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Based off Charles Webb’s 1963 novel by the same name, The Graduate is an American romantic comedy/drama released in the United States on December 21, 1967 starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, and William Daniels. The film was directed by Mike Nichols, produced by Lawrence Turman and the screenplay written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham. The film was produced by Lawrence Turman/Mike Nichols productions starting in March of 1967. Mike Nichols has also directed other well known films such as Catch-22 (1970), Working Girl (1988), and more recently Closer (2004). The film was distributed by AVCO Embassy Pictures nationally and United Artists internationally. AVCO Embassy Pictures studio, founded by Joseph E. Levine, the films executive producer, also claims production/distribution for other hit films such as Godzilla, King of Monsters! (1956), The Fog (1980), and Prom Night (1980). The movie was well received due to its $104 million dollar box office opening tab. The score was produced by Dave Grusin and the songs written by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

Analytical Thesis: Get Out is a psychological thriller that analyzes the racial issues in modern America through the use of visual rhetoric: such as film noir, symbolism and metaphors.

“Insidious” is a 2010 horror movie centralizing around the lives of protagonists Renai (Rose Byrne) and her husband Josh (Patrick Wilson). The movie mainly focuses on the supernatural activity going on within the house, and it is later revealed that the cause of the hauntings is due to demons attempting to take over the body of their unconscious son, Dalton (Ty Simpkins).

The 2012 movie Argo is based off of a true event in 1979. During the Iranian Civil War, President Jimmy Carter gives the Iranian Shah refuge in the U.S. due to his illness. In retaliation, Iranian activists invade the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran and the staff are taken as hostages. This is famously known as the Iranian hostage crises. Although six of the staff members escape and are taken in by the Canadian Ambassador. Determined to rescue the six, Tony Mendez, who is our main character, from the CIA is brought in because of his expertise. After talking to his son one day while watching a science fiction program on TV, he comes up the idea to go into Iran, under the guise of Canadians

Roger Ebert described Wit as a movie that hurts too much (Ebert, 2008), and I have to agree. From the first scene, Dr. Vivian Bearing is a character that draws me in. The preciseness of her speech demands respect and her matter of fact observations vividly display the irony of her situation, adding humor to a subject that would seem impossible. The doctors, in their own form of precise speech, manage to strip all humanity from practicing medicine; making it clear that their intentions were on advancing the science rather than helping the patient. While Bearing told the audience the truth of how she was feeling and what her thoughts were, she gave the doctors the answers they wanted to hear, and in doing so, she gave up the ability to have a peaceful death. It makes one wonder, how often do we know the truth from the patient’s perspective?

In today’s world we are seeing a growing concern for our younger generation that is growing up with the struggles of obesity, many of them are starting to deal with the same health issues that were isolated to adults just a few years ago. In the movie Fed Up the director Stephanie Soechtig wanted to open our eyes to the issue that has gone unnoticed for so long, that fact that the food industry has been hiding the truth about our eating habits. In the movie they spoke about, “how the soda industry fund research study that help to say that soft drinks have nothing to do with obesity” (Soechtig, 2014).

The Graduate was entertaining while also boring, but then again audience members either loved it or hated it. This can even be seen today depending on the person‘s age that is watching the film. This speaks greatly to the generation gap that was occurring during the 1960s. Dustin Hoffman’s character Benjamin Braddock was aloof and lost in his own world, along with the rest of the American youth at the time. The question asked of him repeatedly was, “what are you going to do now?” Many young Americans were hitting this point in their lives also. Their parents had the Great Depression, World War II, and raising families to worry about while their children’s generation didn’t have anything. The older generation saw the movie and were appalled with how the parents were portrayed when they gave their kids everything they ever dreamed of, or so they thought.

Ordinary is the best and the worst word to describe August 4th, 1992 in Grand Haven, Michigan. Ordinary was the Coast Guard Day festival going smoothly just as it did every year. Ordinary was the townspeople celebrating at the festival or staying home and enjoying their day off. In the Borne house, ordinary was the children watching their cartoons in the living room. It was Carolyn finding some way to occupy her time by cleaning. It was Kevin being the normal workaholic at his desk with the smooth jazz records playing loudly to keep him company. It was Erin starting on her history assignment due the next day, despite having the past two weeks to work on it. What happened that day, though, was decidedly the most unordinary occurrence to

Film was an extremely fun class for an English elective, overall I enjoyed learning about the technics that filmmakers use to draw the audience into the film and keep them intrigued by the plot. By far the best film that we watched this semester was The Graduate because of its now classic 60’s music and its view about the change in society. Adversely the worse movie was The Social Network with its oversimplification of issues and overcomplicating technology to portray the character as complex. Considering the quality of all the movies we watched it was difficult to pick out problems with the films.

Robin R. Means Coleman discusses black horror as its own genre by giving the initial statement, “that is, there are so many films featuring Blackness, with so many shared connections, that Black film has become a genre in itself” (4). Get Out (2017) is a black horror film that is directed by and stars a black man as the leading role, Jordan Peele, and Daniel Kaluuya, respectively. The psychologically terrifying film heavily focuses on the idea that white people have power over black people, which becomes a literal aspect since the white family hypnotizes and takes over black people’s minds.

As we moved into the auteur category of films, we went from films having a clear plot, ending, and meaning, to films having endings, plots, and meanings the audience had to actually sit and think about to find to find out what exactly the director was trying to portray. This is caused by directors that are considered auteurs. These directors wanted their viewers to be able to come up with their own meaning instead of just giving it to them. They want the audience to think as they watch the movie, instead of sitting there blank. So what is an auteur? An auteur, defined from our book, is a “a director or other creative intelligence with a recognizable and distinctive style who is considered the prime ‘author’ of a film” (Film Analysis 1063). An auteur creates movies as a form of art to portray what they feel to people. They can portray feelings of politics, love, sexuality and other feelings.

There are many different types of film and film genres. A film can fit into more than one genre, but there are some genres that are more general than others. Some examples of film genre are animated, science fiction, documentary, comedy, and historical fiction. Within each genre, there are also specific characteristics that help support themes and story lines within that genre.

Hollywood; a quiet farming state until 1907, when bad weather drove a small Chicago film company westward to complete a shoot. By 1912, word of Hollywood’s ideal film-shooting climate and landscape spread had at least fifteen independent studios move to Hollywood. By 1915, America was officially film crazed, and Hollywood was shaping into the glamorous, sometimes surreal landscape we have come to know and love today.

For anyone who has ever watched a film is a critic in some form. They judge various aspects based on personal feelings or attitudes, then state them for anybody to hear. I, the writer, am guilty of this type of film analysis. I based my ‘review’ of a film solely on how I felt the narrative evolved or how well the acting was done. I never considered why the rhetor of film choose certain details or what might have influenced the rhetor in the first place. However, through this course I was exposed to two academic ways of analyzing films, contextually and descriptively. Contextual analysis of a film uses the events surrounding the film’s production or release and the audiences’ response to the film to develop an understanding of the film. Descriptive analysis of a film uses details from the film or the rhetor’s specific choices to decipher what the underlying massage the film was attempting to portray. In this paper, I will describe the two ways of academically analyzing film, contextually and descriptively, and how using both styles for the same film is the only way to fully comprehend the film.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. The film An Inconvenient Truth shows us what will happen in the future if we continue to produce waste and pollution. We are the cause of global warming. Global warming turns the earth into an oven. Each year the overall temperature raise, causing more natural disaster and dry lands. If we let this continues, we might even end up in the same wasteland shown in the film Wall-E.