The genre I chose to review for the month of October was an American Movie, The Revenant. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu this film is set in 1823 in Montana and South Dakota and the main character is Hugh Glass played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Hugh Glass is a frontiersman who is half Native-American and has a Native American son named Hawk. The movie revolves around his struggles as a father and his comeback after being attacked by a bear and almost dying, losing his son, and being left behind by his own men. In the end a Native American chief kills the man who killed Glass’s son. The last scene show Glass falling to his knees and seeing a vision of his dead wife walking into the light and then Glass’s eyes fill up with tears. I decided to review …show more content…
The movie also has merit because of the emotion that is displayed by the main characters during their long and difficult journey throughout the movie. Overall, The Revenant was an emotional and suspenseful journey through Hugh Glass’s struggles as an American Frontiersman.
The connection to American culture is strong in this movie because of its setting and the characters involved. The setting is in South Dakota and Montana. The time period is the winter of 1823, a popular time for the American Frontier. Many of the scenes in the movie show extreme cold and lots of snow. For example, when Hugh Glass is wounded and running from an Indian Tribe on a horse, he jumps off a cliff with the horse. He then precedes to open the horse and gut it. Then he goes inside of the horse and falls asleep. This horse’s bodies saved him from the hearse cold that ended up freezing the whole outside of the horse. To film this obscene cold, the movie was actually filmed in Calgary and Alberta, Canada because their is more frontier-like land up north in less developed and less traveled land. Watching the movie, there was no distinctive difference between current
How would you feel if you got blamed for something you didn't do. The Cruciblie by Auther Miller is about a town and it start with a group of girls that get caught in the woods doing witchcraft. Then the group of girls starts to blame the townspeople to get them in trouble and to get them out of it and the people that were blamed got exicuted or went to jail if they admit to it. Guilt and power are the two main themes in the story.
There have been many produced films that represent the Australian society, but no film can be as tremendous as the movie of the legendary Pilbara Wanderer, Red Dog.
In the book Devil in the White City Larson’s use of themes greatly impacted the flow and message of the book. Themes such as evil, existing anywhere and everywhere in the world with those committing these acts of evil usually hiding behind a facade of goodwill and well meaning intentions. Another theme that was a key concept in the book, was that of delusions and the consequences of them. As the book progressed, the characters that represent the themes delved deeper into the depths of what these themes really represented until their whole essence is what they represented. The themes that Lason used are independent to one another but in their extremes they morph into a similar if not just one an over arching theme. This is the same for
John Ford built a standard that many future directors would follow with his classic 1939 film “Stagecoach”. Although there were a plethora of western films made before 1939, the film “Stagecoach” revolutionized the western genre by elevating the genre from a “B” film into a more serious genre. The film challenged not only western stereotypes but also class divisions in society. Utilizing specific aspects of mise-en-scène and cinematography, John Ford displays his views of society.
Hillenbrand, L. (2010). Unbroken: A World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption. New York: Random House.
Out of the Past is definitely an interesting movie with a lot of things to talk about. I will touch briefly upon two main things I have noticed during the screen: the film noire genre and the image of the femme fatale.
The reason behind why I picked the movie “Snow on Tha Bluff” to be my culture is because I wanted to understand and watch how their lifestyle of living and what they had to do in their culture. Also, I wanted to understand what was their reason why they wanted to hurt each other, sell drugs, and wanted to stay in the living lifestyle that they were in.
In Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle, there are many important themes that pop throughout the book. Although there are many themes, the most essential one is how a hard past forces people to learn to rely on themselves to make their life better by pushing through their struggles, this changes how a person thinks and acts ultimately defining their identity. This theme is the most prominent throughout the book.
In the book, Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini was majorly obsessed with vengeance throughout the end of the book that his life was consumed by the quest for it. Louie felt as if the Bird had stolen his dignity at the POW campsites, where he was beaten, humiliated, starved, and stripped of his powers of self-defense. Louie was overwhelmed with his anger that the only objective he sought was to get revenge on the Bird. In other words, Louie was angered about his loss of dignity at the POW campsite, he wanted to get revenge on the Bird by killing him, and how Louie eventually forgives the Bird for what he did to him. These three reasons show how Louie’s loss of self-dignity in the POW camp was pursued.
Imagine playing the game Battleship, firing fake cannons at fake ships to destroy them. The thrill of the game gets the heart pumping and the adrenaline rushing. But what if the game was actually real? At the very moment fake cannons are firing, real cannons are hitting real ships. With this analogy in mind, in the book Ender's Game written by Orson Scott Card, the commander Graff manipulates Battle School and Ender's friendships for his own advantage. It was right for Graff to manipulate the Battle School and Ender's friendships because if Graff didn't tell Ender his family didn't love him he may have never left home. Also, without the tough commanders and friends he may not be the person he is when he destroys the alien race and, if he knew the battle against the alien race was real then he may get nervous and not do his best.
When it comes to little boys, Ender isn't any ordinary one, killing a whole species isn't what I would call ordinary. Ender's game is a space Sci-fi, written by Orson Scott Card. The theme of the book is forgiveness, because of how Ender's enemy forgave him, how even the biggest mistakes can be forgiven, and how Ender goes out of his way for forgiveness.
The fiction “Recitatif” was written by Toni Morrison, which is a profound narrative and meant to invite and let the readers wondering to search for the buried connotation of the encountered experiences of the main characters, Twyla and Roberta faced as children and their reunion as an adults again. Some of the story’s meanings and values involving around friendship, race and abandonment began to emerge as the plot thickens, and also more additional messages got concealed and remain unrecognized until even the most last sentence of the story about Recitatif. From the very first paragraph of the story, there were few details that were not mentioned which required further deeper possibility and that produced the story extremely engaging for me.
In the world today, it seems as if a mistaken glance, a change of plans, or even an insufficient amount of exclamation points is enough to get someone mad at you. And not just a couple of days of the cold shoulder, but grudges full of petty revenge schemes. A mean comment on their photo, tripping them in the hallway, blocking their account… pretty stupid decisions can come from a misunderstood argument. Michael Punke’s book talks about the same things; animosity and bitterness, vengeance and outbreak. Except Fitzgerald didn’t ghost Glass, and Bridger didn’t send him the wrong emoji. They stole his survival supplies and left him alone to be killed by Native Americans, right after Glass was attacked by a bear. It’s pretty clear that Glass didn’t take the high road. And this wasn’t some half-attempted scheme for vengeance. No, Hugh Glass crawled on his hands and knees for miles in pursuit of killing the two who betrayed him. And though other characters in the book show hints of revenge, Glass is the character who shows the most radically clear signs of it, and his undying pursuit is what most clearly develops the theme. In The Revenant, the author Michael Punke uses the character Hugh Glass’s hunt for revenge to show that strong emotions and the desire for revenge can blind us from the most basic logic, and cause us to make irrational decisions.
V for Vendetta sets the Gunpowder Plot as V's historical inspiration, contributing to his choice of timing, language and appearance For example, the names Rookwood, Percy and Keyes are used in the film, which are also the names of three of the Gunpowder conspirators. The film creates parallels to Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, by drawing direct comparisons between V and Edmond Dantès. (In both stories, the hero escapes an unjust and traumatic imprisonment and spends decades preparing to take vengeance on his oppressors under a new persona.) The film is also explicit in portraying V as the embodiment of an idea rather than an individual through V's dialogue and by depicting him without
The film I picked for my critique is Red Tails, a historical World War II drama. The movie starred Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard and Gerald Mcraney, was written by John Ridley and Aaron McGruder, better known as the creator of the comic strip “the boondocks”, from a book by John B. Holway, directed by Anthony Hemingway and produced by George Lucas . In this paper the author will show how all elements of filmmaking