Hey Guys,
Just a quick update of what's to come. I've posted up a review and my thoughts of paddy Considines debut film 'Tyrannosaur' so check it out!
I will also be writing a piece on 'Dog Day Afternoon' Starring Al Pacino and John Cazale. If you have a copy of it I suggest you give it a watch so you can relate to some of my points that will be mentioned.
Also will be posting a couple of thoughts about Action movies over the past 20-30 years and how and why they've changed so much.
I hope your enjoying my blog and your taking some stuff away from it. Keep checking it out and tell your friends about it.
Cheers guys,
Matt.
Tuesday 2 October 2012
Tyrannosaur Review
*Spoiler Alert*
Tyrannosaur... Wow. Really don't no where to start with this but here it goes anyway...
Tyrannosaur is a directorial debut film written and directed by actor Paddy Considine, Most famous for roles in films such as 'Dead Mans Shoes' , 'Submarine' and also Hollywood pictures such as 'The Bourne Ultimatum' . The film also stars actor Peter Mullan who has starred in films such as 'Trainspotting' and 'War Horse' as the lead role,Joseph. The film also stars Olivia Coleman (Hot Fuzz) as Hannah and Eddie Marsan (Sherlock Holmes).
The film itself is a feature length production inspired by Paddy considines own life experiences.The film started out as a short film called 'Dog Altogether' and then Considine decided to turn it into a feature length.The film is set in a place that is meant to resemble Considines place of growing up (Winshill), having family from there that also grew up there and also having a few experiences there myself I knew I could relate to the place set. The film itself is shot in Leeds, West Yorkshire but does resemble the place that Considine is trying to show.
The film is about a man called Joseph, a man plagued by violence and range on the verge of self destruction. He meets a good willing Christian charity shop worker named Hannah by chance who gives him a chance of redemption.
The character Joseph goes on a journey in the film,emotionally. The film starts with him walking out the bookies having lost a bet and he takes his anger out on his beloved pet dog beating it to death. Having done so he instantly shows regret and we instantly no that he can't control his actions or his rage and through this has driven people around him away. As the film progresses we know how bad this characters life is, he lives on his own and the only people he talks too are the boy across the street aged about ten called Samuel and his friend tommy.
This all changes when he stumbles into the charity shop and comes across Hannah who is a good Christian lady and always willing to give anyone a helping hand. But things are not as they seem. At home Hannah is a drinker,drinking bottles of wine when at home waiting for her husband to get home. We don't understand why until we realise that her husband is a wife beater. This brings me to the point of religion in this film. She is a Christian lady and is a strong believer in God but yet she gets punished by her husband and her religion gets tested so much and we sympathise with this character and what she is going through. She had this front about her that she has around people and Joseph that we eventually get under towards halfway through the film.
Both characters Joseph and Hannah live opposite life's ,Joseph lives in a run down council house by his self and Hannah lives on the new estate with her husband. A common theme running through this film is loneliness. Joseph has no one really and at first we think Hannah has this nice lifestyle with the nice Husband but yet she is also lonely and has no one to turn too. At first we think its Joseph which needs the helping hand but through the film we learn that it's Hannah who needs the helping hand the most and someone to turn too,Joseph being that some one. It's as if they need each other just to be happy. Joseph just wants some company and someone to stop him from his self destruction and Hannah wants someone to help her get Away from her husband.
Eddie Marsans character is the husband. He has about 20-30 minutes on screen and in those minutes he drives the plot and story on so much. This film doesn't use the plot to drive on the story,the story is very much driven by the different characters,mainly the leading 3.
The film takes it self away from the 'gang culture' shown in British film over the last few years such as Noel Clarkes 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood' and gives us a story which a few people probably go through and can relate to in there life's. It was nice to see something different come out of British Cinema.
This film is brilliant and you go through all the emotions that are available. Considines Directorial debut is defiantley up there with the best and no surprise it's been nominated for awards in England and America. This film is definately my most favourite 'British' film from last year and I give it a really good 8.3/10. Well done Paddy!
Wednesday 26 September 2012
New Tabs
Hey Guys,
Got Some new Tabs Opened Featuring my 'Award Winning' Short Film and also links to my Youtube Channel and Twitter.
So dont' be afraid to ask questions about anything on my blog or film questions in general.Itll be good to hear some of your feedback and thoughts.
Matt.
Got Some new Tabs Opened Featuring my 'Award Winning' Short Film and also links to my Youtube Channel and Twitter.
So dont' be afraid to ask questions about anything on my blog or film questions in general.Itll be good to hear some of your feedback and thoughts.
Matt.
House at the End of the Street
*Spoiler Alert*
Tonight I went to go and see 'House at the end of the street'. I was abit unsure of what the outcome would be going into it,but as a film maker and a person I like to give everything a chance.
The film stars 'The Hunger Games' Jennifer Lawrence and and an upcoming actor from the film 'Jumper' ,Max Thieriot.The film is directed by British director 'Mark Tonderai',who has also directed British film 'Hush'.
The film sees a mother and daughter move to a new town to start afresh and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. The daughter goes onto befriend the the surviving son and finds out there's a lot more to the story then what she first thought.
The film itself was better then what I thought,it was good and it wasent bad. I enjoyed it and there was a twist during 2 parts of the film. When we find out that the daughter died years ago and not in the struggle with Ryan halfway through. The woman he is keeping in the basement is a girl he picked up years ago. When the 'girl' dies and he replaces her with the girl from the coffee shop we learn that there is a lot more to Ryan and the story and also brings us to the 2nd twist of the film. During a flashback at the end of the film we see that the parents that got murdered used to call Ryan 'Carrie Ann' . This may be why Ryan killed his parents and maybe why he has a girl in his basement that has taken up the identity of carrie Ann. there could be 2 reasons to this either he would pin the blame on his sister that died years ago because no one knew that she died ,or he has a girl named carrie Ann in his basement because he feels emotionally damaged by his parents calling him carrie Ann so wants someone there to feel like she is still alive and so he can get away from his parents calling him carrie Ann.
The film itself is stripped bare as a horror film,in recent years we have seen the likes of 'saw' which have have us the overuse of gore and in the last 4 years we have seen the rise of supernatural horror films such as 'paranormal activity' and 'insidious'.
There isn't any gore and nothing supernatural. The film is driven by psychological pain and the main 'villain' is shaped by psychological pain like 'Norman bates' in 'Psycho'. Which brings me to my next point which sees Ryan in the mental hospital and the shot bares resembelence to the end shot of 'Psycho' in which Norman bares is sat alone in the room at the police station.
The main female character 'Elissa' has blonde hair while the Carrie Ann character has dark hair,this can be perceived as a binary opposites such as 'Good/Evil' With the blonde hair being good and the dark hair being evil.
The film itself I believe is a good film and there is something about it that I like which is the psychological meanings behind it. There is also references to 'Psycho' as dates above but also references to 'Halloween' I Believe with the serial killer killing his parents like in 'Halloween' and also in 'HOTEOTS' when the couple are in the car about to 'make out' it plays on the horror genre rule that I first picked up on watching 'Halloween' that if a teenage couple about to have sex or are having sex either there going to die or something bad is going to happen which again happens in 'HOTEOTS'.
In conclusion the film was better then what I thought it would be. I enjoyed it and I hope that other horror films take note and strip horror films back and make them basic and a lot more realistic as the audience In truth would be a lot more scared by social horror realism then some ghost playing havoc on a family. I give the film about a 6.3/10 as I believe that it served its purpose as a horror film but felt like it did miss something else.
Tonight I went to go and see 'House at the end of the street'. I was abit unsure of what the outcome would be going into it,but as a film maker and a person I like to give everything a chance.
The film stars 'The Hunger Games' Jennifer Lawrence and and an upcoming actor from the film 'Jumper' ,Max Thieriot.The film is directed by British director 'Mark Tonderai',who has also directed British film 'Hush'.
The film sees a mother and daughter move to a new town to start afresh and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. The daughter goes onto befriend the the surviving son and finds out there's a lot more to the story then what she first thought.
The film itself was better then what I thought,it was good and it wasent bad. I enjoyed it and there was a twist during 2 parts of the film. When we find out that the daughter died years ago and not in the struggle with Ryan halfway through. The woman he is keeping in the basement is a girl he picked up years ago. When the 'girl' dies and he replaces her with the girl from the coffee shop we learn that there is a lot more to Ryan and the story and also brings us to the 2nd twist of the film. During a flashback at the end of the film we see that the parents that got murdered used to call Ryan 'Carrie Ann' . This may be why Ryan killed his parents and maybe why he has a girl in his basement that has taken up the identity of carrie Ann. there could be 2 reasons to this either he would pin the blame on his sister that died years ago because no one knew that she died ,or he has a girl named carrie Ann in his basement because he feels emotionally damaged by his parents calling him carrie Ann so wants someone there to feel like she is still alive and so he can get away from his parents calling him carrie Ann.
The film itself is stripped bare as a horror film,in recent years we have seen the likes of 'saw' which have have us the overuse of gore and in the last 4 years we have seen the rise of supernatural horror films such as 'paranormal activity' and 'insidious'.
There isn't any gore and nothing supernatural. The film is driven by psychological pain and the main 'villain' is shaped by psychological pain like 'Norman bates' in 'Psycho'. Which brings me to my next point which sees Ryan in the mental hospital and the shot bares resembelence to the end shot of 'Psycho' in which Norman bares is sat alone in the room at the police station.
The main female character 'Elissa' has blonde hair while the Carrie Ann character has dark hair,this can be perceived as a binary opposites such as 'Good/Evil' With the blonde hair being good and the dark hair being evil.
The film itself I believe is a good film and there is something about it that I like which is the psychological meanings behind it. There is also references to 'Psycho' as dates above but also references to 'Halloween' I Believe with the serial killer killing his parents like in 'Halloween' and also in 'HOTEOTS' when the couple are in the car about to 'make out' it plays on the horror genre rule that I first picked up on watching 'Halloween' that if a teenage couple about to have sex or are having sex either there going to die or something bad is going to happen which again happens in 'HOTEOTS'.
In conclusion the film was better then what I thought it would be. I enjoyed it and I hope that other horror films take note and strip horror films back and make them basic and a lot more realistic as the audience In truth would be a lot more scared by social horror realism then some ghost playing havoc on a family. I give the film about a 6.3/10 as I believe that it served its purpose as a horror film but felt like it did miss something else.
Tuesday 25 September 2012
New Theories on the Theory Tab
Hey Bloggers and Fans
Thought I'd let you no Ive posted some Theories under the Theory Tab for you to read and enjoy and also take away something from it which you can apply to your own personal research of a film,actor or director.
Matt.
Thought I'd let you no Ive posted some Theories under the Theory Tab for you to read and enjoy and also take away something from it which you can apply to your own personal research of a film,actor or director.
Matt.
Welcome...
Hello and Welcome to my Blog which is where you can read up on reviews of the latest films and of cult classic films.
I also will be using this Blog to show the world my Theories in Films and what surrounds them because a Film is a lot more then just a film, Its a lifestyle and also a social meaning in some circumstances. Films have been inspired by real world happenings in society. Either major global events or sometimes even someones lifestyle and life experiences.
I really hope you enjoy my Blog and I hope it enlightens you and inspires you in your life weather you are a film maker thinking of weather to make a certain genre of film or just someone who just wants to learn the basic foundations of film making.
Matt.
I also will be using this Blog to show the world my Theories in Films and what surrounds them because a Film is a lot more then just a film, Its a lifestyle and also a social meaning in some circumstances. Films have been inspired by real world happenings in society. Either major global events or sometimes even someones lifestyle and life experiences.
I really hope you enjoy my Blog and I hope it enlightens you and inspires you in your life weather you are a film maker thinking of weather to make a certain genre of film or just someone who just wants to learn the basic foundations of film making.
Matt.
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