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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…

The Australian film industry has been around since the late 1800s but it took until 1970s for it to fully start. This is because, during this period, the Australian government started funding feature films through the Film Finance Cooperation. This sparked an era of ‘Comedy Gold’, in which many cult classics such as Crocodile Dundee and The Castle were made, excellent examples of Australians cinema. However, during this period, larger American films swamped the Australian film industry with…

Block booking was the practice of a studio selling its films in 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…

"The Fate of the Furious" action film you've been waiting for and is almost a 9/10, sorry Roman you're still #11 RATING: 9/10 STARS: 5/5 Intense cheers, tears, and and a room full of many emotions was what packed a Houston crowd that was part of the 8 on the 8th screening of The Fate of the Furious. From the 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…

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…

“It was 34 years ago, on May 25, 1977, that “Star Wars” (later known as “Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope”) thundered onto the big screen and changed the course of Hollywood history.” (Hero Complex Star Wars) The budget that the crew had was eleven million dollars. It became so popular that it had made over four million dollars in the US but had made over seven million dollars world wide in the box office which put it as the number one movie of the year in 1977 by about four million dollars…

The reteaming of director Paul Feig with actresses Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig would lead you to think that they are up for another touchtone, success of the exact same magnitude that “Bridesmaids” (2011) enjoyed of—being a commercial and critical success of a film. The succinct answer is an outright no. Although, “Ghostbusters” (2016) manages to remain afloat, mostly because it has a lot of heart, despite its conspicuous problems. You may argue that McCarthy, Wiig, and Hemsworth are…