Idiocracy

When choosing a film for this assignment, my original choice was Bend It Like Beckham because I had heard of it and I had a general idea what it was about. I then decided that I wanted to take on a more challenging film, one that I had never heard of, and one that I would really have to study to understand its full meaning. After looking into a few of the listed movies, I ended up choosing Whale Rider, a drama filmed in New Zealand in 2002. After watching the movie two times, I feel that I now understand some of the more drastic cultural and gender based problems that are occurring today.

The movie I chose was Easy A because there are many psychological concepts this movie that relate to real-life events and it covers many theories we learned about in this class. Easy A was released in 2010 and directed by Will Gluck. It’s about a teenage girl named Olive who accidentally admits to her friend Rhi that she was having sexual relations with boys. She felt pressured into lying since her friend had already engaged in sexual acts with her boyfriend. A rumor then spread and many people in the school then ignored Olive because they thought what she did was an immoral act, but the guys started giving her more attention. I feel that this applies to many

The film that I chose to write about is a Paramount Pictures presentation titled Mean Girls, starring Lindsay Lohan and also featuring a handful of Saturday Night Live cast members, including Tina Fey the author of this picture. The reason behind choosing this film is because it has a unique style of introducing characters, transitioning between scenes, and various tools to help spice up the film. Being one of my personal favorites, Mean Girls is a comedy about a home schooled teenage girl who enters high school for the first time. She tries to figure herself out by where she can fit in and who she needs to become friends with.

The Movie that I choose to analyze was the movie The Wolf of Wall Street this movie is about a guy who is starting off his career wanting to earn money fast so he goes to Wall Street and works as a broker for a small firm, where he ends up picking up bad advice along with some bad habits that get him rich fast, but not in a very ethical way. Some of the main characters that I will be talking about in this essay are Jordan Belfort also referred to as Jordy, he is played by Leonardo DiCaprio, Donnie Azoff Played by Jonah Hill. There are many other characters in this movie, but these are the main characters that are faced with difficult dilemmas. A lot of the choices that are made in this movie are Unethical. Even though it seems that he does everything for greed you end up understanding the reasons he did those things, but even though they are done for the right reasons does not mean it is right.

For my movie analysis, I chose the 1984 satirical documentary, This Is Spinal Tap. The movie is written to be viewed as if it were a real documentary about a heavy metal band going through the stages of being on top to hitting rock bottom, only to come back in the end. The movie pokes fun and real rock documentaries, by showing you that rock stars are, still in the end, people too.

High Noon, a western film mostly respected by conservative viewers, and endlessly ranked over by critics. This was an exciting movie considering it was a black and white film. The whole movie was about the loyalty of a town marshal named Kane and the betrayal of the town. After watching High Noon, there were a lot of fallacies that were depicted through out the movie such as begging the question, ad hominem, slippery slope, and Inconsistency. The characters in the movie do a great job at portraying each of these fallacies.

     This film presents an individual that chooses not to conform to modern society, and the consequences of that choice. The main character

When deciding what movie to do for this particular paper I faced a few issues. I knew what the requirements were, but I wanted something different and something I could have fun watching and writing as well. So, after looking around and pondering movies for weeks I finally decided on a perfect choice The 60's directed by Mark Piznarski?

The movie I chose to write about is Training Day. Training Day depicts police brutality in Los Angeles by LAPD narcotics detective Alonzo Harris, whose strategies that are used to enforce the law are controversial, if not corrupt. Alonzo is portrayed to be the most unpleasant narcotics detective in LA he who rides around the city, shanking bad guys down and stealing their drugs and money in the process. The film begins with rookie officer Jake Hoyt waking up to his first assignment as an undercover narcotics officer training with Alonzo. Jake starts off excited thinking this promotion is best thing for him and his family until Alonzo shows his true character. Jake rides along with Alonzo so he can show him the streets, and see how well he performs under pressure. While driving past an alley, Jake notices a young girl about to be sexually assaulted and tells Alonzo to stop the car. He doesn't want to stop so Jake hops out of the car. Jakes is angry and while he’s helping the young girl, Alonzo shows

Even though the film was meant to funny, it did make me think about different cultural preduice and obstacles interacial relationships may face. Over all I enjoyed the film it poked fun at racial prejudice and brought some good topics to the table. However, I wish they would have take the opportunity to have gone deeper into racism and brought it out into the open for people to

The movie I chose to watch for the alternative assignment is Frida. The movie is about a Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo, and her struggles. Frida, the main character had to go through many struggles throughout her life. Each struggle she endured she painted about it.

For a movie that had almost no marketing done for it and was released in theaters in only six cities, Mike Judge’s Idiocracy, released in 2006, has become an extremely successful movie. Fox sat on the movie for over a year before finally releasing it in theaters. It didn’t even have so much as a movie trailer or an official movie poster. When Idiocracy did finally hit the theaters, the movie was only shown for two weeks. And shortly after that it went right to DVD, still without much marketing at all. A movie treated like that is usually because it’s not any good, but in spite of all that Idiocracy has become a cult classic and is known as one of Mike Judge’s best creations.

The film is quite interesting and exposes several themes to its viewer; societal control, utopian creation, allusions to the Allegory of the Cave, and most importantly existentialism. It is intended to be a comedic drama. This is a rare genre, more rare than most other genres anyway. Creating drama and still maintaining a comedic element is a paradox yet this film seems to pull it off masterfully. Very well regarded by many critics yet

Political ideologies are the beliefs, morals and ethics held on what is the optimum way of governing a country (Jost, Federico, & Napier, 2009). They have long guided the elected governments behaviour, particularly in effect to Social Policy decisions; determining what policy initiatives will be elected and what is the best way of implementing such policies. New Zealand has had various political ideologies brought in by different governments; such as Social Democracy, Social Liberalism, Neo liberalism, Neo Conservatism and Conservatism. For the basis of this Essay, the focus will be on two of the most significant influences; Social Democracy and Conservatism. Both ideologies have had period 's of dominance in New Zealand 's Social policy history where they have impacted the general functioning of society. Their view of the state, and general morals have been strongly reflected in the policy initiatives there exponents have brought in. For Social Democracy, it being the 1938 Social Security Act and the various implementations of Keynesian Economic Management in the 1940s and 1980s; and for Conservatism, the Pensions for miners and returned servicemen, and the introduction of private prisons. The both having considerable impact not only on New Zealand society but the development of more progressive forms of political ideology. It will be argued that the resulting policies from the Social Democracy and Conservatism ideologies most notable influence is

The movie in which I chose to do my movie analysis on was not one from the list provided. However, it is one of my all-time favorite movies The Band of Brothers a miniseries by HBO. I chose to do this one over the other because not only is it very entertaining and keeps you want to watch more, just to see what happens to everyone invaded but also because of the history be hide the story. The fact that they used real life experiences to help make the film just made it that much better. I watch The Band of Brothers at least a few times a year so I was happy to do this assignment.