After the civil right movement, films such as Unforgiven, Posse, Silverado, and even Django Unchained paid tribute to a 1970’s Blaxploitation era. Still movies like Unforgiven, Silverado, and Posse had black leads dying, but they died in a more heroic form. The 1993 film Posse reversed the skin color of the actors from the film The Wild Bunch. The film is basically a re-vision of the film The Wild Bunch. The film Posse is also a contemporary western settings, classic west themes, classic firearms, and ideas, but staring black actors now. Also to note, rapper Big Daddy Kane’s character Father Time soon posing as Ku Klux Klan member, to rescue his group from trouble. Father Time may have got this scene from another famous film from the…
We are venturing again to Los Angeles this week where 1987 graduate, Corey Jackson, works as a film and television composer. After a movie is made, Corey meets with the director of the film to “spot” the film. This is the process of deciding where music should go in the film and what emotions the music should portray. After the spot, Corey writes the music for one scene at a time. Each composition is sent to the director for approval. Corey says that the director may like it the first time or may send it back with notes and suggestions for him to try again. “Once that is completed I, with the help of my team, will record, mix and deliver the music to the dubbing stage for final mix,” says Jackson. He also describes being on the set of a movie as not glamorous, contrary to what some may think. On a constant deadline, he says working is hard, time consuming, and challenging, but working with like minded people who all have the same ultimate goal and work ethic makes it easier.…
When adapting a well-known and loved play into a movie, the adaptor must keep in mind how the audience will react to a new version of a beloved story. An example of this is A Raisin in the Sun, which was adapted into a movie in 2008. Lorraine Hansberry wrote the original play and Paris Qualles adapted that play into a TV movie. The main themes of the story are family, faith, and hope. Following the narrative of a lower-class family living in Chicago in 1959, the play deals with racial tension, family issues, the journey from childhood to adulthood, and how each individual person impacts others around them, within the family unit and out in the world. Some minor issues with the play were resolved in the movie, such as the role of women and how they did not seem to have lives outside of the apartment. The 2008 movie adaptation stayed true to the original framework of the play while enriching the story for a modern audience.…
Laggies basically talks about Megan’s life more about her high school sweetheart and her high school friends. Megan’s boyfriend, Anthony, proposes to her during her friend’s wedding but ended up being disappointed after seeing his dad cheating with another woman. This event had made her confused that she drove away where he met Annika and her friends. These group of teens asked her a favor to buy them drinks due to their minor ages. After helping Annika and her friends, she became closer to her and met her father, Craig. They later fell for each other that had made her to break up with her boyfriend and pursue her life with Craig. Most evident type of conflict that can be found in the movie, Laggies, is the approach-avoidance conflict which…
I have chosen the film Forest Gump to write about my understanding of film. It was released in 1994 and directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Wendy Finerman and Steven Tisch. The movie based on the written screenplay of Eric Roth from the novel of Winston Groom. It has several well-known, talented actors such as Tom Hanks, Sally Fields, Robin Wright and Gary Sinise to name a few. The production cost of fifty-five million and it grossed six hundred and seventy-seven million worldwide. Forrest Gump won six Oscars at the Academy Awards for this display of artistry.…
As mentioned earlier, the way in which the mobster’s and their families are dressed is a direct visual correlation to their role and or manifestation of status within the confines of Henry Hill’s story.…
In this 2004 classic family movie “The Incredibles” is a must watch animated movie. The film is suitable for families with kids aged 6 and up, but definitely a movie to watch again at any age.…
The movie The Avatar touched upon many different topics we discussed in class this year. But these five topics (Ecosystem’s flow of energy, Modified Organisms, Developed vs Undeveloped Nations, Dependence of Species, and Animal Populations) were easily spotted in the duration of this film.…
One can argue that the Civil Rights Movement during the mid-20th century was one of the defining times in our country’s short history. Yes, our national Independence is the root of our history and freedom and is the beginning of our amazing country, but the Civil Rights movement was a major stepping-stone to what we, as a country and people, have become and believe in today.…
The Goonies is a comedy and adventure pirate themed movie about a group of friends living in the "Goon Docks" neighborhood of Oregon, face foreclosure on their families' homes from the expanding golf course. The Goonies aren’t able to go anywhere because Brand (Josh Brolin), Mikey’s older brother, failed his driver’s test. This causes their hearts to sink. But while going through their attic, the Goonies stumble upon an old newspaper clipping, a map written in Spanish, and a doubloon relating to the myth of lost treasure left by the pirate One-Eyed Willie. Mikey (Sean Astin) tries to persuade his friends to join him on the adventure in search for the treasure hidden by the pirate One-Eyed Willie.…
The Goonies is about two brothers and a group of friends who set out on an adventure to find one eyed Willie’s treasure. The reason they go out on this adventure is to prevent their house from being turned into a golf course. When they find the location of where the treasure is located, they soon find out it is a safehouse for a family on criminals. No matter what they didn’t stop until they found One Eyed Willie’s treasure or else Mikey would lose all of his closest friends.…
There are many life lessons in the movie Easy A, for example telling the truth, jumping to conclusions, and trust. First, telling the truth was a huge part in the movie Easy A, when Olive told Rhi that she was going on a date with this guy, instead of going camping with Rhi's family, when in reality she was at home in her room jamming out to Pocket Of Sunshine. So when they came back to school Rhi asked how the date went, Olive went with the lie and Rhi asked if they ended up having sex, Olive said yes, and the school ended up hearing about the lie. Second, jumping to conclusions is also a huge part in this movie, when everyone ended up hearing about Olive's fake sex life, they all jumped to conclusions or her being a whore. Another example…
People choose to be happy during situations that are either good or bad. Things happen that one cannot prevent but one must always see the greater good in the situation. In Tyler Perry’s movie “Daddy’s Little Girls” a father is trying to get custody of his daughters. He and the mother split up and the mother is a drug addict that is dating a drug dealer. The father has custody of the girls until a fire erupts while the father is at work which leads to the mother getting temporary custody of the girls while a custody battle is undergoing.…
“The Official Story,” is the next movie we are analyzing. This movie is about the life of Alcira, Roberto and their adopted daughter Gaby living in Argentina in the 1980s. This time period is in the last years of the country's military dictatorship during which thousands of political leftists and innocents are killed, tortured and then buried in unmarked graves. Alicia is a teacher and Roberto is a government agent. Alicia starts to wonder about Gaby's real parents.…
The movie Matilda directed by Danny DeVito is about a little girl name Matilda who is enthusiastic and willing to learn but her parents on the hand do not care about that. Her parents are a grouchy couple that finally sends her to a school with a nice sympathetic teacher, Miss Honey, good friends, but a horrible principal, Miss Trunchbull. The moral of the story is that Miss Honey protects Matilda from Miss Trunchbull and her parents and eventually adopts Matilda because her parents want her to move. The very interesting part to the movie is that when Matilda was trying to put up with her parents and principal’s cruel behavior, she started innocently unleashing her telekinetic powers. With enough practice, she learned to control her powers and used them to push away her principal from the school. Eventually Matilda and Miss Honey lived a happy life together.…