This past weekend, I watched the movie The Last Airbender, and I knew immediately that it would be a film I’d remember months later - just not for the right reasons. M. Night Shyamalan has brought yet another failure to the big screen reminiscent of his last two movies Lady in the Winter (2006) and The Happening (2008). Only this time, it’s much worse. The Last Airbender is an utter disaster. I can’t remember the last movie I watched that was quite as bad as this one. There shouldn’t have been at least something that went right. Not here. That takes talent. The story takes place in a magical world where man has the ability to control earth, water, and fire. The firebending soldiers have wreaked havoc since the Avatar’s mysterious disappearance, …show more content…
The characters don’t feel real because each and every word of dialogue is wasted on explanatory details about a character’s past or generic exposition. Word of advice: wait for us to care about the character before revealing every last detail of their history! One of our first scenes between Fire Lord Ozai (Cliff Curtis) and Commander Zhao (Aasif Mandvi) is diluted with dialogue about the past such as “I conducted a raid on the Great Library which most said didn’t even exist…” We have not heard a word about any sort of library up till now, and the sole purpose of that line was to inform the audience that Zhao in the past went to some mythical library nobody cares about. Probably to explain a scene further in the movie - we just don’t know that yet. The movie spends every second making sure we don’t get confused by the vastness of the world by blatantly stating everything. Show, don’t tell, …show more content…
All this and much more is forced down the audience’s throats by having one character just saying it straight to the camera. I wouldn’t call that a movie. I’d call it the next badly written book in the Twilight series. Did I accidentally watch the version of the film designed so that even the blind could experience the film’s agony to its fullest? In The Last Airbender, everyone is so eager to tell the audience their entire life story that there’s no mystery. Let me help you out here, Shyamalan. If you want to know how to do exposition right, watch Mad Max: Fury Road. The background, the culture, and the past of the Citadel is implied almost exclusively through brilliant visuals of the surroundings and the actions of the characters. At no point do I recall a teenage girl explaining things in narration. Maybe that’s why Mad Max: Fury Road was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, and The Last Airbender was nominated for 10 Razzie awards (which is a parodic award ceremony “celebrating” the worst movies of the
Often, when a story is told, it follows the events of the protagonist. It is told in a way that justifies the reasons and emotions behind the protagonist actions and reactions. While listening to the story being cited, one tends to forget about the other side of the story, about the antagonist motivations, about all the reasons that justify the antagonist actions.
Throughout the fantasy film, Conan the Barbarian, the directors use many different film techniques to imply to the audience a specific message or deeper meaning. The film is about a young boy losing his family and being forced into slavery under the ruling of Thulsa Doom and his followers. Conan grows up being exposed to a barbaric lifestyle. He then uses this lifestyle to defeat Thulsa Doom and the disturbing ritual-like worshiping of the serpent. The directors use of cinematography to convey relationships, and costumes to portray the time period and social status of the characters.
In Absalom, Absalom! the act of narration blurs the selfhood of the characters. Quentin and Shreve lose their senses of self while relaying the story of the Sutpens. They become the people they are relating the story of, most notably Bon and Henry. The act of narrating has a way of moving characters outside of selfhood and into a state of fluidity that allows the story-tellers to re-create the tale in a way that changes it from its original and gives it a newly invented life.
I went to watch The Fault in our Stars and returned back with a big disappointment. Thinking all night what went wrong. The movie was nice, the characters, the story, then why didn’t I liked it? Definitely not to blame the people who made it. To blame the people who brought hallucinating thoughts and eventually made me believe all of it. Just like Percy’s essay I also couldn’t find the dogfish in the Shakespeare sonnet. I wanted to watch the movie with a curiosity. As people told me how emotional and perfection the movie was. How two people suffering with cancer fell in love and died at the end. One of the reasons are predictable. They already told me what was in the movie that kind of killed the part of enjoying
Throughout the fantasy film Conan the Barbarian, the director uses many different film techniques to imply to the audience a specific message or deeper meaning behind his intentions of the way the film was made. The movie is about a young boy named Conan losing his family and being forced into slavery under the ruling of Thulsa Doom. Conan grows up being exposed to a barbaric lifestyle. He uses this lifestyle to defeat Thulsa Doom and the disturbing ritual-like worshiping of the serpent. The directors use of cinematography to convey relationships, and costumes and makeup to portray the time period and social status of the characters.
Nicole Hendricks USP 107 Final IDs Professor James Ingram. “Empire Strikes Back” Mayors Source: Lecture 18 Meaning: An “Empire Strikes Back” mayor refers to the white republican mayor that often times comes into office following a minority mayor. In cases such as the “Empire Strikes Back” mayor, the minority mayor has failed to hold forth to the issues that he intended to solve upon being elected. The minority mayor was elected in order to improve racial tensions. Yet, the minority mayor must somewhat “dilute” his stance in order to appeal to multiple ethnicities, rather than just his.
film was much too serious and I did not like the factor that most of the
The movie I chose to analyze for historical accuracy was War Horse. This movie was set in the First World War, starting in Britain but the story also explored France and Germany during this time period as well. Three scenes will be analyzed: the trench warfare scene between the British and the Germans, the scene where the British soldiers were gassed, and the scene where the British were getting patched up and nursed. War Horse does well to stick to the historical accuracy of what happened during the First World War due to the fact that the three scenes that I have chosen to analyze are not embellished and are close to what really happened.
What a lot of people love about movies, is how believable they are- and when it’s something maybe like, Harry Potter where the main theme is magic, the movie makes you want to believe it. This movie, sadly, is neither believable or makes you want to believe it. And I’m pretty sure that everyone would want to watch a believable
...ight is present as the main character retells their life story, but is capable of exhibiting the naivety and inexperience that the character possessed at specific stations throughout their life.
Peter Jackson directed three films that is a part of The Hobbit trilogy. The films are called An Unexpected Journey, The Desolation of Smaug and There and Back Again. It is an adaption of the 1937 novel by J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Jackson has also directed the prequel of The Hobbit films called the The Lord of the Rings (film series).
Film Analysis - The Notebook Introduction The film is portrayed in the past and present scenario setting. It is based on a young couple’s love and passion for one another, but are unexpectedly separated due to the disapproval of the teen girl parents and the social differences in their life. At the start of the movie, it displays a nursing home style setting with an elderly man named Duke (James Garner), reading to an elderly woman named Mrs. Hamilton (Gena Rowlands), whose memory is inevitably deteriorating. The story he reads to her is a love story about two teenagers named Allie (Rachel McAdams) and Noah (Ryan Gosling), that met in the 1940’s at a carnival in Seabrook Island, South Carolina.
Every year new movies are released and I am always impressed the quality and effort put into making an effective
A typical story is littered with details, explaining the history of the world the story takes place in, who the characters in the story are, all the while remaining correlated to the plot and subplots that drive the story forward. The story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson however does not follow these conditions, as the reader is left to interpret a majority of the story on their own as it progresses. Jackson is not the only writer to incorporate a style of selective exposition in their work; Raymond Carver is widely recognized for his rejection of explanation and the use of characters that do not always communicate with one another, both of which are elements which Jackson incorporates into her own story. Initially, a lack of exposition may seem detrimental to the story, but instead it plays to the “mysterious nature of story” according to Charles E. May in his essay ‘Do You See What I’m Saying?’: The Inadequacy of Explanation and the uses of Story in the Short Fiction of Raymond Carver. Therefore, by refusing to expound upon setting, characters, and plot allows the author to create mystery, and the reader to form their own interpretations of the story.
Mulan seems to be a feminist film which encourages individual women to take care of themselves. However, the film is not free from traditional gender roles. While the film may be progressive by removing the "damsel in distress" plot, further analysis shows it isn’t a feminist film at all. Disney’s Mulan reinforces a black and white societal role of gender that privilege men over women. In contrast the poem is incredibly progressive, it shows a woman fighting just as well as men and men accepting her as a powerful warrior not being jealous of her power. The poem removes gender roles whereas the Disney movie reinforces them.