Real Film Talk

Blue Velvet is about a student named Jefferey who comes back to his home town to work at his fathers hardware store while he is in hospital. He stumbles upon a ear the police officer who’s called John tells him not to talk to anyone about it. The detective daughter who knows Jeffrey tells him what she knows from eavesdropping on her dad, she finds that a women named Dorothy who lives in an apartment has something to do with it. Jeffrey was curios and with the help of Sandy they go to investigate.

Scopophilia is pretty much the joy of looking at something you are not supposed to be looking at. It usually refers to the male gaze in Hollywood cinema, which is all about objectifying women into mere objects to be looked at. The film uses this technique when Jefferey is in the apartment and he hides in the cardboard this gives the audience the feel just like Jefferey that they are looking at something they shouldn’t be looking at.

This is a unique crime film like no other I have seen in so many ways to the point where it is sickening but still fascinating. Its what David Lynch is known for really which is bizarre stories and strange characters with a number of twist and turns in his films. Frank Booth is one of the most bizarre characters I have seen he is a psychotic killer with mummy issues. Also Dorothy is another bizarre character and she is the victim. There are a number of strange scenes in the film as you would expect a lot of them in the apartment .This film is very suspenseful crime film that you can imagine can get really uncomfortable to watch. Though the film is pretty calm until Frank enters the film, he pretty much uses the f-word in every sentence.

Visually it is very interesting as Lynch uses weird camera angles and unique colours. The contrast of colours between light and dark as it feel like it feels as if white gets bright and black gets darker. The contrast of colours contribute to the film almost feeling as if you are dreaming. The colour is capable of raising particular emotions. Frank in the film finds comfort in the little lighting as if to show how dark the character is which show how unique of a director Lynch can be.

Apocalypse now is about a Captain called Benjamin L.Willard who is sent on a mission that technically doesn’t exist. The mission is to seek out a Colonel Walter Kurtz army which crossed the border to Cambodia and it was a hit and run mission. They are said to believe that Kurtz went completely insane and Willard’s job is to finish him off. Willard was sent up the Nung River on a Navy boat and discovers that his target is one of the most decorated officers in the army.

The director Francis Ford Coppola by the time he directed this film he had already achieved great success and some might say he was the king of Hollywood after making the first two Godfather films. He went to the Philippines with a partial script and believed that he would be set to start. Almost like Willard he had no idea what to do once he got there. What’s so special about this film is that it doesn’t give you a final conclusion because of this open-ending it infuriates some members of the audience who like their film to be much more obvious.

This film some call a war film which it isn’t really I would say its more about what a man is willing to do. Coppola should receive praise for his take on the civil service of war which he conveys quite well when we see General Corman and Lucas and the playmate review the audacity of Kilgore makes him an unforgettable character and the dawn attack will always be a classic. The ending of the film is quite surreal that it is very difficult to watch but can be rewarding, the film is meant for interpretation and contemplation which is why I feel like it’s useless for me to spoil it for you.

Blade Runner is a film about the future which is ironic since it is based on the time 2019 and we are here in 2020. It is crazy to watch a film based on the future when you are in the future of that film. The film is about robots known as “Replicants” which were used to colonise other planets and they were used as slaves. Until they were declared illegal and a special department in the police force known as blade runners had to dispose of them.

I feel like Blade Runner is a very postmodern text since it shows us a combination of two genres which are sci-fi and one the other one which is film noir that isn’t used in Hollywood much in todays age. The combination of the two really describes the time in Hollywood which could be called a transitional phase where we saw the rise of blockbusters and the fall of classical Hollywood and the studio system.

Blade Runner was a film I found very interesting it had a slow start but it had a lot going on at the same time I guess that should be expected from a sci-fi film. There was also a lot of information you have to remember so you can tell the difference between a human and a replicant, if you are not paying attention you could miss some vital information.

It was a very dark film in terms of lighting with a lot of shadows and it also seemed to rain throughout the film. As for the costumes there wasn’t really anything unique about it other than the scientist in the freezer, who had some sort of special glasses and a massive fluffy coat. The cars looked weird kind of like lego made by a kid. Since the lighting was dark for pretty much the whole film a lot of the set looked the same to me so I can’t really describe the set in any special way because I could barely see it.

The film for me was very unique because I like 80s films but this wasn’t a typical 80s film I would watch. Due to its slow start I struggled to stay engaged but once the film started to pick up the more I got into it. Blade runner is a film that if you are a fan of detective films you will enjoy this, I wouldn’t class it so much as a sci-fi just because it didn’t really give me the feel of a sci-fi film maybe because of the time period. But then again Star Wars was sci-fi film and it gave that feel and it came out before Blade Runner did, maybe I just didn’t enjoy as much as I would have thought.

An audience is a group of people the view a piece of media i.e newspaper, television, and radio etc. An audience can be in a specific location or have a common interest. An audience can be all in the same room watching a performance all simultaneously like a cinema or theatre, or they can be watching the same event in different location from each other as long as they are watching the same event then they are an audience to that said performance, show or report.

The passive audience theory suggest that the audience receiving the information from the media will just accept what is being fed to them with little attention, it is suggested they tend to be weak willed. A passive consumption of information from the media will tend to have a direct effect on the audience. A passive audience is usually a group of people watching a sporting event, they are said to be weak willed. They also pay little attention to the message being said or sent.

An active audience suggest that the audience will form their own opinion based on the information they have taken in. With there being more information available to people you may find the the audience is more active now than maybe 20 years ago, this is due to the fact that people are more aware of the information they are taking in. They can do their own research very easily now, this has led to companies having to use new tactics to get their message across.

An audience is one of the most important things in media because without an audience you won’t get a message out to anyone, or you won’t get any customers which leads to little or no revenue. Due to this a lot of companies put a lot of money in their marketing team because this will essentially make or break the product whether its a film or something you can purchase. It is extreme important to know if you expect your audience to be passive or active because it could determine they type of media a company might use.