Most people during the MTV Movie Awards were freaking out about Superheroes and Wizards, well not this guy.* Last night we got a sneak peak at the upcoming Kaiju film, Kong: Skull Island.
A special behind the scenes clip aired from the set of Kong Island during the pre show for the MTV Movie Awards featuring Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hiddilson and a metric butt load more superstars that are helping to bring the latest incarnation of the King of the Apes to life. The film focuses on a small group of individuals who head to an island…a… Skull Island, if you will. Why you might ask are these people headed into unknown areas… well adventure of course, what other reason is there? From the title I can tell you they probably run into a pretty big
Pans labyrinth is an intense movie of a young girl struggles to break free of the restraints of being a child and the cruelties of living through Spanish fascism. Pans labyrinth is anything but your ordinary ‘time filling’ movie. It has great depth and an intricate web of occult and archetypal symbols. Guillermo del Toro, the director, does not shy away from exposing the harshness of reality and the intertwined fantasy. This one of a kind movie gives you a rare moment to see the world with a different light. You begin to appreciate the beauty of Mother Nature and life. It brings up the question of have people living in the materialistic world of the 21st century lost sight of what is real. The movie’s compelling storyline, rich
Close Encounters of the Third Kind was written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The story first starts off with a group of scientist that discover a bunch of perfect condition fighter planes in the desert that went missing in 1945. After that, a couple of commercial flights reported seeing a strange bright light, that they could not describe to ATC in Indiana. Widespread power outage hits Indiana and an electrical lineman, Roy Neary had an encounter with a UFO while driving. He chases the UFO’s until he runs out of road. While this is going on, a little boy named Barry follows the UFO’s out of his house after all his toys started turning on by themselves. His mother Gillian chases after him until she
The Revenge of the Whale, New York Times bestselling author by Nathaniel Philbrick, takes place on a tiny island off of Massachusetts called Nantucket during a hard period in the whaling business. During the 1800s of the whaling industries, it was an enormous task to catch whales for their oil and it was especially popular in Nantucket which was known as “...the whaling capital of the United States.” We meet 21 interesting characters throughout the book. Owen Chase is our protagonist who was the first mate of the Essex whaleship. Even though their ship tipped over, they also used their whaleboats too often. Chase persuaded Pollard, the captain of the ship, to keep sailing which was a dreadful idea. But when a giant whale rammed into the side
Jen, in the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, has the idea of freedom. Being the daughter of a leader in Beijing, she has the pressure of getting married and being noble, but she refuses and wants her say and freedom. She has a fear of foresight in the movie. She is faced with many obstacles, and Jen, in the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, has the idea of freedom. Being the daughter of a leader in Beijing, she has the pressure of getting married and being noble, but she refuses and wants her say and freedom.
The theme of the film would be the plot or the character of the film and series. I think this because there’s a lot happens which would make the theme about plot or character. For Plot, they have all the action and the interesting things that happen throughout the movies of The adventures of Indiana Jones. He would seek lost relics and ancient artifacts that can be way too powerful for humanity to manipulate. Such as the nazis try to use the artifacts to their own greedy reasons. These things would fit for the theme plot. But it can also be character. Indiana Jones is an archaeologist that seeks many artifacts and relics. Yet some of those relics can change the future of humanity or potentially destroy everything. Throughout the movies, Indiana
The film “Pan’s Labyrinth” is a cinematic masterpiece of 2006, directed and written by Guillermo del Toro. Although the film is considered partly within the fantasy genre, several of the themes within the film reflect certain historical realities of post-civil war Spain. Themes of reality versus fantasy, gender roles, and children and war are developed within the film.
The movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is a historical fiction. It occurs some time in China under a dynasty. Some of the events that happened in this movie relate to some of the material that we covered in class. One event that happened was when Jen and her family travels through the desert and were attacked by Lo and his Dark Cloud on horses. In my interpretation, I believe that Lo and his gang of bandits, displayed some similarities to The Mongols. As seen in the movie, they rode and fought on horses, were nomadic, and lived by raidings, which are things that Mongols are known for. They use horses for mobility and height against their enemies. When Lo and Jen are in Lo’s cave, he assumes that she is part of a Han dynasty, but she corrects
The theme of this film is all about discoveries. Throughout most of the movie, the main protagonist Indiana Jones is getting or looking for treasure. At the beginning of the movie Indiana Jones was first getting this golden skull looking this but he got it stolen from himself. More later in the movie Jones then starts to look for the lost ark which is something that is not supposed to be discovered by man but Jones manages to find it before the evil nazi men have the chance to. All this evidence helps me conclude that the theme of this movie for sure is about finding stuff and making discoveries. I believe the filmmakers who made Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark was trying to teach us how to be adventures and to go outside and make small
When taking the time to examine the characters of Annette Reille, from the play, and Nancy Cowan, from Carnage, it is easy to find their likenesses, but there are also some noticeable differences. One of the main reasons for all of these differences is merely different interpretations of the character by different readers. For example, the tone in which certain lines are said or in the way a certain action is portrayed can change the whole personality of a character. When reading, the reader portrays each of the characters as he/ she believes them to be, but then another reader could have a difference of opinion and change the whole attitude; this was the case if you consider the readers to be myself and Kate Winslet.
First off, I love Mathias Clasen’s paper, about people becoming reanimated corpses or zombies. I would not know what I would do if my Mom become an undead monster, or worse, what if my father, who passed away six years ago, came back from the grave. Could I bring myself to kill them, (well kill my dad again because he already dead) or tie them up, lock them in my basement and just go to see them, like the movie, Shaun of the Dead. The dynamic questions come into that what are monsters within and without. Clasen talks about zombies being “dull creatures” and having one life goal, “to eat fresh and brains” (3) compared to vampires or werewolves, who retain their intelligence. Compared this cultures and looking from the outside on taboo monsters that are alive monsters (aliens, killer sharks, or killer humans), the undead breaks the code of
The Call of Cthulhu is a horror story that is able to break through and cause terror. The horror comes from forcing the reader to witness awful and unexplainable things happen to the characters in the story, especially without the ability to prevent the misfortunes from happening. It becomes terror because Lovecraft places the entire story in our reality rather then a fictional setting. Becuase of this, we are forced to relate the story’s events to our physical world. It inflicts a sense of danger by insinuating that the forces in the story exist around us. Lovecraft is able to effectively place the imaginary story in our physical world by arming the story in science and logic, using familiar references and locations, and makes you an unofficial
Is the movie, “Mad Max: Fury Road” actually a feminist action film? This is the question that Jay Chatterjee and James Sakai had been debated about. Both authors, Chatterjee and Sakai have different opinions whether Mad Max is, or not worthy to be considers as a feminist action movie. Both writers have similar views that Mad Max is an incredible movie, however one writer have difference goals and priorities towards the movie.
There is no doubt that everyone has the passion to explore and visit new places around the world.
I am reading The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett and I am on page 200 out of 1000 in this book. This book is a medieval novel that takes place during thee 11th century and is about the building of one of the most important structures of the time, a Cathedral. The pillars of the Earth title refers to the pillars of the cathedral; however I believe there are better suiting titles for this book such as, The prologue of Macbeth, The Medieval Accords of the Construction of a Cathedral, or The Endeavors of an 11th Century Human. First, The prologue of Macbeth is an appropriate title.
The Nightmare Before Christmas is a stop motion animation and a great movie to watch with family. The movie is set in a world with different festivals behind doors… Easter, Christmas, Halloween etc. The movie itself has scary creatures. Characters that can take off their own heads and limbs!