Film Analysis

Description

Choose one of the films below and discuss the values the film portrays. Explain in what ways the director uses the tools of his trade to help tell his/her story. I am not concerned with the plot of the film, I have already seen it, but tell me about your take on what the filmmaker is trying to say with his/her film and support your discussion with examples from the film. You don’t have agree with the values in the film, an interesting option is to pick a film you strongly disagree with, but make sure you support your rebuke of those values with examples from the film. This will be turned in Canvas. Word count should be no less than 1500.

Adaptation

Black Hawk Down

Wag The Dog

Some Like It Hot

In the Valley of Elah

Malcom X

You Can’t Take it With You

Pretty Woman

League of their Own

Unforgiven

The Conversation

Inside Out

Little Miss Sunshine

Hell or Highwater

Steel Magnolias

The Shawshank Redemption

As Good as It Gets

Being John Malkovich

Rocky

Erin Brockovich

Big Fish

Good Will Hunting

North Country

Tootsie

Dances With Wolves

Moonlight

Goodfellas

The Silence of the Lambs

Three Kings

And Justice for All

The Last Samurai

E.T.

West Side Story

Life of Pi

Billy Elliot

Avatar

Gangs of New York

Syriana

About a Boy

Argo

Life is Beautiful

Chocolat

Chronicles of Narnia (the first one)

Birdman

The Dark Knight

12 Years a Slave

LA LA Land

Inception

Interstellar

Whiplash

Django Unchained

Gladiator

Nebraska