With the largest 3-day opening in history, Jurassic World has shattered expectations. But why did Jurassic World have such an enormous opening gross? Did the marketing have anything to do with its success, or was it able to cash in on audience's memories and nostalgia?…
The style of the film can be debated and compared with the style of the original Planet of the Apes (1968), directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. Matt Reeves decided to focus more on the apes being the central part of the story. “The organic scope of the digitized character creation is breathtaking, using the technology to tell the story from the point of view of the apes, who remain the primary focus of the narrative.”(Kermode, 2014) Mark Kermode even goes on to say, “From its origins… to this state-of-the art 21st-century 3D-CG cinema outing, the darkly satirical Apes saga has proved both resilient and flexible.” (Kermode, 2014) A. O. Scott describes the cinematic quality of the film as having a type of grave, almost brooding beauty about it,…
David Fallon’s film, Call of the Wild, is movie surrounding the adventures of a young man and his dog. I watched the film on my computer on July 1st, 2015. The movie begins with a kidnapped dog, named Buck, being auctioned off. Buck immediately steals the attention of young Miles, the other protagonist in the movie. Buck initially works as a sled dog for a Yukon mail carrier. On his first job, Buck faces severe weather, wolf attacks, and a fight with Spitz, the team’s lead dog. The harsh conditions kill every dog except for Buck and leaves the mail carrier in a near-death condition. Buck saves the mail carrier, but is sold again to two travelers, Hal and Mercedes. Miles is hired as a travel guide for the duo. Hal mistreats the dogs, refuses to listen to Miles, and eventually causes his own death. Mercedes and Miles are able to survive the journey with Buck’s aid.…
She loved her life as it was, without a man. She loved her perfect little house, with her big dog, and her amazing job. While soul searching, she examines her house. On page 98, “Everything she saw was just the way she wanted it, wasn’t it?”, “She looked around at the house with new eyes, wondering if there was room for a man in her home, or her life.” and on page 99, “noticing that everything in the room were objects she loved and had collected over the years, but all of them were about her.” Bennie is critical of her house, because it is so much like her, filled with everything important to her. She would bring a key to her house with her on her vacation, not just so she can get in when she gets back, but because that house is all hers.…
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” - Albert Einstein. For example when Hushpuppy got connected to nature she would hear a heartbeat or her mother talking to her. Another example is when Janie’s husband Tea Cake passed away, she took some seeds with her that reminded her of Tea cake and planted them. The movie “ Beasts of the Southern Wild” released in 2012 directed by Benh Zeitlin and the book , “Their Eyes Were Watching God” written by Zora Hurston published in 1937 are both natural disasters. The film “ Beasts of the Southern Wild” and the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” have some critical similarities. These include the characteristic of the protagonists, each protagonist’s relationship…
Anthony and Peter are two friends, as well as coworkers. Their relationship has a very mentoring, big brother existence. Three theories that would aid in depicting their relationship, would be extinction, conforming and rationalization.…
On Wednesday September 16th of 2015, I will be going to the Smithsonian National Zoo with a group of my friends. The Zoo was founded in 1889. It is one of the oldest zoos in the world. There are 1800 animals that live in the zoo. One of the most famous spots in the zoo for tourists to see is the Giant Panda exhibit. The giant pandas recently just gave birth to baby pandas. I have only been to the Smithsonian National Zoo once. I went in eighth grade for a school wide field trip. I love seeing animals and going to the zoo. Back where I am from (Delaware) there are not any zoos or big public attractions for young kids and teenagers.…
Many would say that our current school system is flawed in many ways, one of which is the manner in which they get funding and quality of the information they are implanting into our children’s minds. There however is a way we can fix this, that is if we take on a movement of Interdependence, this means everyone has a sense of citizenship in their community and the world for that matter, do you agree with this? If you do than you would be able to relate to Benjamin Barber and the writing in his article, The Educated Student: Global Citizen or Global Conumer?, because he brings attention to these topics. At the beginning of his article Barber discusses how our founding fathers intended for all of our citizens to be well educated, “John Adams argued hard for schools for every young man…Thomas Jefferson made the same argument for public schooling for every potential citizen in America…” (Barber 416.3.2-3). He then proceeds to discuss how in present time there public school systems are being forced to run advertisements of companies in exchange for funding, because they are not funded enough without it; “We have watched this commercialization and privatization, a distortion of the education mission and its content, going to the heart of our schools themselves.” (Barber 417.11.1). Benjamin Barber puts great emphasis on the fact that we as a nation need to better understand citizenship and what it means to be a citizen, and on top of that be more aware of the other nations of this world and our relationship to them. We are a very multicultural nation, but he expresses how little we care about that and how we don’t understand that it gives us an advantage that we need to capitalize on. (421.28-29). Benjamin Barber has written many other articles and is still pushing the movement for Interdependence.…
The feeling of connectedness to the world will bring happiness on any journey. In the movie “The Way” Tom gains meaningful companions on his pilgrimage journey. The unity of Tom, Joost, Sarah, and Jack taught me the importance of companionship and building relationships that are powerful enough to get through any hardship.…
I first watched this film two years ago when I saw it in the library DVD shelve. I found the concept of babies interesting since they are adorable and tiny, but watching it with a symbolic interaction perspective has given me an insight that I did not have the first time I watched it. Even though all the babies were born to different social environments and economic statuses, the parents wanted their child to be safe and provided what they perceived to be the best basic needs.…
This paper will focus on interpersonal relationships; more specifically, romantic partners and the development of a relationship in a scene from the movie Up. Relationship development has two spectrums of stages: coming together and coming apart. This paper will focus on the stages taking place in the coming together phase, the relational norms and outcomes, speed of stage advancement, character role in each stage and how they could improve on their interpersonal relationship.…
Stories are our essence of life. They grow and change with us. They allow us to reconstruct the past, and put our slant on things. They don’t’ have make sense, and they don’t all have to be fact. That’s what kind of story this is. Big Fish, directed by Tim Burton, is a heartwarming, comedic film, with many twists and turns. It explores the world of an eccentric father, while telling his life story. And so, our story begins.…
For the primate observation project I went to the Santa Barbara zoo to observe and contrast different types of primates. I observed one species of an old world monkey, which was a gorilla and two different species of new world monkeys, which were the Bolivian Grey Titi Monkey and also the Golden Lion Tamerin.…
“Beauty and the Beast” is a classic fairy tale that has been retold through various media such as oral storytelling, written short story, opera, film and musical theatre. With each rendition the story is given a new perspective and a focus on different elements for the reader/audience to consider. In 1946 Jean Cocteau adapted Madame Leprince de Beaumont’s written short story of “Beauty and the Beast” for the film, Beauty and the Beast, starring Jean Marais and Josette Day. Each of these versions offers their own unique approach to the tale and have become classics in their own right. De Beaumont’s story was written so as to have it read and enjoyed by adults and children, whereas Cocteau’s film is aimed primarily at…
In the novel and movie Animal Farm, has least differences but many occurred with similarities. In the movie, one of the similarities with the novel is when Napoleon’s dogs chased Snowball out of the farm and was sentenced to death. When the windmill got destroyed by the humans, Napoleon accused Snowball the chaos of the windmill. During the assembly, Napoleon said that Snowball was the cause of the windmill and is sentenced to death. Then Napoleon sent the dogs after Snowball and was never to be seen again. Another similarity is when the battle of the Cowshed began. Napoleon and the animals were getting ready for the war of the humans and planning a…