movie review. Troy (2004) movie

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Troy (2004) movie

This movie, troy (2004), plays both the role of entertainment and statement making as portrayed in its content. Released in the US, in 2004, this movie attracted a large number of viewers worldwide. It enlightens on history of the old Greek myths and believes. This tries to explain events that occurred during the 1193 B.C and what led to these events for instance, in 1193 B.C, prince Paris of Troy, Orlando Bloom, kidnaps legendary beauty Helen from her husband, King Menelaus of Sparta, causing war eruption between the two kingdoms. From that event, the movie tries to give insight on the causes of war in ancient Greek. Love and the kidnapping of the Sparta queen was the main cause of war between Trojan forces and the Greeks and Achilles. The film is also entertaining the set pieces and costume use are appealing and beautiful, making one feel connected to the ancient world and their practises. The battles and war actions are also entertaining. The movie is action parked, making any action lover en joy watching it and instantly love it.

This film is more action and events it does not give the audiences a chance to connect with the characters in the film. Tradition and beliefs portray able in the film, for instance, the way the people dress shows their cultural beliefs. Their dressing code is not only traditional but also unique to them. In this film, it is upon the audience, to make a connection with the characters, figure out reasons behind certain actions among other things that the movie hides or does not bring out clearly. This whole movie is about battles and the foreshadowing of fate from the events witnessed in it.

Night of the Living Dead

According to many reviews, this movie is one of the best productions in the American film industry. It exhausts almost all areas perfectly: the film language, mise en scene, artistry, adaptation of other media, and subjective assessment definitions and usage show clearly.

Film language, though this film is an ancient production, the language displayed shows modernity. The effects and features of the movie show some modernity usage n them. The film displays rich work of horror cinema. It contextual purpose definition clearly manifest itself and by this and is highly recommended for Halloween viewing.

Mise en scene: this is the type of frame used, motion direction, editing techniques, and stylistic usage among other features. Frame used, the film mostly uses point of view frames, long shorts, and close up frames in most of its scenes. The angles of projection usage also include both high and low level angle projections depending on the scenes and background settings. Because of the western tradition the film uses right to left screen movement, this comes out perfectly.

The editing techniques in this film shows modernity use and good or well calculated editing hence the editing is excellent. The film shows use of visual poetry and poetic like conversations. The conversations are appealing and keep one attentive throughout the film. It also uses music and soundtracks in the film background this bring out the theme, mood, and atmosphere of the events taking place. For instance, on the night when the zombies attacked the sound track playing on the background signifies sad and dull mood.

Artistic style, this is the sum of constant, recurring, or coherent traits identified with a certain individual or group of people. It is one unique way of identification. In this film, the producer uses a combination of mediums, techniques, and subject matter, which works out positively for the production as the movie, hence its consideration as successful. Despite the movie being on a traditional set, the production brings out unflinching realism and pioneering penchant for unadulterated and gruesome distinct effects. It removes any trace of gloss and glamour, has comfortable resolution allowing the audience to have comfortable night sleeps. The costumes used however, do not concur with the theme and mood in the film. The production uses proper colour combinations to show the mood and the theme, in most scenes or background settings, darkness usage signify horror and fear. This works out well in fulfilling the film’s theme and mood since most of the time people associate darkness with fear. The zombies also attack mostly during the dark and most of the hide in dark areas.

Adaptation of another medium or historical, this film borrows the sound tracks and music used in it from the library of WRS studio. The production purchased most of music and sound effects used from capitol studio, none of them were an original composition for the movie.

Subjective assessment, the production team is successful in achieving their aim with the production of this movie. The film budget was 114000 US dollars, and it worldwide gross income was 30 000000 US Dollars according to box-office ratings. This shows that its reception was a success many people purchased the film. The hype it received from the media was overwhelming many people also criticised that film in terms of the contents. The critics claimed that the film contained x rated or explicit adult contents. Generally, the director of the film is successful. This is evident from the films achievement.