On 1976, the film Logan’s Run was released into theatres based on the novel of the same title. Since the release, the film has gotten multiple good and terrible reviews regarding its plot and its special effects. The film won a Special Effects Academy Award and was nominated for Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration.…
Fruitvale Station is the true story of the 22-year-old Bay area resident, Oscar Grant. He spends his New Year’s Eve trying to do better but as the day progresses he begins to realize that it isn’t going to be as easy as he thought. Towards the end of the movie, Oscar and his friends ends their night of celebrating their New Year in a confrontation with police officers at the Fruitvale BART station. Unfortunately, that was Grant’s last encounter. In my opinion, the movie Fruitvale Station is an accurate representation of what occurred Oscar Grant on…
Sylvester Stallone has a net worth of. He was born Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone in New York City, New York on July 6, 1946. He is a writer, producer, director, and an actor.…
The Hmong cultural group is always targeted as the racial discrimination especially by the white people of the America. The same concept is shown in the film Gran Torino where the white American Walt who is actually an overt racism personality makes fun of the people that are belonging to other race and his main focus is always his neighborhood Hmong family. The family shown in the film that belong to Hmong culture are shown as very scared one and that are not even independent and beside the rude behavior of Walt they ask for his intervention in their every decision. The cultural group of Hmong race in the film revolves around certain…
Scarface, starring Al Pacino, is the greatest film to ever hit the film industry. Scarface was released in December 1983 and is technically assumed to be a remake of the 1932 Scarface movie. The 1932 Scarface film was centered in Chicago during the Depression-era, however, the 1983 remake shifted the action from Chicago to Miami during the 1980s-era (Bayard). The directors did this on purpose; because the 1980s-era was the time the Mariel Harbor boat lift happened, thus in a approach to give the movie a new relevance (Berardinelli).…
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.…
Clint Eastwood’s critical, box office and Academy Awards juggernaut tells the tale of Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper), a prolific, er, American sniper, and his endeavours on and off the battlefield during the Iraq war. It’s a heavily lethargic adaptation of a heavily controversial book about a heavily divisive ‘American Hero’. Not to say that the flick itself is wildly patriotic – though the ending tries its best to disprove that – but nor is it an anti-war film, as director Eastwood haplessly attempts to argue. Which is where American Sniper’s greatest fault, among many faults, lies; it’s a film that is too afraid to carry any political heft, any commentary that would make the viewing experience worthwhile. As a result, the whole point of the film is rendered null.…
The 1987 classic is set in a futuristic, crime-ridden Detroit. The film centres on a Detroit police officer, Alex Murphy, who is transformed into a crime-fighting cyborg known as RoboCop. RoboCop is a creation of the Omni Consumer Product (OCP), the corporation who has OCP wishes to create a utopian “Delta City”, a shining beacon of consumerism they hope to erect from the crime-ridden ruins of Detroit. Officer Alex Murphy, who has been recently relocated to Detroit’s most dangerous area, is brutally killed by drug kingpin Clarence Boddicker and the rest of his gang. Once Murphy is transformed into a cyborg he begins to arrest criminals much faster much to the delight of OCP. However, as the film progresses Murphy becomes increasingly haunted by the memories of his past. In an effort to regain his humanity, he begins hunting down the members of the gang who killed him. In this quest, Murphy observes a rapid decline in the accountability of corporations, the value of human life and the role of the state.…
back. Tom realizes how essential the car is to the family’s getting to California, so he steps…
-Toby: Allison’s boyfriend. He tries to act like he’s and gangster and that he’s “hard,” but he is not. It’s all an act that he’s trying to portray to his friends.…
Cinema is a set of landscapes accompanied by a story. However, landscapes tell a story of their own. They tell more than just the story, but the underlying thoughts behind the film. This can be seen in Blade Runner by Ridley Scott, THX 1138 by George Lucas, and Children of Men by Alfonso Cuaron, as the landscapes help develop the complexity of the story. The directors of these films use setting and landscape to express and contribute to the development of the main argument of each film.…
Fight Club “Its only after we’ve lost everything are we free to do anything”, Tyler Durden as (Brad Pitt) states, among many other lines of contemplation. In Fight Club, a nameless narrator, a typical “everyman,” played as (Edward Norton) is trapped in the world of large corporations, condominium living, and all the money he needs to spend on all the useless stuff he doesn’t need. As Tyler Durden says “The things you own end up owning you.” Fight Club is an edgy film that takes on such topics as consumerism, the feminization of society, manipulation, cultism, Marxist ideology, social norms, dominant culture, and the psychiatric approach of the human id, ego, and super ego. “It is a film that surrealistically describes the status of the American…
Sister James and Sister Aloysius play a very important role in John Patrick Shanley’s movie Doubt, which is about the mistrust that takes place in a school directed by the church on priest Flynn command. There, sister Aloysius is the principal, so she is in charge of the student’s rights and responsibilities. On the other hand Sister James is a history teacher. Both characters are important for their way of handling the doubt.…
"Lights! Camera! Action!" the dramatic yet traditional prompt associated with Hollywood and the pictures. Hollywood appears to be this extraordinary glamorous world; however, in reality is it? Many people dream of being in the limelight of Hollywood; where there is an endless amount of money, power, and fame. Society fails to examine what's behind fame; the dark, twisted, and the ugly truths hiding within those exact words. Billy Wilder explores and divulges the dark yet unknown, harsh realities of fame, following Hollywood's transition from silent pictures to talkies; with his film Sunset Boulevard.…
He notices a molded cardboard box in the middle of the attic floor. Ellison slowly walks towards the box, careful to not hit his head on the roof. He finally gets to the box and looks inside to see a Super 8 filming camera with homemade tapes. One particular one he picks up has the title “Pool Party”. He brings the molded box down to his office and sets the camera and movies up with a projector screen. He sets up a random movie and watches at it starts with a family having fun in their backyard just playing, but the camera is hidden in the bushes, Ellison recognizes the backyard but can’t quite figure out what it is. He finally notices that it’s the backyard of the house he just moved into. The scenes in the movie change to dusk, but it’s still in the backyard, he realizes that a branch in the tree is still attached to the tree while in his backyard it is not, probably why he didn’t recognize it right away. He sees four people lying on the ground below the tree. He sees a saw being used to cut a branch, the branch that is missing from the tree in present time. As the branch falls to the ground the family is pulled off the ground and hung up on the branch and are slowly suffocating from the tight noose around their necks. Ellison is disturbed from this video and he's seen some bad things from his previous stories. The film ends and so…