Film Analysis : Science Fiction Film

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.

The movie The Mission brought to light many of the issues that the developing world has faced in the past and continues to face today. The indigenous people of Paraguay and Southern Brazil, the Guarani, faced terrifying encounters with the powerful European colonizers during the period of European colonialism. Many innocent people on both sides of the battle lost their lives. The Jesuits were a Christian missionary group that brought the Good News of Jesus Christ, all the while helping to defend the indigenous people by respecting their culture and human dignity, also referred to as “inculturation”. The Jesuit presence paved the way for later ideas such as liberation theology and the post-colonial theory. The Commonweal article, “What We Can and Cannot Fix: Rewatching The Mission prompts viewers to reassess the film and notice other possible issues that were related to the Jesuit’s presence.

When you educate a young girl, she has fewer children, she takes better care of her children, she marries at an older age, and she also contributes to her country's economy. Therefore, why is the education of women so greatly underestimated in many parts of the world? This is a question that has caused many individuals to take action against the act of prohibiting a woman the right of receiving an education. To begin with, education enables parents, and the rest of society, to see the value of a girl. As stated in the film Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, "Educate a girl, and she can change the world around her." Education acts as a safe haven for many young women and as an opportunity of having an advancement

The text, or more so the movie about the text, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, does a good job of portraying race, class and gender. During the setting of the book, many people looked at white Americans to be superior to the Black, African American race. With this being said, the successful white families hired in the African American women to cook, clean, and in most cases, take care of the children. They were known as the help. Throughout both the book and the movie, the African American women experienced many forms of gender, race and class inequality.

The event I attended was a movie called The Hunting Grounds. It was about sexual assault on campuses all over the United States and how many campuses had been ignoring the fact that there were assaults on their campuses and blamed it on the fact that the victims were dressed a certain way or that there was alcohol involved. The general idea was that it was the victims fault that they got assaulted, and the college or university had little to no consequences for their perpetrator. This event was of interest to me because I had heard good reviews about the movie, plus it was a learning opportunity to see what the process is like for other schools who have to deal with sexual assault. It was interesting to see how each school had a different

The Graduate is a coming of age story focused on the confusion and fear that many young adults feel as they try to strike out and make a life for their own. The film focuses on Ben Braddock as he tries to figure out what do with his life, which is further complicated by an unfortunate love triangle involving Ben and two women who happen to be mother and daughter. The opening scenes of the film serve to introduce the audience to Ben and the hopelessness, emptiness, and angst that he feels as he struggles to find his path in life.

“The Mission” is a film that gives a historically accurate depiction of the events that took place in South America around 1750, displaying the jesuit missions and their attempt at expanding missionary ventures in the area. These missions foresaw the Jesuits going to uncharted areas of the jungle inhabited by the Guarani people, demonstrating the significance assimilating the Guarani people meant to the Jesuits. Additionally, the Guarani people were accurately displayed as a self-sustained society where basic components such as: productivity, protection, justice regulations and a form of a leader was evident in the form of their King. Nonetheless, the Guarani were an isolated group of individuals who were secluded to the outside world; their only contact with outside personnelles were slave traders who would put them into forced slavery for personal benefits. Not to mention the “Treaty of Madrid”, which resulted in the social and political disputes between the, Portuguese, Spanish and Catholic community; manifesting in the form of territorial conflicts and misunderstandings amongst the three vigorous societies, where each have a different purpose for the Guarani people.

I remember watching this film for the first time back in 2001 when it was released and having not watched it in over a decade, I feel I can say that this film is still solid. The Others holds up so well due to the film relying on storytelling, atmosphere and sense of impending doom to create its tension. The Others is one of the rare big budget, well cast horror films that seem to pop up every couple of years and I love it when they do. I feel horror often gets the short end of the stick when it comes to Hollywood.

Five Easy Pieces was released in 1970, Robert “Bobby” Eroica Dupea plays as the main character in the film, he plays a role as an oil rigger that has turned his back in pursuing a career in music in which he is talented at and becomes a blue-collar worker for 20 years. During these years he builds up a selfish, mean, vulgar, and lack of ambition kind of personality. In the late 1960s and early 1970s many historical events were occurring in which the film has gone into some detail with. After doing some research on Film Reviews and what other websites thought about the film many did not go into detail about the film being about discrimination on women. During the era of the film women were still fighting for their rights. I personally believe that this film showed how women were just objects to men. Bobby had disrespected mainly all the women he came across. When they were at a diner he spilled all of the drinks on the waitress just because they did not have what he wanted on their menu. He had five different women in which he would have intercourse with and talked to them in a very demanding manner, each of those five women still had sex with him because they feared he would leave

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.

For decades, strange, alien -like events continue to plague this planet and we need answers. Of course, many looks to NASA for these answers but each and every time, are met with stark silence. So why is the space agency hiding aliens from us? Well, that answer is a rather complex one. Hence, to begin to understand the intricacies of this dilemma, let's break it down a bit.

The film Contact was an incredible story about the mysteries and possibilities of life outside of our galaxy. Although science has been proving its possibilities through our advancements and increases in technology, the discovery of these other worldly extraterrestrial civilizations has proven to be more fictitious than fact to some now. Though many do believe this outside universal communication is possible now, we just need to wait for them to contact us. Discovering these civilizations and this information could affect our life on Earth substantially in both positive and negative ways. The Largest Discovery in Human History The possibility of extra-terrestrial life has sparked the hearts and mind of people worldwide since the mid-20th century.

Over the course of the article, the idea of contacting extraterrestrial existence has been pursued since the late 1800s, yet the SETI project was first organized by Dr. Drake’s own speculation of aliens which was inspired by “transmit[ed] radio waves” that first produced a gateway to communicate with other solar systems. A program that sounds childlike for a prestige topic such as science because it is an organization whose sole purpose is to hunt extraterrestrial intelligence, but due to today’s advancement in technology it is possible to seek such naïve aspirations. But it’s just that, a childhood fantasy to discover the unknown simply because we as children are driven by curiosity that grows with us into adulthood. Commenter guest-50a03e8ea6228

The film opens with battalion of Clone troopers and Jedi storming a Separatist base on the Gutretee. As opposed to the emotional battles fought in the past three movies, this battle should feel light-hearted and show that the Galactic Republic is winning the war against the Separatist Alliance. Additionally, this battle shows us that Obi-Wan and Anakin work really well together, more so than in the previous movie. However, the focus is not solely on the Jedi, the focus is also on the people battling in the sky; this reveals that Owen has been promoted to fighter-pilot as opposed to working in the transportation department. After the battle ends, and Jedi win, we see Padmé (along with several other senators) landing on Gutretee to officiate

Horror is a film genre created to elicit a negative emotional response from the audience by playing upon primal fears. Usually, a horror film will entail many physical, but also emotional and psychological, elements in order to create an atmosphere that is ripe for creating these negative emotions. One such element often used within the horror genre is the ‘monster’, often the main antagonist figure in the film. As such, the monster is a large part of the make-up of the given film. The movie Alien, released on May 25th, 1979, is one such film that falls into this category of monster-driven plot. The ‘alien’ in the movie took years to design and months to physically create, and acted as a backbone, holding the movie together. To this day people know what you’re talking about when you refer to the ‘alien’, because of its creepily interesting allure, its ground-breaking design, and because of all the spin-off’s and sequels that it inspired.