Critical Insight:
From
silent to voiced, from black and white to colorful, from film to digital, from
2-dimensional to 3-dimensional, movies, as the production of social development,
have been evolved for a long time. It impacts people’s emotions, lets people
learn to deeply think about their lives, and influences development of humans’
culture.
In
general, a movie shows an unreal story, but it reflects a real life and an
actual world. In Titanic, people find out the holy promise of love. In The Shawshank
Redemption, people understand that the light of hope will eventually come if
they do not lose hope. In Grave of the Fireflies, people feel the cruelty of the
World War 2. Movies have become the nourishment for people’s minds.
Broadly,
movies are humans’ economic, technological, and cultural
productions; it reflects actual social situations, such as historical, political,
racial, national, interpersonal, and emotional problems. For example, in many
White’s movies, Blacks are always the supporting actors and the bad guys. As
Tyler Perry’s Money Machine says, “black characters exist solely to teach
valuable lessons to white characters.” It relates to the Oscar that all 20
actors who were nominated were all White in 2015 and 2016. Therefore, many
Black movies won the Oscar in 2017 because they wanted to prove they were not
racism. However, this thinking and result obviously prove that they are
actually racism. For another instance, movies are a tool to make money for big
movie companies. In order to beat their commercial opponents and earn more and
more money, big companies use many methods of commerce war, such as purchasing
the small companies and studios, advertising its movie anywhere, employing
famous stars, having the best special effects, and belittling opponents’
movies. Therefore, in fact, the bad movies that are made by big companies can
get more box office than the good movies that are made by small companies. This
is the law of the jungle: the Weak are the prey of the Strong. It also relates
to Maltin’s Movie Treasures That Time Forgot; it is unfortunate for people that
they miss the good movies that they will never watch.
Movies,
which have become a common and popular entertainment, have become a part of
people’s daily lives. Movies have also become a cultural and artistic medium
for transmitting thoughts and feelings to common people.
Aha:
Actually, I am
not very interested in watching movie, so I am not care about movie news.
Therefore, when I heard that Disney purchased Pixar, it soon reminds me that Tencent,
which is one of the biggest companies in China, always like to purchase the
small companies in order to become stronger and stronger. The most famous trade
is that Tencent purchased Riot which created the most popular online game, League
of Legends. Tencent is also the developer of Wechat and QQ which are the most
popular social media for Chinese. Therefore, Tencent almost rules the Chinese
Game market. What Tencent has done is the same as What Hollywood has done. When
some companies create new types and systems of a game, Tencent immediately copies
them. Once some production teams and companies achieve big successes, Tencent
will soon purchase them. These ways make more and more players not have chance
to play the good and original games and seriously affect the development of
games. I think that the commercial war is anywhere, whatever they are movies or
games. However, the bad competition of marketing will destroy the quality and
culture of movies and games.
Bumper Sticker:
Movies,
which have already become a specific culture in humans’ societies, reflect the actual
world from various aspects.
I didn’t know that:
I think
almost all the principles and the reasons I have already known because they are
the basic rules of the development for the society and the world. Maybe, it let
me know more about terms, information and knowledge about movies, like the
Genre. However, I do not like watching movies, and I am not interested in
sharing my senses and thoughts to others after I watch a movie. Until today, I think
that I just watched no more than 25 movies. I also will not be attracted by the
movies which are created by famous companies and directors or have all-star cast.
I just choose the movies for watching by my feelings and moods.
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