Before reading or watching the film, I knew little about Cesar Chavez. I only knew that he fought for the rights of farm workers, but had no idea of how he achieved it. I was surprised to learn about some of his innovations that later lead to his success. Especially since some were already used by other strong leaders previously from him. The two innovations that stood out to me the most were the use of nonviolence and boycotting. Both innovations helped Cesar Chavez in achieving fair rights for other farm workers. These innovations are still used and seen today since they have been effective in accomplishing change.
The Importance of Being Earnest film produced in 2002 compares to the original version reveal different changes. The change modify the motion which the author would like to transmit in the original document. The important changes are the modification of some stage of direction. The actors changed some stages of direction and created their own. The second change is skipping of some sequences. The actor of the film choose to ignore some sequences which were in the original version. Moreover, the actors added some stages which were not in the preview version. The other point is the incapacity of transmitting all the motion which we can perceive in the reading. Finally, the actors did not show enthusiasm in their performance as we can feel it in
The two movies I chose to watch this week was “The Road to El Dorado” and “The Emperor's New Groove” as my choice of animated films to analyze. The animated film, “The Road to El Dorado” stereotypical representations of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality are added in children’s films. I see sexuality played out most of the time in these Disney films. There is only one woman, and her name is Chel. There are many single female characters in otherwise male dominated movies who are portrayed as sexy. It is unfortunately very common and reinforces the idea of women as tokens, and the audience will not find stories interesting unless their focus is men’s issues and lives. As soon as Chel appears she is immediately characterized as an object that
Picture Manhattan in 1860, a time before the city had been dolled up and gotten ready for the silver screen, before the glamour and allure took over. Amsterdam Vallan (DiCaprio) is a young Irish man that migrates to the USA at a young age. Amsterdam’s story takes place in Five Points District of New York, a filthy and dangerous part of the city before it was deleted form history. As a young boy Vallan witnessed his father’s murder at the hand of William Cutting or Bill the Butcher (Day-Lewis) during one of their many gang wars. As Amsterdam’s story progresses along side The Butcher they become inseparable, but Amsterdam had ulterior motive. Ultimately, Amsterdam attempts to betray his new found ally in order to avenge his father’s death. Historical accounts of events are almost always synthesized by the storyteller; in the case Gangs of New York Martin Scorsese tells of Five Points, The Dead Rabbits Riots, and The Draft Riots, but is his fictional story accurate through history?
The movie begins in New York, in 1843, with a gang fight. Bill “the butcher” Cutting’s gang of “nativists” have challenged the “dead rabbits” (a gang of mostly Irish immigrants) to a fight to settle once and for all who is the most powerful gang in the area. After an intense battle the “nativists” win by killing the leader of the “dead rabbits”, also Amsterdam’s (the main character’s) father.
Specifically, Riis’ photos speak to the overwhelming violence and crime that took place in the Lower East Side in the 1880s. To put it simply, Riis made the decision to publish this book in order to document crime in this area as well as bring attention to the horrible living conditions. As stated by the Tenement Museum, “Rather than blame the poor for these deplorable conditions, he asserted that the environment itself contributed to poverty.” Additionally, the prior theory to Riis’ was that the poor were to blame for their own suffering. However, the Progressive Era soon challenged this notion by examining the economic structure at the time. Author Clayton Patterson comments on the issue of the time: “Two decades ago New York’s loss of housing and jobs, and increase in violence and drugs, created an unforeseen crisis in the Lower East Side, setting the stage for political, social and artistic upheaval.” All of this corruption and turmoil for the citizens eventually affected New York greatly in later years to come. However, focusing on the 1880s and 1890s, lots of gangs were emerging partially due to the influx of immigrants. Cultures clung and stuck together, traveling as one and competing with one another for territory. The tension was prominent, especially among gangs such as the Jewish gang, the Black Hand, and an Italian gang also known as the
If the name Serpico sounds familiar, it may be remembered from a movie. Frank Serpico is portrayed in the 1973 movie, “Serpico” starring Al Pacino. This movie may be loved by many but it’s important to realize that its characters are real men and the story line is very real. Although most police officers work very hard to do their jobs within ethical standards of the law, it is often not hard to find some type of corruption within a department.
The film outlines crooked cops from the perspective of the cops involved and the drug dealer they decided to work for. The film is set in Brooklyn, New York where officer’s Michael Dowd and Kenny Eurell worked for the 75th precinct which serves that specific area. Michael Dowd joined in 1982, during which time criminal activity in the area was at an all-time high. Cop killings were prevalent and officers were only making a salary in the low 30’s which was barely enough to support a man with a family and a mortgage. An expensive taste for life made it merely impossible
There is no secret that films in the genre of biopic can often stretch the truth. These types of movies are frequently mere depictions of myth that is loosely based on factual accounts rather than being accurate representations of history. Many ethical dilemmas arise from these circumstances. Among those are the damaging representations that may skew a viewer’s perception of how history may have actually played out. Should filmmakers warn viewers that certain historical details of their forthcoming motion picture have been changed for the purpose of film? What are the editorial ethics when important details pertaining to vital pieces of history are left on the proverbial cutting room floor? The brand new film “Cesar Chavez” does a lot of work to bring about the often untold story of the California migrant farmworkers labor activism and organizing, yet in the process, manages to erase the pertinent contributions of the Filipino who many consider as the pioneers of these movements.
Aside from its acting, the other major influence which Mean Streets had upon American film-makers was through it's use of a rock n' roll soundtrack (almost perfectly integrated with the images), and in its depiction of a new kind of screen violence. Unexpected, volatile, explosive and wholly senseless, yet, for all that, undeniably cinematic violence. The way in which Scorsese blends these two - the rock and roll and the violence - shows that he understood instinctively, better than anyone else until then, that cinema (or at least this kind of cinema, the kinetic, visceral kind) and rock n' roll are both expressions of revolutionary instincts, and that they are as inherently destructive as they are creative. This simple device - brutal outbreaks of violence combined with an upbeat soundtrack - has been taken up by both the mainstream cinema at large and by many individual `auteurs', all of whom are in Scorsese's debt - Stone and Tarantino coming at once to mind.
New York circa 1950 to 1960, when the film would take place, was full of gang violence and juvenile delinquents. Arthur Laurents, and Leonard Bernstein had been meeting up, trying to collaborate on a work which would end up falling through. Spying a Los Angeles Times headline on gang violence in 1955 be...
In this episode, New York City is portrayed in a very noir fashion, with the episode almost exclusively taking place at night. This echoes the way New York City was represented in “The Angels Take Manhattan”.
At the start of the film was to the camera goes through the streets of
Martin Scorsese truly captures the film with his evocative directing where he often use slow-mo camera shots and dark, eye-wielding camera angles to capture the decay of New York City. Scorsese is in top form with his directing where he makes the camera use as a viewpoint of Bickle¡¯s character or as a third party watching Bickle¡¯s descent into paranoia and madness. Even with the film¡¯s final act whe...
There are some media that show the hardships that the city and the people of New York go through, which brings the true image of the city to light. Others like Sex and the City that uses only certain parts of the city but very rarely do these parts focus on the things a big city would normally bring, it seems to focus on mostly good qualities. This show is unsuccessful in portraying the real New York because even if the show is in the city very little attention is on it throughout the city. Some media lets us see the opposite of this American Dream, even if it is just a glimpse into that unwanted life; that even when all hell breaks loose we still want to keep this image, the perfect life, the only thing we recognize as what New York is. The show displays only the women’s life, is does not really go into detail on what the city ...