Hearts of Darkeness

I thought that this was one of the better documentries that I have seen. I had never seen the movie Appocolypse Now and this documentry gave me some insight in what I was going to be watching. I liked that the movie was done through the eyes of Francis Coppola's wife. You are able to see what she thought of the events that took place during filming and she was so close to her husband that you got the feeling that you really knew what was going on in the mind of the film maker. I thought that the interview with the character in the movie was the most interesting. This is becuase you got to see how each actor got into character. For example some of the actors were taking the same drugs that the soldiers in Veitnam were taking just so that they could have that edge on their characters. I am now excited to see the full film but keep in mind what was discussed in the documentry.

The Shinning

This is a movie that I have heard so many people talk about but I never took the time to see it. I was so glad that we were able to watch this film in class. I found it very confusing. I am not really sure what was going on. I thought I knew what was going to occur and then at the ending of the movie they show the picture with a date on it that was so much older then Jack was at the time. I am not sure what the movie is actually about but I think that none of it was true and that Jack was just thinking all of the movie in his head. I found that the director did a great job using different camera angles. He was able to make the viewers feel scared, or happy all through the way that he took the angle of the shot. I enjoyed this movie and I am going to watch it again to try and figure out all the aspects of the movie.

Metropolis

I found this movie to be one of the hardest movies that I have ever had to watch. I found it to be this way because the way it was filmed and the setting. I understand that the film was filmed in 1927 and people were just starting to experiment with film and try to do new things. I found the filming shaking and the lens made it appear like it was blurry. The music that was played throughout the film did not help with me enjoying to movie more. I felt like the song was stuck on repeat. The director of this film had German expressionism in mind when he was filming it. The shapes that he used were very sharp angles, there was a large contrast between black and white, and the make-up used was very bold so that the viewers would be able to understand the emotion of the characters in the film. All in all I did not like this film, but I feel that is was part of the evolution of film.