Analysis Of The Movie ' Basterds '

United States Marines are some of the roughest and toughest men to ever walk this Earth, and that is because Marines is not born but instead built, and the men who mold those boys into Marines do a damn good job at doing so. Stanley Kubrick’s portrayal of the United States military and more specifically the Marine Corps, in his 1987 film Full Metal Jacket is arguably unmatched by any other film to date. Full Metal Jacket’s glorification of violence, justified brutality, and superb realism are more accurate than most would like to believe during such a controversial period of American history. From the opening scenes at Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) Parris Island to the far off, dangerous lands of Vietnam, Full Metal Jacket embodies the

Argo is an American political thriller movie. This movie is adapted from a book named “The master of Disguise” written by Tony Mendez (a former CIA operative) and an article named “The Great Escape: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran” written by Joshuah Bearman and was published in Wired magazine in 2007. The movie is filmed upon the story of escape of six American diplomats, who were captured during the seizure of American embassy in Tehran, Iran in 1979. The whole project was named as Canadian Caper after the joint venture of rescue by the Canadian government and Central Intelligence Agency.

The film The War Room is a documentary about Bill Clinton that has very little to do with Bill Clinton himself. The primary focus of the film is devoted to the team of campaign strategists that got Clinton to the presidency. The two main players the film focuses on are James Carville--the Lead Strategist for the Clinton campaign and George Stephanopoulos the Communications Director. The film follows them and their team of campaign strategists and experts as they try to get Arkansas Governor, Bill Clinton, to the presidency. The documentary highlights many key moments in Clinton’s campaign, for example the Gennifer Flowers scandal. However, the film showcases what was happening behind closed doors in the War Room, where Clinton’s

In Wolfgang Staudte’s (1951) film, Der Untertan, the main character named Diederich Hessling develops from being a meek and cowardly boy to become a manipulative and self-involved man. The film uses many instances of imagery and subtle moments of foreshadowing to convey the ideals of the people of that time which lead up to the World Wars. Diederich is a typical Prussian citizen who blindly follows, supports the true “German values”, and bows to his superiors while stepping on his subordinates. The film illustrates Diederich’s character development, his shift in personality, and political confrontations through carefully crafted camera techniques that also highlight the time period that the film was set in as well as produced in.

Fences is a drama film directed and starred by Denzel Washington, along with Academy Award Winner, Viola Davis as well as adapted from the play Fences by August Wilson. The movie Fences focuses with elements of distrust and change among a working-class African-American father Troy Maxson, works as a garbage collector during the 1950s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Maxson’s dream was to become a professional baseball player, but he was considered too old when the league began recruiting black athletes. Sullen by the truth, Troy creates more problems in his family when he dismisses his son’s chance to play professional football. The director’s perception of African American experience during the time period is very fluent. The characters

As time goes on, history has a way of getting distorted from its most truthful form. Time causes people to drift away from accuracy and become more interested in what they want to remember. Hollywood has a reputation of creating films that cater more to the average viewer, rather than the history buff. Inglorious Basterds, by Quentin Taratino, take very liberal liberty with a history story, and creates a story that will sell to the crowd. This may seem dubious, but it is often not such a bad thing. Hollywood can take a story that may have one connotation, may it be serious or dreary, and turn it into something that evokes different emotions, will still addressing historical issues or topics. Taratino chooses to film a movie of this type

Ingenious placement of mise en scene allows the actors from the film Schindler’s List to be shown next to the real life victims. Spielberg has used this technique of mise en scene to achieve his underlying purpose which was for the audience to identify and feel the pain of the victims. Spielberg explained, “I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to after the war.” Using mise en scene really drives home the fact that the characters in the film are real people who suffered during the reign of the Nazi’s rather than just invented figures and allows the audience to have a true connection with the characters and the victims. Showing the real life people along with the actors humanises them as a group and gives them individuality and uniqueness. Spielberg is also sending a message to those that doubt the reality

Fences is a drama film directed, starring and produced by Denzel Washington, along with Academy Award Winner Viola Davis and adapted from the play Fences by August Wilson. The movie Fences focuses with elements of distrust and change among a working-class African-American father Troy Maxson, who makes his living as a garbage collector during the 1950s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Maxson’s dream was to become a professional baseball player, but he was considered too old when the league began recruiting black athletes. Sullen after hearing the truth, Troy creates more problems in his family when he dismisses his son Cory’s chance to play professional football. The director’s perception of African American experience during the time period is

The “Lost Battalion” film was a great film about World War One. It showed a lot about the horrors of the war. It also brilliantly depicted the reality of the war.

What are you insecure about? Every individual has at least one insecurity that they internally battle with every day. For example, some may be embarrassed of their physical appearance, which may lead to low self-esteem. Others may be socially awkward and some may even be insecure about their financial status. Social anxiety and insecurities have rose among Israelis and Palestinians throughout recent years. In the Television Show, Arab Labor, viewers were shown the personal identity issues that the main character, Amjad, battled with. The personality of Israelis and Palestinians has affected their vulnerability to certain situations following the 2009 Gaza Conflict. They have faced distressing repercussions from war such as posttraumatic stress disorder. In the film, Waltz with Bashir, a young man struggles with reoccurring dreams that stemmed from his time as a solider in the 1982 Lebanon War. Just like any individual on this earth, Israelis and Palestinians face social anxiety and battle with insecurities every day from certain events that affect the way they carry out their everyday lives.

The movies that Tarantino makes are not just violent, but have a great storyline, which he writes. His most famous movies include: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, and the newest one, Inglourious Basterds (IMDb). Other, less famous ones are: Jackie Brown and Grindhouse (a double-feature consisting of Planet Terror, and Death Proof) (IMDb). To this day, people still talk about how great of a movie Pulp Fiction is. These movies are well known for their graphic violence, and sometimes profanity.

1. What is the true subject or the theme of the film, and What kind of statement, if any, does the film make about the subject? Which elements and which themes contributed most to addressing the theme of the film?

The film “The Prestige” is one of many masterful Nolan films that walks the line between being a meta film about the film industry, and being focused on immersing the audience in the actual content of the film. At a close inspection, comparisons to the film industry can be seen, but they are not so obvious to distract the audience from the central conflicts that are at the forefront of the film. The subject of the film could most easily be defined as surrounding the topics of obsession or fame. More specifically, the obsession of fame, and the illusion of happiness that fame projects. The main characters of the movie both urn for the fame of being the world’s most successful entertainer, even if for different reasons.

Les Miserables is by far one of my favorite stories/ movies. There are so many underlying views though out. The original author of Les Miserables was Victor Hugo. Victor Hugo himself is a very interesting gentleman that lived in a very complicated time period with lots of political issues, which I believe come out in this movie.

History is a subject that is interesting in one way or another to almost all people. Different stories from different culture hold multitudes of information for people of our world today to be able to research and understand. Throughout history, each and every story that is told throughout textbooks and artifacts that are found to be true possess a sense of fascination to people who view it. Due to the fact that so many historical stories of the lives of different people and civilizations, in our modern world today our entertainment businesses tend to want to recreate these interesting historical times through varieties of movies. An example of how our world today has tried to recreate the history of different civilizations through the motion picture film of 300: Rise of an Empire. This movie depicts the Greek and Persian civilizations during ancient times. Warner Brothers Entertainment goes to recreate the battles between these two civilizations. Although this is what they tried to do, entertainment is what is most important. With entertainment being the key to making this movie, the historical accuracy is going to vary throughout the film. 300: Rise of an Empire is a movie that does have historical accuracies that give the audience a realistic depiction of the civilizations at this time, however, many inaccuracies have caused this movie to not be considered a reliable source in terms of history.