If there's two genres that director Quentin Tarantino excels at, it's crime and western. So when he had announced that his 8th film, The Hateful Eight, was going to be a mystery-crime-western combo, many people already knew that his film was going to be great. Once it finally did premiere on December 25th, it did not disappoint. The Hateful Eight tells the story of bounty hunter John Ruth, notoriously known for hanging the criminals he captures rather than killing them, on route to the town where his prisoner will hang when they get caught in a blizzard and are forced to stay in a haberdashery, or goods store. On the way there they pick up Major Warren, another well known bounty hunter, and Sherriff Mannix, who is the new sheriff of the town and proceed to go to the cabin and stay with various other characters. While there, John Ruth suspects that one of the men is there to free his prisoner. …show more content…
Quentin Tarantino is known for working with the same group of actors for all of his films, and the Hateful Eight is no exception. The majority of the cast here features actors that he has worked with before and they are all phenomenal. Kurt Russel kills it as the brutal, big mustached, John Ruth, and Samuel L. Jackson brings in his best performance in a long time as Major Warren. Of course, you can't go without mentioning Walton Goggins as Sheriff Mannix, Tim Roth as Oswoldo, Michael Madsen as Joe, and last but not least, Jennifer Leigh as Daisy (The Prisoner) who was nominated in the Golden Globes for best supporting
Vengeance plays a key role in causing the mass hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials. Abigail Williams, who?s probably most to blame for the trials, acts out of revenge. She and John Proctor have had an affair and when Elizabeth Proctor finds out, she throws Abigail out of their house. During the trials, Abigail is still in love with John Proctor and goes after Elizabeth out of vengeance. Elizabeth tries to explain this to John, who is in disbelief: she ?thinks to kill me, then to take my place? (61). Abigail?s main motive for destroying Elizabeth is revenge for being thrown out of the house and for having John Proctor, the man that she loves. Another character who seeks revenge is Mrs. Putnam, who has had seven children die shortly after childbirth and blames her midwife, who has many children. Rebecca Nurse is charged ?for the marvelous and supernatural murder of Goody Putnam?s babies? (71). The trials are an opportunity for Ann Putnam to seek vengeance against Rebecca for having healthy children and grandchild...
The 1986 film “Sixteen Candles” tells a timeless tale of growing up in suburban America. The film’s star, Sam, played by Molly Ringwald, wakes up with big expectations on her sweet sixteenth birthday only to be completely disappointed. Not only does she find that she looks exactly the same as when she was fifteen, but her family is so preoccupied with her older sister’s wedding that they forget her birthday altogether.
...sening up in this country, although not quite to the extreme as in Natural Born Killers. Despite the controversy caused by the assumed message that "killing is cool," there is important ideology embedded within the film. There is sanity within the insane. The film, in a sense, displays the consequences caused by the suppression of the inner, free soul. We've all seen instances of people "cracking" under the pressures of modern society. I'm not suggesting that we live like wild animals, but I do think that Natural Born Killers is an excellent movie which made a natural attempt to kill standard ideology.
On March 3, 1915 the movie The Birth of a Nation was released at the Liberty Theatre in New York City. This film was financed, filmed, and released by the Epoch Producing Corporation of D.W. Griffith and Harry T. Aitken. It was one of the first films to ever use deep-focus shots, night photography, and to be explicitly controversial with the derogatory view of blacks.
A person clad in a ratty bathrobe and dark sunglasses shuffles up to a cash register to write a $0.69 check for a carton of Half & Half. This was the first glimpse the world would see of this person, actually a man, who would set fire to mixed reviews. In March 1998, viewers of the film nationwide labeled him a slacker, bum, nihilist, deadbeat, etc. He was a man who lived off necessity not want. His home was a small condo. He dressed in worn out, baggy clothes with shower sandals regularly. He had a thick goatee and long shaggy hair. His employment status was unemployed… actively. He drove a rusted out car with no concern for its aesthetic appeal. His daily plans were full of White Russians, marijuana, and bowling. His cares in life seemed
Frank Darabont (writer-director-producer) in 1999, returned to the director’s chair for the first time in five years. Darabont, who not only directed Shawshank Redemption, but adapted it from a Stephen King story, followed the exact same path with The Green Mile. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures, and Produced by Castle Rock Entertainment, Darkwoods Productions, and Warner Bros. David Valdes is the producer, David Tattersall, B.S.C. is the director of photography, Terence Marsh is the production designer, and Richard Francis-Bruce is the film editor.
The story begins abruptly, as we find our mock heroes out in the desert en route to the savvy resort of Las Vegas. The author uses a tense hitchhiker as a mode, or an excuse, for a flashback that exposes the plot. An uncertain character picked up in the middle of the desert who Raoul Duke, the main character, feels the need to explain things to, to help him rest easy. They had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers....Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw either, and two dozen amyls. They were on assignment from a fashionable sporting magazine in New York, to cover the 4th Annual "Mint 400" dirt bike and dune buggy race.
The Shawshank Redemption Wrongfully accused and convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. Banker Andy Dufresne arrived at Shawshank Prison in 1947 with a life. sentence. The syllable of the syllable. On arriving at the prison gate with the other inmates, "Red" Redding bet his buddies that Andy would be the first of the new.
Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 film Inglourious Bastards entails a Jewish revenge fantasy that is told through a counterfactual history of events in World War II. However, this story follows a completely different plot than what we are currently familiar with. Within these circumstances, audiences now question the very ideas and arguments that are often associated with World War II. We believe that Inglourious Basterds is a Jewish revenge fantasy that forces us to rethink our previous understandings by disrupting the viewers sense of content and nature in the history of World War II. Within this thesis, this paper will cover the Jewish lens vs. American lens, counter-plots with-in the film, ignored social undercurrents, and the idea that nobody wins in war. These ideas all correlate with how we view World War II history and how Inglourious Basterds muddles our previous thoughts on how these events occurred.
Tarantino’s love for cinema and the art of filmmaking was evident as he was growing up in 1960s Tennessee. In his later teenage years, he began working as a video clerk at Video Archives, a now out-of-date video rental store in Manhattan Beach; it was here that he really advanced his love of filmmaking when he started writing screenplays and pitching them for financial backing. After a couple failed script sales, such as True Romance and Natural Born Killers, Tarantino finally received backing for his beloved cult classic, Reservoir Dogs, a film about a failed heist which scored glowing reviews and began his career. The following year, he wrote and directed his next classic feature film, Pulp Fiction which became a major critical and commercial success, na...
The Shawshank Redemption is a prison movie that is based on a book by Stephen King and directed by Frank Darabont. The movie is not the average bloody horror movie; instead, it takes you to a place where your worst nightmares come alive. The tremendous performance by Morgan Freeman and other actors has truly brought this film to life. The emotions characters portrayed were so real that every one could feel compassion toward them. The Shawshank Redemption, a contribution to the working man, illustrates the dark side of the prison and the power of hope within that helps a prisoner to survive.
Juror #1 originally thought that the boy was guilty. He was convinced that the evidence was concrete enough to convict the boy. He continued to think this until the jury voted the first time and saw that one of the jurors thought that the boy was innocent. Then throughout the movie, all of the jurors were slowly convinced that the boy was no guilty.
Quentin Taratinos’ Django Unchained (2012), is a bloody, eccentric, and revenge filled western, which exploits the abdominal chapters in American history. A pre-civil war western that explores what slavery might have been like during the mid-1800. The movie is partially based on the films Django (1966) and Mandingo (1975). But Taratino incorporates his own style, with excruciating gore, action, wit, cinematography and eccentric characters. Incorporating it all into a solid plot makes the movie believable and makes it the most unique western every made.
For my third quarter book report I read The Green Mile written by Stephen King. This book is about an old man, Paul Edgecomb, recalling his experiences when he worked as the cell block captain in Cold Mountain state penitentiary. Paul was the cell block
The movie Fight Club made a great achievement in the film industry, and significantly depicted the social system of the late 20th century. According to most of the reviewers, the success of the film lies behind the fact that almost every American man over 25-years of age is going to inevitably see some of himself in the movie: the frustration, the confusion, the anger at living in a culture where the old rules have broken down and one makes his way with so many fewer cultural cues and guideposts.