Movie Review : ' Chinatown ' And ' The Girl With The Dragon '

Asians have been invisible in Hollywood lead roles. There have been many situations where another race has played an Asian role. When Asians do land a lead role it is very common to see pay difference between other ethnicity lead roles. Asian’s are very fimilar with service roles and not lead roles in films. Asian actors are still only a one percent of Hollywood’s leading roles. “According to a study that University of California, Los Angeles did out of the top 100 films in 2015, 49 of those films did not consist an Asian character and zero leading roles went to Asians (Levin 2017).” Asians seem be invisible when auditioning for lead roles.

     Films that are classified as being in the film noir genre all share some basic characteristics. There is generally a voice-over throughout the film in order to guide the audience's perceptions. These movies also involve a crime and a detective who is trying to figure out the truth in the situation. This detective usually encounters a femme fatale who seduces him. However, the most distinctive feature of the film noir genre is the abundance of darkness.

During the Vietnam War in the 1970s, hard drugs, especially heroin and cocaine, became a major source of crime and, therefore, police and legal system involvement. Was this involvement always a good thing though? The 2007 movie, American Gangster, addresses this very question by looking at law enforcement agencies during the 1970s, along with the corruption involved with police departments at this point in history. The particular corrupted agency focused on in the film is the New York Police Department, of which dirty detective, Nick Trupo, is a part of. The short clip shown from this movie makes the argument that although not all cops during this time became involved in the very crime they were supposed to be stopping, a large percentage of them did, which hindered the true “good guys,” like detective Richie Roberts, from keeping cities clean.

Chinatown was filmed in 1974 and directed by Roman Polanski. J.J Gittes, L.A. private investigator, is approached by a woman who identifies herself as Evelyn Mulwray to catch her husband in the act of cheating. The husband in question Hollis Mulwray is the chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and is caught in the middle of the water wars where water was being redirected to the valley instead of the dry lands of L.A. Having come to close to the truth of this con Hollis Mulwray was murdered and thrown into the (water). This sudden death not only instigated Gittes to investigate the causes of his death, but also unfold the events that got him involved in the first place. Gittes himself states, “ I don’t like to be

In class, we watched a documentary, called Forks over Knives. The film, introduced to the audience, the importance of eating right. In addition to this, the broadcast centered around promoting a whole-foods based diet. I actually learned a whole bunch of mind-boggling facts throughout the movie, as well. One fact I learned, was that in the early 1900s, milk and meat were sought out as the only source of protein. Recent research then contradicted this fact, stating there are many fruits and vegetables, that can be sources of protein in place of yogurt, meat, cheese, etc. I also learned that among majority of the ethnicities contained within America, African-Americans and Mexicans are the most likely to become obese. The film not only mentioned

The viewer sees a private eye and beautiful client. First thought, "It’s definitely another Hollywood crime drama." On the surface, Chinatown has all the elements of a film noir: the presence of a beautiful but dangerous woman, otherwise known as the femme fatale, a gritty urban setting, compositional tension (highly contrasting light and dark colors or oblique camera angles), and themes of moral ambiguity and alienation. Chinatown, however, is different. Polanski shot Chinatown with color film, and though his colors do appear especially vivid, color film precludes the contrast intensity that black and white film offers. In addition, Evelyn is not the classic femme fatale. Though Jake mistakes her for her husband’s killer at first, Mrs.

Have you ever wondered what happens to the Asian villain who only have less than three-minute show time in the movie? Awesome Asian Bad Guys is the first feature-length movie released in 2014 by National Honor Society perhaps has the answer. This film pays tribute to all of the Asian American actors and actress who have roles as bad characters in classic movie during 80s and 90s. It also examines the lack of representation for Asian American in media well as combating stereotypes.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a film that will surely make you want to fall out of your chair laughing, and make you want to get up and dance. This film is an absolute classic. It is hilarious, adventurous, and makes you feel good about yourself. The most unique thing about this film is the main characters break out of jail for the wrong reason, and then go on a wild chase trying to get home. Another unique part about this film is that the main character is currently divorced and wanting to remarry his ex-wife. The film, O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a classic comedy because it has well-rounded characters, adventure, and a little bit of love.

Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye and Roman Polanski’s Chinatown are both good examples of neo-noir. They both carry elements of classical film noir with them, such as the “hard boiled detective” archetype, the “femme fatale” archetype, and they both deal with the gritty side of human nature. But while they both have some overlapping noir tropes that can be seen in classical noirs, these films are actually incredibly different from one another. They both act as examples for John Cawelti’s Modes of Generic Transformation. They both share one mode, but then have different modes in addition, making them noir-like in essence, but still incredibly different films.

There have been few works of popular literature written in the new century which have so accurately captured the conflicted state of feminist identity in today's modern corporate culture that Stieg Larsson's 2005 novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Written in a searing tone which is representative of the repressed rage exuded by Lisbeth Salander, the enigmatic heroine who suffers atrocious crimes at the hand of powerful men and wields a sadistic sense of vigilante-style vengeance against those who victimize innocent women, Larsson's first installment in the wildly popular Millennium Series trilogy is an intensely evocative work of hyperrealism. Standing as a stark symbol of feminist aggression personified, Lisbeth Salander is described as a "pale, anorexic young woman who had hair as short as a fuse, and a pierced nose and eyebrow (with) a dragon tattoo on her left shoulder blade" (Thorsson, 32), and this initially incongruous image is soon reflected against her smoldering internal intensity. As the reader is drawn inexorably inside Salander's increasingly complex psyche, witnessing both the brutality she is subjected to and the savagery she is capable of, deciphering the meaning of her mysterious tattoos, particularly the intricately drawn dragon which swathes her sinuous frame, becomes central to understanding her true character.

The two movies  I decided to do a film review on  was Money Monster and  The Big Short. Money Monster  released on May 13th, 2016  was directed by Jodie Foster an  award winning American actress () . Foster has been a successful  actress ever since she was young,at age 12 she received an Oscar nomination for the film Taxi driver eventually leading to her winning a Golden Globe and being named as  one of the best  actresses of her generation(). The movie Money Monster is about a frustrated  investor by the name of Kyle Budwell who lost  $60,000,as a result of investing in a company called IBIS.  The company  had an unexpected glitch to the system during a trading algorithm, which led to a loss of $800 million for IBIS investors.  Due to the unexpected financial loss Kyle  faces he decides to make an  unexpected

Movies today don’t show a lot of religion elements they are mostly focused on action, sex, romance, or adventurous. Before movies would talk about religions and how they work and also have a story to them. One movie in particular does a great job in portraying Buddhism. This movie is Little Buddha. This movie is both great for teaching and entertainment. Little Buddha doesn’t just entertain but also uplifts people’s spirits and leaves them with positive feelings. The movies does a good job in expressing the religion, it is not related to me because of the different beliefs, but it’s more related to Hindu people, the movie does have a message for the viewers, and it does have a purpose.

The movie I have chosen to do my psychological film disorder assignment on is Girl Interrupted which is a psychological drama directed by James Mangold. The movie takes place in a mental institution for troubled women. All of the characters in this movie suffer from one or more mental illnesses such as depression, borderline personality disorder and schizophrenia. The movie gives us an inside look on how poorly these women are being treated and how they are treated as if they are abnormal because they are in this institution. Similarly the women are faced with their own personal and outer issues within the institution. The director gives us an inside look on how the patients are being treated poorly are

An animated Disney movie called "Mulan," was directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook in 1998. The moral of the story is that women can be just the same as men can. I support the general meaning of the movie. I believe men that and women should be treated equally and that women should not be seen as weak or frail. Women are more than just wives or slaves and can-do jobs that have traditionally been set-aside for men. They can be successful and bring honor to their families in other ways.

“Fuck this shit. See you next year Cannes. Out”. Is a bold twitter quote from the very famous Brian Hu which gave a lecture at CSU San Marcos film class October 20th 2015. He is the artistic director of Pacific Arts Movement and of the San Diego Asian Film Foundation who received his PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA. His lecture presented grave insight into National cultural specifics but emphasized mostly on China and Hong Kong. He also broke down genres as they play a role in the film industry. Martial-arts as a genre are very specific to Chinese cinema and Japan has samurai films of loyalty and justice. As a genre, martial-arts take place at a temples or a forest and is very culturally specific. Other genres like body genres are specific to a body reacting to a film and no mater were you are in the world you have a body. In Latin America they have mellow dramas called “telenovelas” that people want to cry to and in Korea they have their own form of drama shows that they cry to as well. Horror films often have us react with our bodies, for example: if you see something gross you feel it in your body, and at the same time your body is reacting to the way the characters are. Other body genres like comedy can have a reactional impact on your body as well. For example: if you see something funny and you laugh, that is a body reaction.