Imagine that you were a police officer, dedicating your life to make your jurisdiction a better place. Would you allow an FBI agent to barge in and save the day? Or would you continuously fight to be seen as an equal partner in the case? In The Heat Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) attempts to kick Boston police officer Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy) off a case that involves taking down the leader of a major drug ring in the Boston area. But, Mullins will not have it, so she fights to keep her spot on the case and teams up with Ashburn. Although an unlikely pair that cannot be any more opposite, the two complement one another extremely well during their efforts to take down Larkin. Special Agent Sarah Ashburn is an uptight, …show more content…
Ashburn is able to pick up on details that her crew missed in their search; for instance, she is able to collect both drugs and guns which allowed her to arrest two men. In this scene, both Bullock and the director (Paul Feig) worked together to portray Ashburn as the screenplay writer (Katie Dippold) intended; an extremely confident and intelligent agent. But, once she meets Mullins, the audience is able to observe how strait-laced she is. The dramatic difference between Ashburn and Mullins only solidifies how stuffy Ashburn is. However, as Ashburn spends more and more time with Mullins, she begins to relax, say what she feels, and no longer hesitates to do something without thinking it through beforehand. This is a complete one eighty from the Ashburn the audience was introduced to at the beginning of the film. As the film progresses Bullock and Feig succeeded in creating a solid character out of Ashburn by continuously adding depth to her …show more content…
One hour and thirty minutes into the film, there was a scene where Ashburn and Mullins were arguing and between cuts Ashburn’s hair was not behind her hair in one shot while the next it was without Ashburn moving her hair. Then eighteen minutes later, Mullins was given a medal and it was placed around her neck, originally the medal was twisted, but between shots the medal fluctuated from being twisted into being straight to being twisted once again. These inconsistencies did not take away from the plot of the film, however it was distracting. As the positions changed between shots it was difficult for me to focus on what was occurring during the scene because I was not sure at first if the hair and medal actually changed position. I actually rewound the film to see if they moved. These petty errors in editing took away from the audience’s focus. This only happened twice, toward the end of the film, in basic scenes, but the errors slightly disengaged the audience and took away from the action/comedy. Feig and the editing crew should have picked up on these beginner mistakes before the film was published. The Heat took the traditional good cop, bad cop roles and put a spin to them, adding humor between the polar opposite (in both looks and personality) main characters. The film had its weaknesses with inconsistencies in filming, nonetheless Feig was able to direct a solid action buddy
Electrick Children is a film released in 2012, written and directed by Rebecca Thomas. Screened at film festivals including South By Southwest, this film tells the story of fifteen year old Rachel McKnight. Rachel is a member of a fundamentalist Mormon community. Rachel finds herself to be pregnant and believes that she was impregnated by a voice she heard on a cassette tape after listening to it for the first time. Although she firmly believes in this immaculate conception, her family and the rest of the community believes that she was raped by her brother Mr. Will, and so he is exiled from the community. Rachel’s father arranges a marriage for Rachel, but rather than go through with it, she runs away from the community, escaping to Las Vegas.
poster typically has the white cowboy large, presented front and center, with the antagonists and co-stars all behind him. An iconic western, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, has a poster picturing the white cowboy alone. Clint Eastwood stands there tall, stoic, and singular. Typical of most other westerns, the white cowboy is the center of attention. Here, however, there are two non-white figures presented: Bart, the Black cowboy, and a large Native American chief. This movie poster has the same style as other westerns with the color and layout, but is unique in the fact that a black man is presented where a white man would normally be dominating. Once again, this makes a statement about racial improvements. Previously having a black man at
This documentary directed by Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio follows the Staten Island urban legend ‘Cropsey’. Cropsey was originally thought to be nothing more than a boogeyman used by parents to scare children out of trouble. Rumored to be lurking near lakes and woods come nightfall, Cropsey took the form of an axe wielding, escaped mental patient who would prey on young children. According to Staten Island natives, exploring Cropsey’s home, Willowbrook Mental Hospital, was a popular pastime amongst the youth who thought him nothing more than myth. However, in the summer of 1987, when 12 year old Jennifer Schweiger disappeared, the legend of Cropsey resurfaced. This time, he posed a much realer threat to the children of Staten Island. With the community in outrage over the loss of one of their children,
Tim Jenison, the man behind the documentary film entitled Tim’s Vermeer set out to replicate a painting in the style of the beloved artist Johannes Vermeer. In order to do this, Jenison replicated a system of lenses that he believed Vermeer had used hundreds of years before him for the sake of duplicating the correct light variations around the objects of his muse. The course of the documentary showcases Jenison as he first constructs this hypothesis of Vermeer mastering light, moves on to Jenison's development of his lense device, and finally to Jenison using his device to paint a work of art in hope that it will be comparably close enough to the work of Vermeer that his hypothesis can be proven. Whether or not Jenison succeeded can be debated and was one of the topics that the panel of professors including Professors Baugh, Gorchoff, Myers, Willhardt, and Wright discussed at the convocation.
The Film of my choice is "13" by Ava DuVernay. The film is a documentary about mass incarceration and slavery. According to Michelle Alexander, "Civil rights activists began to be portrayed in the media and among many politicians as criminals, people who were deliberately violating the law, segregation laws that existed in the South." Meanwhile, the baby-boom in 1948 to 1953 caused mass incarceration to began in the 1970's on the account of crime rate increasing. I believe the Author's intended audience is for anyone throughout the world, especially the users if Netflix. In addiction, she wanted to inform the viewers about racial inequality that lead to mass incarceration. Ava Duvernay also make another documentary called Seima which was about
When the 13th amendment was ratified in 1865, its drafters left themselves a very exploitable loophole of an easily missed clause in its definition. That clause, converts slavery from a legal business model to an equally legal method of punishment for criminals. This is exactly the subject of the documentary “13th.” by Ava DuVernay. Throughout the film a few people in particular are interviewed, including liberal scholars and activists for the cause like Angela Davis, Henry Louis Gates, Van Jones, and even conservatives like Newt Gingrich and Grover Norquist. Each interviewee is shot in a location that replicates an industrial setting, this visually supports the theme of prison as a factory churning out the free labor that the 13th Amendment
Pruning takes part in the development of the teenage brain as important connections. The brain decides by how frequently what connections are being used often and will tell whether or not which ones will stay. The branches that may be confused throughout the development into an adult would be the changes in the frontal cortex. “Unexpected growth spurt an overproduction of cells just before puberty,” which is determined on the behavior accordingly, this is still being developed during the years of becoming an adult. In the documentary, a lady named Ellen Galinsky, who is a social scientist states that “ relationships, connections, people in children’s lives who make the biggest difference.” This takes a role in the way
I have been mulling over this topic, it is just one of those awkward topics. This theory conceptualizes races, and separates white people from non-white people which seems to be counterintuitive. The assumption is that all white people are born into privilege and that is just not true. Don’t get me wrong, I do believe racism exists, assumptions get made, and it is a social issue, but it isn’t just white and non-whites.
Hungry for Change is a documentary that exposes the truth about the food industry, eating habits in America and what we need to do to change it. The film explains why what we are eating is not real food, only food-like, and why we are so addicted to processed food. The food industry is adding chemicals to food which not only destroy our bodies but are designed to keep us craving more. Producers use food labels like fat-free or sugar-free to mislead us to think that their product is healthier but they are just trying to disguise what is really added. Artificial sweeteners and MSG are chemicals added to food to make it more addicting, like the chemicals in drugs or cigarettes. People do not realize what they are putting into their bodies; documentary explains in depth what these chemicals are doing to our bodies and how to change our habits.
“Do you get what you’re hoping for? When you look behind you, there’s no open doors. What are you hoping for?” (Do You Know Where You’re Going To, Diana Ross)
As the movie went on the portrayal of the characters stayed at a consistent level. Sinise did a good job portraying the father figure of George. It really felt like Sinise and Malkovich had known each other for their entire lives. However, some of the characters like crooks and other ranchers didn't do as well of a job acting their parts. They seemed kind of bland and always rushing the few lines they had in the movie. But, Sherily Finn did a great job of portraying the flirtiness and attitude in her character. (Curley's Wife.) Casey Siemaszko Also did a fantastic job playing the role of curly. The way he acted out the scene where Lennie crushes his hand felt like it wasn't rehearsed and came straight out of reality.
In today’s world we tend to be caught up in our own personal bubbles. We don’t realize what goes on outside of our world and the myriad of subcultures that exist. The main problem with this is, once we become aware of the people that live outside of our culture and our norms, we tend to not understand their lifestyle and think that they are abnormal or psychotic. Through the various documentaries that we have explored this semester, I have experienced a change in emotion and thought. Every documentary we watched did not make sense to me. However, I realized that once you really dig deep and try to understand these people and their motives, you can uncover the way they affect our society.
For years police corruption has been a major problem in American society but where is the line between moral and unethical police corruption, many modern movies address this vary issue. Some films portray how types of police corruption can have a positive influence on society, while others show the dark side of police corruption. Many law enforcement agents join the criminal justice with the basic idea of “justice for all,” however, most of them do not realize that the nice guy doesn’t always win. Even though there are vast amounts of movies which specifically address police corruption we will use three main movies for our argument today, mostly LA Confidential, however, also Training Day.
Did you ever sit down and think to yourself: What movie should I watch? The answer is The Shawshank Redemption. The story was written by Stephen King, and then Frank Darabont wrote the screenplay and directed the movie. The legendary Morgan Freeman plays Red, and Tim Robbins plays Andy Dufresne. They did an amazing job playing the role that they were supposed to. In this movie, you will be able to see how much of an impact one person can make. How one person showed an inmate that no one should let the prison get to you. Andy Dufresne proved to Red that even in prison you should have hope and dreams for a better future, that way you don’t forget who you are, who you were.
The movie “Decoding Annie Parker” is directed by Steven Bernstein. This movie follows the character Annie Parker’s mum and sister dying from breast cancer. Annie then assumed that she would get breast cancer too. Everyday she would examine her breasts to make sure she didn't have cancer. Then one day she felt a bump. She finds out she has cancer. Annie was convinced that she got breast cancer through genetics, but no scientist had proof that a person can get breast cancer that way. Annie ended up having one of her breasts removed and she fought off her cancer. Sadly the cancer came back two more times, but still Annie survived. During these times, Annie had to go through a lot. She ended up divorcing her husband after catching him cheating