Film Analysis: Run Lola Run

A Walk To Remember is a romantic movie based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks. It is a 2002 Warner Bros film which starred the 90s pop singer Mandy Moore as the demure, religious, and bookish Jamie Sullivan and punk rock musician Shane West as the popular but rebellious Landon Carter. Directed by Adam Shankman, the story is set in the small town of Beaufort, North Carolina.

The Graduate was entertaining while also boring, but then again audience members either loved it or hated it. This can even be seen today depending on the person‘s age that is watching the film. This speaks greatly to the generation gap that was occurring during the 1960s. Dustin Hoffman’s character Benjamin Braddock was aloof and lost in his own world, along with the rest of the American youth at the time. The question asked of him repeatedly was, “what are you going to do now?” Many young Americans were hitting this point in their lives also. Their parents had the Great Depression, World War II, and raising families to worry about while their children’s generation didn’t have anything. The older generation saw the movie and were appalled with how the parents were portrayed when they gave their kids everything they ever dreamed of, or so they thought.

Cold winds blow on a calm New Jersey night. Police sirens create crescendos that fill the air. The moment you begin watching Running Scared, you will be placed in the middle of one of the most fast-paced, suspenseful films that will have you craving every running minute. Viewers’ eyes will widen the very moment the opening scene is presented as he or she is thrown right into the action with the actors themselves. Paul Walker works with New Line Cinema to bring a film for ages to come. This crime thriller will reach every pleasure that movie watchers seek in an unforeseen film through its intense, prodigious cinematography, suspenseful storyline, and synchronous soundtrack.

Race to Nowhere is a documentary film that captures stress placed on students due to demanding workloads. This film gives us an inside look on the education system: how it works, and its effect on those connected to it. Ables uses a variety of methods to suck the viewer in. The creators aim for our hearts with personal anecdotes and their soundtrack, followed by a string of families and psychologists who deal with the problem firsthand. By attempting this juggling act of impacting the viewer, maintaining credibility, and providing factual information, Ables’ film begins to lose substance.

In the beginning of The Big Short movie, it explained that in the 1970s a new way to finance mortgages was created. These newly financed mortgages were now called mortgage-back secures. Michael Burry reviewed these mortgage-back securities, only to find that they were compiled of very risky mortgages. Banks started to fill the bonds with subprime mortgages, which were just bad mortgages. Seeing that a number of the mortgages were subprime home loans, he knew that there was a high chance that they would default. He found that the housing market was being supported by these bad loans which lead him to know that when these people can’t pay up in 2007, that they system was going to fail, resulting in the mortgage crisis.

The US sociologist Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) said that society structure have many functions such as manifest function that recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern, latent functions the opposites of manifest functions and lastly social dysfunction that any social pattern that may disrupt the operation of society. (Macionis J. , 2014)

Have you ever found yourself in an unfamiliar place, such as a French subway, and commit a social faux pas like making eye contact with a couple in a serious make out session?

Lost in Translation, written and directed by Sofia Coppola, is a 2003 romantic comedy-drama starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. Set and shot on location in Tokyo on Kodak 35mm film stock, Lost in Translation explores the concepts of isolation and loneliness of individuals. Cinematographer, Lance Acord uses a muted colour palette, wide shots and selective focus to enhance the film’s dichotomy of being alone vs. being with somebody themes and creates a dreamlike reality by doing so.

Escaping from Alcatraz is a good movie, and I enjoyed watching Clint Eastwood planning to escape. Nevertheless, I was angry because the warden was evil, and he caused lot of trauma and distress with the inmates. My perspective of corrections is different from Mr. Rush’s viewpoint. Corrections was designed to separate troubled individuals from society, and it creates an environment of alienation and isolation. For instance, the warden at Alcatraz would not allow the inmates to come in contact with the outside world, and they only had a visitor every now and then. The inmates were detained on an island in the ocean, and some of them did not deserve to be in a place

The movie was very accurate to the lives of N.W.A., although there were a few inaccurate points. The scene where Cube throws a girl out of his hotel room after her boyfriend comes to the door is inaccurate. It was added just to show more of their lifestyle during their tours. Overall the movie did accurately portray the lives of the members of N.W.A., the police brutality, and the environment in Compton at the time. It depicted each personality and member as they really were. The things added to make the movie more of a story instead of just life events were very minimal and didn’t draw away from the overall accuracy of the movie.

While the first film projection took place in Iraq in 1909, it was not really seen the film a cultural activity or hobby until the 1920s. The role of the first film, such as the famous film Zora in Baghdad's bustling Rasheed street, I played mostly silent movies of American citizens to the British.

Inglourious Basterds is a Quentin Tarantino directed 2009 movie, starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Melanie Laurent, and Eli Roth. The story centers around a unique Nazi-hunting unit within the US army known (by their German title) as the Basterds. The unit consists of soldiers who are of Jewish-American descent with the simple purpose of killing Nazis (and take their scalps as a trophy but that's just a perk to the job). The Basterds are led by Brad Pitt's charismatic Lieutenant Aldo Raine (or by his German nickname, Aldo the Apache) and include Eli Roth's Sergeant Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz, Gedeon Burkhard's Austrian-born Captain Wilhelm Wicki, and Til Schweiger's Nazi-turn-Nazi-killer Sergeant Hugo Stiglitz, as well as others.

So the Lorax is a silly little kid movie right? False, that statement would be a very incorrect one. Although the motion picture is light-hearted and cheerful, it has a serious underlying message to it that happens to be extremely important. The storyline presents the harm that the Onceler and his thneed company are causing which begins with deforestation and then leads to other things like pollution, unsafe bodies of water due to ocean dumping, and scarce resources. The similarity to the damage humans have done to the Earth since their arrival is uncanny. It really is unsightful and before the human race knows it, everything will fall into the sequences in the movie did. Air pollution will prevent oxygen from reaching our lungs, then again there won’t be trees to provide the oxygen, and when your throat is dry because of the lack of oxygen, there won’t even be any fresh water to clear our esophaguses. Despite the horrid consequences, there was still hope that things could go back to the way they had been before. The Onceler gave the little boy a seed for a tree and that was the opportunity to fix their mistakes. The same thing applies for us humans and our Earth. We can improve not only the environment’s condition but our living conditions also.

Run Lola Run, is a critically acclaimed 1998 German Film directed and written by Tom Tykwer. The film focuses on Lola who has twenty minutes to come up with 100,000 marks for her boyfriend Manni, whom if she fails will be killed by his crime boss. The film shows Lola’s three different attempts of procuring the money; in a video game like fashion. Run Lola Run, can be considered one of the most successful German films and masterfully plays with the themes fate and decision. Throughout Run Lola Run, editing is used expertly to explain and set the mood of the film, Tykwer’s use of cross cutting, split screen, and flash backs sets the mood for urgency and passion.

The movie and the novel One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest further bring out different aspects of the characters and the plot as a whole. The movie is based on the book and focuses on the major themes with the use of various actors who are identical to those in the novel (Forman et al., 2013). The setting, in this case, is further similar to that described by the book. Though the movie is based on the novel, not all the characters are similar particularly in their roles as shown in the novel. For instance, the main character, Chief Bromden is given a secondary role in the film. The paper will look at the setting used in both the movie and novel together with the tone, imagery among other elements. It will aim to show that the video gives a clear depiction of the story and viewers can understand quickly the movie in the short span they view it. Therefore, what one misses out when reading the novel is clearly depicted by the movie in the use of various actors who clearly bring out the meaning in the plot. The movie helps the audience understand the main idea of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and the characters like Chief Bromden or McMurphy better than in case of the book.