Tuesday, September 3, 2013

I really can't understand the Ending...




Sucker Punch is one of the good all-female lead cast movie. Directed by Zack Snyder. A story of a young girl institutionalized by her abusive stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which help her escape.




The Actresses are good. Hot girls with a big gun are on action. They are all look fierce except from Baby doll because she always look like helpless but she is the most stronger in the five. The movie is like 5 vs the world. There are two scenes in the movie. One is the reality, which takes place in mental hospital, and the other one is in Fantasy, which takes place in the head of baby doll but she is imagining that they are in the battle field fighting for the right and freedom.


I never understand the ending of the story, When I watched it in the Cinema, I was like how come she's in the chair and why she is smiling? But when I watched the uncut version I've seen there that she was bought by the rich man but she ended up going back at the mental hospital but it's just the same because she is smiling and the owner of the Mental Hospital is still angry with him. Can someone explained it to me? LOL


Monday, September 2, 2013



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.

Sunday, September 1, 2013

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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