Film Analysis: The Graduate

The Matrix is a film about the enslavement of humankind by artificial intelligence, sentient beings, with mechanical bodies, created by people to service humanity, and the discovery of a person, Neo, that possesses abilities that can defeat the Artificial Intelligence and manumit humanity. The majority of human beings have their consciousness/minds trapped within the Matrix, a computer simulated world in which their minds are born, live in, and die, while their bodies are connected to it via cerebral connection but, remain in a dormant slumber and are never used. While they are connected to the matrix, their bioelectricity is harvested, powering the artificial intelligence. Neo, with the help of Morpheus (the leader in the resistance

The Purge is a 2013 thriller of a horror movie. The author and director of all three Purge movies is James DeMonaco. He was aiming to make a movie that covers multiple audience types. The purge had it all including any person that loves their suspense and excitement. The film really nails these key aspects. It also focuses in on other conditions such as mystery, horror, and action. Due to the variety audience coverage the film was award winning. DeMonaco focuses primarily on adults that are looking for an action packed horror movie filled with excitement and suspense.

Even though these two important parts of the book were left out I think the movie was good and it definitely gave me the deep feeling and connection to the characters that the book gave me. I think the whole movie staff made all the right

It help built so much more suspense. I don’t think the music was a distraction instead more of an attention grabber. My favorite part of the play was the part when the music was playing the lights come on and Jane is sitting there on the couch. That was my favorite part because, it got my attention and it didn’t go away the entire

Even though this film was made in 1967, and I do not usually watch films older than I am I was amazed at how much I appreciated this film. This film had my attention from the earliest starting point to the end. This film would be one that I would watch more than once. Although many do not like the sound track in the film it one that I really do like. While watching the film I wanted to sing along with the music.

For my quarter project I have decided to watch a Spanish movie. The movie that I have chosen is called Rec, (short for record) filmed in 2007. The movie is a horror film about the zombie apocalypse, but instead of the apocalypse already happening it shows how it was discovered/started. The film takes place in Spain, and is like a fictional documentary. It is filmed with a hand held camera, but does have high quality. I like that my project was something that I love to do. Which is, watching scary movies!

For my film/documentary analysis paper, I chose the movie The Help. This movie was actually originally a book written by Kathryn Stockett, but then in 2011, a screenplay was written and directed by Tate Taylor. I selected this film because it directly relates to some of the topics we talk about in class. Some of them being segregation and discrimination. In society today, segregation and discrimination play a huge role in how minorities are perceived. I wanted to find a film that showed the effect they play from both the minority’s point of view and the majority’s, and that’s how I decided to watch The Help.

The life of the American television and film actress - Ginnifer Goodwin and husband, who happens to be the American actor, famous for playing the characters of Prince Charming and David Nolan in the ABC television series Once Upon a Time - Josh Dallas, has become even more fairy tale like.

I recently watched the documentary Sound and Fury and learned about the conflict in your family. Through this documentary, I learned more about the conflict in your family. Ultimately, this allowed me to create thesis whether you have the right to make Heather get a cochlear implant or not. I believe that you don’t have a right to intervene because you don’t know anything about being deaf or the culture. Since getting a cochlear implant is not a life or death situation, instead, it’s an opinion, you don’t have the right to intervene or judge. Through a variety of fiction sources and text, I will explain why you don’t have a right to intervene.

Bong Joon-ho once said “I regard remaking a film as creating something again”. In cinema the production of a “remake” retells a previously successful story. This concept of altering or rather “remaking”is used in reference when a new cinematic motion picture is based on an earlier version and is then used as the source of inspiration. Often times a remake will posses a different title, contain an altered narrative structure, and may even be remade in a different language. One well-known motion picture, The Departed, is an example of this concept of a cinematic remake. The Departed (2006), by director Martin Scorsese, is a very literal adaptation and remake of the Hong Kong crime thriller, Infernal Affairs (2002), by director Andrew Lau. Scorsese's

A well known example of a long continuous shot can be found in the film ¨The Player.¨ The opening of the movie was shot in a way to help introduce the big crowd of players who were part of the setup of the film´s plot overall, to set the tone as a thriller or mystery movie. The very first image in this extending shot in the opening is of a film set that shows how the Hollywood system is ran. The camera plays with its perspective, by zooming out to show the location of the Hollywood studio then into an office building smoothly with no interruption or cuts.

Good Will Hunting is an interesting story of a young genius orphan growing in a slums of South Boston with a group of best friends, written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and directed by Gus Van Sant. In this film, Will Hunting is the main character played by its father Matt Damon who is trying to himself identify his value in the world. He is not a normal teenager, he has a special ability that called the “photographic memory” so that he could remember and solve academic problems in a really quickly way. This film also tells us the journey of Willy as he is required to experience psychotherapy by Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard) unless he wants

interesting commentary on the age old struggle for human beings to find a balance between our

A Beautiful Mind (Grazer, Howard, & Howard, 2001) is a film about the life of John Nash Jr. John Nash was a mathematician studying at Princeton University on a Carnegie Scholarship in 1947. The film portrays Nash’s academic journey, career, and personal life. As an adult, John Nash was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is classified as an emotional or behavioral low-incidence disorder disorder (Smith & Tyler, 2010, p. 234). According to Smith and Tyler, about 1% of the general population is diagnosed with schizophrenia by 18 years old (2010). According to Mental Health America, “someone with schizophrenia may have difficulty distinguishing between what is real and what is imaginary; may be unresponsive or withdrawn; and may have

Before the 1960s there were plenty of films made. In the 1950s things began to change for, in my opinion, the better. It started with a new form of acting called method acting that encouraged improvisation. This was key because it gave actors more control over their characters which allowed for more realistic representations of characters allowing audiences to connect better to the film. Having more control over a character is something that I found vital because it adds an even deeper element to the film as a whole. Another important thing added in the 1950s was the addition of subject matters and themes that focused on ordinary individuals. This was important again because it added another element to the films that audiences could connect to. In the 1960s there was even more change to the film industry. For example, there was a new focus on youth, with psychological character studies of offbeat anti-heroes. More explicit presentation of sexuality, violence and drug use on screen. Rebellion vs. the American mainstream, with new values and points of view. Self-conscious use of cinematic effects, reflecting European influence and new twists on old film genre. These new changes can be seen in cinematic and thematic elements in films including "The Graduate" and "Annie Hall.”