1.07 Movie Analysis

This demonstrates that his dehumanizing language reflects his deep-rooted prejudice against the Viet Cong. Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore’s disturbing fascination with war and killing the Viet Cong criticizes the violence of war rather than glorifying it. Central to the plot of Apocalypse Now is Captain Willard’s rapidly declining mental state. The film begins with a black screen and sounds of a helicopter whirring, then fades into a mysterious Vietnamese jungle shrouded by fog.

Apocalypse Now stands head and shoulders above any war movie ever made. This movie transcends the war movie genre, and it almost transcends film itself. This movie authentically shows the horror and the moral ambiguity of war, and it takes its characters and the audience on a psychological and nightmarish journey. Also, the characters and the audience are assured they will never be the same after taking that journey.

   Apocalypse Now is a very vivid and sometimes disturbing film centered on the Vietnam War. Because it was based on Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, it is possible to draw some parallels between the two. Both can be interpreted as metaphors for a journey through the inner self, and each has its own singular message to convey. Apocalypse Now very perspicuously depicts the fact that men have hearts of darkness, and it explores the evils of war. At the same time, however, it seemingly glorifies some aspects. The anti-war sequences were often brutal and portrayed destruction as a result of the human condition. The film Apocalypse Now, directed by

The movie Reds, directed Warren Beatty, is about the life of John “Jack” Reed, a communist journalist from America. The movie begins in 1915, when the wealthy Louise Bryant meets Reed in Portland, Oregon. She becomes fascinated by Reed and runs off from her husband to be with Reed in New York. At this time, the two become even more caught up in promoting socialist causes in America as they work alongside people such as anarchist and writer Emma Goldberg. Meanwhile, Bryant is becoming more and more caught up in the sexual revolution that was occurring across America and forging her way as an early feminist. In 1917, Reed persuades Bryant to come with him to Russia to participate in and write about the Bolshevik Revolution where the Socialists and Lenin seized control of the tsarist government. After the Revolution, Reed attempts to bring the ideas of the revolution and communism to America. All the while, kidney problems have plagued Reed and he eventually becomes too ill to continue on and passes away after having reunited with Bryant in Moscow. He goes on to be the only American buried at the Kremlin in Russia.

In the movie, Apocalypse Now, based on the Vietnam War, the director portrays the reality of war, a very traumatic place, and leads viewers through the painful reality that left many warriors with everlasting nightmares and disturbing memories. As is most great war-related films, the overarching message focuses on viewer understanding of the Vietnam War. The director did this by exemplifying the positives and negatives of the war, so that all viewers can learn from these historical events and prevent similar wars in the future. The director uses many literary elements in Apocalypse Now such as setting, characterization, and theme to further the understanding of the message.

When it comes to the film industry, entertainment is the tool used to acquire what is desired, money. The main goal for filmmakers when they create a film is to attain money in addition to the money spent to make the movie. Therefore, in some films that they like to base off of true accounts, it is somewhat necessary to dramatize or embellish the story to really tug at the heartstrings of the films audience. They achieve this goal by the use of dramatic music, ambient lighting, and a small amount of tweaked diction. The Fighter is an excellent example of this dramatization in action because throughout the film the characters are faced with a multitude of decisions that must be made. The choices they make require the characters to choose

Turbo is a movie about a snail named Theo who loves racing and wishes he was fast. He then has his dream come true when he falls into a car engine and has his body filled with nitrous oxide. He then races in the Indy 500 against cars and wins.

The film that is being critiqued is The Help. The Help was released in the theaters in 2011 and is based off the book written by Kathryn Stocketts. This film is set in Jackson, Mississippi, a segregated society, in the 1960s. The main character is a 22 year old Southern society girl, named Skeeter, who is determined to become a writer, coming back from college. Upon her arrival, she notices that her family maid is gone. After a multitude of events take place, she decides to write a book about the relationship between black maids and society. The movie shows how the town reacts to the release of the book and the lives of many of the black maids and the families they served. Throughout this movie, there are many stereotypes, images, and representations of gender, class, and race and demonstrate intersectionality. This paper, will outline these categories are portrayed throughout the film.

are the last lines of Apocalypse Now, the Francis Ford Coppola directed war-film masterpiece, which truly explores horror. Typical war films, like Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket or Boulle’s The Bridge on the River Kwai, follow the camaraderie of a protagonist and his unit and their struggles that build up to a violent and climactic confrontation where both sides sustain losses to illustrate the tragedy of war. Apocalypse Now is different; there are only two moments of brief violence that the main character participates in and he rarely talks with anyone else. The real conflict of the movie is in the mind of the viewer and not on the screen. Apocalypse Now succeeds in its goal of bringing the

A 2011 American Action Film directed by Justin Lin. The movie was written by Chris Morgan. The movie is the 5th film for The Fast and Furious Series. It was first released in Australia on April 20, 2011 and then later released in the United States on April 29, 2011. Cinematography for the movie was put together by Stephen F. Winden. The film was distributed by Universal Pictures.

Part 1 - In American author's 2009 book, The Help, the primary thesis is the relationship between Black maids and white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s. The story is really told from three perspectives, Aibileen and Minny are Black women, both maids, and Skeeter is the nickname of Eugenia Phelan, daughter of a prominent White family. Skeeter has just finished school and hopes to become a writer. In general, the relationship between the Black maids and the White employers is six sided: On one side we have the White employers who have three views: 1) Their personal and private beliefs that can range from extreme scorn and bias to kindness regarding race; 2) Their public persona that must have the "proper" attitude about Blacks and "the help," and 3) Their employer attitude, which is condescending and parental. The Black view also has three segments: 1) Their personal and private beliefs that usually range from understanding not all Whites are the same and an extreme love and empathy for the White children for whom they care; 2) The public persona that is deferential, polite, and stoic to their White bosses; and 3) Their attitude and view among the Black community, which usually separates the "poor and ignorant but rich" White souls from the Black view of family and common sense. All in all, the relationship is contentious, phony, and based on economic advantage.

After collecting data on movie times and the years that they were released, I have concluded that many times have increased as the years have passed, however not all movie lengths are greater than the length of the movies in the 1970’s. I collected a total of 11 movies and their times, two of which being movies from the 70’s. Five of the other movies that I researched were longer than the lengths of the two movies from the 70’s, two of them were within the range, and two of them were lower than the range of the lengths of the two movies. Most of the movies would follow a pattern, but every so often, an outlier would appear in the data. My results are not entirely reliable because did not collect a substantial amount of movies and their times,

Apocalypse Now helps explain the effects of war to viewers through vivid realistic scenes. Throughout the film, Captain Willard, played by Martin Sheen, faces many challenges such as death and insanity on his journey to find the renegade soldier. His team, Chef, played by Frederic Forrest, Clean, played by Laurence Miller, Johnson, played by Sam Bottoms, and Chief Phillips, played by Albert Hall, all show the mental effects of war throughout the trip through the rainforest. Each character experiences some type of trauma weather it be physical or mental. Furthermore, each character is exposed to some type of weakness either being a life ending injury or a psychotic breakdown.

Throughout time, issues with equality have denied groups some of the most basic human rights. A common example of this is the right to one’s own body. The statement that people have the rights his/her own body is very broad and rightfully so. It encompasses things ranging from what clothing they want to wear to whom they have sex with and even what gender they want to be. Within the film Difret, the ideas of gender equality, rape culture, and the right to one’s own body are highly prevalent. They are addressed through the use of a real story about a child who was abducted, raped, and fought to regain her freedom twice - once from her captors and then from the legal systems.

From the setting of the miserable city to the scenes of the murders, the film Seven was inventive, well written, and properly executed. Seven is a perfect combination of a dark style, intense plot, polished acting, and being consistent. The film is about two detectives finding a serial killer who kills using the seven deadly sins. It is one of the darkest psychological thrillers, directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. Fincher and Walker together have created a classic masterpiece which will always keep you on the edge of your seat and begging for more.