Jason Reitman

”Trevor Reznik, a thin, hollowed cheek machinist who hasn’t slept in a year, and judging by his body frame, he probably hasn’t eaten in the same amount of time. Number of characters tell him: “If you were any thinner, you wouldn’t exist.” Known as a psychological thriller, The Machinist is an impressive exploration of a man’s psyche. More importantly, you may say The Machinist is a meditation on guilt. The main point of the film is that Reznik has committed a crime. Yet, instead of taking…

of Savion Glover’s DC crew for three years and in high school started working with Debbie Allen and has continued to partner with her ever since. She has been greatly influenced by the styles of the Nicholas Brothers, Jimmy Slyde, Gregory Hines and Jason Samuels Smith and in contrast with Prince’s style, which keeps a fairly constant speed with different fast rhythm patterns, Arnold has more pauses and plays more with the music of…

negative qualities expected of a pregnant sixteen year old. Juno gives a fresh take on this trope while Director Jason Reitman gives the viewer a measure of respect with the assumption that he or she can identify with complex characters that break from the norms moviegoers have come to expect. Instead, with his use of quirky film techniques, complex characters, and strong theme of choice Reitman has created a film that shows that it is sometimes…

Today the craft of art has emerged as a mixture between historical technique, punk culture, and the DIY. “It embraces a vibrant movement of artists, crafters, and designers working in traditional and nontraditional media.” (Levine, 2008) An artist who has embraced a new age of craft with his DIY aesthetic is Michel Gondry. Gondry is a French film director, producer and screen writer. Gondry is known for using simplified film techniques, handmade props, hand drawn type and animations to create…

Thank You for Smoking, a 2006 screenplay directed by Jason Reitman based on the 1994 satirical novel authored by Christopher Buckley, epitomizes satire. Starring Aaron Eckhart, Katie Holmes, J.K. Simmons, Rob Lowe, Robert Duvall, and many other A-list actors in prominent roles, Thank You for Smoking featured a strong cast of interesting and dynamic characters. Thank You for Smoking centers around the life of Nick Naylor, a smooth-talking lobbyist who works for the Academy of Tobacco Studies. In…

managers thinking. The following short video cut from this movie involves in delivering a bad news. In this essay, I will discuss how the two main characters (Ryan and Natalie) fire someone. Up in the Air is a comedy-drama film directed Jason Reitman and co-written by Reitman and Sheldon Turner. The film received the National Board of Review (NBR) Award in the 2009 Best Picture category by the American Critics Association. Moreover, the film also achieved three…

Nick Naylor, from the movie “Thank You for Smoking”, written by Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckley is a lobbyist whose means of ‘mortgage’ is to promote the usage of cigarettes. The Yuppie-Nuremberg defence of saying he knows what he is doing is wrong but does it anyways to make money. The entire movie is dedicated to Nick talking on shows and giving interviews about how cigarettes are not destructive. Is Nick Naylor a bullshitter, or is he a brainstormer? The answer is obvious; Naylor is a…

In the film Kinsey, directed by Bill Condon, Professor Alfred Kinsey uses science to explore and inform the public on sex during an era when sex was inappropriate to talk about. On the other hand, in the movie Thank You for Smoking, directed by Jason Reitman, lobbyist Nick Naylor defends and advocates the use of cigarettes in the country. Naylor and Kinsey both presents different ways of influencing their own audience. However, Naylor possesses the ability to overcome social media, and shows…

The film Juno, a comedy recorded in 2007, by director Jason Reitman, is about a high school student, Juno MacGuff, who is 16 years old and discovers that she is pregnant by her friend Paulie Bleeker. The movie is told over those nine months of her pregnancy, her options and decisions about keeping the baby or having an abortion, and how her plans unravel as she talks and interacts to all the people in her life, including later the couple she chooses to give the child to. This Oscar winning…

The 2007 film written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jason Reitman, chronicles the life of a teenage girl who, after one night and a chair, discovers that she is pregnant. Juno MacGuff is a quirky, off-beat teenager who doesn’t really care about what others think of her. When she finds out that she is pregnant, she knows that she isn’t ready to be a mother, but isn’t sure how to feel about her most recent dilemma. After talking to the baby’s father who happens to be her best friend, Paulie…