Overall Blog for s: 2

as many do, i

 love the Coen Brothers. the first film that i every really enjoyed past the entertainment level is their movie "O' Brother Where Art Thou?". so to show my love for this movie i watched it for this project. 

the first thing that should be noted throug

hout all these movies is that almost every

 scene in the movie can be stilled then famed and can be a masterpiece. every shot they take has perfect lighting, perfect positioning, and perfect colors. this adds tons of emotion and feeling to every scene you watch. for instance the scene in Fargo where he is burying the money in the side of the road. y

ou can see the loneliness and lifelessness in the place where he is. the place is completely white with just him and a fence really showing. this effect can also be scene where the two are standing there watching Jean run for her dear life. the two men are shown 2 completely different ways but are in

 the same scene which is abs

olutely amazing. one man looks evil, with no remorse for anything he just did. the other seems to be enjoying the time he's having capturing this woman. How can this be scene in other movies? well in raising Arizona almost everything in every scene was 

the same way. the Arizona's kid's bedroom is beautiful with tons of color and blue to show innocence. same with every shot during the main chaise scenes, every place 

an every second is a masterpiece. take for example the final robbing scene Hinde goes through where he has the Huggie's in one hand and a gun in the other. this shows an awesome contrast of his old and ne

w life. it also adds to a funny effect to have him robbing Huggie's in the first place. How is this shown in "No Country for Old Men"? well its quite obvious that every scene is beautiful in that movie like the main drug wreck the story is based around. dead dogs, dead people, blood, glass, charred metal; its like a mini hell!

 now finally how does this reate to the movie "o' Brother Where Art Thou?"? the first scene show this a great deal with the train running scene

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they're covered in dirt, chained up, and still Everett still finds a calm voice and asks "are any of you boys smithy's?". this is another great contrast that sets up basically the whole film.

one other thing that should be noted is that in all 4 films there seems to be one evil power that can do anything at any time if it catches up with you. usually nature or its habitat ends up destroying/stopping him/it. for instance in raising Arizona we can obviously see this as Leonard Smalls. he is an unstoppable man who wants this baby. he is eventually killed by his own hand grenade. in Fargo? of course! Gaear Grimsrud can be seen as an evil power who ends up killing about 5 people. he is stopped by Marge Gunderson and is taken to jail. where is it in "no Country for Old Men"? the answer (if you didn't already know) is Anton Chigurh. he isn't really stopped but in a way he cant get what he wants. so, its like halfway the Mexicans fault and half Llewelyn Moss's. finally this can be scene in "O' Brother where art thou?"with Sheriff Cooley. nobody can stop him from finding the boys until the lake is filled

everything is washes away.

all in all, the Coens have a very defined style but, they all make their films unique in every way.

Robert Altman

i should start out with the fact that i used to hate his films. i thought he used unnecessary scenes just to through you off, and weird character jives to make the audience uneasy. this is like a horror film where the monster pops out to get a shriek out of the audience. i hated watching the movies untill i saw "the player" . 

this opened my eyes to a new look on him. he doesn't have this shallow pop-technique that i was thinking, he just has very odd foreshadowing. he uses very odd objects to give the audience a clue to what's going to happened next. for instance the scene in "the long goodbye" where you see the camera zoom in on 2 dogs having sex. the one dog is screwing the other from the behind but then out of nowhere the dog being humped bits back. this gives a settle but clear clue toward the future. the main character (the dog being humped) is going to bit back (shoot the man who is screwing him). its a little graphic for my taste but it gets the point across. you can see this throughout the movies (like in the player when the detective cant catch the fly.) i cant recall half of them, i know they were there.

to notice an outman film, usually there is a huge cast to look at (i don't know why he likes this, but o well) and also there seems to be a lot of friction threw the characters. now when i look back at his career, i can see his view and begin to like him more and more.

Corps Bride

the first thing that broadly stand out in this film is the character's shapes, it adds to the story a little but gets quite annoying after awhile. why couldn't the main character at LEAST have normal arms? also color scheme (which has been noticed in the other 2 films) was very noticeable but very, how would you say... emo? the world is all black and white with gray shading but the underworld o thats color central, ridiculous! in the other 2 movies we watched the music fit perfectly with the surroundings and you almost didn't even notice, it was so natural. in this movie however i wanted to shoot myself during the "corpse bride" song, terrible. these songs also have a strong connection with "the nightmare befor christmas". it is to my belief he made this movie for his viewers, not for himself. a sellout if you will, this is when i stopped watching tim burton movies, from here on out they all have this cheesy feel to them. well enough about that, lets get to the horrible jokes in this movie. my god these jokes are like if carrot top and eddie Murffy made a T.V. series. they were so cheesy i wanted to fast forward some parts. the movie made some money i hear though, surprisingly.  probably off all the kids who made a religion of nightmare before christmas and hot topic shoppers. i probibly shouldent be so mean, somebody must have writen this play/story and its a nice story, just presented like a 3rd grade play. over all i would probibly give this movie a 1/5, the one if for the story and effort

Alfred Hitchcock

While we were in this unit i've noticed one of Hitchcock's techniques, his ability to show a person something and not have to say a single thing for them to know what's going on. you can see this a tiny bit in "the 39 steps". an example is the part when the woman is stabbed, we pretty much assume right off the bat that the assassins did it but if you think about it anybody could have done it. its more prominent however in rear window with the beginning scene, but he is still self concise of his own talent, why? he tells the audience with the phone call, but we would obviously tell by the pictures. what he could have done for us to know how long the leg would take to heal is a doctors note, but thats beside the point. he broadly shows his talent with the movie "vertigo" when he uses the scene to tell almost the complete story. there are barley any words spoken and you know exactly what's going on, your even more intrigued than if he just told you. one website that i full hearted believe with is this one about Hitchcock's film technique. that website pretty much speaks what was spoken here and adds additional info that i didnt touch on. Well, thats Hitchcock for ya!

Edward Scissorhands

at the start of the movie you can see a very distinct clue as to the color scheme of this film. the neighborhood is almost all exotic colors; while the house on top of the hill (Edward's master's house) is completely engulfed in neutral colors.  in the beginning shots of the movie it makes me laugh at the fact that Tim Burton tried so hard to have a creepy/ Alfred Hitchcock look but failed miserably. 

though i thought it was creative how he used a set from Beetlejuice (the toy neighborhood) as another set in this movie (the pan over the neighborhood). also the significant amount of relations to beetlejuice is absolutely ridiculous. the statues are the same, the feel of the normal people and the creeps are the same (beetlejuice: dead vs. living; E.S.; neighborhood vs Edward) and just the main plot is almost the same, for feel bad for the different and there's always some person to help the person along coincidentally the same actress (Winona Ryder). just like i said in the first review "man is lead threw a new world by another woman" same thing here. you can also tell that the music is almost identical to "A Nightmare Before Christmas" which is made 3 years later. the only question i have is why does tim constantly change Edward's makeup from pail to orange. maybe his happiness? i don't know; but all i do know is its very noticeable. i do like the fact that tim makes a crack at the normal lives of people. what am i talking about? well all the men leave and arrive at their homes at the same time, the wives (when they gossip in the middle of the street) sound like chickens, the boys that are listening to the game. he also (for some reason) makes all the robots with human characteristics.

thus giving a hint at one of his future characters (robot boy) and the belief that robots have a conscience

for the actual plot of the story its pretty good. some parts are very funny and it does move the audience very well. it teaches good lessons and gives a new look on life. a quote from the movie that i think summarizes the whole thing is "all that blood and just a little cut". 

Beetle Juice

after viewing this movie i can say full-heartedly that this is my favorite out of the three we are watching. this is my favorite for many reasons, mainly for the excellent acting, cinematography, and the plot all in itself. why do i like these things more in this movie than the other two? in Edward scissor hands the whole movie seems to be under a cloud. almost as if the whole movie is a dream that can never come true. the corpse bride is another rant for another day which we will not mention in this blog for after seeing it i wanted to go through every forest in Europe and shoot every twig with a 12-gauge. enough about that though lets go back to good movies, like beetle juice. one might say that the main character is the couple who had just died, it is my belief that the main character is Adam (Alec Baldwin) because Tim Burton always has this role play through all of his movies. the role I'm talking about is the confused man that is introduced into a new world and led by a woman. the woman in this movie which leads him into this world is Barbara (Geena Davis). in this movie our main male character is a little more aggressive and does most of the leading (first scene into the "other side"). the cinematography's is very obvious to a person watching the movie. very exciting scenery, very exciting characters, and very exciting music, this all leads to a cartoonish feeling. the characters seem as if they were drawn into this world not by fate but by pencil. the other side presents this well with the characters ridiculous costumes which are very humorous. the plot of this story is a very different outlook on the dead which i think every person should see. besides, beetle juice is probably the best played role and the funniest role since Jesus Christ in "Jesus Christ super star". if i were to say anything about this movie it would be this, "its a must see if you want to live tomorrow" i rate it a 5/5 Dom points.