The Princess Bride

The Princess Bride is a film that is basically a story from a book being told to a young sick child who is in the care of his grandfather at the time. It tells the tale of Wesley the main protagonist who is farm boy turned pirate and who falls in love with Buttercup. Butter cup is the lead Female character who after Wesley’s false death gives herself to be married to Prince Humperdinck the antagonist of the film. Once the two are brought back together they must fight of the prince and his evil followers. The lecture for this film this week was about screen plays though out storylines for the film. This film was based of the book by Williams Goldman who also did the screenplay being that is was an adaptation. It also was Directed Robert Reiner. This film for me is a classic Hollywood movie, which featured many good actors, was very entertaining and filled with comedy. It seemed like a typical fairytale where you could make up mythical things, have far-fetched events to take place and where everyone lives happily ever after. Once again this movie was every entertaining and good to watch as a film.

Dr. Strangelove

Dr. Strange Love takes place back in the times of the Cold war between the Unites States and the Soviet Union.  While on an American bomb alert base, the U.S. Air force General Jack Ripper purposely gives his crew orders to send out a nuclear attack on the soviets. The soldiers all gear up heading out on their air craft and are ready to attack under the impression that they are going into war. Seeing the disaster that is about to happen due to false reports, the President and chiefs gather together to stop this travesty. The lecture for this week was mainly about Directing and the type of directors that are in the industry. Stanley Kubrick was the Director of Dr. Strange love, he is known for being very meticulous wanting everything from the smallest prop and scene to be perfect. I must say this film was very thought out and plan, I don’t think there was a moment of confusion due to a misdirected scene or something. You could tell the plot, theme, and storyline very easily understand the message coming across from the film. Overall view, Dr. Strangelove was very entertaining, having funny moments along with everything taking place.

The Rear Window

The Rear Window is about a photographer who after breaking his leg is confined to his apartment home finding entertainment in spying in on his neighbors. In the care of his nurse Stella and girlfriend Lisa, Jeff finds nothing wrong in his peeping ways until he comes to the conclusion that one of his neighbors murdered his wife. The Rear Window for me was very interesting and captivating like any good murder mystery should be. The characters were very believable and delivered a great performance for the film.  The lecture for this film was focused on the Gaze meaning the perspective that the director wanted to focus from and what he/she wanted the audience to see from the film.  Lara Mulvey argued that the male gaze in The Rear Window was very sexist making the lead female character Lisa an object of male attention  which my opinion is true in a way but not to the point where it took away from her true talent as an actress. The movie really focused on the voyeuristic gaze from the character Jeff. The director really showed good angles of the movie kind of from the outside looking in from Jeff’s perspective. Overall I would say this was a good film.