Kubo and the Two strings is an amazing animation film that is based off of Japanese culture and can be very dark at times. Personally, I believe that little kids shouldn’t watch this because they may not be able to understand it or just be scared in general. Kubo is a clever, kindhearted boy who tells stories through origami by using a Shamisen (magical musical instrument) to the people that live in his seaside town. That was until the day he stayed out when the sun set vanished and now he is on the run from a past that he barely understands. This was a great movie because it’s not an ordinary animated film its blended in with having origami telling the story as well as the anime characters.
Kubo and the Two Strings is about a boy named Kubo, who tells fantastical stories about a great samurai warrior named Hanzo in his town. That was until the day he accidentally summoned a mythical spirit the Moon King who has already taken one of his eyes and is intending to take his other eye. He doesn’t quite understand why the Moon King is after him, but his mother has made a huge sacrifice to keep him away from the Moon King. Now Kubo must join forces with a Monkey (Charlize Theron) and Beetle (Matthew McConaughey), to solve the mystery of what happened to his fallen father while also trying to save his family. With the help of his shamisen (magical musical instrument) Kubo must battle monsters and gods, including the Moon King (Ralph Fiennes) and evil twin sisters (Rooney Mara).
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.
Ah, The Sandlot. A movie full of fifth and sixth grade boys playing baseball in the Summer. If you think it sounds boring, you're wrong. This is an excellent movie. It starts with a boy, named Scotty (Tom Guiry) who needs friends. He needed friends so bad that his mom was even concerned about him being cooped up in the house for a quarter of the summer. One day, he wanders to a baseball field and his want to have friends and be a part of something comes true. He even got a nickname, "Smalls". The boys did everything together, even got into and out of trouble together. But the number one important thing all nine of the boys did, was meet at the baseball field every single day.
In the movie, the Babadook, the characters express their grief that never leaves. It grows as “monster” that one learns how to deal with because losing someone is never gets easier. These scenes are compared and contrasted through mise-en-scè, cinematography, and editing. This scene analysis is going relate two scenes that helps understand what one goes through after a lost. The movie has characters that help express the misery of one that doesn’t learn how to grieve in a proper manner. How one overcomes the pain and changes for the better and slowly has better days. A brighter day might not come tomorrow, but learning how to control your days come within time.
Most people are born with good hearts, but as they grow up they learn prejudices. “Crash” is a movie that brings out bigotry and racial stereotypes. The movie is set in Los Angeles, a city with a cultural mix of every nationality. The story begins when several people are involved in a multi-car accident. Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a police detective with a drugged out mother and a mischief younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the white district attorney and his wife, a racist cop and his younger partner, a successful Hollywood director and his wife, a Persian immigrant father, a Hispanic locksmith and his young
There’s no place like home, right? Dorothy assured us of that. Home for Dorothy here becomes a bit of a situation for her; it’s the place she wants to get away from, yet the place she wants to get back to once she’s away from it. Dorothy’s home represents peace, comfort, and safety. Where the people you love want you back.
The movie The Princess Bride originated from the book The Princess Bride by Williams Goldman. The storyline goes along demonstrating the typical knight and the royal characteristic in Medieval times. The events in the movie are based on the courtly love of the main character, Westley. Before being arrested to be a pirate, Westley was a farm boy, who is deeply in love with Buttercup. When he heard of the kidnap the trio, he immediately came to rescue Buttercup, who is at that time Prince Humperdinck's fiance. Within the fight scene of Westley and Inigo Montoya, a knight from the trio, the chivalry of medieval knights is being shown. From the beginning when Inigo patiently waits for Westley to climb up the cliff for the fight, to during the fight
The indie hit Short Term 12 is a film about scars, external and internal caused by those closest. The unassuming title of the drama refers to a foster care facility, set somewhere in Los Angeles. It houses troubled teenagers that are between court dates or foster families. These kids can be there for sometimes a week or sometimes years, many living in a state of limbo. These are kids who have experienced more in their life than some its supervisors, most who are not much older the kids. It is a master piece about broken people
Comedy is also relatively short compared to other genre of movies. These two genres found to be the most popular movie genres than the other categories.
A teenaged boy dives into a lake to save three drowning children. Deep in the African brush, two volunteers save a lone lion cub. A police officer rescues a distraught and suicidal woman dangling from a ledge. Even though heroes differ in their departure, initiation, and return, they are still heroes nevertheless. Edward Bloom, a brave and compassionate man in the twentieth century, and Odysseus, a clever warrior living around 200 BC, share many important characteristics, yet have many differences in the departure, initiation, and return of their journey. Despite these dissimilarities, both are heroes in their own individual worlds.
Have you ever wondered what happens to the Asian villain who only have less than three-minute show time in the movie? Awesome Asian Bad Guys is the first feature-length movie released in 2014 by National Honor Society perhaps has the answer. This film pays tribute to all of the Asian American actors and actress who have roles as bad characters in classic movie during 80s and 90s. It also examines the lack of representation for Asian American in media well as combating stereotypes.
An animated Disney movie called "Mulan," was directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook in 1998. The moral of the story is that women can be just the same as men can. I support the general meaning of the movie. I believe men that and women should be treated equally and that women should not be seen as weak or frail. Women are more than just wives or slaves and can-do jobs that have traditionally been set-aside for men. They can be successful and bring honor to their families in other ways.
“We have a right to fight for our country. The same as every other American.”
- The antagonist in the story, he is the son of Marcus Aurelius. Commodus is an arrogant man who lusts for power which led him into killing his own father and would do anything to get rid of anyone that may threaten his claim to the throne.
Based on Stephen King’s horror novel of the same name, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining features hallways filled with butchered daughters, and their guts and blood splashed down the hall. Horror and realism fuel Kubrick’s notoriously disturbing films and The Shining stands clear-cut amongst them. Although in the case of this movie, Kubrick shifts emphasis from visual horror to psychological fear and instills mounting dread from the sequence of disturbing events. Kubrick states, “one of the things that horror stories can do is show us the archetypes of the unconscious; we can see the dark side without having to confront it directly.” Never falling flat, The Shining provides a psychological horror masterpiece complete with brilliant acting, tight camera angles, haunting score, and unanswered questions.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 film directed by Robert Mulligan, and is based on the novel by Harper Lee of the same name. The film stars Gregory Peck (Atticus Finch), Mary Badham (Scout Finch), Phillip Alford (Jem), John Megna (Dill), Robert Duvall (Boo Radley), and Brock Peters (Tom Robinson). To start the film a woman is narrating her childhood in Macomb, Alabama that was "a tired old town even in 1932." She (Scout) recalls that she was six years old that summer. Scout and her brother Jem are fascinated by the neighbors a few door down, particularly Boo Radley, which they share with Dill, a boy visiting town for the summer. The primary plot line for Scout, Jem, and Dill revolves around Boo Radley.