The journal for this week for Film Studies is to write about feminism again. But based on a different film. An animation in 2004, The Incredibles from Pixar Animation studios has blended in the concept of feminism in the making of this film, feminism in this film uses the way of the male gaze. The male gaze is to view the world from...
This week is a different topic in film studies, in this technologically advanced society, people with access to the internet has the advantage of living an equal life as others, regardless of gender. We all know that the male population has always been the dominant gender in the past thousand years of human history, this has something to do with the human nature,...
This week I am writing about Italian Neorealism with this Italian film called Bicycle Thieves (1948), directed by Vittorio De Sica. This film has won a number of awards because it is very different other Italian films in that era, after the World War 2. While other countries like France are still struggling to recovery from the war, Italy surrendered early and has...
This week I will be writing about how The Maltese Falcon could relate to Neo-Noir Film. Neo-Noir : The Concept Niko Frank, a film critic has called films in this category as film noir, which stands for black films in French. Film noir features a wide world of criminals, that is where the darkness and violence come in. All the character's central motives...
This week our lecturer want us to write about the relationship between French Impressionist cinema and a Hong Kong movie called "In the Mood of Love" (2000), it is a romance movie that wants to picture the life of both a man and a woman which are neighbors living in Hong Kong in the 1960s. Plot A newspaper editor Mr.Chow moves into a building with...
This week, I will be writing about Dark City (1998) and I will link it to French Impressionist cinema. The reason I wrote this is for the Film Studies (UJMB2083) assignment. Dark City, was a drama and thriller film about a man named John Murdoch. Waking up in a hotel with a dead body and found himself being wanted for a series of...
This week our lecturer let us write about any movie. So, I'm choosing one of my favourite movie Her (2013) directed by Spike Jonze. I am choosing this because it was one of the most mind bottling postmodern movies. Despite there is no specific aspect of how we need to write our weekly journal, I will be talking about the messages carried out by this...
Genres, A widely used classification system to determine the overall theme of movies. To guide the filmmakers on which direction should they make their films. Film genres have its own trends, some are newly invented and some have declined over time. The reason I wrote this is for the Film Studies (UJMB2083) assignment. The Movie, Paranorman is a stop-motion and claymation movie made...
Continued from Part 1… Sci-Fi Sci-fi is short for science fiction, and it is a genre that contains futuristic or experimental science concept mixed with fictional stories. The subgenre of sci-fi used is Apocalyptic, holocaust, and post-apocalyptic, which is the world full of zombies started by the mad cow disease. This phenomenon has never happened in our human history, and the story imagines...
Genres, is to categorize movies based on the relatable elements in the movie such as narration and emotional. Hollywood movies are influenced by the trend ironic hybridization; this means that directors tend to combine different genres together to make a complete movie. Most movies have audience and publications that supported them to give the general public an expectation for the film. Because genres can...
Main Point, Mise-en-scene Not many locations were used to shot this movie, because of the brilliant use of camera shots and storyline, the main point of the movie is to show the daily life of the characters, which is where most drug dealers have been to. Thus, not much location is needed. Furthermore, the focus of the movie is more to the process...
First Impressions I rarely watched Japanese movies or anime, I think I could count on my ten fingers how many Japanese animated series I have completed in my lifetime. The first time I watched this film Spirited Away was in last semester, which our lecturer want us to complete an assignment based on it. The movie is quite a new thing to me...
Comic Sans? A font you can select on your computer, but you SHOULD NOT select. What so special about reading this? Does it even matter? "I like to use ah." "Who are you to judge." "So what? Does it bother you." "Why make such a big deal?" There's a reason you shouldn't use that font, that font many hated, hated by most designers... and people....
