Movies can be categorized by comedy, horror, family, drama, romance, and many more. From the list of movies that you have seen and you liked it seems to be that you are open to all types of movies. The film I would like to introduce you to is called Million Dollar Baby. It is a sports drama film. This film was nominated for 48 different awards. Actors include Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, and Hilary Swank. Hopefully, these are some reasons to intrigue your interest. You do not need to be a fan of boxing to enjoy Million Dollar Baby. There is a deeper meaning to this movie like realizing that one always has a place in someone’s heart. Out of the 48 awards that this film was nominated for it received 19 of them including two Golden Globe Awards
Poor Kids is a documentary that highlights a major issue the United States is suffering from. This issue is known as poverty, more specifically, childhood poverty. This documentary views the world through the eyes of children that are subjected to lives of poverty due to the poor financial state that their parents are in. Life is very rough for these children and they must live their everyday lives with little to none of the luxuries most people take for granted. Poor Kids sheds light on the painful fact that there are children that starve every day in the United States.
The movie that will be examined in this critical film review is Million Dollar Baby. Million Dollar Baby was set back in time with a girl wanting to fit but the trainer did not want to train her. In the beginning of the movie, Frankie the trainer did not want to teach her how to fight because he does not train girls. As the movie progresses, Eddie “scrap”, a back in the day amazing fighter was able to convince Frankie to take Maggie and train her to be the best. When Frankie starts to train Maggie, one can tell that there is a father/daughter relationship between the two of them all the way up until the end of the movie. Both Frankie and Maggie have negative pasts; Frankie’s past being his daughter wanting nothing to do with him, and Maggie’s
After watching the film, “Babies” by Thomas Balmer, I got the chance to see and experience the development of four babies from different countries and cultural backgrounds. This documentary commends the babies’ fun loving nature as they move along the way of revelation.The babies are Mari, from Tokyo,Japan; Panjiao, from Namibia,Africa; Hattie from San Francisco,USA and Bayar, from Mongolia.
I chose to watch the movie “DAD” with Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, and Olympia Dukakis, just to name a few of the actors. In the past, I’ve seen “ The Notebook” and absolutely loved it but I wanted to give myself a new opportunity with a fresh perspective.
I have chosen to review the film Boyhood written by Richard Linklater that took twelve years to film. In the movie Boyhood, it illustrates the life of a boy named Mason Jr. through the many stages of his childhood to adolescence to becoming an adult. The movie follows Mason Jr.’s life through his years of kindergarten, middle school, high school, and to college. Through these milestones in his life encounters society with socialization, culture and norms that are exhibited through his family, friends, and others. With factors of social classes, and gender that influence Mason Jr. as he grows and fits into the society that is formed. From the events and milestones in Boyhood, it is able to show human behaviour in society from our
Million Dollar Baby Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood’s latest movie as a director, has been getting more and more positive reviews recently and it is even better than Mystic River. At first glance, the film looks like another boxing movie cliché. However, Eastwood has succeeded in creating a compelling and moving story about the intricate world of human relationships, the price of success and the realization of dreams. The movie explores many different subject matters. Million Dollar Baby is about friendship and respect.
In this essay I will show differences and similarities to euthanasia in the movie Million Dollar Baby which we watched and the book Stuck in Neutral witch we read. Like how the two main characters Maggie from the movie and Shawn from the book are similar and different to the idea of death and euthanasia. And finally euthanasia to each of them and how it affects everyone around them.
The French documentary Babies shows the first year of development of four different babies who live in four completely different environments. The film follows Ponijao, a little girl from Namibia, Bayar, a little boy from Mongolia, Mari, a girl from Tokyo, and Hattie, a girl from San Francisco. Even though the babies live in very dissimilar parts of the world, their physical, cognitive, and social development seem to all follow a set pattern. On the other hand, the babies learn to do some activities distinctive to their environment by watching their parents and siblings. Therefore, Babies provides evidence to support both the nature and nurture sides of the debate.
In the movie Silver Linings Playbook there are two main characters, Pat and Tiffany, whom portray a type of mental illness. Below, I will explain each character in regards to their symptoms and portrayal of mental illness and compare the information discussed in the Abnormal Psychology Textbook.
“There once was a time in this business when I had the eyes of the whole world! But that wasn't good enough for them, oh no! They had to have the ears of the whole world too. So they opened their big mouths and out came talk. Talk! TALK!” (Sunset Boulevard). The film Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder focuses on a struggling screen writer who is hired to rewrite a silent film star’s script leading to a dysfunctional and fatal relationship. Sunset Boulevard is heavily influenced by the history of cinema starting from the 1930s to 1950 when the film was released.
The film Babies is a film that follows four babies from San Francisco, Tokyo, Mongolia, and Namibia through their first year of life. The film has no talking or narrative. In many scenes, you don’t even see adults. This helps you get to see a baby’s perspective on the world. This movie showed how different cultures are when it comes to raising children.
The Wolf of Wall Street produced and directed by Martin Scorsese tells a story of Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker living a luxurious life on Wall Street. Due to greed and corruption, Jordan falls into a life of crime and abusive activities. Belfort made millions of dollars by selling customers “penny stocks” and manipulating the market through his company, Stratton Oakmont, before being convicted of any criminal activity (Solomon, 2013). Jordan reveals behaviours and impulses all humans have, however, on an extreme level. This movie illustrates “why ethics is another tool whose importance cannot be overstated” (Delaney, 2014). Without ethics and morality, individuals can never truly live an honest and happy life.
Wall Street is a movie that exposes corruption and disguises all values, beliefs, and other ethical philosophy. Throughout the movie, Wall Street shows how ethics adapts to a person’s personality by power and wealth alongside honesty and truth. Bud Fox, a young stockbroker is looking for a way to make a name for himself. He is determined to get as many clients as he can to become successful. He later meets a ruthless man named Mr. Gekko where learns how to reach to the top by illegal actions such as insider trading. Bud Fox was an honest living man who had good ethics but was later showed what true power is became money hungry. The power of greed is fascinating the code that everyone lives by is inevitable once money comes into play. There are five types of interpersonal power; reward power, coercive power, legitimate power, referent power, and expert power. These types of power will be used to correspond relationships throughout the movie. In Wall Street we realize how Gordon Gekko uses Bud Fox for his benefit. In this paper I will show the types of powers that are used by Gordon Gekko and how they are used. One clear type of power that Gordon Gekko uses in his relationship with Bud Fox is the Referent power base. This power stands out because it is clear that Bud wants to become a top notch in the industry. Bud is striving to be successful when he exposes what he’s able to do at the meeting with Gordon Gekko he instantly become closer to his goals. There were scenes where Gordon had legitimate power. His knowledge and information was what made him rich. Bud Fox had to listen to what Gordon was telling him in order to become successful. This was an example of Gekko having legitimate power over Bud Fox. Expert power which is an ...
In the film "A Fistful of Dollars", the sole hero is corrupt. This is equivalent to the status of the sole hero in a large portion of the purported, "Spaghetti Westerns". The Spaghetti Western's were shot in Europe, utilizing Italian performing artists as a part of everything except the main part, and dedicated with American voices. The Spaghetti Westerns completely changed the substance of he Western, as they turned out to be rougher - and the solitary hero turned into an a great deal more awful character. Whenever viewing "A Fistful of Dollars", the initially engaged picture is the rough, forsake soil. After this, the camera container and zooms in onto the solitary legend and his steed. Overwhelming imagery is being utilized here - that the
In his lifetime, DiCaprio has earned 31 nominations but has only been able to win 3 awards. He had 10 nominations in the Golden Globes yet he has only won two of those awards. DiCaprio received 5 Academy Award nominations also known as the Oscars however he has not been able to attain any of them. This has led to uproar among viewers because they feel as if he has earned this recognition. Through his works in the film industry he has truly earned and deserves to receive this award as an acknowledgment of his incredible portrayal of characters in each film.