Great Film

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder often characterized by abnormal social behaviour and failure to recognize what is real. Common symptoms include false beliefs, unclear or confused thinking, auditory hallucinations, reduced social engagement and emotional expression, and inactivity. A person with schizophrenia often hears voices, experiences delusions and hallucinations and may believe thoughts, feelings and actions are controlled or shared by someone else.

Director, screenwriter, and producer, Stephen Spielberg, has been often described by critics as being one of the trailblazers who paved the way for the new Hollywood era. In fact, one of Spielberg’s earliest films, JAWS, captured the audience’s attentions so vividly that the movie remains to be a cult classic even decades later. The audience sunk its teeth deep into the enticing combination of drama, thrill, science-fiction, and adventure the film obtained. At face value, JAWS appears to be focused on a giant monstrous fish, but with further analyzation of the plot structure, narration, and original music demonstrates the brilliance and complexity of why JAWS is a well deserving Oscar-winning movie.

There are many different elements of film that filmmakers can utilize to make a film. Direction, storyline, cinematography, mise en scene, as well as point of view and tone can all lend a hand in making a film great. One might say that the most important aspect of a film is the script. Others might argue the actors are the most important part. However, an impressive balance of all of the different elements of film are what can elevate a film to greatness. That is why the best film viewed this semester is Night of the Living Dead.

Being one of the world’s most popular art forms, it was inevitable that these archetypes would find their way into film as well. In this essay I will argue that the

Making a good movie is easy but making a great movie is hard. As I watched a short clip from the movie The Bride of Frankenstein I watched how the acting, plot, lighting, camera work, and script all made this film come to life. This movie was made in 1935 yet it is still so compelling to watch because it is successful with the important components of a movie.

When I watch films like Citizen Kane or The Best Years of Our Lives, I always ask myself this one question: Can I make a film this great? The answer is no. It is not because I do not believe in myself. It is just the fact that these films were the first of it’s kind. They have techniques that were state-of-the-art. Those very same techniques are considered the standard by today’s measures. I bring this up because when comparing these two films, I found myself engulfed with the elements that made them stand out as great films. Citizen Kane is very story driven with great use of shadows and of course deep focus. The Best Years of Our Lives employ the very same techniques of deep focus, which is not surprising as they both have the same cinematographer. Both of these films have their own anomalous styles of story and visual expression, which is why they are great films.

After seeing the play “The Valley” written by Joan MacLeaod, I begun to realize that

There is a lot of forgotten materials in cinematography, dirctoring, and acting that should be revived in todays films. Back then, filmmakers had the secrets to entertaining its audience such as there was no fillers in the plot and was more straight forwards scenes to follow. Overall films does not need to be a big production and an overly complext plot and random fillers that loses the viewers attentions and idea of the film is loses to the action. Sometimes keeping simple makes a great

However, in most recent films, blacks are implicated as the hero in films. McAlister moves to talk about how the way blacks are now casted in films to bring light to the symbolic sign of ethnicity zombies have within the American culture. In this recent change, blacks are seen as the dominant character who will eventually save whites from zombies. “In these films, the black male messiah must save humanity from the affliction of whiteness” (McAlister, 480). This statement shows how the ethnicity

C. Thesis: Studios are reticent to cast black and biracial actors in major roles in the fear that these films will not be successful with the viewing audience, but the decision to cast mostly white actors only serves to reinforce this assumption by preventing even the possibility of successful films with black and biracial leads; although recent evidence shows that this assumption is largely inaccurate, the practice persists, and only by critically examining this troubled history can one hope to precipitate a change.

When someone says the word “Hollywood”, my mind has no problem painting a detailed picture. Films with grand orchestras, multi-million-dollar lighting, costumes, and makeup, big name actors; these things all come to mind. However, in the third chapter of Bordwell and Thompson’s Film Art, a set of conventions considered to be part of classical Hollywood filmmaking are listed. These conventions are tagged on to what we would expect to see in a classical Hollywood film. They are included in the themes and elements of the plot and narrative that we have come to expect from the films that we watch and love, but may not often be consciously consider. One of my favorite films, Dead Poet’s Society, is not exempt from this—it too includes several key

Will Smith bring yet another heart-felt, abstract inspired movie to the big screen for the perfect holiday treat? We see all sorts of familiar faces this time around, but the audience is introduced to a few new characters as well. When a New York advertising executives’ faces-problem with their nuclear family, it fogs their mental mind states. The struggle is real to clear the slate, jeopardizing the investment firm. Alongside the journey, his constituents, and concerned friends are set to better reconnect Howard, on the miserable venture he has bestowed to his company and self. Isolated from the realms of society Howard seeks answers from abstract(s) letters to Love, Time and Death. But it’s not until his notes bring unexpected personal responses, which begins to reveal the Collateral Beauty connect.

As we enter the 1930s, horror movies are officially classified as a genre. Also entering with the 30s is Universal’s monsters, which consist of classics like “Dracula”, “Frankenstein”, “The Mummy”, and

In the film culture, horror is one of the most solid and prominent genres. The film adaptations of the famed Stephen King’s novels; The Shining and Misery had become cult classics. Released ten years apart from each other in 1980 and 1990, both were commercially successful with the revenues of 44.4 million and 61.3 million US dollars. The two works share similar characters and settings, though the premise of each are hugely different where one is about a psychological breakdown due to hauntings in captivity, while the other is about terror of the obsessed and physical abuse. However in the matter of film adaptations, often the finished product ends up being a little, or very different than the original. In adapting literature into film, the accuracy of the details in the story plays a huge role in film making process, and that affects how well it’s received as well. Although the two adaptations had been recognized as some of the best horror novel to film adaptations of all time, Misery is renowned for its simplistic yet tasteful tribute to the original story, and The Shining had received mixed critiques for its emphasis on art directions and its pale adaptation.

It's like every other night in california, going out with your friends to 7- eleven or just doing stupid stuff as 10 year old like seeing who can go down the sewer the farthest or who the fastest on a bike, I won of course. As it was fun to your friends again, there was something more important and way cooler. Baseball was tomorrow and my team has been having a great season so far, we were 8 to nothing and we were only in the double A, for kids we should be in the Majors. While that was cool my mom introduced me to a movie i've never seen before called the Sandlot. This movie was so amazing it was like a golden apple and taking your first bite. The movie was about how a kid who moved to a small town was in the middle of summer and wanted to learn how to play baseball and did and got really good at it, the only thing in his way was a beast dog named dug. This dog had the eyes of a evil demon with fur thicker than a bear and its jaw was big enough to fit a human head. As the kids were scared of the dog there's was something more appealing to them. The pickle. This a play where your on third base and is in the middle of the catcher and the third baseman, your goal is to get home. Well in the movie the kids made it seem easy. Well I thought it was cool and my goal was to do it the next day, but I forgot, My name is Myles McNeill who is charismatic with locals and is extremely weird, but that's why people like me.