1984 Movie Analysis : This Is Spinal Tap

One time the theme is shown is when Johnny and Ponyboy realize that there were kids in the burning church, and they hopped right in to save them. Johnny courageously sacrifice his own life to allow Ponyboy and the children to get out. “Johnny shoved me toward a window. ‘Get out!’ I leaped out the window and heard timber crashing and the flames roaring right behind me.” (Hinton 93). Johnny and Ponyboy are two kids who are on the run because they are convicts.. Not too long before this, Johnny was standing over Bob, who he had just killed with a switchblade. People would never expect a killer to sacrifice his life for some kids and his friend, especially someone as young as Johnny. Johnny and Ponyboy didn’t do this to convince other people or themselves that they are good people with morals. They did it because they knew it was the right thing to do and they couldn’t just let the kids die in the fire. This shows that they can rise above what other people might expect from them.

The movie starts off with a group of teenagers in school, all from different social groups. They all meet in detention on a Saturday where they are forced to sit in complete silence and they get assigned to write a paper about “who you think are” by their principal Vernon. Throughout the movie their minds are exposed to the different lives and experience of each other; with that they create this bond that

    “Tonight I gotta cut loose, footloose, kick off my sunday shoes. Jack, get back, come on before we crack.” (Footloose, Kenny Loggins) For this essay, I chose to watch Footloose made in 1984 and directed by Herbert Ross and Footloose made in 2011 directed by Craig Brewer. Both movies centered around the town of Bomont, a secluded town with out of the ordinary beliefs. In this town, dancing and partying of any sort was strictly against the law and teenagers were seemingly miserable. There was little to no self expression and even listening to provocative music or any music too loud, could get you a ticket with a hefty fine. The reason behind the strict rules is that several years back, five teens from Bomont High School died in a car wreck after they were drinking and dancing too much. Each of these movies have some things in common, but have more differences than anything. Some of the main differences are the opening credits of each movie, how and who Ren arrives to Bomont at the beginning of the movie, the “chicken” races between Ren and Jeff, and the book burning in town square.

It didn’t help me to analyze anything from the book or make any good connection with the themes. The movie and the novel share one thing in common, which is the main characters struggle with society. The main character in the movie, Charlie, battles with his love for religion (Catholicism) and his Mafia ambitions. The movie has an abrupt ending with a scene of an ambulance and paramedics arriving to help Charlie and Johnny that have been shot by the man they owe money to. The movies main purpose was to illustrate the cultural and ethnic situation of the time and how it impacted the youth’s

The three movies I decided to watch were Leave It on the Floor, New Muslim Cool, and Terrors of Tiny Town. Leave It on the Floor is a musical about a young man named Brad who gets kicked out of his home and finds refuge in the drag community. New Muslim Cool is a documentary about a man who converts to Islam and turns his life around. He once was a drug dealer and now is a man who helps others and spreads the word of Islam. Terrors of Tiny Town is a musical and a Western with a cast made up entirely of dwarfs. The film is about a feud between two families. I chose to write my film review about Leave It on the Floor because it was the most interesting and entertaining to me. It is one of those movies that you cannot stop thinking about after you watch it. We talked a lot about the LGBTQ community in another class I am taking this semester so I thought this movie was a good choice for me to dive deeper into. Paris is Burning came up a lot in our discussion of this topic and it was great to finally watch it. The documentary is incredibly enlightening with regards to the struggles of young adults who identify as LGBTQ.

2) What are some of the themes that are central to the film? How have they been communicated?

An Evaluation of Grease My film that I choose was Grease because it contains music, dancing and humor. It is a cross between comedy and teen movies. It is a tribute to the Broadway show of the 1950's. It was directed by Randal Klieser and was released on July 7th 1978.

The former members of the band were: Jack Lee Elgood, Paul Cooper, Rick Rock, Neil Harrison, David Catlin-Birch, Andre Barreau, and Hugo Degenhardt. Neil Harrison announced

The movie I chose to do my movie analysis on was Sin Nombre. I chose this movie because it stood out to me the most, mainly because of the title in Spanish. I used four concepts while analyzing this epic movie. First I applied the power elite theory to see who had the power in this power city and how they used their power. Then I used the social conflict theory to see what caused the people to get into the gangs and how the gangs acted to the people. The socialization theory is shown in the sense that the gang makes people believe that they are a part of a family when they join. The last concept I used was deviance because of all the violence that happened in the movie.

Their first public performance was in a cafeteria in DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. With their original drummer Ben Rose, and their original guitarist John Flamandon, they were considered as bad and goofy because they were just starting out and had stage fright. Flamandon then quit the band because he felt underappreciated by their small fan base. Trohman introduced Wentz to his high school friend Patrick Stump, and after originally trying out for the drums, Stump became the bands lead singer and guitarist. They then decided to record a proper demo in Wisconsin. Rose quit the band because of work related reasons, and Wentz’ High school friend Andy Hurley decided to help out a friend and become their mew drummer. After a few months, Wentz became depressed and took a handful of anxiety pills. Wentz claimed he wasn’t thinking about killing himself, he just wanted to clear his head. As a result of this, he spent a week in the hospital. After this, in 2010, the band took a hiatus or break.

Throughout their years at the top they were shrouded in mystery and intrigue, and seemed to leave behind a trail of question marks wherever they went. They were not a “public” band (they didn’t hire a

The documentary takes a deep personal view into the emotional rollercoaster that was Joplin’s life. The film is filled with incredible interviews with the people that knew Janis best. The interviews include her family members, friends, former bandmates and former lovers.It includes members of Big Brother and The Holding Company, Bob Weir from The Grateful Dead, David Dalton founder of Rolling Stone magazine and many others. The documentary also includes personal letters written by Janis to her close friends and family members. The viewer really gets a feeling of her troubled childhood and her constant

Extra Credit The Genre I picked was documentary. The two films I watched were “Hot Coffee” and “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold”. The reasoning both of these films are put in the documentary section is because they are both based on something that happened in the past. The film “Hot Coffee” mainly talks about different people suing different companies. This documentary talks about different people and what they had to go through when taking different companies to court.

There were many issues and concepts that were arisen with this film. What seemed to be the major theme that predominated throughout the film was that being older does not mean that life ends. There are different issues that are dealt with when aging, but

Throughout the movie, The Notebook, there were many different aspects that corresponded with the material learned throughout the semester. There were times were you were able to pin point why each problem was faced based on different character backgrounds. As began to watch the movie, you start to understand the culture aspects of each individual by the way they talk and present themselves, which caused many situations to arise. Also, these many situations arise throughout the movie that affected the outcome of decisions made: biological, psychological, and social/environment. However, diversity played a magnificent role from the beginning to the end. So, therefore, throughout this paper you will have a better understanding of the analysis of this film, which should provide information about the movie.