American Graffiti

Jean-Marie Burbee American Cinema FIL-110-OL010 Professor Allen Mentz American Cinema Final July 2016 American Graffiti: A 'Coming of Age' film that left its mark In 1973, Director George Lucas released a film entitled, “American Graffiti.” Although created in the 70's, the film itself chronicles the end of summer 1962 centralized around two men and their last days of childhood before they officially become adults and their various friends still in high school. This is a time in most of our lives when we are desperate to shed our 'child' titles for the new title of 'adult. It is also a time that most of us can point to and readily identify where some of the choices we made would define and shape would we would later become and where are lives…

American Graffiti is set in 1962 in small town U.S.A and is filmed almost exclusively at night. It is aurally accompanied by a late 1950s and early 1960s rock ‘n’ roll sound montage and also the bizarre verbal ramblings of radio Disc Jockey Wolfman Jack. The text follows the fragmented quests[3] of four male youths at the tail end of this 1950s style youth culture before the advent of America’s full involvement in the Vietnam War, the rise of new left radicalism and spread of the Hippie…

Both American Graffiti and Superbad highlight the character’s view of the adult world as being something to fear by including adult characters who can’t let go of their adolescence. In American Graffiti, John is older than his high school friends. He is “the king of the town” and the best drag racer. Throughout the film, he seems to be on the brink of letting go of his reckless adolescent past but never seems to reach this conclusion. One example is when Falfa (Harrison Ford) is racing him and…

Pleasantville and American Graffiti had character that involved into a different personality as the movie progressed. Pleasantville brother and sister get dragged into a famous show, and are forced to be in it. On the other hand American Graffiti have a group of friends that are breaking apart due to college. There are characters from both of the movies that are unsure about their life. The two characters that I feel changed the most are David and Steve, but out them two I feel like David…

The Life of George Lucas George Walton Lucas Jr. is an American born motion-picture director, producer, and screenwriter who originated several of the most popular films in history. This genius usually goes by the name George Lucas. He was born and raised Modesto, a small, quiet, farming town in California’s San Joaquin Valley, just east of San Francisco on May 14, 1944. George Lucas is widely known as the writer of the Star Wars film series,and the Indiana Jones trilogy. All his fame began with…

Graffiti: Cons Graffiti has its pros and cons but it is all perspective. The main con about graffiti in the view of many is that graffiti can open the door to other “cr The definition of graffiti art is: writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place. (look up “what does graffiti mean) The first modern graffiti writer is widely considered to be Cornbread, a high school student from Philadelphia, who in 1967 started tagging city walls…

conducted through graffiti. Its origins lie with our ancestors who lived during the ice age; cavemen. Modern sociologists and archeologists suggest that prehistoric graffiti represents “the births of both art and homo sapiens, as evidence for communication, visual representation, and beauty in early human cultures. This apparent familiarity has meant that modern graffiti has long been linked to its ancient antecedents” (Baird,…

which youth and others were able to express themselves, when they otherwise wouldn’t be heard, through mediums such as graffiti, break dancing, rapping,…

form and how they are connected. According on site “Graffiti: art through vandalism”, there are several different styles of graffiti that are popular today. Pieces is the most common style at the moment. “Pieces are the most elaborate graffiti works, with a more artistic composition. Considered to be an artist 's best work, these are usually colorful and more labor intensive than other forms” (Sanchez). Another style often use by graffiti artist is stencils. Sanchez characterizes this direction…

changing role of graffiti street art in a global society? Abstract Previously art used to be categorized by a small number of people, housed in homes of the rich or in museums sponsored by governments. Street art, in the past, was a vehicle by which the artist communicated his name by tagging, his message from his culture and his own viewpoint. The messages were often about their own environment. In the era of globalization and travel however, the rules of art have changed and the conditions…