The Boondock Saints The film opens with mass in a Boston Catholic church where two Irish American twin brothers Connor and Murphy pray while a sermon is read. As the preacher begins his homily the brothers approach the altar and kiss the feet of a crucifix. As they depart the priest reminds the congregation that they should fear not just evil but all the indifference of good men. Connor and Murphy work at a local meatpacking plant and while celebrating St. Patrick’s day in a neighborhood bar three Russian “soldiers” enter and order everyone to leave as their organization has decided to evict the pub. As a bar brawl ensues and the twin brothers embarrass the Russian soldiers the two brother’s later resolve to rid Boston of evil men with the help of their friend and former mob package boy. The brothers accidentally kill mafia thugs turn themselves in and are released as heroes. Trading in valuables and weapons stolen from the mobsters and with the use Connor’s knowledge of Russian they try to locate a meeting between Russian syndicate bosses at a local hotel. In a city where the mob has completely taken over two fraternal twin brothers try and rid the city of crime and restore its cultural values and norms by stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Culture effects the …show more content…
The movie ends with three men the Saints and their father II Deuce declaring it their mission to destroy evil and recite their prayer one last time before killing another Russian syndicate boss. The media dubs the three "Saints", and the movie ends with various "man-on-the-street" interviews in which various Boston citizens reflect on the question "Are the Saints ultimately good, or
The film begins with Joseph, an Irish farmer, being removed from his land because he cannot pay rent. While mourning the death of his father he seeks revenge on the landlord who took his family’s land. This is where he runs into Shannon, a privileged
This is an immigration movie geared towards kids to show and teach them about immigration to America. It shows them the reasons they (the Mousekewitz) left their homeland Russia to come to America. In their case it was to escape the Czarist rule of the cats, parallel to most immigrants who escaped their land due to religious and political persecution. Once aboard the ship to America, it showed the long and unpleasant trip to New York Harbor, where in this movie, Fievel gets separated from his family to inclimate weather. Once they arrive in New York Harbor, it shows children the happiness immigrants got when they saw the statue of liberty and the process through Ellis Island to become a citizen of America. The rest of the movie takes place in America where it shows “political machines”, such as Warren T. Rat, who really is a cat but takes advantage of new immigrants by dressing as a mouse and receiving the mice’s trust. With trust came their money and broken promises, just as “political machines” really did back then. The movie shows the immigrants hardships and poor living conditions in America with tenement housing and unsanitary conditions.
Throughout the film there are two main characters. These two characters are Irish brothers that share a deep sense of their Catholic religion. Their names are Murphy and Connor McManus. Murphy and Connor are two normal men who are put in an extraordinary situation. Connor risks his own life to save the life of his brother. The situation starts out with a bar fight with two Russian mafia members. The Russians lose the fight with the two brothers; the next morning they come after the McManus brothers for revenge. Murphy and Connor kill the two men in self defense and go to the police station. While in the holding cell, they are given a message from a “spiritual force” to rid the world of evil men. The two brothers mutter “kill all that is evil, so all that is good may flourish”(The Boondock Saints) From that moment they devote themselves to a battle between good and evil. Another important character is David Della Rocco, also known as the “Funny Man” or just Rocco. Rocco is a package boy for the Yakaveta family which is involved in the Italian mafia. The head of the Yakaveta family is “Papa” Joe Yakaveta. Papa sets up Rocco in a situation to have him killed; Rocco finds out about papa's plans and decides to join forces with Murphy and Connor in killing evil people. The killings are mainly focused towards men with mafia affiliations. So Rocco tells the McManus brothers who to ki...
The auteur theory is a view on filmmaking that consists of three equally important premises: technical competence, interior meaning, and personal signature of the director. Auteur is a French word for author. The auteur theory was developed by Andrew Sarris, a well-known American film critic. Technical competence of the Auteur deals with how the director films the movie in their own style. Personal signature includes recurring themes that are present within the director’s line of work with characteristics of style, which serve as a signature. The third and ultimate premise of the Auteur theory is the interior meaning which is basically the main theme behind the film.
The film that interested me for this assignment was “Boyz n the Hood”. The movie was about a Los Angeles neighborhood expanding of drug and gang culture, with increasingly tragic results. It was about how one teen had family support to guide him on the right path in life regarding the social problems around him. The other two teens in the film wasn’t as fortunate and fell into the social problems of drugs, violence, and gangs; where one ended up dead.
Singleton begins the film by showing Tre, the protagonist, as a child. He is sent to live with his father, Furious, in “the hood” after acting out in school. There, he meets up with a group of friends and one day they journey to see a dead body. Singleton does this to show the children’s exposure to death at such a young age. It is not typical for a young child to see such things, so this symbolic gesture is effective at showing the viewer what kind of culture the children are being brought up in. Immediately after their encounter with the dead body the children are taunted by a group of gang members over a football. By setting this up immediately after the children’s encounter with death, Singleton has coupled gang violence and murder. This is an important to the cultural moment that Singleton is trying to encapsulate b...
The main protagonist of the film, Scotty Smalls, is introduced as a straight-A, friendless young boy who has just moved into a new neighborhood in new state. While
The film stays in line with classic noir in many ways. The usage of dark sets and high contrast lighting, which creates heavy shadows on the actors faces, makes the movie feel like it all happens at night and in dark alley ways. The story focuses on the inhumane parts of human nature. Each of the main characters experiences some kind of tragedy. For Vargas his tragedy was in dealing with Quinlin who has set out to frame him and his wife. For Quinlin his entire life represented a man consumed with darkness who lives his life with a “Touch of Evil.” Menzies was a hopeful man who looked up to Quinlin but was let down. For the viewer, film noir represents truth, even if it is not a truth that all people would like to hear.
The brothers and Rocco now enter the Sin Bin. Their mission is to kill Vincenzo. The brothers and Rocco grab the dancer and ask her how the viewing windows work. She explains it to them and points to the one Vincenzo is using. As the door goes up Vincenzo has a moment of shock before the brothers shoot him while reciting the family prayer. While the brothers and Rocco are there, they find two other scum targets and kill them as well.
Few films inspire such controversial conversation as that of The Boondock Saints. The crime-thriller, about Connor and Murphy MacManus, focuses upon the two Irish-American brothers as they find a new meaning in life by way of murdering the career criminals that infest the city of Boston. Sympathy toward their new career choice and the results produced from it causes a number of unexpected allies,
Chinatown builds upon the film noir tradition of exploiting expanding social taboos. Polanski added an entirely new dimension to classic film noir by linking up its darkness with the paranoid and depressed mood of post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, thereby extending the noir sense of corruption beyond the mean urban streets and to high governmental and privileged economic places. Chinatown may be set in 1930’s L.A., but it embodies the 1970’s. The film stands as an indictment of both capitalism and patriarchy going out of control. It implies that we are powerless in the face of this evil corruption and abusive power that is capable of anything, including incest: one of the most horrible breaches of human decency and social morality imaginable.
They witness a massacre and try to find a way out of the city before they are found and killed by the mob. The only job they can find is an all girl band so the two dress up as a woman. In addition to hiding, they both have their own. problems. Then there are the problems.
One of the more prevalent themes of this movie is racism, and how prejudicial mindsets ultimately lead to one’s own demise. The movie outlines how racism, among other things, can adversely affect someone’s judgment. After the father died, we see how the family gradually deteriorates financially as well as emotionally after Derek (the older brother played by Edward Norton) turns to a neo Nazi gang for an outlet, which eventually influences his younger brother Danny (played by Edward Furlong) to follow down ...
William Carlos Williams ends In the American Grain’s final chapter on Abraham Lincoln with the end of a violent, contradictory nature and the establishment of an identity “it was the end of THAT period” (Williams 234) . America has matured past adolescence but contemporary society finds itself in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Young adult males live without purpose or meaning and struggle against a conditioned, preexisting identity defined by history. As Tyler Durden restrains the narrator in Fight Club and reflects on the history of violence in the foundations of contemporary America, he argues the necessity of violence to create identity, “everything up to now is a story, and everything after now is a story” (Palahniuk p.75). The homosocial kiss and unwilling participation of the searing chemical burn is the moment of perfection the narrator lives for. The greatest moment in the narrator’s life is his understanding of deconstruction and violence to create identity. Human sacrifice is crucial in creating a cultural identity and middle-aged men living in a contemporary first world country have been denied the need for self-creation.
At the conclusion of the film we finally see the bits and pieces of the movie come together. Upon reaching Boca del Cielo the trio is finally in their idea of heaven. It is here while the boys and Luisa are drunk and toasting to life (Luisa) and sex (Julio and Tenoche)