High Noon Film Analysis

Often, films reflect the expectations and norms of femininity and masculinity of the particular social context in which people create it. However, a film can also challenge such gendered norms and expectations which can cause viewers to perform an inward examination and even begin to challenge the gendered societal norms and expectations within their given social context. While the film, High Noon, conceptualizes characters in their typical gender expectations and norms, the film simultaneously challenges these norms through the characters of Sheriff Will Kane and Helen Ramirez.

A major industry that catches the attention of individuals with different genders, ages and backgrounds is the movie industry. The visual representation of police officers in films can alter a person’s understanding of the law enforcement. Police officers are portrayed by two sides; good or bad. The movie I will be closely analyzing is called Training Day. This movie depicts many topics we have covered throughout this course. The movie directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Ayer, was released on October 5, 2001. This movie follows two Los Angeles Police Department officers. Detective Alonzo Harris, played by award winning Denzel Washington, is a veteran officer, and Officer Jake Hoyt, played by Ethan Hawke, is on a new assignment

In the movie Space Jam Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny vs A crowd of animated monsters in basketball. Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny are both the most important players in the movie Space Jam.Michael Jordan is a real life super star. Bugs Bunny an animated movie character.

United States Marines are some of the roughest and toughest men to ever walk this Earth, and that is because Marines is not born but instead built, and the men who mold those boys into Marines do a damn good job at doing so. Stanley Kubrick’s portrayal of the United States military and more specifically the Marine Corps, in his 1987 film Full Metal Jacket is arguably unmatched by any other film to date. Full Metal Jacket’s glorification of violence, justified brutality, and superb realism are more accurate than most would like to believe during such a controversial period of American history. From the opening scenes at Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) Parris Island to the far off, dangerous lands of Vietnam, Full Metal Jacket embodies the

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

Dope is a film written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa, which depicts the struggles and achievements of Malcom Adekanbi. Malcom, a teenager who is growing up in the Darby-Dixson neighborhood commonly known as “the bottoms” in Inglewood, California, understands who he isn’t, but struggles throughout the movie to figure out who he is. This film brilliantly explains a few reasons for delinquent behavior, including societal need to label and/or define people, which is often decided based on race, gender, socioeconomic status and social standing, as well as how to overcome obstacles that have been placed in front of us, thereby changing the trajectory of our lives. The following quote from the movie given by Malcom explains how labels have made it hard for him to figure out who he is: “For most of my life I’ve been caught in between who I really am and how I’m perceived. In between categories and definitions…. But when you don’t fit in you’re forced to see the world from many different angles and points of view” (Famuyiwa, 2015). Malcom wonders if he’s a geek, a poor black child who doesn’t know his father and is being raised by a single mom, a menace, a drug dealer or is actually Harvard material.

For what it is, this documentary was powerful. Brought to screen by Marc Silver, cinematographer/documentary director. 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets is riveting and devastating. A deeply moving documentary about a subject that continues to plague America. Demonization of black lives and the deadly actions taken against them, by private citizens and law enforcement.

The “Lost Battalion” film was a great film about World War One. It showed a lot about the horrors of the war. It also brilliantly depicted the reality of the war.

“You couldn’t find a whiter, safer or better-lit part of this city. But this white woman sees two black guys … and her reaction is blind fear” (Cheadle & Haggis, 2004). This quote is from the academy award-winning film Crash, by Paul Haggis. Haggis demonstrates both essentialist and non-essentialist concepts through his characters living in downtown Los Angeles. Crash follows various characters over a thirty-six hour period as their lives intertwine through a series of incidents, and how each individual deals with the racial tension that plagues the city. Haggis’ uses repetition to force the characters to ‘crash’ back into each other

In Hillsboro, Tennessee during the year of 1925 was a trial being held against Bertram Cates. Bertram’s offense is for teaching students that man came from apes which was a theory started by Charles Darwin. Cates attorney is Henry Drummond and they will be going against a famous man by the name of Matthew Brady who is a Bible Scholar. During the trial Drummond called scientists to help explain the about theory Darwin proposes but, the judge sustains all of them. This causes Drummond to become extremely frustrated because he thinks the court has already made their decision. Drummond then speaks what on his mind to the court then asks if he could withdraw from the case. Turns out Drummond didn’t withdraw from the case but, instead next time he calls Brady to the stand. Drummond philosophy used against Brady pays off and makes him admit that some verses in the bible can not be understood which gives him the opportunity to make his point that Cates has the right to think for himself. Cates is then found guilty and then is fined one hundred dollars. After the verdict was given in anger Brady stood up to give his final words hoping to show the men and women of the courtroom that he was right but, he was ignored mostly by everyone except his wife and his

American Sniper is a 2014 American biographical war film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Jason Hall. It is loosely based on the memoir American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle. The film follows the life of Kyle, who became the deadliest marksman in U.S. military history with 255 kills from four tours in the Iraq War, 160 of which were officially confirmed by the Department of Defense. Although Clint Eastwood had Kyle’s autobiography to reference to, Eastwood still made up events that didn’t really happen but, on the other hand, there were some events that he matched perfectly.

Modern Times serves as an anti capitalist movement. Chaplin is caught in the chaos of factories. He has trouble keeping up with the assembly lines and working with his colleagues. He gets kicked out of factories and finds himself in trouble with the law. It is seen as an anti capitalist film because Chaplin loses everything and goes to jail, while the government controls everything.

The film Modern Times depicted the poverty by there being multiple instances where the workers had to resort to stealing to be

The movie A Time to Kill is engrossed in the emotions that revolves around hatred, this hatred originates from racism in the south. It begins with the brutal rape of a young black girl, Tanya Hailey. The rape was committed by two rednecks in a pickup truck. Tonya’s father Carl Lee Hailey takes the law into his hands and lashes out by killing the rapist. Charged with two counts of murder, he is assigned the young and brilliant lawyer Jake Brigance, who still believes he is able to receive a fair trial. With the trial beginning, viewers get to see this hatred somehow rise to become more significant. Focusing on the relationship between Carl Lee and Jake Brigance, and its impact on the southern town. The producers of this movie tried to make the audience or the viewers understand how these people in the south struggle with this hatred of racism, facing segregation head on and its judicial system. A Time to Kill is based on the first novel by John Grisham. Directed by Joel Schumacher, with the strong performances from Samuel L. Jackson as Carl Lee Hailey, the avenging father, and Matthew McConaughey as Jake Brigance, the lawyer. This paper will be analyzing some clips and scenes from the movie, and discussing how every visual aspect of a film's language especially cinematography. For example, shots, sounds, settings, and movements can give the audience a clear sign of emotions, motive, and clues as to what the filmmaker feels and

In Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, he explains the process of how workers become alienated from living in a capitalist society through his “Estranged Labor” manuscript. Marx specifies on the four aspects in which the worker is estranged from his labor: product, labor, self, and man. Charlie Chaplin’s film Modern Times also shows a notion of alienation of the worker. The beginning of the film first shows the process in which every worker does his own job. Soon, it begins to show viewers the harsh and inhumane working conditions of the workers. Constantly having to do the same job over and over again, the first few minutes of the film span out how Chaplin slowly begins to lose his mind. These two different works can be connected through the notions of the alienation of labor.