According to Barbra Dozier’s blog, movies play a significant role in the entertainment industry. They are appealing to the viewer’s eyes and ears because they combine both video and audio and they can be watched at home, in theatres, and thanks to the latest technology one can even watch movies on the go. Just like many individuals, I too spend my time watching movies as a form of entertainment. The latest one I watched and enjoyed was a comedy named The House. Although the movie may have had mediocre reviews, The House was still funny and enjoyable to watch. The plot and conflict revolve around two struggling parents who cannot afford to send their sure-to-succeed daughter to college after the town's scholarship program no longer had funding. As result the parents and a friend started an illegal underground casino in his domicile in order to make money before the time to pay their daughter's tuition came around. The rated R movie directed by Andrew Jay Cohen contains many well known actors such as Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, and Jason Mantzoukas.
Although there were well known actors the movie revolved around three. Will Ferrell an American actor and comedian known for playing the elf in Elf ,played the father Scott Johansen. Amy Poehler plays Kate Johansen the mother and wife in the movie. Known for her role in the sitcom Parks of Recreation, Poehler brings some of her comical characteristics to the movie making The House much more enjoyable to watch. Jason Mantzoukas,
The movie Grown-Ups (2010) is about a group of high school friends who reunite after their beloved high school basketball coach passes away during the summer. The main characters that make up this particular group of friends include Lenny Fedder (Adam Sandler), Eric Lamonsoff (Kevin James), Kurt Mckenzie (Chris Rock), Marcus Higgins (David Spade), and Rob Hillard (Rob Shneider). The childhood buddies come together at a funeral and decide to take their families on a getaway trip. They believe it would be a good idea to rent a rundown cabin on the lakeside and have their families enjoy the great outdoors while spending time with each other over the Fourth of July week. However, this particular group of adults now have kids and wives who are very
To complete the movie analysis assignment I decided to use a fantasy comedy movie called Matilda (1996 Film) by Danny DeVito. Matilda family is an ordinary family with a mother, father and a brother. Matilda Wormwood is a genius girl, who lives with both of her parents. Her father Harry, who is a car salesman and Zinnia the mother, who has a tremendous love and need of playing bingo, and her older brother Michael. During this film we can observe different types of family dynamics such as gender factors. For
What were Edwin S. Porter's significant contributions to the development of early narrative film? In what sense did Porter build upon the innovations of contemporaneous filmmakers, and for what purposes?
Even though a vast majority of us wish that it was possible to turn back the hands of time and change or rewrite history. However, the truth of the matter is that we simply cannot. Everything happens for a reason, and we should learn to accept it. Accept it for what it is, rather than what we would like it to be.
“I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality” (Gross). I’m going to talk about how to open the door of show business into Hollywood and show you how to potentially reach success. Many talented actors don’t succeed in show business because they forget the first rule: show business is a business. So what I’m going to tell you here briefly covers the business details behind the world of film, television, and theatre. In order to better understand your role in the larger scheme of show business, you need to understand the wants and needs of the wealthiest people in the industry. The business of acting is simple. You help others make money, and they’ll help you make money. But first, you need to figure out how show business really works.
The advent of television and television shows may have come long after film, but it enhanced film production almost instantly. Television naturally derived from early film since each uses basically the same medium: the motion picture camera. Since film had already set a base in the industry and mastered the new techniques and technology of cinematography, television had the opportunity to learn from film?s mistakes and advance itself quickly. For this reason, television evolved very rapidly and was able to develop its own technology and techniques separate from film. The concept of television became so popular and gained so much success that Hollywood began experimenting with the technology and techniques television had brought about. The
Over the years we have seen the same white story told a thousand times that we have become desensitized to it, never expecting anything else. America was a European-White country but it has become one of the most diverse countries in the world, so American isn’t just white anymore. We are at a place in our society where we can and should be talking about race and one of the best ways to do this is through film, but there has been little to no change over the past decades. Films tend to lean toward white backdrops because it is more “relatable”; Noah the 2012 film used an all white cast because they were considered
Interest Convergence theorizes that due to racism the interests of both Whites and people of color exist as institutionalized racism. Although, both parties may aim for a similar purpose and interest, people of color will constantly receive the lesser of the deal. The self-interest of whites will continue to hinder the relationship that people of color may truly believe to exist between themselves and whites may only be imaginary.
Rachel Crosby, an African American woman in the 1950s and 1960s who assumes the role of caretaker, neighborhood icon, and surrogate mother to a young boy, Ruben Santiago, Jr., and the broader community of Lackawanna, New York. In the movie, Rachel Crosby, frequently referred to as “Ms. Rachel”, “Nanny”, or “Momma” and played by S. Epatha Merkerson, runs a rooming house for the destitute. The movie opens with a lively scene of tens of people in their best dress enjoying music, food, and dancing at Ms. Rachel’s house – the heart of the community and apparently the place to be on a Friday night. Within minutes, we are thrust into the full scope of Ms. Rachel’s value and challenge as she attempts to stop a heated brawl between lovers, seeks assistance from her husband Bill (Terrance Howard) who we quickly learn has frequent adulterous encounters, ensure everyone is fed and enjoying the live band, and assist a young couple deliver their first child. It is this child, Ruben Santiago, Jr., born to a Puerto Rican man and African American woman, who narrates the
How is the family life represented in this movie? They’re all pretty busy doing their own stuff.
Josh Duhamel and and Katherine Heigl are set up on a date by their best friends and let’s just say it doesn’t go so well. After being named the joint godparents of their best friends daughter they become “friends”. Then, unexpectedly their best friends die in a tragic car accident and they have to raise their daughter. This movie is everything wanted and needed in a ROM-COM!
Globalisation has significantly changed trends and patterns in the global film industry, at an estimated worth of $60 million annually film industry has become one of the most important in the creative businesses (Rosnan, H, Ismail, N.M., & Daud. N.M., 2010).
During the early 1900s motion pictures became popularized as an escapist entertainment medium that began transforming kinetoscope parlors, lecture halls, and storefronts into what became known as nickelodeons. Thanks to vaudevilles and their popularity, films were already known to have a vast audience and to be a new form of business with possible great success. These pioneer movie theaters had an affordable entry fee that expanded movie viewing to the middle class, not only increasing the popularity of motion pictures but also simultaneously increasing the demand of their production (Dirks). With nickelodeons golden age beginning in 1905 and lasting for about nine years they vastly modified the landscape of the American cinema by not
The film industry has always been somewhat of a dichotomy. Grounded firmly in both the worlds of art and business the balance of artistic expression and commercialization has been an issue throughout the history of filmmaking. The distinction of these two differing goals and the fact that neither has truly won out over the other in the span of the industry's existence, demonstrates a lot of information about the nature of capitalism.
An active audience is the opposite. An active audience can interact with the programme and tell them their views, and what they would like to see. They can influence the outcome of the whole show.