...Derrick Lee Introduction to Film 11/16/2013 Saturday A.M Raging Bull Film Analysis My reaction to the film Raging Bull was a positive one. The film displayed a troubled fighter looking to escape his personal reality by fighting in a boxing ring. Martin Scorcese directed the film it was to be his Swan song from movie making. Robert Deniro starred as Jake Lamotta a troubled individual who didn’t feel comfortable in real life situation but once he enter the ring it became his world. Joe Pesci costarred in the movie as his brother/trainer this was Pesci first big break as a film actor he had done mostly minor films prior to the making of the film. The movie takes the viewer on a rollercoaster ride through Jakes life from a wannabe fighter into one of most fierce men to enter the ring. The film also showed his insecurities out of the ring with the women in his life. He was very insecure in relationship from males and females mostly from the women in his life he didn’t trust them at all. He met and married his second wife while she was just a teen which added more fuel to the fire of an already insecure man. His decisions out of the ring made him a very volatile inside of the ring he threw a fight on purpose just to get a shot at a title. His decision to throw the fight almost cost him his career because it was so obvious to the spectators the boxing commission had to suspend him. Jake also had several memorable...
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...JAMAICA 1. Analyze the film: setting, characterization (answer questions in your worksheet). - Use the list of adjectives in your characterization of Ivanhoe Martin - Use the lyrics of the two songs in your characterization of Ivanhoe Martin 1. The movie takes place in 1970’s Jamaican slum, where there is a lot of poverty and crime in the streets. The movie ends near the coast by the countryside. The setting welcomes the viewer into their life, and we feel their passion for music, and their will to fight it to the end 2. Ivanhoe Martin is the main person of the movie, and is played by the famous Jimmy cliff. Ivanhoe lived on the countryside for the most of his life, until he decided to move to the city to pursuit his dream of becoming a famous reggae singer. He soon realizes that the life in the city is tough. He is taken advantage of by people before he learns to live in the big city. Before he starts the singing career he will have to settle down and get a job. But getting a normal job in the city is very difficult to find, and in his search for a job he both goes to the rich neighbor hood and the poor slum. It is very interesting to see in this movie how the city is described and divided in this movie, and it is worth noticing that even though it is the same city, he actually travels from the third world to the western life style. It is also described how the western society in Kingston can control the third world area in form the police. Though the police have...
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...Karl maex A Marxist Analysis of an Italian Block Buster - By Vrinda Aggarwal Post the cold war Communism and Marxism remained mere philosophies which couldn't stand the test of time. They were either “impractical" modes of organizing economy and polity or rather were theories which were more advanced than the ages in which they were tested. It is thus the farsightedness of Marx which makes his theory extremely relevant for people to at least study. Marx principally focused on observation and historical analysis. According to him there were two Classes in the society - The Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat. The former was the class which owned all the resources and organized production, the later is the laboring class who own nothing but their own physical power to run the machines. Thus both the producers and the workers are in a symbiotic relationship. Still we see that the capitalist can survive for a longer time without the worker as compared to the vice versa, putting the workers in a compromising position. Thus in the fight of wage determination, the capitalists tend to win, thereby fixing the wage rate which is sufficient for survival (which according to Marx s living like cattle). According to the Marxist ideology, “when the capitalists and the laborers suffer equally, the worker suffers in his very existence, the capitalist in the profit on his dead mammon. The worker...
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...ID 201035872 Sholay Sholay is the Hindi action-adventure film that was shot by Ramesh Sippy. It is considered as the best example of the Hindi masala movie. Masala movie is a mix of several movie genres, which usually include tragedy, comedy, adventure and action. The plot of the film is about Thakur Baldev Singh, former police officer (played by Sanjeev Kumar) trying to capture the main antagonist of the movie Gabbar Singh, a gang leader (played by Amjad Khan) by hiring two thieves, who are also the main protagonists of the movie Veru (played by Dharmendra) and Jai (played by Amitabh Bachchan). Although this movie is considered as the highest box-office grossing Hindi movie up to this time, I personally did not enjoy this movie. In this essay, I will present a brief plot of the movie and then reflect my view towards this movie. In my reflection, I will examine the genres used, analyze some ideas that were presented in this movie and express the terend of masala movies in the 1970s. The film starts with Thakur Baldev Singh ordering to his fellow police officer to find two thieves Veru and Jai. When the fellow police officer questions the need for those two thieves, the movie presents to us a flashback of Thakur, when he was convoying those two detainees by a train, when bandits attack it. However, they fail to seize the train due to help Thakur receives from two thieves. After that they are found by Thakur and asked to capture Gabbar Singh, a local bandit, for a payment...
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...[pic] The Bra Boys are a gang of young blokes who enjoy their surf amongst the beaches of Maroubra on New South Wales who occasionally get made out to be something they are not by the media. Main gang members Sunny and Koby Abberton have made a documentary to tell their side of the story and prove their innocence. Today I will be discussing and reviewing whether or not it is true that the "Bra Boys" are depicted by the media as being maligned. Within the Bra Boys documentary they are stating themselves not to be a gang, but a brotherhood. What kind of brotherhood walks around the streets late night getting into lights supposedly "protecting" their place in town and the beach? I personally think that the gang have done immature things in the past which media have taken too far to make them look bad but in saying that 1 also believe that they are a great bunch of blokes who deep down just want to enjoy the surf Media obligations such as a murder within the bra boys got fully blown out of proportion and the media made false accusations to the public. I am supporting the case that the bra boys are not as bad as made out to be. December 24th 2002 On this night in December an alleged brawl between the notorious surf gang the bra boys and many of the local off duty police. It started out as a normal night with a few of he boys together all having fun, having a few drinks celebrating a fellow bra boy and close friends birthday. The bra boys party consisting of approximately...
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...antenna was generally only used by people who lived in the middle of nowhere and had the space to put the ugly dishes. Customers quickly jumped onto the idea of renting videos. The early market was dominated by small mom-and-pop rental shops that bought a few copies of hit movies and rented them in a small regional area. For a while, video-rental stores had a tinge of disrespectability because many of them rented adult videos. Then, Blockbuster Video went national with large, bright, well-lit stores. To remain family-oriented, the chain does not carry videos with anything more than an ―R‖ rating. Blockbuster quickly took over the market. The original system pioneered the use of bar codes. Customers carried a bar-coded ID card and movie cases were printed with specific codes. The computer system made checkout easy and enabled people to return videos afterhours simply by placing them in a drop box. The company initiated a three-night, $3 rental program, making it easier to rent videos for the weekend. A History of Growth and Problems Blockbuster was started by David P. Cook, a Dallas computer expert who wanted to develop a big, bright, computerized video superstore. H. Wayne...
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...Media Bibliography 1. The perfect scary movie. TV Documentary. Visual Voodoo, [29TH September 2014] 2. Exploring the media, 3. IMDB URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080761/?ref_=nv_sr_2 [29TH September 2014] 4. IMDB URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103919/?ref_=nv_sr_1 [29TH September 2014] 5. IMDB URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087800/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 [29TH September 2014] 6. Stephen Price ed. The horror film [29TH September 2014] 7. Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell, Horror films [29th September 2014] 8. RetroSlashers: http://retroslashers.net/friday-the-13th-1980-review/ [2nd October 2014 Analysis of genre in horror films looking at 3 films In this essay, I will be doing research on horror films, but looking at a specific part under ‘approaching the media’, which is genre and looking at three objectives to complete this: * How genre is represented * How the genre concept works in Teen Slasher films * The key genre conventions used in films. The three films that would help me conduct this research and meet my aims are Candyman, Friday the 13th and a nightmare on Elm Street. By looking at these films, I would be able to see whether all the elements that come under genre is applied e.g. iconography, setting etc. The creation of horror films was done to make people scared and frightened but also tap into our hidden fears. This could be done by looking at the most common thing that scare people. For example, The fly, David...
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...DARUL MUTAKIN 0825435 “ONE” SHORT FILM CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.0 PREAMBLE The project is to produce the first motion graphic short film telling about the Muslims in the future. For information, most of the motion graphic film that is shown in the television, cinemas as well as the new media “Internet” is based on the Western way of life and perspective. The film is produced with the combination of real world videography and CGI (Computer-generated Imagery) technique that will enhance the storyline development. The story is about the revival of Muslims in the future whereby a group of Muslims will be united facing the cruelty of the Zionist. The concept of story that is trying to be highlighted almost similar idea with the film, “Valley of the Wolves : Palestine”, where the Muslims taking down the Zionist. But the different is that, it will take place in different environment, different looks and technology used. 1.1 PROBLEM DESCRIPTION 1.1.1 Background of the problem Based on our research and observation, there is a need in producing a film that can give a great impact on how we live our life and think. It is part of instrument or mechanism to attract people, whether it is a positive message or vice versa. People nowadays depends heavily to the Western sources when it come to this issue, whereas in our perspective, the message that was brought against the Islamic teachings. It somehow leads us to rebel and astray from the right path. Eventually, that...
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...array of differences, as well as similarities. When researching a topic such as this, one must go beyond reading. One must not only dive into a script or a periodical or academic journal, one must immerse themselves into the films that have come about as a result of the transformation of turning a play into a cinematic experience. When going about researching this topic, I watched the movie Chicago (Dir. Rob Marshall, 2002) as well as looked over the original Broadway script (By Jon Kander, Fredd Ebb, and Bob Fosse 1975). The original Broadway production opened June 3, 1975, at the 46th Street Theatre and ran for 936 performances. Chicago's 1996 Broadway revival holds the record for the longest-running musical revival and the longest-running American musical in Broadway history, and is the fourth longest-running show in Broadway history. After all the success, What better way to continue the magic of this thrilling show than create a movie out of it? The story tells of two women (Roxie Hart and Velma Kelley) who live in Chicago and are responsible for murdering their husbands and must fight to get out of prison, in order to pursue their dreams...
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...# 2) Statistic source:The montage continues (with martial music playing under Michael Moore’s voice-over. Then he goes on to wonder about all the people in other countries—they go bowling, they listen to rock music, they watch violent movies, play violent video games, etc. Now he really gets wound up. Is it poverty? Is it our Western tradition of clearing the land and destroying indigenous people? But wait—look at other countries and the violence they have wrought. Cut to Hitler as a graphic on the screen says, “Germans exterminate 12 million,” and “Japanese occupation of China,” and “French massacre in Algiers,” and “British slaughter in India.” His voice-over: In spite of all this, how many people are killed by guns each year? As he recounts the figures, the graphics pop up on the screen (across images from movies, tourist travel films of the countries, and other archival footage: 381 in Germany, 255 in France, 165 in Canada, 68 in the UK, 65 in Australia, 39 in Japan, and 11,127 in the USA. this particular source strengths Moore's position because he shows actual statistics on the screen. Interview source: Michael Moore uses interviews as a source for his film. He keeps the cinema verite style moving: we keep seeing the people he is interviewing and hear him ask the questions before they answer them. He finds two people in bars and asks them if they lock their doors. Nope. He learns that both of them have suffered break-ins. But do they lock their doors...
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...Introduction Mass culture would have most readers and viewers believing that the Post-modern American male is a simple creature. Common stereotypes margin male satisfaction in a minimal setting – a Lazyboy armchair in a lounge with a flat screen TV playing ‘the game’ along with primal banter regarding women. More often than not, this is washed down with a beer. With this array of comfort and leisure we are inclined to believe that male lifestyle has reached its peak on the timeline of satisfaction. This was until David Fincher took Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club and made it into a big budget Hollywood blockbuster. With the male demographic being the hardest to pinpoint in the literature sense, David Fincher’s adaptation helpfully put Palahniuk’s thoughts into the cinematic forefront. This increased the popularity of Palahniuk’s other works and placed him in the cannon of Post-modern American fiction. It is the issues of modern masculinity that grasps critics’ attention more so than any other Palahniuk themes. It is very apparent that masculinity has changed as a natural progression of modernisation. This dissertation will analyse masculinity as it is depicted in Palahniuk’s writings and explore Palahniuk’s intentions and beliefs. I will interpret the responses of select critics in order to gain some understanding of what Palahniuk deems to be the ideal model of masculinity in the modern world, beneath his post-modern twists, transgressive characterization and...
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...I. Executive Summary L.A.P.D. Police Officer Jake Hoyt, was on his first day on job as a narcotics officer who was supervised by a long-time in a job as a narcotics officer detective Alonzo Harris. At first he did not know that what happened was the opposite of his thoughts about the evaluation. So they began roaming around the City where the streets was overrun by a massive groups of drug dealers. They started to stop some teenagers who were using marijuana abusively at their young age. Jake was persuaded by Alonzo to take a hit on the marijuana they just confiscated and proceeded to their work. Upon driving they helped a woman who was about to be rape by two man. The two officers had an argument about proper enforcing of justice. They later on apprehended a drug-dealer on a wheelchair and in exchange of his freedom the man must tell the two of his other associates. After that they went off to the man’s associate’s house to conduct a search with a fake warrant. They had a gun fight but managed to escape. They went to Alonzo’s house mistress and Jake meet Alonzo’s young son. Then they had a meeting with the officials telling Alonzo to get out of the town but Alonzo insist. They give the money to the officials in order to get an arrest warrant. Afterwards, they went to the house of a former police officer who is a drug dealer and used their warrant of arrest and get lots of money from the officer’s house. And when the time they were about to cut the money and give their parts...
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...The Catcher In t he Rye Dialogue Journal By Mary Katongole What the Book Says | Character Analysis / Holden | Chapter 1“If you really to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know…and what a lousy childhood was like, ………but I don’t feel like going into it, if you’ll want to know the truth.” (Salinger 1.) | I can tell this novel is going to be in first person. From what I can tell, the narrator or main character, Holden, isn’t very optimistic about his life. When I first read a couple lines of this paragraph, I thought to myself “this book is going to be terrible” because Holden didn’t really grab my attention like I thought. | Chapter 2 “ Have you yourself communicated with them? ….. And how do you think they’ll take the news? Well …. They’ll be pretty irritated about it; … This is about the fourth school I’ve gone to… “Boy?” I said. I also say “Boy? Quite a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite young for my age sometimes” (Salinger 9.) | At the beginning of this quote, Holden is talking to Mr. Old Spencer. Mr. old Spencer is asking Holden if he told his parents that he got expelled from school. Holden seems to know what his problems in school are, but he doesn’t want to do anything. He likes to make himself seem like a bad boy, but it just makes him look stupid. | Chapter 3“The whole time he roomed next...
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...brandedentertainment Case study: BMW movies – luxury car to movie star Charles Young and Amy Shea Hall, Ameritest, examine a famous piece of branded entertainment, and show how two similar films have different effects F ADE IN: An impossibly handsome man guides his convertible up to a dilapidated house on a deserted street. He exits; his white suit glints in the sun as he surveys the landscape from behind impenetrable sunglasses. In his hand, a metallic attaché case. Members of a SWAT team manoeuvre silently behind a fence. The driver takes out his cell phone and dials. A man’s voice answers. The driver says simply ‘I’m here.’ The latest Hollywood blockbuster? A prime-time TV drama? Neither. It’s advertising. Or, more accurately, advertising on steroids, aka branded entertainment. This is the opening of ‘The Hostage’, produced by BMW and their former ad agency, Fallon, employing A-list director John Woo. To understand why this and seven other BMW films were made, one need only look to the challenges facing the long-time prime brand-advertising venue: TV. Media platforms are multiplying; the internet moves ever closer to being our primary source of information, music and entertainment; and TV recording technology allows for easier ad-skipping. Advertisers worldwide are searching for new ways to use the power of film to reach increasingly elusive viewers. It is easy to be drawn in to these films and forget that they had, from their inception, a purpose beyond brilliant...
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...According to britannica.com Liam O’Flaherty was an Irish author that wrote short stories that had a mix of brutal naturalism, psychological analysis, poetry, and biting satire (2015). He wrote many short stories that got readers to think in a different way to solve what is going on in the story. Liam was considered a leading figure in the Irish Renaissance, for his novels “ The Informer,” “ The Neighbour’s Wife,” and “The Sniper,” just to name a few. These stories were all well known for their complexity and gruesome details. However, many people miss the little details that O’Flaherty implemented into his stories. The story starts off with a sniper on top of a building scouting for other snipers that are trying to kill him. The sniper...
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