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The Canadian film “What If” also known as “The F Word” is like many cliché romance films. Add in some quirkiness, awkward moments, realization that the main characters are falling in love and then they live happily ever after. Before I get into why I didn’t favor this film unlike the others who rated it 7/10 I’ll give a synopsis. “What If” is based on the main character Wallace (Daniel Radcliffe), a medical school dropout who is trying to recover from a broken heart. His over-the-top best friend…

make up the thirty-one minute film Kung Fury. The film Kung Fury has a crazy plot, B-rated quality, and an abundance of all things that makes up the eighties. Kung Fury has taken the internet by storm especially for those like myself who love the perfect train wreck that was the eighties. David Sandberg, the director of the film and Kung Fury himself, said in an interview that the film was a love letter to the eighties. Despite Kung Fury’s obvious silliness the film is extremely self-aware of…

In 2014, one of my favorite director of all time, Christopher Nolan, released a scientifically accurate science-fiction film, Interstellar, worldwide. A film about a team of space explorers’ travel through a wormhole as an attempt to save the humanity. A year before film’s release, an intriguing teaser video was posted on YouTube that highlighted our achievements related with space such as spacewalk and moon landing which ended with a short clip from the film showing Matthew McConaughey’s…

Are we alone in the universe? Men have struggled with this idea throughout the whole of human history. M. Night Shyamalan takes a fresh look at this idea in his sci-fi blockbuster film Signs as he follows the journey of a family in crisis as they face an alien invasion. As the story unfolds, Shyamalan reveals his ideas on the universal theme of man’s struggles with faith and a belief in the divine design of the universe through his use of allegory, conflict, and character. The primary way…

I Only Picked This Because I’m From Oregon The film “how to die in Oregon” directed by Peter Richardson (as Perter D. Richardson) in 2011, was a first person narrative that examines the stories about the first state to have the legalization if physician-assisted suicide, which Oregon allowed with the passing of Death with Dignity Act in 1994. Richardson spent four years collaborating a touching, tender, and moving story of those who do not wish to kill themselves but to take their lives into…

How does Hiddleston's Henry V differ from Branagh's? Branagh’s Henry V flawlessly executes Branagh’s vision of the hard consequences of war. Every element of the film reinforces this theme. Branagh’s screenplay presents many of the play’s darker elements: the English traitors, the hanging of Bardolph, the deaths in battle. The mood and production design are somber throughout. Branagh assembles a remarkable cast of famous actors for all the major roles, who all bring their characters to specific…

concept that is truly fascinating to me. In the 1961 French film “Last year in Marienbad” the complexity of the human mentality is tested both within in the film itself with the main characters but also outside it with the viewers themselves. A majority of the film takes place in a hotel and focuses on an unnamed woman who is approached by an unnamed man who claims that they 've met before just a year ago. He spends the entirety of the film attempting to convince and remind her of their past…

Pan’s Labyrinth was directed by acclaimed Mexican director, Guillermo Del Toro, and released on December 29, 2006. Del Toro is known for putting rich, sympathetic characters- usually children and otherworldly creatures- in grandiose stories. He has directed films from the Gothic Horror of Cronos and The Devil's Backbone, to the humor of his comic book adaptation of Hellboy. He combined both his favored character types when making Pan’s Labyrinth. The movie is also shot wholly in Spanish, with…

Plot/Story Ultimately, the directors and screenwriters of Remember the Titans established a serious tone throughout the movie because all of the scenes are relatively realistic. For example, the movie takes place during segregation in America, which occurred around the 1950’s. So, many of the events that we're illustrated in the movie actually happened at some point in time. Like when the school was forced to let black and white students go to school together. Overall, the movie centers around…

he moved along in the brisk wind." Because Jonas made the decision to give Gabe the memories and share dancing with Lily, he made them happy but not the Chief Elder. But he didn't care he just wanted them to be happy and calm. I think by the movie director adding in Jonas sharing more about his teachings with the Giver it emphasized he wanted to show people the happy things that they were missing even if they were small to give them joy. The movie gave more examples of Jonas trying to show…