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.

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.

"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.

Citizen Cane

In Citizen Cane, a use a sound is used. Random abrupt noises pop out almost everywhere when Welles is transitioning, he uses loud nondiegetic noises as his transitions most of the time sometimes they are diegetic. This comes from the new use of sound in movies, it was a new thing to people so he was just using his new resources. Some examples of this are when he changes from a quiet scene to a loud scene where it is raining and a huge bright picture of a woman comes up, another example is when a random bird pops out of no-where. Welles is choosing a manipulating sounds to make the movie more interesting and more candy for the ears.

Pinocchio from the producers of Walt Disney (1940) and by director Ben Sharpsteen is a fantastic movie, when I was a little girl I would always be frightened by the movie, especially the part when Pinocchio becomes a donkey, that part was the most terrifying thing I could think of back then, in addition to beauty in the beasts wolf attack. Those two moments where the most terrifying, pee in my pants, want to run and hide and never look, nothing could have been scarier.
The main characters in the movie are Pinocchio (voiceover by Dickie Jones) a wooden boy doll that wants to be a good boy and a real boy, Geppetto (Christian Rub) Pinocchio’s creator/ father like figure, jiminy cricket (Cliff Edwards) the cricket that can sing. The setting of this film is olden time Italy. Throughout the movie Pinocchio runs away because he was a bad boy and is now on a quest to become a real boy running into all sorts of hurdles and problems, like his nose growing every time he tells a lie, or being trapped inside of a whales belly, and the classic point where he becomes a donkey.
In this film there aren’t any special effects or special animation they literally used scissors and glue for editing, and had to draw each and every frame to perfection, for every little move the characters made it was a whole bunch of different frames to make it look smooth. As you can imagine this probably took an ungodly amount of time but their hard work paid off because their movie came out beautifully, one that they can be extremely proud of.
The colors are amazing and vibrant in this movie; they are really bold and done beautifully. This movie would be a cartoon so I would say it would be highly unlikely, well structured, and unbelievable, but when you are a little girl or boy nothing is more believable than movies like this and others that Walt Disney has created. When you are a small child you are so involved with the movie every little thing jumps out at you and you want to see the movie over and over again. When you are little I fell you are always analyzing movies subconsciously, at least I did, and your squirrels in your brain are working over time for you to understand what is going on in the movie and all the different effects. When I was little I loved watching movies, and especially Walt Disney’s classics they let me be in a different world where magic did exist and miracles do happen, and all my dreams can come true, cause all the characters in my movies dreams were. These movies gave me hope for the future and told me I can do whatever I set my mind to, even though I was scared to death of watching Pinocchio when I was younger it has become one of my all time favorite childhood movies that I can still enjoy today.