Movies have shifted since 1965 from outright digs towards social biases and discrimination to more subtly expressive films that hint at condemnation of society’s actions. By the same token, films have stayed similar to those since that time in the film industry’s continued willingness to periodically challenge audiences. Throughout time movies have been made…
Category: Fall 2018
Film’s Social Technology: A Continuing Evolution
The film industry has changed significantly throughout the years. Just looking back on my childhood the special effects that once seemed so realistic at the time are now dated and cheesy. Subjects that seemed taboo are now spoken about openly. Yet technically, all movies are similar. No matter how convoluted they all follow a plot…
Societal and Technological Changes Through Four Representative Films
The style in which films are created alters with time to mirror changes in society and technology. The films, Eat Drink Man Woman, Rocky, Suffragette, and Avatar all reflect the views of society from their respective times in history. Eat Drink Man Woman along with Rocky both mirror constraining gender roles for women, while Suffragette…
“Journey to Italy”
Things that critics debate about the film is how iconic it is and how the plot didn’t have to make sense for it to be a masterpiece. The whole story does not have a point to it until they very end when you have to take all the pieces from the movie and put them together….
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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