1997 in film

In the movie productions of And Then There Were None and A Wrinkle in Time, the directors did not follow the original story line from the novels. Each film had either slight or major differences from the original. Whether the differences were relationships, scenes, setting or characters, they changed how the story played out. Some of these changes greatly impacted the story line of both novels. In A Wrinkle in Time, one of the differences was the movie starts out with Meg at school daydreaming.…

animated films and cartoons, Disney can generate commercial interest in film merchandise and promote racial stereotypes. For example, the release of the Toy Story film coincided with the release of Toy Story related merchandise. Furthermore, Disney’s Aladdin teaches children the underlying themes of “Arabian barbarity” “Aladdin clearly portrays the ‘bad’ Arabs with thick, foreign accents, while the anglicized Jasmine and Aladdin speak in standardized American English” (Giroux 109-10). With films…

and blind-buying, which was how major studios had made most of their money. This ruling effectively ended the studio era and “threatened not only the system by which films were developed, produced, distributed, and exhibited in the United States but also the studios’ collective financial base” (Lewis 194). Further pressuring the film industry during this time, Congress decided to pressure Hollywood studios with a federal workforce…

Strong, enormous, unbreakable, unsinkable- these powerful images describe the Titanic, once an unbreakable ship that lies at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean today. Khaled Hosseini uses the Titanic movie in A Thousand Splendid Suns. In this novel, Hosseini relates Rasheed to the Titanic to represent entrapment, degradation, and control of Mariam’s and Laila’s lives: yet like the Titanic, Rasheed is also vulnerable. Rasheed verbally entraps Laila and Mariam in A Thousand Splendid Suns just like…

main theme in this movie is the love between Rocky and his friend Paulie’s sister Adrian, the power of love or the power that love has to transform you. In this film we also have a great film score. The films music is scored by Bill Conti, who is most famous for the…

Style, In Burton’s Eyes “You find worlds that come completely out of his imagination.”(“Hollywood Outsider Tim Burton”). Film critic Roger Ebert explains his view of director Tim Burton’s style. He considers it so very unique, that it would only appear in Burton’s mind. He is the only one that would be able to create it on-screen. In Tim Burton’s movie, Edward Scissorhands, Edward, who has scissors for hands, is brought into the colorful town. At first the neighbors and other citizens welcome…

Aristotle’s six elements highly influenced today’s movies, television shows, and theater musicals. These film/ T.V. shows have used several of Aristotle’s six elements from three-dimensional characters to spectacle and music. Aristotle’s six elements are the guidelines when the narrator is developing a script. The movie The Lion King came out in 1994; it is an animated musical film produced by Walt Disney. The Lion King demonstrated Aristotle two principles: symbolism and theme. The movie,…

A Brief Comparison of American Classics: Dexter & Hop-Frog How far is to far when it comes to getting revenge? The modern TV show Dexter by John Goldwyn and the historic “Hop-frog” by Edgar Allan Poe are two stories separated in time by nearly 160 years, yet they share many similarities worth mentioning. In Dexter a psychopath uses being a police investigator as a front to exact his revenge on criminals, while in Hop-Frog a crippled dwarf who also happens to be a court jester exacts his revenge…

One of the biggest let down of the year was Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. For me it’s was so- so, and missed a lot of opportunities. Last week the director's cut can out on digital download, and later in the month Blu-ray and DVD will be in stores. The question the nerd community is asking is if Batman v Superman: Ultimate Edition better than the Theatrical cut? Yes and no. Upon a second viewing of the movie, I liked it a little more. The cut clarifies many plot points many viewers had…

Picture this: You’re watching a movie that takes place in Africa. The narrator says, “Look at those zebras!” but the camera zooms in on elephants. It would be confusing and wouldn’t make sense, right? So why is it that movies do the same thing with their actors? Fwor as long as movies have been produced, there has been much controversy with the casting choices. The directors often cast actors and actresses who are white for roles meant for people of color. Edward Zo auditioned to get the role as…