Summary: Discusses the Australian film, The Castle. Explores how Australia is depicted in the film. Provides a plot summary.…
Due to unfortunate circumstances, I will be lecturing you solely from Gary Ross' Seabiscuit with Randy Newman composing the soundtrack. For a brief overview, the movie starts with a wealthy man, Charles Howard, losing his son and looking for some way to grieve. He begins to race horses and meets Tom Smith, an old-time horse trainer. Together, they spot the unconventional Seabiscuit who Smith sees potential that no one else does. Smith convinces Howard to buy the horse and they find Red Pollard to ride the horse. All of the key parts of this movie are unconventional: Red is too big to be a jockey, Seabiscuit is too small to be a prized horse and Smith is well past his time but somehow they make it work. Seabiscuit gains popularity in a time where Americans needed to be distracted from the Depression Era. The movie continues by Howard wanting Seabiscuit to go up against the "greatest" horse, War Admiral. War Admiral's owner wants no part to do with it. Eventually, they agree to race but not before Pollard seriously injures himself. Seabiscuit is ridden by the greatest jockey of all time and beats the War Admiral. In the next race, Seabiscuit also injures himself. The rest of the movie is Seabiscuit and Red recovering together and later winning the last race shown in…
Rudderless is a movie of drama- musical which directed by William H. Mancy. Billy Crudup, Anton Yelchin, Felicity Huffman, Selena Gomez are the leading actors. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2014. Sam (Billy Crudup) is a successful businessman who has a college son. A day, at the college there was a shootout, his son dies and his life changes. After that, he lives on a boat at the dock. Any day, he finds a box with several things your child and he finds a collection of music that your son sang and recorded and Sam's life changed again.…
The Maltese Falcon is a classic film that portrays an anti-hero on his journey to unearth a mystery. He manages to entangle himself with a number of sketchy people who all have conflicting motives and desires. One can see where the character’s hearts lie by observing their obsession, heartlessness, and dedication towards finding the Maltese falcon.…
At first sight Salt of the Earth and On the Waterfront seem two structurally independent and unrelated movies that only share some basic theme elements in their plot. However, analyzing both, side by side and frame by frame, can give us a more profound understanding of the American film industry, Hollywood in particular, and its relation to the McCarthyism in 1950s, a dark chapter in the US history.…
My overall impression of the events is that I think what all the crew members and captains had to go through was really hard and miserable. They had to go through times when they could have gotten eaten up by a big shark or died of thirst and hunger. The way how Hunter Scott used the movie Jaws when Captain Quint tells the story of the sinking of the Indianapolis was just a cool way to learn about the sinking. Hunter Scott had a good imagination when he wanted to start the project and the interviews. Captain Mcvay’s life after the sinking was really hard and not necessary for him to get hate messages in the mail about how it was his fault that a lot of the crew members died.…
4) Spielberg uses well established dialogue and ques to alert readers the shark is present, thus creating tension and suspense.…
Through the use of techniques and themes, a composer is able to create distinctively visual images when describing the setting and characters in detail which help us to understand and form meaning of what the composer is trying to convey in their texts. The use of techniques such as body language, symbolism, lighting, music and photographic background slides create distinctively visual images same with themes that are being used within the texts such as truth which is evident in the dramatic text ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ by John Misto, the song ‘Lose Yourself’ sang by Eminem, and the film ‘The Eye’ directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud featuring Jessica Alba. These three texts demonstrate how the responders are impacted and what is interrupted within the text and there similarities that help shape meaning.…
The film "The Castle" presents us with a representation of an Australian family. Most people would agree however that they are not a typical family. A few of the reasons is, for this is that there is no such thing as a typical family, roles have changed and people are not so community minded as shown in the film.…
Have you ever been swimming at the beach and thought that perhaps you had seen a shark? Sharks have become a common fear for most humans since the movie Jaws first appeared on the screen in 1975. Prior to that movie most people never gave a thought about sharks being a danger to humans. Actually we are more of a threat to them than they are to us. Some shark conservationists have pointed out that hundreds more people are killed every year in furniture related accidents than by sharks. Attacks on humans could be termed mistaken identity.…
Casablanca is a romance and drama film that was released in the United States (US) in 1942. The captivating wartime film is about two men vying for the love a woman. It is also a political film that highlights Morocco during the Second World War. Casablanca was produced by Warner Brothers and directed by Michael Curtiz one of Hollywood’s most creative and brilliant directors in that period. Casablanca has the perfect combination of intrigue, suspense, romance, and drama that captivates the audience from beginning to end. This is because of the combination of special characters in the film.…
Steven Spielberg created a film based off the thriller novel, Jaws, by Peter Benchley. Both the movie and the book tell the story of a giant man-eating great white shark and focus on the terror brought to the people of Amity Island. The movie does follow the novel’s main story line closely, however, when a producer turns a book into a film, it’s practical for one to thicken its plot line, and for two, tell the original story. The horror brought by the shark’s attacks are illustrated vividly throughout the text, as the film on the other hand , does not express the genre as the way the text does.…
First, I will intend to take you on a brief journey through the horror genre and the conventions that have been associated with this type of film. Second, I will show you how these conventions are used in Spielberg’s Jaws (1975). To get started, we are going to investigate the first era or as it was called, the silent era. This era was based on monsters such as Frankenstein (1910), Dracula (1912) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923). These black and white horror films were all about the make-up and the clever use of lighting, to add their thrills and chills. The first conventions that we see are the ‘revealing of the monsters’ and the use of ‘isolated houses’ where the monsters are based, this shows the isolated aspects. This left audiences feeling panicky and unnerved. These films had to rely on the music, yet they still lack the big horror genre fear factor. Through the talkies (1930s-1940s) little changed, they still had the monsters, the same monsters, the same storylines, but the Atomic Phase of the 1950s soon made its impact. Sci-fi and hammer movies took centre stage, Godzilla (1954) and The Blob (1958) were hug box office hits because the films grabbed the audience attention as they were based at nuclear war as science was really important then.…
The Artist boasts a more vast and diverse film score than that of City Lights. Music can be heard in the background of a multitude of scenes in The Artist, such as suspenseful music during George’s ‘sound nightmare scene’. The emotion invoked in the viewers during this scene is used to complement their overall cinematic experience. The range of emotions that viewers experience whilst watching the film is an indication of its effective storytelling ability. The City Lights soundtrack is underwhelming in comparison , as the events of the film tend to range from silly to happy, but never anything that would grip viewers. While the lovely soundtrack enhances the heartfelt mood of the film, it isn’t as exciting as the soundtrack from The Artist. The practically-chosen songs in the soundtrack fail to take the viewer on as much of an emotional rollercoaster as The Artist’s. The music in the City Lights soundtrack simply doesn’t measure up to The Artist in terms of accompanying the cinematography to create the best viewing experience for the…
The Glass Menagerie is a play of a family who is incredibly unstable. The play is about many other things, however the childlike minds of the main characters are a main point of the film. Each character of the film is caught within their own fantasy. Their inability to stay in reality hurts each character differently. Restoration is not actually attained in this film, however there was a desire from the mother, Amanda, for restoration. This movie is not a good depiction of restoration because no restoration actually takes place. A simple definition of restoration is putting things back to the way they were. Laura has always been aloof and crippled, and Tom never seemed to be interested in the reality in front of him so there is nothing to put back. Amanda is however trying to recreate her youth through the many reminiscing’s of her past the forcing of Laura to get gentlemen callers, and the nagging of Tom to stay home are Amanda’s way of trying to seek restoration. Although incredibly flawed, Amanda does try her best for the people she loves, Tom and Laura. Her feeble attempts at restoration only show that care that she has for her family even though her the way she shows it is flawed.…
