“I feel the need, the need for speed” This quote is one of the most famous from the movie “Top Gun” featuring A list stars Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Meg Ryan, and Val Kilmer. “Top Gun” is a movie about a fighter pilot in the Navy with the “handle” of Maverick played by Cruise. He is said to be one of the best “instinctive” pilots who is sent to an advanced flight school where he meets his rival “Iceman” played by Kilmer. Maverick meets a civilian instructors that he falls in love with named “Charlie” played by McGillis. The soundtrack for this move is amazingly epic with many songs still being played frequently to this day. Famous film critic Roger Ebert had this to say about the soundtrack. “In one sequence after another, the sound track …show more content…
“Top Gun” starts by showing an aircraft carrier. You can see people prepping the flight deck by fueling engines, giving signals and preparing fighter jets for takeoff. The song “Danger Zone” by Kenny Loggins starts out slow, builds the suspense, and just explodes with excitement as jet engines rev up and take off into the sky. The crew that had been preparing for the moment on the flight deck are seen standing in awe and proud of the accomplishments that were made. This exciting scene set the mood that changes as “Maverick” who is a very confident pilot and man looks for …show more content…
The suspense was built up leading to this song. “Maverick” was actually upset by “Charlie” over words that he had mistaken the context too and decided to drive off on his motorcycle in a rage. She didn’t want everyone to know that she had fallen for him and chased after him to tell him that. It concluded with a very steamy lovemaking scene where this perfectly fitting song played that really brought the viewers into the romantic emotional aspect of this movie. Then after the climatic dogfight where “Maverick and “Charlie” parted ways for a little while, they rekindled their romance and led us into the final
music to analyse—in fact, the music runs almost constantly throughout the film without very little
Throughout our lives, it seems when we have no one else to help us, our most challenging problems occur leaving ourselves to use our wit and emotion to persevere. People can have test or a big game where we have teachers and coaches to help us prepare and succeed. However, in the movie, High Noon, a Marshall named Will Kane is faced with a challenge of an arriving Frank Miller looking to kill. In the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game", a hunger named Rainsford is deserted on a island after he fell off his yacht, and he would soon find out a sociopath with the unique taste for hunting down humans was out for him. With the two characters in these suspense-building products somewhat trapped we can take out many lessons and ideas from the action packed movie and short story. The movie, High Noon, and the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game, are alike and at the same time very different.
The film elects to use a soundtrack comprised of only popular music from the 1970s. Frith writes, “The sociologist of contemporary popular music is faced with a body of songs, records, stars and styles which exists because of a series of decisions, made by both producers and consumers, about what is a successful sound” (Frith, 134). I reference this quote because it is important to note that this film was released in 1993. The people who are responsible for choosing the soundtrack have the luxury of knowing what music is able to ...
The scene where they make it too shows that they have survived the hard times and have overcome the AIDS epidemic. The last extreme long shot shows the rural desert contrasts with their bright costumes, letting the audience feel their accomplishment of climbing King Canyon in full drag. The music in the background is a soft slow song that gets more dramatic the longer it plays, finally getting to its climax when it reaches the top. This music can mean that their journey was slow at the beginning but got a lot more interesting the longer they drove.
Many years ago, a popular movie, "Top Gun" coined the phrase "I feel the need, the
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film music. On the one side there are the purists, who cry foul at the piecing together of
The movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is based in the 1970s. It depicts the highly male dominated broadcast team and shows the shake up when a woman is hired as a reporter and has aspirations of becoming an anchor the television station. The particular scene shows Ron Burgundy is flustered because Veronica Coringstone is impeding on his masculinity. Burgundy exemplifies hegemonic masculinity by explaining he is a man and a professional, when Coringstone says he his acting like a baby he takes offense and explains he is a man and he his ultimately better than a women because indeed he is a man. Burgundy states, “'I’m a man who discovered the wheel, and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That's what kind of man I am. You're just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a 1/3 the size of us...It's science (Robertson, McKay, 2004). The clip also depicts Burgundy’s desire for Coringstone to be the typical submissive female he is used to. The articles will identify the gender stereotypes and access if they are true or false based on the research.
Maverick is sent into the air but it takes him a few moments to make a decision. Iceman and the ship's captain are yelling at him to help. Maverick is thinking about everything he has gone through so far and all of the sudden decides to start coming after the enemy planes. Together Maverick and Iceman are able to overcome the enemy planes and bring a victory back to the ship.This relates to the theme, because when they land and Maverick and Iceman get out they run over to each other and hug. They seem like they are best friends and for the rest of the movie they become friends and overcome their hate for one another that consumed them for their time at the
Analysis of Film Saving Private Ryan Saving Private Ryan is a film based on the horrific mission of a group. of soldiers who risked life and death to save one man private James. Ryan. The film begins on D-day when Private James Ryan is in an old war. Veteran visits the war memorial of his hero and the main character in the play Captain John Miller, played by Tom Hanks.
“Shooter” is an action movie that was produced in 2007. It starts off by visually describing the military career of the protagonist, Bob Lee Swagger. His spotter and best friend gets killed by enemy fire, but Swagger survives. After this scene, the movie describes the life that he now lives in the United States. He decides to live in the woods with his dog after he retired from the military. Everything goes as Swagger wants it to until a supposed branch of the government shows up at his door and needs his expertise to aid them in preventing the assassination of the United States president (Rotten Tomatoes). From this point the movie takes a turn that Swagger cannot come back from.
In Hollywood there is also a lack of representation with executives because the most of the power resides in people that are ethnically white. Brent Lang and Dave McNary believe that black films are usually not picked up by studios because very few people in powerful positions are black. Therefore, most studios don’t understand what would appeal to black audiences. This causes analysts to undervalue the potential profit of black films, turning executives away from being interested in pursuing black film projects. Examples of black movie profits far exceeding predictions are found in this quote from their article , How Tracking Fails Diverse Movies: “"Straight Outta Compton 's" $60.2 million debut was roughly $20 million more than most trade publications had predicted. "War Room," a faith-based drama about the power of prayer, more than doubled predictions with its $11.3 million launch. And last weekend 's champ, Sony 's "Perfect Guy," exceeded expectations by nearly $15 million when it kicked off with $29.4 million” (Lang and McNary). The history between black and whites in America come into play with the existence of a phenomenon called the “Hollywood plantation arrangement” which alludes to the relationship of black slaves and white slaveowners pre-civil war. This idea describes how “the relationship between African Americans and White Americans is rooted in a tradition of ownership, guidance, and responsibility” which “directly influences African Americans’ ability to access economic power and ownership, thereby limiting creative control and cultural protection (Ndoubou 7). The ruling class, which in Hollywood is the whites, use their power to maintain control by creating these images in media that make the blacks seem lesser...
Overall, the score was beautiful and appropriate, adding suspense and mystery at all the right times. The sound effects added psychological flavor to the story without drawing too much attention to it.
The film, Of Two Minds, is based on real life accounts of individuals living with bipolar disorder. Before watching this film, I had an idea of what bipolar disorder is , but after viewing this film I was completely mistaken. Previously, I thought being bipolar was going from a “normal” mood to an angry or sad mood in a matter of seconds and could be simply fixed by taking medicine. But my previous thoughts were completely wrong and bipolar disorder is very serious and complicated. I didn’t know the severity of this disease and I think a lot of the general public is uneducated about bipolar disorder as well as mental illness. Terri Cheney describes having bipolar disorder as, “Take the best day you ever had and multiply it by a million, it 's like a flu but one hundred times worse. It 's having flu in your mind."
The importance of music in movies is highly regarded for manipulating the viewer’s emotions and helping them immerse into the story. Music is one of the prime elements in cinema. Without it a movie would feel dull and unexciting. There are three elements in a movie: one is acting, the second is picture, and the third one is music. It is a holy trinity; if incomplete, there would be a lack of sensation and excitement. Both acting and picture can stand independently from one another, but music is the one that makes the movie memorable.