Only God Forgives 2013 - Film Review

Figure 1- Movie poster

Only God Forgives (2013)  is a visually stunning film by Danish director and written by Nicolas Winding Renfn . The movie is about the beauty, grace and horror of martial arts and it contains strong bloody violence which  features a lot of Thai language with subtitles and spoken dialogue."Emotionally, our artistic expression consists of sex or violence. It all boils down to those two pure emotions that we have." (Arikan 2013)
The director has stated that he wanted "Only God Forgives" the movie to be a Western set in Bangkok. The film was shot in Bangkok but the way it has been shown, according to Al Arikan, writing for Roger Eber.com, suggested that  the Thai capital comes across like the film itself as affected and artificial.

Two brother Billy (Tom Burke) and Julian (Ryan Gosling) are working in Thailand as boxing promoters and drugs dealers.The first few minutes of the story, the elder brother Billy rapes and kills a 16 year old prostitute and he is killed by the girl's distraught father The mother of the brothers ( Kristin Scott Thomas) shows up to collect the body of her favorite son.

Figure 2 - Crystal 

The film reason why the colours are so thematic is because of the hidden symbolic or possibly real nature of the film premise.The Chang characters is suggested as God in human form and these in  his almost psychic abilities good visual design and direction. Nicholas Winding Renfn said in the interview that he encouraged actor to think he is a god . He symbolically represents God and is portrayed as larger than life. powerful and highly respected.  The red and orange lights provide a fiery hellish colour scheme along with Bangkok  which is condemned to rainy, smoggy and moody looking area.

Figure 3- Red and orange light

The film also concentrates on the unhealthy relationship between mother and son and has been likened to the Oedipus complex.

"If the tables were turned your brother would have found your killer and brought his head to me on a fucking platter.” Crystal’s attitude towards Julian swings between aggressive disappointment and sexual possessiveness, defining his emotional repression punctuated with eruptions of masochistic violence." (Llinares 2013)

Bibliography:

Ali Arikan, 2013, Roger Ebert.com, http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/only-god-forgives-2013 (Accessed on 23 December 2015)

Llinares, D. (2013) Only god Forgives. Available at: http://www.alternatetakes.co.uk/?2013,8,517 (Accessed: 17 January 2016).

Illustrations:

Figure 1- Movie poster
http://images.mymovies.net/images/film/cin/350x522/fid12927.jpg (Accessed on 23 December 2015

Figure 2- Crystal
http://www.filmmisery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Only-God-Forgives2.png
( Accessed om 23 December 2015)

Figure 3- Red and orange light
https://terrymalloyspigeoncoop.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/only-god-forgives-image-01.jpg
( Accessed pm 17 January 2016)

Space Oddities - Suspiria 1977

Movie Review

Figure 1- Movie poster

Suspiria (1977)was directed by Dario Argento with the written Dario Argento and Dari Nicolodi. It is Italian horror film as well as like all  horror movies with the same theme such as gore, violence, and insane killers. The story is about involving a young American ballet dancer who arrives at a dance academy in Germany where some horrendous murder have taken place. The film has a visually stunning that is using  different colours and terrified music to create some awesome atmospheric scene.

"Suspiria ( Celeste and Bells)" is the track that actually features narration. Keyboardist Claudio Simonetti chants non- grammatical nonsense about witches, while celesta and bells perform a subtle version of the main theme." (Biodrowsk 2008)

Figure 2 - Still images

The set design of the film are basic colours along with  the main colour is red. The red  shows that is very strong which often  used to signify a dangerous area  to beware when a character is put in a situation that could be life threatening with very simple and huge shapes as well as hint of blues. The blue area shows that are often suggested to be calmer and less dangerous. They are other colours such as green and yellow rarely used colours in the film that sometime appears in Suzy's room with the green colour show up.


"In the end, however, it is not enough to sustain Suspiria through its many slow scenes. The result is a film of highs and lows, worth  seeing for it bravura style but falling short of the critical mass that would achieve masterpiece status." (Biodrowsk 2008)




This leads to several other murder all done in a particular ways such as her friend and ex-student was murdered by seeing the windows or mirrors. It felt that there was secret passenger through the whole building letting the murder found to his victims easily.

Bibliography:
Biodrowski, S. (2008) Suspiria (1977) – A nostalgia review. Available at: http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/06/nostalgia-suspiria-1977/ (Accessed: 17 December 2015).

31 FLAVORS OF HORROR!: SUSPIRIA (1977) (2013) Available at: http://dailygrindhouse.com/reviews/31-flavors-horror-suspiria-1977/ (Accessed: 17 December 2015).

Illustrations:
Figure 1- Movie poster
https://intratecal.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/suspiria-1977-poster.jpg
(Accessed: 17 December 2015).

Figure 2- Still image
https://www.acheronbooks.com/img/cms/Suspiria/Suspiria2.jpg
(Accessed: 19 December 2015)

Space Oddities - Repulsion (1965)

Movie Review

Repulsion  (1965) was directed by Roman Polanski most brilliant films including a deeply disturbing, horribly powerful psychological thriller and a scary movie. The film is set in London during 1960's and it is about the horrors of someone with a severe mental illness also it is black and white movie with a girl Carol (Deneuve). The cinematography is great in this movie due to Catherine Deneuve as the young women is both sympathetic and terrifying.

Figure 1 - Movie Review 

Carol is horrified by other men's because substantial fear of sexual relation in any from. At the began of the film she is a shy women when it comes to dating with any kind of relationship of a men such as when a gentlemen offer Carol for dinner the next evening and she fears form  men and she murdered him without any noise from actors,

Figure  2- Still image

Figure 2 Soon the young women is left alone for a weekend when her sister and boyfriend go out of town. She starred at the crack in the ceiling she can see them growing. Figure 3 in the film they is a scene as her hallucination grow more intense and vivid  a man molesting her becomes repeated multiple times. A man hands literally emerge from the wall to claw and grasp her. In the credit to the relentless atmosphere of dread, this striking visual becomes a prefer metaphor for how terrifying Carol's world has come to reflect her poisoned inner- psychology.

Figure 3 -  Still images

The choice of  the music and soundscape in the film is chosen carefully to make the audience feel uneasy deliberately. "It is also a haunting adumbration of a small but piercing human tragedy, and it is almost a perfect specimen of a very special cinema-sound technique." ( Crowther 1965)
The opening theme sounds are  unsettling with its monotonous tone and steady, slow rhythm with a banging of the drums and there is a faint drone going on the background adding to the overall sound. The sound of the ticking clock serves as an indicator  that something terrible is about to occur. Also Carol is aware of this and she waits in the terrible anticipation, before turning around to see her rapist in her bed.

Bibliography:

Bradshaw, P. (2014) Repulsion – review. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/03/repulsion-review (Accessed: 14 December 2015).

Crowther. B. (1965) 'Repulsion' New York Times Review
http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF1739E471BC4C53DFB667838E679EDE

Yarborough, N. (2014) The apartment trilogy by Roman Polanski. Available at: http://nickyarborough.com/on-polanskis-apartment-trilogy/ (Accessed: 14 December 2015).

Illustrations:

Figure 1- Movie poster
http://nickyarborough.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/bigtmp_5128.jpg
(Accessed 14 December 2015)

Figure 2- Still image
https://onehundredimportantfilmschallenge.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/repulsion_shot25l.jpg
(Accessed 14 December 2015)

Figure 3- Still image
https://lefthandhorror.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/repulsion-2.jpg
(Accessed 22 December 2015)

Space Oddities- The Shining 1980

Movie Review

The Shining 1980 was directed by Stanley Kubrick, it is a gothic horror film and does have the  blood-letting and gore of the more modern films in horror genre.The film is based on Stephen kings novel of the same name..The film story at the beginning was about a perfecly normal family spending the winter in  an empty hotel. While the film continues some ordinary shots that taken of the actors are interrupted by sequence of corridors which blood flood out from such as lift lobby suggesting to the viewer something sinister as happened, or is about to happen, in the hotel.

Figure 1 Movie poster



Figure 2 - The young boy 

Figure 2 The young boy 'Danny'  friend 'Tony' speaks and tells strange things will happen but haven't  happened yet such as seeing flashes of images throughout the beginning of the two murdered girls.  He always rides his bike in the hotel corridors then the two twin-sisters appears from nowhere to ask the boy to play with them. He got a afraid and escaped from the girls. Danny is being left behind but  he told  to beware and stay away from room 237 because  of violent things had could happend there. The psychic gift of reading minds and seeing the past and future is a feature of the story.

  

Figure 3 - Still image 

Figure 3 Nearly end of the film when the lady character Shelley Duvall as Wendy  Torrance turns into 'Olive Oly' a bit of the characteristics in the Popeye cartoon  show because she feel nervous also can able to see her eyes pop out and hands movemoment changing.

The writer King hates the way Kubrick portraied the character of Wendy Torrance as played by a hysterical Shelley Duvall. “Shelley Duvall as Wendy is really one of the most misogynistic characters ever put on film, she’s basically just there to scream and be stupid, and that’s not the woman that I wrote about,” he said.( Hatfull 2013)

King also going to say about the film:

"It's cold, I'm not cold guy. I think one of the things people relate to in my books is this warmth, there's a reaching out and saying to the reader, ' I want you to be a part of this' with Kubrick's The Shinning I felt that it was very cold. We're looking at these people but they're like ants in anthill, aren't they doing interesting things, these little insects." (Hatfull 2013)

For this film, Kubrick has provided spatially impossible room sets. This add another psychological layer to the film because it is attempt to disorientate audiences " the set feels inescapable and overwhelming (Eddy 26.7.2011)

This film is highly rated  by site such as rottentomato.

Bibliography:

Eddy. M ( 26.7.11) Spatial Impossibilities Made The Shining Even Creepier
http://www.themarysue.com/impossible-shining/ ( Accessed 12 January 2016)

Hatfull, J. (2013) Stephen king still hates Stanley Kubrick’s the shining. Available at: http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/stephen-king-still-hates-stanley-kubricks-the-shining/
 (Accessed: 12 December 2015).


Miller, L (2013) What Stanley Kubrick got wrong about ‘The Shining’. Available at: http://www.salon.com/2013/10/01/what_stanley_kubrick_got_wrong_about_the_shining/
 (Accessed: 10 December 2015).

The shining (1980) (no date) Available at: http://www.filmsite.org/shin.html 
(Accessed: 10 December 2015).

Illustrations:

Figure 1- Movie poster
http://orig03.deviantart.net/41c4/f/2010/044/1/2/the_shining_poster_by_smalltownhero.jpg
(Accessed: 10 December 2015).

Figure 2 - The young boy
http://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1s9d0Dy8W1rshsybo1_500.gif
 (Accessed: 12 December 2015)

Figure 3- Still image
http://www.scifinow.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/The-Shining.jpg
(Accessed: 10 December 2015).

Space Oddities - Black Narcissus (1947)

Movie Review

Figure 1: The Poster

Black Narcissus 1947 was directed by Michael Powell and Emetic Pressburger along with the film is about a group of five Anglican nuns who was sent to open a convent for the education and a hospital in the palace of Mopu. This movie is based on a novel by Rumer Godden that explores the troubles by a Catholic mission Indian Himalayas. 

The lighting at the beginning of the movie shows natural lighting together with a peaceful atmosphere, however as the film continues lighting get more climactic and brings more depth into the scenes. Figure 2 demonstrates a dramatic scene when nuns is doubting her vocation. The vibrant colours used in the  background matte painting contrast against her white habit.The use of red is feverish. ( Ebert 2010)

Figure 2

"Years later, Scorsese hired Powell, whose films he hugely admired, as a consultant, and he asked him about that shot. “I didn’t simply cut to a closeup,” Powell said. “I had her stand up in shock, from below frame, and then I edited the shot to begin the moment she arrived in frame. So you sensed that alarmed movement.” (Ebert 2007). Powell went on to advise Scorsese to flim raging bull in black and white.

"I found this film interesting because of the subject matter but the film looks old fashioned now.
However, Thomas Pryor writing for the new York times when the film was released  called  Black Narcissus an artistic accomplishment of no small proportions." ( Pryor14.8.47)








Bibliography:

Ebert, R. (2007) Deborah Kerr: In memory | interviews. Available at: http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/deborah-kerr-in-memory (Accessed: 6 December 2015).

Ebert, R. (2010) ‘Black Narcissus,’ which electrified Scorsese | far Flungers. Available at: http://www.rogerebert.com/far-flung-correspondents/black-narcissus-which-electrified-scorsese (Accessed: 6 December 2015).

Pryor T. (14.8.47) 'Black Narcissus New York Times Review
http://www.nytimes.com/movie/reviewres=EE05E7DF173CE261BC4C52DFBE66838C659EDE
(Accessed: 9 December 2015)

QUOTES COLLECTIONS (2015) Available at: http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/reviews/view/20119 (Accessed: 5 December 2015).

Illustrations:

Figure 1: The Poster 

 http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Posters/B/Poster%20-%20Black%20Narcissus_10.jpg
 (Accessed: 5 December 2015).

Figure 2

Available at: http://celluloidoptimist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Narcissus.jpg
(Accessed: 6 December 2015).

SPACE ODDITIES: Edward Scissorhands (1990) - Movie Review

Fig 1 : Edward Scissorhands castle 

Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American romance, fantasy, drama, Gothic and fairy tale hybrid film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp. The film shows the story of an artificial man it name is Edward an unfinished creation who has a scissors for hands. He is taken in by a suburban family and falls in love with their teenage daughter Kim. The director Burton previous films Beetlejuice and Batman prepare one to expect a film which is visually stunning perhaps with humor or self- parody. The advance publicity for Edward Scissorhands used the phrase 'the story of a uncommonly gentle man' and poster showed a picture of a sombre Edwards with a butterfly perched on one of the sharp blades constituting his hands.



"Then there's Edward himself, one of the most memorable figures in modern cinema: strapped to the throat in S&M black leather, deathly pale, sad-eyed and eyebrowless – and blessed with a terrifying array of razor-sharp blades instead of hands". (Lee 2014)

The set design of the movie it would be Tim Burton with his mood and macabre film style. He takes on a key role in everyone of his masterpieces and the ability to transform the viewer’s sense of reality into a surreal new world. The Gotham city the films’ backdrop never remains in the background. For an example of Burton scene- setting success is in the movie, Edward Scissorhands.  Edwards, an inventor’s who was left to live alone in the dark industrial castle with the scissors for hands. She convinces Edwards to come to her home in the over-stylized suburban neighborhoods his mansion overlooked. This highly-clichéd sense of suburbia serves as a clever contrast to Edward cold mysterious origins. The Gothic aesthetic to deepen character and create contrast and everything show on the screen enhances tell of his story. Edward's gargantuan mansion, perched a top the absurdly huge hill overlooking the town is miles taller than any of the pastel bungalows below. it's full of darkened corridors and bulbous robots with the secluded garden  and its majestic  shrub-giants it show a stunningly beautiful. The mansion is a visual representation of the isolation Edward feels from the rest

of the town.

Fig 2: The poster Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Fig 3 The Pastel Town 

The Edwards Scissorhands castle  the colour is a greys and blacks with a shadow of the dark inventor’s mansion turns out to be far more it’s colourful than the rest of the town.  Edward the outsider show the contrast of these two worlds are beautifully displays the disconnect between him and the rest of ‘normal’ society.

"On, then, to the better side of "Edward Scissorhands": the tremendous cleverness with which Mr. Burton brings these ideas to life. As embodied by Johnny Depp, Edward himself is a stunning creation, with a blackish cupid's-bow mouth and plaintive expression to offset his fright hairdo, abundant scars and potentially lethal hands. " (Maslin, 1990)

Bibliography

https://allthaatjazz.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/why-edward-scissorhands-belongs-to-the-gothic-

genre-2/ (Accessed 8/11/2015)

http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~media/EdwSci.html (Accessed 8/11/2015)

Maslin, Janet. (1990) 

 http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0CE2D81338F934A35751C1A966958260&partner=Rotten%2520Tomatoes

 (Accessed on 11/11/2015)

Marc Lee (2014)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/11298442/Edward-Scissorhands-review-a-true-fairytale.html

(Accessed 21/11/2015)

Illustrations

Fig 1:  Edward Scissorhands castle

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/4d/37/35/4d3735802348d359ded69ea4979cd6b3.jpg (Accessed 8/11/2015) 

Fig 2: The poster Edward Scissorhands (1990)

https://allthaatjazz.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/why-edward-scissorhands-belongs-to-the-gothic-genre-2/ (Accessed 8/11/2015)

Fig 3: The Pastel Town

http://www.artsjournal.com/aestheticgrounds/TimBurton%20copy.JPG (Accessed 8/11/2015)

Space Oddities: La Belle et la Bêt Movie Review

Fig. 1 La Belle et la Bête (1946)

Jean Cocteau's adaptation of Beauty and the Beast (originally released in France as La Belle et la Bte) stars Josette Day as Beauty and Jean Marais as the Beast. When a merchant (Marcel Andr C) is told that he must die for picking a rose from the Beast's garden, his courageous daughter day offer to go back to the Beast in her father's place. The Beast falls in love with her and proposes to marriage on a nightly basis and she refuses having a pledged on her troth a handsome prince also played by Marais. However she is drawn to the repellent but strangely  fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a the key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief.

  

Figure 2

La Belle et la Bete is a landmark feat of cinematic fantasy in which master filmmaker Jean Cocteau conjures spectacular visions of enchantment, desire and death.  Henri Aleken subtle black and white cinematography combines with Christain Berard's masterly costumes and set designs to create a magical piece of cinema a children fairytale refashioned into a stylist and highly sophisticated dream. 

" The film unfolds to a perfectly poised slow tempo in surreal settings that gain intensity from the fabulous decor and the costumes, the glittering lighting and the many moments of magic effects. The candle- lit shadow- play deepens the gothic atmosphere of the beast's castle, harking back to early expressionist classics of the genre."

Figure 3 

The dialogue in french is spare and simple with the story largely told in pantomime and the music of Georges Auric accompanies the dreamy, fitful moods. The settings are likewise expressive, many of the exteriors having been filmed for rare architectural vignettes at Raray, one of the most beautiful palaces and parks in all France. and the costumes  too by Christain Beard and Escoffier are exteriors affairs, glittering and imaginative, lacking only the glow of colour.

Illustration list

Figure 1; La Belle et Bete (1946)

http://vintagegal.tumblr.com/post/125377903802/la-belle-et-la-b%C3%AAte-1946 

( Accessed 27/10/2015)

Figure 2

http://billets.domec.net/post/2011/06/29/Le-Bac-%C3%A0-sable ( Accessed 27/10/2015)

Figure 3

https://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmx84mDnXI1qjqqalo1_500.gif (Accessed 27?10/2015)

Bibliography

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1001902-beauty_and_the_beast ( Acessesed 27/10/2015)

http://www.bfi.org.uk/education-research/education/gothic-classroom/la-belle-et-la-b-te-1946

( Acessesed 27/10/2015)

http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B03EFD71E3EEE3BBC4C51DFB467838C659EDE (Acessesed 27/10/2015)

Space Odyssey 2001 - Movie Review

Fig 1 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) poster

This movie was target on the film A Space Odyssey 2001' and there is hardly any characters development in the plot scene. It is symbolism as well as  deeper meaning behind some of the soundtrack sounds like  Star Wars themes with many other topics. This actually film was made in 1968 by Stanley Kubrick and it was inspired by the earlier generations film similar as 'Metropolis'. The concept of this film really shows the probably inspired such as Star Trek and Star Wars movie theme. The machines and his achieved his special effects and there is not a single moment in this long film, when the audience cane see through the props. The stars in the movie shows it look like stars and outer space is bold and bleak

Fig 2: Main Ship

The craftsmanship of the models was also ground breaking and it visually the scene is very hard to read and understand like if you are on drugs was  probably what the scene was inspired by. It was in the 1960s and by the drugs and "Tripping" was quite common, It means Lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD helped make the sixties what it was. Kubrick's vision was for this movie the year 2001 holds up reasonably well to considering its 1960's perspective. This is due in on small part, to the dedication and passion that hardware designers Fred Ordway and Harry Lange brought to the film.

Fig 3 Space Suit

They are two types of space suit appeared in the film for example one for lunar ops, the other one for deep space ops. The main differences between the two types are colours description ( the lunar suits are all silver with white helmets, while Discovery's deep space suits are all on colour and appears to be custom fitted to the specific crew members) and backpacks the deep space suits feature a small thruster at the bottom of the PLSS).

Fig 4: 'HAL'

HAL is a supercomputer  that can think for itself, in other words he is an AI (Artificial Intelligence).  Kubbrick's 1968 film is called the paint them in a rotten light. Compare HAL to his less conniving, more benign counterparts, Interstellar's TARS or Iron Man's JARVIS. It means corrupts and make it decision that he thinks will make a good decision, preserving himself so that the mission can be completed. The technology HAL corruption is very interesting notification how is a shape like the monolith, tall, black and sleek.

Illustration

Fig 1: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) poster 

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/2001-a-space-odyssey-1968 ( Accessed on 18/10/2015)

Fig 2: Main Ship 

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/7g27GTH-KaM/maxresdefault.jpg ( Accessed on 18/10/2015)

Fig 3: Space Suit

http://www.starshipmodeler.com/2001/sut4_jp.jpg ( Accessed on 18/10/2015)

Fig 4: 'HAL'

http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/sites/wirelessdesignmag.com/files/W2nA69u.jpg

 ( Accessed on 18/10/2015)

Bibliography

Roger Ebert. (1997) 2001: A Space Odyssey

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/2001-a-space-odyssey-1968 ( Accessed on 18/10/2015)

http://www.starshipmodeler.com/2001/2001ref.htm ( Accessed on 18/10/2015)

Space Oddities: King Kong (1933) Film Review

King Kong Film Review

Fig 1 King Kong poster

The start of the picture, it's clever screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth rose ( based on the story by Marianne C. Copper and Edger Wallace) suggested the coming terror. The film was shot during the spring and summer of 1932 in the confines of the studio. By their limited budget for the sets, Cooper and Schoedsack used the jungle location from the latter's previous film The Most Dangerous Game (1932). It is an adventure film that also started with Fay Wray when it was released.

The element of this movie is a greatest and most famous classic adventure- fantasy and part- time film of  all time  is King Kong (1933). Co- producers and directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack both real-life adventurers and film documentations. The movie is low- budget story of a beautiful, plucky blonde women (Fay Wray) and a frightening 50 foot ape-monster as a metaphoric re-telling of the archetpal Beauty and the Beast fable.

Fig 2 : Still King Kong

The element of the King Kong of colour black often depict them as subhuman ape or monkey-like and consider the plot of the film: Kong is forcibly taken from his jungle home, brought in a chains to to the United States, where he is put on a stage as a freak entertainment attraction.He breaks his chains and goes on a rampage in the metropolis, until finally he is felled by the forces of law and order'. (Rosen 2004)


The race was an issued within 1930' s America. In despite a decrease of hatred groups like the Ku Klux Klan is a race was still a concern. It undertones are hinted at within the scenes in which Kong is held captive. It shows that big strong character came out of the jungle,  Kong is seen as 'the black man' who scared that he will steal the female and make him hers.

 It wasn't the airplanes and It was Beauty killed the Beast.' If we look at King Kong in terms of a racial metaphor, "Beauty turn out to be the withe women."(Rosen 2004) This kind of the theme is foreshadowed in the behavior of the "natives" in the island where Kong is captured. It is a stand out film influence blockbusters full of adventure stuffed as well as full of social context. It has special effects such as expressing views on gender, dash of sexual connotations, buried beneath and fulled of storyline

Fig 3 : Fay Wray wriggles above New York City

Fig 4 : Ending scene 

Fig 5: Art of the Title

Bibliography:

http://www.filmsite.org/kingk.html (Accessed on:10/10/2015)

(Rosen 2004) http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC06folder/KingKong.html (Accessed on:10/10/2015)

Illustrations:
Figure 1: King Kong poster 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Kingkongposter.jpg
( Accessed on: 10/10/2015)
Figure 2: Still King Kong
http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/browbeat/2012/05/10/KingKong_1933_still.jpg.CROP.rectangle3-large.jpg (Accessed on: 10/10/2015)
Figure 3: Fay Wray wriggles above New York City https://38.media.tumblr.com/d3c648cec340c371148cb6909f9b2f86/tumblr_mtsb6xKeZe1rdfgw4o1_400.gif ( Accessed on: 10/10/2015)
Figure 4: Ending scene 
https://www.tumblr.com/search/king%20kong%20gif ( Accessed on: 10/10/2015)
Figure 5: Art of the Title
http://cdn4.artofthetitle.com/assets/sm/upload/c6/xu/9r/ou/king_kong_c.jpg?k=f0b4a255a8

Space Oddities: Metropolis (1927) Film Review

Metropolis Film Review

Metropolis is a silent science-fiction movie was released in 1927 by Fritz Lang a master of the German Expressionism who set in a futuristic divides into two distinct and separate classes.  The thinkers and the workers describes the struggles between the two opposite entities and the viewing of this movie today is quite an experience as man ‘sc -fi' ‘aspects of the plot are early close to reality.  The movie describes a society where the “New World Order” has already taken been carry out and a select elite live in luxury while dehumanized mass work and live in a highly monitored hell.

Figure 1: Metropolis film poster

The movie open scene by showing the works and their city situated deep below the earth is surface. They are shown dressed alike, walking in sync by holiday their heads down in submission, resignation and desperation. Through the movie the human cattle depicted as being physically and mentally exhausted highly impressionable and can be easily deceived. It is description of the masses corroborates those of Walter Lippmann and American thinker who has five years earlier in Public Opinion to compared the general public to a bewildered herd that is not qualified to manage its own destiny. The workers labor in a monstrous machine a hellish industrial complex where they must accomplish repetitive and dehumanizing task. At one point the machine is compared to Moloch, the ancient Semitic deity honored by the human sacrifices.

Figure 2: The workers open scene 

Figure 3: Set Design and Models

The city shots of Metropolis were combination of both two and three dimension elements consisting of matte paintings and drawing a flat wooden relief models as well as three dimensional. The workers live in a underground and the thinkers conversely is a magnificent testimony of a human achievement. This is shiny city could be however sustained without the existence of the Machine (Moloch and it herds of workers. Metropolis was influenced by the art deco movement in the style of the futuristic skyscrapers and their detail.

Bibliography

http://vigilantcitizen.com/musicbusiness/the-occult-symbolism-of-movie-metropolis-and-its-importance-in-pop-culture/ (Accessed on 30/09/2015) 

https://jenniferhodge0812.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/metropolis-looking-into-the-influence-of-architecture-in-the-film/ ( Accessed on 1/10/2015)

Illustrations

Figure 1 Metropolis film poster: http://thefridacinema.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Metropolis-gold.jpg (Accesssed 30/09/2015)

Figure 2 The worker open scene: http://vigilantcitizen.com/musicbusiness/the-occult-symbolism-of-movie-metropolis-and-its-importance-in-pop-culture/#prettyPhoto ( Accessed on 30/09/2015)

Figure 3 Set Desgin and Models:.odge0812.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/metropolis-1926.jpg (Accessed on 1/10/2015)