Shawshank Redeption

Link for the Socratic Discussion on
ShawShank Redemption
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIUZlBHk3ks

The Great Debaters (2007)

Release:2007

Dircetor: Denzel Washington

Genre: Drama, Based on a true story



Story

The Great Debaters is a drama about a black-college debaters team, which has to prove itself by competing against other negro-colleges. In this time period is was very rare that negro-college team had the chance to compete against white college team in America. That was the goal of Wiley College, where the debaters coach Melvin B. Tolson (in the movie called Mr. Tolson) wants to create a succesful debaters team which can even compete against white colleges in the country. The biggest hurdle of that goal was not the quality of speeches his student presented, it was the many Jim Crow Laws which created a fear against the black people.

 One of the main characters of this movie was James Farmer Jr., a 14 year old boy who joined Wiley's debater team after graduating high school. After a slow start of his season he climbed his way up to be one of the main debaters, who are dreaming of debating in the probalby most historical college of the United States, Harvard University. In the Beginning he was not in the starting lineup for the debating team, because the coach did'

Other Facts

Denzel Washington donated $1.000.000 to the Wiley College to re-establish a debaters team.

The movie won 5 awards, 4 out of them are Image Awards.


Positive Points:

+Deep and emotional story about racial equality
+Good Director's Message (racial equality)

Rating:81/100
Fun Rating:75%

The Simpsons (2006)

For this movie I would like to present examples of political satire, puns and irony.


Satire:

-Itchy makes fun of the presidency, he is pretending to be Abraham Lincoln.
-The police officers don't recognize the dead body in a bag the gangsters try to throw into the lake.
-Policeman eating donuts.
-President Schwarzenegger
-Springfield got removed from the map by the government.

Puns:

-Binge Responsibly
-I would like to lead, not to read!
-he is pure gold
-but girls will se my doodle
-what am I Tommy Bahama?

Irony:

-Ralph makes fun of 20th Cent. FOX in introduction scene.
-Itchy and scratchy are making fun of the moon landing by showing a camera which records it.
-Green Day Scene makes fun of the Titanic
-Homer is making fun of the Bible: "this book doesn't ahve any answer"

V for Vendetta (2007)

V for Vendetta

This review is going to be about the movie V for Vendetta. A movie which is even used in political campaigns like Ron Paul's although it is an action movie. I have found so many symbols throughout this movie, new and old ones from movies before.

Symbolism

Symbolism is especially in this movie a great factor. I found very many symbold copied from old movies like the shower scene from Psycho and the bells from the Graduate. But there were new symbols aswell. The biggest one is probably the letter "V". It represents the name of the character with the guy fawkes mask, the number 5 in latin numbers, and the letter V. You are going to see things in context with V throughout the entire movie.

Like in the movie "Psycho" by Alfred Hitchcock, V is killing someone in a shower.

Story

The movie is about a character called V, who is an anarchist and wants to make a political revolution because the government is corrupt. His goal is to kill everybody in the government and free the citizens from the fascistic party norsefire. He saved a young women Evey from a gang of secret police officers, who wanted to rape her. Shortly later V takes Evey to a roof and detonates a bomb in the British Parliament. In response of that Eric Finch, the head of the nose (the police of norsefire), had the task to stop V from bombing political important buildings.V was planning his big attack on the governmant on the fifth of novmber, remember fifth=V. He started this day with an epic domino stone scene, which symbloizes if one of them falls everythning will collapse.

Domino Scene on Nov,5

Positive Points:
+Lots of Symbolism
+Great Plot
+Lots of recognition (Guy Fawks)

Negative Points:
-Bad Soundtracks
-Could use more special effects
Movie Rating:91/100

Fun Ration:86%


sources: www.wikipedia.com

PHS Paradiso

This Post is going to be about a movie we watched. Its name is Cinema Paradiso, a successful foreign drama from Italy. This movie is about a small community in the middle of Italy, in which a new movie theater opened. This theater was the central point for people to hang around and to escape the often tragic and poor real-life. I am going to present 5 pictures about places I see or enter day after day in my life, like the people did in the Cinema Paradiso.

our Film-Studies classroom

Driveway from my Home

English Classroom

School entry

Lunchroom

My top 10 Movies

This is my top 10 movie lost, they are not ordered (that would be too hard)

1.Borat
2.Ong Bak
3.Hangover
4.Hangover 2
5.The Dark Knight
6.New Kids Turbo
7.Public Enemy
8.300
9.Gone in 60 Seconds
10.Drive

Rating Scale

My Rating Scale has 2 scores: one is the movie score and the second one is the fun score. In the First one take in things like director's message, symbolism and the plot. The fun-rating is just a score which tells you how much fun I had when I watched this movie. Both of these scales are from 0/100, 100 is the best and 0 is the worst score.