1935 Moive: From Gags To Riches

FROM GAGS TO RICHES

Our movie takes place in the time of vaudeville it starts with Marx Brothers telling the tale of their two friends and our main characters, Arthur and Angela (Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger). They are sturgleing to find there way to the big time and in the midst of it Lilith Tansa (Mae West) it there to throw a wrench in to there plans. It's a finding your dream type of story for any movie lover. 

Its a large scale musical but it all takes place in one very detailed set of the Tansa  Night Club. We chose RKO studio's to host our movie not only because they had the rights to Astaire and Rogers but because they were very familiar with the musical genre.
We chose the Marx brothers for their amazing comedy skills and there past in vaudeville, we got them on lone to RKO. We also acquired Mae West on lone and chose her to bring a  bigger male audience to see the film and we wanted an alluring villain. We chose Fred and Ginger for there amazing backgrounds in song and dance. 
For our crew we chose Greg Toland to do the camera work because with such a different set we wanted some one inventive. Mark Sandrich is our director, becuase he directed Top Hat, one of the most loved movies with Astaire and Rogers. 
Things I would have changed in our movie.... Though it would have made our movie more complex I would have like to had Cary Grant as  temptation to Angela which was one of our original ideas and is something I liked. 

MYST: Captain America..... 4/5 Supernovas

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER

I have to admit I didn't know what expect going in to this film. I saw the Avengers first which did make watching this more confusing and made the Avengers less. But over all I'm really happy with this movie.
          The movie centers around Steve Rogers (Chris Evans)a small boy from Brooklyn with many, many, many health problems who is determined to help in World War II. He is found by Dr Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci) who chose him to become the worlds first successful super soldier. Along the way to defeating the Nazi division, Hydra and its new super weapon Rogers falls for the amazing Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell).

I was scared going into this movie because I don't tend to like warish movies. But the fights scenes were just long enough to keep my interest in the movie. I also think that they used some type of filter over the film to give it an older feel. One thing I did not like at all was the make up or CG or what ever it was on the the main villain of the movie it look fake and it was hard for me to believe.

Over all I really liked it, the story was really compelling and there was just enough of violence, I give it 4 out of 5 Supernovas!   

Formal Film Study: Neil Gaiman

The three movies I watched for my formal study were all movies related to the one and only Neil Gaiman. I watched Stardust and Coraline, which are based off of books he wrote, and MirrorMask, which he wrote the screen play for.  In each film you could most definitely see Neil's touch. The almost equal balance of deeply profound and  utterly bonkers that he's known for.

The things I noticed about all of the films were they all had one: a strong youngish protagonist, two: an evil woman, and three: a fake out ending. The fake out ending I think is the one I going to focus on the most because of what it did to me a the viewer. It gave me a sense of the story is over and done with then shoves it back in my face. As a frequent Doctor Who viewer I pride my self  being able to tell when the end is not a true end but with these films I was caught off guard and that impressed me.

Warning Spoilers Now!

In Coraline after the films namesake seemingly recuses her parents and locks her "other mother" away in her world of nightmares everything seems perfect with the world. Coraline and her parents are getting along and she goes of to sleep. Then she has a dream (dream scenes are also a common thing with Neil) of the previous children that the "other mother" had taken. They warning Coraline that her fight was not yet over and that as long as she had the key to the other world she was still in grave  danger. So she sets off to rid herself of the key in an old well by her home where she is attacked by a metal skeleton like hand of the "other mother" that found its way through to her world. Only after her and her friend crush it with a rock and send it down the well with the key is everything turely done with.

In MirrorMask the fake out ending is quite as happy as the one in Coraline. Just as Helena and Valentine find the mask and are about to use it to send her back to her own world, the evil princess that took over Helena's life pulled down the last of Helena's drawings and closed the last portal. The end seemed complete and impossible to get Helena free, the princess went out and reviled in her victory. After a few long minutes and after I had given up hope the door to the outside slammed shut to reveal a chalk drawing and Helena took back her life. Leading to the inevitable happy ending that followed.

Lastly in Stardust Tristan returned to Stormhold to rescue his lovely falling star Yvaine from the three evil witches bent on eating her heart for eternal youth. He and the prince fight the witches leaving the prince and two witches dead. Tristan turned to fight the third but found that she had released Yvaine and seeing no point in living forever without her sisters let them go. Seemingly out of dodge they head for the door but they shut just before they make it and one heroic fight later the film is over.

Neil's movies are filled with twists, deep thoughts, cats, and smart kids. He has quite a unique stamp on everything he does, but if you ever are reading or watching a Neil Gaiman project expect an unexpected ending.