Closely Watching Milos

Based off Charles Webb’s 1963 novel by the same name, The Graduate is an American romantic comedy/drama released in the United States on December 21, 1967 starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, and William Daniels. The film was directed by Mike Nichols, produced by Lawrence Turman and the screenplay written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham. The film was produced by Lawrence Turman/Mike Nichols productions starting in March of 1967. Mike Nichols has also directed other well known films such as Catch-22 (1970), Working Girl (1988), and more recently Closer (2004). The film was distributed by AVCO Embassy Pictures nationally and United Artists internationally. AVCO Embassy Pictures studio, founded by Joseph E. Levine, the films executive producer, also claims production/distribution for other hit films such as Godzilla, King of Monsters! (1956), The Fog (1980), and Prom Night (1980). The movie was well received due to its $104 million dollar box office opening tab. The score was produced by Dave Grusin and the songs written by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

Hearts and Minds is an American documentary about the Vietnam war. This documentary presents the different sides of the argument on America’s involvement in Vietnam. In film various interviews with military figures and other men are shown. Also interviews with the point of views of the Vietnam people. Many tones and moods are present in the film to show how the Americans role was in the conflict with the vietnamese. The film goes on to show the men that survived the physical wrecks.

A major industry that catches the attention of individuals with different genders, ages and backgrounds is the movie industry. The visual representation of police officers in films can alter a person’s understanding of the law enforcement. Police officers are portrayed by two sides; good or bad. The movie I will be closely analyzing is called Training Day. This movie depicts many topics we have covered throughout this course. The movie directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Ayer, was released on October 5, 2001. This movie follows two Los Angeles Police Department officers. Detective Alonzo Harris, played by award winning Denzel Washington, is a veteran officer, and Officer Jake Hoyt, played by Ethan Hawke, is on a new assignment

In 1980’s Scotland, socioeconomic conditions and morale suffered due to the implementation of Thatcher policies, placing the lower class in a deplorable state of hopelessness. The film Trainspotting, directed by Danny Boyle, depicts the plights of young heroin junkies during the Thatcher Era in Edinburgh. The film’s focus is not heroin addiction, but rather, uses the silver screen as a platform to portray the depressing impact Thatcherism had on Scottish socioeconomic conditions as conveyed through the protagonist, heroin-addicted Mark Renton. Trainspotting illustrates that the social struggles of the Scottish lower class during the Thatcher Era are significant contributing factors to cause Renton to become a heroin user in order to escape the depressing and monotonous existence to which he is subjected.

Film- Precious Knowledge Precious Knowledge is a documentary that takes place in Tucson, Arizona and focuses on how the Unified School district wants to completely ban the Mexican American Studies Program. In the film there were many scenes with examples of rhetorical appeal. I believe that the way the film was set up since the beginning had an impactful and direct emotional appeal on the audience. For instance, in the first scenes of the film we have the opportunity to get to know the main characters in a more intimate level.

During the end of the 3rd Century, the Playwright Plautus wrote many of the first Roman comedies. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical comedy film adaptation of Plautus's comedies.Set in ancient Rome, many aspects of Roman theatre, including stock characters, were included in the film’s production. While the film is based off of multiple comedies, Plautus's Pseudolus character Calidorus is nearly identical to the film’s Hero. During the time Pseudolus was written, the Crisis of the Third Century led to up to 25% of Roman population being comprised of slaves(Southern). Of the many stock characters Platus included in his comedies, Calidorus/Hero, the son of Pseudolus’s owner and the stock character adulescens, best

No other options are left for the American army, running from the British along side the Delaware River, fighting against deserters, disease, famine, and their major lack of artillery was no help to the cause. On the 25th of December in 1776, George Washington led his army across the Delaware River in New Jersey. In a desperate attempt to win a battle, and help motivate people to rejoin the revolution, Washington devised a plan to attack the Hessians at Trenton on Christmas night. He declared that it was victory or death, they were either going to win the battle, or they were going to die, but retreat was not an option.

Race, Ethnicity in Films, and the Criminal Justice System  Young black and Hispanic men, who are considered members of a lower socio-economic status are most of the time portrayed as delinquents in popular culture, especially in crime films. Films such as Talento de Barrio, which stereotypically portrays Hispanic men as gang members and drug dealers. Training Day, which portrays both black and Hispanic men as gang members and drug dealers. These two films are great examples to illustrate how the environment, poverty, social class, gender, race, and ethnicity can be part of many of other factors that creates this idea of social structure. The negative stereotypes that are reflected in these type of crime films influence how these two minority groups are perceived in the criminal justice system.

As the history of cinema has continued, and at-home entertainment has become available at our fingertips, it has become increasingly important for films to differentiate themselves and to intrigue audiences with either new features or an interesting plot. In 2007, a movie about a man who purchased a sex doll online then pretended the doll was his real girlfriend, sought to make itself stand apart with its somewhat outrageous plot. A quirky film, Lars and the Real Girl was released at a Canadian film festival and received a standing ovation from an enthusiastic crowd. Although the film sounds like a comedy, and uses this perception to emphasize its message, the film really draws attention to how we treat people with mental illness and how we

Movies are create to entertain us and lead us to a different time or place, to create the allusion to are society. But if you look at a movie of deeper you witness the themes and ideas put into the movie. Directors strive to show, a theme or a idea not just in the characters, but in the settings and camera work: lens flares, tracking shots and what they focus on. Throughout the movie Knight Riders, the director and producers use characters and images to project to the audience themes and ideas, or even if they not trying to project a certain theme any great movie great multiply ideas and themes in an auditions mind. This movie projects the themes of leadership, even if the cast and crew were no trying to press this ideas into a viewers mind,

The Stories We Tell is a documentary film directed by Sarah Polley. The film follows the story of her family up to the discovery of Sarah’s true parentage from an affair that her mother had in Montreal. The film uses contrastive organizing to present various viewpoints on the life of Sarah’s mother, Diane, through interviews. One interesting aspect of this film is that it tells the story outside of the directors perspective but it is ultimately centered on the directors life. Sarah is interviewing the friends and family members of her mother but she never actually answers any questions herself or describes her accounts of her childhood or the discovery of her biological father. She remains investigative and unsentimental. The Stories We Tell

The mood in the text when Nagaina is threatening to but Teddy, made me feel really tensed up, in the situation Teddy and his family are in. The movie made me tense because Nagaina stated, "...Son if the man who killed Nag, if you move, I strike, and if you do not move, I strike..." This specific line formed fear inside me due to panicking if Teddy will be bitten. The answer seems clear for now... The video clip refers that Nagaina wants revenge on the man who "killed" Nag. The movie explained that she would dare to "...strike the boy. Oh, foolish people you aré..." to gain revenge anda she would do harm to The boy anda has Family. She wanted to get red of the people in the house so there would be no more conflict in the garden or wherever the

Throughout this class, various discussions and blogs have been used to analyze the different elements of films such as theme, cinematic techniques and genre. It is time to bring all of these separate elements together in the analysis of one specific film, according to class text, “analyzing levels of meaning below the surface story can greatly enhance enjoyment as well as understanding of a film” (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014. p. 10.03). There are several different approaches to film analysis including formalist, auteurist, and generic or any combination thereof. Utilizing a genre theory lens, the 1956 film The Searchers will be analyzed addressing contextual information, story/plot, aesthetic choices, social/personal impact and how these areas come together to develop the film.

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.

In the multi-language comedic drama Mystery Train, the analysis of narrative vs narration, character motivation, goals, narrative complexity, as well as other techniques such as colour, sound and mise-en-scene are useful tools that help the audience understand the social commentary and meaning that underlies the film.