Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

The Film, Reimagined To reimagine the seventh installation of the epic fantasy series Star Wars in the tradition of the French New Wave of the late 1950s/60s, one would have to drastically reconsider and revise the film’s budget, cinematography, special effects, and, perhaps most importantly, point of view and narrative style. Within the reimagining, the basic plot and characters would remain the same because the plot and characters are quite archetypical; they maintain their integrity and…

Why Everyone Should See the Star Wars Prequels A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away there were explosions, screams of anguish, and the betrayal of the century. No, this isn’t some sort of space reality show, it is Star Wars, and more importantly, the Star Wars Prequels. Most of the time people not only hate the prequels but refuse to even watch any of them because of a character who caused the wars. This character is none other than Jar Jar Binks. Even with this hatred towards this minor…

The 1987 film, Empire of the Sun directed by Steven Spielberg, was a very well put together film in a way that everything was put together in the end of the film. Spielberg connected a lot of things that viewers saw in the beginning of the film to what viewers saw in the end of the film. In this film there is a major relationship between some sort of a caretaker model and a young child in need of care. This relationship develops between Basie and Jamie. Throughout the film, I feel that Basie was…

answered: ‘Karate Kid’ is back. However, the film takes on a twist, changing karate to kung fu. Directed by Harald Zwart, the film stars a new Daniel Larusso and Mr Miyagi, who have a new “wax on, wax off” to offer. Staying true to the original ‘Karate Kid’, this remake is sure to have you hooked with the same thrill and excitement from the first one. The movie stars two Hollywood actors, Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith, the perfect duo to play the roles of a diligent kung fu master and a…

Deadpool was written in Three-act structure. In addition, this is a superhero movie based on The Hero's journey model. But different from other superhero movie, in order to guide the audience’s focus on both past and current circumstances, the movie was written in parallel narrative structure which is flashback. In Act 1, as a typical way, the opening scene starts with the entrance of the protagonist, Deadpool, with the red spandex suit sitting in a cab. With this opening scene, the movie is…

“We’re here to connect, love, time, death -- these three things connect every single human being on earth” the first 6 seconds into the trailer of Collateral Beauty voiced by Will Smith. An extremely powerful trailer that includes well known and award nominated actors. Firstly, I saw a poster of this movie in the metro, the first thing I noticed was Will Smith -- as he was the center of attention in the poster which, therefore, was enough for grabbing my attention and interest. According to the…

to the effect The Beatles had on the world, accompanied with the images of the sun drenched, warm Andalusian landscape and an award winning music score written by Pat Metheny, the film “is both a farewell to an era of repression and a welcome to a new age, capturing he spirit of both the 60’s and of a nation aspiring to a better future” (Palace Films). The film is the light and melancholic tale of three strangers who meet on the road while trying to…

Historical movies of specific events in time have always fascinated the audience in the motion picture industry. To the Chariot race portrayed by Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur, to the famous World War II speech by George C. Scott in Patton, these movies were iconic at the time and portrayed real life events in history. Never in U.S cinema history had there been a parody of historical events, until the ingenious director named Mel Brooks made a movie called History of the World Part I. Brilliant,…

The movie I have chosen to analgise is Star Wars Revenge of the Sith, directed by George Lucas in 2005. This movie cost $113 million to make and made 800 million from box office. It’s part of the prequel series and is the last star wars movie directed by George Lucas. It has been 3 years since the clone wars first began and chancellor palatine has been kid napped by droid commander general grievous. Anakin Skywalker and Obi-one Knobe (Jedi knights) have gone to rescue palatine from General…

“Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.” Christopher Nolan is undoubtedly one of the best directors in Hollywood, and he set fire to the film world with his groundbreaking film Interstellar. From its jaw dropping visual effects shown with elegant cinematography to a goosebump inducing score, Interstellar became an instant classic. Visuals are a very important to movies nowadays. But most of these impressive visuals are going towards creating and bringing to life fictional…