Difficult Situations

I would choose situation A; I would rather be the director who had to deal with a troublesome actor because I have a lot more power and control over the situation. I would first try to work it out with them face-to-face, but if that did fly with them then I would take a different approach. True, the actor might be a nightmare, but I could essentially still get what I want out of them. I just need to somehow put on an act for them; not necessarily giving in to their behavior but using it. I would need to talk them up a bit, and when they feel they’ve got the upperhand of the deal, I would just play it out. Once they’re comfortable with me and think I am giving into their ego I’ll convince them of all these things they have to do in order to be the star of the show and hopefully get some good acting out of it. Say they want more screen time, I’ll give them more a bit more but sabotage the camera and possibly other situations just to distract the actor so we wouldn’t have enough time. Unless they wanted to pay for more time and equipment uses then they’d have to accept. If they did agree to that then maybe use a little bit of it and somehow in editing it couldn’t be used. Basically a series of white lies, acting, and a bit of manipulating.

If I wanted to tae a tougher route, I’d make the actor quit. I would not give in to any of their attitude and possibly downplay their character or something. Just to get them to leave on their own. But this is last resort.

Edge of My Seat

The last film I saw that put me on the edge of my seat was Gamer. It wasn’t all that clever nor that good of a film, but it did have it moments where you didn’t know what was going to happen next. Like while the main character is fighting for his freedom in the prison game you don’t really know if he can get out or not especially with his controller being a stupid annoying kid. Guns are firing, the prisoners are dying left and right and this stupid kid is screwing up the main character. Also in the real world they took a few twists like the rebels’ hideout being ambushed and the good guys have been killed. Another thing that was interesting was taking us away from the action for a moment and then throwing us back in, like during the last battle. All of the sudden they start doing a dance number that sort of calms us and then wham, the fighting continues. I think the most important elements of this movie suspense-wise were when they put me in this calm mindset and then throwing me off. Another suspenseful aspect of this film was the fact that the villain created twists and was always ahead of the main character, which made everything a little unpredictable.

Action Hero Types

The Creator – Indiana Jones, Tarzan, MacGyver, V

The Fighter – Rocky, Wolverine, Bourne,

The Destroyer – Rambo, Terminator, The Bride, Conan

The Enforcer – James Bond, Batman, Walker Texas Ranger, Robin Hood, Punisher, Danny Glover, Robin Hood, Robocop, Dirty Harry

Why The Joker Looks Disfigured

In the Dark Knight the Joker gives various reasons for why his face is disfigured. The reason he does this, I believe, is for a multitude of reasons. First off he is insane, but intelligent insane, I think his main reason is for shock value, and pull some sympathy out of his victims. He trying to connect and mess with people on a psychological basis. He may also be relaying things that might have been true about his past; this is a part of his sympathy method, but also to point out some injustices in the world. Its not important whether they are true or not, but because he is relaying these things to others, he is voicing shocking. But basically even though there is a method to his madness, he is just insane and has fun messing with people and it just ends up being clever.

If My Apartment Burned Down

If my apartment was burning down the five DVDs I would save would be: Donnie Darko, Watchmen, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Jurassic Park.

I would save Donnie Darko because it’s Donnie Darko and I love everything about movie. The script, and the message it is in essence very near and dear to me. This movie is also a holds a host of inside jokes between my friends and I. Plus it’s one of my all-time favorites, and it would break my heart to have it gone. Watchmen would be saved since its one of my new favorites, and I would get really annoyed if I could not watch it. It is not really all that special to me, but I just got it and it would irk me to lose something I just got. I would save Robin Hood: Men in Tights because I am going to need something to laugh at when my apartment burns down.

Howl’s Moving Castle I would save because I have loved Hayao Miyazaki films since I was three and this movie is one of my all-time favorites of his. It holds a special meaning to me because of that, and it is a present from a loved one. Also it is a special edition and is exceedingly hard to replace. And finally, I would save Jurassic Park because I have loved it since I was a toddler. It is also one of the reasons I wanted to become a filmmaker. Plus once I get into the anger stage of this whole apartment burning down situation, dinosaurs eating people and people in a survival effort against them will make me feel better.

Sci-Fi Blog

The best Sci-Fi character ever was Dr. Alan Grant from Jurassic Park. The reason for this is his character throughout the film; a somewhat normal man put in an abnormal situation. He is a man of science (archeologist) and uses this knowledge of the wilderness and of dinosaurs throughout the film to help save himself and the island survivors. He also uses this ability to giver hope to the survivors in showing how wondrous some of the island’s creatures are. This is shown several times throughout the film, from the cars breaking down to the dinosaur attacks to finding rescue. So being intelligent and having the capabilities of a hero are essential to his portrayal of a great Sci-fi character.

The best Sci-Fi villain is Terminator from the film The Terminator. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s robotic character represents everything it means to be a sci-fi villain. First of he is a killing machine from the future, and he just won’t die. Being completely a robot made him a very vital component to the Sci-Fi process. Terminator is a force that humans struggled to fight against since he was a machine. He could rebuild himself, and hardly ever took any damage. It also helps that he was programmed to just be pure evil, completely out to kill his targets. There is no question with his mechanic abilities and the fact that he is completely a force of evil that he is the best Sci-Fi villain of all time.

The best movie villain ever was definitely the Joker from The Dark Knight. The Joker was just the symbol of evil against Batman’s good persona. He was sick, demented, psychotic, a murderer, a thief, and just all around criminal. Not only did he commit crimes, but he also managed to make them other people’s faults at many times. He got inside people’s minds, and royally messed with them on a psychological basis. This tactic was not only pure evil, but it brought the evil out in others who many times were believed good. That made his character very dynamic, he was evil, but he made you second guess his character in the grand scheme of things.