Reign of Terror

When we get a villain who “wants to take over the world” or “trying to bring vengeance for a certain event that happened in the past”, the viewers get detached from the movie. For example, Aldrich Killian from Iron Man 3. Aldrich’s big outbreak of terror among the world is because of Tony Stark simply standing him up in the past. Thinking that any person could connect to that is insane. It is so obscure that it makes the villain distant and confusing. But thankfully, we have some villains who…

Conflict and tension are necessary for all well written stories, interesting movies, and even great music. One genre of literature that relies heavily on conflict and tension are horror stories, which are narratives that provoke fear in the audience. Conflict is when there are two or more forces opposing each other. Tension, or the rising action, can be defined as the building of the established conflict until it reaches the climax then resolution. The climax is when the opposing forces resolve…

Trailer Comparison Essay ‘Deadpool’ directed by Tim Miller and ‘Suicide Squad’ directed by David Ayer both utilise close-up shots as part of their trailers. The ‘Suicide Squad’ trailer commences with closeup shots to introduce all characters which has the effect of making a lasting impression in order to be more memorable. The camera then transitions to a wide shot of a restaurant after exhibiting all the ‘superheroes’ in the prison. The shot has been framed through a window and includes the…

In my Rhetoric in Practice project, I decided to write about a scary bedtime screen-play in order to deliver a specific message to the specific audience group that I targeted. I combined conventions from the horror genre in order to emphasize my message about the vulnerability of children to crimes and the insecurities that we as adults provide for the children’s safety. My main genre would be considered as a bedtime story and a combination of the horror genre which in concept does not go along…

Neal Gabler’s assertive diction delivers the truth about entertainment by saying it will “... overturn all morality…” and “... poison the springs of domestic happiness…”. While Gabler took these quotes from a nineteenth century critic, they still hold true in today’s twenty-first century society. The forms of entertainment that wreak the most havoc are movies and TV shows. Slowly but surely, these two things are psychologically damaging people, giving people the wrong idea about life, and making…

Fear is often referred to as one of the most primal emotions there is and through time fear has been used in a number of different ways for a number of different reasons. Fear can be seen in early and current literature. Fear can be observable in all living creatures and is experienced differently in each, making it an extremely subjective emotion, hence there are millions of different uses of fears, Things identified that induce fear and portals of fear around the world. Fear can be…

Suspense is a state of anxiousness or uneasiness about a situation. This tension is easily felt in movies, such as The Fellowship of the Ring.This movie is a very adventure filled and action packed story. Director makes this film very tense and makes viewers what to know what is going to happen next. Many different techniques are used to give the movie its edginess. The suspense in The Fellowship of the Ring is created through POV shots and angles, sound effects, and pace. The…

Everyone knows the most famous horror movies. Although they don’t have their own category of horror movies they are considered classics. There are four main types of horror movies. The first is Monsters, which has the sub genre, creatures.That includes werewolves, vampires and other creatures of that sort. Another sub-genre is neo monsters, typically each neo monster film a different creature is created with different attributes and features. The other two common sub-genres in the monsters…

The Matrix is a film which is both intriguing and exciting produced by Joel Silver, directed and written by Wachowskis in the year1999. In this film I’ll be focusing on the important elements such as mise-en-scene, cinematography, sound and editing, how this elements bring about life in the film and how they affect each other or rather assist each other. In The Matrix we find that there are two major characters by the name of Neo and Morpheus, Neo is by day is a normal computer programmer and…

The term “modern monster” can mean several different things to different people. A “modern monster” can be something that scares us like a vampire. Monsters are an unnecessary part of our life, and the monsters let us open our mind to the world. A monster can be something the is hideous and scares us, but the word monster can also mean something that is in our head. Like movies we let the monsters in our head and believe they are real but there not In most of the stories in the book the…