Twin Warriors

The movie twin warriors deals with a lot of Chinese background. It is interesting how integrated that it is because it is a Chinese movie but it can be categorized under American cinema. The moral of the story seems like something that would only be done in American cinema. This movie is full of special effects. There is a special form of fighting called Tai chi that is used mostly in the ending of the movie. It looks like it consists of the matrix and bullet proof monk. The first time that i saw the movie i thought that all of that flying and special tricks like having no center of gravity was possible. The effects were really impressive because you could not tell that they were fake. The movie is about best friends who become worst enemies. The final battle is where the effect are used to their full potential. I don't feel like the sound effects were up to par. The wind felt like it was too close to the recorder because the volume was not that loud and you could hear the static.

A knights tale

A knights tale has a lot of first person shots. The whole movie was about a boy who wanted to change his stars. The director took this idea and ran with it. As the main character went through different experiences in life it was all filmed from a first person view. The whole movie seemed as if there was a camera and voice recorder inside the main characters head and the whole movie was being taped from inside. I personally like this effect. Especially when the main character is in the middle of a large crowd of people being insulted. It seems like you are actually in his position looking and listening at the crowd. It reminds me of when i was a child and my mother used to scold me in public. The costumes reminded me of prince and the pauper. Although through out most of the movie people were wearing knight costumes when they were wearing regular clothes you could separate the lower class from the upper class by looking at how they dressed.

Crocodile Dundee

In the beginning of crocodile Dundee the lady is going to the out back and she says to her boyfriend that she will be okay she is a new yorker. Then the settings switch extremely fast from a city with skyscraper to a vast expanse of land with only dirt and mountains. This drastic change shows that the lady will have a rough time dealing with the change. in the next scene she gets off of the helicopter and into the car. The helicopter follows the car as they both leave the camera view. This shows that she is going to have a transition in her life as she goes to Australia. The sound effects in the cocaine scene is so good that if you close your eyes you feel like you are really getting high. When he takes out his knife to cut the boy's shirt it looks like a special effect because he gently passes the knife along the boy's jacket and it gets ripped to shreds. At the welcome home party the camera blurs the closest object to it (table center piece) and sharpens the woman. This can indicate that that particular night was all about her. In the new scene with the mansion the director does something very odd four of the upper-rooms windows have yellow curtains one doesn't have any and the other two have white. Usually everything would be properly proportioned.

Seven Samurai

The seven samurai is very well thought out movie. The brightness of he lighting makes the movie look like the people were slaves and going through a rough time. This ties into the story because they were being run down by bandits. It also tell us that they worked hard. The fact that the movie is in black and white gives it a drastic covering because there is so much black everywhere. The beginning of the movie seems gloomy. I noticed that when everyone was talking they had a raspy tine in their voice. It seems as if they spoke with fear or caution so that they don't say the wrong thing. Everyone in the movie seemed poor, not only because of they place that they lived but also the clothes that they wore. They either wore torn up clothes or just a torn up pair of pants. The setting was in a poor village because everything was made out of wood. The streets were not paved they were dirt, and when it rained the street was turned to mud. In the beginning of almost every scene the shots are taken from afar. I have also noticed that the director does not have any foot shots, most of the shots are taken from either just below the knees or just above it.

final

When it comes to the monsters in the movies Del toro gets very personal. There are many different ways in how he creates the monsters in his movies. A lot of the monsters come from childhood memories and experiences. In order to come up with how monsters should look he converts their role to attributes of things, such as insects, in real life. The creation of every monster depends on him and how he feels that they should look. In his movies every character is done differently and individually. He likes to give them different personalities. For example even the fairies even though they have the same base they still all look different. All of his monsters are protagonists.
There is a faun in the movie that comes directly from him. He said that he wanted a neutral guide for the girl in the movie. He wanted someone that she could not trust, and as the faun got younger he became less trustworthy. When he was young he had lucid dreams that at midnight in only his grandmother's room, a faun would come out from behind her amour. He said that that is where he gets the idea for the faun in the movie.
He converts the role of monsters in the movie to attributes of animals in real life. For example he said that he always felt that an archangel should look like an insect that was armored. The pale man sitting at the table in the movie is derived from the disturbing underbelly of a manta ray. He said originally it was an old fat man the had lost a lot of weight which gave him the excess skin. This shows that the monster had not eaten in a long time. He also said that the monster had stigma and that he remembers as a child they would always draw a hand and then some eyes or a mouth. That is what gave him the idea to put the eyes in the monsters hands and not on his face.
In most horror movies the monsters are the bad guys. But Del toro put the picture in a new frame. He decided to reverse that effect and that made his movies unique. He treated his monsters as if they were real people with real thoughts. In “The Devil's backbone” Sante was a ghost. Although he was out for revenge he helped the boys in the movie. That is like the the guide for the girl in “Pans Labyrinth” he was bad but also a big help for the girl. Although there were some bad monsters in his movie “Pans Labyrinth”.
Del toro treats the creation of monsters in his movies fairly differently than others. Most of his monsters come from child hood memories or dreams. He converts the role of the monsters to attributes of real life animals, then he molds it together to get the effect that he wants. Lastly he creates most of his monsters to help the main character. His monsters are mostly goo guys.

Rambo: First Blood Part 2

This movie is very action packed. It was directed by George p. cosmatos. It is about a soldier sent into Vietnam to do a fake mission to find PO W's. When he arrives there he really finds PO W's and tries to bring them back however when he gets to the extraction point the helicopter pulls out without anyone on board. He is then held captive but escapes and is now on a path of revenge in order to rescue the rest of the PO W's and get back at the one in charge of the extraction operation. The lighting is that of the rain forest because it can be bright at time and dark at others. This is because most of the movie takes place in the forest where the enemy base is holding PO W's captive. I don't recommend that you watch the movie on surround sound because the sound is perfect. Every bullet can be heard leaving any gun. Only do this if you are in need of a fine for disturbing the peace. The costumes are that of soldiers in world war one. You have to keep in mind that they are old PO W's. The other soldiers wore up to date clothes for their separate armies. The sets looked like professionally built houses made out of wood and straw in the forest. The only special effect that i found amazing was when they got the helicopter to rotate in one direction while the main character was moving the joystick all over the place. I was confused because in the end of the movie the helicopter caught on fire after they landed and the soldiers never put out the fire. We all know that that would have taken first priority after the PO W's.

Mr. Nice guy

This movie has everything to do with the title. The main character Jackie Chan is a cook who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He saves this reporter from the "bad" guys. Now the "bad" guys are out to get him and the reporter at all costs. Most of the movie was filmed in the day. Extra lighting was added in order to get the affect that the director wanted. I think that he did a good job of conveying his thoughts through the movie. Surround sound rules, a cell phone rang in the movie and i was looking all over the house for the phone. The effects of the movie was clearly heard but when the voices of the characters came into play you had to turn up the volume. I hated constantly changing the volume to high so you could hear the words and low so you don't go deaf from the explosions. The costumes were basic, it looked like something that everyday people would wear. The business folks obviously wore suits. The movie was directed by Henry Wolfond. There were many sets in this movie, but my favorite was the mansion. There was so much glass that you would think that there was no other form of support for the mansion. This however had a good effect, it was also very smart on the directors part. This allowed the main character to be able to see into the building so he would know when to make his entrance. The whole scene with the mansion was very bright. This indicates that the actors were in a very hot environment. The director built up the suspense dramatically because visitors in the mansion had to wear socks over their shoes so as to not get the house dirty. This indicated that the owner loved his house very much. Then at the end of the movie the main character comes with a very large and dirty truck and demolishes the building. All of the work that the owner did to keep the house clean went to waste. This made the audience go into a tone of serious remorse humility and humor.