Ocean's 11 Film Review
Ocean's 11 Film Review Ocean's 11 is a remake of Ocean's Eleven (1960), with George Clooney playing Danny Ocean rather than Frank Sinatra. If you didn't already know, George Clooney is cooler than you are. He's got the women. He's got the money. And ever since he left his ER scrubs in the dust a few years ago, Clooney has gone from strength to strength - Ocean's 11 is yet another winner. When the film begins, Danny (played by George Clooney) is discharged from a New Jersey State Prison with two goals in mind; to pull the biggest robbery ever and to regain the affections of his estranged wife Tess (played by Julia Roberts). To aid him in his plan, Ocean gathers ten other accomplices. Rusty Roberts (Pitt) is master card player, now reduced to teaching spoiled young TV actors how to play poker. Linus Caldwell (Damon) is a master pickpocket, quick and smooth with the moves but lacking in the quick-thinking department. Basher Tarr (Don Cheadle) is a munitions expert with a thick Cockney accent. Rueben Tishkoff (Elliot Gould) is a Vegas insider with a personal axe to grind against Benedict. Also helping out are auto mechanics Virgil and Turk Malloy (Casey Affleck and Scott Caan), professional card dealer Frank Catton (Bernie Mac), retired gambler Saul Bloom (Carl Reiner), computer surveillance expert Livingston Dell (Eddie Jemison), and a Chinese acrobat named Yen
Spielberg, the director of 'Saving Private Ryan' chose not to have music during the entire battle.
Spielberg, the director of 'Saving Private Ryan' chose not to have music during the entire battle. Spielberg chooses not to have music in order for you to hear the screams of men dying as they bravely fight for their country. You can hear the shear amount of bullets ripping through the sea air. This is to give the film a bigger impact on the viewers. This differs completely from the older film 'Longest Day' which the director decided to have music at all times during the entire battle at Omaha Beach. The music is victorious and doesn't show the true massacre on Omaha Beach. The music was victorious to exaggerate the strength of the Americans. Spielberg depicts the Nazis in an inhuman way. The shots of the Nazis are very dark. Only their hands feeding bullets into the machine guns are shown. Spielberg chooses not to show the Nazi men's faces to increase their evilness. If the audience sees them as human the bloody battle on the beach will have less impact. Showing them as faceless beings makes the Nazis seem dark and evil, intent on slaughtering the Americans. Darryl F. Zanuck, the director of 'Longest Day' depicts the Nazis in a human way. All of the shots of the Nazis show their faces and their emotions. The Nazis are running all over the office answering phones and giving orders. Zanuck chooses to show the Nazis faces to show an unbiased view. The film tells
Surreal films.
Surreal films La Cloche (The Church Bell) (Jean L'Hote, France, 1964) This film shows surrealist objects in action. It is about a man who is accidentally trapped beneath a church bell but as it is about to be installed he walks off with the bell. The bell then moves through the streets of Paris, creating a surreal object by simply displacing it from is customary surroundings. Eaten Horizons (Spiste Horisonter) (Wilhelm Freddie, Denmark, 1950) Two men are using the back-side of a woman as their table, they eat a loaf of bread and then proceed to cut a hole in the woman's body and eat her insides. An Eater (Kazutomo Fuzino, Japan, 1963) A waitress falls into a dream where a chef is operating on her. He removes gurgling fluids, spaghetti, an eye, and a man whose nose he cuts off. This dish is then served to eaters who devour it. She then awakens and vomits an endless string which envelopes all the eaters. Finger Exercise (Robert Schaer, Switzerland, 1969) This short film plays on suspense. There is a well groomed eater hovering above a severed hand which is also well groomed, with nail varnish and a wedding ring. The very white plate and the impending dissection of the finger make this a very unsettling piece. Le Cadeau (The Gift) (Jacques Vasseur & Dick Roberts, France, 1961) This is a cartoon which uses misplaced sounds to shock its audience. It features a cow that
The Matrix - short analysis.
My favourite film is The Matrix because it is a great all round film the special effects are absolutely brilliant but so is the plot, normally we either have the pleasure of great special effects or a plot, not both of them together, but this film has definitely pulled it off. The matrix is quite a complex film to understand, especially for people who have trouble understanding most films, but I found that if I thought about it, I got it alright. The film will put you into so many different situations quite suddenly which really makes you feel as though you are truly part of the film. Ill start off by explaining what the films about, the matrix is a computer generated world, the world that we live in created by electronic monsters. Humans are merely batteries for them, but the world we live in is created to make us happy. Humans are grown in some sort of cells until ripe for power! The actual story to the matrix is that humans have created a world of technology that they can't control and the technology has taken over, wiping away the world, hence the computer generated one. Then we are introduced to neo (keanu reeves), a computer hacker in his spare time who soon realises that the fbi are interested in him. He is then taken by morpheus (Lawrence Fishbourne)n and is introduced to the Matrix and the technology surrounding it. Morpheus trains Neo with a variety of different
Peter weirs film Gallipoli.
Peter weirs film Gallipoli demonstrates many of the characteristics deemed by Richard white to be part of the Australian type. In the movie Gallipoli it shows the characteristics of independence, Manliness, Fondness of sport, Egalitarianism, Dislike of mental effort, self confidence and a certain lack of respect for authority is all shown in the in the movie Gallipoli. The independence in the film gallipoli is strong in the Australian type. The independence Archie shows in the film had that Archie which was 18 at the time was eager to go to war but you couldn't go until you were older so Archie went to a great deal to get to Gallipoli. Archie showed that he can be independent to succeed. It is interesting to note that manliness is shown a lot in the film. Archie shows that you are a man to fight in war which he went to all extents to get there otherwise he wouldn't be called a man. Men are brave, strong hearted people. Archie had a friend which couldn't ride a horse and he got teased and laughed at because you aren't a man if you can't ride a horse. Australians show their manliness in typical ways that men would. Alternatively Australians have a fondness of sport. Australians were so fonded of their sport they were invented football which is known as Aussie Rules which is a mix of Gaelic football and rugby. Archie fondness of sport was running against friends which normal
How does Hitchcock present the theme of duality and predator versus prey in psycho?
How does Hitchcock present the theme of duality and predator versus prey in psycho? Alfred Hitchcock's psycho was first screened in 1960, where it instantly became a box- office success, and one of the most influential horror movies of all time, showing explicit violent and sexual scenes which shocked audiences worldwide, and breaking new ground for mainstream Hollywood film. It transformed Hitchcock into a prestigious film director and the 'mother' of horror films. Its themes stuck at many American morals and were even blamed for causing severe murders, creating concerns of connections between screen violence and anti-social behaviour, which is still debated to this day. Alfred Hitchcock uses duality from the very opening seconds of the film, to reflect the whole theme of the film, of a split double personality. Hitchcock's idea of the black and white contrast, which was originally thought of to reduce the costs, also added to the duality of the film. This also went well with the chillingly screeching music which had a sharp staccato rhythm and slashing strings which created contrast and also added to the tension, suspense and intrigue in the shower scene, the slashing and screaming of Marion. The credits are also split and formed to merge into one whole 'person' portraying the duality of the characters in Psycho. Hitchcock makes use of camera angles, which is
Analysis of "Twin Town"
Sulaiman Sarwar 12SG Analysis of "Twin Town" Twin Town (1997). Director : Kevin Allen In the first opening minutes of "Twin Town" the director has chosen the shots carefully, as he needs to make a careful representation of the setting of Wales. The first scene begins with a credit sequence, and a landscape shot of a block of terraced housing. Although terraced housing is quite common, the audience start to get a geographical knowledge of where the film is set via the stereotypical factors that have been inserted into the film. Firstly, the sound is of a woman singing - Welsh people are famous for singing. Secondly, there is a shot of a group of children playing rugby, another "Welsh" sport as it is very popular in Wales. The director has decided to use these shots as he wants to create a setting that the audience can relate to, and as the film is set in Wales, Kevin Allen has used these stereotypical aspects to present the setting of Wales. The way the scenes are portrayed are very clever and interesting. The audience act as the camera, which seems to pass by each set of people who are just carrying out their everyday lives/duties. After the credit sequence, the film starts to twist and turn into a totally different type of genre. It begins with the music fading into silence, and the film now beginning with a middle shot of the twins in a car, which appears to be driven
Kestrel For A Knave
A Kestrel For A Knave This is a very hard to interpret yet interesting book. So I can imagine how hard it must have been to adjust it into a one and a half hour film. There are some things so well described, that they can only be written. To even try to put the same amount of detail into film would be an extremely challenging task. That is why there are some scenes from the book that aren't as well detailed and even some scenes are left out of the film all together. The nature of the book is the emotional states that Billy experiences, and to show that in film is very difficult. There are many significant scenes throughout the story that enable Barry Hines to showcase what the story is truly about. In the book one of the main scenes in the book is at the start when Billy's Mother asks Billy to go down to the shops and buy her some cigarettes. In this scene Billy is preparing to go off to school and explains that if he were to run to the shop and home again he wouldn't get to school on time, but his mother doesn't care and still insists that Billy gets her some smokes. This is relevant in showing the relationship between Billy and his mother and how she can not really give a damn about Billy's schooling but instead just cares about her own worries. The fact that this scene is not shown at all in the film, I find unusual because it is one of the few scenes were these two
Mira Nair describes 'Monsoon Wedding' as "a Bollywood movie, made on my own terms". With close reference to the opening section, analyse the techniques Nair uses to achieve this
Mira Nair describes 'Monsoon Wedding' as "a Bollywood movie, made on my own terms". With close reference to the opening section, analyse the techniques Nair uses to achieve this aim 'Monsoon Wedding' is based on the Punjabi culture, with both traditional and modern customs entwined together. 'Bollywood' is the term used to describe the Indian film industry, the largest in the world. However, Mira Nair has produced this Bollywood film with her own terms. She has dealt with the traditional Indian arranged marriage, but also explored sexual and taboo issues, which is seldom found in Bollywood films. 'Monsoon Wedding' abolished the Western stereotypes of Eastern countries, of living in thatch-roofed huts, lacking in technology and bitter poverty. The film showed the Western audience the contemporary India, consisting of tall buildings, scandals and people dealing business with mobile phones. Nair studied at Harvard, in America, which was her main influence for this film. She steered away from the distinctive Bollywood plot and added her own mark. She effectively conveyed the cosmopolitan Indian merged with the Western influences. The first step to the idea of merging the two cultures is through the opening credits. The purpose of an opening credit is to show a list of names of those who helped to produce the film, but at the same time, it has to also seize the attention and
Clue Review
Clue review Clue (1985) is a colourful cinematic remake of the murder mystery game Cludo. It inhabits some of the games charms, but because of this it rather sets itself up to be an almighty cliché, which I might add, it is. Clue attempts to weave together both slap stick comedy (without even a hint of subtlety) and murder. The film almost succeeds in doing this, but I feel for this to have worked, the jokes would have needed to have been funny. Clue tells the story of a number of blackmail victims, and how they are brought together with their blackmailer (Mr body). Mr Body is within moments of his appearance promptly murdered by a un-known killer: leaving all the blackmail victims in a rather unattractive position. Due to this many inexplicable deaths occur. All of this happens in the setting of an aged house atop a hill, while a thunder storm raged outside. Remember what I said about clichés? Despite the fact that the script left so much to be desired the cast was impressive. Tim Curry (the butler), Eileen Brennan (Mrs Peacock), Lesley Ann Warren (Miss Scarlet). Irrespective for the quality of the writing, these actors did give an excellent performance. Adding a little sparkle to the film. From a technical perspective Clue as a piece of cinematic work is not too spectacular. Camera work seems to be fairly basic. And there is an utter absence of special affects.
