Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Do the Right thing



In my personal oppinion i feel as if Mookie almost did do the right thing given the circumstances, and even if it isnt seen as "the right thing" people do things that they regret or arent good all the time when something happens that makes them angry, when something happens like ur friend dieing or any person dieing for that matter for no reason i know that that makes me very upset no matter if i know them or not. and so i think he was just acting out of anger and didnt really realize what he was doing and just acted out.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

battle of algiers

in battle of algiers the director did not show which side he was for or against giving you a full view of both sides and why both sides might have done what the did. as an example the director used the same sad music after each bombing, the one from the french and the one from the algierians. showing the dead bodies taken out and how sad and misserable the people all were in the same light giving you freedom to decide which side you want to side with. another example is when the algierian woman was about to bomb a resturant and she was looking all around at all the people you can tell that she feels bad about what she has to do, but thats just it she has to do it, so you feel bad for her and the french most likely in this part

Friday, November 9, 2007

Eternal "shunshine"

In eternal sunshine there was in intense amount of speical effects, without them the movie would not have been on the level it was at. this movie was a very twisted romantic comedy and it really made you think about real life even though nothing in the movie could actually happen, it makes you think that maybe even though that movie is impossible, sometimes things feel as messed up as in the movie, and sometimes you let things get out of control with your feelings and you need to come back down to earth and really remember what you care about and realize why you are feeling the ways you are. this movie was a great movie because the speical effects really make you think, sometimes about your own dreams and reality at the same time.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday was a very fast paced movie, with a lot of fast dialogue, the best part of the movie is that even though everything points to walter being not the greatest guy, you know that hildy and him are going to end up together and that they are perfection for each other, and it almost makes you root for walter in a way, because you know that he loves hildy and hildy loves him. i also find it ironic that walter literally does everything wrong, and he still gets the girl in the end and we as an audience are still happy for them no matter what. i find it interesting that as an audience we can be so forgiving of a person but in real life we would most likely not be that forgiving at all. its almost like we wish real life were as simple and complex as the movies are, where you absolutly know that everything is going to work out no matter what.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Westerns

I am choosing to write about the final gun scene and some symbols within it. in the end the quote is said "I don't deserve to die like this" and in reply "Deserves got nothing to do with it" i think that this is symbolic in the sense that he is telling him that Ned didn't deserve to die and all of the other people he has killed just now and before this all of them didn't deserve to die either, so what he is saying is that maybe no one really deserves to die at all ever, but that has nothing to do with the fact that all people die at one point in their lives, whether it is early in life, or of old age. Also a think something that is symbolic is the fact that he shot curley first, the man who has the least to do with anything that is going on, other than the fact that he has neds dead body out on display in front of his bar, which also could be argued that having ned out for display is almost worse than actually killing him.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007


In The Lord of the Rings Andy Serkis plays Gollum and wears a big blue suit which with computer imaging he becomes Gollum and i could not write it better than this quote explains how he makes gollum come to life

Few of the hundreds of characters within The
Lord of the Rings
are as fascinating as the tormented Gollum. Though he is
entirely computer-generated onscreen, his haunted personality is brought vividly
to life through the extraordinary talent and performance of Andy Serkis.
Serkis's voice, body, and facial movements served as the electronic blueprint
for the technical wizards who conjured the character seen in the film, and it
was his physical presence — later removed digitally — that served as the foil
for the actors playing Frodo and Sam. The behind-the-scenes story of a
breakthrough cinematic achievement is told in this book.
as the quote states this man really is the character gollum, he makes gollum so scary and makes him really come to life, and makes the movie and character what it is.
the blue suit makes it so that they can put on the gollum costume with all computer generation.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

"Savages"


In the movie Stagecoach a huge concept is the fact that the Indian's are viewed as bloodthirsty savages attacking anyone who isn't one of them for no reason. They are portrayed this way because that's how they were portrayed in the time frame that this movie was made. This reflects the culture and paints a picture to how things were viewed differently back then then things are now. i think that portraying them this way and not giving them any names or identity's makes the suspense way higher wondering what will happen and rooting on the stagecoach people to get away.
But at the same time it is sort of unfair to the Indians and the actual real history behind everything that was happening at that time, it is sort of a one sided story we are watching and kind of jips us of the actual historical back round. understanding that maybe this movie was just made this way for viewing and entertainment purposes not to actually show the real history and back round does give it somewhat of an excuse to portray the Indians as savages.
In conclusion i think that Indians are portrayed as savages and not given any identities or names because we as an audience are not supposed to create a emotional connection with them, we are supposed to hate them and only see them as attacking the stage coach out of pure evilness and no other reason.