Biographical film

often times the film is mediocre or even terrible. Classifying movies into three distinct categories, fantastic, mediocre, and terrible, can help people everywhere determine what movies they need to watch. Motion pictures are a great way to entertain company. Fantastic movies need a great storyline, realistic visual effects, and suitable actors. I believe that in order to have a successful movie, it needs an easy to follow yet mind blowing storyline. If movies get to…

Since 1991 when The Smurfette Principle was written a lot of things have changed; mostly for the better. Movies, shows, politics, and the workforce have become a lot more female centered. However, there is always room for improvement in any area; I feel we are leaps and bounds ahead of how things used to be. Today I will thoroughly explain how things have changed for the better, for the female sex since Katha Pollitt’s essay was written over twenty years ago. As a mother of a preschool-aged…

taking a course in film history, movies were simply a source of entertainment, with only the most beloved being analyzed. Not only this, but films that were made prior to the 70s were almost always avoided. Through the course however, I was able to gain a deeper appreciation for older films, as well as the knowledge that the analysis of films can make a simple okay movie into one that I wouldn 't mind viewing again. The course has also taught me about the ups and downs of the film industry…

therefore contributes to the trending factor of which we all know so well. An example of this is from "Humankind 's Ouroboros" by J. Reagan Tankersley, He talks about how Monster movies became popular in the golden Hollywood age and how once the first film came out many people liked it therefore they created more monster movies of which helped to increase the industries profits. By the use of such media and the increase in profits industries have learned over the years how to suck their viewers…

In 1960, a telecast was recorded featuring George Balanchine’s Apollo Musagete. It was premiered on a DVD later released with the name New York City Ballet in Montreal, Vol. 5. This version of Apollo was choreographed by George Balanchine. The score for Apollo was done by Igor Stravinsky. The performance was done by Jacques d’Amboise, Melissa Hayden, Jillana, and Patricia Neary (New York City Ballet). This recording of Apollo emphasized George Balanchine’s aesthetic of ballet. In the…

way that people enjoy a story since the structure discussed has been in practice as early as Greek literature such as The Odyssey in the 8th century. For Seger’s Hero myth to adapt to literature written as far back as the 8th century and to work for films such as The Ring, it speaks to the depth that story structure can go and allows for more ideas to be created that will most likely follow the same structure as Seger…

The Lion King movie was released on June 24, 1994. The film lasted a total of an hour and twenty-nine minutes, there were many children and even parents that could not wait to go and see it. A very talented man played the main character, Simba. Matthew Broderick was the famous man who played Simba in the movie, he was very good with the voices he used. Jeremy Irons played uncle Scar, he is also one of the main characters. Uncle Scar was known as the “bad guy” because he killed Simba’s dad and…

Music in film can have many purposes. It can change the mood of the audience, alert them to danger, or even be used to give exposition of the story to the audience. The latter, along with its variation, such as a monologue delivered in song, are used to create musicals--a genre used by Disney since its very beginning. For this journal I watched Disney’s Moana to see how it used music to move the plot, and influence its audience. The song “Where You Are” is used in Moana to tell exposition and…

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST by Ken Kesey is, “A classic book that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time” according to its back cover. A statement like that put this book on my list of books to read at some point, and this seemed like the perfect time to do so. I struggled to stay interested throughout both the book and the movie, and I’m not sure if that was because of the subject or just the drawn out way it was told. As far as the movie goes (and the book for that…

for celebrations such as the birth of royalty or marriage. Royalty also enjoyed participating in the joust, but for some like King Henry the second it led to their death just as it did with the knight William was a squire for in the beginning of the film. A Knight’s Tale had similar facts. In the movie, the royal family always had front row seats to watch the jousts. At one part of the movie, the Prince Edward of Wales joins into the jousts. In both the movie and in history royalty plays a…