So this year I'm taking a class called cinematic literacy and it's great! The teacher is a lot of fun and I just like the class in general. It helps me to broaden my genres of movies and to see older films that I might not have seen otherwise. So far we've watched a lot of films and I'm going to talk about them and share my opinions. Maybe some of you will decide to see some of these films as well.
The first film we watched was Modern Times. It's a silent film and it was my first time seeing a silent film. However, there was some dialogue in the film but it only came out of machines. I loved it! This film was really entertaining and it kept my interest and not just because it was silent and I had to pay attention to understand. In general it was just comical and fun. A "tramp" who works at a factory is always in the wrong place at the wrong time. He ends up losing his job and being sent to a mental hospital for being crazy. When he gets out of the hospital he finds himself in constant unlucky situations that land him in jail and running from the police. Throughout the film he meets and falls in love with a girl and does everything he can to protect her. And even when the times are bad, the tramp is still optimistic and in the end he is still hopeful. I liked this film a lot and the music plays a big role. It takes the place of dialogue and so it has emotion to the music. Also the comedy is childish and obvious. There aren't any jokes that you have to sit and think about.
Another film w
e watched was Mr. Smith Goes to Washington which is considered a melodrama. A boy ranger leader is elected to be part of the congress and so he goes to Washington. Mr. Smith, being an average guy, is blown away with all the sights in Washington DC and in the film he stands up for himself and the other boy rangers. He wants to build a camp for the boys and goes on a filibusterous rant to prove his point and eventually wins. It was a decent film. It wasn't anything special to me though. There were a few funny parts, such as when the boy rangers were being chased after for their papers near the end. But really there's not much to say about this film. It was okay but I don't think I would want to watch it again on my own time. The music in the film is used to create a certain feeling in the viewer and the camera angles do the same, causing the film to be a melodrama.
The Philadelphia Story is a film about a high class woman who had divorced her husband is now about to remarry. Everything is fi
ne until the ex-husband returns and brings reporters to write a bad story about Tracy Lord (the woman). Lord ends up in a love with three men: her ex-husband, the reporter, and her fiancee George Kittedge. It's a film with a strong woman who is torn between three men and trying to keep everything a secret. However, she doesn't do to well when she has too much to drink and ends up taking a late night swim with the reporter and her fiancee catches her. This film has a lot of twists and turns and an unexpected ending. You will never guess who she ends up marrying at the end, and I didn't even know until the last minute. This is not one of my favorite movies, Tracy Lord was a bit annoying to me. The strength she has at the beginning completely disappears by the end and she becomes a mess. At the end she just seems so over dramatic and the once strong woman is now desperate and trying to hard to have her wedding not be cancelled.
The first film we watched was Modern Times. It's a silent film and it was my first time seeing a silent film. However, there was some dialogue in the film but it only came out of machines. I loved it! This film was really entertaining and it kept my interest and not just because it was silent and I had to pay attention to understand. In general it was just comical and fun. A "tramp" who works at a factory is always in the wrong place at the wrong time. He ends up losing his job and being sent to a mental hospital for being crazy. When he gets out of the hospital he finds himself in constant unlucky situations that land him in jail and running from the police. Throughout the film he meets and falls in love with a girl and does everything he can to protect her. And even when the times are bad, the tramp is still optimistic and in the end he is still hopeful. I liked this film a lot and the music plays a big role. It takes the place of dialogue and so it has emotion to the music. Also the comedy is childish and obvious. There aren't any jokes that you have to sit and think about.
Another film w
e watched was Mr. Smith Goes to Washington which is considered a melodrama. A boy ranger leader is elected to be part of the congress and so he goes to Washington. Mr. Smith, being an average guy, is blown away with all the sights in Washington DC and in the film he stands up for himself and the other boy rangers. He wants to build a camp for the boys and goes on a filibusterous rant to prove his point and eventually wins. It was a decent film. It wasn't anything special to me though. There were a few funny parts, such as when the boy rangers were being chased after for their papers near the end. But really there's not much to say about this film. It was okay but I don't think I would want to watch it again on my own time. The music in the film is used to create a certain feeling in the viewer and the camera angles do the same, causing the film to be a melodrama.The Philadelphia Story is a film about a high class woman who had divorced her husband is now about to remarry. Everything is fi
ne until the ex-husband returns and brings reporters to write a bad story about Tracy Lord (the woman). Lord ends up in a love with three men: her ex-husband, the reporter, and her fiancee George Kittedge. It's a film with a strong woman who is torn between three men and trying to keep everything a secret. However, she doesn't do to well when she has too much to drink and ends up taking a late night swim with the reporter and her fiancee catches her. This film has a lot of twists and turns and an unexpected ending. You will never guess who she ends up marrying at the end, and I didn't even know until the last minute. This is not one of my favorite movies, Tracy Lord was a bit annoying to me. The strength she has at the beginning completely disappears by the end and she becomes a mess. At the end she just seems so over dramatic and the once strong woman is now desperate and trying to hard to have her wedding not be cancelled. 
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