PARANORMAN

Today I will talk about two genres and a movie taking as the example of genre in this blog, which is 'PARANORMAN'.

HORROR

What is Horror film? Horror film Horror film is a genre that aims to create a sense of fear, panic, alarm, and dread for the audience. These films are often unsettling and rely on scaring the audience through a portrayal of their worst fears and nightmares. Horror films usually center on the arrival of an evil force, person, or event. Many Horror films include mythical creatures such as ghosts, vampires, and zombies. Traditionally, Horror films incorporate a large amount of violence and gore into the plot. Though it has its own style, Horror film often overlaps into Fantasy, Thriller, and Science-Fiction genres.

First of the example of horror in this movie 'PARANORMAN', in drama class Norman has been cast as a pilgrim in the school play, which tells the story of the Blithe Hollow Witch who killed seven puritan settlers before being hanged from a tree. During the rehearsal, Norman's mind drifts and in his mind he watches as the class-stage begins burning away and ghostly faces appear all around him.

Second example of horror is at school, Norman runs into the bathroom and shuts himself in a stall, unaware that Alvin is occupying the stall next to his. Norman has a vision of the stall coming to life: the toilet overflows, the tiled walls ripple in waves, the walls close in on him. Alvin intently listens to Norman's frightened yelps. Norman crawls up onto the tank and is surprised as the toilet seat flips open, revealing the ghost of Mr. Prenderghast within. His ghost leaps from the bowl and floats before Norman. He catches Norman up-to-speed. He tells him that every year for the last three centuries someone in Blithe Hollow has had the ability to communicate with the dead, and that on the same night every year that person has been tasked with going to the grave of the Blithe Hollow Witch and reading a book aloud. Mr. Prenderghast has been doing it for years, and was going to do it tonight, but died before he could do it. Since Norman is the only other "dead-speaker" in town, the task has fallen to him. The book is at Mr. Prederghast's house, in his dead body's hands. Norman must go and retrieve the book and read it at the Witch's grave or all hell will break loose.

The third example of horror is after a lengthy trek, he comes to the burial site where he sees 7 gravestones arranged in a circle. With the sun quickly setting Norman opens the book and begins to read aloud. To his surprise the book is nothing more than a fairy tale -- Sleeping Beauty, but nothing out of the ordinary. Alvin arrives and bully Norman thought his book. Norman tries to take the book back, to complete the mission, but the sun fully sets and the ground begins to quake. Dark clouds, with green lightning, erupt over the cemetery. One-by-one the tombstones crack and their occupants, 7 of them, awaken. The zombies circle the pair of them and Norman, able to speak with the dead, overhears the most prominent of the seven say "STOP!" Alvin freaks out and the two flee the cemetery.

The forth example of horror is Neil, Mitch and Courtney get into Mitch's van to find Norman. As they speed along the rural road en route to the cemetery they nearly hit Norman and Alvin who emerge from the woods with the Zombies hot on their tail, and Mitch, distracted by Norman and Alvin, suddenly flattens a man standing in the road. Mitch exits the van and inspects the body. He quickly discovers that it's the Zombie leader and punts his head into the woods. The van is surrounded by Zombies and Mitch steps on it, unaware that the leader has latched himself to the back of the speeding van. The group frantically speeds through town, nearly running over a motorcycle cop, Sheriff Hooper (Tempestt Bledsoe), who turns around and pursues the van. The high-speed chase comes to a stop when the van veers off the main road, rolls down an embankment, and miraculously lands in a parking space without killing anybody. The Zombie leader, in pieces, follows after them.

The fifth example of horror is the townspeople, who have congregated in the town center are prepared to storm the Town Hall to kill the Zombies, but their plans are foiled as the children slowly exit the building, guarding the Zombies behind them.

Norman tells them that the Zombies mean them no harm and that they are afraid of them. The ghostly clouds swirl above them and send down lightning which shatters the bronze Witch statue at the center of the square. The ominous clouds cackle with hatred. The townspeople see the error of their ways and allow the lead Zombie to take Norman to the Witch's grave. Norman's parents drive Norman, Courtney, and the lead Zombie to the edge of the forest and carefully make their way into the woods. The trees crack and explode ahead of them, barring all but Norman from entering the forest.

At its center Norman sees the young girl from his vision, Aggie (Jodelle Ferland), only glowing bright yellow with violent electricity coursing through her. She is next to the tree from which she was hanged. Norman attempts to approach her, but she blocks his every attempt. First she sends sharp roots up out of the ground at Norman and then she tears the ground apart, sending large chunks of it hundreds of feet in the air, with Norman upon them. Norman leaps toward her and extends his hand to meet hers.

The sixth example  of  horror is the dark, swirling, evil clouds appear over the town square, and an evil Witch-like face materializes within them. Green lightning bolts rain down on Norman, and one nearly misses Norman, hitting the leather-bound book instead, frying it.

Comedy

What is comedy film in the genre? Comedy is a genre of film that uses humor as a driving force. The aim of a comedy film is to illicit laughter from the audience through entertaining stories and characters. Although the comedy film may take on some serious material, most have a happy ending. Comedy film has the tendency to become a hybrid sub-genre because humor can be incorporated into many other genres. Comedies are more likely than other films to fall back on the success and popularity of an individual star.

First example of comedy in this movie is Mr. Prenderghast returns to his dilapidated home, enters his bedroom, and grabs a strange leather-bound book from his desk. As he turns to leave and his soul come out from his body but return back to his body and said 'he can not die so fast at this time'. However, he suddenly die and his soul cant return back to his body, with the book firmly in his hands. His spirit leaves his body, and the frustrated and now dead Mr. Prenderghast realizes that he is a ghost, and has a mission to accomplish before he can move on to Paradise.

The second example is when zombies come to the town, there is a town man is vending machine to buy food. He had put in the money and the food is turning out.

Suddenly, there are some zombies coming to the man, he was nervous and dont know what should he do, he waiting the food drop down from machine but he see the zombies were coming. When zombies arrives the man there, the man run away but the food had dropped out.

However, the man run back to take it and run away with shouting.

Conclusion

As a conclusion, there are few genres in this 'PARANORMAN' movie such as horror, comedy, teens film and action. However, I had give two example of horror and comedy. The target audience of this film is teenagers between 13-19 years old because this age of teenagers is turn into the rebellious period. Therefore, this is a good example of film to teenagers.

ZOMBIELAND- ROMANCE

What is romance film? The romance film defined as a genre where the plot revolves around the love between two main characters as they endure the highs and lows of love.

In this Zombieland film, there are several scene are consider romance.

Firstly, the romances that occur are between Columbus and his hot neighbor 406. When the nation is viral outbreak and dystonia, Columbus didn’t plan to leave his dorm, but the night the epidemic began, Columbus was sitting around when his hot neighbor “406” started knocking on his door. He opened the door and 406 (Amber Heard) tells him about the “crazy psycho” who tried to take a bite out of her. Columbus gives her some Mountain Dew and lets her rest on his couch.

They fall asleep together. Thus, this was a romance scene between Columbus and his hot neighbor 406.

 Besides that, there are several romance scene between Columbus and Wichita. For example, when they stops at an out of the way Native Indian store. They look around and then trash the store in order to entertain themselves. Columbus puts on a bit of cologne in order to attract Wichita. He thought that maybe Wichita like this cologne smells. When they group leaves, Wichita points out that Columbus smells like perfume. 

The second romance scene between Columbus and Wichita are while Wichita was driving and Tallahassee and Little Rock sleep, Wichita apologizes for her insensitivity to Columbus. Wichita drives the car back to the old car that they abandoned on the side of the road in order to let Columbus can drive back to his East town for finding his parents. However, Columbus decided to stay because Wichita is someone he has always wanted to be with. They smile to each other because they seem like don't let each other leave alone and cannot without you in this moment. 

The third romance scene between Columbus and Wichita are they alone together in a room. Wichita and Columbus get drunk and dance together. When they are dancing together, they were about to kiss.

However, Tallahassee had unintentional disturb them and coming in asking for help. Wichita tells Columbus that she and her sister will do anything to survive.

The forth romance scene between Columbus and Wichita are no matter how was Wichita cast away from them, Columbus still decided follow Wichita to go the Pacific theme park and find her. This scene was proved that love is blind. Tallahassee was not agree it in the beginning, but when Tallahassee saw Columbus keep persistent attitude, he also decided go to Pacific theme park with Columbus. 

The last romance scene between Columbus and Wichita are when Columbus saw Wichita and Little Rock are in dangerous, he risked his life to rescue them. How he was risked his life to rescue them? First, Columbus is chased by zombies through a haunted house but escapes. Another is Columbus about to reach Wichita and Little Rock when he runs into a giant zombie clown.

When he saw the clown, he decided to break his rules which is 'don't be a hero' changing to 'be a hero'.  

 He notes the irony in the situation and proceeds to beat it to death and rescue Wichita and Little Rock.

After rescue them, Columbus put her hair away initiative kissed Wichita, and Wichita told her a real name to Columbus.

ZOMBIELAND

What is classic Hollywood? Classic Hollywood is a term denoting a group style associated with fiction films made under the Hollywood studio system between approximately 1930 and 1960, and defined by certain recurrent features of narrative, narration, and visual style. Above all, the films made the telling of a story the primary concern, through a commitment to unity, comprehensibility, and clarity, especially in relation to the construction of time and space in films. There are four elements of narrative structure in Classic Hollywood such as cause and effect logic, plots and story, character motivation and lastly is closure and resolution. The elements of cause and effect logic is one of the actor cause another actor to another scene, and this actor is effect by previous actor. The elements of plots is the audience can see the actors act in the scene whereas story is when the audience see this scene, they wanted to feel it and imagine by themselves. The elements of character motivation is a character may be the driving force in a narrative, motivating the film’s cause effect relationship, pushing the film’s events forward by desires. The elements of closure and resolution has three stages, which are the beginning, the middle and the end. The beginning is an introduction is set up for familiarization, the middle is the introduced plots then transits into various directions and the end is the plots are tied up, narrowing all developments to a climax for the film’s end, the resolution.

Today I had watched a movie produced from Hollywood which is ' Zombieland". At the beginning, the Narrator, Columbus starts by telling us about how the plague began. In the present, Columbus survives following a set of rule at a gas station. The next morning, Columbus is travelling down an abandoned highway. Columbus and the driver, Tallahassee were know each other at the highway. Tallahassee agrees to take Columbus as far east as the next town but notes that their personalities clash. On the next town, they reached a market.

At that market, they saw Wichita. Wichita tells them to come quick since her little sister, Little Rock, has been bitten.However, they lie Columbus and Tallahassee and steal their car run away. Columbus and Tallahassee had found another car to continue their journey.

Suddenly, they saw their car that steal by Wichita and her sister had abandoned at road side. However, they were in the trap and the trap was created by the twins sister again.

Then, they were grouping to beginning again with their journey. Tallahassee drives the group into Hollywood and they tour the celebrity mansions who is Bill Murray. Bill Murray dress up zombies and scare them. However, Columbus thought he is real zombies and shot him. Thus, Bill Murray had dead. The next morning, Wichita and Little Rock drive the car away again. Wichita and her sister was going to theme park. When they turn on the all the power and everything in the park turns on and lights up, the noise and lights had attracts zombies from the surrounding area. The girls manage to get to temporary safety atop one of the rides. As zombies start climbing up to get them, Tallahassee and Columbus arrives. Tallahassee lures the zombies away from the girls and sends Columbus to rescue them. Tallahassee is forced to retreat to a carnie prize kiosk for his last stand with only two pistol and four extra clips. Columbus is about to reach the girls when he runs into a giant zombie clown. He notes the irony in the situation and proceeds to beat it to death and rescue the girls. In the end, all the zombies in the park are dead and the group is safely reunited.

There are three elements of narrative structure in this move. First of the elements of narrative structure is cause and effect logic.

For example, Columbus is the first character appear in the movie. After that, Columbus is travelling down an abandoned highway and meet Tallahassee. Their destination are same which is went to east. On the way of their journey, they meet Wichita and her sister, Little Rock. Wichita and her sister wanted go to a theme park but their destination also at east. At the end, their destination is the theme park that Wichita and her sister wanted to go. At the theme park, they fighted zombies together. In the end, all the zombies in the park are dead and the group is safely reunited.

The second elements of narrative structure is plots and story.

For example of the story, Columbus and Wichita are love each other but each other did not have take any action. One night, Wichita and Columbus get drunk together and dance. Wichita tells Columbus that she would totally "hit that" when she thinks about whether or not they should sleep together.

Example of the plots, Columbus break his rules when Columbus faces and dispatches the ultimate fear: a zombie clown. He break his rules and the rules become 'be a hero'. He notes the irony in the situation and proceeds to beat it to death and rescue the girls. Wichita embraces Columbus and tells him her real name. Her name is Krystal.

The third elements of narrative structure is closure and resolution.

At the beginning, the Narrator, Columbus starts by telling us about how the plague began. In the present, Columbus survives following a set of rule. In the middle, Columbus meet Tallahassee, Wichita and Little Rock. Their destination was at east but different places. Wichita and Little Rock had drive away their car for two times. In the end, they fighted with zombies in the theme park. Tallahassee lures the zombies away from the girls and sends Columbus to rescue them. 

Tallahassee is forced to retreat to a carnie prize kiosk for his last stand with only two pistol and four extra clips. Columbus is about to reach the girls when he runs into a giant zombie clown. He notes the irony in the situation and proceeds to beat it to death and rescue the girls.


In conclusion, this movie was belongs to classic movie and it consider horror movie. There are three elements of narrative structure such as cause and effect logic, plots and story and closure and resolution. In my opinion, this movie was funny and little horror because the zombies was appear more in the beginning and in the end in this movie. Thus, it was more funny than horror.

However, I was like the character, Tallahassee because he was very brave and does not scare the zombies. Especially in the theme park, he want Columbus go to rescue the girls then he lures the zombies away from the girls.

REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

Synopsis of Requiem For A Dream

Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr., this gritty drama concerns four people trapped by their addictions. Harry (Jared Leto), and his best friend Tyrone (Marion Wayans) are impoverished heroin addicts living in Coney Island, NY, while Harry's girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) is a fellow addict trying to distance herself from her wealthy father. Harry dreams of scoring a pound of smack, from which he could make enough money to open a clothing boutique with Marion, but so far he and his friends can barely scrape by supporting their own habits. Meanwhile, Harry's mother Sara (Ellen Burstyn), who spends her days watching television, is told she has the opportunity to appear on her favorite game show; wanting to lose enough weight to fit into her favorite red dress, she visits a sleazy doctor who gives her a prescription for amphetamines. Soon Sara has a drug habit of her own that is spiraling out of control. 

During the Fall, all characters fall into depression as there's no more heroin in Brooklyn. Marion out of cash and in need for drugs, decides to become a prostitute to satisfied her addiction. Harry and Tyrone drive away together to Florida, and on the way Tyrone notices Harry's horribly infected arm. They go to a hospital, but as Tyrone waits outside for Harry, the police walks in and they get arrested. Mrs. Goldfarb becomes addicted to speed, and subsequently looses her sanity for not receiving a letter from her favorite show. She arrives at the TV station, skinny, pale and in poor health, and kindly asks to be on TV in front of the shocked workers. They call the police, and they take her to the hospital, where she is bound in a vest and is forced to eat. In the meantime, Marion arrives at her dealer's house, and is promised to receive a baggie of heroin as soon as she'll take a part in a violent, lesbian sexual act, in front of dozens of viewers. At that time, the wardens in prison notice Harry's infected arm and send him to the hospital. At Brooklyn, Mrs. Goldfarb's health doesn't allow her to eat, and she signs on a contract for using unconventional tools on her. In a dreadful, horrifying ending montage, Mrs. Goldfarb receives Electric Shock Therapy and agonizes in pain while doing so, Harry's arm is amputated. Marion engages in the lesbian sexual act and Tyrone is doing community jobs in prison. We then see Marion in her apartment, satisfied with her bag of heroin; two friends visit Mrs. Goldfarb at the hospital, and they later cry as they see her skinny as a stick and pale; Tyrone agonizes in his bed, having a hard time without in prison his drugs and remembering his loving, lost mother; and eventually, Harry lying alone in the hospital without his left arm, dreaming about the lost woman in red on the docks and his shattered dreams as he fantasizes about him falling from a roof.

The scene of Requiem For A Dream that I liked.

First of the scene that I liked it is Sara buys back the television set, as she has done many times before, from pawnshop owner Mr. Rabinowitz, who suggests that Sara ask the police for help with her son. Sara refuses, explaining that Harry is all that she has. This is show that how Sara was love him and take care of him, no matter how many times he son steal her television and buy drugs.

Besides that, I also liked that When Sara discovers she is too plump to fit into the dress, her friend helps her start a strict diet and Sara becomes obsessed with all the foods that she is now forbidden to eat. This was also show their friendship goals between Sara and her friend. Moreover, the scene that I also liked it is the power of love between Harry and Marion. Harry was support and encouragement from Harry to open her own clothing design business. Therefore, he and one of his friend, Tyrone sell the heroin and use part of the huge profits to finance Marion's clothing business.

Lastly, the scene that I like it and let me feeling touching is Harry, happy that he might finally be on his way to a satisfying life, visits his mother and apologizes for his past behavior. At her apartment, he notices that Sara is gaunt and grinding her teeth, and asks if she is on drugs. Sara admits to taking diet pills, but, claiming that she has no reason to live without a husband or son to look after, refuses to give up the one thing that makes her feel good and helps her lose weight. Harry begs her to quit, knowing from experience how drugs can destroy her life, but she demurs.

The Scene of Requiem for a dream that I disliked 

First of the scene that I dislike it is Harry steal Sara television and buy drugs. After that, Harry and his friend, Tyrone C. Love, "get high" on the drugs. In this scene, they use close shot to expression drug of abuse.

Besides that, the scene that I also disliked it is When Sara's cravings become overwhelming, she gets a diet pill prescription from an unscrupulous physician and returns home, scoffing at the refrigerator, the symbol of her cravings. The pills make her frenetic, and as she cleans and rearranges her entire household, she begins to fidget and sweat profusely. Meanwhile, the effect of the diet pills is dwindling for Sara and she increases her dosage, causing her to hallucinate that she is actually on the game show. In her mind, the show's host appears in her apartment with the glamorous television version of Sara and they criticize and laugh at the real Sara along with the television audience. Suddenly the walls break apart, revealing that her entire apartment is a television set. Everyone then parades around her reclining chair, chanting "feed me Sara, feed me Sara." Sara, disheveled and unkept, flees the apartment and takes the subway to Malin and Block, the company that promised her a television appearance. There, she demands to know why they have not called her. The office personnel, certain that Sara is mentally ill, call the police, who take her to a psychiatric ward. 

In the psychiatric ward, Sara, completely incapable of communicating, fails to respond to the hospital attendants' attempts to force-feed her, and so the doctor orders electric shock treatment. This scene of the use of camera was turn around many times and the light was keeping flash, let people dizzy and confuse. 

Conclusion

This ranks up there as one of the three most powerful movies I have ever seen in my lifetime. This movie shows the brutal honest side of addiction and over-indulgence. Not just drugs, although it heavily shows drug addiction. Also shows how one addiction can lead to another and how damaging it can be for you. The acting is wonderful - Ellyn Burnstyn and Jenniffer Connely are just wonderful in this movie, and Marlon Wayons was such a shocker in a serious role. All of the characters have drugs (the bad kind) affect their lives, which eventually take over their lives. The movie documents how for each of the 4 people are effected and eroded by drugs. The look of the film is extremely stylized, but justifiably so. Aronofsky uses surreal imagery as a vehicle for realism, something that really works when done well, and done well it was. By using a combination of slow and fast motion shots, extreme close-ups and more edits than you can shake a stick at, Aronofsky successfully brings the audience into the world and mind of someone with a drug problem. The audience visually experiences first-hand what it is like to be 'scared' or 'high'. Therefore, drugs will let you get in trouble and affect your life forever.