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Weekly Mini-Review: Death Wish (1974)
Story: After hoodlums attack his wife and daughter, a man goes on a vigilante killing spree to reduce the number of violent criminals on the streets of New York. Review: The first, and possibly the least gratuitously (and graphically) violent, … Continue reading
Posted in Review
Tagged 70s, Action movie, antihero, Charles Bronson, Critical Analysis, movie, movie review, Movies
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The Spontaneous Precipitation of Fairy Tale Rip offs
At first the sudden appearance TV shows like Grimm and Once Upon a Time seemed fallout from the not one but two movies about Snow White made in the last year or so. But that was only the beginning. Now … Continue reading
Posted in Comparative Analysis, List, Trend-Spotting
Tagged antihero, Antiheroes, Critical Analysis, Critical essay, Disney, Fairytale, film, Film Theory, industry, Screenwriting, television, TV, Vampires
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Socio-Political Symbolism in Dracula
Robert Sklar said the horror movies of the 1930s, like the 1931 film Dracula, expressed the public’s “fear for the survival their society and pleasure at seeing someone… vent his rage at it” (179). Rather than venting rage, one could suppose that it was more along the premise of seizing personal power over society Continue reading
Posted in Comparative Analysis
Tagged antihero, Bela Lugosi, Critical Analysis, Critical essay, Dracula, film, film noir, film student, Film Theory, Mythology, Screenwriting, Thriller, Vampires
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The Original Version Was Better!
After having recently watched the new versions of Day the Earth Stood Still and Sleepy Hollow, I started thinking about remakes. When is it worthwhile to do a remake? In my own opinion, it’s worth remaking a film if it … Continue reading