Nudity in film

theater to visit. When making this decision, one must be very careful to choose a location that spells its name "theater" and not "theatre." Theatres are places full of hoity-toity people in uncomfortable shoes watching foreign films (for the cultural experience, not just the nudity). Theaters, on the other hand, are magical places where thrilling action sequences and heart-wrenching love stories unfold on forty-foot screens before the eager eyes of America. Beyond that, whichever happens to be…

Traditional and shocking sometimes is not promising; Spike Lee’s 2015 film, Chiraq, is a hit or miss for audiences based on background knowledge of the Aristophanes’ Greek classic, Lysistrata. Although Lee keeps the same plot structure of classic comedy and adds new male characters, his lack of Lysistrata’s original famous wool metaphor has left the film fall flat. Lee’s views on the importance of the upcoming presidential are just lost in translation. In ancient Greece, the point of comedy was…

the story or film or what it is about essentially such as love, or racism or political issues; secondly, another component of film is the focus of character. Characters are known as the “individuals who populate narrative or non-narrative films” (westga.edu/~bjames/componentsoffilm), they are the people we put the focus on at the beginning and end of the film, the ones we all analyze and try to relate to in some sense. Now setting and point of view kind of go hand in hand in terms of film as…

With plenty great films coming out, many wonder: who will win the Oscars? It is assured that the Oscars will have people tweeting and posting about their favorite films and actors. So why is #OscarsSoWhite the #1 trending topic on every social media page? Since the first Oscar was awarded, it has been lacking one thing and that is diversity. Although television shows and some films have been doing a fair job of casting diverse characters, non-white actors are still lacking winning numbers. The…

According to film scholars, mise-en-scène refers to everything that is on screen, and the way the look and feel of a film tells a story. The different, interworking aspects of mise-en-scène also help to immerse the viewer into the film’s setting, mood, and even mind of a character. This is always a challenge for directors who wish to convey a certain message through their film and, keep the attention of the audience, as well. While mise-en-scène generally refers to the appearance of a film, it…

In 1984, director Juliusz Machulski released what was initially thought of as a film with sexist intentions due to the portrayal of the female population. However, upon deeper analysation, the film entitled SexMission is Poland’s all-time domestic box office champion and seemingly operates on multiple different levels of satire and deeper meaning by the use of social-political comments including dictatorship, totalitarianism, fascism and of course social irony. The movie contains many…

television. Society now throws a rating on movies and television shows in response to violence. Although this has been done, extreme acts of violence do not seem to affect the ratings. It is only when nudity and vulgar language join it does the rating go from G rated to R rated. Even G rated films can contain violence. For example Lion King; the Lions in the movie kill each other to solve their problems. Also, in the Disney movie Mulan the characters go to war and Mulan gets stabbed. Both of…

Scream Factory broadens its horizons a bit by releasing the Blu-ray debut of the Oscar-winning dark comedy “Death Becomes Her” in a Collector’s Edition. Although it definitely fits into the supernatural realm, many would argue Robert Zemeckis’s 1992 hit is a little tame to be released under Shout Factory’s horror umbrella. Either way, it merits the extra special care it gets from the company. A star-studded cast headed up by Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, and Meryl Streep all give elegantly wicked…

Yep, that's pretty much all the movie is about. Not much happens in the film, save for a completely random cat fight between two women, and a bathing suit fashion show. If you're expecting a rampaging killer head, you're going to be disappointed, as the only killings happening in this movie are by some weird creature, who is…

the horrific events that lie ahead. Each character portrayed a standard character type in the beginning of the film, but as the film continues the audience learns more about each character and their true identity. Curt “The Athlete”, Jules “The Whore”, Marty “The Fool”, Dana “The Virgin” and Holden “The Scholar” all play the leading roles. The film is set-up as the stereotypical “slasher film.” The horrific event is induced by the past and conflict is between a fictional antagonist and a group…