Cruzan v. Director

1. The first time that I can recall encountering monsters, and heroes in popular culture is an unusual one, but none the less very powerful for me. It was when I first saw the film Aliens. That might not seem too weird, except that I watched it when I was in fourth grade. It was both a movie that was fascinating and repellent at the same time. It was fascinating for the world that it built, and these larger than life characters, that were throughout the movie. Yet for the same reason it was…

Fargo is the fictitious story of a series of murders taking place in a small town in the state of Minnesota named Fargo. Fargo’s story in known for its comically dark tone which radiates an immersive feeling of hopeless dread; but what really makes it interesting is the fact that the tale is told in both movie and television format. What is so interesting about Fargo’s multiformat is that it gives the viewer the opportunity to analyze and dissect what aspects of both iterations make them…

Fiduciary Duty Weese (2009) defines Fiduciary as a person or organization that has legal, financial responsibility for another organization (Weese, 2009, p. 390). Fiduciary duty is the highest standard of responsibility. The following paper will demonstrate the University of North Carolina at Pembroke’s (UNCP) fiduciary duties with recommendations. Leadership and responsibility begin at the top; the paper begins first identifying UNCP’s Board fiduciary duties followed by recommendations on how…

Sean Reape Comm 320 10/12/2015 Ray Harryhausen to Peter Jackson Ray Harryhausen is arguably one of the most influential and creative artists to ever lay a hand on the camera, with his master visual effects skills he carries the title of father of stop-motion model animation, and created ?Dynamation? which is an animation technique where a certain object is physically manipulated making it appear to move on it?s own. This was a technique that would change not only the…

Mercy, directed by Peter Cornwell and written by Stephen King, is like an open book. It has potential and great music that intensifies the thrill as the scenes pass in the life of George B and his mystical grandmother. This is not like the average horror movie, blood and guts, but a horror movie that is categorized by its thrill. It has an everlasting thrill that will have one grasping to a pillow from the beginning to the end; however, the movie flies by so fast due to the amount of information…

The film There Will Be Blood was an outstanding film. This film was released in 2007 and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The main actors were Daniel Day-Lewis, Dillon Freasier, and Paul Dano. This film’s screenwriter was also Paul Thomas Anderson. Paul Thomas Anderson did an amazing job making this film because, it came out incredible. One of the best films in my opinion and has a brilliant lesson to be learned from the film. There Will Be Blood is a must see movie. This film is packed…

Although Disney’s Frozen was released in 2013, plans for a film based on Hans Christian Anderson’s story, The Snow Queen, were first introduced in 1940. Over the next seven decades, the adaptation went through various stages of development, only to be repeatedly shelved, tabled, and scrapped. Only in 2011 did Disney finally officially announce its plans for the film that would become the highest grossing animated feature of all time. Despite these definitive announcements, however, Frozen still…

Another great example for production design in science fiction movies is the movie Ex Machina. To begin with, production design includes the design of sets which makes set design one of the most important aspects while producing a movie. For example, one of the points set design deals with is the location where the film is going to be shot. Funderburg (2015) explained that in the movie Ex Machina, they used two Norwegian locations both designed by the architects Jensen & Skodvin. One of the…

Patel 1 Aditi Patel Dr. D’ Angiolini English 101 12/2/15. The culture of American Film Back to the year 2000, most of the top-grossing movies are, in some way, fantasy or science fiction films, featuring super heroes, vampires, wizards, and villains. In the 1960s, the fantasy genre was virtually nonexistent in the box office bonanza sweepstakes. We find an ever-increasing share of Hollywood movie production devoted to fantasy, and, as is so often the case in semiotic analysis, such a shift, or…

Well it mostly, has to do with why media (films, video games, books, etc.) are made. The sole reason is to simply make money. Yes, sometimes creators have other reasons such as wanting to inspire people and what not, but most of the time, money is involved. When you want to maximize profit, you have to think what would bring in the most people. You have to throw in elements that people will enjoy to bring in more audience members. The problem with that is sometimes, the story gets lost trying…