to admit that entertainment is...
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...clothing, Shaun meets a gang of young adults in an underpass. With the gang showing him sympathy, he ends up becoming a part of this gang, and the leader Woody becomes like an older brother to him. Being a part of the gang Shaun finds happiness and joy, and even gets a girlfriend called Smell. However, all the joy ends when an old gang member joins them and tearing them apart, causing chaos between the gang’s friendship. Coming straight out of jail Combo has had an epiphany. He wants to fight for his country, to get rid of all the people whom is not Englishmen by blood, and Combo invites them to join him to fulfill his new vision. Shane Meadows’ interpretation of the skinhead era in the 1980s does an exceptional job colliding a misfit youngster (Shaun Fields), and a gang of peaceful skinheads to help our protagonist find acceptance and happiness, after the tragedy of his father’s death - during the Falklands War. Meadows manages to capture all sorts of emotion during the movie, with some great actors and a well-thought musical atmosphere. With a mixture of the harsh ganglife and the difficulties of life. The settings/feelings of the movie becomes enhanced and more captivating, with all the elements Meadows chose to add to the movie. Even though the plot is great and captivating, I cannot help but feel that something is missing. I would have loved to see a bigger character development from the protagonist. At the end it feels like Shaun has not developed at all. The character...
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...Bert sings: "Because I was afraid to speak/When I was just a lad/My father gave me nose a tweak/And told me I was bad/ But then one day I learned a word/That saved me achin' nose/The biggest word I ever heard/And this is how it goes, oh/ Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." Bert explicitly says that, when he was young, he was a scared child who was afraid to speak and had an over-bearing father, until he – as a child – learned that magic word. It's a magical word that really only Mary Poppins knows or uses. There is really no way he could have learned it as a kid unless she taught it to him! In the movie Bert works as a one-man band, a sidewalk chalk artist, a super-chipper chimney sweep, and a kite salesman! The movie takes care to show how sucky all the jobs are, but no matter what, he manages to keep a smile on his face. It's as if someone taught him how to find the joy in hard work. Perhaps with a spoonful of sugar?! (Yes. The answer is yes.) In the very beginning, Bert predicts, "Wind's in the East/ Mist coming in/ like something is brewing/ about to begin./Can't put me finger/on what lies in store/ But I feel what's to happen all happened before." It seems vague, but really he's just being coy. It did all happen before, when Mary Poppins was HIS nanny. Bert NEVER questions Mary's magic not when she's flying, not when she's turning a cloud of smoke into a magic staircase and not even when she bends the laws of space, time, physics and reality to transport them to a...
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...and fight just as his duty entailed him to and fight his loved ones. The dilemma that Arjuna experiences in the Bhagavad Gita is the same as the one many of the characters in 3 Idiots face. 3 Idiots is the perfect amalgamation of how dharma and izit affect one’s life in South Asia. Throughout the film, there were stories of characters facing the problem of being accepted in society as something other than what their parents wished them to be or do. 3 Idiots is a great movie that pushes the idea that duty and izit is not limited to family pressures or societal pressures, but also it pushes the idea that duty and izit can come from within and from individualism. The movie is a story of how three friends faced the major issues and problems with the education system in India and around the world. Three main characters: Rancho, Raju, and Farhan all coming from different backgrounds meet together as roommates at the Imperial College of Engineering. Rancho comes from a background of actually loving the joys of building machines. Raju comes from an impoverished background of suffering and depression. Farhan comes from a normal family, but he has been pressured by his father to become an engineer rather than becoming a photographer. All of the...
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...impression. In this stage judging the person would not be accurate. Most people are concerned with making good first impressions. The physical appearance plays a big role in impression making such as the clothing they wear or the car that they drive. Movie incident The scene where Rosalee and Tad first meet at Rosalee's hotel room. Rosalee is speechless and mixes up her sentences. At the same time Ted is shocked at her beauty and immediately is excited about the date. And then she sees Tad's limo and is impressed Connection This is a great example if Initiating because it shows when they first meet and interact with each other for the first time, getting all googly eyed at each other. And clearly both attracted to each other. Description Experimenting- In this stage of relationship development, it’s all about exploring to get to know each other. The experimentation is also called the probing stage because each person analyzes the other for information or common interests so they can decide whether to keep the relationship going. Movie incident Experimenting occurs in the movie in the scene where Rosalee and tad are on there first date at the restaurant At dinner Tad opens up to Rosalee when he talks about his movie auditions. Tad then asks Rosalee what she does for a living. As the conversation continues, Rosalee sees all the signs that Pete warned her about Connection This is an example of experimenting because during the dinner conversation it gave both...
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...Presentation Outline The Joy Luck Club: Culture Clash and Identities I/ Introduction to The Joy Luck Club * About 4 mother-daughter (Lindo - Waverly, Ying Ying - Lena, An mei - Rose, Suyuan - June) duos living in America * 4 mothers were immigrants from China with tragic past * 4 daughters are American born and raised * A movie with many layers of intercultural and intergenerational communication (miscommunication) between mothers and daughters, as well as the daughters’ struggle with their cultural identities II/ Relevant literature and intercultural communication term * High context/ Low context Cultures * Collectivism / Individualism * Cultural Identity III/ Language barriers Even though the mothers speak understandable English, there are differences between the mothers’ English (alternative version of English with different accents and dialects) and the daughters’ English (American Standard English) Analysis: Analyses scenes where the differences are prominent Ex: [The title of the movie] The word “Joy Luck” does not exist in English. It is a poor, fractures version of English [Clip 01: The opening sequence (family/ friend gatherings)] Even though they are both speaking English, when spoken in groups (of mothers and of daughters), the languages used in each group seem different => Analyze differences in grammars, vocabulary and accents IV/ Communication style * High/Low Context China (high context) vs US (high context) ...
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