BLAZING SADDLES is a have-to-see film. Why? Because there isn’t one dull moment. The movie has everything from comical aspects as well as action aspects. The movie’s theme was the “wild west” under the auteurs rethinking genres title. The film was released in 1974 which does not correspond to the theme in the present day….
Category: Comparisons
A comparison of two films.
The Shining vs. Schindler’s List
These two films were released in order to have a strong affect on the audience. In order to accomplish this, both of these films use the common theme of evil. However, the types of evil are very different. In The Shining, the evil is more spiritual and paranormal while in Schindler’s list, the evil aspect…
Breathless and The Graduate – a new take on Romance
“Breathless” and “The Graduate” at first glance appear so drastically different from one another. Made ten years apart from one another, in different countries, and one in black and white, one in color, there could really be no similarity between the two, right? The reality is that both of these films are still today looked…
BLAZING SADDLES vs. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
Some of the most iconic films in history were released in the 1970’s. BLAZING SADDLES and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND may be polar opposites from one another but, they both made Hollywood shine even brighter in the mid to late 70’s. Mel Brook’s 1974 film, BLAZING SADDLES, explored all different types of topics,…
The 400 Blows and Bonnie and Clyde
The 400 Blows (1959) and Bonnie and Clyde (1967) were released less then a decade apart and are very different movies. However they do share some similarities such as crime and fleeing from the law. I chose these films because 400 Blows is in a different language (with subtitles of course) and I though it…
Husbands, Solaris and understanding reality.
The movies I watched this week are Solaris and Husbands. Both of these movies were intriguing and confusing at the same time. Both films appear to be unconventional and thought provoking. While they have their similarities they also have there differences such as, Husbands appears to be a low budget film,…
Rashomon & Bonnie and Clyde
Here we have two drastically different films. Rashomon, a low-budget, unconventional Japanese film that went against trends of the time, using a unique story telling technique with four characters retelling different interpretations of one murder with a series of flashbacks. On the other hand, we have a New Hollywood era conventional film, Bonnie and Clyde…
The Bicycle Thief and The 400 Blows
The Bicycle Thief and The 400 Blows By Mason Thompson I wanted to stretch my mind so I choose 2 foreign film with English sub titles (this was my first sub title experience). The movies were released about a decade apart. The Bicycle Thief was released in 1948 while The 400 Blows came in…
Luchino Visconti and John Cassavetes: A Hollywood portrayal of real life
Italian neorealism as a genre, with films like Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima, had a major impact on the style and substance of the New Hollywood Cinema era, which can be seen in John Cassavete’s “A Woman Under the Influence.” Examples abound in overall similarities of the main characters and how they are treated/viewed by those around…
Breathless and The Manchurian Candidate.
Most commonly, in movies the main character is a protagonist who the audiences ends up rooting for during the film. However, there is an exception to this general film strategy called an antihero. An antihero is a protagonist that doesn’t usually act noble or well mannered. This unconventional character also creates for some debate among…
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