Hollywood's example of the lack of father son/daughter relationships.

As we have seen in the past few movies we have watched, a father son (or father daughter) relationship/situation has been quite re-occurring. The movies with this topic have been Trouble With the Curve, Field of Dreams, and Catch Me if You Can. They all portray a great example of father son/daughter relationships, or that there lack of. However there’s one in specific that I can relate to or understand more than the others. That one is Trouble With the Curve. I say this for many reasons. These reasons start with the respect factor, or that there lack of. Unfortunately, Hollywood tries to explain what it is like having an absence of a father figure and they don’t do the best job at it, but hey they try. My situation is a little different than the one in Trouble With the Curve, but it is the one that I can relate to the most. Growing up I never really had much of a relationship with my dad and it wasn’t because he was a bad guy or anything or like he sent me away to live with someone else or to go to a boarding school, it was just because he was always working and rarely home. In Trouble With the Curve, there isn’t much respect between the father and the daughter, but instead there is distance and misunderstanding. In my case there was just no relationship at all. In the movie, when the two main characters conversed, they couldn’t seem to get along. My dad and I can get along but only for short periods of time before we’re screaming our heads off at each other. Anyways, my overall situation is a lot like the one the movie because no matter what, the father and the daughter can’t seem to get along.   

2015 apparently isn’t as we expected it should be from so many years ago. We have improved technologically but not as expected. We have faster cars, but not flying cars, improved computers but not holographic 3D sharks and most of all, we have Nike airs but not self tightening laces. In Back to the Future part 2 there are many very outdated futuristic features, the clothing was quite, well odd. In all varying aspects of the future, I think that the future has been designed to have flying cars. However, fortunately or unfortunately, the future will most likely not have flying cars. I say this for many reasons and these reasons include the fact that people would have to get their own personal flying lessons and pilot licenses and another reason is that insurance costs would go way up. However the whole hoverboard idea seemed pretty cool and to be honest, I would definitely get one. With comparing these two 2015s, they both have a lot in common and a lot of differences.  As Back to the Future part 2 shows a good example of what we wished 2015 would be, I think that advancing at our pace is just fine. Along with me comparing and contrasting both 2015s, from in the movie to in real life, I must remember that I have to type three hundred words which I am trying my best to do so please bare with me Mr. Bowser. I must say, we have invented flying cars, but they are not meant for ordinary people and one must have a flying license to operate. Anyways, I think I am close enough to three hundred words so that is my comparison between the two 2015s.   

Modern Film Noir

                Yes both films were modern film noir. I say this because they both follow the classical form of modern film noir. Modern film noir is any form of a classic gangster film with all the action. Both The Road to Perdition and The Godfather are great examples of modern film noir. They both have a lot of action scenes. Along with action and great gunmanship, there is skill. I will be honest so therefore this blog will be quite short. I fell asleep during The Godfather. I feel really greatly bad about this. However, I did not fall asleep during The Road to Perdition and I personally thought that it was a great movie.

                In The Road to Perdition, the main character, Michael Junior, witnesses a murder and by his father and his father finds out. This event happened after Michael gets curious about his father’s job. So late that night, he sneaks out of his house, climbs into the family car, and hides under the back seat. Just then, his dad climbs into the driver’s seat and drives off not knowing that his son is in the back seat. The father then later arrives to his destination, gets out of the car, and proceeds with his plans of getting information on something that I didn’t pay attention to. In the mean time, the son climbs out of the car and watches his father do his business. But they’re not done yet. The father shoots the man that was being questioned and the son witnesses it. The father soon after finds the son shoked to see what his dad does for a living. Overall, a lot of people get killed a lot of banks get robbed and the son is in on all of it. In the end the father gets shot and killed, the son finds a home and Michael lives happily ever after the end.  

Mr. Deeds

           Between Gary Cooper’s Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Adam Sandler’s Mr. Deeds, there are many similarities and differences. Both the movies start out with portraying Mr. Deeds living in a small town where everybody knows everybody and Mr. Deeds is famous for something whether its being the lead tuba player in the small town’s band or owning the town’s local pizza joint. 

Both movies, in their own way, also portray deep hard and cold betrayal and rejection that then later turns to light soft and warm love and romance. However, their differences vary. Between Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Mr. Deeds, Gary Cooper’s Mr. Deeds and Adam Sandler’s Mr. Deeds have it all. So let’s start with the beginning and start comparing and contrasting from there.  Gary Cooper’s Mr. Deeds (as I have said before) was the lead tuba player in the town’s band. However Adam Sandler’s Mr. Deeds owned the town’s pizza joint. Another difference is that both movies have totally different casts of characters and lead roles.

Some similarities are that they both take place through fall to winter. Another similarity is that they both have a Mr. Deeds (of course) and both have a young and beautiful Babe Bennet. They both also have the same hilarious story line; rising action, plot, and falling action.

In my opinion, I liked the one with Adam Sandler the most and not just because it is more modern and in color, but because the cast of actors have a tendency to hold my attention better.    

From what I saw in the movies, and paid attention to, yes, they do follow classic cinema well at least two of them do. Those two include Casablanca and That Thing You Do. In Casablanca there was a good share of romance and drama whereas in Citizen Kane there was a lot of mystery and storytelling. However in That Thing You Do, it was more a story of a band of boys and their typical rise to fame through their fabulous performance of their hit song That Thing You Do. Fortunately or unfortunately (depends on how you look at it) Citizen Kane is not an example of classical cinema because the main character died in the beginning and the whole movie was about trying to figure out what or who Rosebud was. Casablanca, however, was a classical movie that showed a very good example of classical cinema.

Basic classical cinema follows a neatly laid out time line and is very predictable. For example, in That Thing You Do, the band comes together, picks a name (The Oneders (pronounce The Wonders)), becomes famous with their one hit wonder (That Thing You Do), and the guy named Guy gets the girl, named Fay.       

back to the future

Okay so here we go Back to the Future. Marty McFly (our main character) is your typical skateboarding teenage boy in 1985 that has found himself in a time traveling delorean that took him back to 1955(when his parents were in high school) . The main setting of this story is in Hill Valley, California in the year 1955. At first all seems well besides the fact that the cars ran out of time traveling fuel and Marty's stuck in 1955. How could things get any worse?  Well they can and  they do because after getting hit by his mom's dad's car while keeping his dad from getting hit, his mom, Lorain, develops the hots for him. Creepy right?! Anyways, Marty's main goal is to go back to the future however getting there is going to be a struggle within itself. So at least he's found the scientist, also known as Doc, that built the machine however not until the further future. Another conflict Marty's facing is that his siblings are fading away right before his very own eyes in a photograph. His next goal is that he needs to set his parents up before his siblings and himself fade away completely. Through endless action and suspenseful suspense Marty and Doc figure stuff out, get the car running, and get Marty's parents together. All is well, but now Marty needs to head back to the future and luckily him and Doc know just what will work; a lightning bolt that strikes the towns clock tower. With just enough suspense to have you on the edge of your seat, Marty and Doc get the perfect amount of electricity needed for time travel and Marty finds himself back in 1985 where things are a little different, but it's all for the better.

Billy Joe Bob and his giant mustard

It was a hot summer day in north east Ohio as the bright hot sun shown down on Billy Joe Bob's house and neighborhood. It had been a long day  for Billy Joe Bob, but in a good way. When he had awoken in the morning he began his day with a hearty breakfast and then met up with his friend Fred and they enjoyed the beautiful morning while going on a nice bike ride around town. At noon, Billy and Fred biked back to Billy's house just in time for some freshly made Mac n' Cheese. After lunch, Billy and Fred continued their day of spending time out side. That afternoon, once Mr. Bob got home from work and when Mrs. Bob came home from running her daily errands, Mr. Bob kindly insisted that he be the one to prepare the dinner. Mr. Bob also suggested that he grill something and to invite Fred's family over to join them for a nice picnic dinner. Mrs. Bob suggested that Mr. Bob grill the hot dogs and hamburgers that she had just purchased from the supermarket. As Mr. Bob fired up the grill, Mrs. Bob walked up while holding a mysteriously large jar of mustard. Immediately after noticing what Mrs. Bob was holding in her hands, Mr. Bob couldn't help himself from questioning his wife about the giant jar of mustard. In response to her husband's question, Mrs. Bob stated that while she running her errands she came across an unusually large warehouse that had a sign that stated that the business was open to the public. So feeling curious, Mrs. Bob ventured inside the large building to discover that it was in fact an industrial food supermarket. After wandering the aisles aimlessly, Mrs. Bob found herself purchasing a giant jar of mustard. As fascinated as Mr. Bob was by the abnormally large jar of mustard, he continued to prepare the hotdogs and hamburgers for grilling. Meanwhile, Billy and Fred biked down to Fred's house to invite Fred's family over to the Bob's house for dinner, and without and hesitation; Fred's family agreed to go. Once both the Bob family and Fred's family (the Phils) congregated together at the Bob's house, Mr. Bob had finished preparing dinner and allowed everyone to help themselves to the food. Once everyone was seated comfortably and eating their dinner, Mr. Phil noticed the giant jar of mustard, and without questioning it, he grabbed the jar and began to put mustard on his food. Within that moment the cap slipped off and mustard began to spill everywhere causing a huge mess. Fortunately they managed to clean up the mess and once everyone was finished eating, they gathered around and watched a movie. The End