Gravity By Alfonso Cuarón

Director Oliver Stone’s 1987 “Wall Street” takes the audience into life as an ambitious New Yorker shooting for the moon. He fantastically interprets the idea of “making it” in a city like New York. Appropriately setting the opening scene in the middle of the hustle of transit riders as Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon” sets the tone of trying to escape just being a number among many. Very much like how New Yorkers have their own way of saying and explaining things, be prepared to learn the language of Wall Street, which unless you work in some kind of finance, you shouldn’t feel bad or too confused for not understanding.

He did not receivr his first camera until he was twelve, and when he did he started to record everything he saw. He did not want to go to the army so he went after another career which was directing. His first work that was related to the cinema was working as a cable person in “La Vispera (1982)”. His first job as director was in a short film called “Vengeance Is Mine (1983)”. His first job in the U.S. was directing an episode of “Fallen Angels (1993)”. Cuaron is famous because of movies such as Y Tu Mama Tambien, Children of Men, Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban, and Gravity. He made Gravity at the height of his career as a director. Although this movie does not have many cast members, Cuaron’s phenomenal job brought many awards for this movie. Also, Cuaron was benefitting from big names such as George Clooney (leading actor), and Sandra Bullock (Leading actress) in his movie with helped him a lot in the Box Office, and getting audiences’ attention to this

In Across the Universe, the director, Julie Taymor focuses on a range of controversial topics. For example, the Vietnam War, anti-war protests, police aggression, the “hippie” movement, and many others. Although the movie covers a wide array of topics, Taymor focuses on two keywords in particular: freedom and destruction and their correlation with one another. She does this by drawing the viewer’s attention to the Vietnam War, Max’s war injury, and Jude and Lucy’s relationship. Taymor uses visual echoes to show the progression of freedom throughout the time period. To accomplish this she illustrates, using visible pauses, how the characters’ lives are impacted by the war and ultimately how freedom comes after a period of destruction.

Breathless is in many ways the antithesis of the classical Hollywood cinema; the changes have a direct effect on the relationship the film has with the viewer. Classical Hollywood cinema includes standards such as continuity editing, highly motivated, character-driven stories and a coherent narrative structure. Breathless defies these elements of traditional filmmaking, instead defining what we know as French New Wave.

Children of Men is a film that forces the viewers to take notice of how the future is born out of the present, and to be conscious of the misguided implications of the choices we make or accept today. The director, Alfonso Cuarón, visually applied the background to tell the story and warn us of a world that is not too far from our own without fully distracting the viewers’ attention from the foreground.

Rebecca McClanahan’s essay, “Interstellar,” is a memoir explaining what it is like, “To be the sister of a sad and beautiful woman,” (354). This line is one of the many uses of repetition the narrator utilizes to speak on the relationships her sister and her endure, while also explaining their relationship with each other. These relationships are magnified by the narrator’s use of literary elements such as metaphors, allusion, repetition, second person voice and her diction. These elements help develop characters, as well as give us a deeper sense of the relationships between the characters themselves.

Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955) is a film of the coming of age genre. The film depicts troubled teenagers looking for answers and contemplating about their lives. Rebel Without a Cause showcases the coming of age genre perfectly. The genre is showcased throughout the entire film by showcasing the teenager’s issues, worries about being a teenager, and troubled lives at home. Furthermore, the film heavily focuses on the issues of how the teenagers aren’t loved, given attention, or understood by their families. The film clearly represents the socio-political views of the 1950s.

The movie starts in a house that is underwater and tables and chairs are floating. We hear a voice the voice of Giles and as he goes he talks about a princess without a voice, the tale of ¨love and lost¨, and a monster who ¨tried to destroy it all¨. The second opening of the film is in Baltimore in the 1960s, we see a young woman who goes by the name of Elisa who is mute (can't speak but can hear). Elisa spends a lot of her time at Giles home bringing him food. She works in a facility with her friend Zelda as janitors, when Elisa arrives at work she is late and her friend Zelda holds her spot for them to punch in.

Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus presents to the reader many human values. The most prominent being envy, deceit and self-sacrifice. During the course of the play these features are displayed through Salieri’s actions, emotions and dialogue.

The narrative in Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 Rashomon is famous for its unconventional style and structure, its method of storytelling is based on the characters perception of the truth, in film and television it is often referred to as the Rashomon effect. The visual style and symmetry are compelling proponents of the films symbolism, Kurosawa’s use of sunlight and dark shadows symbolizes the clarity of the story, an example would be the use of sunlight as good faith and the shadows as a dark impulse. The film tells the story of one event with four different accounts to it, each story is altered so that the truth is distorted or otherwise based on each characters perception of what has transpired. Kurosawa used four different alternate versions in the story as the narrative in the film, it is structured so the audience could have their own thoughts and perception of the real truth. Kurosawa also uses the philosophy of justice to show how human nature and moral relativism cannot tell the absolute truth without the bias of ones experience, in other words the problem with the truth is that it is based on perception.

The film Sicario, directed by Denis Villeneuve in 2015 was classified as an American crime-thriller drama that starred Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, and Josh Brolin. The film Sicario (2015) was written by Taylor Sheridan.

The movie Gravity is played by Sandra Bullock and Georgy Clooney. This movie presents the concept of heroism. The movie tells the story that two astronauts conduct a space mission. However, a Russian missile strike on a defunct satellite, causing a cloud of debris in space. The debris crashes on the space shuttle of these astronauts, killing others except for the two main characters. These two have to try everything they can to return the earth. However, the supplies and facilities are only enough to send one astronaut back to earth after the crash of debris. To make sure that the female astronaut can return to earth safely, the male astronaut sacrifices himself. Eventually, although experiencing a lot of difficulties, the female astronaut finally launches on the earth safely.

The Terminator was written by James Cameron and came out in 1984.1 It tells of a post-apocalyptic world dominated by a war between humans and artificially intelligent robots, called terminators. The movie was produced at the beginning of the Digital Age, and computer development and use was beginning to increase. Computer companies like Apple and Microsoft had recently been founded and some of the first personal computers were being created. “Many wondered if society was becoming too dependent of technology”. In addition to computers, all forms of technology were rapidly improving during this time period. The Terminator predicts that the relationship between man and computer turns bad when the computer is given too much power. Ultimately, mankind creates its own downfall. Furthermore, the terminator is seen as superior to the human characters in the movie. The Terminator has no feelings of pain, anger, remorse, or any other kind of emotions. It seems to be a flawless killer, unmatched by its weak creators. The Terminator embodies people’s fears of the advancement of technology and its impact on society.

Augustus Waters once said “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.” (Green, John). Isaac once stated “There’s nothing you can do about it.” (Green, John). Augustus Waters and Isaac are fictional character from the popular book, “The Fault in Our Stars”, written by John Green. These quotes show a little bit of these characters personalities. The exciting and emotional book came out January 2012 and since then a movie was released based on it. (Wikipedia). It includes teens suffering cancer and trying to fulfill their dreams together. Augustus had a touch of osteosarcoma a few years before the book took place. Due to that, he had his right leg amputated. He thought it had cleared, but the possibility of it returning was still

Children of Men is a thought-provoking dystopian film directed by Alfonso Cuaron. It explores the idea of mankind’s own impermanence. Nearly two decades of human infertility have left society on the brink of collapse. There are many important scenes that help to develop the film. The last scene particularly intriguing as it left questioning viewers to come to their own conclusions