Analysis Of The Film ' Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid '

Disney has faced a large amount of criticism from critics over the tropes and stereotypes that it portrays in its animated films. This is not a recent event however. One of Disney’s most notorious and controversial films, Song of The South, was released in 1946. Song of the South, set during the Reconstruction Era, focuses on a young boy named Johnny who learns that his parents will being living apart for an unknown amount of time, moves to a plantation in Georgia, while his father continues to live in Atlanta. Depressed and confused over the recent events Johnny decides to run away to Atlanta, but is drawn to the voices of Uncle Remus, an ex-slave living on the plantation, telling stories of Br’er Rabbit. Although it is implied that the African American workers are no longer Johnny’s family property, the black characters are still wholly subservient and are happy to be so. James Baskett plays Uncle Remus as a blissfully, happy companion ready to please. Due to this “magical negro” trope, the characters’ ridiculously stereotypical voices, and the unrealistic happy and joyful relationship between the white landowners and their black help, Song of The South, is one of Disney’s most offensive, racist, and fictitious film. Disney’s portrayal of Uncle Remus is his veiled justification of the mistreatment that minorities received before and after the Reconstruction Era.

Steven Spielberg is known by mostly everyone for directing Jaws, E.T., Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, etc. Some of the biggest hit movies in the U.S. Jurassic Park is one of Spielberg's best creations, bringing dinosaurs back to life, this movie led to multiple grammys under Spielberg's belt. Another great film, Jaws, was a box office hit and one of the highest grossing movies released. Jaws launched Spielberg's career into a very good path, it launched a new era in Hollywood. Steven won two academy awards for best director for “Schindler's List” and “Saving Private Ryan”, two of Spielberg's major war movies he directed, which were both hits as well. Spielberg's style is unlike no other. Mainly all of his movies are categorized as adventurous, deal with science fiction, and have historical drama (McBride). Most of his movies are adventurous. Jurassic Park and Jaws are dealing with more science fiction than any other style. Schindler's List has to deal with more historical drama. E.T. is more adventurous than the other styles as well. Lots of Spielberg's best movies have sequels, but most of them are not as good as the original film. Jaws has three or four movies in its series. Jurassic Park also has multiple movies, but they are all not commercially successful as the original Jurassic Park. However, Spielberg’s Indiana Jones series was a box office hit for every movie. Raiders of the Lost Ark was one of the most

Butch Cassidy is the talkative and visionary leader of his Wild Bunch, an infamous group of bank robbers from the American Old West. He thinks his way out his problems, mostly through deception, and he always has new ideas in regards to heists and his own future. His partner, the Sundance Kid, is an expert gunslinger with an intimidating presence. He’s calm, stern, and willing to kill when backed into a corner, but he leaves the planning and thinking to Butch.

Both films were made for different reasons and made different impacts during their time of release. For Django Unchained, the film showed the horror of slavery before the civil war. Showing slaves being eaten by dogs to slaves fighting to the death, makes an unconventional film for its time and raised a lot of controversy considering the movies historical accuracy. The horror of slavery is in the dehumanization that slave owners create and the effects placed upon the slave of having to do whatever is necessary to survive, including killing. The memory of slavery is revisited and reminds the United States of its shame during the time of the film. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a revisionist western that pays homage to old western movies. Since Westerns were outdated in the late 60’s, this revised western film is created with New Hollywood elements including an unhappy ending and film using rock/pop soundtracks to attract the youth.

Broadway in Missoula, Montana was seen March 25, 2016 in the form of the show Mama Mia. This comical venue was presented at the University of Montana Adams Events Center, in Missoula, Montana. A large company of well renowned Broadway actors was seen in Missoula which led to the large crowds and excitement. The company was composed of Kyra Belle Johnson as Sophie, Kat Borrelli as Ali, Christina Eskridge as Lisa, Laura Michelle Hughes as Tanya, Sarah Smith as Rosie, Erin Fish as Donna Sheridan, Stephen Eckelmann as Sky, Justin Goei as Pepper, Max Ehrlich as Eddie, Andrew Tebo as Harry Bright, Ryan M. Hunt as Bill Austin, Chad W. Fronwalt as Sam Carmichael, and Joshua Taylor Hamilton as Father Alexandrios. Many of these actors and actresses have been seen in other Broadway shows as well as Television and off Broadway shows.

Alex Ross Perry is a rising, prolific writer, director, and actor who has won acclaimed for his creativity from critics and other filmmakers. After graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Art, he has completed four feature films, Impolex (2009), The Color Wheel (2011), Listen Up Philip (2014), and Queen of Earth (2015). Not only is he a dedicated original filmmaker in which all of his films were shot on a tradition mean, 16-millimeter film, of production, but also he is an audacious artist that he opts for the avant-garde narrative without following rigid adherence to Hollywood-inspire rules or award-winning recipes. Since then he remains a personage of importance in the New York City film production community as well as plays an influential part in encouraging students who enter the film program at the Tisch School of the Art to be diligent.

For my outside event I chose to attend the screening of “The Hunting Ground” which was directed by Kirby Dick, who also directed the film, “The Invisible War”. In addition to the special screening of this film, Kirby Dick made a special appearance for a post-film discussion. The event began at 5:30P.M. and went on till about 7:30P.M. or so which began with a rocky start as Kirby Dick was scheduled to arrive in time to introduce the film to the audience, but due to an unfortunate mishap on Highway 99, it caused him to arrive closer towards the end of the film. In the film we are presented with two protagonists, Andrea Pino a valedictorian from her high school and Annie Clark who graduated third in her high school class. Both ladies are alumni’s at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and both had been sexually assaulted before their classes at UNC had even began. Both girls shared very similar experiences; they both knew their attacker, they were in denial about their assaults, and when they approached their school administrators to report the assault were bombarded with insulting questions in regards to how they were dressed the night of the attack, if they had been drinking, and essentially boiled it down to that both girls got what was coming for them for putting themselves into those situations. The film highlights how colleges and universities try to make their campus’s appear to their

Radio presenter: Upon its release in 2014, Birdman was the topic of several debates; many admiring the films unique cinematic techniques and the equivocal ending whilst leaving others to criticise the overall ambiguity. Today, the film is still debated among audiences so we have invited Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the director of Birdman, to discuss the themes, values and techniques he wanted to present within Birdman.

This report was exploring different aspects of Christopher Nolan's films to determine why he is an auteur. Throughout all of his movies, he uses similar techniques such as dark driving forces for his protagonists. He also uses unclear and twisted plots causing the audience to be misdirected. And finally, the use of non-linear timelines to explore different aspects of his characters.

When asked, most people could probably say what the scariest moment of their life was. Maybe it was the time they went skydiving, or maybe it was when they were almost hit by a car, but mine is when I had to drive in Sioux Falls for the first time. That seems silly, right? Driving isn’t scary. Maybe driving in itself isn’t scary, but driving in Sioux Falls definitely is. Sioux Falls is a ginormous city. The city is always bustling with cars and people trying to get to work, or an appointment, or who knows where else. I’d never thought of Sioux Falls as a scary place, until I started driving, and when I did, it was the scariest place I could imagine. I dreaded the thought of driving in Sioux Falls immensely, and the idea was like a nightmare. Sadly, my worst nightmare eventually came true.

Quentin Tarantino has had an undeniable amount of influence on all cinemagoers. He is often cited as early influences for aspiring filmmakers and compared with some of the greatest filmmakers in film history, including Jean-Luc Godard, Ingmar Bergmann, and Stanley Kubrick. Tarantino’s work has been the subject of countless reviews from critics, journalists, and fellow film directors; the timing of reviews span from even pre-release. The casual film-watcher might talk about Tarantino as the modern American Spaghetti-Western director, despite the fact that his films deal with and through many different genres. The advanced critic will characterize him as an auteur, tearing apart film conventions. As expected, Quentin Tarantino is a polarizing

Another part of the "To Kill A Mockingbird" book that was not included in the movie was Miss Maudie's house burning down. This scene was important to the movie because it showed how important Boo was in the children's lives, although they did not realize it. In the book, during the fire, Boo came up behind Scout and Jem and put a blanket over Scout's shoulders, though she did not realize it, nor did she see Boo. This scene also shows the closeness of the community of Maycomb. While Miss Maudie's house was burning, there were community members fighting to save some of her possessions from the fire. In the movie, we never feel just how close the people of Maycomb county are, and it is because this scene was left out.

Steven Spielberg started out as an amateur director, has now directed some of the most remarkable movies of all time, and he is still making stunning films. He started as an unsuccessful beginner in filmmaking, getting rejected by many film schools, yet he is still a renowned filmmaker today. He has created some of the best cinematic experiences of our time. Spielberg is still adding to his already incredible legacy with every movie of his that is released. Steven Allan Spielberg is one of the most influential, substantial, and important filmmakers that the world has ever

Throughout history, films were known to be iconic and relevant to a certain genre. In each genre, you can pull out different directors that created pathways and opened doors that highlighted and chronically pinpointed eras of filmmaking. However, directors tend to blend genres over their career, but still pave ways for proceeding directors. One director, Stanley Kubrick, specialized in imaginative films that involved images beyond what was real. His genre focused on surrealism and horror, while using characters emotions to drive the stories. A director that was influenced by Kubrick’s filmmaking was David Lynch. Not only did Kubrick break barriers with his controversial films like Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork

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