Have movies progressed since 1965? The question is complex. If attempting to voice a confident response, without a bit of critical thinking, you’ll quickly find that the question has a multidimensional answer. Ironically, like reality, movies are ambiguous with open interpretation depending on how you perceive their history. You can argue that films have ultimately…
Author: Jared Yates
MESSAGES TO A FUTURE GENERATION
MESSAGES TO A FUTURE GENERATION Pleasantville and Brokeback Mountain: Two films set in very different eras yet very similar storylines. Visually stunning yet more importantly are their messages. Gary Ross director of Pleasantville and Ang Lee of Brokeback Mountain created two of the most meaningful and socially important films…
American Film Culture gets innovative
Two films, both vastly different than each other: Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Only one thing making them parallel is their emphasis on their cultural significance of the times and their non-existent use of blood and gore to achieve the affect the directors sought out to bring to audiences. Texas Chainsaw Massacre…
E.T. Phone’s Home
Steven Spielberg’s 1982 blockbuster E.T. not only broke chart records by surpassing it’s $10.5 million budget and earning $792.9 million at the box office, but also broke the hearts of moviegoers worldwide for generations to come. E.T. holds just as prominent of a relevance in society today as it did the day it came out,…
Terror at the Prom
If you thought your high school years were a horror wait until you see this film. Stephen King’s novel Carrie found its’ way to Hollywood royalty status when Brian De Palma worked it into a film that has, as an article by publication Cinephilia & Beyond stated, “aged like the best French Wine”. It goes…
Were the Monkees a-HEAD of their time?
One of the main questions a Monkees fan or just an outside observer can ask of the film Head is, what were they thinking and why? As someone who has known about the late 1960s band who have been compared to the likes of The Partridge Family and a mockery of the Beatles, I found…
2001: A Space Oddity for it’s time
2001: A Space Odyssey was released on April 3, 1968. My first glimpse at this film was when I was very young. I remember back then, even at such a young age, thinking this was extremely captivating. This isn’t a typical movie that most kids might enjoy as it is two and a half hours…
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