What Makes Interstellar a Good Movie. With genres varying from horror and comedy‚ romance and sci-fi‚ everyone has his or her favorite movie. Their favorite movie is the one they think was so good and entertaining that they would watch it time and time again. However‚ other people may view the same movie as horrible. So what makes a movie truly good? How can philosophers help us come to a universal meaning “good” in the movie industry? Philosophers such as Plato‚ Aristotle‚ and Socrates can give
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30 Days of Night 30 Days of Night is a horror film written by Ben Templesmith and Steve Niles about a small town held hostage by blood thirsty vampires for a month during which they slaughter virtually everyone. The movie is written in such a way as to capture the viewer’s attention and provoke different feelings such as fear and pity. The author uses a lot of persuasive strategies in horrifying the viewer. The movie starts off with sound effects that melodramatize the viewer by stirring up emotions
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later is a controversial‚ contemporary noir‚ horror hybrid‚ directed by Danny Boyle and released in 2002. The film contains themes of escapism‚ fear‚ religion and rationalizes zombies to create fear for a contemporary audience. As Danny Boyle didn’t want to create a ‘run of the mill’ zombie cliché‚ he chose to run the idea of fear than illness‚ something society has created so the fear (virus – rage) becomes a psychological sickness in the film. The film follows Jim awakening 28 days following the
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The Cabin in the Woods 1. Joss Whedon says that ‘The Cabin in the Woods’ is “your basic horror movie taken apart; five kids go to a cabin in the woods to have a fun weekend of partying and possibly sex… and are therefore dismembered”. Whedon and Goddard have in essence tried to create a movie with roots tied to the horror genre; it is simply your common slasher movie where the characters are killed off one by one till there is either one person left or none for that matter. ‘The Cabin in the
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The Final Girl The Final Girl is a female character in a horror or slasher film that is the last person left alive. The Final Girl typically has characteristics that the other female characters in the movie do not possess. She may present masculine features‚ is intelligent and may be virginal‚ is the first to grasp the severity of the situation‚ can actively defend herself‚ often kills or injures the killer‚ always fights back‚ and is often saved by a male character in the end. Laurie Strode
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Walking down an old moldy hallway with distressed stairs screaming with every step‚ there is a dimly lit doorway leading to a hunched withered old man aggressively working on a grey‚ decomposing body. This is what horror films have drilled into our heads of what a mortician is; when in reality a Mortician is not just an embalmer with the stigma of death that shadows them around. Morticians have a wide variety of undertakings; they supervise the preparations of the burial‚ arrange funerals and services
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Horror films have always been more attractive to the male viewer than to the female viewer. Why is that? Usually horror films mainly present the audience with very graphic mutilation and the raping of females‚ more so than their male counterparts. Horror films have always depicted females as either objects or as the victim of a horrible act. In Linda William’s essay "When the Woman Looks‚" she says that "there is not that much difference between an object of desire and an object of horror as far
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“Timecrimes”‚ a science fiction film about a man who finds himself stuck in a time loop only to realize that he is constantly running from himself. “Timecrimes” was directed and written by Nacho Vigalondo who also starred it in. It is thanks to his character for creating the start of the time loop‚ though we never find out why the loop started originally. Perhaps‚ it was an elaborate scheme thought up by Nacho Vigalondo’s character‚ El Joven. In my opinion‚ this is the best example of the auteur
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were knock offs from Britain shows. When it comes to films I never knew how many movies we (meaning Americans) have taking foreign movies and put a twist on them until I was working at Blockbuster videos. I can name two movies that were copied; “Let Me In” came out in 2010 is a American romantic horror film which is based on the 2008 Swedish film “Let the Right One In”. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2009 Swedish drama thriller film based on a Swedish novel; in 2011‚ an American version
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fantastic portrait of the best dozen years of American film and the insane circumstances that created them. The reading included many features in one‚ cultural anthropology‚ film criticism‚ and gossip. This book is an excellent account of the film industry revolution during the 60’s and 70’s. It focuses more on the directors and not the actors‚ which is good because most of the decent directors of that time were completely out of their minds. The films made by the featured directors were so rich with the
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