Elf Movie Analysis

I enjoyed this film as a young girl and still enjoy this film as if it was my first time watching it. My favorite aspect of “The Grinch” was Carrey’s performance. I was so intrigued by how he managed to provide a jaw-droppingly humorous presentation with his over-the-top animated antics and trademark facial expressions under pounds of green makeup and knotted hair. He leaped, tumbled, taunted, and flew through the air and tunnels throughout the garbage mountain, Mount Crumpit. His unbelievable gestures left me so interested throughout the film I couldn’t take my eyes off the screen. With Carrey’s performance, he took “The Grinch” to a level of genius! The film itself had already established the lovable and cheerful community of Whoville and all it needed was a little bit of edge to take the film sky high, Carrey was it. This is the perfect film to watch with the family around the Christmas holiday as it brings out a great sense of joy. My reaction to this film was a hilarious, positive one, I constantly found myself laughing at various scenes at the Grinch’s change of voice and direction as well as the dialogue between the Whos and himself. From the very beginning I was able to understand the reasoning behind each and every character's demeanor, so the happy ending was welcoming. To me, I personally feel like there were no issues with “The Grinch”

In 2003, many people would have never thought that Elf would be as great of a success as it is today. Elf is a once in a generation Christmas movie that includes clever and humorous jokes as well as hits the soft spot of much of the audience This comedy may seem cheesy to many but as the story takes off you will not want to leave your seat. From people getting hit by taxis to elves getting into fist fights with Santa, this totally unpredictable movie will keep you laughing for 97 minutes. You will have a hard time keeping up with the movie because you will spend so much time catching your breath. Once you watch the movie once, it will turn into a Christmas tradition for years to come.

In the movie, the Babadook, the characters express their grief that never leaves. It grows as “monster” that one learns how to deal with because losing someone is never gets easier. These scenes are compared and contrasted through mise-en-scè, cinematography, and editing. This scene analysis is going relate two scenes that helps understand what one goes through after a lost. The movie has characters that help express the misery of one that doesn’t learn how to grieve in a proper manner. How one overcomes the pain and changes for the better and slowly has better days. A brighter day might not come tomorrow, but learning how to control your days come within time.

The 2003 film Elf (Berg, Kormarnicki, Robertson & Favreau, 2003), while seemingly inconsequential for intercultural communication studies, provides a relevant and interesting case study for problems in intercultural communication. On his journey of finding his birth family and his identity in America, Buddy the Elf encounters several challenges in intercultural communication as he experiences culture shock, difference and conflict between the Elf and American cultures. This paper will provide a brief synopsis of Elf’s plot and key characters, and will then explore several issues as they present themselves in the film. First, the issue of value orientations and how they present in both American and Elf cultures will be analyzed. Next, the process and implications of acculturation will be examined in Buddy’s case, including his complete assimilation to a new culture by virtue of adoption and how this impacts identity and communication. Finally, issues in nonverbal communication differences in the Elf and American cultures will be explored, followed by brief concluding remarks.

The movie, “The Pursuit of Happyness” is a film based on a true story of Chris Gardner, where Will Smith shines a tale of rags-to-riches filled with love, family, and outcome of the American dream. Chris Gardner is an American businessman, investor, stockbroker, motivational speaker, author, and philanthropist. Based on this real-life story of Chris Gardner, Will Smith takes the role of Christopher Gardner, who was a salesman struggling to satisfy the needs of his wife, Thandie Newton, and their son, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith. With the financial problems, his wife gives up the struggles, abandoning him and their son. Things get worse as Gardner and his son are evicted from their residence leaving them with no option but to try surviving on the streets of San Francisco. They are forced to move from one place to another in the bid to get a shelter wherever they are lucky to get one. The movie demonstrates us how vigorously he is eager to chase his happiness in many burdensome ways. It exhibits how Chris Gardner becomes homeless in the beginning of the movie, but later he becomes a successful dream achiever after putting all his hard work.

To my understanding, the movie Home for the Holidays not only reveals a lot of potential family conflicts, but also reflects a lot of different communication approaches of the various family members. As a foreigner, I have never experienced Thanksgiving homecoming dinner before, so I may cannot understand some of the holiday customs in the movie, but I found out that their family interactions are interesting indeed.

Despite being one of the most popular, if not most popular, animated movies of all-time, Toy Story offers a limited perspective when it comes to gender because of manhood acts, homosociality, and stereotypes. The manhood acts in the film suppress women at the same time as they support the hegemonic masculinity, which is the masculinity that actively attempts to suppress women and inferior masculinities (Bird pg. 129). When the male characters in the movie do this, it approves of this negative behavior that limits the voice of the female characters. Additionally, the lack of female characters causes the film to portray homosociality, which prevents young girls from seeing a variety of representations of women in the toys. Also, the stereotypes in the movie reduce women to second class citizens. Both male and female stereotypes in the movie support the hegemonic masculinity. Ultimately, the depiction of manhood acts, homosociality, and stereotypes in the film, Toy Story, actively support the hegemonic masculinity at the expense of other gender identities.

Recently I watched a film called 13th which was recomemmended by my mother and other peers. This movie address the 13th admenment which who purposed was to free the slaves in the south. Not many agreed with the 13th admenment because it took away the income for me farm owners. The 13th states “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction”. No one really took their time out to analyze this statement. I don’t feel that slavery is right period no matter the if its as a punishment. No one should be a slave period, because who wants to work for free. If your going to put prisnors to work

Book by James Lapine was a great story overall. I truly enjoyed watching the show especially when the Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim played perfectly during the show. Director Eve Himmelheber was able to put out a such an amazing show. I really enjoyed watching Into The Woods because it was colorful, every character was really great with their role, and so much more. I could not be more amazed of how beautiful the production came out. Musical Director Mitchell Hanlon was really great with every musical that played throughout the show. He was always in time of making the sound when a character would kick the floor or any action that was necessary during the play. Scenic Designer Mauri Anne Smith and Ashley Strain created such an amazing setting for the production. The scene looked very realistic, which is really great because it gave me a different feel of the show. Costume Designer Michelle Kincaid created such beautiful costumes for every single character. Whether the costumes were bought, hand made, or both it still came out pretty good. The costume definitely matched the theme of having several characters from different show. Lighting Designer Ben Hawkins made the interior and

Holiday films such as Elf are meant to spread holiday cheer and joy across families. The question however remains is whether or not it could be an award-winning critically-acclaimed film? It certainly could have been a contender as an award winner for sure. For starters, Elf had a budget of 33,000,000 dollars and ended up grossing over 173,381,405 dollars! Now if that’s not saying it had the potential of being an Oscar award winning film I don’t know what will. People love these types of film because it’s that time of year everybody gets in that Christmas spirit. Elf showed the audience how important to have loved ones in your life. Who knows where buddy would have ended up if he didn’t find his family or found Emily. Elf is that type of movie where it would be hard not to love the main charter buddy as he tries to figure out his life during this film. Months after the

Filmic comedies are often genres that are overlooked in regards to the level of seriousness that they bring. Due to the levity of the content itself, comedies have much more freedom to deviate from the contextual restraints, imposed by society itself, other film genres must respect. Contextual constraints, such as, racial stereotypes, gender connotations, and cultural references, are components that comedies use in order to achieve humor at its maximum effect. The override of these constraints, however, has detrimental effects on entire ethnic and gender populations that go unnoticed at the expense of laughter. The 2001 film comedy, Rush Hour 2, uses humor as a vehicle to propagate active stereotypes that render the Asian female as an objective commodity that through an American lens devalues Asian culture and emasculates Asian men as a result.

When watching The Hateful Eight it’s clear that Quentin Tarantino was inspired by John Carpenter’s The Thing. There are quite a few subtle nods to the classic horror film as well as some not so subtle similarities. One could watch one right after the other and immediately see the similarities between the two films. While most people would not consider The Hateful Eight a horror film it takes the greatest horror aspects of The Thing and uses them to its advantage. Quentin Tarantino took quite a few ideas from John Carpenter’s The Thing and modified them so they fit seamlessly in to his western film, including actors, characters, and even some music that was originally written for Carpenter’s film but was never used.

Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run (1998) is truly a brilliant film. It is very seldom that a film manages to combine the high pace of an action thriller and a deep philosophical subtext without botching it, but Run Lola Run does an excellent job at striking a balance between both. Tackling the very abstract and philosophical concepts of chance and cause-effect, Run Lola Run is truly a modern foreign classic. Tykwer manages to postulate one simple theory through the film, that the simplest of choices can completely change everything. The film is supported by stellar performances from Franka Potente and Moritz Bleibtreu as the protagonist Lola and her boyfriend, Manni. The film’s use of cinematography to add to the narrative, clever use of the aspects of mise-en-scene and explosively-paced soundtrack add a whole new dimension to this film. One of the few German films to be both a critical and commercial success, Run Lola Run is a smart and stimulating film, which demands active watching in order to understand fully. I will now analyze the film comprehensively using three main parameters; the mise-en-scene, the cinematography and the sound.

Les Miserables is a prime example of two individuals conflicted by the “letter of the law” and the “spirit of the law”. The two main characters, Jean Valjean and and Javert, have two different views on morality. There is a difference between the “letter of the law” and the “spirit of the law”. Obeying the what the laws specifically says defines the “letter of the law” and obeying the overall message of the law defines the “spirit of the law”.

In this paper, I will write about “Thelma and Louise” (1991) movie. I choose a last scene of the movie which the police came to arrest them in the Grand Canyon (from 122 to 125 minutes).