One of my favorite movies is Dances With Wolves. Dances With Wolves is a 1990 American epic western film directed and produced by Kevin Costner. Kevin Costner plays the star character, Lieutenant, John J. Dunbar. He is wounded in the American Civil War. He chose to try to commit suicide over having his foot amputated by taking a horse and riding it up to and along the confederate soldiers’ front lines. They failed to shoot him. The Union Army attacks the line while the confederate soldiers are distracted and the Union Army wins the battle. Dunbar survives and is allowed to recover properly, receives a citation for bravery, and is awarded Cisco, the horse who carried him, as well as his choice of posting. John Dunbar requests a transfer…
Gavin Hood's adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game was an okay film it was neither great and neither was it bad. The movie does not include how the buggers communicate with each other, and battle school looks different from what I pictured it to be. The movie makes look the same and just move some things around. The way the movie shows the battle room is still pretty cool, because you can float around and do some awesome things while floating around. In the book the battle room would change the environment every time after a battle was finished. The battle room has these big led squares for cover. In the book ender did use the cover that had led lights on them, but he also used himself as camouflage,…
Grave of the Fireflies is based off of Japanese history. This film is a 1988 Japanese animated drama film. It is based on parts of the 1967 short story, Grave of the Fireflies. Set the city of Kobe, Japan, the film tells the story of two siblings and their desperate struggle to survive the final months of WWII. The film is commonly described as an anti-war film, but this translation has been…
Usually comic book movies have a clock-full of issues, however extrusive amidst the system is orchestrating of an action sequence. Let’s cross-examine superhero based movies. As a motion picture aficionado, can we reminisce an action sequence in the comic book genre that we can reckon as one of the highly regarded action scenes of all time? If you are finding difficulty to bring up one, by virtue of strictly speaking there are none. These days filmmakers do not fabricate an action scene anymore, all they actualized is eradicated, and that synthesizes the showdown furthermore a clash of egos than a desperate attempt to save people’s life. A first-rate action sequence will always have purpose, for example the affray between Indiana Jones and the Nazi’s armada in effort to repossess the Ark of the Covenant, which have been extradited to Germany in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, or the determinative stand of Ripley and the marines in “Aliens “or in the recent past the Wildwood chase in “Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadow”. None of these action scenes level an entire city or shown horde of dispensable alien army (okay, maybe Aliens) yet, they come to pass infinitely more mind blowing than any action scene ever conferred on any of the comic book movies before, why due to they are well staged and have purpose.…
The theme of deeply ingrained values is also present in A Nightmare on Elm Street…
Good Night, and Good Luck covers the McCarthy era, the severe anti-red period in the 1950’s and takes place within CBS studios. The main character of the film is Edward R. Murrow who reports for CBS news. Upon the events of harsh McCarthyism, Murrow chose to use his public power to challenge senator McCarthy and his strong anti-communist ideology. The reporter argues on behalf of a person in the United states Military who is somehow connected with communist people. In a following broadcast, he makes is clear that the senator is given the opportunity to refute and defend what is being said about him over their airtime. After a week or so, McCarthy responded by discrediting Morrows statements by telling the American people that Murrow has ties to communism himself: that he has worked for Russian organizations and was “engaged in propaganda for Communist causes” twenty years ago.…
In the monolauge of “Twilight Los Angeles, 1992” Anna Deaver Smith, the Author and actor of the play states “It is not an answer. It is not a solution. I am first looking for the humanness inside the problems, or the crises. This spoken word is evidence of humanness. Perhaps the solution comes further down the road.” When Smith says this, she means that she is looking for peoples “Humanness”, as in the things that make up human beings, such as thoughts and emotions when in the crises to tell the process of how and why the problem occurred. In this Smith is not offering any specific solution. Rather she is documenting the way different individuals dealt with the riots which offers individual solutions to the problems smith dramatizes, but not solutions to the…
Biographically themed movie productions continue to envelop the Hollywood landscape – serving as a means to reenact and interpret a majority of history’s most memorable moments (for better or worse). In the last month alone, depictions of Bobby Fisher (Pawn Sacrifice) and Whitey Bulger (Black Mass) are just two examples of cinematic incarnations that have served to entertain and semi-education observers.…
You place the film in a social context well. As you know, the film has been very influential. Some even credit it with creating the modern notion of the zombie. As you expand this paper into your final projects, I suggest you focus on the metaphor of the zombie and how it draws attention to the fact that “we” are the monsters, whether alive or dead. You could expand on your reading of the way this plays out in terms of racism and self-interest. Romero and others have explored the ways in zombies serve as a fitting metaphor for our lives, notably as consumers in Dawn of the Dead and in general in Shaun of the Dead. A good start.…
The documentary 13th, was an eye opening experience. It was a film in which it displayed issues of violence, crime, and race. In particular, I found it very interesting how the documentary stigmatized black men as violent individuals. How did they come up with this stigmatization? Was it based off of past historical events such as slavery and segregation? Anyone can be considered violent. Someone's race doesn’t define whether or not they are violent; it is an individual’s actions that determines whether they are considered a violent individual or not. Also, I found it very interesting how the amount of arrests increased each year due to the drug war. I didn’t realize that drugs were a huge issue in our country. I thought the biggest issue…
Vishruth Pesala Dr. Hancock Literary Explorations II 03/11/24. Mathilde’s Growth and the Importance of Someone Reliable “Brimstone and Marmalade” by Aaron Corwin is a beautifully written short story about the growth and development of a little girl named Mathilde and how her demon pet, Ix’thor, affects her. We see many instances of growth and a change in mindset as the story progresses, along with changes in Mathilde’s relationship with Ix’thor. More specifically, Corwin reveals the relationship between Mathilde and Ix’thor, and its unexpected occurrence, in the passage “It rained a lot in the fall. .…
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.…
Along the way, people discouraged them not to continue that it was too dangerous. However, the thought of having a better life and meeting their families again made them keep going. The men were scared of going to a whole new place, and a whole new language that they didn’t speak. The indigenous one didn’t even know spanish, but still kept going along with his friends. After some days the men reached the border, after jumping it and completing their journey they looked back at their homeland wondering if they will ever return.…
A movie like Fences only comes once in a great while. It is sort of an unconventional movie, unlike most. It is filmed almost as though it is a play, which is exactly how this film got its origins. Written by August Wilson in 1985, Fences started off as a Broadway play that ended up winning the Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama in 1987. This drama focuses on exploring the African-American experience and looks deep into the heart of race relations.…