In my personal opinion Alfred Hitchcock does a fantastic job at building suspense. One way that I believe he builds suspense is common among directors today. This is through music. He plays a certain type of soft music if the situation feel touchy. He then will play music that has something behind it that almost gives you chills when there is something that is about to happen.

Another way that Hitchcock build suspense is with all the colors he uses. He often would highlight the screen in one solid color such as red, blue, or green. This is the different emotions that the main character was feeling at the time. For example the color green represents his love or the life of his love.

The ending of the movie was quite startling. I did not expect the scene to basically recreate itself. As the movie went on I was kind of guessing as to what the big ending would be and I was very surprised. As a whole though I thought the movie was going to be very bad considering how old it was. However this was not the case. It actually turned out to be one of the better movies we have watched this semester.

War films have always been popular amongst the public. This is for many reasons. If I were to speak for myself war films are intriguing to me because of the context that they have. Most of the war films out their today are based off or around true stories. I love seeing what other people have experienced in there lives. I also love to see what happened in wars the were before my lifetime. I do not know if this is the same for everyone but this is what intrigues me.

Throughout almost all war films there are common themes. One common theme is courage. In these films there is almost always one character that displays an immense amount of courage. He/She is usually the hero character and more often then not the main character through the movie. A second theme that is extremely popular in war films is fear. Fear in my opinion is more common than courage. Every movie I have watched including Hurt Locker has these two themes. In Hurt Locker the courage aspect is displayed by the main character as he is fearless when it comes to defusing bombs. He puts his life on the line over and over again. The fear aspect is portrayed by the African American character. He is scared for his life and just wants to make it out of there with his life. He plays every situation as safe as possible.

A heroic actor is someone that put his life on the line for others around him when he does not have to. I believe that the main character in Hurt Locker is a hero to an extent. He is a hero in the sense that he puts his life in danger for others. However he does it recklessly, which puts others in danger when they should not have been in danger.

The first scene that I spotted some difference between the script and the actual scene is the part where Bob has just arrived in Japan and its night time so he goes to the bar and gets a drink. He is then encounter by some fans that say they love his movies. In the movie the scene is longer that what the script says. In the script, the conversations is four short sentences and then a head nod. In the movie however it is a little longer. They say their favorite part of the movie they are talking about and ask him a question. This is not found in the script.

The second scene that I spotted some differences is the scene with the prostitute that Mr. Kazuzo allegedly sent to Bobs room. In the movie the scene is long and towards the end there is a long struggle between Bob and the prostitute, where he is trying to escape from her. In the script the commotion is only three actually spoken line. In the movie though the lady acts like bob is forcing her to for a solid minute or two.

The third scene that I spotted some differences is when Charlotte is eating and talking with her husband and Kelly the actress. She then excuses her self from the dinner and walk to bob. They have a decent conversation that involves jokingly escaping from the city and the country. However in the script the conversation only extends two lines and says nothing about that. It is a short exchange and she goes on her way. I think the movie did a better job because it is the second encounter of these two talking and its more in depth showing that their relationship is getting stronger.

I believe that Daniel did not in fact have a relationship with his adopted son H.W. At the beginning of the movie when H.W’s real father is struck and killed by falling equipment, I think Daniel saw his opportunity at what could be a good start to a business venture. This is showed when the boy starts to grow up. When he older around 10, Daniel orders him to do stuff like he is property and doesn’t really spend quality time with the boy. Also when the boy is deafened by the gas explosion he checks on him and then immediately after he realizes the boy is still alive he goes back to his oil drill.

Daniel and Eli, even though the are contradicting characters throughout the movie actually have a little bit in common. They both share the same drive when the want something and are persistent in it. They both try to take advantage of whats given to them. However Eli does get the short end of the deal in the end of the movie. They are different however in their successes. Daniel is a successful oil man. He came to be this almost entirely on his own. From digging for rocks to then the oil industry. He had to climb his way up the food chain. Eli however benefited from his father selling his land and making the men build a church and have money be given to him to build it.

Daniel represent the capitalist spirit the best in the way that he worked his way up from and extremely poor miner to an oil drilling tycoon. It shows what the American  Dream is really about and how anything can happen if you work for it. He does show a bad side of capitalism though when it comes to greed. As life goes on for Daniel he becomes money hungry and even sends his adopted son away because he does not have “time” to deal with him. He lets money come before everything else in his life.

1. The parts of Mason Jr’s life that are the most relatable to mine are the growing up and fighting with siblings, the at first awkwardness of talking to girls when he was younger and the being ready to move out of the house and start college attitude. When I was little I would always fight with my sister then eventually sisters on long car rides and in the house. It was just a part of growing up. The second thing I connected with, was when Mason first started talking to girls and it was a little awkward for him. I feel like this is everyones problem the first time they try to talk to another gender though. The third thing was that by time senior year of high school came around all I wanted to do was have fun that year and then get ready to move to college and basically start another life.
2. The character that I think I fit in with the most was Mason. This is because he had to find a way to fit in overtime he got to a new school and make friends. I relate to this because when I moved from California I had to do the exact same thing. I also had to do this my senior year of high school when I moved once more. So I understand his sadness when he moved and how it felt.
3. The line “It’s always right now, you know” means to me that the moment is always occurring right now. You should not have to worry about past moments or future moments. All you have to focus on is what is currently happening in the world around you. I think it was placed at the end of the film to make it more symbolic and have a deeper impact. If it was just thrown in their in the middle it would be forgotten about and not a big moment in the film.

1) In 2001: A Space Odyssey AI is portrayed by Hal 9000 which is the operating system that controls the workings of the spaceship that they are using as travel. In Ex Machina, AI is portrayed through robots that have been created to look and act exactly like human beings

2) In Ex Machina, the main character Caleb is brought to a compound of his employer to test out how real/believable the new AI robot he made is. In the events that lead up to the ending of the movie Caleb is tricked into releasing the robot (Ava). She gets him to trust her and believe her and ends up turning on her maker and Caleb.

3) In terms of which movie has the most accurate representation of what AI would be like in real life I would have to say we are probably close to the Hal 9000 AI than we are the Ava AI. The AI that acts basically human is in my opinion farther away than a AI that controls some things for us.

4) The one thing I think movies with AI leave out or do not show enough is that AI is not at all times bad. I think they need to show that AI is a good thing and can do good things for people. “Yet they are inscribing and building assumption into a new world.” It doesn’t allows have to be negative impacts that it causes.

5) The black monolith in 2001: A space odyssey represents change. The reason I say this is because every time the monolith appears in the movie is when something is changing in the world. For example when the monolith first shows up it is when around the time that the apes discovered how to use objects as weapons. The next is on the moon when the citizen of earth are trying to change their civilization and expand elsewhere. The last time is when the movie is showing the futuristic room when the guy ends up dying. I think it shows up to gather information on how people or things act/react to change around them. However, there are plenty of other ideas for what the monolith represents.

Spike Lee is a director and actor that is famous for speaking his mind through his films and characters that he plays. He speaks his mind mostly on one common theme through his movies. That theme is race. In the majority of his movies like the one we watched in class he shows life through the eyes of an African American character. He shows how society treats and portrays people that are like the character and the things that are wrong with that. He does it in a way though that everyone will understand.

Spike’s audience in my opinion is everyone in society. He wants to raise everyones awareness on the subject of race and how it is dealt with in society. At the times of his films race was not as big of a problem in the media’s eye as it is today. I think Spike realized this and saw what was really going on. He wanted people to start taking action and making things right. He uses his films for other races to notice what is going on while also using it to make the African American population realize that they have a voice and opinion of what is right and wrong. In his movies he addresses these things in different ways, In “Do the Right Thing” he showed these problems through comedy and violence. This is unique because most of the time directors will use just one of these ways to get their points across. Spike does this though it allows his movies to connect with a bigger audience than if he is just just use violence or comedy.

I will be discussing the topic of whether the movie “The Departed” directed by Martin Scorsese shows a depiction of the way of life in the movie or if it endorses that kinda of life. The movie is about a undercover cop that infiltrates Costello’s Mob (Leonardo DiCaprio)  and a member of the mob that infiltrates the Police force (Matt Damon).They both have to figure out who each other is because it is know in both organizations that there is a rat among them. If they do not there is a high likely hood that they both die. In my opinion Scorsese was not trying to endorse the life of either of these people whether it is the career criminal Matt Damn portrays or the undercover cop that DiCaprio portrays. Instead I think Scorsese was just trying to depict what life may have been like for people that were in this situation. Scorsese does a great job with getting the viewer to mentally lock in to both sides and understand the difficulties that each character is going through during the movie and how one wrong comment or move could change everything for the characters. 

Mise en scene is the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play. The setting or surrounding of an event or action. The key components of mise en scene are the setting, the costume and make up, the lighting, and figure movement and expression (acting).

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In the movie The Martian mise en scene is used in a big way to further explain the story. They use mise en scene to show how lonely Matt Damon’s character truly is through out the movie. There are countless time in the movie where the shot is of the character surrounded by a vast sea of red/orange sand and mountains with nothing in sight.

In the movie 42, that tells the story of famous baseball player Jackie Robinson the director is basically the opposite of the director of The Martian. The mise en scene in the picture above has many different parts to it. There are tons of people in the background all looking at Jackie. This helps further the story in my opinion because this is when at the time in his life he was become well known around America and this is how the director chose to portray it in the movie.

In the movie V for Vendetta the mise en scene helps show to background the character and who he really is. In the movie he is a mysterious figure but when it pans to his “lair”. There is priceless art everywhere that has gone missing along with other rare artifacts. This shows what he has done in the past and made him elevate to where he is in the movie.