A Life With Film

∞ 5/24/2012 (9:18pm) 49,741 notes

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∞ 12/17/2011 (9:02am) 70 notes

The Spielberg Face (by Fandorific)

Check out this riveting video essay that analyzes one of Spielberg’s most iconic motifs.

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I feel like maybe I should let y’all know that I have a personal blog that I am 648474 times more active on. Perhaps you should check it out…?

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There’s Only Three of Us: The Women of the Zombie Apocalypse

In recent years, it seems that zombie films have soared in popularity, busting from the cult stream to the mainstream. Whether it’s a drama, comedy, or a horror film, one thing is certain: zombies can only make it better. In considering the zombie film is typically considered a sub-genre of horror, one would expect the Zombie Canon to prescribe to the same conventions and tropes under the umbrella of horror. Arguably, this is accurate as many tried and true horror film “rules” are either continued or pointedly subverted: the promiscuous die, the curious die, etc. The sub-genre is often judged just as misogynist and male-oriented as the untrained eye might consider its parent genre, but work in critical film theory exonerates the horror genre from this demonization, revealing it as one of the few genres that gives its female characters real power. Despite this, the women these films place in the zombie apocalypse have historically been continuously lacking. The overarching role of female characters in zombie films are slowly becoming more capable of defending themselves, but unlike the typically transitional and savvy female of the horror genre proper, the women of zombie films are either required to become another gender of devolve into weak females reliant on the patriarchy for support.

You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It’s misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman’s sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than this film. … There is something very distorted about this reality that they’ve created, which is that it is OK to torture women on screen. Any kind of violence towards women in a sexual scenario is fine. But give a woman pleasure? No way. Not a chance. That’s pornography.

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∞ 9/26/2011 (1:50pm) 1,200 notes

#Mark Hamill

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Happy 60th Birthday Mark Hamill :: via life.com

For myself, I tried [changing a film] once and lived to regret it. Not because of fan outrage, but because I was disappointed in myself.

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∞ 9/12/2011 (6:49pm) 2 notes

Happy Monday

George. Knock it off.

#Monday Video #Star Wars #Darth Vader

∞ 9/9/2011 (2:57pm) 4 notes

So I’m Watching Knocked Up in E!

And I can’t help but remember Katherine Hiegel’s ginormous melt down about how Judd Apatow was a sexist and the film paints women as crazy bitches and men as too cool for school.

I would humbly like to assert that she is incredibly wrong. While the characters certainly have a propensity towards these archetypes, when it comes down to it, I think Apatow is reminding men that women are loving and sensitive, even if a man’s childish mind can’t accept it. That we have to realize that we’re different and find the middle ground in there. Somewhere.

Anyway. Just a thought.

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To seize movement is to become movement, to follow a trajectory is to become a trajectory, to choose a direction is to have the possibility of choosing one, to determine a meaning is to give oneself a meaning.

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Jean-Louis Baudry, Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus