Talk Radio Film Analysis

With Film Analysis comes the analyzation of films and movies that depict narrative structure, cultural context, the evaluation of discourse, and many other approaches. The film, “Friday” (1995), is a comedy and drama that displays the relationship between two childhood friends growing up in an impoverished neighborhood. These two friends became affiliated with a neighborhoods drug dealer, and were startled and clueless as to how they were going to come up with the money they owed him by the end of the night! The characterization, setting, and conflicts are the three main elements, in which are portrayed can indicate the analyzation of contributing a larger meaning of this particular film.

The dramatic and uplifting movie “Radio” starring Cuba Gooding JR. and Ed Harris, is based on the true life story of James Robert Kennedy, a k a Radio; a mentally retarded young African-American who spends his days pushing a shopping cart around the streets of Anderson, a small South Carolina town, collecting junk and old radios.

Jean-Marc Vallee’s 2014 film Wild is based off of Cheryl Stryaed’s memoir “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail”. The film changes the genre by having a woman as the main character in a man vs. nature situation a rare chage from the typical hero. Vallee had a budget of $15,000,00 for the film and it brought in $4,112,752 on opening weekend, January 30, 2015. Wild, was nominated for many prestigious awards and won few. (imbd). In a initial review of the film published in The New York Times, noted film critic A. O. Scott wrote, “The film adaptation of her book — itself already a classic of wilderness writing and modern feminism — provides another reason to be grateful that she did”. Proving that the change in the genre did not

Harold and Maude, a movie directed by Hal Ashby and released in the 1970’s, did not receive much attention and popularity when first released. Since the movie depicted obsession with suicide through a 20-year-old character Harold, the movie received backlash because during the 1970’s there were high rates of suicides among teenagers and college students. However, over time college students found the movie very entertaining, therefore bringing the movie into the lights and making it a cult hit. In Blue Velvet, a neo-noir mystery film directed by David Lynch and released in 1986, received a variety of critical responses from a wide range of audience, but this movie’s unique style earned Lynch his second nomination for Best Director. The idea of innocent getting caught in a web of evil is portrayed through the character Jeffrey Beaumont, who first encounter’s a severed ear in a grassy abandoned field. In this paper I will compare and contrast these two movies that include key actors Bud Cort, played as Harold, and Kyle MacLachlan, played as Jeffrey and include a few key points that have made these movies enjoyable to watch.

The movie “Radio” is the tale of a young African-American man who suffers from severe mental retardness and his journey to fame from football in the small South Carolinian town of Anderson. James “Radio” Kennedy is befriended by the T. L. Hanna High School head football coach, Coach Jones, and begins to help as an “assistant coach” of some sort. Eventually, James begins to attend Hanna High as an eleventh grade student due to the persistent efforts of Coach Jones.

Newsies, a classic musical based on the late 1800’s is a very entertaining and family friendly musical-- except for the few profane words. On a cloudy, partially rainy saturday morning, I laid out on the couch and watched the movie from the comfort of my own home. I was hesitant to watch this movie because I am not much of a musical person. About midway through I found myself at the edge of my seat hypnotized by the movie. As the movie drew to an end, I was completely sucked in and waited for something more. The movie I so dreadfully did not want to watch became something I did not want to end.  In this movie the director and composer correlated their scenes and music perfectly together to touch the thoughts and emotions of the audience watching.

During the end of the 3rd Century, the Playwright Plautus wrote many of the first Roman comedies. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical comedy film adaptation of Plautus's comedies.Set in ancient Rome, many aspects of Roman theatre, including stock characters, were included in the film’s production. While the film is based off of multiple comedies, Plautus's Pseudolus character Calidorus is nearly identical to the film’s Hero. During the time Pseudolus was written, the Crisis of the Third Century led to up to 25% of Roman population being comprised of slaves(Southern). Of the many stock characters Platus included in his comedies, Calidorus/Hero, the son of Pseudolus’s owner and the stock character adulescens, best

In the mid 20th century intriguing drama directed by Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider, we were drawn back to 1969 to shed light on the influences of drugs, sex, and culture as the characters began to question the American system in this counterculture movement. The counterculture movement provoked an alternative lifestyle that came about during the Vietnam War. The tensions following the protests of human inequalities embodying racial segregation and the frustration faced with the draft system resulted in not only the Civil Rights Movement, but the counterculture movement as well. This film, Easy Rider, helped to formulate and to transition over to the New Hollywood era, or also referred to as the American New Wave.

I watched the movie Radio which is a film set in South Caroline in the late 1970s. The main character is a young man named Radio who has an intellectual disability. He spends his days pushing around a shopping cart full of random things all over town. On his daily trip he passes by a high school football field where the team practices every afternoon. One day a football flies over the fence and near where Radio is standing watching the team and he picks it up and puts it into his cart totally ignoring the player yelling at him to give it back.

The splendid and cruel Quentin Tarantino now gives us an immeasurable American epic set for the most part in only one room. Truth be told, the different areas and corners of that room begin to feel as far off as urban areas or deserts. At one stage, a character recommends separating this space to speak to the Unionist North and Confederate South, and it's not all that quite a bit of a stretch to envision, in spite of the fact that the elusive severe amoralism of every last one is such that tribal-unwaveringness segment was never going to work. Tarantino has made another stunningly snazzy and sharp film, a Jacobean western, insinuate yet some way or another peculiarly huge, at the end of the day discharging his own particular sort of unwholesome insane interesting brutal nitrous oxide into the silver screen assembly room for every one of us to breathe in. Additionally, Tarantino now makes a genuine star of Walton Goggins, giving a silly execution as the profoundly temperamental Chris Mannix, soi-disant Sheriff Choose of Red Rock, Wyoming. What's

“Radio” the film released in 2003 was directed by Michael Tollin, is about the story of a mentally disabled black man. The film is set in a small town of South Carolina in the period of 1970s. The movie starts with the scene of main character, called Radio who is pushing a cart in the street going on his rounds in streets of town. People around him in streets show annoyance and resentment as he passes by but Radio is walking though as if it is part of his daily routine. Gooding named James or Radio in movie looks down all the way and gesticulation of James shows mental or psychological challenge or disability.

The preferred reading of Woody Allen’s movie, “Stardust Memories,” appears to be that there is comedy in the midst of our most dramatic and traumatic relationships. Preferred Reading is a term, which Stuart Hall originally uses in relation to television news and current affairs programs but which is often applied to other kinds of text. Readers of a text are guided towards a preferred reading and away from “aberrant decoding” through the use of codes. Preferred reading in movies is the intentions of movie directors who lead audiences to understand theirs movies in the way they devised. In the movie “Stardust Memories ”, Woody

The weather is sizzling hot and tensions are slowly coming to a boil in this Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn neighborhood. Slowly but surely we see the heat melt away the barriers that were keeping anger from rising to the surface. The Blacks and the Hispanics own the streets the Koreans own the corner store and of course the Italians own the pizzeria, the Cops who happen to be all Caucasian, prowl the streets inside out, looking for anyone to harass. Toes are then stepped on and apologies are not made. Spike Lee creates the perfect set-up for a modern day in Bed-Stuyvesant. Without fail Spike Lee is transformed into an anthropologist. Spike Lee’s goal is to allow viewers to glimpse into the lives of real people and into a neighborhood they

While the movie Radio Days lacks a clear plot and a theme, it is still, nevertheless, a wonderful film that revolves around a typical American family, and their constant use of the radio. Written, directed and narrated by the renowned comedian Woody Allen, the film occurs during the late 1930s to the late 1940s, and thus it is no surprise that World War 2 and other major events during that time period play a tremendous role in the events that transpired in the film. The setting of this film was Rockaway, Queens, which resonated with me well because my middle school was at this exact same location. Seeing young Joe, the main character in the film through whose viewpoints the movie focuses around, travel to the beach with his friends and go Nazi submarine hunting reminded me of the times my friends and I would travel to Rockaway Beach after school to view the water and the beautiful boardwalk. Additionally, I was enthusiastic about actually knowing the Rockaway jargon, such as Breezy Point, and thus invoking an “it’s a small world” attitude from me.

The year is 1959 and America is going through one of the most pivotal moments of its cultural history: when rock gave birth to the Sexual Revolution. Grease, considered by some to be “A fantasy of the 50’s” (Canby) and “50s nostalgia fun” (Boyle), is in fact a direct parallel and excellent representation of America’s turbulent graduation from the 50s to the 60s, from repression to freedom, from calmed to riotous. This hour-and-fifty-minute roller coaster of a movie inspired by a rowdy, concupiscent, and altogether brilliant piece of Broadway theater rejects the stereotypes of the time for musicals and attempts a purer experience to reveal the underlying truths of American culture.