Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock is considered one of the greatest film directors of all time. he is world renounced and a common household name. he brought a new angle to film that was never seen let alone considered before. He changed the course of history through the motion picture! I think that i can confidently say that no one director has had so much tribute paid to him through film.

All the movies that we watched of his were good but if i were to pick a favorite i would have to go with Rear Window. i liked it the best because of how original it was. i have never seen a movie where almost the entire movie took place in a single set. Or when the villain looks directly at the camera. it just gives you the shivers when you watch it. i also liked how it started out dual and boring and just rocketed into a fast paced thriller. The best part though was how the ending credit real mimicked the beginning credit real.

All of the movie we watched were Hitchcock classics but i feel that if we were to watch Pyshco or some other movie like that we would have got the entire Hitchcock experience.

Kurosawa

This was my favorite set of movies so far. I was a huge fan of kurosawa. i liked almost everything about his movies. I would have liked them a little more if they were in english that way i could pay attention to the hidden detail instead of reading subtitles, but o well. I really liked the setting of Ran and the main character of Yojimbo. i hope he combined the two at some point in his carreer. i found that his attention is due to the fact that he was some what of a samuri. He devoted each day of his life to perfecting his art and everything else he did trying to be the best at it. that in my opinion is the ultimate code of the samuri. Another thing that interested me about this director is his use of the same actors over and over. i found this to be odd because the normal hollywood director uses the same actor maybe three times, excluding sequals, through out their carreer. i think that this is a testamony to the work and respect japanesse actors had for Kurosawa, that they would work for him that many times.

I have decided that my ultimate Kurosawa movie has the passion of Murkami from Stray Dog, the comedy of Yojimbo and the epicness of Ran. i think that my best bet for that kind of movie is Seven Samuri, hence why i have decided to do it for my essay on tuesday. I don't know much about it only that it is extremely long, though i have to say my expectations are very high i feel like it will meet them without a problem. If the next directors are anything like Kurosawa in the sense of being awsome at what they do then the rest of this year will be great.

The Shining

This is the most fasinating film made by this director. It starts out with us being introduced to the torrence family that will be living in the Overlook hotel for the winter. Right away we find out that Jacks son is telepathic or something of that sort. We also are told that the hotel manger killed his family and himself. The Torrence family lives fine for the first few weeks and then strange things go a foot at Overlook hotel. Jack and his son Danny start seeing ghosts and what not throughout the hotel. Then Jack goes mad and starts to attack Danny and Wendy. The summer caretaker has a dream murder at the hotel and he rushes back to see whats up. Jack kills him and chases his son into a labrynth where jack gets lost and we see him the next morning forzon to death. then kubrick cuts to a picture at a new years party in 1920 and we see jack in the center smiling.

the weird thing about this film is that it is not about ghosts at all. Its all abouts The film is trying to show us how alchol abuse can turn a person into a monster. we see how Danny gets frightend when his dad loses it. Kubrick used mirrors when ever a ghost was present. given us the idea that maybe jack is not seeing ghosts but is just losing his mind and is just talking to himself. The picture at the end was a huge mind blowing event. what does the picture tell us. in the end it only leaves us with more questions then with answers. i feel like it is saying that jack was just absorbed into the history of the overlook hotel. and that everyone who was in the picture went mad just like him.