Audience, I’ve come to bargain. Doctor Strange is one of the greatest superhero movies of all time. Sporting a stellar cast, remarkable visual effects and a fast-paced, action-packed story, Doctor Strange has all of the tools for a successful movie. The title role of Stephen Strange is portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch, mostly well known for portraying Sherlock Holmes in the BBC series Sherlock, and Khan Noonien-Singh in the movie Star Trek: Into Darkness. The movie follows Strange and his arc, going from an arrogant, yet skilled, surgeon to a humble shell of a man after a car accident causes nerve damage to his hands, making him unable to operate. Cumberbatch brings a certain likability to the role of Strange, and he grounds the audience …show more content…
Not only are the effects on display a tremendous accomplishment in CGI, the brilliance of the mind-bending world allows for the movie to get creative with its action set pieces. These include a chase sequence through the streets of New York and a fistfight in Hong Kong that takes place while time is moving backwards. The emphasis on the effects also makes the trippiness of Doctor Strange seem that much more psychedelic, as the inclusion of the Dark Dimension literally adds another dimension to the movie, as well as the complete visual character of Dormammu, an otherworldly space entity who resides in the Dark Dimension as the dread leader and wishes to merge Earth with his world. The Doctor’s “Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain!” could also be described as one of the best sequences in any superhero movie ever made, if only based off of its cleverness. But as well as doing a more than satisfactory job of finding a balance between magic and opening portals to other dimensions, Cumberbatch and company find a way to open portals to many more possibilities across the Universe. This is a helpful asset to the MCU, as being based off of a series of comic books, the Universe has many more stories that they can tell with this character beyond Doctor …show more content…
While Strange begins in the movie as an arrogant, top of the line surgeon, he quickly begins to realize that there is more to the world than he knows. This leads Mr. Doctor on a path to humbleness and a quest to expand his mind, funny enough, as well as his possibilities. While the movie prompts questions about mortality, Kaecilius and his antagonistic squadron of ‘Zealots,’ fanatical students of the mystic arts who turn to him as their leader in order to further their knowledge and abilities, are disillusioned by Dormammu. But as Strange learns how to come to terms with his own mortality and begins to realize that other people are just as important as he is, he overpowers Dormammu through sheer wit and determination (as well as persistence!), banishing the Dark Lord from returning to Earth and proving that he has what it takes to be Sorcerer Supreme. Strange’s moral compass is a grandous support for the structure of the movie. First, Strange is arrogant. Next, he is begging to be taught the matters of the mystic arts. Finally, Strange understands what his destiny is, and he accepts
In the movie there were particular characters who played their roles very convincingly. One of them, Uncle Quentin, was portrayed as an absent minded professor who was extremely scholarly and brilliant with matters of mathematics and science however was befuddled by everyday occurrences such as paying bills, excitable children and barking dogs. He was usually shouting at the other characters and constantly bumbling into walls and doors. This portrayed him in a humorous light and audience members would be drawn into the portrayal of this socially inept genius and the exchanges between him and other characters in the
Braff himself has a warm, easy-to-watch screen presence. He can say nothing during the lull in a conversation, while the camera remains focused on his face, and it feels right. Portman and Sarsgaard are also genuine, each wonderfully relaxed in their roles. Production design is superb: details in every scene are arranged well, and the photography, by Lawrence Sher, is - like the story and the acting – unpretentious, never distracting, tricky or cute. This film never seems to manipulate us; instead it engages us, arouses our curiosity and amusement, bids us gently to care about Andrew and Sam and even Mark, leaving us entertained in the best sense. This movie is as confident, as secure in itself, as comforting, as a well worn pair of house slippers or your favorite reading chair. A splendid film. Grade: A- (09/04)
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Besides the great components that has formed, what I unlike many of the critics believe to be one of the greatness movie of all time, an aspect of the film that does not seem to disappoint is the special effects, more specifically, the CGI’s. BBC News states that “it is this hyper-real movie magic that has made the Oscar-winner one of the most sought after visual effects supervisors in Hollywood.” Oscar winning Scott Farrar was the visual effects supervisor in the entire preceding Transformers trilogy. The movie offered “a tour de force of special effects, even if the critics were less kind about the movie's storyline”. While some may say that the visual effects used in the film were too much and sometimes unnecessary, there is no doubt that Farrar achieved great lengths and challenged future innovators of the visual and special effects industry.
The film stays in line with classic noir in many ways. The usage of dark sets and high contrast lighting, which creates heavy shadows on the actors faces, makes the movie feel like it all happens at night and in dark alley ways. The story focuses on the inhumane parts of human nature. Each of the main characters experiences some kind of tragedy. For Vargas his tragedy was in dealing with Quinlin who has set out to frame him and his wife. For Quinlin his entire life represented a man consumed with darkness who lives his life with a “Touch of Evil.” Menzies was a hopeful man who looked up to Quinlin but was let down. For the viewer, film noir represents truth, even if it is not a truth that all people would like to hear.
What is virtuous of this man is that he is desperate to fit into society and educates himself to the communication of the people around him. What is base of this particular man is that he is not a human being and therefore, he is sad and lonely and knows that he cannot coincide with society; but he feels his happiness near nature itself, just like the birds in the trees or the fish in the pond. With the quote on page 68, the monster is comparing his creator as God and himself as the fall of man, like Adam. The monster says to Frankenstein that he has a good heart deep inside, but the maltreatment of other humans and his own ugliness has made his heart cold and bitter. Victor Frankenstein and the monster both share their love for science, especially when the monster stated, “...
Watson’s actor angrily expresses Watson’s character of being disapproving of Holmes’ use of drugs. Sherlock Holmes’ actor stares off to somewhere, while sounding calm and delivers his line of drugs being the only thing that makes existence not dull. The tone when delivering the dialogue was rather monologue and stern, which somewhat complements his stoicness. At this point, the movie has strayed from the direction of the book. Holmes then hands Watson a letter to read which has instructions of what to do and the time to do it. Watson listens to Holmes’ deduction of who crafted the letter, all his speculations ranged from penmanship and paper quality, to
because it made me became very curious about what is going to happen next. The play’s beginning was no as interesting as the movie’s. I also liked the acting in the movie.
This all shows that the reason for the viewer wanting to be spider-man is the fact that the director, Sam Raimi, has managed to bring together some of the greatest techniques and fine tune them into his own style, then apply them to this film, making the viewer really feel as if they can relate to spider-man.
make us see exactly what he wants us to and this film is a very good
The casting of both Leonardo DiCaprio and fresh-faced Claire Danes influence how the film is viewed. Baz Luhrmann is smart in using young, attractive characters to make the adaptation more appealing to a more adolescent
Victor Frankenstein proves his ability of holding ultimate knowledge by creating life, but as a whole, the society shows a greater impact over others. The Creature 's physical strength plays a vital role in the novel as well. Through the Creature’s many murders, he showed his strength and mental drive to accomplish the things he wanted. The desire for power plays a vital role within the novel, pushing the characters to act out in either a positive or negative manner. Victor Frankenstein, the Creature, and the society all show a different type of influence over others within the novel, creating different desires of
...impossible to find myself anywhere but sitting on the edge of my seat. It was difficult to predict what would come next, constant suspense was all around. Thus, making the situations portrayed more interesting and entertaining to the viewer of the film.
...g, we know nothing about him or what his true purpose really was but most importantly, the story is set to give the reader a glimpse at what people are willing to do with supernatural occurrences and their perception on those types of things without actually getting to know what its true purposes are.
...e to properly fill his role as being both the avenger and the murderer, and so resorts to feigning madness to escape the reality of his life.