Personal Narrative : Stay Out Of The Basement

At the age of nine, I watched my uncles lowering my father into the ground and what took his life was addiction. All my life I have watched addiction take over the lives of people, I love. My father's side of the family, besides my grandparents, has always faced addiction. Although, addiction runs through my blood, I will not take the same path I have watched people take all my life. I will be the one to end the cycle. Watching the majority of my family waste their life has motivated me to change the direction and better myself from living a life of addiction and misery.

Who would have thought that a brilliant career in filmmaking could have originated with a modest jar of Skippy Peanut Butter smeared on a neighbor’s window in a tiny Cincinnati suburb? One might not think that such an average boyhood prank could evolve a boy into a man who would become the most financially successful film director in history. Well, that is exactly where Leah Spielberg, Steven Spielberg’s mother, would trace her son’s initial entry into becoming one of our nation’s most creative storytellers. “His badness was so original,” she recalls (Stein 3).

At a very young age of eight, David Fincher’s passion for cinema grew when he was inspired by the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Born in 1962 Denver, Colorado, David Fincher moved to Ashland, Oregon in his teens, where he graduated from Ashland High School. During high school, he directed plays, designed sets, and managed lighting after school. One summer, he and a friend attended the Berkley Film Institute’s summer program, where he hoped to learn film as a true art form but instead was taught the technical production. Either way he was happy to engage is this and as his early film industry career started, he was a production assistant at his local television news station. Years went by as he directed propaganda films followed by becoming a well-known music director until his first movie feature debut Aliens 3 in 1992. However, the American director David Fincher didn’t become a modern 21st century visionary until his creation of the film Se7en (1995). The huge success from this film started Fincher’s popularity in the film industry. From there he continued to make ironic movies we know today such as: Fight Club (1999), Zodiac (2007), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), The Social Network (2010), Gone Girl, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

In his career as a screenwriter, he wrote several screenplays that gained recognition. One of his screenplays Fanboys, written in 1998, achieved interest to be sold by

When deciding what movie to do for this particular paper I faced a few issues. I knew what the requirements were, but I wanted something different and something I could have fun watching and writing as well. So, after looking around and pondering movies for weeks I finally decided on a perfect choice The 60's directed by Mark Piznarski?

Tim burton is a very interesting director. He has a very specific way of directing and shooting a film. He likes very eerie and weird things so that is how he directs. He was inspired to do this from Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl, and classic fairy tales. For this essay i will be using the films that were directed by him such as Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Big Fish.

As one who has been devalued and ridiculed my entire life for not doing what my peers deem as acceptable, I suppose I am consistently drawn to those who "march to the beat of a different drum." I admire John's outlook on film and the way he explores stories in unique and unusual ways. Moreover, the fact that he recognizes the value of being nice to everyone in the business and gleaning wisdom from the older generation causes John to rise even higher in my estimation. For him, filmmaking is a passion in which he tells a story in such a way that it causes the viewers to think in an unconventional way. And in a society where conformity is king and cookie cutter ideas are often lauded, his viewpoint is a breath of fresh air. While I have not had the opportunity to view any of his works to date, this is one time when reputation and what others say about a person carries a great deal of weight with me. I say that if Tammy thinks he's a fantastic filmmaker, a stellar person, and a true professional, that's enough of a recommendation for me. Furthermore, his responses are authentic, humble, and certainly pragmatic. He has no grandiose views of his self-worth, and he comprehends the value of community and being a team player. Therefore, I ask that all my readers consider visiting the links below and even perchance following him on social media. Without indie filmmakers like John, our movies choices would be quite limited in the cinema, and even if his films are not necessarily your cup of tea, there is no denying that he is one of those trailblazers who is continuing to find new ways of telling stories in the world of entertainment. And for that, he has my eternal gratitude, and I hope that I will have the opportunity to view one of his works very

The Festival return to Greenfield, MA after being in Turner Fall, MA for a couple of years. I had never been in the Art Block, but found one of their stages The Wheelhouse one to be inmate setting like you what you might find in a coffeehouse. I heard Julia Cira sing on that stage and she had a beautiful voice. One that I like much better than Rosie Porter. It's just a good one to have for ballads. Its a strong one. She plays an electric guitar as well as sings. She was accommodate by a man on drum set and another young woman on an electric guitar. That woman played it well. I listen to her sing a couple of songs and she sang beautifully each time. According to her, They were doing full on rock songs and they sound like very nice quality

John Hughes is a director who was very successful throughout the 1980s and 1990s. John Hughes is widely known for his classic and timeless movies such as The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Throughout all of John Hughes’s movies, the viewer can catch on to common styles, and even the same actors, used by director John Hughes. One thing people find fascinating about his movies is that even though these movies were made in the 1989-90s, his movies still remain popular and are still loved by audience members of all ages. John Hughes’s directing style is timeless because the storylines and characters can be connected to people of all ages, they are easy to follow because of the linear plot structure, and the comedy in his movies never gets old.

I woke up on a warm sunny Saturday morning and went down stairs and called my friend Joey Gliech and said “Today is the day!”

There I was on the block next to the High Bar. It was about 5:00 at night when my coach told me to do a Kip. As I got up on the bar my nose filled with the smell of chalk. I started to swing, and as I came out of my half turn I looked good. Everything seemed fine but as I came to the part of the Kip where I have to pull my legs up to the bar, I slammed my shins into the bar. My momentum was stopped and I dropped on to the mat, missing the Kip. I felt like I had let down my coach and I had let down myself too. That day I experienced failure. That failure made me want my Kip even more so I worked harder and had support from my teammates.

As I was walking down the aisles of the bookstore, trying to figure out which memoir or autobiography I was going to read, I picked up many books that seemed interesting. When I saw Steve Martin’s book, Born Standing Up, I knew that I had found the perfect one. A memory came to me as I looked at Steve Martin’s book in my hands. I remembered seeing The Pink Panther, with Steve Martin as inspector Clouseau. I was six and I had never seen a movie that made me laugh so hard. Ever since then, Steve Martin has been my favorite male actor.

Who knew that things could change so abruptly, it almost felt that my whole world was flipped within a blink of an eye. Things were going to be different from now on, the people, the weather, even the fresh summer breeze from the coast will soon become a cold bitter winter breeze. This all came to my mind when my mom announced to my family that we’re moving, to New Jersey, once my school goes on summer break. At first, I began to panic, why do we have to move? Why can’t we just live here? We don’t even know anyone there, except for my aunt. We just moved here three years ago from New Jersey, and we didn’t like it, that’s why we only lived there for a month. Then why would we would we like it now? I question my mom, and I demanded explanations

I will be interviewing Kunal Savkur, a writer, director, and production crew member of several different film productions. He has written and directed two short films – “The Happy Man’s Pants” and “One More Coffee.” He has produced six episodes of the TV show “Cold Justice”, along with three short films. He has also worked as part of the production crew for the TV show “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Although this script was “heavily rewritten by others for the screen, this piece got Columbus’ foot in the big-time door” (“Chris Columbus” 1). The next screenplay that he had sold really got things going when he sold “Gremlins, to legendary director Steven Spielberg” (“Columbus Biography” 1). Columbus was a screenwriter for a lot of other movies, but finally made his directors debut with the “teen comedy Adventures in Babysitting” (1987) (“Columbus Biography” 1). Then he went on to direct the big hit movie Home Alone “directed from a script by John Hughes, which made incredible amounts of money and planted Columbus firmly on the Hollywood “A” list” (“Chris Columbus” 1). He then went on to direct the sequal to Home Alone and did Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), which was not nearly as successful as the first. Both movies are about a young boy left at home trying to defend his home from burglars. His next big hit was the movie Mrs. Doubtfire. A very hilarious, but touching story of a man who desperately tries to spend time with his kids after his wife wants to get a divorce, so he disguises himself as a nanny. The movies that Columbus was directing were all fun and games until he decided to direct Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets