Film Analysis: The Harvest

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.

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.

The book Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States illustrates the fieldwork of the author Seth M. Holmes by explaining the myriad aspects of migrant workers’ lives in the U.S.—from the politics to the social environments to the physical body. By not only studying, but living, the lives of these migrant workers, Holmes brings the reader a view unseen by the vast majority and provides the opportunity for greater understanding through the intense details of his work. The voices of vastly different characters—real people—are captured and expounded on without judgment but with deep consideration for all factors that contribute to each person’s life, opinions, and knowledge. Ultimately, a picture of intersectionality is painted in the colors of migrants, mothers, fathers, children, doctors, soldiers, executives, the poor, the rich, and more.

North By Northwest is a thriller,mystery and crime film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, that was released in 1959 during the midst of the Cold War era. He depicts the United States Government and their use of spies during the time. When reading about the covert operations used by the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War it is astonishing how little the general public knew about the affairs of the government.The film centres on the character of Roger Thornhill, an advertising executive who finds himself mistaken as a United States spy - George Kaplan. Reference to cold war as Edger Hoover said communist were inflicting in corrupting ‘’various spheres of American lives’’.Ultimately, this resulted in a incredible paranoia and

In this chapter, the author shared his field research experience working with migrants on farms in Washington States and California. In the course of being a berry picker on Tanaka Brothers Farm in the Skagit Valley, he managed to observe on and deeply communicate with the farm workers with different job positions. He revealed the ethnically segregated farm labor structure, and how it affected the migrant farmworkers’ wellbeing and rights.

Migrant workers are the reason our families to have the fruits and vegetables they need year-round. I have read the article on Cesar Chavez’s, a man who was born into a family of migrant workers, and watched a video about migrant workers. The video and article are similar, but also different in the following ways.

(pg. 51) “The core values are those which are central to a group, around which it builds a common identity.” In the video we see that the most important thing to the migrants is family. They work every day in the sun for

a. Social location/pg. 3: the group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society. This term was represented specifically in many parts of the documentary. The migrant workers are able to live better off when they live in groups. The group’s sizes do vary but it tends to be a bit larger than the normal size of an average American family. The migrant workers live this way because of the wages that they earn. The more members of the group they have the more money they will bring in from working in the fields. The social location relates to the migrant workers in very direct ways. This happens because of how they are classified in society. The migrants feel as if the fruit and vegetable fields are their

As Christians, one must aid in restoring dignity to all migrants. However, dignity cannot be imposed, therefore, one has to enable these real men and women to escape from extreme poverty. “The common home of all men and women must continue to rise on the foundation of a right understanding of the universal fraternity and respect for the sacredness of every human life…especially those who are only considered as part of a

The documentary The Harvest directed by U. Roberto (Robin) Romano produced by Shine Global shares the significant hardship that immigrant face working in the field, harvesting crops. This documentary explores the life of young migrants’ farm workers. Specifically this documentary interviews three minors that are migrants farm workers: Zuelma Lopez, Victor Hacippla and Perla Sanchez. Even though each of these minors were states apart from each other, they share many similar tragic aspects. Thus looking at these individual’s lives, I could sympathize a part of their hardship.

Throughout the video documentary on migrants trying to make a living, social construction of reality shaped the way they thought about the world. Most of the people revolved their life around family and the Catholic church. The way they were brought up and raised gave them another viewpoint on the world around them. The life experiences they had to go through, such as traveling from state to state to find work, made them think differently than most other people in the United States. Because of the lack of jobs where they were, the attitude when they did find a job was shaped around a grateful attitude. Even though the conditions were awful, the work load was heavy, and the pay was not great, any work these people could find they were jumping at the gun. There are not that many people in America that would work gruesome hours out in the roasting hot fields for the amount of pay these people were receiving. Because of the immigrants background and life experiences, they were taught to work hard and have an attitude that in the end will keep them alive. In their world, family and religion remained a huge part of life. Because of their religion, they remained strong and somewhat hopeful. The other aspect of family life just brought them closer and acted as a support group to each member. For example, when the father who was failing to provide for his family

Get Out is a film by Jordan Peele, which was release on February 24, 2017. Get Out is a social thriller, which follows an interracial couple, Rose and Chris. Chris and Rose take a weekend to visit her family, the Armitage family, home in a isolated area surrounded by a forest. The plot spirals out of control following many disturbing discoveries by Chris and in turn, Chris must get out of the Armitage household.

It is clear that this typified mindset of the migrant workers is a social fact that has been carried through from generations and generations. It has transcended generations because it has long been the only way to survive and make a living for these migrant workers and their families. Social facts within this community seem hard to break out of due to the fact that they have provided incentives and work for these workers and will continue to do so as long as American consumers desire their services. Unless our agricultural wants and needs change, we will require the work of migrant workers.

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.

The motion picture industry is creating movies that people want to go see. Movies can vastly range in genre from the more popular action movies that flood the market with toys and collectables to more quiet independent films that bring to life a producers deepest thoughts and ideals. Other movie genres include: adventure, comedy, crime and gangster, drama, historical, horror, musicals, science fiction, westerns, and many others. According to Dirks (2015), “action films usually include high energy, stunts and chases, battles, fights, escapes, destructive crises, non-stop motion, spectacular rhythm and pacing, and adventurous, often two-dimensional 'good-guy ' heroes (or recently, heroines) battling 'bad guys ' - all designed for pure audience escapism” (para. 1). Do these action adventure movies top the box-office in sales? The normal intent of a movie maker is to ultimately entice as much of the population to go to the movies and buy a ticket to earn a profit. The revenue a movie can generate varies greatly from movie to movie for a sundry of reasons. The statistical analysis below will translate the data compiled and help make sense of what correlations and rationales help make a blockbuster movie a revenue making machine. It will also point to reasoning for movies that don’t earn top rewards.