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3710_Nobody Knows (誰も知らない; Dare mo shiranai)

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 24, 2010 , LABELS: | comments (1)




Name : Nobody Knows (誰も知らない; Daremo shiranai)


Film Date: January, 2004


Japanese Casts: Ayu Kitaura, Hanae Kan, Hiei Kimura, Momoko Shimizu, You, Yuuya Yagira



This movie is japanese movie. And this story is based on true story.


Four siblings live happily with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo.


In fact, the children all have different fathers and have never been to school. The very existence of three of them has been hidden from the landlord. One day, the mother leaves behind a little money and a note, charging her oldest boy to look after the others. But oldest boy also child. He can't take care his brothers and sisters. He want to play with his freind, and he want to go to school. But he can't. And unfortunately, they are getting problem of money. they can't pay any bill, they can't eat, they can't anything. One day, youngest girl has accident. and she is die. But they can't ask help anybody. Because Nobody Knows who lives there, and who die....


When I watched this movie, I was shock. First, this story is impressed to me. Second, I was suprised that is real story. Third, In this movie, every actors really grown up. The oldest boy was changed his voice. this movie is real!


I suggest, if you like humon's real story, you should watch this movie.

Spring, summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring_3820_Jiyoung Yoo

Posted by Julie Yoo on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 , LABELS: | comments (1)




The movie title is very similar to the human life. I understood when I watched this movie. I really loved the title too.
This movie is the most amazing movie I have seen. I thought that I need to understand Buddist. However, I didn't have to be into religion to understand and allow myself to get into this movie. Excellently set on a secluded lake in the mountains in South Korea, director Kim Ki-duk has created a classic love story with a religious twist with the movie Spring, summer, fall, winter, And Spring.

In my opinion, I loved that the movie doesn't have a lot of talking and characters. I could concentrate it and into the movie. I couldn’t do anything when I watched the movie just focused on the movie. I am fan of Kim Ki-duk and trying to watch his movie. His movie is really different from the others movie.

Anyway, back to the movie, The title is used to show the growing up of a young boy and shows a few valuable lessons on the way. The old man and his student live on a floating monastery, away from all life and that is significant
because it shows that you don't need to be around people 24/7 to live life to the fullest. To be honest I didn't think I was going to make it through this movie.

It didn't have a lot of talking I think I could count the number of conversations on my hand. But it was something very powerful about this movie that caught me, I think it was the sense of the father and son bonding, something that isn't very common. It was special to me about this movie is the fact that it stays in its common setting through the whole movie. It never leaves the lake. Also how there were lessons being taught throughout. One that I really found special was when the boy was a child and he tied stones to 3 different animals, cause it was his idea of having fun and the wise old monk told him to go find each animal and free them and if any of the animals were dead, then he would live with that on his heart for ever. The twist to this lesson though was the old monk tied a big stone to the kid and made him go find the animals, to show him how it felt.
The movie has very beautiful back ground from Spring to winter.

The more, the better
http://www.sonyclassics.com/spring/shell.html

3828_Pukkawat_analyse_movie

Posted by Feszar on , LABELS: | comments (1)



The Movie I choose is "Coroline", the stop motion movie. The color theme of this movie is cold colors; main is blue because it want to show how blue Coroline feel and what is she think about others (Coroline thinks that nobody understand her and she feels lonely). The evironment is the houses that Coroline lives (also blue color) but there are 2 houses one is old and real place and another is new but it is an imagination of Coroline combine with the witch's magic. The old house has many broken things to show that Coorline family dosen't have a lot of money whereas the new one has completed facilities that Coroline wants to show Coroline desire compared with the old one.

This movie plays with shadow even Coroline is happy or sad there also has a show on her face. The shadow makes us feel as same as Corline. For the sound, there is an exiting BG sound when Coroline is in danger and no BG sound when Coroline feels blue because it makes us feel lonely when we are watching. The clothing is warm color like yellow, orange, etc. I think this color can make audiance notice about what is Corline always want to have.

3621_Mirinda_LORD OF THE RINGS

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Directed by Peter Jackson


Produce by Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh, Mark Ordesky, Tim Sanders (The Fellowship of the Ring)


Written by Novel J.R.R. Tolkien


Screenplay: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Stephen Sinclair (The Two Towers)


Music by Howard Shore


Studio WingNut Films, The Saul Zaentz Company


Distributed by New Line Cinema (Warner Bros.)


Release date(s) 2001-2003


Running time Theatrical: 558 minutes, Extended Edition: 683 Minutes

Language English


Budget US$285 million


Gross revenue US$2,915,155,189


Synopsys


Lord of the rings consists of three films. It's about hobbit Frodo Baggins who has to destroy a One Ring. In his journey also has fellowship are Aragorn(Human), Boromir(Human), Meriadoc 'Merry'Brandybuck(Hobbit), Samwise Gamgee(Hobbit), Gandalf(Wizard), Gimli(Dwarves), Legolas(Elf) and Peregrin 'pipin' Took(Hobbit). They are try to protect Frodo from enemy each of them have a differrent talent. Unfortunately, some of fellowship want to possess the ring because they are induced by the power of the ring. So, Frodo decide to go alone but Sam stills worry about him. So, Sam try to do everything to go with Frodo.


Gollum ,was a ring owner, always follow Frodo because he wants to steal the ring back. He makes Frodo and Sam mistaken each others. During the journey Frodo has a lot of barriers he has to pass all of them untill reach the Vocanic Mount Doom.


Analysis:


Lord of the rings combine from Lord means leader and ring refer to One Ring. It is about 20 rings but only one has a strongest power. So, most of people want to possess it to become a leader. One Ring is the beginning of all.


Friendship is a theme of this movie as we can see the fellowship always helps each other such as; when Boromir was controled by power of the ring then Aragon remined him to aviod from the ring. Secondly, nearly end Sam never care himself he jumps into the river to follow Frodo's boat. Double sidedness is another theme, Frodo is the main character can represent this theme. Normally, all human have both side are good and bad. In the film Frodo play with his friend same as other people in his village. They are happy but when he go to the dark side, is under control by the ring. we can see from his face, emotion and eyes change. He looks very scary not friendly at all his eyes look like ogre and also he is angry easily. Another person is Gollum, before he didn't have the ring he had a lot of friend and he was a normal hobbit. After he has been control by the ring he killed all of his friends because he was fear someone will steall his ring and his apperance become very ugry.


Ring is a motif of this film refer to characters want to get the ring or want to be a leader. It leads ruin and war to the world. As Mordor, he kills everyone just because he wants to rule the world. In contrast, with out the ring peace come to theirlife. Every single scene when we see the ring we can also feel sad mood, unhappy and hopeless but in some scene don't have the ring we can see the characters are happy. They laugh and smile.


This movie is a restricted narrative which has Sam as a narrator. From the begining we hear someone telling the story and at the end of movie we will find out that Sam is guy and writting the end of the story in Frodo's diary. Narrative stucture is linere. Beginging is Frodo assign to destroy the One Ring. And then in the middle he travels across the land from his village to Vocanic Mount Doom. Climax of this film is he stand on the top of Vocanic and fight with his desire. Resolution is the ring has been destroy and peace come to the world. Protagonist is Frodo the main character who try to protect the world and Antagonist is Mordor enemy who want to rule the world.


MISE-EN-SCENE consist of five elements. The first one is setting, forest is the scene represent how hard for Frodo's journey are. He doesn' have a car also he can't fly the way he use is walk. Another scene is Arwan's house he sleeps on the beautiful bed everything is convenient. It mean not really easy for you to achieve your goal. You might have to pass a lot of barrier however after that you will find a beautiful life. Second element is custome in the movie each gene wearing differrent style. Also, some character wear cuirass to protect themselves. I think it can represent as every culture have their own unique but we can still live together and human need securily as well. Third element is lighting in this movie most of scene use nature ambiance light. But still in some scene use high key lighting such as in Arwen's house. In this point we can feel clam the director wants to cut our feeling from sadness to be happieness. The fourth element is actor performance Frodo has got a strong heart he has to protect himself from ring's power. This performance express as if you have a strong heart you are self control. Sam ,is a Frodo's bestfriend, always beside Frodo to prevent him from danger. If you have a friend you should take care, understand and advise them to right way. Last element is sound.

3657_Haewon_Le grand blue

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Le grand blue (1988)
I think almost people saw this poster, even if they didn’t watching this movie. This movie’s poster had been very famous. I have seen this movie four times and each time I like more and more and now I really love it. The first time, I was watching, it was 6 years ago with English version and after the second time, I was watching real version with French that much better about feeling.
Also, this movie with my favorite director and actor; director was Luc Besson Stars were Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno(I like him a lot) and Rosanna Arquette.
The story was Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques' father, who was a diver too, died in the Mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and Jacques lost contact. After several years, Enzo and Jacques had grown up, Johanna, a young clerk there she meets Jacques who works for a group of scientists. He dives for some minutes into ice-cold water and the scientists monitor his physical state that is more like a dolphin's than a human's. Johanna can not believe what she sees and gets very interested in Jacques but she's unable to get acquainted with him. Some weeks later, back in her office, she notices a championship for divers that is supposed to take place in Taormina, Italy. In order to see Jacques again she makes up a story so the firm sends her to Italy for business purposes. In Taormina there is also Enzo, the reigning diving world champion. He knows that only Jacques can challenge and probably beat him. This time Johanna and Jacques get closer, but Jacques, being more a dolphin than a man, can not really commit and his rivalry with Enzo pushes both men into dangerous territory.
When I saw this the first time, I just concentrated the story but after I could concentrate about the sound and the color. Especially, I really like those color modes and sounds. If you haven’t seen this movie, I like recommend it!!










Alice in Wonderland Review

Posted by Abbey on , LABELS: | comments (1)









This film is directed by Tim Burton. 19-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror.


At her engagement party, she escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with the marriage and falls down a hole in the garden after spotting an unusual rabbit. Arriving in a strange and surreal place called "Underland," she finds herself in a world that resembles the nightmares she had as a child, filled with talking animals, villainous queens and knights. Alice realizes that she is there for a reason--to conquer the horrific Jabberwocky and restore the rightful queen to her throne.

The scene in this film is wonderful and colorful. There are a lot night view in underland. So the film can show the evil part of red queen. And also Burton use white and red color to present these two different kind of queen.

There are thousands of changing of Alice’s dress and Mad Hatter’s dress or make up is extremely wonderful. The background is full of white color in white queen’s house and the dress is really red on red queen so that you forgot what just happen after this film just because this kind of background is always change. And also you don’t know what does director want to present.

But this is very good 3D film I enjoy it very much.

3511_debbie_talk something about harry potter

Posted by Debbie on Monday, November 22, 2010 , LABELS: | comments (1)




Harry Potter

The movie I am going to talk here is Harry Potter 1.

Actually I have read the book Harry Potter before the movie came out. I really like the story, and so as the movie. This is a scientific fiction story that happens in the old century. Almost all the scenes in this movie are in the old tower buildings, forests and empty fields. The feelings present to audiences are mysterious, exciting attractive and kind a dangerous. It largely shows out a story as the book says to audiences. The properties used in the movie are pretty old style as well.

But the other seasons of the Harry Potter series used different kinds of scenes like more modernize, more fashion dressing that makes me confusing. It doesn’t attract me that much.

I like all the serious of the story, but the latter coming ones make me disappointed.
That is the point what I want to talk about these Harry Potter movies.