S is for Stanley

The Shining


The scene that I praised the most is the high-angle shot over the maze as Danny runs out the hotel escaping from Jack it pans the maze then jumps into the chase views. As the mentally unstable Jack is now chasing his son with his axe leading to the climactic fate of Jack. Every shot of the maze scenes has the Rule of Thirds with the maze in back Danny and Jack focus and snow and lamp the foreground. A great end to the scene for a great movie; voted in the top 5 of every major horror list.

A Clockwork Orange



This is a scene in the middle of the movie where our Anti-Hero Alex De Large is being questioned about his role of the leader in the gang as this is where the "shit hits the fan" and leads to his downfall. His mates try to jump him as he shows them why he's the lead and why he's superior going to the extance of cutting one of them on the hand. They had Malcom McDonald use Method Acting, as it all feels real. AFI has this movie in 5 of their list being under 20 in all.

2001: A Space Odyssey

The scene of the monkey learning the swing the bone. The scenes of the ape gangs all have Rule of Thirds as the puddle the fight over is up front the apes focus and mountains in the back. The high-angle shot showing the vast waste land and apes pour in is a times scene. I believe the Ideological Meaning is evolution and religion can coexist but the apes evolution only comes after "the greater power" arrives.

If I could ask Kubrick 2 questions they'd be why he always took books into movies and how he stayed so true as most book to movies lack plot and are different stories with the same name.

losing dory

Other then your work on on "A Bug's Life" and "Wall-E", I'm here to talk to you about a sequel for what I think is your best work, "Finding Nemo". See Mr. Stanton, although Finding Nemo was one of the greatest movies of all time, I think we should learn more about some of the characters. The two I had in mind were Dory and Crush.
I think you and Ellen DeGeneres should continue to play the roles of Crush and Dory because I feel that there is no actor who can bring these charecters to life as you to have. It should also feature Nemo and Marlin and thoses roles should also be played by the same actors. In the sequal, Dory is on her way to drop Nemo off at school and she gets lost. She finds herself in the EAC(Eastern Atlantic Current) where she eventually runs into Crush. Crush and Dory are then on a quest to get Dory back home.

I think the opening scene should feature a graphic match cut from a shot of land to a shot of the Coral Rief. Then we hear music playing in the background and then there should be a fast zoom inside a resturant where we see Dory performing on stage. Fastforward, then we get to the scene where Dory enters the EAC and this time, there should be alot of pan, close ups, and dutch angle shots on Dory as she travels threw the EAC. The movie should end with an extreme close-up shot of Dory's lips as she says "duh".

Why did you choose to have Dory play as a fish with short term memory loss?

Where you planning to make a sequal to the movie Finding Nemo? If so, what would you call it, who would star in it, and why?

Neo

The Hughes Brothers

This is one of the close-ups pictures i chose from "Menace 2 Society". I picked this photo because I believe that The Hughes Brothers wanted to show viewers the face expression on a person's face when they get shot. Its like when you are not expecting something, and it hits you shock comes. Knowing that you are pouring out blood, all thats running through your mine is that you are about to die. Thats why i think they wanted to make this certain shot as a close-up.

After Menace 2 Society, The Hughes Brothers directed another drama movie. "Dead Presidents." I think this certain shot would be a Binary Opposition (Men Vs. Nature). I say that because in this film, a group of guys come home from a war and they deal with changes in their community. Drugs, sex, etc. plays a role in the changes they went through. The most factor was money. This photo shows the guys after robbing a bank security truck, they stands there and watch the truck explode.

My last photo is Zoom In shot of Johnny Depp. Starring in the film From Hell. I never saw this film before, but by the looks of the photo, it seems Johnny was saying something important. Overall, The Hughes Brothers uses the types of shots in his movie. I think thats what makes their movies tight. Being directors, they know the right time to use different shots. I hope The Hughes Brothers direct another movie in the future.

• When directing a film, is their a time where ya'll think about making a comedy or romance movie?


• Would the Hughes Brothers ever think about directing a movie alone? why? or why not?

Catherine Hardwicke

The movie Thirteen is Catherine Hardwicke first film she directed. This movie is about a thirteen year old girl who discovers drugs and put her and her mothers relationship to the test to see how far she can push it until her mother find out her secret life of using drugs and parting. Molly Hunter plays Melanie the mother of Evan Rachel Wood who plays Tracy the daughter, in this shot Catherine Hardwicke is trying to show suspense because Melanie finds out Tracy has been cutting her wrist and was trying to hide it but her mother find out and Tracy struggles to get away but doesn't as shown in the picture.







The Nativity Story is the third movie Catherine Hardwicke has directed. This movie a movie that focuses on the period of Mary and Joseph's life and their journey to Bethlehem for the arrival of Jesus. In this scene the director is using the type of shot called medium close up shot showing Mary who is played by Keisha Castle-Hughes, she uses this type of shot to show an emotion, but the emotion she was trying to show as well as she would have like. because I get a confused emotion but the director could be trying to show sadness.






Twilight is Catherine Hardwicke Fourth movie that she has directed. Twilight is about a teenage vampire named Edward who is played by Robert Pattinson who is trying protect Kristen Stewart who plays Bella the girl who Edward falls in love with and is risking his life for. In this shot Edward takes Bella on a journey to show what he can do like climb, jump, run as fast very fast, this is a low angle shot because it is showing that they are superiority of the forest at the time.




Catherine Hardwicke's movies do not have a connection bases on the story's plots but the film angles she uses she continually uses in each of her movies, like in twilight and thirteen she used a lot of long shots to show what the characters and feeling based on their body launages. over all I like her movie she directs becasue I feel like I am part of the movie just watching on the side lines.



Have you seen a movie directed by Catherine Hardwicke? what do you like about her films?

Why do you think Catherine Hardwicke uses shots to show emotion in her movies?

Quentin Tarantino

Before Pulp Fiction, the master of snarky cinema, Quentin Tarantino, helmed his debut crime film Reservoir Dogs. Following various criminals during the aftermath of (and the events leading up to) a poorly executed diamond raid, one of his signature moves was the low-angle shot from within a car trunk. Aimed up at three of our key criminals - Mr. Blond (Michael Madsen), Mr. White (Harvey Keitel), and Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi) - we the viewers are faced with the goofy yet ultimately intimidating faces of the villains of our story, one of which also happens to be our hero.

Despite of this movie's innovations and unique camera angles, Tarantino did not attain fame until his breakthrough hit Pulp Fiction, in which two hitmen (John Travolta as Vincent Vega and Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winfield, pictured below) who look like they're out of the 70s are on a quest for a mysterious briefcase. And that's only one of the movie's plotlines! In this unforgettable scene, backlight is completely eliminated from the shot save for the centered window which spotlights our two killers. It not only helps the background match their pitch black suits, but it frames the two as angels of death of sorts, which plays into the so-called "miracle" that happens soon after this shot.

After many years of dedicating himself to his two-part epic Kill Bill, Tarantino took part in a little experiment called Grindhouse, which was a term for double features from the 70s that showed low-budget highly violent motion pictures. When it came out, you could see his film Death Proof and his friend Robert Rodriguez's film Planet Terror for the price of one ticket! Unfortunately Grindhouse did not make a lot of money, but it did make for a great experiment in cinema. This shot in particular, in which our four female protagonists go after a killer stuntcar driver, demonstrates the Rule of Thirds, in which we get a richly vibrant foreground (a shiny yellow sports car), an intense performance from Tracie Thoms as Kim in the middle ground, and our grinning hooligans in the backseat.

What similarities do you see in the plots of all three of Tarantino's films mentioned here? Why do you think he tends to sway this way as a director?

What sets Death Proof apart from Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction?