"It's like I was playing some kind of game, but the rules don't make any sense to me. They're being made up by all the wrong people. I mean no one makes them up. They seem to make themselves up.” –Ben The Graduate is about a young man who doesn’t know what the next step of his life should be and it gets pretty messy with some of this choices. To us this movie was a pretty good, overall, although if we didn’t have to watch it we probably wouldn’t have. We rated this movie a 3.5 out 5 because of the slow moving pace, and some of the acting, although we did like the music.
The main cast according to http://www.starpulse.com/Movies/Graduate,_The/Cast_and_Crew/ is:
Dustin Hoffman - (Benjamin Braddock)
Anne Bancroft - (Mrs. Robinson)
Katharine Ross - (Elaine Robinson)
William Daniels - (Mr. Braddock)
Elizabeth Wilson - (Mrs. Braddock)
The Director was Mike Nichols, and the writers were Calder Willingham, Buck Henry.The genre of this movie is comedy and it definatley fits it; although some of the scences like in the church at the end are a little out of hand we still thought this movie was very funny. We liked almost all the acting except Dustin Hoffans monotone voice. Some of the symbals were when they gave Ben a scuba suit and wouldn't let him out of the pool and pushed him down with the pressure of the water surrondering him, we think this is a symbal because Ben had so many decisions to make in his life and so much pressure from his family, just like the water pressure.
The rising action to us would be with Mrs. Robinson started to come onto Ben at his graduate party, her alone with him in the bedroom was just the start of all the unappropriate scences in this movie. We think this movie was about sex and doing things you would never think of doing back in this time period. It really shows how times were and have changed.
The Climax was definatly when Ben called Mrs.Robinson to began his sexual relations with her at the hotel, that was just the start of many times to come with her, which later on Ben really regreted. At first we didn't think that Ben was going to do this because the Robinsons were old family friends with his parents for. However we think Ben did this because he was under so much pressure and losing his way in life.
The falling action for us started with Mrs. Robinson threatening him that he couldn't see her daughter, Elaine, later on Ben falls in love with her. Ben at first didn't even want to but was foreced to either take her out or his parents would have the entire family over, just think of that awkwardness. It was unbelieveable how much Ben had to try with Elaine she had him around her finger along with Carl. For us more of the falling action was when Ben scearched forever to finally find Elaine at the alter marrying another man. Although she didn't go through with it because there was a huge up roar and a family fight, we can't forget the crucible! At the end of all the madness we see Ben and Elaine on the bus where they finally escaped to with the look on their face like they had no idea what to do or what the next step was. We think they ended up getting married.
"It's like I was playing some kind of game, but the rules don't make any sense to me. They're being made up by all the wrong people. I mean no one makes them up. They seem to make themselves up.” –Ben The Graduate is about breaking the rules and starting to go against your parents, against society and do the things you'd never really think you would do, during this time there was alot of rebellian. The movie really showed us how generations change and how they always will continue too.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Psycho
Could you ever imagine what it would be like to have multiple personalities? The movie Psycho demonstrates how you can pretend to be something your not, how your actions can turn back on you and that not being honest will get in you trouble regardless to what the events are. We rate this movie a 5 stars out of 5. The reason we like this movie so much is because it started the entire series of horror flims, and we really liked the acting.
Psycho was Directed by Alred Hitchcock.Starring Anothony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin. The genre of this movie is drama, thiller, mystery and of course horror! It all started with a Phoenix women who worked in an office, named Marion Crane who is tired and worked up with the way life has been treating her. Marion and her boyfriend Sam can't get married because Sam has to give all his money away to his ex wife from the divorce, thats why he couldn't marry Marion. One afternoon Marion is trusted by her employeer for 10 years to bank $40,000. Noticing she could take the money and start over, Marion leaves town and heads away to Sam in California . Tired after the long drive through a storm, she gets off the old main highway and stays at The Bates Motel, which soon will be the end of her and the beggining of a twisted mystery. The motel is managed by a creepy young man named Norman Bates. He is a skitzo who supposively has a crazy mother that messes with his mind.
The rising action for us was when Marion took the money and left, then arrived in at the Bates Motel. The Climax was when he killed Marion in the shower and then made us think it was his mother instead of really Norman, himself also when he killed the private investagator who was hired to figure out the case. The falling action was when Marions sister and her boyfriend Sam went as a couple to the Bates Motel and bust the case of Norman really being psycho and having multiple personalities, and his mother truely dead.
"She was there, but she was a corpse. So he began to think and speak for her. Give her half his life, so to speak. At times he could be both personalities, carry on conversations. At other times, the mother half took over completely. Now he was never all Norman. But he was often only mother." Dr. Fred Richmond. We thought it was Alfred Hitchcock did a really good job making it a surprise that there really was no mother in this movie. The twist really surprised both of us and made us like the movie even more. Although we thought the taxadermy was very creepy, at the begnning we felt sorry for Norman; thinking his mother really was insane but then when we figured out it was Norman and thought he need some serious help. Also we thought that the shower scene was a little corny with her making all those weird faces. A symbol of the movie was when Marion was murdered her eye was looking straight at the money, either longing for it or wanting to return it.
"…I’ll just sit here and be quiet, just in case they do suspect me. They’re probably watching me. Well, let them. Let them see what kind of a person I am. I’m not even going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching. They’ll see. They’ll see and they’ll know and they’ll say, ‘Why, she wouldn’t even harm a fly…." Norman Bates. This is ironic because Norman thinks no one suspects him and really believes he is innocent, when really he's the master mind behind all the murders. This quote really makes the end of this movie CREEPY along with him running down the stairs as his "mother" to the cellar to kill Marion's sister, but when Sam knock Norman unconcious and saving Marion's sister.
Could you ever imagine what it would be like to have multiple personalities? To live alone and have no family members, no one to talk to and having the death of others on your hands? the movie Psycho shows us all of these things and how it can ware on a person to make them go insane. So now as yourself, Who really are you?!!
Psycho was Directed by Alred Hitchcock.Starring Anothony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin. The genre of this movie is drama, thiller, mystery and of course horror! It all started with a Phoenix women who worked in an office, named Marion Crane who is tired and worked up with the way life has been treating her. Marion and her boyfriend Sam can't get married because Sam has to give all his money away to his ex wife from the divorce, thats why he couldn't marry Marion. One afternoon Marion is trusted by her employeer for 10 years to bank $40,000. Noticing she could take the money and start over, Marion leaves town and heads away to Sam in California . Tired after the long drive through a storm, she gets off the old main highway and stays at The Bates Motel, which soon will be the end of her and the beggining of a twisted mystery. The motel is managed by a creepy young man named Norman Bates. He is a skitzo who supposively has a crazy mother that messes with his mind.
The rising action for us was when Marion took the money and left, then arrived in at the Bates Motel. The Climax was when he killed Marion in the shower and then made us think it was his mother instead of really Norman, himself also when he killed the private investagator who was hired to figure out the case. The falling action was when Marions sister and her boyfriend Sam went as a couple to the Bates Motel and bust the case of Norman really being psycho and having multiple personalities, and his mother truely dead.
"She was there, but she was a corpse. So he began to think and speak for her. Give her half his life, so to speak. At times he could be both personalities, carry on conversations. At other times, the mother half took over completely. Now he was never all Norman. But he was often only mother." Dr. Fred Richmond. We thought it was Alfred Hitchcock did a really good job making it a surprise that there really was no mother in this movie. The twist really surprised both of us and made us like the movie even more. Although we thought the taxadermy was very creepy, at the begnning we felt sorry for Norman; thinking his mother really was insane but then when we figured out it was Norman and thought he need some serious help. Also we thought that the shower scene was a little corny with her making all those weird faces. A symbol of the movie was when Marion was murdered her eye was looking straight at the money, either longing for it or wanting to return it.
"…I’ll just sit here and be quiet, just in case they do suspect me. They’re probably watching me. Well, let them. Let them see what kind of a person I am. I’m not even going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching. They’ll see. They’ll see and they’ll know and they’ll say, ‘Why, she wouldn’t even harm a fly…." Norman Bates. This is ironic because Norman thinks no one suspects him and really believes he is innocent, when really he's the master mind behind all the murders. This quote really makes the end of this movie CREEPY along with him running down the stairs as his "mother" to the cellar to kill Marion's sister, but when Sam knock Norman unconcious and saving Marion's sister.
Could you ever imagine what it would be like to have multiple personalities? To live alone and have no family members, no one to talk to and having the death of others on your hands? the movie Psycho shows us all of these things and how it can ware on a person to make them go insane. So now as yourself, Who really are you?!!
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
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