White House Down!

Movie White House Down

Director: Roland Emmerich

Actors: Channing Tatum    Jamie Foxx    Maggie Gyllenhaal    Jason Clarke    Richard Jenkins    Joey King    James Woods    Nicolas Wright    Jimmi Simpson    Michael Murphy    Rachelle Lefevre    Lance Reddick    Matt Craven    Jake Weber    Peter Jacobson    Barbara Williams    Kevin Rankin    Garcelle Beauvais    Falk Hentschel

With this film it is based on Action and suspense keeps you wanting more and thinking what if this really happens what do we do or are we prepared.

Channing Tatum: Wow is all I can say about this man..  No really when it comes to watching him in the movie roles, he has tried to play hard core and sexy.  I’m sure he can pull those off, the down fall to that is that, that’s all he’s going to be able to play.  Take a look at White House Down he plays a part that is the protector.  He is standing beside the president to protect him.  With his acting in this movie he uses the realism type of acting.  With his acting he will always be placed in hero or action movies.  He plays these roles the best as that how the audience sees him know.

Jamie Foxx:  He is one in a million when it comes to his acting.  He is able to go from being funny to being very serious, and that is a good trait to have in the movie industry.  In White House Down he plays the president. With this role he plays the realism type.

Maggie Gyllenhaal: Not a name that too many are familiar with, she has played in many movies but she’s what they call an actor with many faces.  She can play roles of women younger than her to roles of many types.  She is also a realism in the movie White House Down.

The reason I chose to say they all were playing the realism type is because this movie is fast action and they pull you in not just for the acting but because of the way they always moving or because the way they place something in the scene with them. Realism, can also be thought of as naturalistic. This is acting that doesn’t draw attention to itself but instead gives the impression of genuine human action and reaction. What is considered realistic and natural, however, can change over the years and in particular situations.

Reference:

Goodykoontz, B. & Jacobs, C. P. (2014) Film: From watching to seeing (2nd ed.). San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

 

The Lion King!

Writer: Irene Mecchi (screenplay), Jonathan Roberts (screenplay)

Director: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff

Year: 1994

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Jim Cummings, Moira Kelly, Ernie Sabella, Nathan Lane, Robert Guillaume,

Singing Voice: Jason Weaver

The Lion King, the movie that everyone can watch and really enjoy.  This movie you don’t just have to be a kid to watch its one that we all can relate to.  The way the director put in play each scene the music.  Come on we all know the song Hakuna Matata.  When they decided to play this song it showed him growing up and it kind makes you believe that he has no worries when he faces his evil uncle.  There are many other songs and just back ground music that goes with the scenes. For instance when Young Simba is in the valley you hear the noise of rumbling, and when the camera turns you see a herd of animals coming straight for him.  That is a suspenseful feeling wondering what will happen.  They played that very well in to that scene.  There are so many different sounds throughout this movie that you just can’t hit on just one.  Without these sounds the movie would be lost, each sound gives the emotions of the scene, whether it’s sad or scary, and without the right sound it wouldn’t pull in.

Hakuna Matata!

Aint no passing craze!

It means no worries

For the rest your days

Its our problem free

Philosophy!

Hakuna Matata!

What Dream May Come

What Dreams May Come

Writer: Richard Matheson (novel), Ronald Bass (screenplay) (as Ron Bass)

Director: Vincent Ward

Year: 1998

Actors: Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Annabella Sciorra

The lighting on this film was amazing and how they change the light with almost every scene. The film starts

off in a dark place and gives you the feeling of gray kind of dark setting but then turns to bright colors. With this movie being a drama and based on the end of life we don’t think much of it being full of color.

When they use the bright colors we instantly move towards a happy movie or a kids movie that will be full of happy. With this movie and the lighting they picked the perfect setting with each changing of light. With every time they change the setting and the color setting it brings you to believe that you are right there and what he is seeing you are feeling.

This film was a head of its time and they did amazing with every changing light scene and how they made you feel what they were showing you.

Enough

Title: Enough

Writer: Nicholas Kazan 

Director: Michael Apted

Year: 2002

Actors: Dan Futterman, Jennifer Lopez, Bill Campbell, Juliette Lewis, Tessa Allen, Noah Wyle

Story: Enough is about a women who has had enough running from your abusive ex.  She decides to find someone who trains her in self defense to protect herself.  She has decided to go back to where he is and waits for him so that she can give him a taste of what he did to her. 

Plot: Slim (Jennifer Lopez) is a waitress at her friends diner when she meets two guys.  The first one teases her about her name and the other who is Mitch ( Billy Campbell) tells her that they made a bet that he could convince Slim to sleep with him.  Slim falls in love with Mitch and marries him.  They end up have a daughter Gracie (Tessa Allen).  Slim finds out a few years in to their marriage that Mitch has been cheating on her, she confronts him and he admits the whole thing.  Slim threatens to leave and Mitch becomes abusive to Slim.

Slim decides that she has had enough and goes to leave on night when Mitch stops her by pulling her hair throwing her to the ground and kicking her.  Slims friends who were there to help her escape hear the fight and come to Slims rescue. Mitch pulls a gun on them but they are holding Gracie so Mitch is unable to shot them.  Giving Slim time to get away.  She runs to her father who doesn’t know anything about her and he doesn’t trust her and only gives her a few dollars.  When Mitches friends pay him a visit he then comes to see that she is his daughter, sending her enough money to help her out.

Slim changes their names and think they are in the save but soon Mitch finds them again.  But this time she is ready for him and sprays him with pepper spray and leaves in a car.  Leading to a car chase and Gracie screaming in the back seat.  Slim realizes that she cant keep living like this.  She goes to a fiend who teaches her self-defense.  Slim goes back to Mitches house and breaks in hiding his gun and making it to where he is defenseless. When she confronts Mitch she tries to get him to hit her but he refuses at first.  But soon after she shows Mitch just what she can do killing Mitch so that her and Gracie can go on living a happy life. 

Chronology:  The film was told in chronological order.  This helping the viewers understand why Slim did what she did and that she was strong at the end protecting her daughter.

The chronological story also help in showing us how she had to over come her fears to be able to live a happy life.  That meaning she had to fight back to find her love in life.

If the film followed a different style then I think it would have ended badly and that Gracie would have been stuck with this abusive person.  Leaving this to be a negative effect on the audience and maybe not worth watching.

Resources:

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Date June 17, 2015

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