From Surf Racks To Riches From Surf Racks to Riches “Shoots bro. “Blue Crush” the movie is Da Kine. Honeys in bikinis that surf pro-style, fer sure. Translated this means “What better subject for a movie than surfing chicks in bikinis”. Taking place in the surfing Mecca that is Hawaii, “Blue Crush” focuses on the lifestyles of today’s surfer youth, especially the female side. It

Gary Was Called A Gutless Wonder ( Deadly Unna) Gary is referred to as a “Gutless Wonder” on various occasions by various people like with his father on the boat in the storm or, in his mind, by his friends. Through all this criticism by Gary’s father, siblings and friends he losses confidence in himself and forgets that his own opinion is more important than everyone else’s. Gary slowly

Gaticca Andrew Niccol's 1997 film Gattaca addresses the issue of genetic prejudice and perfection. The setting and tone of the film are understandably eerie. Vincent Freeman (Ethan Hawke) is a "god child," which in "the not so distant future" is an anomaly and an affront to the advances of genetic science. In the sterile world of the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation, god's children, or "fai

Gender Roles Family Gender Roles in Full Swing The nuclear family does not truly exist in today’s world. With America’s fast passed life style family life seems to suffer. Some say that gender roles have not changed that drastically and that family life does not suffer. The world is changing and the family is just trying keep pace with it. (McCarroll) The destruction of the nuclear

Dead Man Walking J-21: Dead Man Walking 1. While viewing Dead Man Walking, I had very mixed feelings. I support the Death Penalty and can feel the pain of the families of the victims, but also found myself sympathizing with Matt. I do not believe, though, that the film changed my overall opinion on the Death Penalty. 2. The film did not necessarily change my opinion on capital punishme

Gender Stereotpyes In Film To Sex or Not to Sex Sex has created an expectation on the role of the female to create sexuality. While women are responsible for creating the desire, men are expected to do nothing more than act on it and in some cases take advantage of it. In the end, even though men are equal participants, women are held more responsible for their sexual activity then me

Ghost In The Shell Ghost in the Shell: Reaction Paper Ghost in the Shell is an anime movie adapted from Masamune Shirow’s manga. Before writing this paper I watched Ghost in the Shell three times to get a full understanding of the movie. The first time I saw it was with my group for my presentation. There were many of us crowded around a small laptop screen in very uncomfortable c

Extra Curricular Activities They need urgent attention! I got up early in the morning as usual. I had set a completely new path for jogging the previous night so as to expend greater portion of my accumulated fat as well experience something anew. With rejuvenated zeal and vigour, I was jogging up and down the muddy road, maneuvering through the potholes, and turning my eyes above

Gladiator Vs Hannibal Ridley Scott, being contemporary and innovative is one of many film directors who have a certain style that is ever present throughout their films. Gladiator and Hannibal two of Scott’s best movies do not share plot summary yet they encompass similar techniques to achieve their desired look. In two different scenes Scott incorporates similar lighting, camera movemen

Creative Impulses Is everyone born with creative impulses, with the urge to indulge artistic expression of some kind, or is creativity a special gift granted only to a few' I believe creativity and artistic expression is a part of someone that everyone is born with. The thought that it could only be granted to a select few is ridiculous due to the fact that we as humans are born with a

GodFather In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the people live in a society full of censorship. Montag, the main character of the story, is inspired by a young girl to question law around him and he begins to have doubts about what good they serve. In Fahrenheit 451, censorship in the world consists of book burning, manipulative parlor families, and the intolerance of those who attempt

Goodfellas Wise Guy is a navel based on Henry Hill and the world of organized crime. The book starts off in New York City in the 1950’s, and is on the life of a poor Irish-Italian named Henry Hill. Hill is an aspiring criminal who rises threw ranks of his Brooklyn neighborhood’s organized crime branch, and has him and his family living the good life with his profits from his criminal act

Goodfellas Genre The 1990 Martin Scorese motion picture Goodfellas is a classic movie about the world of organized crime. Goodfellas is based on the true life novel “Wise Guy” by Nicolas Pileggi. The film starts off in New York City in 1955. It is about the life of a poor Irish-Italian boy named Henry Hill. Henry Hill is an aspiring criminal who through the movie grows deeper and dee

Goonies Many people in the world are smart, bud a kid in the movie “The Goonies” named Data is different. His is from China and is very accident-prone. He has a very active imagination and is clumsy. Data is very smart and inventive. Data is the inventor of the group. His inventions help the Goonies escape from the Fertelli’s. Data uses a belt with many weird inventions in it. Su

Goth Horror Flicks The genre of Gothic horror film has existed almost as long as the cinema itself, and it has always fascinated me. As the definition above suggests, the word can be loosely used to define any horror story with suitable settings, but such themes as disturbing dreams, desperate, undying love and melancholic romanticisation of death are also usually important in Gothic cin

Green Dragon Green Dragon On March, 14 which was the closing night for International Asian American Film Festival I went to attend the film at KABUKI Theater in Japan town. They show the “Green Dragon” as the closing night movie. This is a story about purgatory, though it and what happen the Camp Pendleton. In 1975, as the Vietnam War was nearing the end, this was the entry point for Vi

Green Mile The Green Mile Five years after Frank Darabont directed The Shawshank Redemption, he finally decided to put out another movie. After creating a film that was widely accepted as a masterpiece, he obviously had a lot to live up to with his next project. Like the Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile was based on a novel by Stephen King, and while its both moving and beautif

Greta Garbo & The Garbo Mystique Greta Garbo Greta Garbo introduced subtle sexuality to the world of Hollywood, and figured out that celebrity life isn’t all what it’s said to be. Greta Garbo was born in Stockholm, Sweden with the name Greta Lovisa Gustaffson. Greta was born into a poor family who faced many hard times when her father, Karl, died when Greta was only fourtee

Grey Is The Heart Of Blade Runner Grey is the heart of Blade Runner In a dark future, on a planet ravaged by war, completely overrun with consumerism and damaged beyond repair, what is still valuable' This is the question that Phillip K. Dick asked in his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and the same question Ridley Scott asked when he took on the project of filming Blade Run

Grosse Pointe Blank GROSSE POINTE BLANK: FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW The movie Grosse Pointe Blank should without a doubt be shown in the movie festival. This movie is extremely deep and can be interpreted in many different ways. Through all the gruesome violence, this film has a deeper meaning. In this movie I believe violence is perceived as being meaningless in comparison to life¡¦s p

Black Hawk Down Summary A “Black Hawk” is a very advanced, expensive and deadly military helicopter and the title of the movie explains what the “goal” of the plot was. Once the one hundred elite U.S. soldiers dropped into Somalia they were almost instantly fired upon. A rocket was actually shot at one of the black hawks while a soldier was preparing to descend to its target but to dod

Hana-Bi HANA-BI Hana-Bi is a bloody yet beautiful film. It is marked by abrupt violence alongside serene nature, the film’s title alone confirming this. In Japanese, the title translates into fire and flower(not exactly corresponding to its english title of Fireworks). This title is perfect for a film in which these opposing forces are at constant work. Takeshi Kitano is both direc

Harry Harry Potter And the Chamber of Secrets By Matt Carlson Harry returns from Hagwarts back to the Dursley’s home for another terrible summer. He returns home on his birthday and nobody even remembers. Harry has to stay upstairs all night because Uncle Vernon is having business guests over for a dinner party. Then, out of the blue, an house elf named Dobby sneaks into Harry’s bedroom

Harry Potter I decided to use Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, for my paper. There are a couple of problems with this, like, it was a book that was then made into a movie, and the other is that it is set in England which I don’t know that much about, except that they like to drink a lot of tea with their pinky finger pointed out. Aside from those two problems, this is one of my

Harry Potter Harry Potter: Book or Movie Have you ever watched a movie then decided to read the book' Well this is just the case in hand after I watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. After reading the first book in the series, by J.K. Rowling’s, I was hooked, on the novels that is. The movie lacked many of the key elements that the book offered the reader. Before I read the bo

Blade Runner Blade Runner and Christianity Director Ridley Scott has a chilling story to tell, and there is a complex web of allegory and meaning lurking in the background. We are unmistakably in a future time, yet this future world is one we can easily recognize, as it is not so different from our own. As with all good science fiction, futuristic concepts provide the basis for the stor

The Detective Conventions The conventions of the detective story and the modern detective: Matlock The detective story has a pattern that has been used time and time again by detective story writers since the creation of C. Auguste Dupin. If you have seen one detective story, chances are that almost every other one follows the same conventions. How can all detective stories be the s

Blade Runner Tom Nicholson Film 202 Blade Runner is a movie based on the future. Harrison Ford is an officer that is in charge of destroying robot humans, replicas that have gone bad. The style of the movie is one of the last movies that didn’t use computer graphics. This is a big hurdle to overcome for the director. I enjoyed this movie. It was an actioned pact and had

Herny V Henry V (1989) Directed by Kenneth Branagh Produced by Stephen Evans This is a film adaptation of a classic play that Shakespeare wrote early in his career. The story takes place during the Hundred Years War between England and France. A young King Henry V played by Kenneth Branagh, (a well known Shakespearean filmmaker), has just ascended to the throne of England.

High Noon High Noon High Noon is a western movie made back in the nineteen fifties. Carl Foreman wrote the screenplay and it was based on a magazine story “The Tin Star” written by John W. Cunningham. The star of the movie is Gary Cooper. The music and theme song of the movie was written by Dimitri Tiomkin, and lyrics by Ned Washington. The theme was sung by Tex Ritter. The movie w