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An adventure means more than journey; it is a venture into finding the limits of existence. Movie creators use the power of the adventure film as a conduit to arouse feelings of thrill, suspense, fear, excitement, euphoria and in the process demonstrate the bold actions that mankind can reach. Two such movies that are archetypes of the adventure film genre are King Kong (1933) directed by Merian C. Cooper and written by Edgar Wallace and the movie Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)…

In this essay I will depth into exploration of the film ‘Redacted’ (2007). The contempary war film by Brian de Palma, and state how it is altered by multiplication of digital typologies and formats, with a particular focus on the reception and experience of the film. The aim is to conclude from textual sources with regards to the aesthetic, and to explore the Spector ship and reaction it determines. ‘Redacted’ (2007), is a film biased on the devastating reconstruction of the rape and murder of a…

felt that television wasn’t actually doing a bad job with that category, but when I did more research on the subject the numbers were staggering. According to Nate Jones of Vulture Magazine of the 11,000 speaking parts that appeared in 2014 studio films and live-action scripted TV shows from 2014-2015 season, “only one-third were female, and only 28 percent were nonwhite. When female characters did appear, they were more than three times as likely as men to be sexualized. LGBT representation was…

Robot Do Things In the 2008 Disney/Pixar film: WALL-E,. And it's good. Andrew Stanton co-wrote the film with Jim Reardon. Stanton, who directed Finding Nemo, had already had some writing and directing experience when it came to animation, and he does a good job handling this movie. The movie is about a little robot named WALL-E, which stands for "Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class". He is the last of his kind on Earth and just goes about his day compacting trash and collecting little…

Written roughly two millenniums ago in Ancient Greece, The Odyssey has become a highly praised piece of writing and has been read by many people worldwide. Two thousand years later, the film Batman Begins was released. Both of these works have achieved groundbreaking success in having a place in the hearts of its audiences. To begin, both The Odyssey and Batman Begins had plots written under the Hero’s journey format. As in many hero stories, the plot begins with the main characters, Odysseus…

Fourth Cinema as outlined by Barry Barclay in general, as well as, in relation to Taika Waititi’s Māori film, Boy (2010). First, Second and Third Cinema are all Cinemas of the Modern Nation State and from an Indigenous place of standing, these are all invader Cinemas according to Barclay (2000, p.7). Barclay (1990, p.9) suggests that over the years…

to the film director and main casts especially Leslie Jones. This has seen the film earn one of the highest dislikes in Youtube’s movie trailer history mainly because of its franchise reimagined with a crew set consisting of just women. Recently, the online culture has experienced various attacks targeted on the women with the online misogyny being predictable to a point that the film had anticipations about the reactions. This saw some the critics decrying the very existence of the film for…

The Golden Age of Piracy is the subject of many Hollywood films. One of the most popular series among them in recent years is the series Pirates of the Caribbean. But how accurately this film portrays and captures the way the Golden Age of Piracy spanned from the 2650’s to the 1730’s is important in many different ways. In order to answer this question, my team of researchers and I will examine how accurately myths or superstitions, real life pirates, weapons, and the pirate code were presented…

off in Vienna, spending the night talking and walking around the city. The film ended with Céline leaving and the couple not exchanging any contact information but agreeing to meet at the same place in six months. Viewers are left with a cliffhanger, not knowing the fate of the couple’s relationship. “Before Sunset” picks up nine years after the couple’s first encounter. Following the same timeline as the story, the film was also released nine years after the first series. This time the couple…

improving motion capture technology. Although I do not believe that the final product turned out to be very good, the techniques that were developed made other ambitious films a possibility. Specifically, the technique used to capture the subtle nuances of an actor’s performance, which was later used to great effect in the film “The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”, in regards to the creation and portrayal of Davy Jones by Bill Nighy (Cohen). With the technological explosion of the…