Movie Analysis : ' The Corpse Bride '

What goes through your mind as you are observing a film? Do you notice the way the camera angles play with your mind and make you wonder? Or do you spot the way the lighting techniques help to communicate the story? Maybe you hear the score or the dialogue and witness the sense-tingling notes and words that make you guess what is going to happen next. Whatever it may be, films are amazing works of art that stimulate emotions and help you experience the story in a deeper way. I had the opportunity to view the movie Tombstone and pay closer attention to the details that make the film what it is.

The 1946 film The Killers is a renowned film noir based off of Ernest Hemingway’s short story of the same title, focusing on the detailed backstory and investigation for the motive of the murder of Pete Lund/Ole Anderson, commonly known and referred to as “The Swede.” A film noir is a term made originally to describe American mystery and thriller movies produced in the time period from 1944-1954, primarily marked by moods of menace, pessimism, and fatalism. Although the film does not focus on the war itself at all, it still puts forth interesting new ways in how gender relations can be stereotypical as well as divergent proceeding the Second World War.

Tombstone was released December 25, 1993 and made $6,454,752 in the first week. Tombstone is based in the city of Tombstone in the Arizona Territory during the 1880s. The movie is about the conflict that an ex-cattle town sheriff and his family face. Wyatt Earp, played by Kurt Russell, his older Brother Virgil Earp, (Sam Elliott), and his younger brother Morgan Earp, (Bill Paxton), come to Tombstone to become miners. When they first get off the wagon at the hotel, the county sheriff greets them and gives them a tour and they come to a saloon put out the business by Ike Clanton, (Stephen Lang). Wyatt throws Clanton out of the saloon. Milt Joyce, (Pat Brady) cuts Wyatt in on 25% of the houses takings a night. After this walking back to his brother Ike shows up with a shotgun to deal with Wyatt; at this time, we are introduced to Doc. Holiday, (Val Kilmer) who hollers at Ike so to alert the Earps of what is coming. Due to this no blood was shed. Then a stagecoach rolls into town. On the coach is a play company staring Josephine Marcus, (Dana Delany). Wyatt is immediately attracted to her and she notices him down the road and is attracted as well. Then the Earps and Doc go to the Bird Cage Theater where they take their wives: Wyatt’s wife Mattie, (Dana Wheeler-Nicholson), Virgil’s wife Allie, (Paula Malcomson) and Morgan’s wife Louisa, (Lisa Collins) and Doc’s girl Kate, (Joanna Pacula). During the play, the Cowboy’s gang was watching as well but they were shooting their guns

Low angle shot, where a camera points upwards from below, generally make people or things look bigger, more courageous and important. However, same angle shots sometimes will be chosen to emphasize different effects in one film. In the movie “Night of the Living Dead,” the director George A. Romero uses low angles for different purposes.

In the film, Night of the Living Dead, the movie starts with two siblings, John and Barbara, driving to their father's grave to drop off flowers. John is reluctant to be there and is eager to leave while Barbara is trying to pray. John teases her like when they were children saying “They’re coming to get you, Barbara!” when they both see an unknown man. Barbara goes to apologize to the unknown man but it seems he is dazed and kills John. Barbara escapes and finds herself at an empty house. In the house, she meets Ben, who borders up to the windows after taking down 3 undead. After a bit of listening to a radio for the current status of the state of emergency, Harry and Tom come upstairs. We learn that two men, two women, and a child had been in the basement of the house during Barbara’s and Ben’s struggle with the undead. After much argumentation on if the basement or upstairs was safer between Harry and Ben, Harry went back downstairs to his wife and child. Tom and his wife, Judy, stayed upstairs with Ben believing they could properly border up the windows together. After much convincing from Helen, Harry’s wife, Harry and she join the others upstairs. While listening on the radio, they are given more updates of the state of emergency. The radio announcer suggests instead of staying in place, to now go to one of the designated “safe areas”. When places are announced, Tom says that one of the

The movie, Requiem for a Dream (Selby & Mansell, 2000) exposes the multiple faces of addiction. Addiction can change a person’s identity and therefore, impacts each person differently. This movie explores the life of four addicts who push the boundaries of their own lives leaving the viewer to wonder, how far will they go to use drugs? The focus of this paper is on what addiction looks like for the character, Harry Goldfarb.

In my list of movies that always make me cry is the movie “Ghost” which was released on July 13, 1990. This movie made that summer really worth while and gave us romance, comedy and much to think about. The movie starred Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg.

After watching her brother die in front of her Barbra runs to a nearby farmhouse to hide from the killer. After she explores the house and finds a dead body on the second floor she runs outside where she meets an african american man named Ben. They board up the down stairs of the house and Ben goes to check the upstairs. Then two men Harry and Tom come out of the basement. After Ben rushes back down stairs because of the commotion he heard Ben and Barbra find out there has been five people in the basement the whole time. The reanimated bodies surround the house, the other survivors begin to panic. They decide to try and escape by taking a truck fill up its gas tank with fuel and then drive to a refuge center. When the plan was attempted the gas caught on fire and the truck blow up with Tom and his wife inside. They all retreat back into the house and reboard it back up. The living dead surround the house and start breaking in. Ben drops his gun trying to hold up the barricades and Harry takes it and tries to take control. Ben fights the gun away from him and shoots him and he falls into the basement. Harrys wife followed him and was killed by her daughter who had become a living dead. The zombies broke through and took barbra. Ben the last one still alive retreats to the basement. After a while he starts to hear gun shots so he ventures upstairs. He is shot by a rescue team when they mistake

1.). A central topic encountered in “Opium Brides” was corruption. The opium bride movement consisted of daughters, of the borrowing farmer, were traded to repay a debt to the drug dealers. The Frontline segment revealed corruption within Afghanistan’s government, economy, and social construct to be the leading cause of the opium bride movement. The narrator states,” 200,000 opium farming families produce over 90% of the opium output.”. Multiple opium farming families confessed to the consequences of the government destroying their loaned crops. Not only did the drug dealers take their daughters but also killed the family of the borrower, killed the borrower, or took their sons. Thousands of these families stated that they’ve faced the struggles

I went into Dance of the Dead expecting a better film. Detention of the Dead was good enough to get me looking for similar films. Which brought me to Dance of the Dead and I don't like near as much. Mostly because I feel I was cheated on the Dance part of this film, since the majority of the film doesn't take place at the dance. I feel bad for not liking this film, it has everything going for it. It's a cheesy zombie flick, set at a prom, and its low budget with a focus on practical effects. I should be loving this film, but I'm not.

Horror films are movies that aim to elicit a strong physiological reaction in the viewer, such as raised heartbeat and fear. Three horror films by the names of Psycho, Scream and The Messengers will be analysed and compared to an episode of the popular children’s show Shaun the Sheep. Five elements will be addressed in this analysis, those being camera techniques, Mise-en-scene, Editing, Lighting and Sound.

''The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you!!! ...'' Father Merrin&Father Damien Karras from the movie -The Exorcist-

There are many movies directed towards the LGBT population. Many movies are based on documentaries to educate the public about the LGBT population; other movies are based on comedies that feed into the incorrect stereotypes of the population. After watching some movies based on the population, common reoccurring themes were acceptance, rejection, exploration, stereotypes, discrimination, and depression. For example, in the movie Bridegroom, Tom and Shane are a gay couple who were in a serious committed relationship; however, after Tom died, Shane was unable to attend his husband’s funeral because Tom’s family would not allow it. Shane faces rejection from the family of his husband.

The film was about siblings named Johnny and Barbara that were going to lay flowers on their father's grave in Pennsylvania. In the cemetery, they saw a strange man walking towards them. Johnny teased Barbara saying the man was going to get her. When she went to go apologize to the man for Johnny’s actions, the man grabbed her. Johnny tried to fight him off but he was thrown into a gravestone where he hit his head and died. This led to Barbara trying to flee. She ended up in a farmhouse where she saw a mangled corpse which sent her into shock. After arriving at the house a man named Ben came along. He had run out of gas and saw a gas pump by the shed of the house, but it was locked. A married couple, Harry, and Helen were taking shelter in the cellar of the house with their daughter Karen who was bitten by the infected. Harry tried to convince everyone to hide out in the cellar of the house because he claimed it was the safest place, it caused a lot of arguments. Ben and Harry did not get along in the movie at all. After the discovery of the family in the cellar, Tom and Judy came along. They were a teenage couple who stopped at the house because they heard the radio announcement of the brutal murders. To try and escape back to town they had to refuel Ben’s truck but to do that they had to fight off the undead and get the gas. Tom and Ben went to get gas but there was a malfunction and the truck exploded with Tom and Judy

Sexual freedom is often associated with witches and witchcraft. Many shamans, as well as psychologists, emphasis the healing nature of a healthy sexuality in both the physical body and the spirit. The film, Resurrection (1980), directed by Daniel Patrie, Edna MayMcCauley obtains supernatural healing powers after being involved in a car accident which ends with her husband's death and her being paralyzed from the waist down. At the beginning of the film (before the accident), Edna and her husband have sex after a day at the beach. This depicts a healthy and respected act of sexuality; having sex while married, compared to having sex out of marriage, is widely accepted by different societies. Edna comes from a highly religious community which would encourage sex after marriage. The sexual act is a controlled spiritual act in itself, two souls combining into one. After the death of her husband, Edna returns to her hometown with her father in an attempt to work on her physical health. At a family gathering, Edna unknowingly heals a child with a chronic nosebleed, causing the community to be suspicious her afterwards. Notably, Earl Carpenter, who preaches about damnation and the power of Christ, looks at Edna with a look of anger and disgust as if she’s a witch. Afterwards, her grandmother confronts her about the dreams she’s been experiencing, in which her grandmother states that she may have healing powers that have been given to her by a higher power. As a result, Edna looks