The Hangover Is A Comedy Film Directed By Todd Phillips

In 2004, Lionsgate Films released the movie Crash to critical acclaim. The film takes place in modern day Los Angeles and shines a light on the racial and social tensions between groups of inter-related characters (Haggis, 2004). The characters include a district attorney (Brendan Fraser) and his prejudiced wife (Sandra Bullock), a Middle Eastern store owner (Shaun Toub), and two inner city friends who make money by stealing and selling cars (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges and Larenz Tate). Throughout the film, the various prejudices and microaggressions of these characters are revealed as they interact and find their lives becoming intertwined. According to Sue and Sue (2016) microaggressions are brief and commonplace daily verbal or behavioral indignities that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults that potentially have harmful or unpleasant psychological impact on the target person or group. Microaggressions “tend to be subtle, unintentional, and indirect, often occur in situations where there are alternative explanations, and represent unconscious and conscious

For my shot analysis I chose a shot from the Spike Lee Movie Do the Right Thing. This is the second shot following the climactic riot scene. It features Da’ Mayor and Mother Sister reacting to the hellacious events of the previous night. The block was just devastated by a melee that broke out because the police killed Radio Raheem after he and Sal got in an altercation that was triggered by the volume of Radio Raheem’s boom box. Though at a very superficial level the fight was about the loud stereo, the real significance of the fight had more to do with the culmination of anger and tension between the characters of the film caused by prejudice and ignorance. This paper will analyze

If you have not seen Dazed and Confused than you are really missing out. It is a great movie that relates from everything to High School to Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll. With an outstanding cast (from the past) it is a movie that everyone can relate to. Dazed and Confused reflects the lifestyle of kids that are entering high school for the first time, to seniors owning the school and being the "man" on compass. It portrays that freshman must watch their backs at all times and if you think you're as cool as the seniors, then you better watch out. There is a ritual that the seniors do to the freshman that have given so many people in reality a though of. With School being out for summer, in Dazed and Confused, it offers a great soundtrack from

In society, social problems are often brought to the public’s attention through popular culture and media. The compelling film, Fruitvale Station, directed by Ryan Coogler is a nod to many social problems found in the United States of America today. The film portrays social problems like poverty among minorities, racial profiling and especially police brutality through the last 24 hours of Oscar Julius Grant III’s life. The star-studded film not only pays homage to Grant but also to the ideas of poverty and police brutality. The film all but shouts at the audience that the minorities, especially African Americans, suffer from many economic and social disadvantages that needs attention. At the 2013 Sundance Movie Festival by means of great

Romantic comedies are one of many exuberantly entertaining genres of fine arts. Romantic comedies typically follow identical plot line structures, but they do not have to follow the same plot line. All romantic comedies differ in some sort of form or fashion. The play As You Like It by Shakespeare and the movie Just Go With It staring Adam Sandler, Brooklyn Decker, and Jennifer Anniston are both romantic comedies that differ dramatically in terms of their build up until the main characters are wedded. In Just Go With It there is a love triangle where the main character doesn’t realize his true love until he is about to marry the wrong woman. In As You Like It the main characters fall in love at first sight and get married in their second “official” encounter with each other. Although the build up in each movie varies dramatically, the uniqueness of the female heroine, Rosalind, in As You Like It is the main difference between the two romantic comedies. This causes an uncommon romance plot in As You Like It.

In the realm of Black films there is one man that comes to mind and no that is not Tyler Perry although he is great, but that man is Spike Lee. Spike Lee has been making films since 1983 that is a career span of thirty years with him directing with him actually directing thirty-nine films. Those thirty-nine films do not include all of the films he has produced and been an actor in. Spike Lee has become known for his films that usually revolve around present day problems with race and issues that affect the Black community. Two of his most popular films the first being School Daze, (1988) and the second Jungle Fever, (1991). Both films were written, produced, and directed by Spike Lee who also played a character in the films. School Daze a film that on the surface seems like it is only about sororities and fraternities against people who do not join them, but a more in depth look reveals the film is more about complexion. Jungle Fever, a film about a married Black man cheating on his Black wife with a white woman on the surface may seem to be about infidelity, but is also about colorism1 within the Black community. The issue of colorism, which basically means one skin tone is preferred over another, usually in darker races the lighter skin tones are preferred. This issue has plagued the Black community since the time of slavery and continues to affect the Black community today.

The film follows two African-American FBI agents/brothers who are tasked to go undercover in the Hamptons. Kevin and Marcus Copeland (played by Shawn and Marlon Wayans) have fallen short in their previous FBI assignments and have now been assigned to ensure the protection of heiresses Brittany and Tiffany Wilson from a possible kidnapping. The two agents escort the girls to the Hamptons, but face some trouble along the way. In the car on the way there, the group gets into a fender bender leaving both Brittany and Tiffany with bumps and bruises. The two girls now refuse to be seen in the Hampton’s social scene with cuts on their faces, but Shawn and Marlon agree they cannot show face at the FBI headquarters having failed yet again. Therefore, Shawn and Marlon

He is also shot with close up and medium close up shots to convey an intimidating, in your face personality. Lee uses dutch angles throughout the film to show a sense of racial tension and confusion in the neighborhood. For example, when Radio Raheem and Buggin Out come into Sal’s pizza place and start arguing about putting “brothers” on the wall, Lee uses fast changing close ups and dutch angles to create an overwhelming tension between the characters. The cuts from their arguing and bystanders yelling create a sense of chaos that symbolizes the tension between whites and blacks. Lee uses an extreme long shot to establish that the setting is a normal neighborhood in New York.

Denzel Washington plays veteran L.A.P.D. Det. Sgt. Alonzo Harris. For thirteen years this highly decorated cop has been on the front lines in the war against narcotics. He's pledged to protect and serve the citizens of Los Angeles, but his optimism about police work has long since been chipped away by the reality of life on the streets. He and the tight-knit group of officers that report to him have crossed the line between legality and corruption. They find themselves breaking the laws they're supposed to enforce. Alonzo's ethics and his logic are in complete opposition to the "book" which most cops must follow. "It takes a thief to catch a thief,"

The audience is aware that the events shown take place within a day, as well as the location of the characters. This thorough editing style is suddenly interrupted by an unconventional montage. The montage is unconventional in the sense that instead of using cuts, it uses movement to proceed to the next scene; for instance, a car would pass through the original scene that the spectator was viewing and then the new scene would be in its place. The montage also appears to be peculiar because of its random nature. The scene before the montage shows Casper engaging in sexual intercourse with Jennie, who is unconscious on a couch while surrounded by other unconscious kids. Despite whispering no, her intoxicated struggle against him fails and the scene fades to black. Their hushed voices are replaced by somber music, which ushers in the montage of the film. The audience is then presented with random takes of a man rocking back and forth on a street corner, a man banging his head against a gate, and a man with his hands lifted toward the sky in a park; while people walk by as if their behavior is ordinary. The montage allows these random elements to be joined together to provoke insight into the character’s environment and how it has caused them to believe that their behavior is normal; because they are surrounded by sex, drugs, and

The melodramatic film Crash, directed by Paul Higgins, consists of multiple storylines that portray how such antagonistic people come to meet in the most unusual situations. The film shows how characters clash or crash into each other in the most unusual situations. This demonstrates to the audience from an outside perspective the unreasonable or stereotypical opinions formed on one another. As well as the outcome of these crashes and whether they are positive or negative outcomes. A crash that occurs in the film is a scene of Christine and Cameron where t A black SUV is reported stolen by two black men.

The camera view of ‘Harold Fingleton’ who is played by Geoffrey Rush, depicts the scene of Harold stumbling home after the work strike at the docks drunk and provides a close-up to give the effect of what Harold is feeling and due to the sensitivity of a zoomed close-up it provides a shaky, drunken mood giving the viewer a sense of empathy at first.

12 Angry Men is a 1957 American courtroom drama film adapted from a teleplay of the same name by Reginald Rose. Written and co-produced by Rose himself and directed by Sidney Lumet, this trial film tells the story of a jury made up of 12 men as they deliberate the guilt or acquittal of a defendant on the basis of reasonable doubt, forcing the jurors to question their morals and values. In the United States, a verdict in most criminal trials by jury must be unanimous. The film is notable for its almost exclusive use of one set: out of 96 minutes of run time, only three minutes take place outside of the jury room.

Paul Haggis's film Crash (2004) explores the social and racial tensions that are prevalent in contemporary Los Angeles. Crash is comprised of a series of vignettes in which people lead parallel lives that briefly intersect throughout the film and converge through various car crashes in Los Angeles. Crash features an all-star cast, which includes Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Matt Dillon, Ryan Philippe, Than die Newton, Terence Howard, Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, and Larenz Tate. Through various vignettes and scenarios, Crash explores sociological issues of race and ethnicity, gender, and stereotyping.

The shot/reverse shot between the Gamin and the Tramp in the paddy wagon conveys understanding between the two characters and sympathy from the Tramp. The conversation between the two characters is communicated through the editing as well as actions and facial expressions.