The Good ,the Bad and the Ugly

This is a Spaghetti Western film made in 1966. This movie portrays most of what the "Western" genre is all about. So if you are curious about which movie would best depict the "Western" genre, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly does the best job of it. What is odd about the movie is that it was made as satire of Western movies and yet it is rated best in the Western genre. I would personally give this movie an 8 out of 10 stars. It was very slow paced at times which is probably why many would rate it poorly, but I thought it was entertaining to watch.

One of the main actors in the film is Clint Eastwood who plays as "The Good" or "Blondie". At certain times in the movie it is difficult to put blondie as being good or bad. In the beginning, we see him capturing a crook or "The Ugly" to collect bounty money. Then later as "The Ugly" is about to be hanged he shoots the rope to free the crook. The two of them sceme to collect more bounty money which seems very snide and not a "good" act. The second time Tuco is freed blondie leaves him in the desert and gives him no money which is yet again another not so "good" act. He has the most good than the other two characters.

Tuco or "The Ugly" scemes to get revenge on blondie. He manages to get a revolver and a group of three men which he promises to give them money in return for their service. The three men get shot by blondie and Tuco enters through the window in surprise and captures blondie. "There are two kinds of spurs, my friend. Those that come in by the door; those that come in by the window" -Tuco.

Nevertheless as blondie is about to be hanged a cannon saves him.
The third character in the film is "The Bad" or Angel Eyes. Personally, the first time I saw him I could tell he was evil. What with his mustache and evil eyes. Very ironic is that he would be called Angel Eyes and he is no such angel. His bad acts range from beating women to plotting to get the buried money from Bill Carson. Every act he does seems sneaky and untrustworthy. "Oh I almost forgot. He payed me a thousand. I think his idea was that I kill you" -Angel Eyes.

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The Shawshank Redemption

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My Top Ten Movies

1) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
2) To Kill a Mockingbird
3) The Shawshank Redemption
4) Caddy Shack
5) V for Vendetta
6) Citizen Kane
7) The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
8) The Dark Night
9) Halloween
10) The Kid

Rating Scale

My rating scale is based on a 10 point scale.
A movie getting a 10 means the movie is best all around based on acting and quality.
A score of 9 means it is very close to being the best.
A score of 8 is still a really good movie but could have been better.
A score of 7 means about an average movie.
A score of 6 is a little better than the worst movie.
A score of 5 or less means it is a poorly made movie.

The Simpsons Movie

Satire:
Hey everybody, I found one! The government actually found someone we're looking for! YEAH, BABY, YEAH! -NSA worker

Hello, I'm Tom Hanks. The US Government has lost its credibility so it's borrowing some of mine.
-Tom Hanks

I was elected to *lead*, not to *read*. Number Three! -President Schwartzenegger
 Stop, in the name of American squeamishness! -Chief Wiggum
Freedom and justise for most. (written on a banner)
Irony:
If you can find a greasier sandwich, you're in Mexico! -Krusty the Clown
Black? That's the worst color there is. -Lenny
Smithers...I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it, it might cheer me up to watch. -Montgomery Burns

I've spent my entire life doing nothing but collecting comic books... and now there's only time to say...LIFE WELL SPENT! -Comic Book Guy
This book doesn't have any answers! -Homer
Puns:
How ya doin'? Peace be with you. Praise Jebus. -Homer Simpson

"Harry Plopper"

"Nome sweet nome"
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The Graduate

Personal Rating Scale: Very funny and well acted. I would give this movie a 9 out of 10 stars.

Mike Nichols directed the The Graduate in 1967 and gives good insight to what life was like in the 1960s. The genre of The Graduate is a comedy/ romance.  "Ben, this whole idea sounds pretty half-baked."- Mr. Robinson. "Oh, it's not. It's completely baked." - Ben. I thought this quote was hilarious and it has a sort of double meaning to it. Ben's plan to marry Elain seemed half thought out and the reason he chooses "half-baked" instead of anything else shows how common smoking was in the 1960s.
The 1960s were also a time when people didn't respect marriage as much as it should be. The quote on the right picture is an example of how the 1960s were. The general attitude in the 1960s was very lax and a time of rebeling. Rebeling against almost anything ranging from your parents to the government.

"Oh no, Mrs. Robinson. I think, I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends. I mean that." -Ben
The acting was hilarious especially by Dustin Hoffman who acted out Ben Braddock. Many quotes by Ben including the one above really keeps the viewer wanting to see what he will say next. Ben has a socially awkward personality and often said things that didn't necessarily fit in.

The movie ends on a funny, happy note. Ben finds Elain at the church and begs her to come to him. Elain, makes a rather rash decision, and chooses to run after him out of the church. They get on a bus unsure of were it will lead, unsure of were their lives will go next, but they knew one thing for sure that they would go together.


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Psycho

Personal Rating Scale: I would give this movie an 8 out of ten 10 stars. The film was exciting to watch because one never knew when someone would get killed. I would advice not having the music too loud the first time viewing; it startled many of us especially the second stabbing.
Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock is an American black and white horror movie produced in 1960. Alfred Hitchcock was unique in his directing. I personally enjoyed the film because it was quite unpredictable. I knew as I was watching that Norman Bates was an odd character and was probably somehow involved in the killing. "Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies" (Norman Bates). If no one went to his hotel, why would he keep it running? He was a psycho. He was very attached to his mother and in his mind he acted out both himself and his mother. When his mother's side would take over, she would become an overprotective mother and kill people. The reason she (actually Norman Bates) killed Marion was because Norman felt attracted to her and Norman's mother side did not like that.

Another aspect of the movie was how the main character in the beginning of the movie had suddenly died as she was taking a shower. It was so unexpected because in almost all movies the main character, or the character that the camera is mostly on, doesn't suddenly die in the middle of the movie. It was very unexpected and it left the rest of the movie more entertaining to watch and try to figure out the mystery on who was behind the killing.
Another interesting thought is how minor the thievery of forty thousand dollars seemed compared to Norman Bates and his psycho brain. The beginning and the thievery and run away of Marion could have been its own movie without Norman Bates. It was kind of like a story in a story. I was expecting the movie to end with Marion trying to resolve her crime and return to Phoenix. She never had the chance to. "And the forty thousand dollars? Who got that?" ( Sheriff Al Chambers).

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Ben Hur

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Citzen Kane

Personal Rating Scale: I would give this film a 7 out of 10 star. The film was entertaining to watch because it kept the viewer trying to find the missing pieces to the film such as the meaning of “Rosebud”.

Citizen Kane directed by and starring Orson Welles, is a drama/mystery that came out in 1941.The movie contains a lot of symbolism and shows viewers that a man can waste his life trying to regain his childhood. Citizen Kane is chosen by critics as their number one choice. As I watched the movie, I had the question in the back of my mind: Why do critics choose it as their number one choice? I think the reason critics like it so much is because of how the movie was told. The movie was basically a bunch of reporters interviewing people looking for the meaning of the word “Rosebud”. It was not just one person’s view on who Mr. Kane was but it was of many people’s views. The movie tells a lesson, shows symbolism, and is told in a different way than most movies.

The movie begins and viewers are immediately shown the death of an extremely wealthy man named Charles Foster Kane. As the movie continues, I was not in question of how he died but I wanted to know who he was. Early on in the movie, viewers see Kane taken from his parents. The movie continues on showing how he amassed all of his wealth as a newspaper tycoon. Mr. Kane was never interested in money. His ambitions in life were to regain what he lost from his childhood.

The symbol of rosebud is shown at the end of the movie and it reveals that the name of the sled from his childhood. He was taken away from that sled and his parents at a young age and was constantly struggling to obtain it throughout his life. This struggle led to many selfish acts. He was a man who believed in equality and he wanted to help the poor people. The thing that destroyed him was he wouldn’t carry his beliefs out and never gave anything away. He only looked to buy things for people so they would give him their love.

Memorable Quotes:

“Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Switzerland... he was thrown out of a lot of colleges.” –Bernstein

“You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.” –Charles Foster Kane

”You're right; I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars *next* year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... 60 years. -Charles Foster Kane

“He happens to be the president, Charles, not you.” –Emily

“Love! You don't love anybody! Me or anybody else! You want to be loved - that's all you want! I'm Charles Foster Kane. Whatever you want - just name it and it's yours! Only love me! Don't expect me to love you.” –Susan Alexander

“You don't care about anything except you. You just want to persuade people that you love 'em so much that they ought to love you back. Only you want love on your own terms. Something to be played your way, according to your rules.” –Leland

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Gone With The Wind

Personal Rating Scale: I would give this movie a 7 star out of 10. It is a great American movie but is rather boring at times.

            Gone with the wind, directed by Victor Fleming, is a movie about the civil war in the point of view of the South. The best guess for the movie’s genre is a classic, drama, and romantic. This movie makes the North, or the Yankees, look like the “bad “guys. It shows how tough it was to live in the South at the time of the Civil War largely because it was where most of the fighting was. This movie had good characters, exciting rising action and climax, and was an extravagant movie that showed the Civil War in the eyes of the South.

As seen in Gone with the Wind, the protagonist Scarlett deals with many hardships. She struggles with hunger and swears she will never be hungry again. “As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again” (Spark notes Editors). This quote by Scarlett reveals that she is lacking hunger during the Civil War. Other main characters include Ashley, who Scarlett loves at first, and Rhett Butler who she loves at the end.

The rising action in the first part of the movie is Scarlett having to confront the fact that the man she loves, Ashley, is married to someone else. Not only that, but the Civil War was starting. The climax being Scarlett returning to Tara finding her mother dead and her planation looted. The falling action is Scarlett swearing she will never go hungry again.

In part two, Scarlett begins to rebuild Tara and had a troublesome relationship with Rhett Butler. The climax in part two is Scarlett finally realizing she loves Rhett Butler and she rushes home to tell him. A famous quote by Rhett Butler: “My dear, I don’t give a damn” (Spark notes Editors).He says this after Scarlett tells him of her love but Rhett is so sick of how she treats that he doesn’t care. The movie ends and Scarlett starts to think of ways to get him back.

This movie definitely showed how difficult it was for the South during the Civil War. Once the South got past their negligence and ignorance about slavery and came back to the Union, America grew stronger. Gone with the Wind is a great mark of American History.

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