Gangster Movies

Scarface

The untouchables

The godfather

Casino

Pulp fiction

rise to power of an organized gang, sometimes focusing on the gang's leader, as well as their fall. The message is almost always crime doesn't pay, though sometimes it focuses on their humanity making it more about a means to an end.

Genre Podcast Reflection

Science Fiction and Fantisy

*Star Wars

*lord of the rings

*futuristic

*imaginary

*technology

massacre: the lord of the rings

Comedy

*death

*drugs

*horror

*modern times

*charlie chaplin

*make people laugh

*always changing as the society does

*step brothers

*prop comedy

*happy gilmore

massacre: dude where's my car

The Musical

Lion King

Hairspray

High School Musical

Mulan

Marry Popins

They all have many sense that the characters are singing.

The plot is focused around the songs.

The songs tell a story.

Female Characters in Hawks

They use a lot of the same lines.

Their body language is the same.

Their emotion as the say their lines and stand in front of the man.

It is always to a man they are talking in that "sexy" way.

Their clothing is similar. A dress that is to them sexy and turns on the man

Stagecoach Reflection

Stagecoach follows the conventions of the Western by:

it was in the desert or like the middle of nowhere

it had the cowboys and indians

it was rugged

the move of homesteaders

near the border

there are lawbreakers

small town saloons

stand offs

showdown between hero and villian

The Western

True Grit, Rango, Brokeback Mountain,

- devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West.

- often portray how primitive and obsolete ways of life confronted modern technological or social changes.

- often have a more pessimistic view, glorifying a rebellious anti-hero and highlighting the cynicism, brutality and inequality of the American West.

- set in the American West that embod[y] the spirit, the struggle and the demise of the new frontier.

Cross-Pollination Between Hollywood and the World

World Cinema is to be thanked by Hollywood for many styles of film such as neo-realism, german expressionalism. Italy had movies concerning neo realism, focusing on poverty and depressions, while Japan's movies focused on samurai and killers. The French New Wave movement also introduced the idea of reminding the audience that the movie is in fact a movie. They utilized techniques such as jump cuts, low budgets.

Hollywood is responsable for the majority of shots used in films today. One example is the superimposition used in Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin, and the time passing by in a few shots in Citizen Kane provided influence for techniques for other movies. The actual making of movies, film techniques, and different angles.