A site i found useful for film reviews:
www.empireonline.com
Sunday 12 October 2008
Synopsis of films:
Kids:
Is a story about a boy called Telly, who goes around taking young girls virginity as he thinks that this will stop him from getting any STD's but he is unaware that he is givining them HIV. A young i girl called Jenny who slept with Telly a year before searches across the city for Telly deserate to tell him the truth that he has HIV and is giving it to other girls as he is the only boy she has slept with. This film shows a story of just a single day where everything and nothing will change.
American Beauty
is story about a 42 yr old man called Lester Burnham and his wife Carolyn are unhappy with their lives so Lester decides to make a few changes in his life. Lester black mails his boss for $60,000, smokes weed who he gets from Jane's boyfriend Nicky who is their next door neighbor, quits his job, comes obsessed with his daughters (Jane) best friend Angela and gets a job flipping burgers. He tries to live his life on the edge and live it to the full but he sees his wife having an affair and doesn't care. The main people in his life start to turn against him and people start to get the wrong ideas which result in his death that he talks about all the way through.
High School Musical
High School Musical is about the American Dream. A school boy called Troy Bolton meets a girl Gabriella and fall in love meeting a group of freinds on the way. Troy is the popular boy in school and Gabriella is a new student who is bright. Together they change the status quo in their school and bring together unlikely friendships and relationships. Troy has a hard time choosing between Basketball which his dad runs or singing as he tries to hide singing from his friends. Gabriella is competed against by the popular girl in school Sharpay who wants Troy to herself and will do anything to get him even if it means making him unhappy.
Is a story about a boy called Telly, who goes around taking young girls virginity as he thinks that this will stop him from getting any STD's but he is unaware that he is givining them HIV. A young i girl called Jenny who slept with Telly a year before searches across the city for Telly deserate to tell him the truth that he has HIV and is giving it to other girls as he is the only boy she has slept with. This film shows a story of just a single day where everything and nothing will change.
American Beauty
is story about a 42 yr old man called Lester Burnham and his wife Carolyn are unhappy with their lives so Lester decides to make a few changes in his life. Lester black mails his boss for $60,000, smokes weed who he gets from Jane's boyfriend Nicky who is their next door neighbor, quits his job, comes obsessed with his daughters (Jane) best friend Angela and gets a job flipping burgers. He tries to live his life on the edge and live it to the full but he sees his wife having an affair and doesn't care. The main people in his life start to turn against him and people start to get the wrong ideas which result in his death that he talks about all the way through.
High School Musical
High School Musical is about the American Dream. A school boy called Troy Bolton meets a girl Gabriella and fall in love meeting a group of freinds on the way. Troy is the popular boy in school and Gabriella is a new student who is bright. Together they change the status quo in their school and bring together unlikely friendships and relationships. Troy has a hard time choosing between Basketball which his dad runs or singing as he tries to hide singing from his friends. Gabriella is competed against by the popular girl in school Sharpay who wants Troy to herself and will do anything to get him even if it means making him unhappy.
My Presentation
Why i chose this topic?
I chose this topic as most recent films shown in cinemas are going with the American dream and showing a happy life with no huge problems. However in Kids and American Beauty it portrays American youth in a completely different way showing the struggles and problems that some people could face.
What i hope to learn?
I hope to find out and show that American films can give the effect of life being perfect and not showing the audience some truth of real life and just showing the ideal American Dream ideology.
Key Scenes:
Kids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCot-k3FJuI
American Beauty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amnNp8FpqL8
High Shool Musical http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvkh29RKFRY
What i have learnt so far
1. Kids and American Beauty are films that I would not normally pick up to watch and I didn’t know much about the trashing of the American Dream in films, as most films show how lovely life is such as High School Musical. 2. Kids and American Beauty show the complete opposite side of American Youth than High School Musical and shows the effects and that bad things happens in life. For example in Kids Telly gives youth girls HIV and in American Beauty Jane turns against her Parents who give her no attention of self confidence. 3. I’ve looked into a range of different film reviews from sites such as empire, rotten tomatoes and filmcritic.com and on all the website American Beauty gets the highest star rating followed by Kids and last High School Musical.
I chose this topic as most recent films shown in cinemas are going with the American dream and showing a happy life with no huge problems. However in Kids and American Beauty it portrays American youth in a completely different way showing the struggles and problems that some people could face.
What i hope to learn?
I hope to find out and show that American films can give the effect of life being perfect and not showing the audience some truth of real life and just showing the ideal American Dream ideology.
Key Scenes:
Kids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCot-k3FJuI
American Beauty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amnNp8FpqL8
High Shool Musical http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvkh29RKFRY
What i have learnt so far
1. Kids and American Beauty are films that I would not normally pick up to watch and I didn’t know much about the trashing of the American Dream in films, as most films show how lovely life is such as High School Musical. 2. Kids and American Beauty show the complete opposite side of American Youth than High School Musical and shows the effects and that bad things happens in life. For example in Kids Telly gives youth girls HIV and in American Beauty Jane turns against her Parents who give her no attention of self confidence. 3. I’ve looked into a range of different film reviews from sites such as empire, rotten tomatoes and filmcritic.com and on all the website American Beauty gets the highest star rating followed by Kids and last High School Musical.
My Film Studies Question:
“Trashing the white American dream”
A close study into representation of dysfunctional youth across a body of of films and their social and political significance.
Focus Film: Kids (1995) diretor Larry Clark
Secondary Films:American Beauty and High School Musical
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