In this blog I will be comparing The Family Man to Its a Wonderful Life. These two films take place during Christmas.
The first film I will be talking about is The Family Man which takes place in New York where Jack ( the main character) lives as a business man, during his glimpse he lives with his wife, Kate and two kids in New Jersey. Jack left Kate after an life changing opportunity came about. Later Jack became a businessman and very successful. He thought he had everything he wanted until a man came along and granted Jack a glimpse at what his life would have been like if he didn't leave Kate. In his glimpse Jack has two kids, the wife of his dreams, a dog, parent in-laws, friends, and a descent job.
The second film I will be talking about is Its a Wonderful Life which takes place in Bedford Falls where George (the main character ) lives with his wife, Mary. George has many dreams he always wanted to travel the world but every time he tried something happened that interrupted his dreams. He had to be in charge of his fathers old business, he got married, had kids, and saved his town from Mr. Potter (the villain). In his "glimpse" his guardian angel grants his wish. George wished that he was never born. He got to see all of the things that happened if he wasn't there to change them. His brother died as a child, his uncle was in an insane asylum, the town was now called Pottersville, and all the people that he helped over his life had something wrong in their lives.
These two films have some similarities and differences. George and Jack both got a chance to look at their lives if they made a different decision or were never born. George and Jack were both businessman but Jack didn't think he needed anything and George thought he needed more. Both films had a guardian angel of sorts. The Family Man was in color but Its a Wonderful Life was in black and white.
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Monday, December 15, 2014
9/11
In this blog I will be talking about how two films Reign Over Me and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close show how people cope with and make sense of 9/11. Both films deal with a character losing a family member during 9/11. I liked both films for different reasons. They both touched my heart in different ways.
I will start off with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close which is a film that hits very close to home with it's message. I feel like I understand this film better because my uncle has Aspergers Syndrome. Some people don't understand Oskar because he's different. Everyone goes through loss differently. Oskar needed to understand his fathers death and the way he had to do that was to find out what the key he found opened up. Some people might think that is pointless but its his attempt on holding onto his father. If you lost your father wouldn't you want to do anything you could to hold onto the memory of them? That's all that Oskar is doing. In this film the director isn't trying to make sense of why the people ran a plane into a building but their trying to show you how the people felt that lost someone in 9/11 and what was going through their heads.
I feel like Reign Over Me was a little hard to follow at times. Charlie lost his wife and two kids and dog during 9/11. He didn't have anyone left. His parent and laws want to get him help and just want him to be apart of their lives because they lost them too. Charlie ends up getting close to Alan his old college roommate. Alan doesn't push Charlie like his parent and laws do. He does get Charlie to see someone and talk to her. This film was very well done but at times hard to follow. You did see that Charlie had a hard time losing his family but not in the same way that the other film did. The director wanted you to see what Charlie had to go through with losing everyone that was close to him.
I will start off with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close which is a film that hits very close to home with it's message. I feel like I understand this film better because my uncle has Aspergers Syndrome. Some people don't understand Oskar because he's different. Everyone goes through loss differently. Oskar needed to understand his fathers death and the way he had to do that was to find out what the key he found opened up. Some people might think that is pointless but its his attempt on holding onto his father. If you lost your father wouldn't you want to do anything you could to hold onto the memory of them? That's all that Oskar is doing. In this film the director isn't trying to make sense of why the people ran a plane into a building but their trying to show you how the people felt that lost someone in 9/11 and what was going through their heads.
I feel like Reign Over Me was a little hard to follow at times. Charlie lost his wife and two kids and dog during 9/11. He didn't have anyone left. His parent and laws want to get him help and just want him to be apart of their lives because they lost them too. Charlie ends up getting close to Alan his old college roommate. Alan doesn't push Charlie like his parent and laws do. He does get Charlie to see someone and talk to her. This film was very well done but at times hard to follow. You did see that Charlie had a hard time losing his family but not in the same way that the other film did. The director wanted you to see what Charlie had to go through with losing everyone that was close to him.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
world war 2
In this blog I will be telling you what Spielberg was trying to convey in 1941 and in Saving Private Ryan. These two films are very different in my opinion. 1941 is a comedy about world war 2. Saving Private Ryan was a very realistic portrayal of world war 2.
The point of Saving Private Ryan was to show what the war was like for a foot soldier. Spielberg didn't hold anything back in this film. He showed death, pain, regret, suffering, loss, and agony. The film was about a group of soldiers trying to track down the last son, Private Ryan of a woman that lost here other sons in the war. The group lost to men tracking down Private Ryan. When they found him he didn't want to go with them because his orders were to stay and protect a bridge. The remaining men stayed and helped protect the bridge because that meant that they deserved to go home. Many died in combat but there were some survivors including Private Ryan. At the end of the film you see that Tom Hanks says to Ryan to earn it. At the very end of the film you see Ryan and his family at Tom's grave where Ryan is talking to Tom saying that he thinks about what he did for him everyday and he hopes that he did indeed earn it.
The point of 1941 was to show what it was like in Hollywood in 1941. The point was to show the different feelings during the bombing of pearl harbor. The emotions ranged from being scared to being happy. In Hollywood on that night you see soldiers enjoying themselves at a dance and at the movies. Then everything goes wrong and different people take different roles in stopping the bombing. Because Spielberg used comedy it was a little difficult to understand what it was really like in the eyes of the people that were there.
I think that Saving Private Ryan really showed what it was like during the war you could feel what they felt it was almost like you were there unlike in 1941 which I think it was kind of a big joke it was just like a bunch of words and pictures with no connection between them. It didn't make you react like I believe Spielberg wanted you to.
The point of Saving Private Ryan was to show what the war was like for a foot soldier. Spielberg didn't hold anything back in this film. He showed death, pain, regret, suffering, loss, and agony. The film was about a group of soldiers trying to track down the last son, Private Ryan of a woman that lost here other sons in the war. The group lost to men tracking down Private Ryan. When they found him he didn't want to go with them because his orders were to stay and protect a bridge. The remaining men stayed and helped protect the bridge because that meant that they deserved to go home. Many died in combat but there were some survivors including Private Ryan. At the end of the film you see that Tom Hanks says to Ryan to earn it. At the very end of the film you see Ryan and his family at Tom's grave where Ryan is talking to Tom saying that he thinks about what he did for him everyday and he hopes that he did indeed earn it.
The point of 1941 was to show what it was like in Hollywood in 1941. The point was to show the different feelings during the bombing of pearl harbor. The emotions ranged from being scared to being happy. In Hollywood on that night you see soldiers enjoying themselves at a dance and at the movies. Then everything goes wrong and different people take different roles in stopping the bombing. Because Spielberg used comedy it was a little difficult to understand what it was really like in the eyes of the people that were there.
I think that Saving Private Ryan really showed what it was like during the war you could feel what they felt it was almost like you were there unlike in 1941 which I think it was kind of a big joke it was just like a bunch of words and pictures with no connection between them. It didn't make you react like I believe Spielberg wanted you to.
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