Bad Boys for Life: Will Smith-Martin Lawrence Action Comedy Dominates Box-office
The third iteration of the Will Smith-Martin Lawrence action comedy franchise should finish the Friday-Monday as Sony Pictures’ biggest R-rated opening ever.
Hollywood Fathers: Father and Son; Father and Daughter
Gregory Peck usually played fathers, liberal, honest, conscientious father (not rigid patriarchs) Gentlemen’s Agreement (1947): Widowed father, working as journalist, raising his son, with the help of his mother. Share this:
Hollywood: Jewish/Gay
Hollywood: How Jewish and Gay, Past and Present
Expressions: In Your Light We Will See Light
In Your Light, We Will See Light
Film Theory: Reflexivity, Self-Reflexivity
If all art is ultimately about itself, self-reflexive art draws the viewer’s attention to that fact.
Film Theory: Space
The organization of space in narrative features is a major issue in film theory. How the space is divided, shaped, shot, and edited?
Medicority: Definition; Expressions
Jean Giraudoux: “Only the mediocre are always at their best.” Share this:
Instinct: Expressions–Proust
Marcel Proust: Instinct dictates the duty to be done, and intelligence supplies the excuse doe avoiding it. Share this:
Leisure: Expressions
The talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
Film Theory: Authorship, Auteurism, Directors
AUTHORSHIP/AUTEURISM/DIRECTORS Directors are one variable element in the total Hollywood institution; they are responsible for some of the contradictions in the system. since their relationship is not directly tied to the commercialism of the whole. However, they are by and large implicated in the system (financially and ideologically), and their ideology reflects this (the ideology […]