Directed by Gary Gross. Shown last 2012. Starring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen.
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to compete.

This movie is super action and drama. Very much Dolly scenes. The story is good but if you read the book you will know how Katniss survived the game because in the movie only few parts of Suffering of Katniss Everdeen is shown they focused on killing and other unnecessary stuff that was not in the book but it was awesome though.

The Characters did a good job but some special characters were not shown and didn't give enough exposure on the movie like Glimmer, and Kato. They just exposed Rue, the black girl from District 11. But the characters of Katniss and Peeta were shown good and their story is the same as in the book.

The setting of the movie was like the setting in my mind while i'm reading but they gave more colour to it. The Special Effects of the two monster in game finale fail. It really looks like a computerize tigers or dogs or I don't know. I was like "whoa, What happened to the special effects?!" 

The overall is good. Pretty good story. I wish they'd shown what Katniss Really do while surviving and how she and rue escaped from the other district tributes. I am hoping in the Catching Fire that they will give a good special effects especially on the part where a bunch of flesh eating monkey attacked them. I am looking forward on it.

Independent

Because of those Awesome Directors  Independent Film began. They have a lot of budget doing those Independent Film Making.  Many Independent Film became Blockbuster in Hollywood because most of the Directors knows what the public wants and what kind of story they will enjoy.

Example of the best independent film are:

One of the scariest film ever and this is the first exorcist movie that created. It was Directed by William Friedkin. It was shown 1973 starring Linda Blair as Regan Macneil, the girl who got possessed.

When I watched this movie, In the beginning it was very very boring but when the demon start possessing the girl it made me jumped and scares me the whole week. The face of Regan while being possessed haunt me the whole week. So if you want a Scariest Horror movie of all time. I recommend you to watch this.

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Directed by one of the best directer, Steven Spielberg. Shown on my Birth year, 1993.
During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.

This Movie is the first Dinosaur movie, I guess. HAHA! Not sure but this is movie good. A little bit scary and very very thriller. It created a good feedback from the audience that's why Steven made a sequel of this movie.

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Directed by Roland Emmerich and shown in 1998.
A enormous, radioactively mutated lizard runs rampant on the island of Manhattan.

Godzilla is originally made in Japan but did a version in Hollywood. Hollywood is good in making their own version. I like the Version of Hollywood because of its special effects and the effect of the actors in audience.

The Star Studio System

The studio system of the Hollywood before was very exclusive. Directors, actors, actresses, producers, and writers have a contract to a specific studio. If they created a contract to the studio they are not allowed to create films on the other studios. They have to follow the rules of the studio if they signed the contract.

The Star System of the Hollywood before was very strict. The Hollywood before reached it's international fame so they have to train new actors and actresses. Stars are very disciplined. They way they talk, the looks, their appearance and how they act were highly trained. If they have an issue or scandal, producers will automatically kill it. They will pay the Paparazzi just to stop the issue.

Unlike today, you will see the same directors in different studios. As far as I know the Director of Titanic made a movie in 21st century fox then his latest movie, Avatar, was under the Universal Studios. The Stars today are always in News. Their Scandal and Issues are always trending and you will see the same star in different studios and others were not highly trained in acting.

Philippine Studios and star system before was just like the same in Hollywood. If the Directors and other staffs have a contract to a studio they cannot make a film in other studios. Same as the stars.

Boo, you whore.

Mean Girls

A Movie for all the girls out there J a story of a Girl who went North Shore High for the first time and leaves the actual world and enters the girl world then the war begins. She met a gay, Damien, and a girl, Janice, who used her to make Regina George life miserable. But it turns out that her life becomes miserable.

This movie gives me a lot of, sorry for the word, bitchy quotations like, Boo, You whore, and you smell like a baby prostitute and many more. I used it lot to my friends. It gives more Idea how to revenge.
Most of the shot are point of view because they are showing what other girls think about other girls and that’s one technique to make the antagonist very bad. And you can see in the face of the actors’ expression of being plastic and it is very good.

The characters were good. Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams did a good job. They are both very effective in their roles. The story is very focused on the characters doing so you will pay attention to see how they will ruin their lives and it is focused on love and teenage girls in high school.

The lesson I learned from this movie is be who you are and don’t join groups that doesn’t fit you in. Just be yourself and hang-out with people who are in your league.

Now I know

French Expressionism and Surrealism

Based on what I learned about this Genre. I learned that old movies were morbid than today. I thought Saw is the most morbid movie I’ve watched but I was wrong. Even though it is a silent movie but my emotion was over flowing by ewwness and shockness.

 French Expressionism used few clips for their romantic movies. Their Romantic movies don’t have a happy ending. It is always heart-breaking and the camera is always focused on the one who has the broken heart.

Their movies were inspired by the Surrealism painter to express their feelings.
This is their weapon on Hollywood after the war.

Film Noir

Film genre that offers dark or fatalistic interpretations of reality. The term is applied to U.S. films of the late 1940s and early '50s that often portrayed a seamy or criminal underworld and cynical characters. The films were noted for their use of stark, expressionistic lighting and stylized camera work, often employed in urban settings. Style of filmmaking characterized by elements such as cynical heroes, stark lighting effects, frequent use of flashbacks, intricate plots, and an underlying existentialist philosophy. The genre was prevalent mostly in American crime dramas of the post-World War II era.

The concept of lighting for film noir is deep and complicated topic but a great subject for modern filmmakers. Film noir was created by filmmakers who were bound by their budgets and their technology. But they weren’t limited in their talents – that makes this an excellent starting point for studying lighting. The first and most important light is the key light – this is usually the brightest and most dominant light of a setup. Complementing the key is the Fill light, which is place opposite of the key light to fill in some of the shadows left by the key. The final light of the three point setup is the back light – this light adds an outline to separate the subject from the background.
The sound of noir—plaintive sax solos, blue cocktail piano, the wail of a distant trumpet through dark, wet alleyways, hot Latin beats oozing like a neon glow from the half-shuttered windows of forbidden nightspots. You walk the sidewalks of big, lonely towns, with no destination in mind, following only the sounds, guided by them, wondering where they come from, what hurt souls cry out with such tones.A femme fatale  is a mysterious and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire, often leading them into compromising, dangerous and deadly situations. She is an archetype of literature and art. Her ability to entrance and hypnotise her victim with a spell was in the earliest stories seen as being literally supernatural; hence, the femme fatale today is still often described as having a power akin to an enchantress, seductress, vampire, witch or demon, having some power over men.
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Trainspotting

The year is 1996, and the media has caused shock-controversy by claiming that Danny Boyle’s masterwork glamorises drugs. A bold statement considering the fact inTrainspotting the following happens:A drug-addict’s relationship is ruined and eventually dies, another addict drops a literal ‘bomb shell’ in a one-night-stand’s bed, a 14 year-old girl has sex with an adult, a baby dies due to being neglected, several punch-ups occur, a girl is glassed in the face with a pint-glass, men are hit with pool cues, people experience frightening hallucinations, and even after the baby dies, the addicts have to cope with the pain by shooting up again because they’re so dependent on heroine.

The opening speech for example, Renton talks about all of the mundane aspects of life in an acidically funny list: “Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television…” – and at the end of the speech he juxtaposes all of this with: “Why would I want to do a thing like that. I chose not to choose life, but chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroine?” Here is the crux of the film: choose life or choose heroine? Which one can you get the most amount of pleasure from? And which one gives you more harm? The film refuses to answer, and merely presents the viewer with the situation. The beginning section of the movie uses fast paced camera movements and slick and inventive editing (“the worst toilet in Scotland” is dubbed over the toilet door) to match the indescribable, hyper-orgasmic feeling of being high on heroine. We are essentially posed the question of whether we would choose heroine, and the “choose life” monologue is directly asked to us, the viewer.
Here we see how the film is subtly mocking societies obsession with male/female roles and stereotypes in and out of relationships.Overall, Trainspotting presents heroine as it is. It’s not for or against it, as Trainspotting, in my opinion,  is about choosing life or not choosing life.


Another interesting aspect of Trainspotting is its love for pop-culture – and humorously blending pop-culture-induced dialogue in scenes where characters are injecting themselves with the hyper-orgasm-inducing drug known as heroine. Trainspotting will momentarily pause from the drugs and the violence to make a James Bond reference or an innuendo, if anything, that’s not just funny, but utterly refreshing. The great thing about Trainspotting is the sheer sense of speed it has, its narrative drives forward at a rapid pace – the opening sequence is a great example of this, as is the section where each individual character goes out looking for a one-night-stand: we intercut from one couple to the next, and so on – all of the dialogue links up in a slickly stylish manner. For example, Spud is talking about how his balls ‘feel like watermelons’, and we intercut between that and a bathroom scene with his girlfriend where she discusses how hilarious it is to her to starve her husband of sex. To add to this, when the girls and the boys meet up and they tell each other what they’ve been talking about they lie with stereotypical answers. 


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