Movies

Theme of the Movies

The main theme is the battle between good and evil which is about greed of power and about good in the end always succeeds (nothing near to the complexity of things in all movies. The stories take place in Middle-Earth, in the Third Age of its history. It's a land and time of Elves, Dwarves and Dragons. The story contains the elements of a fantasy story, but in comparison with The Lord of the Rings, is much like a fairy tale (not as complex and thorough).

The narrator is omniscient, but mainly follows Bilbo like a sort of shoulder-camera. Bilbo's thoughts are sometimes quite clearly expressed by his behaviour. You also get a rather good peek inside the head of Bilbo, especially when he's alone somewhere. The symbolism is that good wants to save the world and destroy the oppressors, but meanwhile evil wants to turn the furtile landscapes into smouldering heaps of ash and to enslave all the people, to blacken the sky and annihilate all living green things that crawl or breathe or perhaps just stand upon the very soil.

Ethical Issues in the Movies

The genre is alternative realism, it's a fantasy movies and the directors create a whole new world to be experienced by the viewer. Released in 1964, A Hard Day's Night captures the Beatles just after their first successful tour of America. When A Hard Day's Night was opened in September, 1964, it was a problematic entry in a disreputable form, the rock 'n' roll musical. It was clear from the outset that A Hard Day's Night was in a different category from the rock musicals that had starred Elvis. Glengary Glenross was smart, cheeky, it didn't take itself seriously, and it was shot and edited by Richard Lester in black-and-white, semi-documentary style that seemed to follow the boys during a typical day in their lives (www.rollingstone.com).

The Beatles had a clone look (matching hair and clothes) but they contrasted it with the individuality of their personalities. The most powerful quality evoked by ``A Hard Day's Night'' is liberation. The long hair was just the superficial sign of that. An underlying theme is the difficulty establishment types have in getting the Beatles to follow orders. Although their manager (www.washingtonpost.com) tries to control them and their TV director (Victor Spinetti) goes crazy because of their improvisations during a live TV broadcast, they act according to the way they feel. When Ringo grows thoughtful, he wanders away from the studio, and the recording session has to wait until he returns. When the boys are freed from their job, they run like children in an open field. The notion of doing your own thing lurks within every scene (www.boilerroom.com/).

The majority of directors during the sixties used the traditional techniques of master shot, alternating close-ups, insert shots, re-establishing shots, dissolves and fades. Actors were placed in careful compositions. But directors like John Cassavetes of Glengary Glenross had started making movies that played like dramas but looked like documentaries. Similar to ...