The Western

Some characteristics of Westerns are cowboys, horses, guys, trains, and a lot of chasing.

The Man who shot Liberty Valance is a Western because it is in the old days and there are a lot of cowboys and not a lot of technology. I think that this is a western because people are dress in oldies cowboy clothes and they didn't have cars back then, but they have horses to ride around with.

Film Noir Slang

Do you have the sugar?

Yea I got the cabbage.

Did you pop him?

Nah, but I stuck it to him in the puss.

Did anyone see your guys confrontation?

I saw a punk walk by.

Do you think he will spill the beans to Johns?

No, it was a clean sneak.

Send some of our boys to pump metals at him?

Alright, we'll throw lead at him.

By: Brandon Arellano, Joshua Lepisi, Phong Nguyen

Film Noir

1. In your own words, define Film Noir.

My own definition of film noir is that they use setting and tone to describe the plot of the film and Film Noir is usually about crimes in the Forties and Fifties.

2. Compare your definition to the definition of the film critics.

I think that the definition of the film critics is a little more accurate and somewhat the same as mine. But I didn't get the part about the people crossing the lines and reaping the consequence.

3. Have you seen any of the quintessential films? Do you know any of the directors?

I have seen the most quintessential film which is An Inconvenient Truth. The director of that film is David Guggenheim.

Film Studies Binder Check

1. I organized according to the date that we did the assignment.

2. We have test, review sheets, essays, camera angles sheet, definition of terms, and etc....

3. We are on the year of 1941 on the timeline.

4. Yes, my view of the world of film has change a lot because I thought that back then they have sound like today. Also, I didn't know much about the film techniques and how the director use them to make it more interesting.

5. We have done Montage project, finding pictures to tell a story project, and currently podcast project. These projects help us understand it better and reinforce the stuff that we have learn in this class. I would think that the more we do project the better we are going to get at it.

Horror Movie

My favorite horror movie is SAW VI. I think it was the part that the people that were put in the game was scary because they have to do stuff to save themselves and sometimes they have to cut their body parts. The film techniques that they use is close-up, medium-shot, long-shot, and a lot of cross-cutting and tell us what the people are seeing in the room.

Hays Code by Phong Nguyen, Brandon Arellano

1. 20 movies that violates Hays Codes:

-District 9: Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be created for its violation.

-Zombieland: Blood, Gore, kissing, brutal killing

-Longest Yard: obscured scene, profanity.

-Transformers 2: robot-like life, violence, destructions of public places.

-28 weeks later: blood, gore, brutal killing.

-Blue Streak: robbers, bad influence, and bad guy won.

-Batman: burning of two face, torture, brutal, public destruction and cause terror.

-Jarhead: nudity, war, violence, brutal kills, body parts being blown everywhere

-Blackhawk Down: violence scene, profanity, body parts being blown everywhere.

-Prom Night: obscured scene, violence, terror, horriffied, torture, brutal killing

-Quarantine: terror, scene, violence, disease that cause people to kill

-Paranormal Activity: gore scene, obscured, violence, spiritual, jumping scenes, screaming

-Grid-Ron Gang: gangster in block, juvenile, gang influence, violence

-Race for Witch Mountain: criminals, aliens, abduction, and violence, reckless driving, places that doesn't exist.

-Garfield 2: talking animals, insults, bad language

-Beowulf: nudity, violence, make believe creatures, dragons, demons

-Underworld 2: vampires, nudity, sex scene, werewolf, violence

-Twilight: vampire, werewolf, kissing, killing, violence, brutal killing

-Star Wars: make believe, violence, flying starship, torture, shorting

-Lion King: talking animals, violence, killing, happy

2. The effect of having censorship in the movie really takes away part of the movie because it add more action into the movie. The positive affects of censorship is that it cancel private parts, profanity, and perversion. The negative effects is that it takes away parts of the movie, can't understand the whole plot, and it is really weird.

3. A guy that was working at McDonalds and he got fire because he didn't satisfied the customer and then the customers reported him and saying that he try to rape her. After he got fire, he went to look for another job and he met another woman and then they live happily ever after.

4.A guy that was working at McDonalds and he was a dressing inappropriate. After work, he and his female coworkers did so making love in the kitchen on the counter and the boss caught him and fire him. After he got fired, he cursed and light the McDonald on fire and kill all the cops and fled to Mexico. Then, he was save in Mexico.

Gangster Movies

I think that American likes gangster movies so much because it has a lot of violence, strong language, obscured scene, and a lot of actions. The popularity of these movies tells a lot about us because we likes to see a huge amount of actions in movies today. These movies tells absolute about our culture because it is just made up, but some of it can be true. My favorite gangster movie is The Fast and The Furious series because it has racing and a lot of actions in it. It also makes my adrenaline goes much faster and feel like I am actually in the movie. I also like Swordfish and Scarface. All of these movie usually have the bad guy or mafia boss died in the end and the heroes is free from his trouble.

Introduction on Metropolis and Modern Times

Have you ever seen the movie Modern Times or Metropolis. Well, I saw both of the film Metropolis and Modern Times. They were both great movies that I watch and I had to say both of them have wonderful film techniques throughout the movie. Metropolis is a film that portrays workers as being robots because they keep on working and working. The boss’s son fell in love with a poor girl. The son and Maria tried to get the cooperation from the workers and the head of the city. While the mad scientist is trying to get his revenge on Frederic and so he uses the woman that Freder is in love with to destroy the city Metropolis. Modern Times describe the hardship of people during the Great Depression. It shows Chaplin get into trouble by accident and he eventually got fired and got put in jail. As he was in jail, robbers came to rescued their colleges and he put up a fight with them. After he rescued the police, the police chief give him a letter so that people can give him work. He met the girl and then he decided to work so they can get a house. Even though, he is not successful in the end; he still got the girl that he wanted. Even though, they are good movies; I think one of them is better than the other. I will explain to the different between science fictions and comedy.

Buster Keaton Questions

1. He got his start by performing on stage with his parents when he was a kid. His family and vaudeville influence him by him keeping a serious look and his dad is always abusing him, but he stills love the guy and respect him.

2. Keaton's comedy is unique because he designs the set and do all of his humor in an organise way. He also does a lot of stuff by accident and making it looks funny. This is how he makes his film so unique and very humorous. Keaton's comedies are unique because he had a script to work with while Chaplin doesn't.

3. The rwite compared Keaton to Chaplin in the article is by saying that Keaton is a more organise way and he does his humors by acting serious. He also said that Keaton doesn't need a funny hat and shoes to be funny. He said that Chaplin works were just stuff that he did over and over again unlike Keaton who thinks of a scene to shoot. The writer appears to have a bais toward Keaton's work than Chaplin's work.

4. Keaton's career ended because he was becoming more alcoholic and his films were not getting a lot of money for the company MGM. So they decided to fire him. Also another reasons for his failure was that his voice that really match his silent character and he always view himselfs as a failure. Then he got depressed and became woeful. He couldn't come up with a script and the company jsut crush him indifferently.

Parallel Sequencing

Modern Times has good acting, lighting, and music. The acting was wonderful and it was hilarious. The lighting in Modern Times was more high key than Metropolis because it is more cheerful and it is like that world in Modern Times still have happiness, even though the people doesn't have job and are starving. The acting and the musics in Modern Times really go together and it is like the are mesh together to make a wonderful masterpiece. Modern Times have a lot of really random music, but they use a lot of acting to tell the story and really get you on the hook right away when you first watch it.
Metropolis even though it has acting, lighting, and music I think that it was not that much of a great movie because it was kind of creepy anf very dramatic. The acting of Metropolis was not okay because they over act it and it was way to dramatic for people to like it. The lighting that they use aws mostly low key which gets boring after awhile and you want to watch a different movie instead. The music did go with the story, but it has some very negative effects. It adds more dramatic to the acting of the characters. Too long and it is kind of confusing when you watch it. The part where they show Freder hallucinating makes me feel very dizzy from all the circling around and stuff.

Metropolis and Modern Times

Metropolis and Modern Times both uses pretty much the same techniques of lighting. During the movie Metropolis, I notice that they do use a lot of black and white to show the difference b/w the rich and the poor people. They uses color to created different emotions that we have as we watch it. Modern Times doesn't have that much lighting even though they still uses black and white. Modern Times mostly depends on acting. The acting cause people to laugh, find it amusing, and also flat-out hilarious. It also uses a lot of white rather than black to show happiness and joyfulness. The time card in Metropolis and Modern Times are very different because one uses that to create suspense and the other one is very plain. The one in Modern Times jsut tells us what is happening and there is no suspense; pretty musch straight forward informations. I think that Metropolis and Modern have a lot in commons and a lot of differences.

Film Studies

The director is Edwin Porter and he created the film called Battleship Potemkin. This film is important because it shows how people back then use contrast in black and white back and how do they use a lot of editing. so that they can use it to control people emotions and feelings. It is also important because they didn't have a lot of advance technology back then so it was pretty amazing to see them actually become creative and use their different techniques in film.