Three kings (Steve Bochra)

This site contains information about Three Kings Film. The author Anthony Leong talks about Three Kings from historical point of view. He mentions the gulf war and it impact on the soldier. He talks about the easy victory of this war. In addition, he mentions how the soldiers react toward the war at that time. Specifically, he said “With the ground war having lasted a mere one hundred hours, many of the fresh-faced recruits have never tasted combat, and they hungrily take advantage of any opportunity to fire off a few rounds or have their picture taken with a dead enemy soldier”. It seems that Anthony Leong thinks that the American soldiers gained victory very easy during that war.

What might have happened and what did happen after the Gulf War

On August 2, 1990, Iraqi Republican Guard invaded Kuwait and took control of that country. The United States responsed to prevent any invasion of Kuwait's neighbor Saudi Arabia; this was called Operation Desert Shield. After Saddam Hussein did not remove his forces by the deadline Bush gave Saddam did we attack Saddam's army and drove them out of Kuwait; this was called Operation Desert Storm. It only lasted 100 hours before we pushed them all out and then calling off the ground war. "almost all Americans seems to believe the U.S. military should have pushed on beyond the terms of the mandate that President George Bush had requested from the U.N. and conquered all of Iraq." This article written by Steve Sailer explains what might have happened if we went and invaded Iraq. Steve also explains what happened Immediately after the war within Iraq.

Mel Gibson (Steve Bochra)

In the following site, there is interview with the director Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson discussed several issues concern his film Apocalypto. He discusses how he challenged himself of choosing new actors to act in this film. He mentioned “None of these people had acted much before, ever. So it was, that was challenge, for them and for me and it was kind of like, since it's going to be out there, it's kind of like having the Super Bowl and picking a guy who looks kind of able from the crowd and saying, you be the quarterback”. In addition in this site, Gibson talks about his direct style such as camera angles, location, costumes and much more.

Kingdom of Heaven (Historical Article) By Steve Bochra

In this website you will find a critical article performing genre analysis. Thomas F Madden criticize Kingdom of Heaven movie. Thomas F Madden is fascinated of the movie and he mentioned that the film is filled with medieval battle. He said “The film can best be described as a series of bloody medieval battle scenes stitched loosely together with a thin, yet preachy, modern morality play”. Madden mention that Kingdom of Heaven shows some reality of the middle ages aspects. Madden stated “They haven’t. In fact, there is very little that is medieval about The Kingdom of Heaven. It is instead a mixture of 19th-century Romanticism and modern Hollywood wishful-thinking”. Madden affirmed that the film touched a historical fact which shows the Crusades of Muslim invasion of Christian land.

Batman

In this website the author RICHARD CORLISS talked about several movies such as Batman Return. He discussed ideological aspects in these movies such as showing or reflecting the American culture in these types of movies. He also talked about the American dreams that are shown in many movies. He said "We try to stay true to the main theme," says Cedric, which is this guy dreaming of a bigger life for his family and always doing it by some kind of get-rich-quick scheme. Want”. He said that movies such as Batman Return show the American culture in the heroism action made by Batman.

About a Boy

In About a Boy, Will Freeman (Hugh Grant) live in London. He is taking the responsibility of taking care of a boy. This film is filled with comedy scenes. Will life is totally a mess. Specifically, he is facing problem in managing his time of taking care of the boy. In the scenes, it seems that he is very angry, which is proven clearly by his angry face expression. Freeman’s costumes prove that he is a style person, which is proof that he does not know how to take responsibility of the child.





Quotes:
1) “North London bachelor Will Freeman (Hugh Grant) conceives his life as "The Will Show," built around a single star”.

2)“Will avoids entanglements of any kind. And while he might appear "naturally" glib and caddish, he works at it, carefully scheduling his time into "units,"

3) Will nods and smiles and acts as though he knows something about feeding 2-year-olds.