Django Unchained is one of my favorite movies, a movie set in a time in american history that is often not looked at critical enough. Quentin Tarantino does a spectacular job of making the civil war era not only funny and intriguing, but absolutely terrifying in the fact that that is how humans acted towards one another. The characters completely drive the plot with their unique personalities and wonderful chemistry between eachother. The satirical movie is filled with such realism at times that it does feel real.
The movie is also riddled with metaphors, The story of Django Unchained is basically a re-enactment of the German Story of Brunhilde, Which is referenced many times through out the movie. Django trains as a bounty hunter and travels through a southern hell to retrieve his wife Brunhilde, who is owned by a one Mr. Candy. Just as in the german tale, A man trained as a knight to retrieve the princess Brunhilde ant the top of a mountain surrounded in fire, and protected by a dragon.
Django Unchained is a beautiful mixture of spaghetti western, and classical Quentin Tarantino action movies. Filled with Gun fights and tricky situations, storytelling and romance, comedy and horror, Django Unchained is a very well rounded movie. Also a personal favorite.
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Thursday, November 6, 2014
The Silent Era of Film (Miles Sullivan Film 3rd)
http://youtu.be/qNseEVlaCl4
Films used to be black and white and synced to no sound at all except possibly music. Recording voices was impossible in the earlier stages of the film industry. Silent Films had a very big aspect to them, without voices, the actors and actresses had to exaggerate their actions in order to make a clear story. One of the Most famous film makers of all time, Charlie Chaplin, Started out when film was still silent, and even though his movies wowed the audiences, people grew tired of no voices. With the introduction of a "Vitaphone" system which can record and sync voices to film, Movies began to have words in them, they were known as "Talkies". Talkies became increasingly more and more popular until Silent movies just weren't in the picture anymore. Sadly, It is estimated that over 70% of American Silent Films have been lost forever.
Films used to be black and white and synced to no sound at all except possibly music. Recording voices was impossible in the earlier stages of the film industry. Silent Films had a very big aspect to them, without voices, the actors and actresses had to exaggerate their actions in order to make a clear story. One of the Most famous film makers of all time, Charlie Chaplin, Started out when film was still silent, and even though his movies wowed the audiences, people grew tired of no voices. With the introduction of a "Vitaphone" system which can record and sync voices to film, Movies began to have words in them, they were known as "Talkies". Talkies became increasingly more and more popular until Silent movies just weren't in the picture anymore. Sadly, It is estimated that over 70% of American Silent Films have been lost forever.
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Documentary review
Into The Abyss by Werner Herzog
A documentary looking into a crime case in a small town in Texas. The perpetrators who murdered multiple people just to steal a car are interviewed and so are the families of the victims, and people from the town. In my opinion, This was not a good movie. The creepy police footage was the most interesting part, and I think the creators of the film knew this because it was basically half of the movie. The people interviewed were often uninteresting or dull, and the man interviewing them often talked over them or egged them on emotionally, and that made me uncomfortable as a viewer. The movie dragged on and on and on and was hard to sit through, because everything moved so very slow. Movies need to have contrast throughout the film or it becomes dreadfully boring. It is very hard to sit through an hour and a half of police footage narrated by an extremely foreign accent.
A documentary looking into a crime case in a small town in Texas. The perpetrators who murdered multiple people just to steal a car are interviewed and so are the families of the victims, and people from the town. In my opinion, This was not a good movie. The creepy police footage was the most interesting part, and I think the creators of the film knew this because it was basically half of the movie. The people interviewed were often uninteresting or dull, and the man interviewing them often talked over them or egged them on emotionally, and that made me uncomfortable as a viewer. The movie dragged on and on and on and was hard to sit through, because everything moved so very slow. Movies need to have contrast throughout the film or it becomes dreadfully boring. It is very hard to sit through an hour and a half of police footage narrated by an extremely foreign accent.
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
The Kids Are All Right
The Kids Are All Right
The movie was like watching happy people slowly make their lives worse by mistake. Then In the end, realizing that everything will be eventually all right. This particular film caught my eye due to Josh Hutchinson and Mark Ruffalo's involvement in this family oriented drama with some weird twists. The movie did a great job of portraying a stereotypical family of four, with parents who tend to bicker, or reignite their passion. Plus the kids who make stupid, or not stupid enough decisions. Mark's character donated sperm when he was 19 and a lesbian couple used his sperm to have two kids, those kids want to meet the sperm donor. It should be a quick meeting to just settle the curiosity, but it gets complicated when they decide to start spending time with the Donor, and treat him like a father figure. The dialogue in the movie was very natural and whimsical with nowhere in particular to be. When a valid story point came up, then the camera would seem to focus in more on what was happening. Adding a sense of importance in contrast to most of the short, simple shots the rest of the time. Overall, a querky movie that gave a very early 2000's feel to it, as well as an interesting little story from these peoples lives.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
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