The Matrix and The Fellowship of the Ring seem to be complete polar opposites on paper. However, I will discuss with you, the reader, how you are very wrong. It is my duty as a film lover to express to you how both of these films, released only two years apart, changed the very way…
Category: Spring 2018
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off/Ghostbusters
The 1980’s were a great time for comedy movies. With the advancements in CGI, directors were able to produce things that were never even thought possible before and were able to stun and amaze their audiences. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Ghostbuster’s were both comedies made during the 1980’s and although they might share the…
Dirty Dancing/The Breakfast Club
American New Wave cinema is described as spanning between the 1960’s to the early 1980’s. Critics and scholars heavily debate this period of film, primarily because the movement itself contains so many other movements happening simultaneously. Among other points, most Hollywood individuals can agree that the basis of New Wave cinema was, ironically, stemming from…
Dirty Dancing/The Breakfast Club
American New Wave cinema is described as spanning between the 1960’s to the early 1980’s. Critics and scholars heavily debate this period of film, primarily because the movement itself contains so many other movements happening simultaneously. Among other points, most Hollywood individuals can agree that the basis of New Wave cinema was, ironically, stemming from…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre/House of Flying Daggers
In today’s films we see a wide range of what type of films are made and how they are made. Throughout time advances in technology has really impacted the way we view films. From special effects to simple things like prop manufacturing can really change each and every scene. TCM uses many different makeup and…
Solaris and Blue Velvet
Special effects will always be an important part of the film industry. In the 1970’s, progress was being made pertaining to special effects. It wasn’t until later, in the 70’s, when Star Wars came out and wowed their audience with the advanced technology that took place in the film. Then, in the 1980’s, there were…
Stranger Than Paradise and Dead Man
Jim Jarmusch is an American director Auteur, screen writer, musician, born and raised in Ohio. He eventually moved to New York at 17 and Paris. He is known for low budget independent films and makes films that suit him. He owns all his own negatives except one that he made for Neil Young. His growing…
Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Terminator
Cinema goes in and out of trends throughout it’s history; more so than any other form of media. With this we see how some trends last and how some go without a hitch. One trend in Hollywood that stuck and only advanced with technology is the usage of violence. With the advancement of CGI and…
Solaris, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, & the Human Psyche
What is reality? If each one of us were to answer that, we would all come up with our own unique answers. Reality is not something that is a universal idea that we all share, but it is the visual representations that are present in which we rely on to decipher reality. Throughout the films…
Twin Peaks/Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Twin Peaks directed by David Lynch, and Sex, Lies, and Videotape directed by Steven Soderbergh look like clear polar opposites from just looking at the movie and TV posters. While they do both differ in many ways- such as catering to different audiences, themes, characters, filming… they are also very similar in the sense that…
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