Cameron Mcallister: Film Analysis

McFarland USA is a Disney sports movie based on a true story. The movie begins with Coach Jim White losing his temper with a football player and hurts him. After the incident, he is fired and moves with his family to a McFarland, California. McFarland is predominantly a Latino migrant community. He is hired as the high school P.E coach and notices the potential several of his migrant students have in running. He then decides to from a cross-country team, in the beginning the students are hesitant to join the team because they help their families in waking up early to pick produce. Coach White is persistent and the students decide to join the team. Once the parents see how Coach White is willing to work with their children they become very supportive. The cross-country team changes the students’ life forever and allows the students to obtain the American Dream. This movie was very uplifting and demonstrated the importance of family, education,

“When you want something in life, you´ve got to reach out and grab it” This quote is said by the main character, Christopher Johnson McCandless. The film follows Chris´ adventure after he graduates college. Christopher grows up in a very wealthy and posh family. Though they had their life economically stabilised, their relationship was not strong at all. Which could be the reason that led Chris to abandon his family. Tricking his family into that he is going to Harvard Law school, Christopher donates his $25,000 and leaves his family behind. No phone call, no trails or sign of Christopher McCandless.

The Little Deputy and a Father Son Relationship The Little Deputy is a film by director Trevor Anderson. It is a unique documentary that tells a story about him and his father. The film opens with a unique VHS style of filming depicting him and his father spending a day together.

In the short story, “The End of Something,” Earnest Hemingway uses foreshadowing to show the reader what is going to happen later in the story. In “The End of Something,” the author uses foreshadowing to foretell the end of the couple’s relationship. As Nick and Marjorie row past Hortons Bay, the author tells of what it used to be. The author states that “no one who lived in it was out of sound of the big saws in the mill by the lake.” Similarly, everyone knows Marjorie and Nick are together.

In society, both past and present, individuals with mental illnesses are judged and stigmatized for their inabilities and differences. The Australian filmmaker, Michael Buckley explores this aspect of society through his short biographical film Witness implicating the life of John Harrowell and his sufferings due to being institutionalized at such a young age. The text runs for brief period of time, but within that short period of time, a variety of filmic techniques are utilised to create a more emotional impact on the viewers. Through the utilisation of three prominent filmic techniques; symbolism, characterisation and themes, Buckley is able to effectively portray the tragic life of John

Being a science fiction fan during his childhood, he worked his way in producing several highly acclaimed science fiction movies such as Avatar, Aliens, and the Terminator. Born on August 16, 1954, in Ontario Canada and later moved to California to finish his college at California State University. In order to pursue his dreams in cinematography, he worked as a truck driver and would work on screenplays. Then his career began from an art director in Battle beyond the Stars (1980) to directing various films. Now, he is an Oscar-winning director whose films Titanic (1997) and Avatar (2009) remains the top grossing films of all time. He has won various awards from different sides of the world, Norway, France, and the United Kingdom. Mise-en-scenes were well incorporated in each of James Cameron’s movies especially for science fiction movies that used elegantly crafted visuals.

If we never fail, then we will never be able to truly succeed. Without having tasted failure, our accomplishments will never be as sweet; someone who has succeeded all of their life will be unable to enjoy their successes as much as someone who had to work through hardships and their own personal failures to achieve greatness. In our lives we can not grow as people without making mistakes and learning from them along the way.

The Graduate was created to capture the social dilemma of the late 1960s and to criticize the consumer culture and its negative impact on the younger generation. Since the older generation grew up with the mentality that money will lead to happiness, they try to instill those same beliefs into their children. This caused anxiety and distress among several young adults regarding their futures. Benjamin Braddock, a confused twenty-one year old, has recently graduated from college and now he is unsure what to do next. His parents are expecting great things from him, but Benjamin does not want to go down the typical path created by his affluent family and their friends.

I can't believe I'm about to say this, but.. "M. Night made a pretty good movie."... Haha

Making a play into a film offers many challenges and opportunities for the film maker. A film maker can show their interpretation of the material with a bigger budget and more cinematographic abilities than with a play or a filmed play. They offer their own style and perspective that a reader might not think of. I certainly found that different interpretation watching Julie Taymore’s take on Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare. I found her cinematography style original and some of her plot interpretations interesting. My one critique would be that there was more sex and nudity than I ever care to see again.

I found Good Night and Good Luck to be a very interesting movie. The artistic choice of making it black and white really added to the atmosphere. The placement of that one musician fit very well with the scenes around her, not to mention she had a wonderfully harmonious voice. The quick cuts between scenes supported the speed of the movie, but the very first cut into Murray’s speech caught me off guard. I was extremely surprised that this movie had Robert Downey Jr. and George Clooney. All the actors did really good jobs, I just hope their lungs weren’t damaged by all the smoke from their cigarettes. I never realized how much people smoked then. I hate the smell. I think the cinematography was well done, shooting from different angles during the show and showing clips from the actual past added the right feeling of TV during the time. I was cheering for Murrow the whole time and felt frustrated

This movie is about a character who sets out to deceive a young assistant D.A., by getting away with what is conceived as the perfect crime. Theodore “Ted” Crawford shoots his cheating wife Jennifer in the head, while using her lover also a homicide-detectives gun as the weapon. The case is then taken to trial, and Mr. Crawford gets a decision of dismissal of the case due to lack of evidence. Sending the Assistant District Attorney on a crazy mission to not let this man get away.

Part 1 - In American author's 2009 book, The Help, the primary thesis is the relationship between Black maids and white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s. The story is really told from three perspectives, Aibileen and Minny are Black women, both maids, and Skeeter is the nickname of Eugenia Phelan, daughter of a prominent White family. Skeeter has just finished school and hopes to become a writer. In general, the relationship between the Black maids and the White employers is six sided: On one side we have the White employers who have three views: 1) Their personal and private beliefs that can range from extreme scorn and bias to kindness regarding race; 2) Their public persona that must have the "proper" attitude about Blacks and "the help," and 3) Their employer attitude, which is condescending and parental. The Black view also has three segments: 1) Their personal and private beliefs that usually range from understanding not all Whites are the same and an extreme love and empathy for the White children for whom they care; 2) The public persona that is deferential, polite, and stoic to their White bosses; and 3) Their attitude and view among the Black community, which usually separates the "poor and ignorant but rich" White souls from the Black view of family and common sense. All in all, the relationship is contentious, phony, and based on economic advantage.

3). This sheds light to the high price of beauty that is accumulating in the United States. The numbers become even worst when it is shown that education is more affordable in comparison to beauty. The YWCA shares that “One full year of tuition and fees at an instate public college is equal to almost five years of saving $100 a month normally spent on cosmetics and beauty products” (Beauty at Any Cost, 2008, p.2). With facts like these, it becomes evident what our society places the upmost importance on. Women are more than exterior appearances and this tale does not help at all in showcasing that. This tale has reinforced this racist beauty ideal that only white women with blonde hair and blue eyes and women that can be easily dominated by males may be seen as beautiful. Where does that leave the rest of us who don’t fit this perfect box? The women who do not fit into this rigid mold of what constitutes as beautiful are left tearing themselves apart and going to extremes to accomplish a pricey goal that will not be as nearly as beneficial as compared to an

“A Day In The Life: Maureen” (Socialcarecareers, 2009). is an emotive film that presents a day in a social worker’s life. In this film the social worker shares about her duties, challenges, and the positive outcomes of doing social work. The film also presents the process of assessment and key points to keep in mind through the course. Maureen approaches the assessment through developing an individualized plan that is “constructed specifically for that person and not a cookie cutter approach to supplying services.” As discussed in the text “the purpose of this interview is to begin the assessment process. In order to develop an individualized plan one has to interview the family to discover the client’s history, strengths, weaknesses, current problems, potential problems and a sense of who this person is (Summers, 2014). As seen in the video clip, Maureen follows this process through speaking to her clients giving them the right to participate in the planning of their care. Maureen is a good listener; she has one to