Pather Panchali Essay
History Essay
In class we have watched and discussed many films that certain film experts suggested the title of being canonized. A film becomes canonized when it conveys some type of cultural, national or political importance to its audience. These films do not have to be any certain type of genre in fact the films we watch and discuss in class cover a great array of genres. In this essay I will convey why I feel a great film in my eyes deserves the title of becoming canonized for our curriculum. Jurassic Park although a rather recent film that uses technical advances like CGI shows many of the distinguishing qualities that films like Pather Panchali poses that I feel should give it deserved title of being canonized.
Like Pather Panchali the film Jurassic Park proved to be considered classics in their originating countries. Both films used new styles in their originating countries that would go on to make them both considered to be classics for example Pather Panchali focused on the new style of realism and post war drama while Jurassic Park focused on the newly created CGI style that was becoming popular in Hollywood’s digital media era of the 80’s and 90’s. Another quality Jurassic Park shares is that movie like Pather Panchali proved to be a sensation globally as well as in their native countries. For example according to the text book the Jurassic Park motion picture grossed 913 million world-wide. A third quality Jurassic Park shares with canonized films such as Pather Panchali is that both films featured trilogies that focused on further telling the stories of their main characters. For example in the later trilogies filmmaker Satyajit Ray focused the continuing life of his main character Apu and filmmaker Steven Spielberg made the trilogies of Jurassic Park expand on the adventures of his main character Dr. Allan Grant.
Although Jurassic Park has many similarities it also has many defying differences that ultimately keep it from being canonized. The
In class we have watched and discussed many films that certain film experts suggested the title of being canonized. A film becomes canonized when it conveys some type of cultural, national or political importance to its audience. These films do not have to be any certain type of genre in fact the films we watch and discuss in class cover a great array of genres. In this essay I will convey why I feel a great film in my eyes deserves the title of becoming canonized for our curriculum. Jurassic Park although a rather recent film that uses technical advances like CGI shows many of the distinguishing qualities that films like Pather Panchali poses that I feel should give it deserved title of being canonized.
Like Pather Panchali the film Jurassic Park proved to be considered classics in their originating countries. Both films used new styles in their originating countries that would go on to make them both considered to be classics for example Pather Panchali focused on the new style of realism and post war drama while Jurassic Park focused on the newly created CGI style that was becoming popular in Hollywood’s digital media era of the 80’s and 90’s. Another quality Jurassic Park shares is that movie like Pather Panchali proved to be a sensation globally as well as in their native countries. For example according to the text book the Jurassic Park motion picture grossed 913 million world-wide. A third quality Jurassic Park shares with canonized films such as Pather Panchali is that both films featured trilogies that focused on further telling the stories of their main characters. For example in the later trilogies filmmaker Satyajit Ray focused the continuing life of his main character Apu and filmmaker Steven Spielberg made the trilogies of Jurassic Park expand on the adventures of his main character Dr. Allan Grant.
Although Jurassic Park has many similarities it also has many defying differences that ultimately keep it from being canonized. The