Scary Movie

in some way, fantasy or science fiction films, featuring super heroes, vampires, wizards, and villains. In the 1960s, the fantasy genre was virtually nonexistent in the box office bonanza sweepstakes. We find an ever-increasing share of Hollywood movie production devoted to fantasy, and, as is so often the case in semiotic analysis, such a shift, or difference, points to cultural significance. Filmmakers have been providing Americans with entertainments that have both reflected and shaped their…

audience members. The problem with that is sometimes, the story gets lost trying to add in so many changes and the story is lost, and the movie is not as good as it could have been, which happens frequently in almost all of the mythology films. When you make a movie you have to think about your target audience, and what they would enjoy For example, if you are making a movie aimed at kids, you aren’t going to include slaughter and sex. As a filmmaker, you would be forced to make some changes.…

Picture this. The year is 1954 and you are looking to see a movie. Movie commercials on television are scarce, and you do not know what to see. So what do you do to help decide what to watch? You look at a movie poster in a theatre lobby. The movie poster for The Creature from the Black Lagoon has many different elements that help to create an image of what the actual cinematic feature may be about. By using variations of light and dark colors, the poster adds depth that creates feelings of fear…

all Australian movies. Films that are made in Australian, generally have a red, musky feel to them. This is often created through this use of the Australian countryside and outback as well as the saturation of light. A good example of this is the movie, Red Dog, which was shot in WA. This cinematic hue is very evident when watching the Dressmaker, which was filmed on location in the Victorian town, Wimmera-Mallee. In this film, the hue is created in several ways, but mainly through the…

bulk. These bulks consisted mostly of B-movies and one A-quality movie that the theater wanted. By using this tactic, studios were guaranteed to make money because their movies would be shown at the theaters. This was also a way of getting rid of the competition.…

1. Canadian films have long been compared to American films and described in the sense of being “not American”. There have been many ways we historically separate Canadian films from American films, and it has mostly been through showing the differences between the two. Canadian films, historically, must have Canadian elements to be considered uniquely Canadian. This could mean Canadian actors, a Canadian director, Canadian funding, or, most prominently, a Canadian setting. Specifically, as Jim…

History on Film Star Wars Edition Star Wars became such a huge cultural impact on society for certain reasons that haven't been replicated. Whether it be for the way it changed the way people perceived sci fi by allowing almost endless possibilities of imagination. Or how the films and its studios had changed the way effects in movies today would stun audiences in their current cultures. To understand how Star wars affected and caused such an impact in the culture technologically is to…

Universal logo that opens the film to the one that closes it after the movie credits, the pun "It was a hell of a ride" is not only fitting to the latest installment of The Fast and the Furious franchise it's SPOT ON. For a franchise that only gets better and better after each movie, The Fate of the Furious is not only going to knock you off your seat it's literally going to past all your expectations you had for the movie (I would…

The home theater. The zenith of advanced household accomplishment. At the point when our precursors rushed to the underlying films to look up in stunningness at the "photo appears," little did they figure that their descendents would one day censure such areas for mammoth level screen TVs and the most recent in home theater sound gear. Since all things considered, why go out for supper and a motion picture when you can remain in? The home theater framework is the most recent stage in America's…

Eating, is one of the main symbols in order to survive. By discussing symbolism and eating as a whole, it will be easier to better understand America. Symbol usage relies on learning, memory, and emotion. However, when we symbolically eat, our brain doesn’t process the symbols, it processes eating to satisfy hunger. This is because, the symbols we give things is not what’s important to humans, it’s what they represent. Humans are commonly symbolically interacting through eating. For example, the…