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Since the last century, the City of New York has been epicenter of the entertainment industry. Its neighborhoods and the many emblematic places such as The Empire State building or the Statute of Liberty have been part of the most ambitious films. Accordingly, New York City is one of the famous metropolises around the world. Besides the attractions and places that belong to this urban jungle, its undeniable fame is due to its appearance as an arena in production films. One of my favorites movies filmed in New York City is “Carlito’s Way”. Carlito’s Way, starring Al Pacino, tells the story of Carlito Brigante, a Puerto Rican ex-convict who has been behind the bars for five years. After his release, he come back to his neighborhood and wants to stay away from illegal activities but his shady past of drug dealings haunts him. In the movie, he finds himself trapped by his …show more content…
At first the Spanish Harlem or also called “El Barrio”. An unsafe neighborhood with social issues that remains up to day as one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in New York where the story for the movie begin (Nelson). Later, we can observe the famous subway of the city of New York, that is one of the most used mass transportation in the world operating in a 24/7 basis with 34 lines and 469 stations around the five boroughs(Itzkowitz). And lastly, the Grand Central Station is captured in the film, which is one of the busiest train stations in the world serving every day around 200,000 commuters (NYC Tourist) In conclusion, from my perspective, the movie is presented in the middle 70’s, showing a portrayal of a City of New York overcrowded. The violence presented is the primary ingredient, drugs, betrayals and murderers are also included in this film that shows the city from a perspective of the streets and the world of the mafia, probably something that happened in those days and remains part of an unseen
The movie begins in New York, in 1843, with a gang fight. Bill “the butcher” Cutting’s gang of “nativists” have challenged the “dead rabbits” (a gang of mostly Irish immigrants) to a fight to settle once and for all who is the most powerful gang in the area. After an intense battle the “nativists” win by killing the leader of the “dead rabbits”, also Amsterdam’s (the main character’s) father.
Picture Manhattan in 1860, a time before the city had been dolled up and gotten ready for the silver screen, before the glamour and allure took over. Amsterdam Vallan (DiCaprio) is a young Irish man that migrates to the USA at a young age. Amsterdam’s story takes place in Five Points District of New York, a filthy and dangerous part of the city before it was deleted form history. As a young boy Vallan witnessed his father’s murder at the hand of William Cutting or Bill the Butcher (Day-Lewis) during one of their many gang wars. As Amsterdam’s story progresses along side The Butcher they become inseparable, but Amsterdam had ulterior motive. Ultimately, Amsterdam attempts to betray his new found ally in order to avenge his father’s death. Historical accounts of events are almost always synthesized by the storyteller; in the case Gangs of New York Martin Scorsese tells of Five Points, The Dead Rabbits Riots, and The Draft Riots, but is his fictional story accurate through history?
Aside from its acting, the other major influence which Mean Streets had upon American film-makers was through it's use of a rock n' roll soundtrack (almost perfectly integrated with the images), and in its depiction of a new kind of screen violence. Unexpected, volatile, explosive and wholly senseless, yet, for all that, undeniably cinematic violence. The way in which Scorsese blends these two - the rock and roll and the violence - shows that he understood instinctively, better than anyone else until then, that cinema (or at least this kind of cinema, the kinetic, visceral kind) and rock n' roll are both expressions of revolutionary instincts, and that they are as inherently destructive as they are creative. This simple device - brutal outbreaks of violence combined with an upbeat soundtrack - has been taken up by both the mainstream cinema at large and by many individual `auteurs', all of whom are in Scorsese's debt - Stone and Tarantino coming at once to mind.
At the start of the film was to the camera goes through the streets of
The Godfather is most notably one of the most prolific films of its time. This "gangster" film displayed many transformations of permeating color to give the viewer observable cues in its mise en scene that drew one right into the movie. The dramatic acting set the tone of the film with a score that lifted the viewer right out of their seat in many scenes. The directing and cinematography made The Godfather ahead of its time. The nostalgic feel of family importance and the danger of revenge lets us into the life of the Mafia. Even though no other techniques would have given the viewer a feeling of inside the mob like the mise en scene of the power the godfather held, the characters are reinforced literally and figuratively because the story views the Mafia from the inside out, and the cinematography of the film gives it a dangerous and nostalgic feel.
Specifically, Riis’ photos speak to the overwhelming violence and crime that took place in the Lower East Side in the 1880s. To put it simply, Riis made the decision to publish this book in order to document crime in this area as well as bring attention to the horrible living conditions. As stated by the Tenement Museum, “Rather than blame the poor for these deplorable conditions, he asserted that the environment itself contributed to poverty.” Additionally, the prior theory to Riis’ was that the poor were to blame for their own suffering. However, the Progressive Era soon challenged this notion by examining the economic structure at the time. Author Clayton Patterson comments on the issue of the time: “Two decades ago New York’s loss of housing and jobs, and increase in violence and drugs, created an unforeseen crisis in the Lower East Side, setting the stage for political, social and artistic upheaval.” All of this corruption and turmoil for the citizens eventually affected New York greatly in later years to come. However, focusing on the 1880s and 1890s, lots of gangs were emerging partially due to the influx of immigrants. Cultures clung and stuck together, traveling as one and competing with one another for territory. The tension was prominent, especially among gangs such as the Jewish gang, the Black Hand, and an Italian gang also known as the
The film outlines crooked cops from the perspective of the cops involved and the drug dealer they decided to work for. The film is set in Brooklyn, New York where officer’s Michael Dowd and Kenny Eurell worked for the 75th precinct which serves that specific area. Michael Dowd joined in 1982, during which time criminal activity in the area was at an all-time high. Cop killings were prevalent and officers were only making a salary in the low 30’s which was barely enough to support a man with a family and a mortgage. An expensive taste for life made it merely impossible
The New Hollywood era occurred in the seventies that, “…signified generational change as well as a nod toward the influence and artistic ambitions of the ‘New’ European cinemas of the 1950s and 1960s” (Kirshner, 2). This era, also referred to as the American New Wave, thrived on films that represented, “…the political, social, and cultural concerns of its day” (Kirshner, 3). The Godfather: Part II, Chinatown, and The Conversation are three films made in the New Hollywood era that represent those certain characteristics.
The movie is about A mother that leaves her son in Mexico and she goes to the Unites States of America illegally so she could work and her son could have a better life. Her son stayed with his grandma for 4 years until she died, when she died he decided to cross the border so he could go with his mom. Once he was able to cross the border he had different difficulties trying to look for his mom, while looking for his mom he found his dad that he had never met and he asked him if he could take him to Los Angeles so he could be with his mom, his father told him he would, but he never showed up. He met a guy along the way and he decided to help him find his mom, once they arrive in Los Angeles they were caught by the police buy the guy help the
3. Throughout the movie, it was apparent that Dr. Francis and Dr. Gallo, displayed the same objective of wanting to discover the cause of AIDS; however, in terms of critical thinking, it’s obvious that they utilize different styles of critical thinking. To further explain, in one segment of the movie, Francis compares and correlates already known viruses that cause cancer, damage t-cells, and exhibit the same symptoms with what he thinks might be the cause of AIDS. However, Francis is comparing his fields of expertise in which he already knows and thinks might be true, not with what has been scientifically proven; therefore, he is using wishful thinking, a speed bump of critical thinking. There are also times in the movie, where Francis thinks
The director Antoine Fuqua vision for this film was to bring that intense love-hate relationship onto the big screen and showcase it for the world to see. To ensure a convincing film setting, Fuqua shot on location in some of the most hardcore neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Fuqua also wanted to show the daily struggles of officers tasked to work in the rougher neighborhoods of cities and how easy it can be to get caught up in a street life filled with killers and drug dealers. Overall the film displayed the city of Los Angeles in a different perspective. One which m...
The Importance of Being Earnest film produced in 2002 compares to the original version reveal different changes. The change modify the motion which the author would like to transmit in the original document. The important changes are the modification of some stage of direction. The actors changed some stages of direction and created their own. The second change is skipping of some sequences. The actor of the film choose to ignore some sequences which were in the original version. Moreover, the actors added some stages which were not in the preview version. The other point is the incapacity of transmitting all the motion which we can perceive in the reading. Finally, the actors did not show enthusiasm in their performance as we can feel it in
In this episode, New York City is portrayed in a very noir fashion, with the episode almost exclusively taking place at night. This echoes the way New York City was represented in “The Angels Take Manhattan”.
There are some media that show the hardships that the city and the people of New York go through, which brings the true image of the city to light. Others like Sex and the City that uses only certain parts of the city but very rarely do these parts focus on the things a big city would normally bring, it seems to focus on mostly good qualities. This show is unsuccessful in portraying the real New York because even if the show is in the city very little attention is on it throughout the city. Some media lets us see the opposite of this American Dream, even if it is just a glimpse into that unwanted life; that even when all hell breaks loose we still want to keep this image, the perfect life, the only thing we recognize as what New York is. The show displays only the women’s life, is does not really go into detail on what the city ...
As the 1920’s came to a close and America was in the midst of the Great Depression, a new genre of film was becoming popular. With 1928’s Lights of New York the “gangster” film genre as we know it today was born. Little Caesar and The Public Enemy (1931) were also highly influential and set the scene for the modern gangster film. The culmination of the gangster genre came about a year later. Howard Hawks’ Scarface (1932), is one of the boldest and most political gangster films ever made. Many changes were made by industry censor boards due to the diabolical nature of the film. Most notably, all scenes that contained shots of blood were removed and a subtitle was tacked onto the film denoting it as Scarface: The Shame of the Nation. Considered