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Monday, April 30, 2007

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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This is Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This year he finds himself facing the triwizard tournament as the fourth opponent, which breaks the rules of the tournament. This, however, was not the doing of Harry but of a more sinister force. On can feel the evil in this movie because of all of the darkness in it. Professor Alastor Moody, for example who turns out to be a traitor in disguise, is shrouded in ambiguity as a foreboding that this character would turn out evil. He is consistently dressed in dark colors and in shadows, which signify evil about him. Lord Voldemort himself is always carried in a black cloth which archetypally means death, this is fitting because Voldemort is technically dead; however, he can not die because of precautionary magic used. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is the exact opposite of Lord Voldemort, he is the Jesus Character in a sense whereas Voldemort would be the devil. Dumbledore is ever omnisicent and is always shrouded in the light which is an archetype for goodness. The Gryffindors colors are crimson and yellow, crimson being a color that indicates passion which tends to be true for the greater majority if not all of the gryffindors. The gray in the colors of the Slytherins represents ambiguity because one is not born evil, one is made that way. In this case it more specifically represents their stuggle of children to try to live up ti the expectations of their parent,wheter they want to or not.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Hero Yhang Zimou

This offers a brief summary of the movie going through all tghe important point and then moves into a more analytical mode to find the true meaning of Hero which is ambiguous and highly debatable.






Monday, April 16, 2007

Zhang Yimou, Curse Of the Golden Flower

The article im linking to today stars off by comparing this film to some of his prior films and letting the reader know that this film will not disappoint. There is a brief plot summary in order to get the reader up to speed on the movie then there is an ideological and formalist analysis

Sunday, April 1, 2007

Three Kings

This essay takes a historical approach to The Three Kings with the gulf war and also uses some current, then, events for support. The essay is highly political based.

Monday, March 19, 2007

Seven Samurai's Film Review

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Today I'm Linking to a film review of Akira Kurosawa's 10th film Seven Samurai, the review take the natioanlist, genre, and auteur approach to the 1945 film



Friday, February 9, 2007

Home Alone

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Home Alone is Chris Columbus' comedy about a young boy who is left home alone for Christmas and realizes the importance of family to him.Throughout the course of the movie McCaulay Culkin's character, Kevin, has to fend off a pair of bungling robbers (Joe Peschi and Daniel Stern). The essay I am linking to describes the success of Christopher Columbus and John Hughes as well as contrasting Home alone with their other hits.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Fight Club

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I selected Fight Club as a possible candidate for my project. It the story of Tyler Durden and his new friend Jack. They are both bored with their everyday lives and one begin to fight and let their agressions loose. They enjoy it so much that they create a Fight Club and begin to recruit men from all over the world. Once they get a decent amount of men to follow them they then engage in terrorist activity. The blend of terrorism and schizophrenia is wonderful becuase it shows the human need to survive in the way that one will do what one must in order to survive