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This is an analysis of 'Fight Club' based on the book by Chuck Palahniuk.  Clip 1: (0:00—2:07) The opening title is a zoom-out from inside of the main character’s head where we see the physiology of his fear, neurons firing and flashing along synapses, until we see the frightened face of the narrator with a gun in his mouth. Clip 3: (3:54—6:20) In this series of scenes we see Jack’s life, a life ruled by insomnia, monotony, conformity, and fatigue. The inside of his apartment is full of the latest name brand consumer goods to which he is a slave to, working in an unrewarding unfulfilling job as a recall specialist. Reading catalogs, to him, is like reading pornography in that the stuff in catalogs reflects his ideal self. These scenes end with Jack in a doctors office asking for drugs, something else external to make him feel good and he sees an image of a man blink then disappear. Jack is showing symptoms of DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder or Split Personality Disorder) a...

This is an analysis of the opening scenes of the film 'Citizen Kane'. In this clip we see a small boarding home surrounded by snow and Kane out playing on his sled. Meanwhile, inside of the boarding home, Mrs. Kane and Mr. Kane, her husband, are arguing because Mrs. Kane has inherited a gold mine on the property and she is signing papers to turn their son over to Mr. Thatcher who's bank holds the trust that Charles will inherit on his 25th birthday. Mrs. Thatcher wants the bank to be their son’s guardian and believes that their son will be better educated in the bank’s care. As Mrs. Kane is at the table with Thatcher signing the paperwork, Mr. Thatcher’s angrily objects in the background as Kane is framed in a window outside playing happily on his sled; this image says that Kane, at this point, is the picture of happiness . Thatcher mentions the 50,000.00 dollar a year allowance Mr. and Mr. Kane will from the fund and Mr. Kane calms down immediately. After signing their son...

This is an analysis of 'All That Heaven Allows' I shared with a group of fellow film lovers at the public library. Let me know what you think of this great film. ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS By Douglas Sirk Title 1 (00:00-11:50) (11:50) Stop at “What a horrid thing to say, Mona.” Cary attends a dinner where she is subjected to criticism for wearing a red dress.  My viewpoint The 1st shot of the film shows a clock on a church tower beside an overhead view of a New England suburb. The leaves are turning indicating the season and the theme of the film which is not death but change going with the fact that Cary, whose mourning her husband, is going to fall in love with another man again. We are also introduced to other elements of the plot that foreshadow elements later in the story. At around the 2:47 point on the DVD, Cary invites Sara to have lunch but Sara is attending a dinner and doesn’t have the time . She arranges a date for Cary. This establishes the film’s theme of other ...

This is an analysis of Elia Kazan's 'On The Waterfront' In Elia Kazan's film 'On The Waterfront', Ex-boxer Terry Malloy could've been a contender, but after taking a dive, he winds up on the dock of a Brooklyn waterfront, a pariah for conspiring in the murder of Joey Doyle, a popular dockworker, who was going to testify against Johnny Friendly. Terry is set up in a cushy job, all he has to do is tell Johnny who the rats are. But when Terry falls in love with the sister of the man he helped kill, he is forced to make a decision that pits him against his own brother, Charlie The Gent, in one of the greatest acting scenes ever filmed!

This is an analysis of Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' A 'Clockwork Orange' by director Stanley Kubrick What happens to a young man who's lost his yarbles? What happens when he partakes of a little of the ol' ultra violence and lands himself in prison? What happens when he subjects himself to an experiment that will rehabilitate him, make him a eunuch and harmless to society? How does society treat the weak, the vulnerable, the powerless? Alex--sociopath, alpha male, dropout, droog, narcissist, rapist--is public-enemy-number-one in a not-so-distant future dystopia where the strong feed on the weak and the weak feed on those who are weaker. 

This is a scene by scene analysis of 'Apocalypse Now: Redux'. Title 8 (37:00-49:51) (12:51) Stop after “Smells like victory.” Summary A squadron of Air Calvary Hueys raid Vin Bin Drop r aining bullets and bombs and taking fire as well. When the copters hit the ground, Kilgore orders some of his men to get their surf boards and hit the waves in spite of the heavy explosions and flying bullets. He orders them to either surf or fight and they choose to surf. He then calls in a napalm sortie to clear out a tree- line and the way is clear for Willard and his men to enter the Nung River. My viewpoint Kilgore leads the helicopter raid on Vin Bin Drop playing loud music to stir up his men and to freak out the enemy. This is an example of using music as a distraction or as a way to escape. Again, this is not about music but about entertainment and how it is used to distort reality. People are dying all over the place and all Kilgore can think about is getting his surfboard...

This is a scene by scene analysis of 'Apocalypse Now: Redux' Title 3 (23:02-31:14) (8:12) Stop at “Forgive us our trespasses” Summary: Willard goes over Kurtz’ dossier and right away he’s hooked . In ’64, Kurtz, worked with an advisory command in ‘Nam and returned his report to Washington. The President restricted his report . Also Kurtz signed up for paratroopers at 38 years of age . This was crazy; no one signs up to jump out of planes at that age! Willard and his 4 man escort—Gunners-Mate nicknamed Mr. Clean, a 17 year old from? Chef, a machinist from New Orleans, Gunner’s-mate Lance Johnson, a famous surfer from LA, and  Chief Phillips, the boat’s captain—rendezvous at an unspecified location with Colonel Kilgore, Commander of Air Cavalry, 1st of the 9th. Air Calvary are  mopping up an unsuccessful skirmish with the VietCong and evacuating refugees to South Vietnam. My viewpoint: Right away, you see the disconnection from reality as soldiers enter...

This is a scene by scene analysis of 'Apocalypse Now: Redux' Title 1 (6:06-18:53) (12:47)  The film opens in a small room in Saigon . Captain Willard, of the U.S. Army’s Special Forces ( 505 battalion, 173rd Airborne , SOG Studies and Observation  Group ) and CIA operative is a wreck. He’s a government assassin without a mission , out of action, and the waiting and boredom are killing him. A couple of soldiers show up at his  door with orders to bring him to COM-SEC INTELLIGENCE at Nha Trang Airfield . There, a general hands Willard a mission. Walter E. Kurtz, a highly decorated Colonel, is wanted for murdering 4 Vietnamese double agents . He has since gone AWOL and made himself a god over an indigenous people called the Montagnards in a remote  jungle in Cambodia . Willard and a crew are to travel up the Nung River in a boat, learn what they can along the way, and once they arrive in Cambodia, to find Kurtz and to kill him with “extreme prejudice.” ...

This is a complete explanation of the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey Dave Bowman completes his journey through the Stargate and his space pod ends up in a room full of light and antique furniture. He looks out the window of the pod and sees an older, future version of himself. This Dave sees another future version of himself sitting at a desk. Dave stands up from the desk to look around and sees another future and even older version of himself eating at a table. This Dave accidentally knocks a glass to the floor.  He looks over his shoulder and sees himself in the future on his death-bed. This final version of Dave sees the black monolith at the foot of his bed. In the blink of an eye, Dave transforms into a fetus inside of a clear glowing egg. Next, the egg containing Dave’s fetus hovers in space beside a planet that looks like Earth.

This is a complete explanation of the opening to '2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick This is the protracted intro to 2001: A Space Odyssey where you hear the powerful humming sound of the black monolith that, according to Kubrick, represented alien beings millions of years old, progressing from biological beings to “immortal machine entities", and then into "beings of pure energy and spirit"; beings with "limitless capabilities and ungraspable intelligence.” The thundering composition here is called Sprach Zarathustra and it is heard at three pivotal moments in the film: The Dawn of Man , Jupiter , and Beyond the Infinite . In all 3 instances, this composition follows a revelation or revealing of something greater, or a movement of man to a higher level of knowledge. This is a very powerful and iconic score. 

This scene is called 'The Dawn of Man' from the film '2001: A Space Odyssey'. Millions of years ago on Earth on an African desert characterized by rugged natural features and vast stretches of parched desert, a tribe of apemen struggle with other wild beasts for food. This tribe is chased away from a watering hole by another tribe of bigger, stronger apes. A strange blue light and a deep humming sound awakens the weaker apes as they are sleeping in their cave. Outside, they find a huge black monolith, rectangular in shape and geometrically perfect among its rocky natural surroundings. The apes approach the humming object hesitantly, touching it carefully. The smooth polished surface of the monolith is alien to the apes.  The following day an ape picks over the bones of a carcass left by another predator. The ape looks disappointed as the bones are picked clean. He studies the shape of a big bone in the pile, then an image of the black monolith flashes across the ape’s m...

In this scene from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dave deactivates HAL 9000 after reentering the ship, Jupiter. Dave deactivates Hal’s higher brain functions. Hal pleads with Dave not to deactivate him but Dave ignores him and does so anyway as Hal’s memories begin to fade until he reverts to his 1st programmed memory, a song called Daisy Bell, which he sings to Bowman before dying. To me, this scene is almost like a rape scene as Dave is cold, almost cruel, and Hal is vulnerable and unable to prevent Dave from robbing him of his very essence. There’s the duality of power as Dave takes back control over his life and the ship itself from technology, which man has become overly dependent on. This power dynamic, or change, started the moment Dave decided to use the “manual airlock” to get back on the ship. This means that true AI that is able to perceive its own mortality and is able to feel will see man as a threat and see itself as superior and will probably seek to destroy us to prese...

In this scene, I'll examine a scene from '2001: A Space Odyssey' that involves Dave Bowman manually reentering the ship.  Dave Bowman is left with no choice but to leave the pod without his helmet and re-enter Discovery 1 manual emergency airlock. Man's over-reliance and technology will lead to our extinction and at some point in the future, there will have to be a reset where man reclaims his life from AI. That's what this scene represents which is why Bowman has to MANUALLY open the pod to reenter the ship.  Bowman is a fetus leaving the security of its mother's womb (which in this case is the technology inside of the pod itself) and being thrust into a new world of knowledge; the signal from the monolith discovered on the Moon has affected both HAL and Bowman.   The pod with its life-support systems is like a mother’s womb when he literally explodes violently from the pod into the new environment much like how oxygen explodes into a newborn’s lungs after bein...

This is a summary of key scenes from the film 'All That Heaven Allows'. The main theme of this film is obvious. It’s about defining happiness for yourself and not allowing others to define your happiness .  Cary Scott (Jane Wyman) is a widow living the life defined for her by her children, her friends, and her community . Her husband was a businessman and leaves her financially secure. Her friends and children are mindful of what others think and constantly remind their mother of staying within the accepted norms from the length and color (red) of the dresses she wears to whom she dates . At the outset of the film, she is being taken out on a date with a man her age, a man her children believes is proper for a woman her age. The soirée itself is full of gossip, particularly on  the red dress Cary wears and other suggestions that she hasn’t given the proper amount of time to grieving her husband . An man of her age there finds her in a secluded spot and tries to force himself...

This is a plot analysis of the film 'On The Waterfront'. On The Waterfront by Elia Kazan Title 1 (0:00:00-10:46) (10:46) The opening titles of 'On The Waterfront' are on a background of woven cloth which embodies the entire theme of the film, which is that we are all threads in the common fabric of society and that what affects 1 fiber affects the entire cloth. The movie opens on the pier of a dock in Hoboken, New Jersey. Union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) and his thugs come out of a small office shack with former prize-fighter turned snitch, Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) who Johnny sends to set up an outspoken dockworker named Joey Doyle. Joey Doyle is supposed to testify to the Crime Commission about corruption by local 374, which Johnny controls.  Terry Malloy goes to Joey’s tenement and calls out Joey’s name. He asks Joey to meet him on the roof where Joey raises pigeons and Joey agrees and minutes later comes falling off the roof to the ground, dead instantly....