Oscar-winning film for Best Sound Editing, ‘American Sniper’, is known for its high-packed action scenes filled with gunfire and war. However, these sounds of gunfire were not easy to create. Sound supervisors Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman were responsible for delivering the sounds to the director, Clint Eastwood. They made sure to deliver a very realistic documentary approach to...
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In ‘A Beautiful Mind’, they attempt to depict the triumph and struggles of a Nobel-Prize-winning mathematician whose mind was brilliantly flawed. The film provides an insight into various aspects of society, including the great competitiveness that exists among academic scholars, the reality and difficulties of marriage, as well as the world of schizophrenia. John Nash’s struggle with schizophrenia, which is...
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Addictions are common among the public. For example, from substances, medications, and liquor to addictions like sex, betting, and eating disorders like anorexia nervosa and bulimia. Somebody in your work or companion circle has battled with fixation. Addiction advising takes learning and tolerance from advisors. I have connected the information from the course of this addiction to ‘28 Days’ featuring...
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When I remember growing up, I wasn’t much of a reader, despite having a mom who has probably read every book ever written. Reading isn’t the butter to my bread. I got distracted by my phone when I got my first iPhone in year 6, reading didn’t feel important to me anymore. I had just turned 11, and I was...
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One of Sicily’s prominent filmmakers, Giuseppe Tornatore, transcended the Italian film industry by breaking the conventional, stereotypical and ordinary. On the 17th of November 1988, Cinema Paradiso was released and it is a product of his creativity that helped the Italian cinema to its peak. The film follows the life story of a notable film director Salvatore di Vita who...
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Black and White Flashbacks: Looking Our Racist in the Eye In the film, American History X, he portrays the profound message of how prejudice and hatred can change people and bring them closer together. Shows how “hate is baggage and life’s too short to be pissed off all the time.” Although hard to watch the film American History X, the...
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‘The Lovely Bones’ by Peter Jackson is a film which has an unpleasant character called George Harvey. The director utilizes the character of Susie his victim, the character of George Harvey, key scenes, and the setting to create this unpleasant character. Susie Salmon is a 14-year-old girl from Norristown, Pennsylvania whom her neighbor murders at the start of the film....
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Poetic and lyrical compositions often employ the use of a variety of techniques to communicate their core themes and messages to the audience. In this case, the pastoral poem of ‘The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ by Christopher Marlowe holds a close correlation to a contemporary song by Billy Joel named ‘Only the Good Die Young’, where both of the...
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Masculinity can be defined as attributes that are considered to be characteristic of men. The basic definition may seem harmless, but the way in which masculinity is performed can have a negative effect. Media uses masculinity to display its superiority over the genders and patriarchal views. Music videos such as ‘Blurred Lines’, written and recorded by Robin Thicke featuring T.I....
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In the video ‘Tough Guise 2’, Jackson Katz explains the violent masculinity in domestic violence, video games, movies, manhood, and media. He also argues that men are not violent as most people think. In today’s world, men and young boys are taught to ‘man up’ and act tough. Violence is a man's issue, therefore, men are taught by people who...
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Introduction Elton John's tribute to Marilyn Monroe, encapsulated in the song "Candle in the Wind," stands as one of the most poignant and enduring musical homages of the 20th century. Released initially in 1973 on the album "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," the song reflects the ephemeral nature of fame and the personal struggles that accompanied Monroe's life. John's collaboration with...
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'Fight Club’ (1999), directed by David Fincher, remains to be a volatile encapsulation of the zeitgeist on the eve of the 2000s, underlining white-collar melancholy mourning the loss of manhood. The film has been interpreted in vastly differing lights – some identify it to be a film that critiques hegemonic norms of white masculinity, but also one that perpetuates a...
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‘Thelma and Louise’, written by Callie Khouri and directed by Ridley Scott, is a drama and mystery film released in 1991. It was a remarkable film at the time, given that it had two strong female leads. It is very representative of the second and third waves of feminism. Although this was not the only film or show displaying feminist...
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Steven Spielberg's 1993 action, adventure-filled, science-fiction thriller follows Dr. Alan Grant and Dr. Ellie Sattler. John Hammond discovers a mosquito frozen in tree sap from millions of years ago and gets the blood that the mosquito took from animals. He discovers that the mosquito had been carrying dinosaur DNA, so he then uses the DNA to create living dinosaurs. This...
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Music can possibly change a state of mind and mood, and empower idiosyncratic behavior and views in society. Actually, the normal American tunes into four hours of music every day! Simply envision what sort of effect music is having on our feelings for the duration of the day, regardless of whether we deliberately acknowledge it or not. So, to put...
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Technology is the booming era of constant evolution. Technology has always been a topic of new ideas and new inventions. Technology has played a major role in how our society today functions the way it does, and in the evolution of music in our generations. Technology has been and will keep evolving with our times, especially music. It has led...
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The movie ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’ is a true-life story following the life of a young boy named William. The life of a young man in Malawi, growing up at the time when poverty struck in the country. At the time William was growing up in his village, people were still very conservative of their culture and didn’t...
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The film ‘Pleasantville’, directed by Gary Ross, highlights the nostalgic perspectives of the present century looking back into the 1950s, known as the ‘Golden Age,’ where society was known to be a structured and simple lifestyle. Ross has positioned the audience to reject the idea of this constructed and idealized view of society, using parallels to the 1950s and Pleasantville,...
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Individual human experiences are fundamentally modulated by the values of the collective, by which individual and shared beliefs determine human behavior, emotions, and motivations. As such, the value and meaning in people’s lives are dependent on collective human assumptions and ideas, prompting personal reflection to which an individual can weigh and assess the value and meaning of things, as well...
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In the movie ‘Gandhi’, Gandhi marries a girl at the age of thirteen. As he follows the death of his fathers, he was sent to England to study law. He became very interested in the philosophy of non-violence, but he didn’t fulfill the decree of law. That’s when he came back home and got into it with the British, he...
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Whether it be through voices or instruments, music has always played an important role in mankind. Throughout time, music has evolved, and today music is split up into many different genres and sub-genres. Two extremely popular genres of music are pop and hip-hop. Pop is usually defined as music that is ‘catchy’ and ‘likable’. The genre covers a wide range...
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Movies about terminal illnesses mirror a very vital part of life that humans love to shy away from. It reveals to us a scary reality that awaits some of us. Though most people don’t want to look into this mirror, death, after all, is something that we all are going to face sometime in the future. What these kinds of...
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“On Wednesdays we wear pink!”. This is a phrase that most teenage girls know by heart. This iconic phrase belongs to the 2004 released movie ‘Mean Girls’. This film, directed by Mark Waters, stars Lindsay Lohan as the main character, Cady, who along with the other characters portrays the theme of reflection. Through the exhibition of the consequences of being...
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The filmmakers of the movie ‘McFarland, USA’ were trying to impart several lessons by filming the story of Jim White and his team, which competed for cross-country championships in the United States. One of the significant lessons from the movie is never to give up on what you want and put a lot of hard work into what you do....
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Textual analysis is a way of understanding languages, symbols, and pictures for presentation in texts, designed to gain information about how people understand and communicate life and life experiences. Visual, written, or verbal messages provide clues about how to understand communication. Moreover, it is a way for those researchers who want to understand the ways in which members of various...
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Genre theory is utilized to explore films and place them into a category, so people are aware of what genre of film it is before seeing it. Genres are classifications based on the tale of the movie. All movies belong to a genre or sub-genre type. One of the better well-known but missed genres is a romantic comedy. The cheesy...
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‘Mise-en-scene’, translated from French, means ‘placing on stage’; it refers to the surroundings in the frame of a film or the arrangement of actors and scenery on a stage for a theatrical production. Professor and author, John Gibbs, has contributed a large amount of comprehension and ideas in the world of film and media, specifically with his insightful book ‘Film,...
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‘The Lion King’ is a 2019 American musical film and a remake of Walt Disney Production's classic animated film that had come with the same name in 1994. ‘The Lion King’ is a photorealistic computer-animated film that is directed and produced by Jon Favreau, while the writer of this film is Jeff Nathanson, and the distributor is Walt Disney Pictures....
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Many parents forbid their children to play computer games because they think they are bad for them. But I believe that computer games are beneficial to our learning and health, as well as being entertaining. Computer games can improve both hand and eye coordination and increase problem-solving skills. Furthermore, some games are a great way to relieve stress and anxiety....
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The world of eSports (electronic sports) is something that can come from as far back as the first computers being made. ESports has finally started to really gain some steam, and grow in popularity over the years. Actually, eSports has finally gotten its player to begin being accepted as athletes in today's world of sports. It has now been even...
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