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Alexis Cornelius Prof. Wood 3 December 2015 MU 2313 Critique Project Film: Scrooged The comedy Scrooged was released in 1988 and was written by Mitch Glazer, Michael O’Donagough and Charles Dickens. Twisting up the Christmas classic of a Christmas Carrol, Scrooged, follows a very successful film director named Frank Cross through a ghost filled journey to try and retrieve his Christmas spirit and fix the wrongs of his past. Throughout Franks journey though the past, present and future, he comes…

A group of seven misfits comes together to save a town from an evil, money seeking man in the film The Magnificent Seven directed by Antoine Fuqua. James Horner and Simon Franglen’s film score in The Magnificent Seven transported me back to the old west. Horner and Franglen effectively utilized the unique timbres of select instruments, texture, and foreshadowing making the audience feel as if they are riding along side the misfits, a character in the story experiencing all that unfolds on the…

I was fully prepared to love “Full Metal Jacket.” I just watched Kubrick’s “The Shining,” and was hungry for more from the ingenious director. Plus, the genre of war films is one of my favorites, so I was excited to see this landmark. “Full Metal Jacket” isn’t the high mark of the limited oeuvre I’ve seen from Kubrick, but it’s still a very good movie. “Full Metal Jacket” is told through the eyes of Pvt. J.T. ‘Joker’ Davis (Matthew Modine), a Maine Corps recruit. Viewers see Joker go through a…

If you moved just a little bit the picture would turn out blurry. In the year of 1881 George Eastman started making dry plates (Dry plates were round disks that were used instead of film). Then in 1883, George Eastman created a thin strip of paper covered in gelatin emulsion and silver balide, which is what we call film. Finally, he invented the first hand held camera that did not need a tripod and only took less than a second to take a picture. He called it the Kodak camera and later came up…

That first film is now iconic, and that’s why it’ll always be among my favorite ‘Mission: Impossible’ films, but that type of genre filmmaking simply doesn’t succeed at the box office anymore. Gone are the days in which your film could thrive on the suspense of silence. Modern audiences want more teeth as ‘Jurassic World’ would like to remind us, and that’s why since that first film the franchise has been gravitating more toward the action and less toward the tension. I think this new film…

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word family runs thin in There Will Be Blood. There are noticeable challenges within both the Plainview and Sunday families. Daniel Plainview does not have much family in existence throughout the movie. H.W. is the only proven family Daniel has left. However, H.W. is not Daniel’s blood family. The audience sees H.W.’s father dies while working in a well in the beginning of the film. Once all the workers leave Daniel takes H.W. as his own son. There are several moments during the film where…

Introduction Look around you, does where you are look uniformly ominous. Are you being chased by an unusually powerful or intelligent being. Well congratulations! You are in a horror film! It may not sound that great because it is not. You are probably going to die, but if you read this guide you might not. So let’s get started! The most important thing I could tell anyone in your situation right now is “don’t be stupid”. It has been said in so many television shows and movies. “Dont go in there…

known to Hollywood as the father of modern editing. In 1908 He introduced new innovations such as variation of shots such as the close-up shot, the long shot and the tracking shot and the variations in the pace of the film. While Porter concentrated on making the narrative in his films better through continuity, Griffith learned how to manipulate shots in order to have a bigger dramatic impact. His techniques included scene fragmentation which involves cutting from long shots to full body shots…

Many parents feel differently regarding the influence Television has on children; however, I believe television has a positive effect on children because it educates them. It teaches them different things they will need to be familiar with. In my opinion, it prepares them for school and occurrences they will come across in life. Not only does television influence your child, it takes them to places around the world and opens a “treasure chest of information.” Educational shows are useful for…