Udaan climax

At the end of the movie the oldest son sees that his dad is going to marry another woman with a daughter so he thinks his dad is going to put his anger on another family. So he decides to walk out the front door and never come back his dad tries to stop him but he punches him in the face and ran as fast as he could. He went to his uncle and told him everything the next morning he went to pick up his half brother who was waiting outside for his first day of bording school. He also left a note and his dads watch and wrote down that he is taking his little brother with him and if he tries to call the police he'll tell them that he abused both of them and they walked away and never to look back.

Rabbit-Proof Fence

This film is about three girls who are taken away from their home in Australia because they are half-castes. They are sent to a camp that teaches the girls to be servants for whites. The girls run away from the camp and follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence to find their way home. This film takes the viewer through the adventure the girls embark on.

Hero

This film tells the story of assassins who's goal is to kill the king of Qin. The film takes the viewer through the many different stories of how the assassins came to kill the king. By the end of the film, the king realizes that the main assassin has come to kill him, and ends up sentences him to death. The film consists of many scenes of magical realism. Magical realism adds to the film in numerous ways.

Slumdog Millionaire

This film tells the story of a teenager, Jamal, who becomes a contestant of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire." While on the show, he has flashbacks of his childhood, which give him the answers to the questions he is asked. Jamal has had a very rough life, along with his brother and friend, Latika. For the final question on the show, Jamal uses a lifeline and calls his brother, who happens to be dead, but Latika answers the phone. The two, after being separated, are reunited and are able to spend their lives together, in love, with all of the money Jamal has just earned.

Big Fish

This film is about a man who's father tells his life through elaborate stories. The film shows the stories the father tells about his life. The son, Will, does not believe his father when he tells his out-of-this-world stories. By the end of the movie, when the father is on his death bed, Will finds the stories his father has been telling him to be true. This film uses magical realism to tell the father's stories.

Udaan, Slumdog M., Like stars on Earth

Examples of the three stories compared....

- Udaan and Like Stars On Earth are both stories where the fathers of the main characters are disapproving of their kids because they don't get 100% in everything they do.
- But in Like Stars On Earth there was a happy ending where the father end up accepting his son... but his son started doing better.. so would he have accepted him if his son didn't to better?
- In Udaan the father never changed, forcing the Son to have to leave with his little brother to give his a brother a chance at experiencing love
- In Udaan and in Like Stars On Earth the main characters both had someone who cared for them and truly saw their skills. in Udaan it was the uncle, in Like Stars On Earth it was the sub teacher.
- Slumdog M. it was different then the other to. It went from a game show point of view and many many flash backs. The other two where more present.
- Slumdog he was doing everything for love, and the other two stories where the main characters trying to be understood.


by Amber Lovell

Udaan

Example of things in India

-The boys got in trouble for leaving the school for a night on the town, so they all suspect their fathers will do horrible things like be disappointed.

-They got expelled sense it was the third time they got caught

-Little boy calls his dad sir

- Older boy wants to study literature, father is going to force him to work in the factory.

- Dad didn't visit him in 8 years

- The father makes both kids call him sir

- His father slaps his son, calls him a girl.

-Father pushed his little son down the stairs but the hospital doesn't suspect anything in America you would go to jail.
- The nurses didn't check the little boys body for marks
- Burnt his sons writing
- older son took his little brother home with him

Examples of universal

--The brother is mean to the new little kid, probably because he

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was upset the the father would have another id with a women after his mother died. And he never told him.

- Going out drinking

- Working in a factory at a young age
- telling stories, less commen in India
- The father pushes everyone away even his brother



by Amber Lovell

Udaan element

The movie is about a teenage boy who is forced by his father to study to become an engineer if he likes it or not and then he is forced to work in at the same factory as his dad. So in india a lot of kids and teens are forced by their parents to have the career they choose for them and probably not giving the child a dream and this happens in a lot of countries.

Like stars on earth

This movie is about Ishaan an 8 year old who cant get anything right in class. When he gets into far more trouble than his parents can handle, he is packed off to a boarding school. But a new art teacher Ram he breaks all the rules of 'how things are done' by asking them to think, dream and imagine. Ram sees that Ishaan is depressed, and he try to find to discover why. With time he helps Ishaan find himself.

Big fish

This film follows the life of Edward Bloom, through flashbacks that begin when his son Will visits him for the last time. Edward is dying of cancer, and Will hasn't spoken to him for years because he thinks he is a liar that never really cared for his family. As Edward's story goes on, Will tries to finally understand the truth about who his father really was.

Hero

A group of assassins: Flying Snow, Broken Sword, and Long Sky, have sworn to kill the King of Quin, and Nameless comes to the royal capital to claim the reward offered for their defeat. The movie tells the story of his conversation with the King of Qin, and the flashbacks depicted the journey he took to earn the honor of sitting before the emperor.

Slumdog Millionaire

The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With everyone watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? But the movie is about how almost every question that is asked how it came up in his life is some way.

The power if one

The Power of One is an intriguing story of a young English boy named Peekay and his passion for changing the world. He was orphaned, he was placed in the care of a German national named Professor Vollensteen. Peekay makes frequent visits and meets Geel an inmate who teaches him to box. Geel spreads the myth of the Rainmaker, the one who brings peace to all of the tribes. Peekay is cast in the light of this myth. He work in hopes of building a better future for Africa.

like stars on earth

The movie tells about a boy who has trouble in school trying to learn and understand so they shipped him to another school to work harder but instead makes it worse until he gets a teacher that actually understands him because he had the same problem when he was a kid so he tried his best to teach the boy until he becomes educated and then he becomes the best painter in the school

To live and become

This movie is about Shlomo, an Ethiopian boy, is placed by his Christian mother with an Ethiopian Jewish woman whose child has died. This woman, who will become his adoptive mother who hopes for a better life for him, tells him “Go, live, and become,” as he leaves her to board the plane. The film tells of his growing up in Israel and how he deals with the secrets he carries: not being Jewish and having left his birth mother.

The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain

The movie begins with Amelie’s history, a narrator extolling the likes and dislikes of her parents and setting the stage of Amelie’s childhood, filmed in black and white. As soon as she turns 18, Amelie moves to Paris and works as a waitress. She visits her father every weekend and leads a fairly boring existence, living in an apartment building with other misfits. Amelie’s life changes the day Princess Diana died. She discovers a cubbyhole in her apartment with a small box of treasures and decides to find the owner and return the box to him anonymously. The man’s life changes when he receives his box back and Amelie embarks upon her new vocation of influencing lives.

Smoke signals

This movie is about Thomas a nerd in his reservation and his friend Victor. But when Victor hears his dad has died, Thomas offers him funding for the trip to get Victor's father's remains, but only if Thomas will also go with him.

The motorcycle diary

The film recounts the 1952 journey, starting by motorcycle, across South America by Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado. Guevara discovers himself transformed by his observations of the life of the less fortunate. The road presents Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Granado a genuine picture of the Latin American identity. Through the characters they meet on the road, Guevara and Granado learn about the wrong that was done and are exposed to people they would have never encountered in their hometown. The trip serves to expose a Latin American identity as well as explore the identity of one of its most memorable revolutionaries.

Rabbit prof fence

It’s the true story of Molly, Daisy and Gracie, three young Aborigines who escape from a detention center to embark on a 1500-mile journey home. Their only hope of finding the way back? A ruddy great rabbit-proof fence, stretching the full distance from one side of Australia to the other. The setting made the viewer see how difficult the charters journey was.

Daughter of Keltoum

This movie focused on the relationship between Rallia , a 19 year old Kabyle who was adopted by Swiss parents as an infant, and her Aunt. Rallia has returned to the village where she was born in search of her mother, who is now working as a hotel maid in a distant city. She is also in search of answers to the question of why her mother gave her up. The setting and lighting in the move was meant to push the viewers eyes and focus onto the charters more than the land scape.

Cautiva

This movie is about a young girl and how her world is turned up side down when she finds out that she is not who she think she is. Her parents are reporters who were taken away after speaking out of term. The setting in the movie was meant to accent the moods of the charter and made them pop out to the audience.

like stars on earth

Like stars on earth

1) lives of major characters

2) fantasy in realism

3) magic realism

1) - Isshan likes to play a lot much fantasy in his brain. He gets side tracked.

- Isshan ignores the teacher and stares the window

- Isshan seems to be dyslexic, can't read right.

- Isshan crosses the street without looking.

- The words on the page turn into ship and weird things. He is for sure dyslexic.

- Isshan is being sent to boarding school

- Isshan doesn't understand why he is considered so bad (He cries sense he has to be away from his family)

- Isshan is giving up on school, he's imaging lots of crazy thing... like spiders.

- Isshan lost his sprite , won't talk to his family, won't paint

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- His mother and everyone else doesn't understand why he's so bad in school

- His mother doesn't want to see her kid go way

- Father always has something to disprove of, wheater its the way his older son plays tensse, or how Isshan grades are.

-Yohan wrote a absent note for Isshan.

- The sub knows that Isshan is special. He also works with those types of kids he want to help him.
- Loves children

- the sub is using the idea of trying to read chinesse as an example of how its like to Isshan to his father.
- sub gave examples of famous people who had the same problem as Isshan, to bring back his hope
- hes welling to study with him an extra couple hours a week

2) - Having a art teacher at a boarding school dressed like a clown and being all nice, and act like the class is a party. All the kids dancing.
-That the teaches would be okay with the fact that the children made funny drawings of them

3) Having the numbers on his page turn in to space ships ad quids



by amber leigh lovell

Big Fish magic realism

This movie tells of a man and his life that has happened to him and how he met the love of his life and tells the story of his life to his son and at the end he realizes that his fathers stories werent a lie.

Big Fish

1)compare the lives of the major characters and use 3-5 scene examples
2)fantasy in realism
3)magic realism

2) -A fish that could never get caught, passing over hundreds of hooks.
- Fish that size of a grown man
- That he would be give the key to the city
- All the people in Specter are really smiley even the men.
- Spending three years working at a circus just to find her.
- Planting a field of dapholds for the girl of his dreams.
- The fact that Edward was able to come down from the sky without being seen when he was in the army.
- That sister/twins where welling to help Edward, go half way around the world to get back home.

1) Father (Edward Bloom) - likes to tell the story of his fish story to everyone.
Father (Edward Bloom) - Loves to tell stories
Father (Edward Bloom)- tells the story of when he was a boy, and he went to the witch's house, when he looked at the eye, it told him how he would die. This means he knows when he won't die from.
Father- (Edward Bloom)Says when he was a kid he had to be in bed for three years because he was growing all at once. And his muscles couldn't keep up with his bodies. He went around saving dogs from fires, and was a basket ball star.. etc A new man came into town and was eating all the sheep.. so big his voice blow him away. He was a Nice Giant. Edward got the key to the city.
Edward bloom- the hard it is to do something (going through the forest) the better the out come.. he ended up in this really nice city.
Edward- had dreams that his aunt would die and she did, then had a dream that his dad would die, and then the milk man died.
Edward- When he meet the love of his life time stopped
Son- Feels that his dad thinks the world goes around him.
Son- Saw nothing of him self inside his dad.
Son- Hasn't talked to his dad in 3 years, but comes back once his dad is dieing.
Son- Doesn't love his dad because he feels like he has a second family. He also believes his dad tells stories because he can't stand his own life.
Son- feels like he knows his dad like a ice berg he only see 10% of him. That hes fake, only see the surface.
3) - During his fathers birth he flow out of his mothers, across the floor.
- Giant/man when he talked he would blow his away, he doesn't want to eat Edward. The gaint is really hungry, his name is Carl. Nice Giant.
- That the town of Specter was suspecting him. everything is sweeter here. no one got mad at the girl for stealing the shoes.
-The lady he saw in the lake was really a fish that looks different to all people.
- Trees are grabbing him, as soon as he said that it wasn't the way he was going to die they stopped.
- Time stopped when he meet the love of his life, then it moves extra fast to catch up.
- The circus man knew him
- Being hit through the air, and he didn't die.
- The circus guy is really a werewolf
- Thunder storm that made the city an ocean, woke up in the morning with his car in the tree.

by Amber Lovell

Hero

The movie emphasized magic realism throughout the entire film. A couple examples of magical realism in the film are; when battles occur it seems as if they are light as a feather and very synched to battle that it looks like they could fly, very agile, and focused in to the environment that they could manipulate the elements. Also another one is when the thousands of arrows flying towards the city and the main characters redirected the arrows away from the building.

Slumdog Millionaire: Lighting and Setting

The setting in Slumdog Millionaire was either Indonesia or India, but I'm pretty sure it's India. Anyways, the lighting always had a specific shade, whether it was orange, blue, green, and yellow. Like when Jamal was being slapped by the fat security guard guy (the color was yellow), or when Jamal's brother is pointing the Colt .45 in Jamal's face in the hall of the hotel (the shade was blue with a little green). There were some moments where the was no one, specific light, like when Jamal sees that one girl at the subway, or when Jamal is looking at that one girl from behind the gates. There were also an even amount of dolly and hand-held shots; some hand-held shots of mention would be when the boys are running from the people with sticks, beating down muslims, or when the boys are running from the camp that uses kids for talent.

The power of one

The movie has a dramatic theme to it as the movie tells of PK, the main character, life, but only events that changed him. Thus began when he was a little boy and his mother sent him away for his own good to a school. His schoolmates teased him picked on him and had a big hatred for him because he was British. Well as it went on his mother had died, his chicken was killed and he thought he had nothing left until he beat up the guy that almost killed him. Years went by and he learned that to become better you got to be as strong as you can.

pushing dasies

Magic realism

-being able to bring to life the dead
-being able to put them back to dead
-having a business where you found peoples killers by bring them back and collecting there rewards
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Slumdog Millionaire

Magic Realism:

-Red water in the bucket that hes being drowned in
-Seeing that the person dressed up as God.. but seeing it as a real God

Fantasy in Realism:

- Chance that he would meet up with her again the first time.
- Chance that he would remember all these things to be able to win the money
- The chance that the brothers would make it on to the train in time
- The chance he would be able to find his brother after all that time.
- The chance that Jamil would actually hang out with his brother again after what he did.

- The fact that the brother turned his back on the brother a second time after their reconnection.
- The chance he found her a second time
- The fact that he never gave up on the girl.
- That the brother finally let her go, to find Jamil
- That she was able to answer the phone in time
- That they ended up together

- At the end I'm pretty sure that it said that the test was written.. that totally throw me off.

This movie had a lot of situations that as Americans we don't experience, or we don't experience much as a whole. The odds of all the questions being stepping stones into his past. And that he was able to end up with the girl without the gangster killing Jamil.

by Amber Leigh Lovell

Paul: Lighting and Setting

The setting in Paul is based in California, Arizona, New Mexico and like two other states. The lighting in the movie was overall bright, and you can see why, the movie being a sci-fi comedy. There were some dark scenes, like the campfire at night, and the place of arrival of Paul's spaceship, but even those dark scenes had a decent amount of light. There were mostly dolly shots, but some hand-held shots, too.

Live and BecomeThLili

live and become tells of schlomo,the main character, and how he feels guilt about not being jewish and wanting to always see his mother. soon enough he figures he is destined to be there and his mother wanted him to have a better life than she had. as the guilt eats him away because he is not jewish he eventually accepts it and soon he helps people and he confronts his mother.

Smoke signals

the story tells of a boys father after he got a phone call from a friend that he had passed away thus started a journey for him and his friend. the story goes on as through and through victor learns to forgive his father...many of us have problems with are mothers and fathers that we have to learn to forgive them at some point, but otherwise if we didnt go through these then will it work through the end as well just love and not learn..

pushing daisies lighting and setting

The movie is about a boy who grows with a curse of bringing people back to life with a touch of his skin a second touch means you die so he uses his ability to bring back the dead to talk to them about who murdered them, and the colors are really bright showing strong colors in the background bringing the movie to life for the audience.

Amelie

This film is about a young women, Amelie, who tries to help people find happiness, and in doing so, finds love for herself. The director uses magical realism in Amelie to let the viewer into Amelie's mind. Some examples of magical realism in this film are when Amelie takes pictures of clouds in the shape of a bunny and a teddy bear and when Amelie listens to the alligator-looking creature's heart with a stethoscope.

Hero: Lighting and Setting

The Setting took place in ancient China, about 200 years ago. The lighting of the movie was dark, to the inside of the emperor's temple and the sparring place, but mostly beautifully colorful, from the blood red tree pedals, to the lime green silk curtains, to the blue lake and purple/green mountains. Other places of worthy mention being inside Broken Sword's room, where he makes love to some other girl underneath bright purple silk. There weren't really any hand-held shots, almost every shot with a dolly.

amelie magicrealism

This movie was one of the trippiest that i have ever seen but the movie does show this girl who has a crush for a guy and then she starts to leave riddles for him to find then she has a crazy imagination of seeing her dreams come to life so at the end she gets the guy of his dreams.

Amelie

Magic realism was present in many scenes of the movie Amelie. The earliest example was during Amelie's childhood. Her mother gives her a camera to comfort her from the loss of her goldfish. Amelie starts taking pictures around her, starting with the clouds. In this scene the clouds were edited to look like a bunny rabbit. The chances of clouds forming into a rabbit shape are virtually nonexistent in real life, which makes this scene an example of magic realism.

Over the course of the movie were the scenes with the old man. He doesn't travel outside his house and he paints the same exact picture every year. Amelie exposes him to the present world by secretly sending him recordings of present television shows. This way, he can change his view of the world and his painting. It doesn't seem like magic realism, but the shows are strange and exotic when taken out of context.

Another scene was during Amelie's extravagant "game" with a man she fell in love with. When he arrived at the Two Windmills to meet her, she was so tense and nervous around him. Once he leaves, she's so relieved that she turns into water.

emily

notes on magic realism ...

see Bunny's in the sky
when she turned to a puddle of water
when you could see her heart beat
when everything in the restaurant was shaking

this movie had many different magic realism.... but I can't think of them all

this movie is of a girl named Emily, who at a young age was scared. She was told she caused a crash. her father didn't hug her much, her mother died and as soon as she was able to leave her house she did. she decided to become a do gooder. it was really funny when she went into the mean produce owners house and which things around to make him think he was crazy.


by Amber Lovell

Hero

Magic realism is crazy. I especially liked the way the director doesn't make it to surreal but not so minute you hardly notice. The colors changing in the telling of the different stories really sets the mood. I don't remember the scenes well enough to describe the moods. The camera angles really helped with the magic realism. I thought it was very unique when they do a close up of a specific part of their body and show them bounding out of the shot. Favorite scene was the water fight. The way the characters gently landed on the water and smoothly lept away.

The Power of One

This was an interesting film. There was a lot of tragedy happening around the "rain maker," His mom, dad, Morgan Freeman, and his gf. I liked the shots they used in this film. They never got to close or to far. They should have had more of "The Freeman."

Hero

Hero

Identity within our head

NOTES

-Friendship, love, ideal is why people give up there lives and kill

-In any war there are heroes on both side

(Nameless story)

-Jumping off swords, 1 guy being able to fight against 4 plus people, swords bending, flying in the air in slow mo, standing on a fence sideways, being able to block the arrows with her clothing, or a sword, flying trying to kill the person but can’t

-Combat unfolds people’s minds

-Black and white for back in time

- He studied the broken swords fighting skills by studying his writing

- During fights there’s lots of wind, that bring lefts sometime, music and they tend to fly through the air, fights last long time

- Lefts turned to red when she Died

-Candles move to the empire

Empires view

-Empire feels like nameless is lying this is what he thinks really happened

-Sky gave his life to nameless to assonates the empire. So must snow and broken sword

- Had snow sleep with broken sword and kill him, all planed out broken sword knew about it. She did mange to kill him so nameless fought him afterward, but didn’t kill him.

- So nameless did all this to seem loyal so he could meet the empire to get the chance to kill him.

-The Candles gave away that nameless was a murder that how the king knew his plan

Another story

-As long as broken sword is alive he will be in the way of letting nameless assassinate the empire

-Broken sword and snow recover this time.

(Broken swords point of view)

-Snow and broken sword was going to kill the king and afterward they were return to her land, where there are no swords, or sword man.

-Broken sword didn’t kill the king and go through his and snows plan, so snow turned her back on him.

-Broken sword wants nameless to abandon his plan to kill the king so that maybe the lands can be united to end the suffering.

(Reality)

-Snow and broken sword is alive

-Flies through the air nameless and pretends to kill the king because of his decision many will die

-Snow want to kill broken sword because she feel betrayed. She asks him to draw her sword, he allows her to kill him. He loves her.

-Now snow is sad she kill him.

-She kills her self

-King order Nameless dead, even after Nameless didn't kill the king. But he was buried as a hero.

-Qin went to unite the 6 states.

BY AMBER LEIGH LOVELL

Hero lighting and identity

The movie was inspirational with colors changing the characters point of view of how he told his story with a warrior who has no name wants to send the king of the kingdom of quin a message but instead he dies because he was declared an assassin but died as a hero.

The Power of One

This film tells the story of a young man, Peekay, and how he uses boxing and his knowledge of the world to help make others' lives better. The film takes the viewer through Peekay's life from the beginning. Peekay loses many of those close to him but uses boxing to keep his spirits alive. Peekay continues to bring happiness to those around him throughout his life.

Live and Become

This film is about a boy who comes to Israel from Ethiopia to start a new life as a Jew. The main character, Schlomo, lies throughout his life, in order to not be sent back to Ethiopia. When Schlomo tries to tell the police the truth, the police do not believe him. Schlomo goes through his life with his new, adoptive, family, finds love, and finally, by the end of the film, goes back to Ethiopia and finds his birth mother. This film takes the viewer through Schlomo's life, where he is trying to find the true Schlomo, and finally does by the end of the film.

Live and Become

This film was filled with disappointment. No matter what this kid was doing, it seemed to be wrong. This film was filled with mixed emotions such as fear, confusion, and lust. I have a few problems with this film. The end, the transitions, and the length. The transitions were really abrupt and didn't feed into the the next scene. The ending was like loosing at a game of chicken with a semi. Also, they could have made this film a little bit shorter or at least had some more depth. .AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!

The power of one identity

In this movie a boy grows up being hated for being English in Germany and after being beat up he decides to train to become a boxer and trains harder every day to become the best and then he fell in love with a girl but dies because of a blow to the head by a club from a police man even though he lost someone he kept on going with his life.

smoking signals setting

This movie is about a Native American boy who grows up with a tough father who is kind of abusing by getting drunk and then he moved to Arizona after a couple of years he grew up as a basketball player for his school and then he realizes his dad has already died so he decides to travel to Arizona with a friend to bring his fathers ashes back home.

The power of one

Identity, Class, Culture

- In 1680, Dutch, French, Germans fled to Africa they were called Afrikaners

- For the next 250 yrs the British came to South Africa and they fought over the gold, and 20 million native Africans.

- In 1948 a conservative Afrikaner gov was voted into power. A racial segregation first introduced by the English was declared the law of the land.

- The Africans called it Apartheid

- They didn’t feed there own children, but hired a birth mother (nany)

- Didn't rain... there was a plague that killed all the cattle

- English through the Afrikaners out of there land, the Afrikaners are also hateful of the black

- PK was blamed for all the Afrikaners deaths, he was spitted on, and pee on, because he was the only British kid in the school of all Afrikaners.

- The birth mother called a high chef to get away with PK fears, caused by the school

- Afrikaners are normally from Germany. So they support the Nazis, and believe that Nazis will get ride of all the British.

- Music is an important aspect to a boys growth

- You need two things health and education

- Never allowed to call his instructor Sir because he was black

- PK see everyone black, white, British etc the same.

- The instructor was forced to eat crap

- The concert was the first time that they were together all the tribes as one … “they run this way and that way, they are afraid”

- She is Afrikaner and he’s British, her father is some political guy

- They believe strongly in meths

- 1 toilet per 200 people

- They don't want to help teach the blacks.

- Because of the fathers bitterness, his daughter die. his fault.

There is still a struggle in Africa to create an equal government and people. But this can not be done without a great number of people working together to make it work. Power of one, Power of all.

by Amber Leigh Lovell

the motorcyle diary setting

The story starts out with two friends who have studied to become doctors themselves so they use their knowledge to travel the road and help the sick and elderly their journeys went on to follow their dreams to help much more so they travel far away on their own and one day they come back to their country.

Live and Become: Lighting and Setting

Live and Become took place in Ethiopia and Israel; the shots were taken during hot, dry days with a clear blue sky, and dark blue sky at night. The lighting, like the Motorcycle Diaries, gave the feeling of everyday-ness, giving an even balance between light shots and dark shots. There were more dolly shots than handheld, another quality from the Motorcycle Diaries.

live and become idenity

in this movie Shlomo is an Etheopian boy who gets adopted by a Jewish couple and raised him to become a Jew until he realizes he wanted to become a doctor when he grows up to help the sick and after all his hard work he gets to go back to Etheopia and help his people and finds his mother as one of the sick people. -Cristian

Live and Become

Notes/ on identity

- In Africa they are accused of being Jewish... In Israel they are accused of not being Jewish enough.
- In Israel people are racist and ignorant, going as far as to which school because Schlomo was a black kid from Africa and they believed he had diseases.
-Schlomo struggles with being in the new land where they want him to learn all the Jewish traditions, he doesn't want to become what they want him to be. He is not Jewish. He is Christian.
-Schlomo likes to sleep on the floor instead of on the bed, reminds him of home.
-Schlomo likes to walk bare foot to feel the earth, also reminding him of home.
-Schlomo wants to eat with his hands instead of with a fork.
-He gets his own Bar Mitzvah
-He doesn't understand what he must become
-He wants to go back home, doesn't want to call his adoptive parents mom or dad. he misses his real family.
-Some kid believes black is a curse from God.
-Schlomo believes that Adam is Red the color of the clay not white not black.
-Many of the immigrants have comment suicide because of the way they are treated by the whites.
- In Israel everyone does a term in the military, so when Scholmo went into medical school instead his "father" was every angry.
-The day a white women marries a black guy she becomes black
-In order to marry Schlomo Sarah had to leave her family they dis-owned her.
- Sarah doesn't care that he isn't Jewish
- He became a doctor without boarders
- He found his mother


This movie was every good. It showed the struggles of going into a nation you don't want to be, where you know no one. And your told this is better for you, yet you see negativity everywhere you turn. You have to pretend your someone your not, to survive... how do you not lose your self? that is the question.


by Amber Leigh Lovell

smoke siginals

Notes:
-Cutting hair is a sign of morning
-Everyone in the community knows everyone about everyone because it is a small group of people
-Indians believed that you must look tough to make sure the whites don't walk all over you
-Hair is every important to the Indians
-Oral stories are important
-Fred bread was traditional
-Indian land is its own nation, you need a passport to go into America
-Tomas loves Victors dad because he saved him, and he doesn't have a dad of his own.

Identity

-Hair is important
-White man is evilish
-Must look tough
-Must act tough

This film was a struggle between friends and a father and son. Victor was mean to Tomas because he felt his father loved him more. But this was not the case. Victor has a lot of hate but by the end of the film he is able to let go of all the pain of how his father treated his mother and himself and for leaving and was able to become happy again.

What do I feel about the quote at the end...

I feel it had lots of wisdom. Are you going to forgive your father (or anyone else for that matter) now, later, or never? Are you going to hold on to the hate of what they did, or didn't do? I think this quote is chanlleging us, to forgive to not hold on to the hate.


By Amber Leigh Lovell <3

Smoke Signals ''Forgivness"

Just like Smoke Signals, we ourselves go through many problems with our fathers. In my case I've gone through a lot with my father as in problems. I was raised to forgive everyone, i was raised in a Christian home, so we believe just like God forgives us for everything we do everyday, we must forgive those that do wrong to us, if not how can we expect God to forgive us. I love my father and I am grateful for all that he does, however I honestly don't believe I've fully forgiven him, I wish I could say I have and maybe one day i will.

-Jasmine

Smoke Signals

Thomas is a weird guy who believes victor should forgive his father. Victor doesn't realize that his father left because he felt bad about killing Thomas' parents and doesnt want anyone to know. it takes 6 days of trying to get to Phoenix to get his dads stuff to realize his dad left out of love not to make anyone angry or upset.

Smoke Signals

"Is it better to forgive our fathers at our age? Or at their age?"

Smoke Signals focuses on the issue of forgiveness between Victor and his father. Unlike them, my father and I get along really well, albeit without a few minor arguments. It's hard not to forgive my dad because he (along with my mom) is the one that supported me and gave me, in a sense, a better life to live than my family back in the Philippines. If he even does one thing that really bothers me, there's a good chance I'll just wave it off and forgive him. I think it is better to forgive now then later, because there may not be much time left once you realize their motives enough to forgive, like the situation between Victor and his dad.

Smoke Signals

I think that this film was really good. i believe that forgiving yhour parents is hard but necessary for self closure and for moving on in life. I think that its necessary but not easy. forgiving a parent soon is alot better then trying to forgive them when it is to late. Some people dont forgive though, like me , but its ok cuz whatever makes you feel good is fine. My father left when i was young but i really dont care, because thats one less parent to take care of when there old. Also it doesnt really affect me because i am already 17 i dont really need a father now, in my opion. Over all this film was a very good film and i recomend it to everyone.

Smoke Signals

This film discusses the topic of forgiveness towards fathers. My father has not done anything terribly horrible in my life. My father and I have, however, had conflicts. I always forgive him when he does wrong because I think about all of the good things he has done for me in my life. Sometimes it is difficult to forgive my father for some of the things he does really bother me. I merely think of all of the wonderful things he has done for me, and can't help but to forgive him.

The Motorcycle Diaries: Lighting and Setting

The Motorcycle Diaries took place all over South America; countries like Chile, Argentina, Venazuela, and Peru. The range of lighting was pretty wide; from bright skies during the day to black skies at night. The lighting gave a feeling of everyday-ness, that their journey was something you'd expect from their age group. There were a good amount of handheld shots, but there were more dolly shots; a (handheld) shot of worthy mention being when Ernesto and Alfredo were heading towards the lake to obtain the duck Alfredo had just shot out of the sky.

Treatment: The Longest Day (Jesus)

"The Longest Day" tells the story of 5 band members (Keith, Allender, Sawn, Ricardo and Anthony) who have a band practice/sleepover in Anthony's basement, then wake up to find their city evacuated of humans, and inhabited by the undead; once they learn they must seek refuge outside the state of California, they learn to trust each other and kick zombie ass.

Jarhead identity

The starts out with a college kid named Swafford (Jake Gyllenhaal ) who goes in the marine corps to train as a scout sniper and came out as the top of his class. He later then got shipped to Afghanistan in operation desert storm and learns the life of a Jarhead seeing dead bodies and fighting in real action. - cristian

Get your observations in!

We are now exploring identity and culture and class issues. As you consider the films you are watching this week, move away from setting and lighting into use of camera angles to highlight the narrative...and also think/write about the issues of race, class, and what the writer/film maker is trying to communicate to you (the audience).

I know that "Go, Live, Become" is a long film (could use editing...something you might consider in writing on the blog -- what you might cut out and still keep the narrative moving), but it is worthy of your attention. As you watch it, reflect on what culture (what we consider those parts of ourselves that connect us to our past and others), race/ethnicity (our and other's views of who we are and what that means), and socio-economic factors (views of poverty, education, opportunity, etc.).

When you consider the three films you have seen this week, I hope that you will think/write about how film can communicate issues that are universal in terms of identity: How important is our sense of belonging to a "culture" (way of life with common values) affect who we are and how far will we go to hold on to that? What does it take to change a person's sense of self in relation to others? How do people "use" stereotyping of others to define themselves and is that really helpful? Is it possible to maintain a sense of self and, at the same time, find ways to develop an appreciation for others...even when that can mean adapting or compromising one's sense of self?

I will be looking for more thoughtful blogs from you. I also want to see more independent entries (your own film choices and how you are now viewing them).

This isn't a class where you can sleep through a film, not reply on the blog, or reflect on film as an important art and communication venue...so wake up, get thinking, pay attention! I expect one page of dialogue for your own film treatment by Sunday.

In the meantime, re-read what I have given you about camera angles and shots (url), review the meaning of narrative in film, and get a sense of how dialogue is written for a screenplay...and of course, IMMERSE YOURSELF IN FILM!

Rabbit Proof Fence: Lighting and Setting (Jesus)

Rabbit-Proof Fence was shot in the Aborigines, Australia. The lighting of the movie was usually bright, being mostly filmed in the desert, giving the feeling of high temperature and aridness. But, the desert having hot nights and cold nights, the movie also had dark, blue/violet scenes. The camera had mostly dolly shots with little hand-held shots.