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The documentary “The Plow That Broke the Plains” is in my opinion was not put together well. The information itself was badly researched as well as badly presented. I didn’t like that there was more music than information said in the film. The film was also (objective/subjective). To me the message of the film was Americans ruined the Great Plains land and contributed to the Dust Bowl. Despite the negatives the film to me also had some positives as well. I loved how the director showed the many scenes of people and the scenes of farming as well as dust. Even though there was a lot of music the style went well with the pictures and helped with some of the pictures that were put in there as well. Overall the documentary to me was not so good
This movie was a tale of an immigrant seeking money and power who untimely set up his own demise. The producers did a good job at pointing out certain features that let you into the life of an organized crime leader. He tells of his humble beginnings and shows you in details how he rose to the top. The producer had a point to make and I took that point as being you can never get and stay someone good while being bad. The sound effects and graphics also makes this movie. They show just enough to intrigue you but yet not to completely make you sick to your stomach. The music is very telling and
Like when it comes to Pocahontas it mentions that she is married and several other facts that are not even mentioned in the documentary at all that could have made the documentary more interesting to watch. The Different events like America’s very first murder was very interesting to see displayed on screen while in the book there was little to nothing mentioned. Which wasn’t the only thing no mentioned like more about Pocahontas and her involvement with Jamestown like for example how she was captured by John smith which caused this huge
John Deere was born in Vermont in 1804. His father went to England to find a job in 1808 and never came back, so he was primarily raised by his mother with his three brothers and his one sister. He was an educated man, and had always been fascinated with blacksmithing. At the age of 17, Deere got his first apprenticeship as a blacksmith in Middlebury. He was so talented, that with just a three year apprenticeship he was able to gain so much knowledge and start his own blacksmith company in 1825. Blacksmithing in Vermont wasn’t as substantial as in the West because the soil wasn’t as hard, so when Deere’s business wasn’t flourishing he packed up and moved to the West.
I would like to point out the poignant cinematography, which was very innovative for its time. The narration and the filming introducing what was about to be uncovered must have been extremely moving in a melancholy way. The mise-en-scène is both compelling and haunting, each frame cleverly editied. Resnais experimented with what is known as the long shot, and the 360 degree shot, to make the voyeur very aware of the unbalanced composition. The panning of the film tracking back from Auschwitz brings us a close up, of barbed wire. This clearly suggests that this isn't what it appears to be. Resnais films the past in black and white, and the then present in colour. The ambiance is chilling, and the composed background music unique. Where normally dramatic loud music would be used to express the abonimation and enormity of the most horrendous scenes, Resnais did quite the contrary.
One issue that arises is in the court case the movie made the fact that the captives were really from Africa dramatically by evidence, while in real life a simple statement was from the captives was enough. During the film Spielberg focuses on stereotypes of the captives, and doesn’t use the information that was written down by John Barber on the captive’s life and story. The last mistake that I feel was made about the movie was that it lacked the information that truly showed how complex and harsh Africa was at the time. It completely disregarded the real role of the war in Africa and how much it added to the story. Personally I feel that while these inaccuracies didn’t taint the story to much as the same basic story was still there, just Hollywoodized. Though I do feel like it doesn’t represent history enough. The fact that so much information about Africa and the captives being less humanized does fade away from the true story. Personally I enjoyed the movie, but I feel that reading the true story was a lot more interesting as it showed just how important it was for such an incident to
[2] So, then, what exactly are the problems with this film? Notably, nearly every film or TV show based on Daniel Boone has similar twisted depictions and representations of Boone, the native Americans, the white settlers, and the interaction therein. This suggests something deeper, and subtler maybe, than a few misinformed filmmakers. Something hidden seems to be imbedded deep w...
The Native Americans were promised a large amount of private land for their families to live on forever in peace. As time went on throughout the years, Native Americans started to see their land shrink by acres. This was unsettling to many of the Natives and would start to raise problems with the white soldiers. By having the Promised Land taken away from them it would only start to add fuel to the fire before the Indians would attack back. Taking of land was of several items that would start to enrage the Indians. The next item that I took away from class was how the U.S. would continuously steal from the Native people and made it evident in the video. The U.S. would continually steal Native American money for their benefit. This would not help the Indians moving forward in trying to provide a life for their family. U.S. agents would withhold Native Americans money that was given to them from their federal government. It was the payment for the land that U.S. bought from them. The United States (US) would continue to make numerous treaty violations by having to make Natives make payments to Indian agents who would use the money for what they want. With all of this occurring, it caused an increased number of families to stricken of hunger and adds to the never-ending hardship among the Dakota tribes in Minnesota. This would all boil over to having the Great Sioux Revolt that would trigger the infamous Dakota
The 1920’s were the singularly most influential years of farming in our country. The loss of farms following the war, and new agricultural practices resulted in the dawn of modern agriculture in our country. The shift from small family to big corporation during this time is now the basis for how our society deals with food today. Traditional farming in the 1920’s underwent a series of massive transitions following WWI as the number of farms decreased and the size of farms increased.
While the visuals and music were pretty outstanding, the actual story was pretty flat. Dinosaur films aren’t as revolutionary and awe-inspiring as they might have been back in the 90s when the first “Jurassic Park” film was released, and stories about dinosaurs and/or other monsters have been done and overdone in this past decade and even longer. So while the movie might have looked great, it was pretty much just a run of the mill action film about a man-made disaster with famous actors running around trying to save the
I truly enjoyed the movie, because of how honest it is about how people struggle, but never give up. It is a story of family and perseverance that is heart wrenching. I would completely endorse this movie and push it to be in the curriculum in the future. My hope is that students continue to over fill your class as you aloud me to do this semester. The movie explains so much of Deaf Culture that the standard population could really use to know. Which is probably why I whish the movie was more common in movie rental places, Hulu and other video cites. It is a fantastic movie with a fantastic message.
I really enjoyed watching this movie because it was very eye-opening, realistic and fun to soak in the Jamaican culture. The movie incorporated a mixture of colorful, sultry, Jamaican clothing, music and entertainment, while portraying the hardship and struggle of many poor residents of Jamaica. I could also feel the authenticity and passion in this movie.
Rising from the Plains by John McPhee is about an influential geologist, John David Love, interpreting the geologic history of Wyoming. The surface area of Wyoming has been subjected to many geological formations from the rise of the Rocky Mountains through the Laramide Orogeny in late Cretaceous time to the deep structural basin known as the Jackson Hole with rock dating back to the Precambrian period. Throughout each time period of the Earth’s history, the surface of Wyoming has experienced significant changes that have affected the physical landscape, as well as living organisms, even to this day. In this story John David Love shares his knowledge of the geologic history of Wyoming with John McPhee as they travel across Wyoming taking in the vastness that the landscape of Wyoming presents.
I couldn’t see most of the dark scenes so it made it hard to know what’s happening. But the location and the scenery around was very aesthetic. The location they chose to film at made it very believable to think it’s the Maori culture. The camera crew did a good job with the camera and the editor made it very seamless. When they had the underwater whale scenes, I found them very pointless and the movie would’ve been better without it. At times, the dialog was very poor and I couldn’t hear what they were
Although I enjoyed the main portion of the movie, there were some obvious likes and dislikes in my opinion. I believe that I learned from this movie and it helped me understand more of what the people of that time were feeling.
The movie helped me better understand Buddhism and understand the history of Buddhism. In my opinion, the movie corrolated with our class because it just shared so many similares. I liked how they portrayed Siddhartha’s story and it helped me better understand the history of Buddhism. The class taught us about how Siddhartha was raised by father, who sheltered him from society. We also talked about how shocked he was, when he first saw suffering. It was very hard for Siddhartha to believe in suffering because he never saw anything like this. He also saw for the first time, death, poverty, and old age. I liked how they incorporated this story to the movie because I think it just shows the real beginning of