Scarface

SCARFACE     

Release Date: 9 Dec 1983     

         

Cast:   Al Pacino (Tony Montana)
Steven Bauer (Manny Ray)
Michelle Pfeiffer (Elvira)
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (Gina)
Robert Loggia (Frank Lopez)

Director: Brian De Palma

Writer: Oliver Stone

Producer: Martin Bregman

Distribution
Company: Universal Pictures

Production
Company: Universal Pictures

 

The actors in Scarface are very good that make this movie realistic, it is a good movie and it seem so real and stuff like this actually really happen every day.  The three actors I chose from my film are Al Pacino (Tony Montana), Steven Bauer (Manny Ray), and Michelle Pfeiffer (Elvira).  The type of actor that I got from Al Pacino was the method acting, it seemed that he was actually in the movie using real life experiences.  "Method acting (often known as "the Method") is perhaps the most famous type of acting, and the most often ridiculed and parodied" (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014).

 

Michelle Pfeiffer type of acting is "Stylized acting is used when actors and directors want to call attention to the fact that the actor is, indeed, acting. While this is generally not desirable, sometimes it is"(Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014). In this movie Michelle Pfeiffer is a person who just lets herself get push into being with (Tony Montana) even though she did not want too she still went with him just because he would have killed her if she did not want to go.  She was drug addict so she had nowhere else to go after her husband had got killed, being with Tony Montana would give her the drugs she need. 

 

The acting style that I got from Steven Bauer is stylized acting, him and Al Pacino made this film feel so real like if they had been through things in their past.  Steven Bauer stylized acting character brought too much attention to himself when he was trying to be with Tony Montana's sister, which is what caused him his life.  Tony Montana was a ruthless man he was selfish that is what made him lose everything he work so hard to get.  

 

The mise en scene that were used in this movie were the clubs where is show Tony Montana starting off into the Drug world of Miami. The director use a lot of good props and scene for this movie especially when they went to Colombia to go make a deal with the top drug dealer that Tony Montana was going to deal with is his new venture.

 

Al Pacino has always portrayed a gangster in other films, he does it so good that he kept getting roles as gangster.  In the films previous to Scarface Al Pacino played in the (Godfather), he also portray a gangster in this film as well.

 

Reference

 Goodykoontz, B. & Jacobs, C. P. (2014). Films: From watching to seeing. (2^nd ed.). San Diego

            CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

 

http://www.afi.com/10top10/moviedetail.aspx?id=28&thumb=1


http://youtu.be/2W628Z9vspk

 

The A Team

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THE A TEAM


There are three basic categories of Film sound dialogue, sound effects and music without these three the movie would not be as great to the people. 

Characters talking to one another in films, known as dialogue, is now so much a part of the movie experience that audiences take it for granted.  For example in “My Dinner with Andre may well stand as the purest argument for dialogue in film” (Goodykoontz, & Jacobs, 2014). 

Sound Effect The sound of these explosions simply does not allow the audience to passively watch the film; it serves instead as a rush of adrenaline. For example “In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the hugely successful 2009 sequel to the first Transformers movie, in which cars and trucks are revealed to be aliens who have disguised themselves, the sounds of explosions might as well be a credited member of the cast, so ubiquitous are they” (Goodykoontz, & Jacobs, 2014). 

Music has been a crucial part of the movie going experience since before the advent of recorded sound in films. So important was its use that over time directors began inserting indications for specific music to be played at specific times (Goodykoontz, & Jacobs, 2014).  An Example of music would be when “at the end of Fight Club, director David Fincher's 1999 film about an office drone (Edward Norton) who becomes friends with a soap salesman (Brad Pitt) through underground fighting, we learn that the protagonist's friend is really the protagonist and is a creation of his own imagination” (Goodykoontz, & Jacobs, 2014). 

I chose the A Team to do my analysis, this clip is pretty amazing the sound effects that are being used in this movie makes you adrenaline go up.  It is definitely a rush to see a plane get blown up in midair by some drown planes.

 Having fear of planes makes it interesting because I would be scared out of my heart if this ever happen to me.  The music is very interesting to because it like an action like music very soft and mysterious, so it is kind of scary at the same time because they are fallen from the sky in a tank.

The sound is like an action film genre, well by the looks of the movie you can tell its and action movie.  The sound effects are amazing, in the clip the drone plane is blown up by one of the A Team members and it blows up right in front of his face clearly if this happen in real life he would have got hurt with all that flying debris coming the plane.

 

Reference

Goodykoontz, B., & Jacobs, C. P. (2014). Film: From watching to seeing (2nd ed.). San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

Lighting Effect

The Conjuring






In The Conjuring the cinematographer used low-key lighting to make it a horror film.  "A Low-key lighting is often used for intense dramatic scenes, horror films, mystery thrillers, and the like" (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014).


This films benefit of the lighting style used was very helpful during the movie because it was based in a house that is very old and creepy.  The scenes were also happing at night so it made the movie very scary at all times because of the lighting, there were many dark scene in the movie.  The low key lighting used in this movie which was "marked by extreme use of deep shadows, with very high contrast between the brightest parts of the scene and the darkest parts, which are obscured in shadows" (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014).  It was very intense when the dark scene were shown especially when they were in the basement trying to find the dark soul who was scaring the family, when they were flashing the lights back and forth it was dark then it was lighted up this so intense and it even scared me a little. 


This technique contribute to the theme a lot because it showed very creepy scene throughout the whole movie and plus in was based in the that old house and it was dark when things happen.  For some reason they always based a movie in an old house to make it even scarier for the audience, because old houses are always known for being haunted because it has been there for a long time. 


 The low-key lighting was very suited for this genre of the film just because it is a dark setting that this movie takes place in.  Even when I watch the trailer for the first time I knew that is was a scary movie, just because one of the kids was getting pulled out of bed and no one was visual when it was happening.


If the movie had been used with a different lighting choice it would not have been  a good movie, because if they use the high-key lighting it would not be possible to make those dark scene scary.  "High-key lighting design has very bright light over everything, with few shadows and relatively low contrast between the lightest and darkest parts of the scene. This style of lighting is typical of comedies, happy scenes, institutional and office scenes, and the like" (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014).  Unlike the "low-key lighting where it's design looks dark overall by comparison"


Reference


Goodykoontz, B., & Jacobs, C. P. (2014). Film: From watching to seeing. (2^nd ed.). San Diego,   
 CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

Wall-E

Title: Wall-E

Writer: Andrew Stanton, and Pete Docter

Director: Andrew Stanton

Year: 2008

Actors: Ben Burtt (as voice of Wall-E), Elssa Knight (as the voice of EVE)

Story: The story is about a robot name WALL-E, this robot was design to clean up Earth that was covered by waste in the Future.  He falls in love with another robot named EVE, who also has a programmed task, and follows her into outer space on an adventure that changes the destiny of both his kind and humanity.

Plot:  The movie starts off sometime in the very distant future when Earth was abandon by humanity because a company name multi-national Buy N Large corporation has produced so much trash that is was not able to be lived on it anymore.  WALL-E was left behind to clean up the trash, his mission was to collect trash and make it into cubes so that is can be burned in an incinerator so that Earth could be livable again.  WALL-E was starting to get bored of what he was doing every day, he ended up starting to collect things up from the trash. 

One day the corporation sent another robot down to earth to see if it was able to be lived in again, the robot's name was EVE.  WALL-E saw EVE and fell in love with it and started following all around on earth, then finally one day a ship came back for EVE and this is when WALL-E decided to follow EVE.  WALL-E ended up catching a ride on the ship, when the ship got to the station WALL-E was receive by people that were aboard the ship.  These people were riding around in floating chairs, and eating food from a straw, it was said the reason people were still on ship was because the computer on the ship was holding them hostage.

 

Chronologically:  This movie is in chronological order because it starts of on Earth and it does not go back in time it stay step by step how the plot is going to happen.  It does not end up moving back and forth it show WALL-E just moving along and it stay with him the whole time during the plot.

The character development was very good because it allowed a robot to develop feelings for another robot which made this movie great because robots are not supposed to feel anything.  They are made to do what it is programed to do but in this case it did not.

I believe if it had followed a different presentation style like Non-linearly, it would had started from the present and ended up finishing in the future.  I do not think it would have a general effect on the audience but it seem like it was better when it would be in chronological order, I know I do not really like when they skip around in movies it just loses me throughout the movie.

Reference:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/plotsummary