Thinking Beyond the Movie Pictures
How can you distinguish a good or bad movie just by watching a movie trailer? Movie trailer’s purpose is to draw the public’s attention, in order to watch the movie that is being presented. Each judgement and evaluation is examined by the public’s interest, which responds to their own perspective on the trailer. Our judgements judge whether the movie is good or bad, but doesn’t exactly pin point the details of the truth of those trailers. Criticisms of these movie trailers can be categorized by this so called “Emphasis on the Receiver and Historical and Ideological Criticism” (Critical Approaches, 1984-1993). These two categories of criticism has an impact on the viewer’s perspective. In the Halloween (1978) movie review, this is a Reader- Response criticism. Reader-Response criticism deals with critics “observes the expectation” of the public’s satisfied reaction towards the movie trailer (Critical Approaches, 1985). In the beginning, the movie critic lays out the difference of a movie’s qualities. From the movie clip of “Halloween,” we …show more content…
Feminist criticism provide the “history of oppression” in women’s inequality (Critical Approaches, 1988). Screen Junkies have done it again, this critique provides a stand on feminism. In Disney’s Frozen, we observed animated musical that provides a feminist view on the princesses. The eldest sister, Elsa, is a “manic-depressive princess with a confusing set of powers” that has no clue of what her abilities can do. (Honest Trailers-Frozen, 0:44-0:55). Elsa represents the scared woman that didn’t want to fight oppression for inequality when they have the power. Frozen has a different outcome teaching “girls they don’t need a prince to rescue them” providing independence among young girls (Honest Trailers-Frozen, 1:34-1:47). This is huge for Disney, expressing women as strong, independent warriors that can just do anything that men
How can you distinguish a good or bad movie just by watching a movie trailer? Movie trailer’s purpose is to draw the public’s attention, in order to watch the movie that is being presented. Each judgement and evaluation is examined by the public’s interest, which responds to their own perspective on the trailer. Our judgements judge whether the movie is good or bad, but doesn’t exactly pin point the details of the truth of those trailers. Criticisms of these movie trailers can be categorized by this so called “Emphasis on the Receiver and Historical and Ideological Criticism” (Critical Approaches, 1984-1993). These two categories of criticism has an impact on the viewer’s perspective. In the Halloween (1978) movie review, this is a Reader- Response criticism. Reader-Response criticism deals with critics “observes the expectation” of the public’s satisfied reaction towards the movie trailer (Critical Approaches, 1985). In the beginning, the movie critic lays out the difference of a movie’s qualities. From the movie clip of “Halloween,” we …show more content…
Feminist criticism provide the “history of oppression” in women’s inequality (Critical Approaches, 1988). Screen Junkies have done it again, this critique provides a stand on feminism. In Disney’s Frozen, we observed animated musical that provides a feminist view on the princesses. The eldest sister, Elsa, is a “manic-depressive princess with a confusing set of powers” that has no clue of what her abilities can do. (Honest Trailers-Frozen, 0:44-0:55). Elsa represents the scared woman that didn’t want to fight oppression for inequality when they have the power. Frozen has a different outcome teaching “girls they don’t need a prince to rescue them” providing independence among young girls (Honest Trailers-Frozen, 1:34-1:47). This is huge for Disney, expressing women as strong, independent warriors that can just do anything that men