Filmed over the course of 12 years, Richard Linklater cast Ellar Coltrane as Mason as we follow his growth and childhood experience as he learns about life and himself. It sounds like an incredible idea and Linklater does deserve approbation for taking this approach, but 'Boyhood' fails to work as a character study. In fact, 'Boyhood' really does not have much to say besides "life goes by fast".
'Boyhood' can sometimes catch on and get some moments absolutely correct. Having to make a barrier out of a pillow in long car trips with my sister or being apprehensive to your surroundings as puberty kicks in are all personal things I can relate to. But despite its incredible run time of almost 3 hours, 'Boyhood' does refuses to have the key moments
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One scene has the college professor flirt with Mason's mom, but it is glanced over and fast forwarded two years in the future where they are now suddenly betrothed and the families have integrated. WHAT HAPPENED? There is a lot of wasted proportional material. How did Mason's real dad react? Did Mason initially get along with his new family? The movie has a lot of priorities like this happen multiple times. They a dedicate scene about them stripping their first home from personal touches, BUT NOTHING ABOUT THE MOVING IN TO THE NEW HOME. Because 'Boyhood' does this so often it feels like a first draft of the script and this was just incomplete. I think the only comparison I can give this movie is 'Silver …show more content…
The two actors do great in their roles and more than deserving of their award-buzz. They actually evaluate some of the material because those big speeches that they give about life aren't what normal people say out of the blue unless they rehearsed it a dozen times. Those are eloquently speeches meticulously planned by Linklater. But the fact that they can make material like that work and sound natural is commendable. Without those two actors ‘Boyhood’ would be half the movie it is.
Despite its 12 years of production life time, ‘Boyhood’ really doesn't say much about life besides what I previously mentioned about how "life goes by fast". ‘School of Rock’ genuinely has more to say about life and emotional maturity than ‘Boyhood’. But the biggest fault about the movie is how after hours of screen time and spending 12 years with them, I couldn't remember any of their names. If this movie so desperately tries to be a coming of age story or a character study it kind of helps if we know these people are in a fundamental and basic
One major aspect of both the film and the short story that is paralleled in both, is how the character of the little boy evolves. The little boy starts out as wanting his “ reputation as a delinquent and possible drug pusher” (Hill 4). This is the case up until the point when he meets Arthur. Arthur changes everything and the little boy no longer fears the bullies in school. The friendship bond between the two boys makes the hard parts of life not as hard. Arthur brings the little boy farther and farther out of his shell.
The arc from the innocence of the little boy to the uncomfortable vulnerability hiding underneath the muscles and gold fronts of the hardened adult is moving on multiple levels. Observing his difficulties forces you to absorb the conflict and inescapable trepidation that surrounds the shared character. Pressing his heart to your own makes for one of the most moving and rewarding film experiences of the past few
The movie ‘Her’ is the story about Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a man who develops a relationship with Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), an intelligent computer operating system personified through a female voice. At the beginning of the film, Theodore is completely inept when it comes to how to make relationship with person, specifically women. However, after he gets to know Samantha, an OS program, a feeling of true love develops inside of Theodore’s mind. Then he realizes how he was fatuous in his past. Throughout the film, the director (Spike Jonze) uses five distinct color schemes to correspond Theodore’s feeling and situation.
Man and Boy showed the roller coast ride of a man’s life as he enters thirty. The ups and downs of Harry Sliver life helped shifted his view of what life really meant and the different stages one can go through as they hit the middle age mark. The book begins with a nuclear family living in London. Harry, his wife Gina, and their four year old Pat had a pretty common life with others when it came to living. Harry, how once was a radio producer and moved to a television producer, worked late hours some days to get her producing work done.
The great job of the main protagonists Rachael Adams as Paige and Channing Tatum as Leo make this film an excellent movie because; it explores sacrificial love, has complex love obstacles, and includes attentive/attractive
There are some scenes where the plot or setting doesn’t change for a very long time which might lose the focus of some viewers. Daniel Plainview, played by Day-Lewis, is the main character who uses his manipulative ways to try and persuade people into his way on how to do things. H.W., played by Dillon Freasier, is the son of Daniel and is used as the “cute face” in Daniels operations. Eli Sunday, played by Paul Dano, is a pastor at a small church located in his town, but sometimes uses his religious views to get his way on certain things. The old fashioned houses, and drilling equipment reveals that this film takes place in the early 1900s. The movie will periodically jump forward in time to show the progress Daniel has made with drilling. I think the overall purpose for making this film is to show how things might have been in the earlier 1900s and how people dealt with their
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood leaves the audience questioning, asking, and wanting more. The entirety of the film is a recollection of memories and experiences throughout the course of Mason’s childhood. Overall Boyhood is like an unsolved puzzle with missing pieces that aren’t enough to solve the puzzle. The entire movie is questionable and has so many gaps in-between each memory that there really is no plot. Since there isn’t a plot it makes you question if it is really about boyhood, about family, maybe Mason’s childhood, or girlhood. Certain questions begin to formulate like, why doesn’t Linklater use the typical format of storytelling during Mason’s childhood? How come we never know what happened between Oliva and Mason Sr? Why doesn’t
The memories of childhood development stick to the minds of many people for long periods whereas, people can recall many moments from their childhood lives, but don’t possess the cognitive ability to link them together.in this sense, "Boyhood" is an American film depicting the growth of a young boy, Mason Evans Jr from the age of 6 to 18 years. The film was written and directed by Richard Linklater, who took approximately 12 years to complete the task of composing the film. Hence, its writing and composition started in 2002 and ended in 2014, where Linklater aimed at explaining the transitional stage from childhood to adulthood. The American modernization has been portrayed in the "Boyhood" film where objects, events, themes, and institutions
It is not every day you can find four young boys that can act well and mesh so well together. However, Gordie(Wheaton) and Charlie’s(Phoenix) acting performances are what stands out to me as having successful acting performances. Both actors could work on things, such as Gordie’s fake crying at the end; the crying could have been much more believable. Charlie and Gordie have compassion in their eyes, they can show anger, they can show support, and I think they gave a wonderful performance. A flaw in this movie would be Teddy(Feldman) and Vern’s(O’Connell) acting. While their acting is not what I would consider bad, I believe there are many things that they could work on. One example of this would be the humor Teddy tries to portray, I give him credit he is a child, but I think he could be more humorous than what he was. Critic Walter Goodman from The New York Times, states in his review that, “Some of their horsing around, 1950ish style, is comical, but too much of what they do is only too plainly imposed by the movie makers.” This opinion from Goodman is true for the most part and it makes me think about how differently the actors would have played their characters differently if so much was not imposed on their characters. However, I think the movie makers had no choice but to impose the characters because of each actors’ experience and maturity, they need more
it doesn't feel like a film, instead feeling like you are spying on the private life of your best friends. direction is minimal and subtle and heavily attuned to subtlties and dialouge. the little moments are so, so true to life. It’s a bit like deja-vu; I know I haven’t been in that situation myself, but I feel like I have, because I’ve had those moments
Boyhood is said to have started production in the summer of 2002 and completed shooting in late 2013. The film involves a divorced couple and their impact on their only son as he grows from childhood to his teen
In the movie Parenthood (1989), many developmental stages can be observed. With that being said, one character that can be observed is Gil who is middle-aged adult. Gil has a beautiful wife and 3 children. In Santrock (2016, pp. 362-363) security, love, loyalty, and emotional interests are important during middle adulthood. Both Gil and his wife (Karen) believe that they have raised their children the correct way, but it can be seen that some people in his family think otherwise. He also has 2 sisters and 1 brother. In addition, he has a mother, father, nieces/nephews, and a brother-in-law. According to Santrock (2016, p. 342), during middle-aged adulthood adults normally reach peak position at their jobs, but in this case the promotion that Gil wanted was given to someone else, so Gil struggled with this concept of not moving up. Also, his household seems to be hectic and not perfect, but somehow he pushes through (Parenthood, 1989). According to Santrock (2016, p. 354), Erickson’s developmental stage that pertains to Gil is generativity vs. stagnation. In this stage, adults feel a sense of wanting to leave their legacy when they are gone (generativity), but at the same time feel as though they have not done anything for the next generation (stagnation). In the movie Parenthood (1989), Gil can be seen exhibiting this developmental stage in various scenes, but there is one seen in particular that stands out. Him and his wife are called to school for a meeting with the
The director of this film did a fantastic job in combining these two plots, and giving the audience just enough time to figure out their relation. He didn?t give it away too soon, or so late that the story got boring or confusing. He also made very good use of underscoring (background music with no apparent source) in a previous scene where Allie and Noah where dancing alone in the middle on nowhere, to the sounds of Billie Holiday. This particular shot was a three minute continuous shot taken with a camera on a 300ft dolly track. The actors and actresses in this film did a remarkable job in playing their roles. The language and wardrobe fit the perfect description of a 40?s teenager.
Director and producer, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood was a super-hit American drama film that was released in the United States in July 11, 2014. Boyhood, to this date is still one of my most favorite movies. It is taken place over a course of ten to eleven years (2002 – 2013). It is about a boy named Mason Evans Jr. who lives with his older sister Samantha Evans, and his single mother Olivia Evans. Mason’s father, Mason Evans Sr. had great impact to Mason Jr. throughout his childhood. What’s spectacular about this movie is that the same actors and actresses were used all throughout the time span.
First I just want to say that if I didn’t have to watch this movie for class, then it wouldn’t normally appeal for me to watch it. I didn’t have anything against this movie; I just personally do not like watching movies that have a negative vibe like it did at the end of this movie. I know that this movie was supposed to be based on the true story of Teena Brandon, however, after watching this movie, I looked up the true story and it turned out that the movie was really faithful to the actual real life events that occurred.