And the best motion picture goes to....

TITANIC

(crowd goes wild as I fail the class)

In seriousness the list is as follows best to worst

O' Brother Where Out There  Loved the storyline and how it was presented. Also like Greek Mythology so the references where awesome to see
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly I am a sucker for Westerns, raised on John Wayne, but along with that is the fact that actual cinematic shots could be used instead of watching "the Duke" on screen for the whole movie
Spoorloos Never though i would like reading subtitles. As it wasnt a horror in my book it still had the suspense and how it was shown that she was kidnapped and kill was a new take.
Sherlock Jr. Loved the slap stick comedy and simplicity of it
Moonrise Kingdom While i have no complaints about the movie and the different shots like the long tracking shots and Mise en scene visually were interesting, it just seemed like another love story
End of Watch Alot more entertaining than i thought it would have been but at this position because the wrong guy died
Awara The underlining message of class warfare was interesting how it was played out. Along with seeing how other major productions from other countries
Detour It was interesting to see the references to the film noir genre but not my cup of tea
Freaks The brotherhood of group and being miss-classified as a horror is all that made the movie interesting
My Own Private Idaho To be honest fell asleep a few times during the movie and had to go back. And again never got the underlying plot.
Killer of Sheep I didnt quite get the references until class and many of the cinematographic shots were painful
Wendy and Lucy Movie just kind of annoyed me. Very cut and dry. I also am not one for politics, its all corrupt

Moonrise Kingdom Scene review

The first shot in the this sequence of shots is a long shot with the cop car with an adult leaning on it placed on the left side, windmill centered extremely far off, and the scouts sporadically spread out in the field. This shot has everything spread and is showing the scouts looking for the two main characters. The field is extremely large suggesting finding a needle in a hay stack. The Lighting and cloud cover is gray and overcast giving the feeling that the search is not going to well. 

Next the father (Bill Murray) pops up and is centered in the picture as the shot becomes a mid shot with scouts off to the right and the police cars off to the left. Bill Murray looks lost and not sure what to do. The black eye is prevalent and it almost looks like he has no clue what is going reminding be of a boxer that has been hit and daised and confused.

The shot then tracks right as bill murray moves right murmuring about the batteries as the scout master and phone operator talking about Murray and how he hit his face some how in the dark last night. This again shows his wondering and aimlessly moving around while "searches" for his daughter. the shot is in-between mid to full shot with again the wind mill centered as the master and operator on the right quietly having their own conversation to me showing that murray is partly separated from the community. As normally people will just as how he got the black eye. 

As the shot tracks Murray the love triangle comes into place with Murray centered in the background almost over the shoulder of the the police officer and Murray's wife. This shot shows Murray still daised and depressed and then gets on smaller motor bike bring out the childish nature of Murray's. Its like he is reverting back what he knows almost like a mid life crisis as his wife is having an affair right in front of him. as he reverts back to being child he isnt mature enough to see what is happening right in his face.

Scene in Moonrise kingdom

This is a composition is taken at 1:05:52 in Moonrise-Kingdom which might be seen from what might be a trooper’s point of view of a long shot of this far in the movie might be the head quarters of the Khaki Troop. This mise en scene is broken down into three layers. A scout is sitting in a chair off to juxtaposed to the front and right of the tent that looks to be an elder of who is being shaved by a scout. This shows that he has some importance and might be the leader. In the second layer the tent and totem pole. The tent is centered and say Command tent, presumably is the leader of the regime Tent to operate out of. Along with this is the totem pole placed behind two men giving more of an idea that these men are important suggesting that they are the “high men on the totem pole”.  The next thing that is noticed is the fence in the background showing the name Fort Lebanon in prominence. Giving the viewer the name and that the fort is more important or just overall bigger due to troop 55 not having a name shown so prominent display. Next the order and neatness of how everything is organized and with nothing out of place gives hint that the troop is very well organized and precise. The tent is centered with the name of the camp centered right above, along with the 2 lamps and towers (not that but not sure what to call them) are placed equidistant from the center giving the place a strict no nonsense feel.

Wendy and Lucy accompanied with Awara

I believe that the film Wendy and Lucy would be best accompanied with Awara. The reason I think that these films are alike is due to the fact they are about class warfare and how that affects peoples point of view. The first main example of these compare how class warfare affects people point of view was how that Judge Raghunath believes that “good people are born to good people, and criminals are born to criminals” with how he convicts Jagga just because he in the lower class and his father was a criminal. Then Jagga uses the judge’s son to show how his belief and that class does not make the person. This mimics Wendy and Lucy with how the film takes a shot at jobs and the lower class where the Security Guard Wendy says “you can't get an address without an address. You can't get a job without a job.” This I believe has a shot at how capitalism has taken over and unless you are in the system you are out of luck. Another part of Wendy and Lucy that takes aim at the class differences, where when Wendy is caught shoplifting and taken to the management office by the clerk. He states that the “rules apply to everyone” and “if a person can’t afford dog food they shouldn’t have a dog”. This in my opinion was such an elitist attitude with how he makes a snap decision and becomes judge and jury. It seems like he thinks he is higher that Wendy and I believe showing the cross in plain view had something to do with showing the elitist/virtue attitude.

O Brother,Where Art Thou? with Odyssey theme

One of the main themes that I saw in O Brother,Where Art Thou? was the homage to Homer's Odyssey. This was done in multiple ways and they don't exactly follow what happened in Odyssey. The scene that I think that was done flawlessly, even if it doesn't perfectly align, is the Three Sirens. In the original the main character of Odyssey is the only one that hears the Sirens but in Brother,Where Art Thou? all three characters are lured by the singing of Sirens. And the way it plays homage to Odyssey is that the Sirens are near rocks which in Odyssey they lure the men to the rocks causing the sinking of their ships, where in this case it show cases the down fall of the men and losing their friend.

The scene begins with the trio in the car at 42:40 with Delmar picking at the banjo aimlessly. Then off screen singing begins that sound off in the distance. Pete looks off screen left suggesting the sound is coming from there. 42:46 Pete tells Delmar to stop to assumedly hear the sound better. Camera cuts to point of view shot from the car into what seems like a valley. 42:54 Pete reacts to seeing something and yells for the car to be pulled over. (I didn't see anything in the valley but could have missed what he saw). 43:00 cut to full shot with forest in the background suggesting back country area. Pete darts presumably toward sound while Delmar and Everett get out of the car. 43:10 cut to close up of pete running through bushes and stops, supposedly finding the source of the music which is soft and inviting. 43:13 cutaway to very wide shot of a river and the sirens near some rocks in the river with the singing amplified. 43:18 the main characters in wide shot of rocky river and cut back to wide shot of the sirens and finally showing they are the source of the music. 43:31 cut to mid shot pete introducing himself with Everett and Delmar. Multiple cuts to close ups of the Sirens to the trio showing them seduction beginning with singing continued. 44:51 the siren makes Everett drink alcohol showing even more of the downfall of the trio. 45.24 Cut to mid shot with sirens still singing and camera pans left to show the trio with the sirens. 45:30 a noticeable eerie music in the background maybe giving a precursor to the danger of the sirens

Avant-Garde cinema in My Own Private Idaho's

The scene I think that is Avant-Garde type of cinema in My Own Private Idaho is the where a stranger walks into a shop and some of the characters are on the front cover and begin to talk to each other. I mean something like this was on the Brady Bunch but to have the text of the magazines stay in place and as they move. It seems like some animation and certain cutting of film took place to make this scene possible. The scene begins at 17:34 where you see the camera starts at mid level building wise showing the name a shop. Given by the ad underneath the sign it seems to be an ad XXX shop. 17:35 the camera starts to tilt down giving a view of front of the shop and three people in front. Shows rough neighbor hood, kind of dark and dingy. Then at 17:40 the camera tracks to the right and down of the shop with the three people in view. The music is what I would call Indian music. As the shot lowers you see that the three people are in fact men and gives the impression it is a gay XXX shop. At 17:45 the sound of boots come in and is getting closer. At 17:50 a cowboy comes into full view and enters the shop. The camera flashes inside at 17:57 and a mid shot of the cowboy at his waste as he passes through to the back as the camera tracks him but slowly so that at the end he is in full view while flashing some magazines which could be important. At 18:11 we see Schott on one of the magazines and begins to talk about his experience as a model. This is also where we finally learn about Schott. At 18:49 Schott interacts with Mike on another magazine cover. The covers have at least mid shots. At 19:04 the effect comes into view, the actors on other magazines begin to interact teasing Schott about being able to come into money while all of the actors being in what looks like total different spots/magazines. The purpose of this scene seems to be to get the understanding that Schott has money and show more of the Gay culture.

Comparing Spoorloos to the Vanishing (1993)

When comparing the difference between the Vanishing (also known as Spoorloos) and the Vanishing (1993) one of the first comparisons is how the story line of the movie starts out. This is a big divider on why I think that which separates Spoorloos from the Vanishing. The storyline starts off with the couple in Spoorloos where as the Vanishing begins with the Chemist. The reason why Spoorloos’s beginning is more important to the storyline is because you become more attached to the couple, meeting them, going through a situation/experience with them and then make up. There for I think when the girl is kidnapped it’s more emotional for the audience and leads a better storyline. Whereas the Vanishing you see him testing his kidnapping skills. This leads into my next point about that Spoorloos has more mystique than the Vanishing due to the chemist is introduced into the story after meeting the couple and not knowing his true intent. We know that it is not a good intent just from the way his is portrayed, fake cast, unknown bottle, and following Saskia into the building. Then later finally show his actions and intent after you are full introduced to him. In the Vanishing you meet him right away and understand his intent right away. My final point for why Spoorloos is better is the Key chain. Yes it seems small but was very important to the movie. The Key chain in Spoorloos starts off as a conflict point because Saskia does not like the key chain and notices the Chemist and want to buy one because it has Rex initial. This seems legit. The language barrier makes the scene more interesting and what eventually causes the kidnapping. In the Vanishing it’s a random bracelet that his daughter made and Bullock notices and wants to buy one for Sutherland. That just seems random and doesn’t give a reason why Bullock would buy one other than he might like it.