́V for Vendetta ́ was produced in 2005 by Virtual Studios, Silver Pictures, VERTIGO DC Comics and Anarchos Productions. ́The Avengers ́ was released few years later in 2012 and was produced by Marvel Studios. The budget for ́The Avengers ́, 220 million dollars, was a lot more than ́V for Vendetta ́ which had a budget of 54 million dollars. ́The Avengers ́ cost a lot more because Robert DowneyJr., was paid almost $50 million for his work on ́The Avengers ́. Robert Downey, Jr. earned around the same to ́V for Vendettas ́ budget. Because ́The Avengers ́ is based from Marvel Comics the production company there was a strong beliefs that the film would become a blockbuster which was appealed to a wilder audience. For ́V for…
The Conspirator is a movie made in 2010 directed by Robert Redford. The whole point of making this movie was to bring history to life. Through other movies made by Hollywood, the truth of the story is very small. In this movie, they went back and went as historically correct to the time after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.…
In the movie The Rookie, directed by John Lee Hancock, the director tells a story about a high school baseball coach from Texas named Jimmy Morris. Morris’s dream throughout his life was to make it to the big leagues and play with the very best in the game. He faced multiple challenges that tried to hold him back from his dream. One of the challenges he faced was his dad, his father disapproved of him playing baseball and didn’t support him playing at a young age. Another big challenge was the town Morris’s family moved to, they didn’t care for baseball and there was nowhere to play. In the end, an injury ended his career and he knew it was time to give it up. Eventually, Morris got married and had three children,…
James Bond has been around for over 50 years. Created in 1953, he provides many opportunities to study popular perceptions of intelligence, particularly covert operations and human intelligence. Signals intelligence does not play a big role in the novels and films. As mentioned earlier, spy fiction aims to be realistic and picks villains and adventures that correspond with the political threats of its time. The adventures that Bond is facing over the years show the changing images and attitudes of Britain and the US in world…
The Cold War was a clash between the Capitalists in American and the Communism in USSR, which are both to blame for the starting of the war. In the latter half of the twentieth century is the central place of American civilization in which Stephen Whitfield gives us an inside to the world as it once was and how it is now a thing of the past. Stephen’s goal was to open the eyes to those who were not around during this time and to those who were, might bring up ancient memories of how things used to be.…
The video, The Secret War, touched on the role of the Hmong during the war,…
The Art of the Steal is a documentary film from 2009 about the scandalous battle between the city of Philadelphia and the Barnes Foundation over the impressive and extensive collection of post impression and early modernists paintings. Dr. Albert Barnes created his foundation as a school of art and that housed his private collection of art with paintings from the likes of Cezanne, Matisse, Degas, Renoir and Van Gogh, African sculptures, prints from Asia, and such.…
"What the Bleep Do We Know", is a fascinating documentary film that utilizes fictional story lines, computer animation and discussions by several scientists and philosophers to present a viewpoint of the physical universe and human life within it, with connections to neuroscience and quantum physics. The general idea was that since quantum mechanics supposedly says that there isn't one reality, but an infinite number of possibilities, one just has to be enlightened to an awareness of this, and then you can make whatever you want, happen. Within the plot, the main character of the movie (played by Marlee Matlin) essentially was educated of amazing facts about quantum physics, in which helps her deal with her anxiety attacks, bad body image and…
Crime is a genre that often times follows an often times intelligent, malicious criminal. Sometimes it follows the criminal chronologically and sometimes is follows the criminal through their victims. But simply following this generic guideline does not define a crime movie, there are defining factors that make a crime movie. In order for a crime movie to be effective it must have a criminal with a motive. A criminal and his motive are important for a criminal movie to have because it a lot of times serves as the basis for the movie to build on. The next important criteria is a setting, a proper setting enables the movie to invoke a subliminal feeling before the movie incorporates…
The answer to this is question is – “Hits” are about both. It dramatically depends on the time frame in which we talk about this question.…
The director uses several cinematic techniques and embeds a whole range of other techniques to create a dark atmosphere. The opening foreshadows the sinister mood and atmosphere throughout the entirety of the movie.…
What if it was revealed that the President of the United States was intentionally violating the Constitution? The very Constitution which our founding fathers had written 200 years ago to protect our freedom. What if, instead of apologizing, the President justified this gross violation with the intent of protecting our nation by a super-secret spy agency? That frightening scenario came into fruition in 2002, when in light of the 9/11 attacks, President Bush signed a secret order authorizing the NSA to eavesdrop on citizens without their knowledge.…
In the short film The 6th World, written and directed by Nanobah Becker as well as the television episode of In the Blood directed by Jorge Montesi, Native Americans are put in the center of focus in a futuristic context. Both display several progressive aspects about Native Americans and include Native American main characters. The female main characters in each short film exude power and outline the possibilities for Native American communities to have a place within the contexts of new worlds, new technologies, and television. The contents of each short film are extremely progressive, which might be made possible through the science fiction genre in which they both fall under.…
Cold War-“a condition of rivalry, mistrust, and often open hostility short of violence especially between power groups (such as labor and management).” The series that was watched was named “Cold War” a Jeremy Isaacs production. Turner Original Productions (CNN) released the series on television in 1998. This series was a documentary based on the period slightly before and until after the end of a period in history called The Cold War, from years 1945 to 1990’s spanning across the globe. This documentary proved the idea that the Cold War affected many regions and many aspects of people’s lives around the world.…
The film The Patriot directed by Roland Emmerich follows Benjamin Martin, a hero of the French and Indian War, and his service in the American Revolution fighting against the British. The Patriot is a film that romanticizes the fact that freedom is not free. The intended purpose of the film is to make Americans and those who fought for freedom to feel good about their country. In fact, freedom is a continuous theme in the movie from start to finish. This can be seen at the start of the movie when Benjamin Martin’s son, Gabriel was excited to go to war and stated “I’m fighting for freedom …” Another theme continuously shown in the film is revenge. Numerous intentions in the film was fueled by revenge. For example, when one of Martin’s son died trying to save Gabriel, this event fueled Martin to…