Tangerine Tangerine follows the story of Sin-Dee Rella and Alexandra who are both transgender sex workers. While sitting together Alexandra reveals to Sin-Dee that while she was in jail for 28 days her boyfriend/pimp Chester had been cheating on her. Sin-Dee spends the entire day on a warpath to find out who Chester had been cheating…
Category: Comparisons
A comparison of two films.
Muted Violence Versus Pulped Violence
The film-making came into an area of digital revolution in 90s. The boom of innovative digital technologies on the one hand created more spectacular but also expensive visual effects while on the other hand, triggered the emergence of mobile devices and streaming media providing more opportunities for the audience to watch movies outside the cinema….
Economic vs Artistic Science Fiction Success
The Terminator a major 1984 U.S. blockbuster does not usually come up in conversations with Solaris, a 1972 indie project from the USSR. The Terminator, while enjoyable, does not come up in all time greatest science fiction lists. Solaris, while an economic failure, is generally considered one of the greatest science fiction movies of all…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) vs Deep Red (1975)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre Texas Chainsaw Massacre (TSC), a film that is supposedly based on a true story, begins with Sally, her brother Franklin, and three others journeying to Sally’s grandfather’s grave after hearing it may have been robbed. Along the way, they make a quick detour at their family farmhouse that results in the brutal…
The beauty of technological advancements
Avatar and the curious case of Benjamin Button, directed by James Cameron and David Fincher, are two interesting films with very weird plots. Although the movies are both criticized because of their ideas, they both amazed their respective audiences with their use of advanced technology and their technique used when filming. Avatar follows the story…
Diversity and Flare in Pulp Fiction and Tangerine
It’s a Friday night and a bunch of eighteen to twenty year olds decide they finally want to watch Quentin Tarantino’s cult classic Pulp Fiction. They start the film with their preconceived doubts and get comfortable to sit through the next two and a half hours. It’s a very early Saturday morning, as the film…
Pleasantville & The Social Network: Evolving From Ignorance to Ruthlessness
For many filmmakers, creating a film that represents a specific point in time is a dangerous game. The film can be seen as incredibly dated shortly after its release, and they run the risk of offending an entire generation of filmgoers if depicted in a negative light. Fortunately for any connoisseurs of great cinema, neither Gary…
Two Hit Films by James Cameron
James Cameron is a renown directors is is known for many known titles such as, “Titanic” and “Terminator” but he two films that are being brought into comparison are his sci-fi space themed films “Avatar” and “Aliens.” Avatar follows the the heroic journey of Jake Sully, who is a disabled war veteran on the alien…
History and Remakes: Russian Ark and Solaris
Two films that I have viewed recently are Russian Ark and the remake of Solaris. Both have very different stories and information presented but they both hold a similar pacing. While Russian Ark is all about moving through the Russian Hermitage museum and visiting different time periods with different influential people in Russian history accompanied…
Technologically and Artistically Similar: Avatar and Inception
The films Avatar and Inception can both be analyzed through their unique artistic styles in addition to the astounding technology they used to enhance the plots. Globalization played a large role in the production of each film, as the film industry expected large audiences composed of people from around the globe, and financed the movies…
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