Film Review : A Wonderful Life

There’s no doubt that Star Wars is one of the most impactful films of all time, having changed the movie-making game ever since it premiered in 1977. It quickly became a global phenomenon and has accumulated some of the most passionate fans in the universe. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope is a great example to use in order to illustrate the properties discussed throughout the course. In this paper, I will analyze the entire movie. To begin, I will start by giving some basic information about the motion picture, such as the director and type of film. Next, I will provide a brief summary of the film.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) are two critically acclaimed, feel good films that embodied the spirit of the mid 1900s. Director Frank Capra carries his feel good tone in each of these films, and shows that good will always triumph.

This was an extraordinary movie that showed the homely small-town moral values through glossy studio production. I really enjoyed this movie. It has very quickly become one of my favorite movies of all times. The characters were very good. I thought this movie to be beautifully told and acted, with Reed, Barrymore, and other ensemble members perfectly cast. The actors were very convincing. George Bailey was an ordinary guy. An example of this was went he was at the train station waiting for his brother, Harry. He said, "Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are?…Hanker chains, plane motors, and train whistles." He appreciated small things like that. I think that Jimmy Stewart played the role of George

In the movie A Better Life, the Main Character Carlos Galindo is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who started working as a day labor worker when he first arrived in the country, however he has had steady work from Blasco Martinez who owns a gardening business which he tries to convince Carlos to buy from him as he says he is moving. The idea of being self employed is very appealing to Carlos but he knows he can never afford to do so and the risk of getting caught and deported is very high. Carlos has a son Luis who is reluctant to go to school on a daily basis and gets into trouble as he is influenced by his friends who are part of the

Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family is about a woman named Shirley, who is diagnosed with cancer with only weeks to live. Before she passes away, she wants to bring her entire family together for a nice dinner so that she can let her children know she is dying and enjoy one last time together as a family. However, it is not that easy as it seems. Each time she brings her children together, they would start arguing about marriage, their children, or their jobs, and then someone would just get up and leave out of anger before she gets the opportunity to reveal the condition of her health. Nobody would not put their issues to the side for the sake of their mother until it was too late.

In It’s a Wonderful Life, the main character, George Bailey, is a good, giving man who faces a rough patch in his life. I think that this story teaches us a great lesson on being thankful. I liked the part when, at the end, Clarence finishes his job and earns his wings. The part I didn’t like was when George said that he wishes that he was never born. The lesson that It’s a Wonderful Life teaches us about thankfulness is that you need to appreciate how blessed you really are and not to take it for granted. To apply this message to our daily lives, you can focus more on the little things and not so much on the big things. You can do this by focusing more on the house you have and the food that is being provided, rather than focusing on if it’s what you like or not or wanting to own more. George Bailey never got the opportunity to travel the world and build skyscrapers liked he hoped because he feels tied down to the family company he never wanted to own and work for. As George Bailey got older, he began to see everyone grow up to be what they wanted, and he sees all of his youth and opportunities go right past him. George decides to end his life because he believes he is worth more dead than alive. When Clarence, his guardian angel, sees this, he decides to show George what life would be like if he had never existed.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a film that will surely make you want to fall out of your chair laughing, and make you want to get up and dance. This film is an absolute classic. It is hilarious, adventurous, and makes you feel good about yourself. The most unique thing about this film is the main characters break out of jail for the wrong reason, and then go on a wild chase trying to get home. Another unique part about this film is that the main character is currently divorced and wanting to remarry his ex-wife. The film, O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a classic comedy because it has well-rounded characters, adventure, and a little bit of love.

In the movie It’s a wonderful life George Bailey had simple extremely dreams. Although his beautiful dream weren't as he expected it would. George Bailey dreams are to explore the world. He had this wonderful dream as a youngster. He also dreamed that he would get-up-and-go to college. However,he stayed at the Bailey bank and loans and stopped Mr.potter from taking the bank and taking over the town. He ended up giving the money to his brother.

I have decided to write my film review on High Noon because it is a movie fresh into my mind that I really enjoyed. It is the best movie shown in the class so far. It seems like a movie way ahead of its time for being made in 1952. The exposition was quick and gave us all the info we needed about the characters to move on with the story. The rising action was my favorite part of the movie believe it or not. It shows us even more background and Will's struggle to get people to help. Every time he fails to get someone to help, he loses more and more hope. The point right before the climax was the best acting in the movie. His inner struggle when he was alone and about to fight them four verses one had a pretty big impact. The shootout, oh

The movie we watched Friday was Exit Through the Gift shop. I found the movie interesting. Using the film Thierry Guetta, gathered throughout his adventure was a great addition to the film it made the audience feel more of a connection with him. My favorite part of this documentary was when Thierry Guetta was not yet Mr. Brainwash. Seeing him going on adventures with other street artists in the middle of the night. Once Thierry Guetta became a street artist himself I lost interest, not because all of the “action” was over but because of the way he created art after putting his camera down. Thierry Guetta or Mr. Brainwash paid other people to create his ideas which are the reason I started to dislike him a little bit. I know art can be ideas

Far and Away by director Ron Howard, is a complex romance file between two lovers that was released in 1992. In class, we reviewed the movie in 2016, twenty four years after. Traditions of movie filming has changed since then. The budget of Far and Away was about sixty million dollars. Joseph and Shannon are the two main characters, that both want to move to America because they want to be modern. Shannon persuades Joseph, who was being held at her home by her family, to come with her from Ireland to break the traditions of her family, which were not modern. They end up going from riches to rags, losing money, and separating. They find each other by fate and buy land in the end. The plot of this movie is very cliche and coincidental they find each other after a long time of not seeing each other, and live life together while they have hardships is not a good plot.

Movies play a huge role in our history. Fact-based or fictional, realistic or fantastic, history movies shape the way people think about the past (Metzger). Some examples of great historical films are Hidden Figures, Forrest Gump, Gandhi, and Dances with Wolves. Although these films provided a glimpse of the past, no other movie was as artistic as the film ‘Life is Beautiful’. The movie was a fairytale trapped in a historical period filled with misery and survival, which was why I chose it. ‘Life is Beautiful’ is a wonderful masterpiece that provides a glimpse of the Holocaust and the indomitability of humanity even in the midst of inhumanity.

George Bailey is an ambitious man with goals, integrity, and pride. As a young man he yearns to leave his hometown to see the world and become successful after becoming an architect. However, before he gets a chance to leave his father passes away and he feels he must run the family ‘Loans’ business that his father has worked hard to keep out of the hands of the greedy, vindictive, and unethical man ‘Potter’.

One of the most difficult processes in film is adaptation. The process of creating a screenplay that can be acted and then shot while still capturing the spirit of the work is a staggering task. This is especially difficult from book to film. Literature is able to give the readers insights into characters that would not translate well the film. Along with those issues we also have the problem of physical representation. Authors, like in this film, often are not extremely detailed in the description of characters leaving some things for the imagination of the reader. Because of all these issues novels very rarely translate exactly how to book was written. Compromises must be made by the director to determine what he or she believes the novel was trying to portray. Last Exit to Brooklyn does an impressive job adapting the novel into film yet, even with the writer as a part of the creation process, the film does compromise which changes the experience from reading the novel to watching the film. Assuming the author and director were attempting to present the same characters I will be using the character Harry Black to find correlations and discrepancies between the film and novel. It is my belief that the film and the novel portrayed a similar yet, differentiable character than the novel.

Mr Brown: I’d be a lot better if I can get out of here and get back to my couch, so I can watch the game today.