Nt1310 Unit 3 Assignment 1 Film Review

There’s no doubt that Star Wars is one of the most impactful films of all time, having changed the movie-making game ever since it premiered in 1977. It quickly became a global phenomenon and has accumulated some of the most passionate fans in the universe. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope is a great example to use in order to illustrate the properties discussed throughout the course. In this paper, I will analyze the entire movie. To begin, I will start by giving some basic information about the motion picture, such as the director and type of film. Next, I will provide a brief summary of the film.

While the 1970’s and 80’s marked a decline in movies featuring black actors and a lack of black directors, the mid 1980’s through the 1990’s invited a new generation of filmmakers and rappers, engaging with the “New Jack” image, transforming the Ghettos of yesteryears into the hood of today. A major director that emerged during this time was Spike Lee. According to Paula Massood’s book titled, Black City Cinema, African American Urban Experiences in Film, “…Lee not only transformed African American city spaces and black filmmaking practices, he also changed American filmmaking as a whole.” Lee is perhaps one of the most influential film makers of the time, likely of all time. He thrusted black Brooklyn into light, shifting away from the popularity of Harlem. By putting complex characters into an urban space that is not only defined by poverty, drugs, and crime, it suggests the community is more than the black city it once was, it is instead a complex cityscape. Despite them being addressed to an African American audience, Lee’s film attract a mixed audience. Spike lee’s Do the Right Thing painted a different image of the African American community, “The construction of the African American city as community differs from more mainstream examples of the represents black city spaces from the rime period, such as Colors…, which presented its African American and Mexican American communities through the eyes of white LAPD officers.”

These stereotypes depicted “drug dealers, prostitutes, single mothers, and complacent drag queens” (Harris, 51). In the 1980s, African American filmmakers began to make a name for themselves. These films are “social commentaries, indictments of racism and depictions of ‘everyday’ American lives” (Harris, 51). Compared to the traditional representations of blacks and blackness, New Black cinema takes on this cultural intervention and the recoding of blackness. Harris describes this as “revising the visual codes surrounding black skin on the screen and in the public

The inclusion of Black women and their vital roles within Black press also improved the film’s

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I chose to critique the film “The Elephant Man” it is an iconic filmmaking endeavor. Director David Lynch shows the sadness and the scariness of deformities onto the audience in a way that touches your heart and leaves you with a sense of sadness and will also leave a tear in your eye. Most of the people who have watched this film are touched and completely changes the way they view crippled, weak, and deformed people in this world.

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I recently wrote an essay about the development of the star persona of Ice Cube, the rapper/actor who has made the unusual transition from hardcore gangsta rapper to leading man in such “family-friendly” films as Are We There Yet? The essay, entitled “With an Attitude: The Development of Ice Cube’s Star Persona,” will soon be published in the online film journal 16:9; I’ll link to it as soon as it’s up. The thesis of the essay is that, for all the apparent and unexpected alterations to his “street” persona, Cube’s film characters are nevertheless almost always coded as gangstas – an association that he has not been able (or has not wanted) to shake.

Undoubtedly, rap music has become significantly popular within the music industry, being the most consumed music genre in the United States (Harris). In fact, today’s hip hop music is largely influenced by the ideals of gangsta rap, pioneered in the 1980s and early 1990s. One such group that heavily dominated the gangsta rap scene was NWA (Niggaz Wit Attitudes), consisting of rappers: Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Arabian Prince, DJ Ren, and MC Yella. Through their vocalization of topics such as sex, drugs, and money, NWA expressed their identity while emphasizing the violence of street life. Furthermore, through my analysis of NWA, the group’s values of identity can be expressed through their influence of racial attitudes, their pioneering of

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“The success of ‘Black Panther’ has also been heralded as a strong and unequivocal message to Hollywood, where filmmakers and actors say they have long wrestled with preconceived notions that movies with predominantly black and female characters are financial risks and don’t fare well on the global market” (Izadi). Even though typically minority movies do not do well on the global market, the recent release of “Black Panther” has caused lots of people to join in on the idea of minority dominated movies which suggests that this idea is near its tipping point because there is nearly enough people who are beginning to want to see these movies produced because of the difference in the type of characters. “It’s a movie about what it means to be black in both America and Africa—and, more broadly, in the world. Rather than dodge complicated themes about race and identity, the film grapples head-on with the issues affecting modern-day black life” (Smith). The effect of the director choosing to deal with the issue of minorities in movies head on has caused a spike in the attention of movies like “Black Panther.”

The gender differences throughout the movie prove to be extremely unsettling,

In the movie The Third Man, written by Graham Greene, the main character Holly Martins investigates the death of his friend Harry Lime in Vienna. Throughout the film, Green focuses on the importance of appearance versus reality and links that with morality through the characters as the plot presented many twists and turns for several outcomes. Greene uses characterization of Holly Martins and Anna Schmidt to show that appearance does not always portray reality and can often be deceptive. Throughout the film, Anna Schmidt stayed as a stable character.