The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai (2003)

Genre: Adventure/Action/Drama
Directors: Edward Zwick

Writers: John Logan ( Story ), John Logan ( Screenplay )

Stars: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, and Billy Connolly.

The film The Last Samurai is about a American soldier by the name of Nathan Algren who was hired to kill the enemy. But ended up getting captured by the enemy and was raised to see their way of life which got his emotions involved in the mix. The films major characters are Nathan Algren, Lord Katsumoto, and Sgt. Zebulon Gant.

My opinion about the movie is I like it a lot, it had a lot of meaning, dont just judge people by what they are, see how they are first then judge them. It fits the component of a war movie because they have a ongoing war with the warriors and samurais.

Blow

Director: Ted Demme


Writers: Bruce Porter ( Book ), David McKenna ( Screenplay )


Stars: Johnny Depp ( George Jung ), Penelope Cruz ( Mirtha Jung ), Franka Potente ( Barbara Buckley )


This movie is about a guy by the name of George Jung that started off as a marijuana dealer then moved up into the cocaine game.


My opinion on this movie is that I really like it because its about a guy thats trying to come up from rags to riches. Yes I think it did a good job on turning a real life situation into a entertaining story. The insight it gave was that you take a lot of risks to become rich from doing illegal things, but in the end you will always be stuck in the game.

The Notebook

Director - Nick Cassavetes

Writers - Jeremy Leven ( Screenplay ), Jansardi ( Adaption )

Stars - Gena Rowlands, James Garner, and Rachel McAdams

The plot of the movie is that a rich family moves out to the boomies to spend their summer, and then their daughter (Allie) falls in love with Noah that's from a poor family. After they fall in love they ended up spending their whole summer together, till one night they got into a fight about her family not approving of Noah, then one thing lead to another he left her house furious. Then the next morning Allie's mom decide its time to move out to the city. As she find out she runs to go find Noah to confess her feelings but once she reach the coal mine he's out working, So she runs out of time her mom drags her out of that place. Then Noah comes back finding out she left for the cities. He tried to reach her for a year straight, writing her everyday his thoughts, and theories, but no reply. Sadly, he didn't know that Allie's mom is the one that recieved and hid all the letters, keeping Allie away from Noah and introducing her to someone new.

What makes this romance so real is that even though they lost contact of each other, they still somehow and someway find a way to connect to each other until finally they get to be with each other.