A great movie captures the audience by creating a realistic depiction of the life and development of dynamic characters. One magical moment in Pay it Forward, occurs when Mr. Simonet and Arlene kiss for the first time – a distraught mother at rock bottom with alcohol and work, and her son’s astute social studies teacher, turned lovers. Scandalous! The movie Pay it Forward was directed by Mimi Leder, and produced by Warner Brothers Studio in 2000. Pay it Forward has been rated two out of five stars by Rotten Tomatoes, and three and a half out of five stars by IMDb. It tells the story of an eleven-year-old boy, Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) doing a social studies project for his teacher, Mr. Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey) - the …show more content…
One criterion of a good movie is its use of dynamic character development. This can be seen in the scene where Arlene’s ex-husband, Ricky (Jon Bon Jovi) returns home. He becomes drunk and starts verbally abusing Arlene and threatening Trevor. No longer a submissive wife, she quickly throws Ricky out of the house. Arlene has learned to protect herself and her son, rather than please a man. Another example is the development of Mr. Simonet. In the beginning of the movie, he was a harsh teacher who showed little sympathy. Through his relationship with Arlene, Mr. Simonet grows to be compassionate and sympathetic towards the McKinney’s situation. This use of dynamic character development implies a sense of motion and drives the plot. Furthermore, the musical selection for a movie is just as important as the plot. Without music, there would be no suspense or drama. For example, when Trevor is in his room hiding from his parents yelling, he turns on the radio to listen to “Last Resort” by Papa Roach. The song is about wanting to end the internal suffering and agony through self-harm and/or suicide. The lyrics, I'm contemplating suicide 'Cause I'm losing my sight Losing my mind Wish somebody would tell me I'm fine are important to the scene because they convey Trevor’s emotional struggle. Trevor yearns for his mother to be happy and free from Ricky, but Trevor wants to be happy as well. Using music, Robert Townson
Kids for Cash documentary gives an eyebrow raising gesture throughout the film, while unveiling details of stories told by juveniles. Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan sentenced more than two thousand or more juveniles during their terms. Ciavarella and Conahan inherited money through sentencing juveniles to privately owned youth detention centers. Many kids and parents would be affected by their sentencing terms. The Juvenile Law Center received numerous complaints and dug further into cases handled by Ciavarella and Conahan. Which lead to them filing a class action lawsuit against the judges and others involved. The judges were finally put on the radar and exposed to the F.B.I. and I.R.S. Ciavarella and Conahan were being investigated
Each element on its own, has an important role it plays in the creation of a film or movie. In Misery, for example, the choice of music composition used for major scenes in the movie helps to build on the plot, suspense and rising action, on many other scenes, the fast paced music led to nail biting and hair pulling moments. Without the wise choice of the fast-paced string, Classical music, Misery would have not been the psychological thriller it
Throughout the film Do the Right Thing, we continuously observe racial conflict that builds up to such an extreme point that it leads to a fight for power. This movie portrays the struggles and realities of a neighborhood with white and black African American people. This can be seen in many instances for example when Buggin ' Out, Radio Raheem, and Smiley march into Sal 's and demand that Sal change the Wall of Fame. Another vital instance shows the height of power struggle. It is when the huge fight starts in the street and results in Raheem being killed by a white police officer.
Pay it Forward is a movie that deals with many controversial topics such as addiction and poverty in a way that explains how we are able to help solve them. The movie starts out with Eugene Simonet assigning his junior high history class an extra credit opportunity. For the extra credit assignment, they must come up with a way to change the world and to put it into action. Most of the children don’t take the assignment seriously, believing that it is impossible. However, Trevor McKinney takes it upon himself to change the world with a plan he calls “Pay It Forward”. His plan goes on to help many people in the United States, including Jerry, a homeless man whom he helps get off drugs, his mother, Arlene, who is an alcoholic, and Mr. Simonet who has issues with his past. Long after the assignment, Trevor believes that his plan for “Pay It Forward” has failed because he could not get enough people to participate. However, a news reporter from Los Angeles tracks the movement to Trevor, who is in Las Vegas.
The music for psycho is critical to the film as a whole. Each time a character is killed, when the murderer emerges from their hiding place, the high-pitched music strings up the jumpy rhythm, before the rest of the instruments join in. The music sets the tone for almost all the scenes. The shower scene, in which Marion is fatally stabbed, would be nowhere near as effective without its music. Music is also the key to the film due to its ability to build up expectations within the audience and create large amounts of tension and suspense.
The music was fitting for the movie, it added a sense of real feel, like you are there watching them through the struggle. Each of the scenes would have different background music and sounds. While they
Book and movie Review “The Giver” book and the movie capture the attention of its audience easily. There are many similarities, but a lot differences too. In the movie they changed some things to make them more dramatic, but kept some of the events the same as the book. Although the movie represents better the idea of how “Sometimes the cost of perfection is too high,” the book shows more details about how the community looks like.
Based off of Kathryn Stockett’s 2009 novel, The Help is a movie told from an African American’s point of view during the early 1960’s in Jackson, Mississippi. The three main characters include, Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson, and Eugenia (Skeeter) Phelan. Skeeter is a young writer who has recently returned from the University of Mississippi. She has been advised by the Elaine Stein, who is the head editor at Harper & Row, to write about a topic she is passionate about, that way she can continue her dream of becoming a serious writer. In addition, Skeeter accepts a writing job down at the Jackson Journal where she writes a housekeeping column. Ironically, she has no housekeeping experience as she grew up with in house help. In order to keep her job she goes to Aibileen, her friend Elizabeth Leefolt’s housekeeper. At this point in her life, Aibileen is just trying to get by. She writes out her prayers on a daily basis as a way to clear her mind since she is fairly reserved on the outside. On the contrary, Aibileen’s friend Minny is also a housekeeper, but she has a rather sharp tongue which doesn’t usually work in her favor. Consequently, she is trying to find a new employer, but is having trouble since there is a bit of discord between her and the most influential socialite in Jackson, Mississippi.
While Martin Luther King Jr. was locked up in a jail he received a letter from eight clergymen. They reached out to King in a letter that is called “A Call for Unity.” In this letter, they are telling king that people needed to stand up and try to make a change by peaceful protesting to get their point across (“A Call for Unity”). King then replies to their letter with a letter of his own which is known as “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” King states that he gets a lot of letters and doesn’t reply to them but he thought that the clergymen meant good so he would try to answer their questions to the best of his ability (King). Also in the letter, he focuses on what is going on in Birmingham at the time and tells about himself and how he oversaw a lot of planning comities (King). In the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” King uses three main ways to connect with the audience of the letter and those are ethos, pathos, and logos.
Henry David Thoreau once said, “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” Transcendentalists were often less concerned with what they saw in front of them, and more concerned on what it meant. Transcendentalism is certainly about forgetting the literal meaning of things and taking into account the divinity of them. Thoreau’s impression of this genre shows up regularly in his works. Henry David Thoreau’s independence and time with Emerson strengthened his as a transcendentalist as shown in Walden and “A Winter’s Walk.”
The same applies to a dramatic scene where the music may be deep and frantic to convey to the audience the feeling of anticipation. A scene i would like to focus on is the scene in which Garry and his father have a final ‘showdown’, if you will, at the front of the house. The scene consists of the father imposing himself on Garry and proceeding to continually beat him down time after time only for Garry to rise up and face his father on each occasion. This scene evoked a feeling of pride and admiration from the audience as to Garry’s courage and determination to convey the message to his father that he is ready to stand on his own two feet and defy him. This is a very powerful scene within the movie which initiated powerful emotions within the audience. All of this was accomplished with the notable absence of music of any form. The omission of music in this scene created an atmosphere in which the dramatic affect was amplified due to the silence.
Music has played a major role through out the entire film. It is used as a
This clearly explains the significance of music and the role that has in motion pictures. Music has to match the emotions that the actors are showing and the environment they are in. If fail to do so, the movie could be a dreadful thing to watch.
What is the subconscious mind? In simple words, it is the part of your brain that has all memories and thoughts kept within it. These thoughts and memories are not in your conscious mind at that point in time, but they are still part of your mind. The subconscious is used to store all sorts of things in your daily life from your habits, to your memories and experiences in different situations.
The music helped in elaborating this great film. As I mentioned in class different instruments helped create different moods for different scenes in the movie. We heard the cello and the violin to create sadness and remorse. The flute created eeriness and the trumpet created awareness. I thought these were instruments and tools that help make this film extraordinary.