Thursday, April 26, 2012

Concept 84 #3

I think that the scariest movie I've seen would be Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I think it was the fact that this strange and odd family would have fun torturing and killing innocent people that'd stop by near their town and how they would torture them. None of my fears from the film have any relevance to anything that's occurred in my past experience of life. I believe that it was a great horror movie overall.

Concept 83 #1

My favorite superhero would have to Batman. Even though Bruce Wayne is an ordinary person who has exquisite fighting skills, he is a courageous warrior who seeks justice and does it himself, secretly helping a unit of police officers. He has these tools of his uniform to help him with situations in battle, keeping his composure to be very well aware. He didn't really have a family growing up, but his butler Alfred has been his family for practically his whole life. He is the main person who helps Batman through certain conditions, discussing of the boundaries that Batman has and boundaries that Bruce Wayne has. Having an extremely wealthy ordinary man that is a masked vigilante at night who puts criminals away and fights for justice is a great background that people love to watch.

Concept 82 #1

The duo of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday was an interesting one. Wyatt can be a very vengeful person but he is about following the role of justice while being somewhat of a loose cannon as well. Doc, however, is more a gambler, plays things how he wants to, more for humor and his own pleasure. I don't really know the duo of Roger Murtaugh and Martin Riggs because I haven't seen Lethal Weapon.

Concept 81 #1

Stare Wars III where Anikin Skywalker was left to die but was actually the beginning of Darth Vadar. Men In Black II when the Laura was the light the whole time and she had been building a relationship with Agent J (Will Smith). Deep Blue when the female doctor used herself as a distraction and actually ended up getting herself killed, and then the protagonist character almost died while the shark tried to escape.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Italian Neorealism and Independent Cinema

I didn't really get to watch Brick due to being absent when we watched the film, but Do The Right Thing does have a few of the elements of an independent cinema. The beginning wasn't clear and the ending was ambiguous. A few of the characters, mainly the main character were complex/ambiguous, as well as the narrative being a drama in an undramatic present. It did show a vision of society of the minorities and some of the issues that they were going through at the time, which was the opposite of an independent cinema characteristic.

Italian neo-realism staked out new cinematic territory, it helped show where they came from and what happened while they lived there.

I believe that Italian Neo-realism inspired Independent Cinema by creating a film that was out of the ordinary, that they would show reality and what happens in the lives around them that they may not have seen, they wouldn't edit it because they wanted the audience to get a perspective of reality and not how Hollywood portrays films.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Concept 79 #1

10 of the funniest films that I've ever seen are: The Hangover, The Hangover 2, Jwanna Mann, Step Brothers, Grown Ups, Dinner For Schmucks, The Other Guys, Madea Goes To Jail, Medea's Big Happy Family, & Due Date. A lot of these movies seem to have at least one character that has the outgoing strange personality, they have a mix of people that have different personalities, they tend to do stupid things, how they talk, how they interact with others.