Stitch! The Movie

Scotland's Superman Few words are more abused in Hollywood than historical and epic. While historical is such a broad term that can refer to anything in the past, epic is often the colloquial of anything that’s awesome. However, when the words combine they form a favored genre of moviegoers. According to FilmSite.org, “A historical epic is defined as film that takes a historical, mythic, heroic figure, and adds an extravagant setting accompanied by lavish costumes and a grand musical score.”…

Sound is a fundamental aspect of film form. As Richard Barsam and David Monahan write ‘sound helps the filmmaker tell a movie’s story by reproducing and intensifying the world that has been partially created by the film’s visual elements’ (Barsam & Monahan 2013: 414). Even during the silent era, sound was essential to the integrity of the cinematic experience, to the extent that one could argue that ‘the silent film never existed’ (Melinda Szaloky 2002). In fact, most silent movies were…

An audience attending a Hitchcock film is required to do much more than eat popcorn and drink soda! A Hitchcock film immerses the audience within the action of the film using stylistic and cinematic elements, such as: camera placement, editing, point of view, subjectivity and objectivity, all working together in ways that help to evoke certain emotions, while also provoking certain questions, making you wonder just what in the world Hitchcock is going to do next? In 39 Steps, one can see the…

In Shakespeare’s day London theatres could hold up to 3,000 people which mean that during a week as many as 10,000 to 20,000 people could see the popular plays of the time. Shakespeare’s audience was very diverse the rich, the upper class and middle class, and the lower middle class. People attending the theatre went for entertainment as today people do by going to the cinema. Royalty even occasionally attended the theatre in private booths. The Globe was a London theatre which costed a…

Choose three businesses that you are familiar with: a restaurant (fast-food or sit-down), a clothing or home accessories store, and a movie theater or other entertainment establishment. The three businesses that I am familiar with are Chuy’s (a Mexican sit-down restaurant), Tommy Hilfiger (a clothing store) and Carmike Cinemas (a movie theater). 1. Chuy’s How long does the first customer contact take in each business? The first customer contact happens as soon as we enter the restaurant. There…

Rubber was created for no reason. At that point I probably should have stopped watching but the idea of a killer tire was intriguing. The plot moves at a decent speed for the first sixty minutes but after that it drags on. Many critics viewed the movie as ridiculous and pointless, which it was supposed to be. Other critics were more optimistic and were very amused. Overall, I thought the film was weird but intriguing, also that many aspects of the cinematography were very good. Rubber…

Identify an assessment you used to evaluate your students’ developing knowledge and skills. It should be an assessment to be completed by the entire class. In math every time we use tickets out the door, observations, and the chapter review of that particular section to assess that our students are learning and understanding concepts. The assessment for this particular activity that I choose is the ticket out the door. Use the assessment and results to respond to the following questions…

rising actors and actress and finally helps brings confidence to young men and women in their daily lives. At the movie’s I might buy some popcorn from a big corporation or maybe some candy owned by Nestle. Then sit down and watch a movie from a big corporate movie industry. Meanwhile I could go to a theatre production, firstly go get dinner, pick up coccestion on your way in and maybe buy a $40 Shirt of the show then finally watch the production. While movies are still fun to go to, it only…

In 1911, Windsor McCay created his first cartoon, based on his comic strip Little Nemo. The silent animated short film with a running time of 10 minutes is one of the earliest ever made and its expressive character animation distinguished the film from the experiments of earlier animators. Little Nemo, 1911. https://alchetron.com/Little-Nemo-(1911-film)-45390-W The response to the film was enthusiastic. An item in the trade publication Moving Picture World, which praised the film's…

the past 5 years. Our box office receipts have fallen short and the success of our pictures has been moderate. To address our performance in the market and surpass investment goals we must strive to offer top decile entertainment and blockbuster movie offerings. To guide us in developing a higher level of entertainment and potential blockbuster production we compiled data from the top 50 movies during the years of 1937 - 2012. Box office receipts can give us insight into what is happening…