Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Talkies

Think of a movie you've seen in which the screenplay, dialogue and characters were particularly memorable. Explain why this movie was so good in that respect. [100 words]

17 comments:

  1. I actually watched the movie ride along and it was a really funny movie about a guy trying to get the blessings of his girlfriend’s brother to ask for her hand in marriage and the brother James is a hardcore cop. And the boyfriend is a little man and he can’t do anything right. Well he has a really good attitude about life, and the world and finds out that aspect of him actually helps James solve a case. And james ends up giving him his blessings and likes him because he brings up his spirits and realizes he has a lot of hope

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  2. I think of The Wizard of Oz because most are able to identify with it not just one particular age group. This movie was good because it was so unique and the characters weren't just everyday people they were in costumes and each had a unique roll in the film.

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  3. One movie in particular that I can think of that was memorable to me is Twilight. I did not necessarily think that the movie was good, but I like to compare movies against books that I have read. Twilight was a fairly decent movie, however I criticized it front start to finish, so for that reason I consider it memorable. It irritated me to no end that Bella was soft spoken and almost shy in the movie, but in the book she was outspoken. The dialogue could have been better, more to the book, and less cheesy and cliché. The screenplay was quite interesting and brings my imaginative version of the story to life; for that reason alone makes a movie that is based off a book memorable, because when you reread the book after watching the movie, you have actual faces to put with names—it brings the story more to life.

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  4. watched the “Great Gatsby” not long ago and it had shown us as humans not to be greedy, yet to be happy with our lives as of they are. As well as it shows us not to try to change what we have lived through our past. To just let it be and to let go. It’s a great movie if you like to watch an outrageous and hilarious movie dealing with fraud and smuggling alcohol.

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  5. A classic I'm sure everyone has seen and loved the Titanic, I love that movie and could watch it over and over. I personally think it has great actors and shows the tragedy and love story perfectly. In this movie many people die and when you see the movie for the first time you cannot take your eyes off the screen there is literally people falling and jumping off and huge ship to try and save their lives and most end up freezing to death. This movie is very memorable to me as well as many others.

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  6. The first movie that came to my mind was Captain Philips. I think this movie was memorable because all the characters fit into their roles really well. The movie seemed realistic and thats why it was memorable to me. -Nathan Corchis

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  7. My favorite, memorable movie would definitely have to be the notebook. It’s about an older man that reads to a woman with Alzheimer’s in a nursing home. She comes off as a lonely woman. The story the man reads her is an epic love story of a young girly from a wealthy family that falls in love with a young man with very little money. Her parents do everything to pull them apart and in the end they find their way back to one another. At the end of the movie, we realize that the woman in the nursing home is the young girl in the story and the man reading to her was the young man she fell in love with but cannot remember.

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  8. I saw the latest Wes Anderson movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel this last weekend and loved everything about it. All of the dialogue was funny, short, but really interesting. Similar to all of his movies, it was beautifully done and the color scheme was extremely beautiful. The characters were all developed enough for you to have feelings for them but not well enough for you to be sad that they didnt elaborate on more situations. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole movie.

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  9. I enjoyed the movie “Pay if Forward” for its cast of characters and the message it tried to portray. The hero of the movie is an 11 year old boy named Trevor McKinney was who tried to change the world by “paying it forward” to at least 3 people. It had to be a good deed that they could not do themselves and they in turn had to pay it forward to someone else. His mother Arlene is an alcoholic and part time stripper who eventually has a relationship with Social Studies teacher Euguene Simonet who suffered burns on his body caused by his own alcoholic father.

    The ending is sad because the hero dies trying to help his friend suffer at the hands of bully’s, but the legacy he left and the people he touched in his short time on earth was impactful. Most of the characters had major flaws and deep rooted issues but could always find a little bit of good in everyone.

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  10. I think of the movie The Notebook. I haven’t read the book so I can only say it is my favorite movie. I love this movie so much because it is a love story that any girl wants. I want my husband to read me a book when I lose my memory and it really end up as our love story. I want my husband to stand by me no matter what and not give up on me when things get rough. It is great how in love the old couple is and how the man can’t live without his wife. I want my marriage to be like that. It is the perfect love story.

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  11. Elizabeth CanalejoApril 23, 2014 at 4:42 PM

    The most recent movie I have seen is Frozen. It is a movie about two sisters named Elsa and Anna. Elsa is a girl with a secret. She feels she cannot tell her sister and shuts herself out from the world. This makes a sweet outgoing girl into an introverted lady fighting depression and fear of her. Anna tries to reach out to her but Elsa is so afraid of hurting the only person she loves that when her secret is revealed she runs off. The animation is beyond beautiful and the dialogue is touching and wonderful.

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  12. The first movie that comes to mind is Forrest Gump. It's hard to forget this movie, especially since it is played on tv all of the time. If there is nothing good to watch on television and I just feel like chilling, I will watch it. I never get tired of it. Everybody loves Forrest, how can you not? I might get tired of Jenny rejecting poor Forrest but the others characters like Bubba and Lt. Dan make up for it. I love the music that is played as well as many other aspects of the movie. It depicts the war in Vietnam pretty well as many other events and periods in history. Since Forrest was born not too much earlier than I was, I can relate to much of what was happening during his life-the was, the Hippie Movement, Jenny's disco days, people experimenting with psychedelic drugs, Kennedy and Lennon's assassination.

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  13. When I think of a movie that is memorable to me, the movie American Gangster with Denzel Washington comes to mind. This movie is especially memorable to me because of Washington's dialogue in the movie. He play's Frank Lucas , a man who was infamous for trafficking heroin during the Vietnam war via military planes. His ability command respect with his superb communication skills and intimidation is what stands out to me. He probably would have never been caught , but he broke one of his own most important rules, not to be flashy. He is invited to a boxing match where he wears a very high priced chinchilla coat and gains the attention of the local law enforcement, they begin watching him and investigating him. They end up finding enough evidence against him and raiding his house and taking him to jail.

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  14. I have just recently watched The Hunger Games series. It is an awesome movie. It brings out true human nature. They have made a game out of life and death. There are so many different elements that go into the characters themselves. The main character, Primrose Everdeen, is a strong symbol of young women. The plot to the story is quite entertaining and in depth. They keep the story going until all but one player in the game is dead. At the end of the first movie there are two people left and they say instead of killing each other they will die together. So the people who were running the game, let them live,but the plot twist for the second movie makes them play the Game again.

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  15. A movie that I have seen recently that was extremely memorable to me is Captain America: The Winter Soldier. I loved this movie because the plot and dialogue were extremely intriguing. Also, the introduction of a new character as well as bringing back characters from previous movies really added to the plot. Plus the plot twist that created the main conflict in the movie was extremely intricate and really made the watcher think. All in all, this movie has been added to my list of favorites because of the actors, dialogue, action, and conflict.

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  16. My favorite movie is Avator. In this movie I could clearly see the inner beauty that it is deep inside of human hearts as well as the evil side. The environment was speechless the way was set up and all characters were well recognized and memorable. Of course everything was like a story tail with a happy ending... but it was just speechless and had a great feeling for the entire movie. I was not bored one second while watching it. The actors, the environment, the love for each other, were expressed in a very meticulous way.

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  17. I believe the movie Great Gatsby was a wonderful movie and has the same dialogue as the movie we had seen last night Gatsby was looking for his lost love that he had when he was at war just as the fellow jim was looking for his lost partner he had when he was singing. They both fell apart when they knew things where never going to be the same for them he would never have his love and he would never have his partner back it was like they both where missing a part of them.

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