This action packed movie directed Michael Mann, surely lived up to its name. Filled with household actors with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Val Kilmer did everything asked in a action, violent film. LT. Vincent Hanna, trying to catch Neil Mcculley's crew after completing high stakes bank robberies. It felt like Pacino and De Niro were accustomed to these roles from that start, since this is their preferred genre of acting. To me since they played similar characters throughout the years it made it kind of bland, not saying their acting was bad but it was so familiar. It consisted lots of over the shoulder shots, wide shots (to see the whole setting) and close up on characters eyes. One of my favorite scenes was the shootout in the city, it was pretty gory. I thought it was funny when Pacino was trying to shoot De Niro with a shotgun in the middle of the Grocery store, it just seemed so unrealistic but I enjoyed it. Understandably, this film is a strong action film filled with drama and intensity, I just wished I saw some variation of acting from De Niro and Pacino.
One of the most bizarre movie scenes in my opinion. The LAPD shooting the crew in the middle of Downtown L.A and surprisingly no one got hurt. I actually chuckled when Pacinos character was just all out firing an AK47 in the middle of Grocery Parking lot.
After reviewing chapter 5 about Cinematography and watching Get Out in class last week, I can use some of the terms to describe one of my favorite scenes from the film. This conventional thriller film pushed new waves on our interpretation of this genre. Diving into the iconic scene where Chris goes into the "sunken place" after Missy hypnotizes him. Popular director Jordan Peele and cinematographer Toby Oliver carefully crafted the stylistic choices with Chris and the setting. The main characteristic of lighting is Artificial lighting with fill. The lighting was established when Chris was sinking into the darkness and the light was from the viewpoint of what he was seeing beforehand. It casted the dark void Chris was slipping into gradually losing light. The depth of field was chosen to be casted far away from our character to establish the "sunken place" idea with a high angle far shot on Chris. The slow movements the chracter was making created a vision of him b...
After the in-class viewing of Swiss Army Man directed by Daniels, my initial reaction is that is a very unique film. Typically, this would not be the type of film I would willingly watch on my own but I do appreciate that I watched it. Hank played by Paul Dano is a phenomenal actor, I've seen his work from The Batman and Manny played by Daniel Radcliffe has been a household name in the industry since he was young. Although Dr.Kyburz told us to take the film at face value, I still tried to see the unlying notions or sequences of the film. I always do that when I watch new films and I definitely need to just learn to take in films as they are. That style of viewing films is derived from the multiple Christopher Nolan films I Had to watch back in high school and complete analysis. Here's the trailer if you are interested in checking out the film!! Anyways! Let's get back to talking about Swiss Army Man. Some of the thoughts are on the entire basis of the film. I believe Mann...
After spending a few weeks on organizing, planning, filming and then editing this short film my group and I made, I was actually happy with what we made. Everyone in the Group (myself, Ishaan, Francisco, Aidan) seemed to care what kind of product we were putting out. Everyone pulled their weight in this film and contributed enough. The origin of this idea started when Fransisco suggested that we do a crime film are we could not decide originally on the genre. From that point, I came up with the foundational idea about a framed murder that detectives needed to figure out. From that point much of the idea and stylistic choices were made somewhat on the fly. We wanted to make this as organically as possible because we all felt that is where the best movies come from. On the day we did most of our filming, we shot right on campus in the Basement of Wentz Science Center. Found some great rooms to film our two main settings (Murder site, and Detective Room). Those shots went by really f...
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