Ray (2004)

Director: Taylor Hackford

Ray is a biopic about Ray Charles, one of the most popular jazz musicians of all time (who also happens to be blind). Jamie Foxx plays the part of Ray Charles.

Some comparisons I found between Ray and Citizen Kane is that they both start off with Ray and Charles as children. Throughout the movie both of the main characters get something they want in life, for Ray is was to become a popular musician and for Charles it was to get lots of money. In the end both Ray and Charles lose someone they care a lot about. They lose that someone because they were both corrupted because of an addiction of theres; Ray was addicted to heroin and Charles was addicted to money.

The movie Ray took 15 years to produce, mainly because they needed to financial security. During the production of the film the real Ray Charles was given a Braille copy of the script to make sure everything was okay with him.

What's Love Got To Do With It (1993)

In these two films they have similarity .The male character's Ike and Kane starts getting in there own production, and then starts to get obbsessed with there money and start abusing it,and putting it first before anything and every one. causing them to be alone and to be in dept. In the female character's Tina and Kane's wife got fed up with the fact that they stopped caring for them and start abusing them with causes them to leave them all alone.

Verisimilitude: The reason why I think that this real is because when it comes to music productions and singers people persuade others that sing good just to get their business started and have there name develope in the music industry.

Director: Brian Gibson

Citizen Kane (1941)

Director: Orson Welles

What film does Citizen Kane remind you of and why? Is your film also based on a real person or true events? If so, explain who/what. Do you think your film had a high degree of verisimilitude? Explain why or why not. Finally, google and read info about your film's preproduction, production, and/or post-production and share an interesting piece of information you learn. Take a look at the director's previous films and read about them. Why do you think they were chosen as director of your film? What about the actors? Editor? Use IMDb.com as a resource!

Your blog post should include 1) the name of the film and its year as the title, 2) a picture/poster of the film, 3) the director of the film, 4) a comparison to Citizen Kane, and 5) inclusion of a vocab word from the past week in your description/explanation/review of the film. Don't forget to put your initials in the 'Labels' section of your post!

Part of your 40-point grade also comes from leaving comments on other people's posts. Leave two comments (don't forget your initials) that include your opinion on the movie they blogged about and/or what film the one they blogged about reminds you of and why.

Eternal Sunshine

Eternal Sunshine reminded me of The Time Travelers Wife (2009) starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana. they're similar because in the time traveler's wife Henry DeTamble (Eric Bana) is traveling back and forth in time. Its also a romance movie.

I really enjoyed eternal sunshine. i felt like it was a different approach to the romace movie. It really didnt follow the status quo of a typical romace. The mise-en-scene of the movie to me was when he was stuck in the accident scene the way they edited the scene to look like he was stuck in sort of like a mirror kind of a reflection that he couldn't escape was cool.

Waiting to Exhale

The scene from the graduate when Ben was in the pool and his parents were talking to him about his future.


I think that scene was simlar to the scene in Waiting to Exhale. When the mother was asking her son about his future after he graduate from high school. They had similar editing schemes when they kept switching from mother to son.
The son was surprise that his mother was home when he decided get in the pool. He thought his mom was going to be at work for atleast another hour.

Polo..

super high me

Super high me is a documentry on a comedian that smokes weed for 30 days striaght. From the time he wakes up to bedtime. He takes many medical and mental evaluations such as the SAT and a memory test. On both he does better when he is high. He evaluates and monitors his health and well being. After 30 years of smoking there was no pyhsical harm done but his mathematical skills had deteriorated when his was high. The cinamatography was similar to the graduate because it was often shaky at times but would show little flash images. The love was story was similar because the comedian in super high me was in love with mary jane but didn't know if they could be together because the effects on him. In the end they wound up together just like Ben and elaine.

The Graduate (Ben at the hotel)

1,3.)Ben seems really nervous and paranoid about how he's about to smash some married chick. He thinks people will know.
2.)It just goes back and forth between the clerk and Ben to show there expressions.

pineapple express

Well the base of the movie is two main characters Dale Denton and Sal silver Dale surves people subpoena for a living but tricks them into thinking he's someone else while he does this he smoke pot all day sal is a pot dealer one day Dale goes to pick up from sal, sal tells Dale hes got this new pot its like god's vagina almost a shame to smoke so Dale picks up smokes a cross joint with sal and then dale leaves to go surve a subpoena to a big drug dealer named Ted jones before he goes in he sits in his car and smokes a joint while doing so he hears loud gunshots coming from the house he has to go into he freaks throws his joint and drives off not before smashing into two cars and geting noticed by the lady cop ted jones goes to wear dales car was sitting and picks up the roach takes a hit and says two words pineapple express
By DM

The Graduate

I thought The Graduate was intresting but disturbing at the same time. I didnt consider it a comedy though. There was a few comidic moments or at least what the director wanted to be funny but it just didnt do it for me. It was disturbing because, Elaine wanted to be with benjamin even though he slept with her mom.

The movie reminded me about Little Children staring Kate Winslet and Knocked Up staring Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogan . One of the movies is more of a drama and the other one is a comedy. Im not comparing Knocked up to it in a comidic way but because both of those movies were disturbing to me that's why im comparing them to The Graduate. Also some of the editing in Knocked Up was similar in a way.

JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE

COMEDY&ROMANCE

THE MOVIE JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE IS ABOUT A TRIO OF GIRLS FROM ALL DIFFERENT CLIQUES WHO ARE GETTING PLAYED BY THIS POPULAR BASKETBALL STAR. AFTER THEY ALL FIND OUT HE'S TELLING THEM ALL THERE THE ONLY ONE THEY BECOME FRIENDS WITH THIS NEW GIRL AN TURN HER INTO THIS REAL PRETTY CHEERLEADER. AS SHE'S TRYING TO GET TUCKER TO FALL FOR HER WHICH HE IS SHE REALLY STARTS LIKING HIM. BUT ITS ALL SUPPOSE TO BE A JOKE TO BREAK HIS HEART BUT SHES REALLY FALLING FOR HIM BUT TUCKERS BROTHER REALLY LIKES KATE AT THE END THEY DON'T CHANGE TUCKER HE JUST LETS ALL THE GIRLS KNOW HE MESSES WITH A LOT OF THEM AN THERE FINE WITH THAT KATE AN TUCKERS BROTHER FALLS IN LOVE TOGETHER AT THE END.

I LIKE THIS MOVIE BECAUSE ITS FUNNY AN IT REALLY SEEMS REAL WHEN YOUR IN HIGH SCHOOL MESSING WITH SOMEONE AND HE'S REALLY POPULAR. THIS CONNECTS TO THE GRADUATE BECAUSE AT THE END EVERYONE IS HAPPY AN HAS SOMEONE TO BE WITH AN EVERYONE IS FIGHTING FOR LOVE.

1. HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNEW?
2. HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MOVIE DID YOU LIKE IT?

Scary Movie

cinematographer: In this movie it has a scene where Bobby and Sindy are talking about why it took her so long to have sex with him. Than she starts getting teqnicle and Bobby starts clowning around pointing at the film directors behind the scene.

YEAR ONE

The movie "Graduate" reminds me of a movie called: Year One. I say this because in the movie, (year one) One of the main charaters is absoluely clueless. In the Graduate Ben acts clueless as to what Mrs.Robinson is trying to do to him. Also in year one the charater do whatever his friends tell him to do and in the Graduate Ben does whatever Mrs.robinson say even if he doesn't nessarily agree with it.

Comdy

The gradute reminded me of the movie janky promoters because when he came home he really didnt have nothin to come back to. In Janky promoters he was post to give his clients what they asked for but he purpeslly gave them nothing just so they would remeber wee there from an to teach them money isnt everything. so they will start givin back to the people.

Finding Nemo (2003)

Directed & written by: Andrew Stanton

Finding Nemo is about two fish, father and son (Marlin & Nemo). Nemo goes swimming out into the open, away from the reef where it's safe and gets taken by divers. The rest of the movie is about Marlin, his dad, looking for him. The whole time he is looking for him, there is always something that gets in his way. For example, an annoying fish follows him the whole way, they run into fish friendly sharks who end up trying to eat them and they get stung by jellyfish.

The graduate also has contains some obstacle that Ben has to overcome to get to Elaine in time. He sleeps with a married woman, he dates her daughter, Elaine, after the mom made him swear not to, he ends up falling in love with Elaine but she is about to get married to another guy. Ben decides that he has to stop her from marrying this other guy but on his way to the wedding he runs into a few obstacles, he has to stop for directions, his car runs out of gas so he has to run the last few blocks.

Pretty much, they both are about a guy (Ben & Marlin) going on a journey to get something they want (Elaine & Nemo). But on their way to getting what they want, they run into lots of things keeping from getting it.

One comparison I found between The Graduate and Finding Nemo is the editing of the scenes. They are all in order and most scenes contain major parts leading up the ending.

FRIDAY

director: F. Gary Gray

starring: Ice cube, Chris Tucker, Bernie Mac.

year:1995

Friday is a comedy different than the graduate. The inciting incident with the film is craig got fired on his day off, this leads to craig dealing with the other main characters problems. Smoky the other main character in the film is smoking up all of big worms product so no money is giving back to him so he sends ppl after them. In friday the audiences hears and sees negative things throughout the movie but it will keep you laughing.