tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37707855248688450702024-03-18T22:01:44.277-07:00Beyond The Film BlogBeyond The Film is a blog that focuses on Reviews, Film Theory, Film Trivia and Top Netflix Films you should see. Dedicated to Independent Films, Short Films, World Cinema, Straight To DVD and Film Theory.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00068543493311003768noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770785524868845070.post-30157738184613844062013-03-14T11:13:00.000-07:002018-10-24T00:05:39.771-07:00Which Predator Are You?<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now this isn’t much of a question
because we all know the 1987 Predator is not only the best out of the series
but its personally one of the most fantastic Sci - Fi action films. But in all
honestly I personally see the 1987 “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Predator”
</i>as a brilliant Sci-Fi thriller rather than an action film. Don’t get me
wrong no action sequence has ever topped "Dutch" (Arnold
Schwarzenegger) and his group of awesome elite Special Forces team raid the
guerrilla rebel encampment. But my personal perception of the film transitioned
from an action film to a thriller when the elite team began to be hunted by the
Predator. Which made the 87 Predator more enjoyable to watch because this
unstoppable elite force has the; latest technology, kickass weapons and huge
muscles. But to be hunted one by one like animals makes the 87 Predator so much
more than a typical action Schwarzenegger film but rather a film that touches
on Herbert Spencer “Survival of the fittest” the evolutionary theory of animals
evolving themselves to become better hunters. In the Predators case a species
that with each hunt evolves its skills to become the greatest hunter. In the
first movie the predator is characterised by its trophy hunting of other
dangerous species for sport but in the third instalment of the Predator trilogy
2010 “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Predators” </i>the film focuses
more on the evolutionary theory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So much between the 87 and 2010
releases are very similar being that they’re both set in the jungle and both
seem to focus on the Darwin’s theory. In the 87 release the elite group
technology had failed them resulting in all of them to die except Dutch. In the
last hour of the film we see him become one of the jungle using primitive
weapons like the manmade spear and wood craft booby traps. Instead of becoming
reliant with technology he uses his surrounding and own muscle to defeat the
predator that seemed to rely on its advanced light-bending cloaking device and
other technology. The 2010 release go a very similar path but rather using an
elite group the alien Predators rounds up the best predatorily species<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on meaning humans and throw them into a
planet jungle and hunt them. You can say the third predator is again human vs.
alien but the title of the film “Predators” referring that both species are
predators in their home planets so they are both the same. And again in the
final sequence of the 2010 predator we see our mercenary protagonist Royce
(Adrien Brody) defeat the predator not with technology but using the jungle and
muscle. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The main problem of the second
1990 release <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Predator 2” </i>was not
only it had a very weak plot and focused on the action rather than the predator
itself. There was no connection between the protagonist Lieutenant Michael
Harrigan (Danny Glover) and the predator. It just seemed the Harrigan was on a
revenge seeking mission and there was no element of the predatorily elements
like in the 87 and 2010 release. The sole purpose of the predator films is the
hunter that becomes the hunted. The only element I enjoyed in the 90 release
was setting the Predator in Los Angeles marking the paradox between the jungle
and the city but there was no concrete purpose of the predator to be placed
there being that the only reason was the heat wave that attracted the Predator.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What I look for in any predator
based film or game even is the predatory element that the predator franchise
has to bring. The transformation in the 97 and 2010 our protagonist become
almost like cavemen beating the predator to death rather than shooting the
predator, which is more of a barbaric death. As a human species we first hunting
with sticks and stones and we were like this </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">for many centuries. Even comparing
both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Adrien Brody in the final fight sequence they
both transform from super solider or mercenary to a caveman Tarzan figure. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Personally without this key element the
predator would just be another extra-terrestrial species trying to kill us
which the predator isn’t.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00068543493311003768noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770785524868845070.post-9901589151241555232013-03-07T04:25:00.000-08:002018-10-24T00:05:39.919-07:00Which Die Hard Are You?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now we all can discuss which Die
Hard is the best and usually of course the 1988 Die Hard is the most preferred,
being the first movie to introduce our favourite yippee ki yay gun slinging
cowboy cop John McClane and let’s not forget one of our favourite German
villains Hans Gruber. None Die Hard fans would argue that the Die Hard
franchise all 5 of them are typically all the same; a bad boy rouge cop always
seems to get caught up in a middle of things, action packed, explosions,
endless henchmen’s and villains that seems to have a gruesome end being thrown
out of skyscraper, sucked into a jet engine or a fiery inferno helicopter
crash. But saying that all the Die Hard films are the same in my opinion is
totally bull! That’s like going to a Bond movie and saying I was expecting
something different from the previous other twenty bond films. But what I love
about the Die Hard series is that each film takes us into a totally different
scenario being whatever the villain hopes to accomplish from hijacking a
corporate building keeping its staff and CEO hostage to cyber terrorism
systematically shutting down the entire U.S. infrastructure. All four Die Hard
films has its own unique place but sadly the fifth Die Hard is not only the
worst Die Hard it’s one of the worst action film. Comparing from my favourite
Die Hard “Live Free or Die Hard” also known as “4.0” and the other Die Had
series to the 2013 release “A Good Day to Die” you can see where the series
went totally wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The 2007 Live Free or Die Hard is
a perfect mix between the 1988 Die Hard and the 1995 Die Hard with a Vengeance.
The 88 release was stepping stone of the series when it is the first film ever
to have the hero trash talk through to the villain through a radio throughout
the entire film. And each Die Hard since then has carry on this tradition. Even
in Live Free when technology is much more ahead of just the simple radio from
the 88 Die Hard. McClane doesn’t just use the radio but uses webcams and cell
phones to trash talk to the villain. And with this tradition our hero and
villain never actually meet in person till the showdown at the very end. What I
love most about Live Free is how much it takes from the 95 Die Hard. The first Die
Hard is set in one building or one location but with Vengeance our location is
one city. So the villain’s playground is Net York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Live Free villain<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thomas
Gabriel a former US Defence Department analyst takes on the United States by hacking
the computers of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and totally shutting
down all transportation, gas, water and electricity almost taking the country
back to the stone age. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What I found most lacking in A
Good Day To Die wasn’t the fact the film had no radio, cell phone or even any trash
talk to the villain but it was the relationship between John and his son. The
two characters couldn’t bounce off each once and you would have thought being
john McClane son he would have some witty comments like his father but no. It
was as if they weren’t even related. Being a father and son based film you
would think Good Day to Die would be a fantastic transition of old school Die
Hard to new school but sadly once again it failed at this also. In my opinion
in the Live Free or Die Hard relationship between John McClane and Matthew
Farrell a computer hacker who unknowingly help set up the “Fire Sell” was a
better father and son relationship even though they weren’t related. The
transition between them is the typical computer based father and son relationship
being that the son knows more about computer then the father in this case
McClane being so old school he knows nothing about computers and Matthew
Farrell knowing so much. The two fantastically bounce off each other whenever
Farrell tried to explain anything to do with computers McClane just looks
perplexed and lost. But when push came to shove McClane would shoot his way out
of anything when Farrell would just whimper and hide. Live Free or Die Hard is
a fantastic explain of putting someone who knows nothing about computers into
cyber computer warfare and this is why Live Free is my favourite Die Hard. It’s
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Guy Ritchie’s 2005 Revolver is
the third crime film genre to focus on professional criminals but instead of
focusing in the typically East End of London like his previous films; Lock,
Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. All three starring Jason Statham.
With Revolver Ritchie takes us on different path of the crime film genre in a philosophical
view focusing on the concept of a revenge seeking confidence trick but centring
on the Human Ego. Revolver is pretty well known for being a love it or hate it
film but in my personal opinion it’s a film for a very VERY narrow audience.
Though the films genre is crime film after watching and re-watching and
analysing it in several different views I honest feel Revolver is a fantastic
interpretation of the two philosophers theory’s; Friedrich Nietzsche’s Superior
man also known as The Superman and Sigmund Freud’s Ego and the Id. Using these
philosophers and their ideas it is fantastic example of how Jason Statham (Jake
Green) transforms Ray Liotta the anti-protagonist (Dorothy Macha) from a
superior being to nothing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Friedrich Nietzsche believes when
we are born we are genetically subjected to becoming superior; that the idea of
wishing success for other people rather than your own is a lie, every person
has the need of becoming the greatest and seeing others in pain gives us slight
joy and seeing pity is a sign of weakness. That men and woman should have their
own moral values and decide how to live their own life. The constant thrive of
overcoming ourselves and that every person should become a "ubermensch”
meaning a superior being or superman. That a God did once exists but now is
dead and now we are the Gods. To become a God a man or woman has to discover
the perfect form of themselves and they must fight to achieve this and only in
this journey of inner perfection and self-righteousness that we can truly
become the masters of the universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“My idea is that
every specific body strives to become master over all space and to extend its
force and to thrust back all that resists its extension. But it continually
encounters similar efforts on the part of other bodies and ends by coming to an
arrangement with those of them that are sufficiently related to it: thus they
then conspire together for power. And the process goes on” Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Will to Power 1910<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sigmund Freud’s “Ego and the Id”
tells us that subconsciously we tell ourselves to forget and this is our ego’s
way of coping with past or present traumas. I’d like to think that
subconsciously we see our ego as a protector. That our ego shows no bounds that
to point blame is our ego’s way of protecting ourselves. Our ego cannot
comprehend that there is something greater than our own values, which is why
people will do whatever it takes to protect our own interest. So to protect our
ego the ego itself will create an external enemy for us to blame and in doing
this actually creating a real enemy. No matter what that thought in your mind
says your ego will always have someone to blame. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“The poor ego has a
still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do
its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants
are the external world, the superego, and the id."<br />
New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis 1932</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">One of the most powerful scenes
in Revolver is when Macha faces Green right after Green finally sees his on
internal enemy known as the ego and finally kills his ego freeing him. But as
the lift doors open we see a very distraught Macha pointing a gun at Green.
However even though Macha has a gun and can kill Green at any moment his presentation
of what he is wearing is that he is just simply naked. A symbol of being half
naked or completely naked is vulnerability despite the fact holding a gun which
is a fantastic juxtaposition of power. In the end Jack Green and the audience
no longer fear Macha completely destroying his ego. From the transformation of
a big time corrupt casino boss to a man crying and whimpering constantly “Fear
Me” is one of the most beautifully constructed transformation to a villains
defeat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Staring Viggo
Mortensen simply known as the father and his son Kodi Smit-McPhee. John
Hillcoat’s post-apocalyptic drama is a film adaptation of Prize-winning novel
of the same name by author Cormac McCarthy. The Road is a brilliant dark melancholic
vision of a dying or perhaps already dead planet Earth, a world slowly becoming
inhabitable for; plants, vegetation, farm stock and even human life. The father
and son journey through an unforgiving world of a population of few that has
driven them to lawlessness and cannibalism. Hillcoat not only brilliantly
captures the dying planet through stunning cinematography of beautiful
landscapes that truly does juxtaposition of the term beautiful being that the
landscapes in the entire film is dying that sets the melancholic mood of a dark
gloomy grey skies and the atmosphere filled with dust and ash. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We never truly discover
how the planet became a ravaged landscape of; falling trees, burning fields
that fill the air with ash and the blue skies and white clouds are replaced with
a depressing grey sky with smoke. All that we know the father and son are in
between the lines of a dying planet and the cannibalistic rednecks that only
seem to only prolong their deaths. The only thing we know that the two are
heading to warmer south unknowing what truly awaits them there. The only glimpse
of their past we see is the memory of the father in a series of flashback that
seem to haunt him. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A time just after the
devastation revealing that the man had a wife and his son was born months just
as civilisation collapsed. Years went by and his wife became ever so disconnected
and living in a world knowing her days were numbered she eventually committed suicide,
leaving the father and son to fend for themselves. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Road is truly
one of my favourite post-apocalyptic films out there today. Its dark vision, melancholic
atmosphere and performance of the father and son are incredibly powerful. The journey
the father and son take shows us how utterly hopeless this journey down south
is and yet they still press on. Armed with only a pistol with two bullets, the
clothes they’re wearing and a shopping trolley with the few scavenged food they
find. The close the encounter of the cannibals always leads to the father pointing
the gun at his son sparing him from possible rape and torture makes the film excruciatingly
tense to watch. Hillcoat truly does capture the journey of the father and son
not through focusing on the world and how it became so shattered but rather
focusing on the voyage of survival and how day by day they try to reach their
hopeless destination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Truman Show is one of the
most captivating films to watch and to analyse. In my opinion also it should be
recognised as one of the most expensive art films rather than typically
labelled as a comedy, drama and Sci-Fi. At the first Andrew Niccol’s The Truman
Show the film was foreseen as too dark and that the director Peter Weir and
other producers wanted the film to be seen as more as comedy. Niccol’s vision
for Truman’s life and journey was that it wasn’t meant to be a funny. For
someone to say that The Truman Show is great comedy is just utterly rubbish and
in all honestly it should be taken out of the comedy genre. The Truman Show
isn’t a depressing film but somewhat a journey into self-discovery and
discovery of knowledge of beyond Truman’s hometown Seahaven. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Seahaven is a utopia dedicated to
cater under Truman. Everything in this domain is designed to perfection and is
a fine representation of the perfect world. However in this perfect world there
is no escape. All the actors, product placements, weather and buildings are all
placed there for a specific reason. To help create the illusion of a place we
all wish to live in. But knowing from an external point of view we see The
Truman Show only as a reality TV show and we only see the real world when they
are watching the show. We have no knowledge where these people come from, who
the president is or even what year it is. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only world we the viewers and the people
watching the Truman Show are always focused on is Seahaven. When we watch films
we know what city there in from the iconic shots such as; Big Ben is London,
The Ethel Tower is Paris and the White House is Washington DC. But Seahaven is
a fantasy utopia, so how do we straight away feel that we want to live in
Seahaven without even knowing where the hell it is. It’s the symbolism
implanted in our heads that lure us into this world. The Picket Fence’s we see
are the symbolism of the American Dream. This is seen in other films such as
both of Sam Mendes Revolutionary Road, American Beauty or David Lynch Blue
Velvet. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The picket fence is the symbol
of the middle class suburban life; A life of family, peace and beauty. From an
external point this is implanted to make us feel at ease however internally
there is more to see from the naked eye. Within this perfect American Dream it
is actually a lie within itself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The utopia surrounding Truman is
an entire world revolving around his life to capture every human emotion and behaviour.
Putting him in situation we’re rest of the world will see how he will act. In this
giant dome it is not the world but the universe revolves around him. Christof
is not only just the director of the Truman Show but he’s architect that laid
down the path of Truman’s life. He is the creator of the utopia Seahaven and he
alone decides what lies ahead of Truman. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I have given Truman the chance to lead a
normal life. The world, the place you live in, is the sick place. </span>The entire dome is at the hands of
Christof and that he has all control and all power of not just Truman but the
crew and the actors. Christof tells the crew what and what not to film and
tells the actors word by word what to say. If we look at this in a religious view
he is God and I wouldn’t say Truman is the son of God but rather representing
the beginning of human kind; Adam and Eve. One can even say that Truman represents
Adam and Eve. Just like them they were given knowledge. The name Lucifer comes
from the Latin word for 'light-bearer'. In a parallel theory between the two
stories one can when Truman finally discovered the truth that this world is
actually a lie and he wants to escape Christof tries to stop his creation from
escaping. The last scene when Truman is just about to leave the world and
Christof is looking down on Truman is another fantastic example of another Religious
analogy with Moses and God in the Book of Moses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">8mm is one of the most underrated
and fascinating Joel Schumacher’s films, a journey of a Private investigator
Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) who not only delves into the world of snuff films but
takes us into a voyage of human sexual obsession. The films core structure is a
mystery thriller about a discovery of 8mm snuff film of a young girl being brutally
beaten and killed in a recently deceased wealthy and powerful mogul safe. The widow
wanting to know the truth of her deceased husband’s film is a fake or real she
hires Welles. But as Welles digs deeper and deeper into the film Welles road
now takes him into the underworld of illegal pornography.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What I enjoyed most about 8mm was
visually seeing the character development and journey of Tom Welles. 8mm is a
fantastic film to show Welles character arc. As the story slowly unfolds and as
he explores deeper into the underworld of illegal pornography, we begin to see
the human dark obsessions and fantasies that some of us so desires. With Welles
character we see a transformation of a respectable family man journeying so
deep into this film that he himself becomes part of it.</span></div>
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to look into the mind frame of someone living in the conditions of paranoia and
madness. For someone to know that they are insane or they are going insane
reinsures person that there is some sanity left in them, knowing that this
person is aware of his or hers mind frame. However for someone to not know what
is happening to their mind unaware that they are just simply going insane
creates a sense of loneliness and to be paranoid of the surrounding public can
make someone believe that they are truly isolated. New York City being one of
the most over populated and the busiest cities in the world any mood can be
amplified significantly. To feel lonely in a small town with a small population
can feel very normal but to feel lonely in a massive busy city with a high
population you would feel very secluded. Going insane in a big city can also be
much more intensified rather than in a small town. The violence and crime rate
is a fine example of comparing the small city to a larger city. Looking at
Travis in Taxi Driver we are taken into a journey of insomnia, paranoia,
obsession and slowly descending to madness. If we look into Shame addiction can
also show notions of isolation and loneliness. Both films have similar ways of
expressing these notions with particular scenes; the positioning of our
protagonists, how other characters treat the protagonists and how Travis and
Brandon see the world through the projection of their own mind. With Travis’s
mind fixed in paranoia, obsession and driving him to madness and Brandon with
sexual addiction slowly taking over his life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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York. In most films we’re always taken around the Statue of Liberty or the
Empire State Building. In Taxi Driver we’re constantly driven around the more
dangerous and crime ridden areas. We’re in the city centre but not Off Broadway
but perhaps Off Off! Broadway. With Travis’s day and night Taxi routes we are
relentlessly exposed to these areas and his repulsive views on New York. “I
think someone should just take this city and just... just flush it down the
fuckin' toilet.” In most New York films the cinematography is always typically
the same; bird’s eye view shots looking down the busy streets of New York,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>low angle shots looking upwards to monstrous
like buildings over shadowing the people and the glamorous typical locations of
Times Square, Brooklyn Bridge and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Broadway. Through the cinematography we only
truly see New York through Travis’s taxi cab almost as if we’re in the cab with
Travis looking out into New York. But being inside with Travis and his cab we
begin to feel confined and trapped with him and his paranoia. For someone to
look into world as a film rather than as a reality is the first stepping stone
into paranoia and madness. Having Taxi Driver as an opening sequence of the
cheap shady bars, strip clubs, 24 hour liquor stores and adult movie cinemas, of
course the people we see are the typical crowd that hang out in these areas;
street hookers, pimps, drug addicts and alcoholics. All these elements help
fuel the illusion for the projection of Travis’s mind. What Travis sees is what
the audience sees and what Travis feels is what the audience will feel. All the
mise-en-scene and cinematography that Martin Scorsese uses are all an external
projections of Travis’s mind. Through Travis’s mind we are taken through New
York on his perception of what New York is and we see his sanity slowly slip
with the inner monolog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the emotional physiological and physical journey he undertakes in this film.
Suffering from insomnia there’s a persistent feeling of been wide awake and charged.
Every time Travis takes medication there’s always a Non-diegetic sound. In the
taxi carriage scene when Travis takes his medication both inside the cab and
out there’s an electric charge in the background. Both times Travis’s actions
give the impression that he is being filled with adrenaline and almost as is he
being recharged. The second time he takes his medication is in the café. This
scene creates a misconception that Travis’s brain is being almost vaporized or
perhaps mesmerised. When Travis puts the tablet in the glass he begins to
bizarrely stare at the glass as if he loosing himself from reality. The
dissolving tablet in the glass is a perfect visual example of Travis’s inner
mind slowly loosing grip in reality. As Travis slowly becomes more delusional
the atmosphere of Taxi Driver begins to question what is real and a figment of
Travis’s imagination. To help fuel the illusion of Travis’s imagination the use
of colour is heavily over whelming in particular scenes. The red, amber and
green of traffic lights or the flashing lights from the bars and clubs are a
fantastic visual expression of Travis’s moods. The framed shots of the
reflection of Travis’s eyes in mirrors are not a reflection of Travis eyes but
a reflection of his paranoia. When we first see Travis we only see the
reflection of the rear view mirror of his eyes and at the end when he drops off
Betsy the last we see of Travis is darting paranoid eyes looking into the rear
view mirror as if to say the paranoia and madness is only at bay and that he’s
a ticking time bomb waiting to explode once again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Travis always seemed to make him the centre of the screen. Walking around the
streets of New York or in the R rated movie theatre people always seem to stay
away from Travis and keep their distance. Even when Travis is with his fellow
cabbies he’s almost distant from them both physically and emotionally. The
cinematography always frames Travis in isolated positions and the locations
used always seems to be a representation of Travis’s own coffin. The major
element of what’s making Travis go insane is insomnia and his insomnia his
fuelled by his paranoia which he gets from driving his cab. So the one thing
that Travis seems to have is actually killing him. Throughout Taxi Driver the
cab is a symbol of Travis’s perception of New York and inside the cab is a
window into what he thinks is the world. For someone to feel that they are
looking into society rather than being a part of society fuels the mind of
being isolated and lonely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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other; share the same train carriages and busses but each individual are
disconnected with each other. We see all kinds of people that represent
different class status of New York; Pimps represents the womanising dead beats,
the prostitutes are a representation of sex, drug addicts are the corrupted and
men in businesses suits that look like they work in Wall Street are the yuppie
culture. In a city fuelled by this inner electricity to be surrounded by
people, not to feel so isolated they surround themselves in tight overcrowded
places, though physically they are surrounded by people however emotionally
they a miles apart. In Taxi Driver we can see such urban isolation not only
with Travis but with other characters in Taxi Driver. Though Travis is
positioned and seated in way to show that he is distant from them the other
fellow cabbies and Wizard all hint at they also don’t have stable home lives
and they too have to work nights and weekends to keep busy. With Brandon’s
sister “Sissy” is another example of someone with an unstable home life.
Constantly moving around deciding to move to New York but once again she finds
herself alone. Singing the Cover of “New York New York” which is meant to
glamourizes the city. Sissy sings the original lyrics but performs the song
that presents her and Brandon which is being so distant and isolated. Perhaps
Sissy represents the naïve dream of going to the big city and becoming a big
star but a dream that is shattered. When we are first introduced to Tom and
Betsy at the Palatine HQ it seems that the two of them are slightly flirting
with each other and not working when the other volunteers are rushing around
working. However the two have no personal connection and the only scene we see
them talking is them two having small talk. Scenes when Travis picks up
customers they completely ignore him and act as if he doesn’t even exit. The
violence and hate he sees on the streets seem to work its way into the back of
his cab making him almost believe that New York is hell. In one of Travis’s
monologs he says “Each night when I return the cab to the garage, I have to
clean the cum off the back seat. Some nights, I clean off the blood.” The cum
is representation of the prostitutes, R rated theatres and brothels and the
blood is the violence, madness and hate. When Travis picks up the two
passengers the businessman and a prostitute the both of them seem to be going
at it at the back seat of the cab. Travis looks at them through the rear view
mirror. Which shows two things; the first being that the two people have no
disregard for Travis and the second is just like the windows in the taxi cab
the rear view mirror is a representation of Travis’s window into his paranoia
which we see at the start and end of the film. This vicious circle of paranoia
is the same in Shame but instead of paranoia it is sex addiction. How we see
Brandon have sex with countless women at the start and he gazes upon a married
women on a train and we never see her again until the end of the film, which
shows again that his addiction to sex is never gone and that we’re back to
square one. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Just how Scorsese frames Travis cab windows and mirrors to
represent a movie, Brandon in Steve McQueen’s Shame is always positions and
framed in similar ways. When Brandon walks through the streets of New York and
gazes upon an apartment block. Each window is almost a representation of
computer screen. When we see two couple having sex it’s almost as if the
pornography that Brandon watches day and night on his computer is the same
thing as looking at this apartment block. Showing that where ever he goes
there’s no hiding that he’s addiction seems to be everywhere. The same as
Travis with his cab slowly killing him Brandon’s addiction is starting to take
its toll on him. How this relates to isolation and loneliness is the constant
reminder in Brandon’s day to day life how is addiction is isolating him. When
Brandon’s sister and friend meet up and begin to get hot and heavy in the cab
with Brandon sitting right next to them. Again Brandon is in the same position
as Travis was with the prostitute and businessmen. Both of them being pushed
aside with total disregard the two couple in Shame and Taxi Driver isolates our
protagonists. Just how the constant reminder of sex and prostitution in Taxi
Driver follows Travis, Brandon has to follow his sister and friend to his
apartment block the only time he is physically alone is when they get inside
the lift without Brandon.</span></div>
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perception of Shame and Taxi Driver you can see how both our protagonists
reside in New York. New York City labelled as the city that never sleeps it
seems ideal for Travis to work in. Keeping busy, working nights and weekends
surely seemed like a reliable way to work yourself to sleep or perhaps death
but instead it drove Travis insane. With already an unstable mind being a
Vietnam veteran and drinking during the day to keep his inner demons at bay.
Brandon being addicted to sex is the same as a person addicted drugs. There’s
always a need for a reliable source get your fix and New York is the place. At
the start of Shame we see Brandon having sex with different women everyday he
seems to pay for some or perhaps he pays for all of them. Both our protagonists
have chosen to live in New York to get what they wanted but it only fuelled
their paranoia or obsession, resulting them for being so isolated and secluded.
To live in a city so alive and full of people to feel so alone, isolated and
disconnected must be so much more amplified</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00068543493311003768noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770785524868845070.post-60492720428292250802013-01-21T09:20:00.002-08:002018-10-24T00:05:39.836-07:00EQUILIBRIUM<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The title of the film itself is
self – explanatory, when all or any conditional system are competing or against
each other are balanced to an equal state of stability. So in state of a variety
of contexts in the film, the core equal state of balance is the ideology film
has created. The ideology the film created is one of a kind. Taking key factors
existing ideology and crafting it into its own unique form and presenting
itself as a form of Nazi like dictatorship regime. This fascinating look into
ideology of the film fascinating enough, Equilibrium is set in a dystopian
future but what makes this film even more unique to analyse is the film itself
can never age. Though the film is a science fiction movie genre we are deliberately
never shown any kind of futuristic gadgets or technology. If we look at past
science fiction films like “Minority Report” or “The 6<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> Day” the
technology used seemed to be a fantasy but many years later we now have the
technology the film has so making them obsolete. So many future science fiction
films will lose its prestige of a future world because the technology they are
using is already exits. Kurt Wimmer created Equilibrium in such a way that the
film can possibly be a hundred years old and still can be seen as the future. This
alternate reality doesn’t focus on the gadgetry like other science fiction
films but rather on; the ideology, dystopia, the regime and the people. By not
showing any technology it means nothing in the film can be obsolete and dated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When the film starts we are
presented with the title “EQUILIBRUIM” in immense white capitals. The title is
another fine example of the film and what lies ahead of the audience. If we
look at the title and the architecture in the city of “Libria” both are a fine
representation of each other. The architectural influence the film gained from
is Fascist architecture which is a combination of modernism and nationalism
which the Nazi’s used to unify their citizens to create nationalism into their
hearts bringing a new era of nationalist culture making it possible to rule the
entire nation. Equilibrium had the same idea of portraying Libria as nation
under ruthless regime. It was important to make the audience feel like a
citizen of Libria by making gigantic government buildings presenting itself as
a powerful symmetry fortress with thick solid walls to make the individual seem
insignificant. Many of the locations used in the film are actually surviving
buildings from the Third Reich. By comparing both the city of Libria and Adolf
Hitler’s grand design “Welthauptstadt Germania” (World Capital Germania) the
future vision of Germany of reshaping Berlin into the capital state of the Nazi
Reich both cities look almost identical. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00068543493311003768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770785524868845070.post-46450515515939632692012-12-19T11:01:00.000-08:002018-10-24T00:05:39.802-07:00Born On The Fourth Of July & The Best Years Of Our Lives<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In each
returning vet films they focus on the soldiers who individually suffer from
post dramatic stress disorder, either being physically wounded or emotional
traumatized. Each film focuses on soldiers returning and coping in society. But
there are many differences between both films; being two totally different
wars, one was won when the other was lost, the cultural change in the US, when
the US government was being questioned and was acceptable to question authority
and the public view differences between World War 2 and Vietnam.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMAvWK_FUeFQF3FxCVMo2dcm3FhASo3DuHezAIsBdngAQxTRXykS_TSRNBHdNlcQXKgjtyQrxMqpRXkB5mW6scuuocmQ09f2yUDROAXQW_DqjUCAFScpMEm4pSvM0ZDb90OaW5sosVvXpL/s1600/The_Best_Years_of_Our_Lives_film_poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMAvWK_FUeFQF3FxCVMo2dcm3FhASo3DuHezAIsBdngAQxTRXykS_TSRNBHdNlcQXKgjtyQrxMqpRXkB5mW6scuuocmQ09f2yUDROAXQW_DqjUCAFScpMEm4pSvM0ZDb90OaW5sosVvXpL/s320/The_Best_Years_of_Our_Lives_film_poster.jpg" width="207" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In Best Years
Of Our Lives and Born On The Fourth Of July both film focus on returning vets
with a physical or emotional trauma and focuses on getting back into society. The
wars veteran’s wounds are both physical and emotional. He is seasoned by hard
experience and wary of new experience. The war veteran’s fighting spirit,
however, is not necessarily diminished, although his determination to survive
might be compromised and society may receive him rudely upon his return. In Born
On The Fourth Of July when Ron returns home he is seen as upbeat and proud for
taking part in the Vietnam war when his family and neighbours are awkward and
embarrassed on his return home. However his proud family is short lived when
Ron’s brother doesn’t believe in the war and represents the growing society of
questioning the government why they are in Vietnam. During Independence Day
parade when Ron is encountered by protestors and is seen as a “Baby Killer”. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Best Years of
Our Lives shares a similar view in the post dramatic stress disorder with the
three protagonists. However the outcome of the War was very different. Each
narrative element in each movie closely presents and discourses of veteran’s
problem in both abled and disabled veterans who now has to readjust to their
new state of body or mind. Each three returning veterans have to adjust to
society with different elements to post dramatic stress disorder. Homer who
lost both his hands has to adjust go to his disability and accept the love of
the sweet heart next door, Al who creates a habit of drinking and struggles to
sleep with having anger problem and Fred who suffers from a recurrent nightmare
in war with his acquisitive wife and no decent job. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Although both
films show their protagonist having post dramatic stress disorder the cultural
and the view on the war in both films are very different. When Fred returns
home his wife is always seen pushing him to wear his uniform showing him off to
friends and the public. In Born on the Fourth of July wearing the uniform
during the Vietnam conflict was seen very controversial. Unlike in World War 2
when the US was fighting the Nazi’s and the Empire Of Japan the US soldiers
always found themselves rounding up villagers, farmers and people who were
never a threat. There was never a clear enemy for the soldiers and found
themselves fighting a guerrilla warfare. “On the one hand, the veteran’s
heroism and sacrifices are celebrated and memorialized and debts of gratitude,
both symbolic and material, are paid to him. On the other hand the veteran also
inspires anxiety and fear and is seen as a threat to social order and political
stability” (Gerber 1994:546) this quote by Gerber is a great example of
separating both films through different hands; the first hand representing Best
Years of our Lives and the other hand representing Born on the Fourth of July. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00068543493311003768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770785524868845070.post-29304069808416618772012-12-11T02:50:00.000-08:002018-10-24T00:05:39.764-07:00Jarhead<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A coming age journey of a young
man desire to join the marines like his father and grandfather and become
somewhat of a war hero but instead takes a nose dive into madness and obsession
for his first kill. Set in the Gulf War Swofford (Jake Gyllenhall) encounters
first at hand how his voyage takes him into war and learns from first at hand
the first casualty of war is ones inner self.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Watching Jarhead we first at the how modern warfare today is so very
different from previous wars such as the Vietnam War. We see first at hand how Vietnam
War may have had more of a death toll then the Gulf War but the psychological impact
on the soldiers war far more greater being that the Vietnam War so un-glorified
compared to the first and second world wars. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">From an external view Jarhead is a
story of a young man whose ambition in life was to become this glorified sniper
returning home from battle to be greeted with parades and people waving flags.
But if we look at Jarhead from an internal view Jarhead is comparing the wars
between the Gulf and the Vietnam War. Comparing the two we see how both Wars so
different from the public view being that the Vietnam War veterans who was spat
on and Swofford in the Gulf War was welcomed back with open arms and as a hero.
However his own personal battle with on conscious drives him to question what
he actually did in that war? Being that he never did fire his weapon once and
the never did kill an enemy. For Swofford the only real enemy of the Gulf War
was the blazing heat of the Middle Eastern deserts, countless hours boredom and
that his idea of the Band of Brothers of war is not memory of battles but
rather him and his fellow soldiers were taking the piss out of each other and relying
on each other’s sense of humour. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The perfect scenes when both wars
come together is when Swofford is in the parade returning home and a Vietnam veteran
jumps into the bus cheering the Gulf War soldiers for the accomplishment they
done over seas. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But is cheers are short
lived right away when we physically see the Vietnam veteran remembering his traumatic
war and how Swofford realises that his war so very different from that veteran.
If we look earlier into the film Swofford’s father is also a Vietnam veteran. In
the only shot we see him in is at the very beginning when Swofford quickly sums
up his life and the relationship with his family. In just one shot that’s about
five seconds long we see his father wearing robe still wearing his dog tags and
looking so disconnected with the outside world including his son sitting right
next to him. Another example how Vietnam veterans are so traumatically affected
by the Vietnam War. There’s always a constant reminder and comparing between
the two wars and how soldiers from the Gulf War glorified by films like the
cinema scene when watching “Full Metal Jacket” and playing Vietnam music from
their helicopters but in the end it never was the same for Swofford. The only
wounds he gained were the feeling of doing nothing but rewarded as a hero. Comparing
the Vietnam veteran to Swofford though his war so controversial and he must of
killed people when Swofford did nothing and killed no one and he is rewarded
and for sees himself a phony hero.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00068543493311003768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770785524868845070.post-90216603001796157462012-11-30T02:10:00.000-08:002018-10-24T00:05:39.911-07:00La Haine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The film focuses on the suburbs
rural areas of Paris following a group of three boys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each of them represents the individual that
wants to; escape the suburbs and have a better life, one that is in captivated
and openingly glorifies the gangster lifestyle and the last that is somewhat in
a stalemate between the two friends. Each friend rubbing off on the friend that
at one point seems to want to choose a life of crime and the other somewhat is
convincing him to do better. Even though La Haine main subject matter is about
a racially diverse group of young people trapped in the underclass of sociality
in the rural forgotten areas of France. La Haine is was shot in entirely in in
black and white that represents the colourless of the world. In that moment of
history Paris was seen futureless, dull and that having no colour shows no
racial or ethnic difference being that everyone is the same colour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Through the cinematography and
editing we are subjected to how the group feels in their surrounding
environment. By comparing their; ethically mixed, suburban, lower class home,
to the middle white class areas of Paris. For the group to feel more at home
and familiar with their surroundings the cinematography shows a great deal of;
wide, spacious areas however empty which represents how these boys really have
nothing and that the area they live in is a representation of their life; ill
manners came from being ill-treated, never being able to escape the area even
when on the roofs of the apartment buildings. It is seen as a threat to be so
high above the police physically and psychologically. This can be seen as a
metaphor for being above the law or trying to look beyond the suburbs. Each
shot used has a long duration and the scenes are not rushed. When the boys are
in Paris they truly are out of place. Both physically and emotionally they do
not fit in. This is shown mostly through the quick fast pace cuts and how they a
framed in the cinematography; wandering around maze life streets of Paris,
constantly being overwhelmed by the tall buildings surrounding them and the
busy fast pace city life, being lost and wandering the unfamiliar streets of
Paris. When they miss their last train back home, right away we are subjected
to feeling what the boys are feeling; left behind, lost and forgotten.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00068543493311003768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770785524868845070.post-12783678075275221512012-11-21T11:38:00.001-08:002018-10-24T00:05:39.729-07:00The Woodsman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kevin Bacon stars in what I would
honestly say is one of the most powerful and yet daring films I’d ever seen.
Playing the role as Walter, an ex-convict child molester who just finished
serving a 12 year sentence and is returning to his own town. Trying to start
over and working in a lumber/wood yard. Everyone he knows has turned their back
on him apart from his brother in law Carlos (Benjamin Bratt). Trying to live a
normal life Walter sparks a relationship with fellow co-worker Vickie (Kyra
Sedgwick). Constantly on edge Walter has to also endure horrible visits from
detective and parole officer Lucas (Mos Def) who is keep a close eye on Walter
hoping he will slip up and throw him back in jail. With his past and the
constant temptations of his day to day life, and a detective on his case Walter
has to endure his dark obsession and try to live a normal life but his
obsession slowly taking hold of him. Walter is conflicted with the question “Will
I ever be normal?". The Woodsman is a brilliantly orchestrated and yet
thrilling story of a Walter trying to go straight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The film explores into a very touchy and
dangerous territory but the execution of the film is both creepily beautiful
and yet disturbing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Kevin Bacon’s performance as a convicted
paedophile trying to go straight was no easy task. But with his performance as
Walter you can see both physically and psychologically we are introduced to
this man contempt by his own guilt, now having to endure an emotional battle
within. The scene when we see Walter gaze into nothing shows a great deal of
emotional and psychological trauma that Bacon does such an incredible job
showing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Watching the Woodsman we can’t
help but feel sorry for Walter but at the same time disgusted with him. This
theme of “Will I ever be normal?” runs throughout the drama and we see our
protagonist repentant for what he has done. However at the same time we see him
delve back into his dark obsession playing with fire once again. Throughout the
Woodsman there’s a constant feeling of self-contempt and torn for the crime he
did but tries to comfort himself “I molested little girls. But I never hurt
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What’s so fascinating about
watching The Woodsman is the relationship between Walter and the other
characters in the film; His parole officer who itching to throw him back to
prison, the love interest that discovers Walters past and the only family
member that talks to him his brother in law. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the tensest scenes is when we are first
introduced to detective Lucas. His hostile attitude and disgusted feelings to
Walter makes his visits so gut wrenching to watch when Lucas tells Walter
stories of previous crimes of mutilated child victims “Have you ever seen a
seven year old, sodomized in half?” Having to watch Walter suffer almost what
seems to be a psychological police brutality. It’s a captivating scene of which
side we should be on? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00068543493311003768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770785524868845070.post-61456723995381608602012-11-15T13:34:00.001-08:002018-10-24T00:05:39.843-07:00Tyson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tyson is a fascinating self discovery
story who reflects on his earlier years both his private and publicly viewed
life. Reflecting on his childhood years growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn New
York to becoming the youngest ever Heavyweight World Champion. Dealt with bad
hand in life Tyson explains growing up in troubled household and a crime ridden
area lead him to a life of crime. When Tyson discovered boxing a trainer called
Cus D'Amato took him under his wing. Taken from such a deprived area into a
Victorian mansion in the country, D’Amato not only psychically trained Tyson
but psychologically mesmerized him into being the best. Being bullied all his
childhood life, D’Amato taught Tyson discipline and self-respect. Till this day
it still brings Tyson to tears. Building his confidence and guiding him to a
better path. D’Amato became more than a trainer or mentor but a father figure
to Tyson. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>James Toback’s Tyson is a captivating
and emotional journey of the stages of Tyson life as; Kid Dynamite, Iron Mike
and The baddest Man on the Planet. Who better to explain the life one of the
most controversial boxing icons that brings a sympathetic and objective light
to the story then the man himself. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Exploring his upbringings we
realise that Tyson’s childhood was a very unforgiving cruel world. As D’Amato
took Tyson and looked after him as he was his own. We see that D’Amato had a
very profound effect on Tyson both emotionally and psychologically. We realize
that D’Amato wasn’t only training Tyson to become a boxing champion but given
Tyson a reason to live, change his life from crime and drugs. Through boxing
Tyson became a better person, with countless hours of intense training. D’Amato
began breaking Tyson down and rebuilding him. It wasn’t just Tyson’s incredible
speed and his physical perfection. D’Amato mastered the art of the emotional
and psychological elements into boxing and that the key success to being a champion
wasn’t physical but psychological. Tyson would become what was known as the “Spiritual
Warrior” way of fighting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By installing
fear into the opponents, already before they enter the ring Tyson had already psychological
beaten them. With this psychological win the opponent emotionally now has lost
the will to win.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When Tyson become the youngest
and undisputed World Boxing Champion, his young age and rise to stardom become both
a blessing and cures for the champion. Having achieved so much at such little
time his personal issues began to intervene with his personal life also. Being
so young and immature lead him to his downfall in life. Going to prison had a
very psychological effect on Tyson. Again back to a cruel life but instead of
Brownsville, Brooklyn New York it was prison. Having only himself to keep him
company, he became his own best friend and began talking to himself. When released
Tyson didn’t know how to handle the media or anyone which always lead to furious
outburst of rage. It always seemed that Tyson was always surrounded by people constantly
using him for their own gain. It seemed that everyone wanted to be his friend
all for the wrong reasons. After D’Amato died he signed with what he referrers to
as “Slave Masters” taking a third of his wages. He then signed a contract with
Don King who stole from Tyson also. Constantly being used he lost all faith in
life. Becoming; bitter and sacred it’s almost as if he never left the streets
of Brownsville. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Now I'm not going to say that
Silent Hill is one of the most terrifying films I've seen but I can honestly
say it’s one of the best film adaptations of a game. It seems like every film
that is an adaptation of a game does so badly at the box office, but how can
this be? The films they pick already have a great plot, fantastic characters to
work on and a basic structure to help write a great script. So it seems that half
the paperwork and effort is already laid out in front of them. However film adaptations
of games are always a massive flop. In my personal opinion the only film
adaptation of a game that really does do the game justice is Christophe Gans 2006
Silent Hill. If you’re a Silent Hill fan like me, you’ll understand that Christophe
does an incredible job capturing the; creepy, foggy and quite town of Silent
Hill. Just like in the game Christophe visually and emotionally captures the essences
of what makes Silent Hill and he really does grasp the Psychological horror
with the atmosphere. The constant feeling of being watched, having no weapons,
those creepy terrifying creatures chasing you and the bogeyman that’s always
stalking you “Pyramid Head”. The film adaptation is a perfect survival horror
that takes elements from the game series; Silent Hill 1, 2, 3 and Silent Hill
4: The room. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The atmosphere in Christophe’s Silent
Hill perfectly captures Psychological horror that Rose (Radha Mitchell) has to endeavour
into. This voyage into the unknown history of her adopted daughter Sharon
(Jodelle Ferland) leads them to Silent Hill. A Town with a long history of
burning witches to fuel their cult beliefs. Silent Hill is almost as if it’s
stuck between limbo and that the cult town’s people of Silent Hill have to
endure the nightmare of the demon they created “Alessa”. A young girl born
without a father was believed to be a witch and was ritually burned alive. Surviving
the ritual the pain and rage the cult has caused her pulls the town into a dark
dreamlike world. Representing the bodily injuries they inflicted on her. What made
Christophe’s Silent Hill so fascinating to watch were the two worlds he
created; a world with the living and a world with the dammed.</div>
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When the church siren rings “The Darkness”
comes and the foggy silent town transforms into living nightmare. Silent Hill
now becomes a symbolic meaning of Alessa. What the cult has done to her she
inflicts the demonic pain on them. Silent Hill visually becomes a manifesto of
Alessa’s pain. The creatures that Alessa summons look as if they are her
victims of the towns people, dammed to be her demon forever. They seem to be as
if they are monster but actually they are a mockery of human beings. Christophe
wants the audience to realise at the end that the cultist town’s people are
real the monsters. What I admire most of Christophe Silent Hill is how visually
he sets the atmosphere between both worlds of Silent Hill and how beautifully
he captures the soul of the game into a film. In one Silent Hill we see a
foggy, soulless town with the towns people looking like ghosts but when siren rings and darkness befalls the town. The citizens of Silent Hill are destined
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JCVD is not just about a
comedy/drama post office heist job that he stumbles into in mid-progress. Playing himself we don’t see the young;
Universal Soldier, Bloodsport, Kickboxer and Legionnaire. We see an ageing actor
whose films have gone straight to DVD, losing custody of his daughter and not
getting the lead roles that he so desires. JCVD in some way is a
semi-autobiographical look into Jean Claude’s personal life set in a fictional
scenario of a post office heist that turns into a hostage situation that he
gets the blame for. JCVD truly is a fascinating personal insight into Jean Claude
Van Damme and his performance in JCVD is genuinely not acting any more but
instead he’s pouring his heart out. We don’t see our beloved ass kicking action
hero in JCVD but we see a self-loathing man that I grew up to believe was the
world’s most dangerous man alive today. JCVD shows instead of a man who is “wasted
mentally and physically”.</div>
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raw scenes in JCVD is when Van Damme breaks the fourth wall and begins to confess
to the audience how Van Damme himself had to fight his own battles within. Explaining
how before he stood by and live as a peaceful warrior. Learning karate and Dojo
he lived by the samurai code “Oss” but living in the US, focusing on movies and
living the star dream of fancy hotels, hanging out beautiful models and earning
millions. In the end he truly regretted having his dream come true “You made my
dream come true. I asked for it.” But the biggest disappointment for himself
was he never did live up to his own promise. Van Damme became a living lie of
his own philosophical code. The topic of
his drug addiction comes into play. Discussing how having everything he ever dreamt
of as a thirteen year old boy wanting to be a star. Travelling the world,
staying at countless hotels and living in a penthouse there’s always something
more and so he tried it and got hooked. Our “Van-Damme, the beast, the tiger in
a cage, the "Bloodsport" man got hooked”.</div>
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JCVD is truly an open book to a confession of man who is just emotional exhausted and is just throwing in the towel. Whenever I watch a Van Damme film I personally see his films as a unique genre of his own. Of course Van Damme films were always typical cliché actions fighting films of him getting revenge on a fallen brother or friend. For decades Van Damme’s films went straight to DVD but the performance in JCVD gave him a worldwide cinematic release and boosted our kickboxer to a new emotional level that he needed to give such a captivating show. Even though Van Damme has been acting for years I personal feel that that JCVD has now put him on the map for a bigger and higher budget films like our other beloved action hero’s Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00068543493311003768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770785524868845070.post-34270304641211667242012-10-25T14:17:00.000-07:002018-10-24T00:05:39.777-07:00Beginners<br />
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Mike Mills Beginners is a story
about the consciousness memoires of Oliver (Ewan McGregor) and his journey of
love with Anna (Mélanie Laurent). This new found love enters Oliver’s life only
months after his father’s death Hal ((Christopher Plummer) who came out of the
closet to his son right after his mother’s death. At the age of 75, Hal now lives
a full gay lifestyle with his new much younger partner Andy (Goran Visnjic). Embracing
a new life with new friends Hal and Oliver become much closer than ever before.
Showing Oliver his joyous gay life, Oliver learns from his farther the joys of
life and love. Inspired by his father’s attitude to life, Oliver now builds the
courage to pursue his new found love endeavouring into a journey of beautiful
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What I enjoyed most of Beginners
is the pure, raw and human emotions that each character and including a Jack
Russell Terrier? gives to the audience. At the start of Beginners we are
introduced to a grief ridden Oliver who is reflecting on his farther. We see a
very isolated man who only accompanies himself with his father’s dog Arthur who
is also in some way grieving. The two of them are a perfect example of one and
other; Arthur refuses to interact with other dogs and stays with Oliver and
Oliver also unable to connect with anyone and his art work becomes increasingly
depressing focusing his work on “The evolution of sadness”. Whenever Oliver
remembers any moment the film interconnects with flashbacks of that moment. With
these flashbacks Beginners takes us through two stages; the past and present.
The past being moments with his father and the present with Anna. Each two
connect in ways to help Oliver make the right choices with Anna avoiding
another failed relationship that constantly seems to haunt Oliver.</div>
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I'm not a sucker for a typical
love film but the first encounter with Anna at a dress up party; personally I found
it genuinely beautiful and perfect in every way that it can honestly be true
and almost wish it would be. Dressed as Freud and accompanied by Arthur Oliver
only connects with other party goers by setting up a mock therapy session and taking
in patient like the Wicked Witch from Wizard of Oz. Anna checks herself in as a
patient who cannot speak due to laryngitis and communicates by writing in her
notepad. Writing in her notepad “Why did you come to a party when you are so
sad? Anna sees through Freud and finds
an unhappy Oliver. The two begin to connect and even leave the party to a
hotdog stand that leads to Anna’s Hotel room who still hasn't said a single
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closer. Mike Mills Beginners is wonderful film that shows a journey of Oliver
struggle with love but with his father’s new found happiness and inspiring him drives
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00068543493311003768noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770785524868845070.post-40761388138605298862012-10-16T12:41:00.002-07:002018-10-24T00:05:39.786-07:00Taxi Driver Analysis<br />
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The only parts of New York we are
subjected to are the back streets of New York. In most films we’re always taken
around the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. In Taxi Driver we’re
constantly driven around the more dangerous and crime ridden areas. With Travis
relentlessly exposed to these areas his view on New York repulsion. “I think
someone should just take this city and just... just flush it down the fuckin'
toilet.” In most New York films the cinematography is always typically the
same; bird’s eye view shots looking down the busy streets of New York, low angle shots looking upwards to monstrous
like building over shadowing the people and the glamorous typical locations of
Times Square and Broadway. Through the cinematography we only truly see New
York through the taxi cab passing by. The New York we see in Taxi Driver is the
cheap shady bars, strip clubs, 24 hour liquor stores and adult movie cinemas.
Of course the people we see are the typical crowd that hang out in these areas;
street hookers, pimps, drug addicts and alcoholics. All these elements help fuel
the illusion for the projection of Travis’s mind. What Travis sees if what the
audience sees and what Travis feels is what the audience will feel. All the
mise-en-scene and cinematography that Martin Scorsese uses are all an external
projections of Travis’s mind. Through Travis’s mind we are taken through New
York on his perception of what New York is and we see his sanity slowly slip with
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who is Travis we have to look at the; emotional physiological and physical journey
he undertakes in this film. Suffering from insomnia there’s a persistent
feeling of been wide awake and charged. Every time Travis takes medication
there’s always a Non-diegetic sound. In the taxi carriage scene when Travis
takes his medication both inside the cab and out there’s an electric charge in
the background. Both times Travis’s actions give the impression that he is
being filled with adrenaline and almost as is he being recharged. The second
time he takes his medication is in the café. This scene creates a misconception
that Travis’s brain is being almost vaporized. When Travis puts the tablet in
the glass he begins to bizarrely stare at the glass as if he’s been memorized.
The dissolving tablet in the glass is a perfect visual example of Travis’s
inner mind slowly loosing grip in reality. As Travis slowly becomes more delusional
the atmosphere of Taxi Driver begins to questions what is real and a figment of
Travis’s imagination. To help fuel the illusion of Travis’s imagination the use
of colour is heavily over whelming in particular scenes. The red, amber and
green of traffic lights or the flashing lights from the bars and clubs are a
fantastic visual expression of Travis’s moods.To show more isolation and
distance from people, the framing on Travis’s always seemed to make him the
centre of the screen. Walking around the streets of New York or in the R rated
movie theatre people always seem to stay away from Travis and keep their
distance. We see all kinds of people that represent different class status of
New York; Pimps represents the womanising dead beats, the prostitutes are a
representation of sex, drug addicts are the corrupted and men in businesses
suits that look they work in Wall street are almost the yuppie culture. </div>
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Starring Cyrus Trafford as an individual
who seems to be at the norm but however within this man we see an obsession
that turns monstrous. Tim Porter takes us on a journey of Joshua who has to
endure his darkest desire in solitude and isolation. Through Joshua we see the
everyday temptations he has to overcome and avoid. But the constant urge soon
takes over and we see the monster within unleashed. A subject that is greatly
avoided and seen as taboo in cinema, Porter’s vision has no bound for any
topic. Porter courageously explores the forbidden desire of the human yearning.
A thrillingly suspenseful horror, Joshua takes us into the mind of a man slowly
losing his grip of sanity. Captivated through Joshua’s inner mono-log we see
first at hand how the mind of Joshua contemplates. Stunningly shot we’re
subjected to colour tempering that sets the frame of mind. The cinematography
is beautifully lit up and shot but we’re constantly snapped back to Joshua’s
mind with an obscure black and white theme. Watching Joshua it’s almost as if
Porter combined Martin Scorsese’s 1976 Taxi Driver to Nicole Kassell’s 2005
powerful and thrilling drama The Woodsman.</div>
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unsettling feeling of tension that fills the screen. Cyrus’s performance as
Joshua is compelling creepy and convincing as a man with an obsession that soon
takes hold of him. Porter explores into dangerous territory but the execution
of a man being torn apart by his own self-contempt. It’s a sensational view
into the mind of a Joshua. <br />
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thrillingly dark film that explores the obsessed ambition of success that
drives Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) a crazed irascible and paranoid oil
pioneer. There Will Be Blood is not just a journey of money, greed and ambition
of success but it also shows the slipping sanity of a man driven mad by
triumph. With Lewis’s character there’s always a psychotic atmosphere that
fills the air. Though he is seen to be at the norm his drive for success shows
no bound. We see this ambition of success become more and more murderous. As
Plainview is out done by the small California town of Little Boston preacher
Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) we see his mask of sanity slip away. Plainview and
Sunday’s relationship is a fine example of how far Plainview would go to
succeed. In order to seal the deal for Mr, Bandy’s farm, Plainview is
blackmailed into joining the Church of the Third Revelation. Plainview is then
humiliated by Eli as part of his initiation. In front of the towns people Eli
is seen as a “prophet” and him slapping and making Plainview scream “I have
abandoned my child!” again and again is seen as if he’s slapping the devil out
of him when really Eli is just getting his own back. I find this scene one of
the most powerful and significant moments of how far man is prepared to
humiliate himself for his own gain.</div>
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To really grasps who Daniel
Plainview is you have to look into how sees everything and everyone around him.
There’s an unceasing competition in Plainview that makes him a very cynical
person. Seeing only the worst in people he wishes no one to succeed and his
only true goal in life is to “earn enough money that I can get away from
everyone.” We never truly see the real Plainview. He never lets his guard down
and never shows his true face. Just like how the towns people see him we the
audience see Plainview as an ambitious pioneer and a family man who uses his
son H.W. Plainview (Dillon Freasier) as means of gaining peoples trust. When he
is encountered by a man claiming to be his half-brother Henry (Kevin J.
O’Connor) Plainview assumes that his brother is just like him. Realizing that
Henry has no ambition and is nothing like him Plainview discovers that Henry is
an imposter and is actually a friend of the real Henry who died long ago from tuberculosis.
In a fit of rage Plainview kills the imposter. One can argue that Plainview
killed the imposter out of spite, tricking him to believe that he was his
half-brother. But I like to think that he killed Henry because his constant
hate to all human beings and that he can never really trust anyone. Plainview
finally had someone to lean on and maybe relate to “to have you here gives me a
second breath. I can't keep doing this on my own with these... people.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00068543493311003768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770785524868845070.post-80990250005289402292012-09-26T10:37:00.002-07:002018-10-24T00:05:39.885-07:00The High Cost Of Living<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>The High Cost Of Living</i> is a story about a drug dealer Henry (Zach
Braff) and a pregnant woman Nathalie (Isabelle Blais) who loses her baby when
Henry accidently hits her with his car. Having been over the legal limit and
having possession of illegal prescriptions he panics and drives away leaving an
unconscious Natalie on the street. Waking up in the hospital she finds out that
the accident had led to a miscarriage but she still has to carry the baby.
Nathalie’s husband Michael (Patrick Labbé) is unable to cope with the tragedy
and becomes emotionally disconnected and reserved. As Nathalie becomes
increasingly more depressed Henry is unable to shake off the hit and run and
decides to search for the victim. As Nathalie and Henry’s lives cross paths
once again unknown to her that Henry was the hit and run driver, Henry becomes
the guardian angel that her husband can’t seem to be. His increasingly cavalier
role of being a compassionate and charismatic stranger brings great relief to
Nathalie. While the two become closer the police slowly beings the track down
Henry and their new found love shatters as Nathalie discovers the true identity
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Many people may think that High Cost is a predictable cliché drama but it is a fantastic film that shows a great deal of character development for Henry. At the start he’s portrayed as a Montreal drug dealer and already we have a negative perspective on him and even more so when he leaves Nathalie behind. As his conscious drives him to discover the truth about what happened, he befriends Nathalie and we see him transform from a drug dealer to a husband like figure that comforts Nathalie. It’s a fantastic visualisation of a character’s arch unfolding as the story progresses. Henry’s character arch is driven by wanting to become a better person after the hit and run. <i>The High Cost Of Living</i> really is an emotionally driven film that makes the audience like Henry even though he isn't a character that should be liked.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00068543493311003768noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770785524868845070.post-41616508468698930702012-09-23T16:59:00.001-07:002018-10-24T00:05:39.793-07:00Killing Them Softly<br />
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Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them
Softly is based on George V. Higgins' novel about a professional enforcer Jackie
Cogan (Brad Pitt) who is asked to investigate and find out who robbed a mob protected
high stakes poker game. The two wannabe hustlers Frankie (Scoot McNairy) and Russell
(Ben Mendelsohn) are now prime targets for the mob. Killing Them Softly is a
grimy outlook of the mafia set in New Orleans. Throughout the film it seems as
if Dominik masked the United States from the “American dream country” to a deeply
pessimistic nation filled with hate and violence that is driven by the greed of
money. With a tough and beaten look Dominik still brings a great dark humour to
the screen with Scoot and Ben’s dialog and the unexpected heartfelt relationship
between the two hired hitmen Pitt and Mickey (James Gandolfini). <o:p></o:p></div>
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After watching The Assassination
of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford I just couldn’t wait to see Dominik
and Pitt work together again in Killing Them Softly. Pitt really does steal the
show with his stone cold killer performance. Pitt’s character is the typical
outlook of hired gun with some sort of conscience that he prefers to be in the shadows
of his killings "I like to kill them softly, at a distance,”. Never the
less he is a hit-man and his “it’s nothing personal its only business” existence
makes him a ruthless killer. The final scene is truly an Oscar nominee performance
with a terrifyingly and thrilling final speech that makes you glad that you’re
not in the same room as Jackie Cogan.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What really made an impact on
me was the unexpected relationship between the two hired Hitmen. It obvious
right away that the two have been friends for a great deal of time and have history.
We only see the two of them together in two scenes; the bar and the hotel room.
What I really admired is how Dominik in just two scenes we can almost compare
the two being the same person despite the fact Mickey’s life is going down the drain
with his marriage in shambles, the possibility of going to jail and becoming an
alcoholic. It almost as if Dominik wanted to show us that Jackie Cogan’s is
going to become Mickey in the future.<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00068543493311003768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770785524868845070.post-59645582774533403162012-09-20T17:04:00.001-07:002018-10-24T00:05:39.823-07:00Goodbye Lenin <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="style7"><span lang="EN-US">By
looking into Wolfgang Becker’s Goodbye Lenin you can see by the protagonist
Alex Kerner he creates a theme of nostalgia and deception in order to protect
his fragile mother and to help dialog his own personal parallel world creation.
With the most iconic moment in history with the fall of the Berlin Wall,
Goodbye Lenin main focus of the story is based on; a coming of age story, a
story of one worlds collapse to joining another and son protecting mother. What really made me appreciate Goodbye Lenin
is how the political and cultural crises are skillfully constructed by Wolfgang
Becker with the impact of change through; landscape, social, political and cultural.
How both historical and fiction collide with political and cultural crises.
With Alex’s miniature GDR slowly becoming much more than a room full of old
East Germany furniture but becomes something much more. Alex creates a
different route of history through what he would have wanted with a somewhat more
respectful and alternate choices in history. With this re-writing of history
you can see how that in Wolfgang Becker’s Goodbye Lenin the political and
cultural crises are depicted through Alex’s theme of nostalgia, deception and
the creation of Alex’s parallel universe.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;">Through
the reunification of East and West Germany Wolfgang created this theme of
coming to terms with Alex Kerner old Socialist State coming to an end. At the
very start Wolfgang shows how political influence shapes the very idea one’s lifestyle
when series of flash backs of Alex’s father running off with “His new enemy of
the state girlfriend” and his mother becomes totally devoted to the Socialist
State “married the Socialist Fatherland”. Wolfgang shows the importance of a
strong Socialist regime holding Alex Kerner’s family together with his mother
being a passionate crusader for a social justice writing letters for her </span><span style="line-height: 23.33333396911621px;">neighbours</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> “A passionate crusader for the concern of the common people”. Through
a series of home archive footage you see Alex Kerner grow up in a typical
communist propaganda way with; Socialist cadet uniforms, singing East Germany’s
national anthem and his mother being the conductor of the choir. Even during
the era of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union, a simpler
way of seeing the Cold War is looking at the struggle between both ideology of
Communism and Capitalism. Wolfgang used the Space Race to set the first scene
of Alex Kerner proud East Germany heritage by showing Alex and his sister Ariane
watching a news reel of the East German Sigmund Jahn being the first German
going to outer space. Wolfgang did this for two reason; one being that it shows
the height of the Soviet Union being the first to go outer space beating the
Capitalist nation the United States and second showing the political shift will
soon change when Alex Kerner grows up.</span></div>
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Alex mother falling into a coma for 8 months during her time in a deep sleep
her world of a Socialist East Germany falls apart and the victory of the
Capitalist West Germany reunifying West and East. With the Socialist ideology
falling so does the Socialist lifestyle that Alex and Ariane once grew up in
and everything they've been taught is obsolete and now must become like the
West. With Alex sitting back and watching his mother’s world collapse his
sister Ariane embraces the Western culture; getting a job at Burger King and
changing the old East un-luxurious furniture to a more modern Western. Through
Alex and Ariane Wolfgang shows the culture clash between the brother and sister
with old Socialist values to new capitalist ways. Wolfgang shows that as East
becomes more capitalist and Socialist products like Alex mother’s favorite
pickles “Spreewald pickles” are harder to find "Why would anyone want
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falling power of the Soviet Union and the decline in the economy greatly
affected its Soviet zone East Germany. With this falling power it helped East
and West Germany to reunify but at a slow rate. As East and West slowly become
one many of the Eastern Soviet Communist culture slowly went away and was
replaced with Western culture. The Berlin Wall not only kept people from
crossing it also kept both cultures separate with East and West unable to see
one another “The Iron Curtin”. At times you see clashes of both cultures in
Goodbye Lenin such as the scene of the changing of the East German guards and
Coca Cola trucks drive by “Mother slept though the relentless triumph of
Capitalism”. In this scene it shows an invasion of somewhat of western culture
taking over and parading in the streets just like how Nazi invasion of Paris
and parading in their streets. Alex’s sister Ariane is a key character of the
young generation of that time that becoming increasingly more westernized.
Ariane leaves her studies and gets a job at an American fast food chain Burger King;
her outfits become more western along with her music taste and change the
furniture in their apartment “She missed the increasing Westernization of our
79 square meter apartment”. The most drastic western change to Alex was when he
went to his local store and now “Transformed into a colorful consumer paradise”
Now Alex has to settle with this new western food rather than his old East food
he and his family once grew up with “We’ve got the German mark now and there
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<span class="style7"><span lang="EN-US">Wolfgang
now sets in for the main focus in the film by making Alex create his own
parallel universe in order to protect his mother. In doing this Alex now
re-writes history with the Berlin Wall still staying up and East Germany
economy doing just fine. At first Alex recreates his mother’s GDR in their
apartment but as times goes on you slowly see that Alex creates his own humane
GDR. Wolfgang wanted to show us a different view in history by rewriting
history with the million dollar question “What if the Berlin Wall never fell?”
With Alex shielding his mother from the truth by; redecorating the apartment
back to its old days, tracking down old containers, having children sing
Socialist patriotic songs and even setting up a mock newscast. Even when Alex’s
mother notices a gigantic Coca Cola sign on a nearby building Alex invents the
idea through his mock news channel that Coca Cola was invented by East Germany
with a political triumph. Through Alex’s lies and deception Wolfgang wanted to
rewrite history and show the audience this new direction in East German history
“Maybe the GDR I created for my mother, was the one I would have liked to
have”. What was once a miniature GDR Alex now created a parallel universe and
rewriting history replacing his mother GDR to his own. This can be seen when
Alex and his friend Denis who fashioned a broadcast of the rise of neo Nazi
parties in the West and settlers in the West take refuge in the East. Alex uses
his boyhood hero Sigmund Jahn become the next leader of East Germany. Wolfgang
even changes the course of history once again by creating an alternate ending
of history by staging a final broadcast with East Germany opening the borders
of the GDR “Socialism means reaching out to others and living with other. Not
just to dream about a better world, but to make the world a better place. I
have therefore decided to open the GDR borders.” This alternate ending of the
GDR; opening its borders, having the West come to the East choosing an
alternative from the “Dog eat dog society” of the capitalist west. Alex created
in his parallel universe a more respectful end and somewhat a victory over
capitalism. By creating this illusion that everyone from the west wanted to the
join east “Not everyone wants to join in with career addiction and aggressive
marketing”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="style7"><span lang="EN-US">What Wolfgang
shows in Goodbye Lenin is he doesn’t discriminate East and West but empathizes
in the dilemma of Alex’s situation. In an uncertain future for a coming of age
Alex is in a time when the entire world is watching Germany becomes one. Seeing
everyone on the streets of Berlin parade and cheer Alex is stuck right in the
middle. Wolfgang doesn’t show the success of the West through political success
but through a cultural invasion. This cultural invasion of; old Eastern
products coming off the shelves, Coca Cola banners and trucks and even clothing
style working its way through East Germany. Wolfgang created an advertisement
product war showing the Socialist East of how much there left behind through
cultural establishment. Wolfgang noted this when Alex went to the West for the
first time discovering the freedom of Western culture “Of course she also
missed my first cultural discoveries in a new country”.</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00068543493311003768noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770785524868845070.post-77877441218225400162012-09-18T14:42:00.000-07:002018-10-24T00:05:39.872-07:00Drive <br />
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A strong silent type stunt driver
by day and by night a gateway driver (Ryan Gosling) stars in what I would call
a modern masterpiece with an elegant style of the 1980’s artistic neon elegance.
A thrilling car chase film about a loner who falls in love with his neighbour Irene
(Carey Mulligan). Her ex-convict husband Standard (Oscar Isaac) is in debt with
the dangerous underworld Mafia. Driver offers to be a gateway driver for a heist
that would pay off the debt goes horribly wrong and the Driver finds himself
targeted by the Mafia. Not being able to kill the Driver and get their money
back they turn to the two people he ever loved Irene and her son.</div>
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Personally I see Drive as a film
that has barely any dialog and that the entire film is driven by beautifully
shot sequence, breath taking cinematography and the elegant 80’s style. What made
Drive really stand out for me most was the line between Romance and Violence. The elevator scene is a sequence where there
is no dialog and only emotions is used to reflect the imagery on the screen. When
one of Mafia hit-man walks into the elevator the Driver gently pushes Irene back
and kisses her. Here we see one side of the Driver as a white knight and shining
armour hero but within the same sequence we see a psychotic killer who smashes
the hit-man’s skull in, a side that Irene has never seen before. This reminds
the viewers that the Driver has a murderous rage and is not afraid to embrace
it. This elevator sequence is very defining character moment in sense that we
see the romantic side of the Driver kissing Irene for the first and last time
and straight away we see him become a monster crushing the Hit-man’s face. This entire
sequence is done with no dialog and just movement and what makes it so beautiful
is that all emotions shown through movement; caring when he gently pushes Irene
back, love when he kisses her and rage when he kills the Hit-man. Though Drive
is set in a present day LA the film’s atmosphere is heavily influenced in a 1980’s
style. Drive very much has a neo noir nostalgic 80’s elegance to it; with its
neon bright pink opening credits that looks similar to Roger Donaldson 1988
Cocktails or Paul Brickman’s 1983 Risky Business. The soundtrack also is a
reminder of a 80’s electronic pop with synthesizer tones.</div>
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What makes
Drive one of my favourite films of 2011, it’s vastly influenced by the genre’s
and style that it portrays on the screen and that it stays loyal to its genre. The
violence in Drive is very unexpectedly gory and graphic which makes Drive such
a brilliant crime and drama film. With scenes like the elevator sequence, car
chase or the stabbing scenes it can seem like an action film but it’s not. The genre
being a; car chase, crime and drama film with a 80’s style, Drive really does
pay tribute the car chase genre with scenes like the opening police chase and
the heist scene that goes wrong. The crime and drama is what sets the film and
to me that is only the foundations of the film. To get deeper into the crime
and drama genre we have to look at the violence and the surprising realistic
gore we are subjected to. To me Drive is
a realistic outlook of the dark impulse of murder. The scene when Shannon
(Bryon Cranston) gets his wrist cut open and blood starts gushing out is very
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00068543493311003768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3770785524868845070.post-61982294552681872182012-09-12T15:21:00.000-07:002018-10-24T00:05:39.849-07:00DREDD 3D<br />
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From the Atomic Wars of 2070 the
world is now a Cursed Earth. With most of the United States riddled with radioactive
wastes. On the East Coast from Washington DC to Boston lies Mega City One. One
of the only human habitats left. A dystopian metropolis with a population of eight
hundred million people, this city is more of a utopia for violence, criminals
and rioters. With the streets full of violence the “Judges” are the law and order
protectors of the city. These judges are not your typical court room robed judges.
They are a combination of a police force with the power to judge, jury
and, on the spot executioner. This justice department and law enforcement are
feared throughout the city and the most notoriously dreaded Judge is Judge
Dredd (Karl Urban). This gun slinging, bullet dodging and skull crashing
Judge has to take down one of the most powerful gang around the “Ma Ma gang”
lead by Ma Ma (Lena Headey) who as whole city addicted to a new drug called “Slo-Mo”.
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I personally am not a fan of 3D
but after watching Dredd I really am pleased to say that this is one of the
most visually beautiful films I seen in a long time. I didn’t even go to my
mega IMAX cinema’s I just went to my local cinema. So one can imagine how spectacular
it must have looked. The plot pretty much had the same story as Gareth Evans
The Raid., which again made me question the films possibility of delivering the
same action, gore and violence. Again I was totally mistaken once again. Dredd truly
did stay loyal to its comic book origins. The whole focus of the Judge Dredd
universe is that “The Law” is everything and their sole purpose is to make sure
no one is above the law include themselves and that a Judge never relives his identity
which is Karl never takes his helmet off. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The most spectacular 3D effects
are seen whenever Slo Mo is used. Every colour is beautifully lit up and seeing
everything at “Bumper slow speed” really is memorizing. As soon as we’re snapped
back to reality the film has a brilliant dark neo noir style. For those who
remember back in 1995 Sylvester Stallone starred in a Judge Dredd film also and
though the film was a great laugh and I have to admit I did enjoy watching it I
wouldn’t say it was the best looking films. Not because of graphics but because
it just didn’t look dark enough. One thing I can say about the two Dredd’s they
both have amazing quotes and with Karl Urban’s gritty deep voice it makes Christian
bale Batman voice seem like a high pitched sissy voice. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I definitely will watch Dredd 3D
a few more times in cinema with an IMAX experience and buy my Blue-Ray copy later
on this year. Dredd 3D is certainly is a great action film shoot'em up, a
thrillingly gory film that makes you shield your eyes and just seeing the spectacular
graphics memorize you. Dredd 3D is personally one of my favourite Sci-Fi films
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Set in 1975 during
The Trouble years between the political divide of Ireland. Two men from either side Alistair (Liam
Neeson) a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force seeks to revenge on the Catholics
who they claim are republican militants. Hoping to get respect and rise among
the Force Alistair is given the order to kill a young Catholic man Joe Griffin’s
(James Nesbitt) older brother. With the 8 year old Joe witnessing his older
brother being murdered right in front of him and his mother blames Joe for not
doing anything. 33 years has passed and Alistair has served his time in prison.
The both of them are to meet on a TV show hoping the two can a have reconciliation.
However absolution simply isn't an option and Joe seeks to kill his brother’s
murderer on TV. Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel Five Minutes of Heaven is truly
a grippingly thrilling story of two men; the victim of a loss of brother, family
and innocence and the murderer who later on battle with his conscious and
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Five Minutes of
Heaven has a brilliant plot of two stories; one being revenge and the constant torment
of being responsible. The other not asking for forgiveness but rather an understanding
of the man he has become and learning to accept what he has done. Minutes of
Heaven is a perfect example of fantastic character development. Through a series of voiceovers we truly are subjected
to the inner mind of both these characters. Just like in Martin Scorsese Taxi
Driver the use of voiceover we audience are first at hand to see the mind
slowly slip into madness or depression. Both characters are seen in two
different times; young and old. What we see or do in the past determines who we
become in the future. Minutes of Heaven certainly does portray this in this
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We first see Joe
Griffin’s character as a man who is somewhat afraid to meet the murderer of his
brother. After the death of his brother his mother blamed him for not doing anything
to stop it. Even after the death of his mother 33 years from the night he sees
his mother blaming him. Looking at the physiological damage his mother has done
he somehow has to prove himself and his family. So he decides to kill Alistair.
What I really enjoyed watching about Minutes of Heaven is the character arc of
Joe. Joe’s character is seen as a frightened, physiological damaged man. However
as he gets nearer to meeting Alistair we see him become more enraged and delusional
that killing him would be his “Five Minutes of Heaven” and it would be good for
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Alistair’s
character is first seen as a young, ruthless killer. However after his time in
prison he becomes somewhat of a preacher in prison but sees himself as a man
who is cheating his way through life. Not being able to really understand the
man he has become and not knowing where to go in life. What is fantastic about
Alistair’s character is that he is a very likeable character after the killing,
which is a great contradiction as a viewer because we shouldn’t like Alistair
we should be on Joe’s side but Joe has decided to kill. In Alistair’s
voiceovers we get a real understanding of his physiological damage. After
killing Joe’s older brother Joe stared at Alistair and for 33 years that face
has stayed with him. With the voiceovers we see how the image of a young Joe
has made Alistair’s guilt heavier with each passing year. He has become just like
his apartment; cold, empty and withdrawn.<br />
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Looking at both
Joe and Alistair they are very comparable characters. Even though they are very
different people, they become each other in different times. Joe at first was a
frightened man who becomes increasingly enraged and becomes murderous. Alistair
was murderous who later becomes weak and guilt ridden, both unable to shake of
the effects of the murder. 5 Minutes of
Heaven is written remarkable beautiful and really is an excellent film to watch
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