I think it’s questionable that the “Other” has a certain look or characteristic that makes it visually obvious that a person is the bad guy or “the other” I think movies can be narrated in a way where the viewer can tell who the director wanted the other to be just based on the story [...]
Archive for April, 2008
That’s questionable #10
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The Other”
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Personal:
I chose the movie “Blow” because it’s a great movie and I like the way it depicts the life of cocaine-trafficking pioneer George Jung. The film illustrates the life of a drug trafficker as lively, exciting, and interesting. Watching “Blow” sort of makes you wish you lived during the cocaine-trafficking prime of the 70’s and early 80’s and that [...]
That’s questionable #9
Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I think it’s questionable for us to attempt to define both Arab masculinity and femininity just by viewing various forms of media because as is commonly stated in class the media is so much of the time were we get our stereo types and learn to view and identify mass cultures of people so just because the media [...]
Arab femininity
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Personal:
After viewing various visuals and audio visuals of Arab women, specifically those of the Muslim religion, my personal definition of Arab femininity is of course one who is of the female gender, who while is intelligent and has the ability to be independent, must be submissive to [...]
That’s questionable #8
Posted in Uncategorized on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I think it’s questionable that everything in a movie from the words, and lighting etc. to every camera frame and vector is done for a specific reason and has a meaning behind it. I think in amazingly good movies as well as award winning movies this might be the case, but I think it’s just impossible [...]
Movie Scene analyzation
Posted in Uncategorized on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGDvy4rgNMA
Scene from the movie Crash
(the part of the scene I analyzed doesn’t appear until the sceene in the house of the couple that got robbed)
This film was released directed by Paul Haggis and released fall of 2005. It stars Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Dashon Howard, Ludacris, Thandie [...]
