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The Films “Inglourious Basterds” and “Django: Unchained” are both directed by Quentin Tarantino, a director acclaimed for rewriting history to satisfy the audiences vengeance against these historical antagonists and ideologies. Inglourious Basterds closes on a scene where the Nazi party members are being burnt, shot and blown up. This represents the demise of a failed, inhumane ideology which today we have studied to understand and hate and with the violent end we have come to see a satisfying…

The year is 2012 and the blisters on the palms of my hands have become rock hard from years of manual labor. After a hard days work, I kick back and relax, and sit on the porch with my lips wrapped around the tip of a green Heineken bottle. I share laughs with my next-door neighbor, who also happens to be my best friend, while the speakers blast Nas 's "Represent." I 'm not really thinking of the future just yet, I 'm more indulged with the thoughts of females and the summer nights ahead of us,…

Black Swan: A Movie Analysis “I felt it. What? Perfect. I was perfect.” The movie starts with a ballerina dancing to a musical piece beautifully, and then enters a hideous black bird, which seems to torture the ballerina. The young and naïve ballerina is our protagonist, Nina Sayers, played by Natalie Portman. The ballet company she works in, opens for a new season. The director announces that the season will open with an ambitious adaption of “Swan Lake” with a new face. Nina dreams that…

Both the book Slumdog Millionaire (originally called Q&A) written by Vikas Swarup and the film adaptation of the same name directed by Danny Boyle received mostly positive reviews and critique, which cemented both of these works deep into the area they were apart of. The movie proved that you could make a successful movie using a traditional Bollywood recipe, and the book showed us how devastating and soul-crushing life in an Indian slum could be. The book also garnered an array of good feedback…

Darkness, Light, Darkness directed by Jan Svankmajer is an interesting, thrilling, and impressive short film. While only seven minutes long, Svankmajer is able to project creative yet disturbing images that many critics struggle to give single meaning. The short is full of attractions created with stop-motion editing that creates a strong narrative on humanity. The film begins with darkness just as the title suggest. A door creaks and suddenly a light appears that is shown to be turned on by…

The film, “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” directed by Sergio Leone, the father of Spaghetti Westerns, is considered one of the best Westerns of all time. It launched Clint Eastwood into stardom as, “The Man with No Name” also known as Blondie “The Good”, through his interactions with his co-stars Lee Van Cleef, Angel Eyes “The Bad”, and Eli Wallach, Tuco “The Ugly”. The hero here, Blondie, is not the typical hero that you would expect, but through an analysis of several scenes, one begins to…

Jordan Cronenweth, ASC's photography for Blade Runner, with its use of strong shafts of light and backlighting, immediately evokes images from classic black-and-white movies, and it is not accident that it does. Cronenweth explains, "[Director] Ridley Scott felt that the style of the photography in Citizen Kane most closely approached the look he wanted for Blade Runner. This included, among other things, high contrast, unusual camera angles, and the use of shafts of light." David Dryer, one of…

investigate was Wylie Stateman. An accomplished talent that has co-founded a post-production company and sound designed within the various visual media throughout his career. As an sound designer , he is well known for working with Oliver Stone and Quentin Tarantino, prominent directors in the film industry. Having worked extensively with Tarantino, Stateman is well known for sound editing the majority of Tarantino 's acclaimed films such the Kill Bill trilogy, Inglorious Basterds, and Django…

games we play and the shows we watch. It is on the music we listen to, from death metal to the gangsta rap. It is in our movie theaters, such as the gory horror flicks and the epic fantasies. We as human beings love violence. As Famous movie director Quentin Tarantino famously said “Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.” I myself am guilty of this. I loved violence when I was a kid, I adore violence right now, and I’m going to continue to be extremely entertained by violence in the…

When was the last time you sat in silence and reflected upon your life? I mean real silence and real reflection, not soft music in your headphones-silence and thinking about what to have for dinner-reflection. And even more than that: when was the last time you felt like you were in a space and time appropriate for silence and self-reflection? In a society where it is increasingly heard not to be overwhelmed with noise as soon as we step outside our house (and sometimes, even before that), it…