development and primarily the ultimate goal of entertainment. These modern day mechanisms such as television and video game, caused various scholars and critics to voice their opinions wether these practices are beneficial or not. “Neil Postman most notably in his 1985 book about American television, titled Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Disclosure in an Age of Show Business, argues that television in particular, mixes information and entertainment so thoroughly that viewers have come to…
People have always wanted to be entertained. Two ways, out of many ways of being entertained are by stories, and movies. Occasionally, novels can be turned into movies or vice versa. The story “The Birds” by Daphne du Maurier was turned into a film “The Birds” by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963. Although Du Maurier’s story and Hitchcock’s film portray the same major conflict and theme, the other major story elements are very different, which impacts the plot of the story through settings, characters,…
The movie, A Raisin in The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, is more amusing because emotions were further developed in the movie. Someone once said, “Never judge a book by its movie.” However, a book can judge its movie. If a reader reads a book then watches a movie they may think that the book will be worse. After watching the movie, the director gave each character’s emotions more amusing. Throughout the movie, it made each character's emotions evolve which made the film more complex. While there…
The soundtrack is fused with pop, disco, funk style music, and the song tells the story of each character, as they learn something new about themselves. The electrically charged sounds of keyboards synthesizers, and electric guitars, add depth and emotion to Footloose. From ballads like “Almost Paradise”…
saying that, although the effects of entertainment initially seem positive, these effects will eventually cause pain and will ruin society. Entertainment consists of everything its critics say of it, regarding its fun and mindless nature, and is loved by many because of these reasons. However, it is not difficult to see why cultural aristocrats and intellectuals in previous centuries predicted that entertainment would take a turn for the worse. Entertainment, which is regarded by many as a…
political narratives. The most prominent medium of this manipulation is film as it enables the perfect portrayal of pain and sorrow, joy and beauty. People often deem film as a trivial spectacle produced to earn revenue: solely a form of escapist entertainment. And yet, the world of savage politics has always bled into the world of the darkened cinema. The remarkable capability of films to create or alter reality is akin to the stratagems of politicians. Facts are selectively presented and…
friends. Despite the fact that this movie is directed by an adult film director, and the same sets that are used in said films are used in this children's movie, (Unsettling, I know,) and the special effects are done terribly with annoying elevator music playing in the background every so often and terrible acting and dialogue, a Talking Cat!?! is the epitome of unity, which is need in this world very much today. A lot of people may argue that disunity…
n this movie, all the parts Tom Cruise acts are incredibly amazing and the director uses specific cinematography to emphasize specific actions of Tom Cruises at specific moments to increase the suspense. For example, at 7:40s Tom Cruise swings around the skyscraper in Dubai, in this shot the director uses tracking shot to emphasize the action he is doing. We then as viewers get an emotion that increases the suspense of his actions during that shot. There is this other two parts which the…
How do film classifications impact people’s viewing decisions? Film classifications can impact the viewing decisions of the people in different ways however to main goal is to provide viewers, mainly parents, with information to allow parents to make informed viewing decisions related to content in films (Classification.gov.au, 2014). The current system of film ratings emerged in 1968 and greatly impacted the industry as prior to this the rating system was simply a series of guidelines as to…
controversial problem. Brian Godawa says that there are exhortation and exploitation in movies that distinguish the concept of the movie (Godawa 49-51). Some movies contain the sinful behavior such as rape, violence, and slavery just to maximize the entertainment of the movie, then this is the example of exploitation in movies. However, there are movies showing violence and sexual behavior not to encourage it but to inculcate a sense of morality to people, then it is the example of exhortation…