Film Analysis: Brian's Song

The film Drumline is about a freshman, Devon Miles, where he is beginning his college journey at the Historically Black College and University, Atlanta A&T. By earning a full ride to attend the college, his natural talents are noticed by many, but accepted by few. There, Dr. Lee, the musical director, focuses on teaching his students musicianship and character. With Devon noticing that his talents are beneficial, in the sense that it overlooks some of the mischief he does, he begins get into trouble with most of the band, Dr. Lee, and his girlfriend.With the reviews from SBNation.com, Roger Ebert, the Undefeated as support, the audience is shown Devon’s and the rest of the guy’s transformation into becoming young adults. In the film

I chose to do my paper on the movie Sweet Nothing in My Ear. The movie was about a child who was born hearing and ended up going deaf, so his parents had to deliberate on whether or not they wanted to get him a cochlear implant. The wife Laura (played by Marlee Matlin) is deaf and her husband Dan is hearing. The movie is centered around Laura and Dan’s struggle to decide if a cochlear implant is what’s best for their son Adam. It doesn’t help Laura make the decision when her parents are both deaf, and her father is basically prejudiced against the hearing culture.

This paper will review the rock documentary "The Song Remains the Same". This documentary was filmed in July of 1973, a year before I was born. It was released in October of 1976. Filming took place over a three nights at New York City's Madison Square Garden. Although I am too young to have experienced Led Zeppelin live, I have loved this band since high school.

If there is one thing about Kevin Morby’s latest LP, City Music, that immediately leaps out, it’s the sense of playfulness. The album is not light and fluffy by any means, but there is this unflappable feeling of spontaneity and glee that instantly hooks your attention. This is the fourth solo outing from the Babies’ frontman. Like his 2016 effort, Singing Saw, the album is a mixture of folk quiet intensity and some rollicking good rock music. While it never becomes a great disc, it is one of the more thoroughly and consistently pleasant and enjoyable releases of the year.

The Grateful Dead is a movie on an American rock band called “The Grateful Dead”, which was directed by Jerry Garcia and was released in 1977. The Grateful Band was formed in 1965 in California. The band was known for their live performances and their unique style of fusing different elements of music like Country, Jazz, Blues, and Folk. This documentary is basically about the concert experience of this band which includes their interaction with their fans. Their fans who were also called “Deadheads” talked about the band, music and the members of the band. This documentary also featured behind the scenes footage and the basic concert environment when the band was performing. Another feature of this documentary was the interviews with the band

Imagine yourself as not belonging in your own home, never feeling that you belong. The films’ “Canadian-ness” lies in the way the characters and cultural types are expressed in the cinematic features such as the narrative, characterization, setting, dialogue, mise-en-scene and the lighting of both films. Both of these films present main characters searching to find the Canadian dream of success, but are faced with the limitations of their own backgrounds that expose the films’ Canadian styling’s. The main characters in Goin Down the Road (dir. Shebib, 1970) and Double Happiness (dir. Shum, 1994) are all foreigners in their own country and the Canadian narrative brings this out.

The movie is about the first couple years of AIDS, mostly in the United States. It tells the political as well as the scientific struggle that occurred with the discovery of AIDS. The main character Dr. Don Francis heads the research of AIDS with little money and little help. This was because AIDS was considered the “gay man’s disease” and there was more emphasis on who discovered the disease than actually helping those who had it. Basically, the movie was about the government and many other individuals being ignorant and looking the other way because homosexual males were seen as a lesser priority and group.

“A particular type of Non Narrative avant-garde films are the Absolute films, which are completely abstract films”, the films that is nonrepresentational, using form and design to produce its effect and often describable as visual music.

Brian’s Song is a movie which teaches us many life lessons convey that the fact that two men of different races could room together and become friends is a major theme in this film. It was successful because no matter the racial discrimination and the competition of the two men, nothing compares to the loyalty of true friends.

The Music Redub was an interesting project. At first it seemed straight forward and easy, but as I began thinking about the the Film School movement and how the great directors used their film history knowledge to format something new, I realized that great attention to detail, editing, and music choice, all influence the final film product. My Music Redub marries the ending scene of Tommy Boy with Tommy in the sailboat saying goodbye to his father with the theme music to Jaws. The twist of having the heavy Jaws theme paired with the lighthearted Tommy talking to his father changes the whole feel of the scene.

Ben Haggerty, with the stage name of Macklemore, is an American rapper that was born in Seattle, Washington. Teaming up with Ryan Lewis, Macklemore is an exceptional artist. One of their albums, The Heist, at one point reached number 2 of the week in October, selling over 78,000 copies. At one point in 2013, Macklemore was featured by Music Choice in a new series that was featuring emerging artists. Macklemore has been an extremely successful artist in general.

The movie, And the Band Played On, explores the origin of the AIDS virus and how it spontaneously spread across the world. The world was not prepared to handle such a contagious outbreak. Doctors and scientists assumed the first cases of AIDS to be just an abnormality of a certain disease. This film illustrates various significant points, such as the beginning of AIDS cases, the misconceptions that resulted, and the panic it aroused amongst doctors, common people, and the government. What is the most bothersome is the government’s carelessness of this matter, which largely contributed to the spread of this disease.

Monty Python’s Life of Brian is more than just a mere comedy; it is a Biblical, religious, and political satire. Like all Python films, Life of Brian seems to educate the viewer while at the same time providing entertainment. Unfortunately not all of the elements in Life of Brian occurred in real life, which takes away from the validity of the plot. While not everything is accurate, it seems that a majority of the film could be considered genuine. In order to understand an analysis of the film, one must first have a basic sense of the plot.

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.

Money is the best motivator in the country. In the movie Sing it shows how using a cash reward will generate more participants in the talent show. The movie is about a koala, Mr. Moon, who owns a failing theatre. In an attempt to generate more revenue to pay off his bank debts he decides to host a singing competition and offers a prize of one thousand dollars to the winner. His secretary accidently puts one hundred thousand dollars on the fliers. Before they could be looked over, the fliers fell out of the window and landed all around town. The next day a ton of auditioners showed up. When the one hundred-thousand-dollar reward is brought up Mr. Moon doesn’t correct them with the right amount since it was because of the enormous cash prize that so many participants came out. Though Sing is a cartoon movie, there are many different versions of this type of show in real life such as American Idol. Fear factor is another example of an American television show that portrays the crazy things people will do for money. This movie shows how important money is by the characterization and setting; through this it reflects America’s love for money.