The movie Unbroken revolves around the life of US Olympian and athlete Louis "Louie" Zamperini. The film opens showing Louie flying as a bomb aimer of a United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber, during an April 1943 bombing mission against the Japanese-held island of Nauru. The plane he is abroad becomes seriously damaged resulting in many of the crew members becoming fatally injured. The hydraulics of the plane are shot and damaged, but the pilot, Phil, manages to salvage the plane at the end of the runway due to a flat tire.…
Spike Lee goes histrionic in “Chi-Raq”, a modern adaptation of Aristophanes’ Greek play, ‘Lysistrata’, here transferred to a problematic Chicago. It seems that the film didn’t please the Chicagoans who, during two hours, had to watch the women from their city going into a sex strike that aims to stop the local gangsters from shooting one another and kill innocent people in the streets. Through the lame slogan ‘No peace, No pussy!’, a group of women, led by the activist Miss Helen (Angela Bassett), decide to punish the dopey thugs and bring justice to the killing of a little girl who was playing in the surroundings of her home. This coward act shocked the neighborhood, including the lively Lysterata (Teyonah Parris), who becomes a fierce booster of the movement despite being the girlfriend of Demetrius (Nick Cannon), a rapper and violent gang leader, who carries a difficult childhood on his shoulders.…
best action movie, best actor in an action movie (Mark Wahlberg), best action film, and top ten…
“I felt such sympathy for the real life Antwone Fisher”, says John Stone, as he speaks for most people. This story hits home for a lot of people, and after the fact they realize that this was based on a true story. Despite being a true story, John Stone points out the movie has “aimless pace, wooden acting and is emotionally exploitative”. “The movie suffers from its pacing and ambitious reach”, states Mr. Stone, and he goes on to explain it was “predictability timed and {had} cut flashbacks” even though the movie was moving. John Stone was simply wrong whenDenzel Washington was “unable to summon that creativity and imagination to serve his direction”. Denzel Washington played the part of a strict senior officer that’s highly educated and well respected.…
Glory Road is a movie that is based on actual events that occurred at Texas Western University in El Paso in 1966. It addresses the walls that the players and coaching staff faced during this time period due to racism. There were stereotypical associations with the players that were recruited made by the school and angry fans of the school. However, with courage, pride, and trust the players and coaches passed all the barriers of racism and made history at the seemingly subpar school that would go down in the books forever.…
Channing Tatum plays John Cale a Capitol Policeman, who has just been denied his dream job with the secret service of protecting the President James Sawyer and despite the horrible script, his performance is worth a round of applause. Not wanting to let down his “little girl” with the news, he takes…
Clockers Consider the socially-endorsed goals that the main character(s) is seeking to achieve? The Characters: Ronald “Strike” Dunham; he was a young kid living in the ghetto and deep down inside he was trying to break free from the guns and drug. He was doing what every other young kid was doing in the ghetto selling drugs and sitting on a park bench. It was thought be that he shoot another young man several time just so he could get ahead because he felt that Darryl was a treat and he was competition. He was not always a bad kid he liked electric model trains and he also had helped a local cop Andre get gym mates for the kids in his community. He also tried to mentor another kid Tyrone “Shorty” Jeter. Strike was teaching him the way of the streets but at the same time telling him it was wrong. Dt. Rocco Klein; he was the homicide detective handing the murder case of Darryl. His goal was to find out who killed Darryl. He was also trying to reach out to Strike and help him. Rodney Little; this man was the kingpin of the ghetto, he supplied the drugs to Strike and his friends who he sat on the park bench with Strike. The only goal he had was to selling drugs and uses a store as a cover up. Do you consider those goals normal and desirable? Yes; I consider all of the things they are doing normal and desirable, what desirable about it to them are the money and the control they have over others. It is normal for any cop the investigate a murder, and for the drugs dealers and the kids that live within the community it is something they have known their whole lives and they believe this is what is expected of them. What specifically happened in this story that interfered with the achievement of those goals? This story is really about two brothers who are trying to get ahead and move out the ghetto and live a normal life. At the opening of the story a young 16 year old kid named Darryl was shoot and kill in front of his store and the…
RoboCop, at its core, critiques relationships between the public and private sectors. The film takes a hard look at the role of…
There is an obvious tangle of narrative here. Is the audience watching the footage captured by Taylor or a something else? However the mix of street slang and police code provides an insight into the person behind the badge and makes them very likeable people. This insight into their character also makes the things they do for each other and their community much more believable. The flawless acting performance by Jake Gyllenhaal (Officer Taylor) and Michael Peña (Officer Zavala) add to the movie and makes it much more plausible. The finale of the movie keeps everyone on the edge of their seats. The ending is nothing less than incredible. The climax of the movie is frank and rough, and touches the deepest parts of your heart.…
The book I read was called Rush. The situation in the story is that a young kid named Jake King is an adrenaline junkie in a small town called Brockton. Brockton is nestled in California's san Limos Valley.The whole town hates Jake Because of how here is always trying to do something dangerous like diving off waterfalls or rock climbing. The main conflict in the story is how Jake wants to be a part of this club called The Immortals where they do a bunch of crazy things like jumping into fires along with many other things. however a lot of his family and friends don't want to be a part of it and it's very difficult to be a part of the club also he's already disliked by a lot of the town it's even more difficult for him to get in.…
Martin Scorsese is known to be a famous filmmaker and almost as famous for being a New Yorker. Many of his films are based in New York which are most of the time films that are gritty and about the darker side of urban life where he focuses his vision to the city’s neighborhoods, especially Lower Manhattan and Little Italy. Scorsese has a talent of showing precise and sometimes personal representation of the people and the streets of these neighborhoods. Most of his films have this bond to the city presenting accurate maps of specific parts of the city.…
Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Dirty Dance With Death was written by Kurt Vonnegut and originally published in March of 1969. It’s a dark humor science fiction story that exactly fits Vonnegut's writing style: funny, astounding and makes you question the human race as a whole. The book follows a the lifespan Billy Pilgrim of Ilium, New York. He grew up to be an optometrist,served his country at war, got married, had children and aged to an old man. But his life was not ordinary at all. The books focuses on his experiences serving in World War Two, and his unintentional and unexpected time travel through his own life. Billy Pilgrim’s war experiences are told in an unusual way in comparison to the other books and movies being made about war…
All the scenes that Jacob Crawford, portrayed, would and could have contributed to the increase of the American statistics. One of the most impactful scene of the movie is when a male civilian was grounded and two American police officers were applying pressure on his head. This scene had very strong emotional context, for it brutally should the police brutality, Jacob Crawford choose to use a relaxing and casual melody to accompany that scene, to subtlety indicated that this is but a thing of the norm. The music of the documentary only changed when the scene turned to the police surrounding a house. The music played induced an atmosphere of mystery and worry. Through the masterful use of documentary techniques, Jacob Crawford, presented and influenced the mind of the audience to agree and sympathies with his ideas. By using Archival Footage, Jacob Crawford is creating a scene of history. Hence, making the audience aware that this issue has being around for a while. The varies shot types created a simulation that the audience was there when the event was occurring.…
While analyzing Speed it was clear that the first scene of the movie was a key point for later understanding of the narrative, when the "bomber" kills the security guard while he is preparing his attack. In classic Hollywood films we find that most films possess unrestricted narration, which is when the viewers know more than…
The movie that I chose to go see and use for this assignment was the movie Ride Along 2. This movie is an action comedy film and the main cast that stared in the film is: Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Ken Jeong, Benjamin Bratt, Olivia Munn, and more. In this film the setting is based out of two cities, which were Miami and Atlanta. Majority of all the scenes were based in Miami. The only time they filmed in Atlanta was at the beginning of the movie after the opening scene that took place in Miami. If we were to look at the setup of the film in Act 1, the main set up is the introduction of the characters and how they are as a person in the beginning. Benjamin Bratt’s character, Antonio Pope, was on his boat and was accusing a guy of stealing money while on the phone. Shortly after the guy that was being accused was killed by one of Antonio’s hitmen. Also we learn about the relationship between the two main characters. Ice Cube’s character, James, and Kevin Hart’s character, Ben, had a poor relationship in the beginning. In the beginning of the film their relationship was quickly tested when James, Ben and James partner went on a mission to capture a drug cartel, and it resulted in Ben blowing their cover as cops and James partner being shot. The Inciting incident from this film was when James decided to bring Ben to Miami to help solve a case. Needless to say, they both had no idea on what they were getting into. The reason that this is the inciting incident is because it completely changed how Ben viewed James as a person. Before this incident, James wanted nothing to with Ben, even though he is his soon to be brother in law. The conflict and obstacles of Act 2 from this film were all surrounded around the investigation that grew when James and Ben learned that it had gotten a whole lot bigger. The main conflicts that occurred were when Ben, James and Maya (Olivia Munn), were caught snooping at Antonio’s private party. It didn’t end well because it caused the captain of…