Smoke Signals Movie Analysis

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We’ve all seen a bad movie at least once in our life. When you’re watching it, it’s everything you can do to keep your eyes open. You’ve also probably seen a lot of really good movies. When you’ve seen an example of both, it is really easy to point out the odds and ends that make each movie good or bad. The movie, Smoke Signals, written by Sherman Alexie in 1998, is not a terrible movie, but it isn’t one I would recommend to all my friends. It’s more of the type of movie I would watch when I exhausted all of my other options. There were a few things about this movie thata caught my attention. The first was the acting. It was probably the best part of the film, closely followed by the script. The main thing that I noticed that ruined this film for me was the use of flashbacks. It was a little excessive and it made it harder for viewers like me to follow along. Smoke Signals is a movie based on the book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. The film begins when infants, Thomas Builds-the-Fire and Victor Joseph, were saved from a house fire in the middle of the night on Fourth of July. Victor’s dad, Arnold Joseph, was the hero that saved the boys by Thomas from the window of the burning building. Eventually, his wife kicked him out of the house, where he then moved to Phoenix, Arizona. Years after he left, Victor …show more content…

The producers couldn’t have hired better actors for the roles of Thomas and Victor and the script was as if it wasn’t even a script. It seemed like it just came so naturally to the characters. If someone came to me asking for examples of a movie with really good acting, I would probably recommend this movie, but otherwise. I would say not to waste your time and watch something more enjoyable, like the romantic comedy also from 1998, “The Wedding

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