Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Singin' in the Rain was a musical film about a film studio as it transitions from silent to talking films. Don is a big movie star that has a successful career during both silent and talking pictures and his costar Lina was successful during silent films but not during the talking films. Lina gets jealous of Kathy, who is getting the attention of Don. The elements of sound and lighting as the movie built the storyline of the movie around songs that had previously existed.
Kwaidan was a compilation of four Japanese stories that was directed by Masaki Kobayashi. These stories dealt with the supernatural aspects of the horror genre. The use of spirits, forces of nature, haunted hair, and the person inside of water. The elements of the supernatural strikes fear into the characters which influences how they respond to the experience they are faced with. The fear either made them follow instructions without hesitation, others were paralyzed with fear, and some tried to…
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In the movie "The Matrix" there is a lot of intentionality going into the camera angles and shot types. There is a reoccurring use of mirrors and other reflective surfaces in the film, such as actual mirrors, the sunglasses worn on characters, the doorknob at the Oracle, spoons, and glass (both broken and unbroken). The movie also used slow motion shots a lot to show action sequences. When the agent was shooting at Neo, he was able to dodge the…
In the film Moonlight, we see three stages of Chiron's life as he grows up in an abusive home with a drug addicted mom. He doesn't grow up with a dad and Juan, who is a drug dealer, takes on the role of his father. There is a lot of toxic masculinity in the society that Chiron grew up in. Chiron's fellow classmates pick on Chiron every day to assert their power over one another, falling into the toxic masculinity…