15. The Forest for the Trees
14.Ben Hur
13. Gone With the Wind
12. Unforgiven
11.Citizen Kane
10. The Dark Knight
9. Psycho
8. The Simpsons Movie
7. Cinema Paradisco
6. The Secret Window
5. The Graduate
4. Rumor Has It
3. Billy Madison
2. Never Back Down
1. V for Vendetta
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Billy Madison: Humorous Scenes
1. A scene that was funny to me was when Billy Madison was in the bath tub playing with the shampoo and conditioner. It's funny because when we were little we did thing's like that but he is a full grown man.
2. Another scene that I though was funny was when Billy Madison was playing sick and the maid sad that if he's going to stay home he can help her shave her legs and he says "Oh, God I'll go to school". I thought this was funny because she is like Billy's mother and when they want us to go to school they give us and untimatum that they know we'll refuse.
3. Funny scene number three! When Billy is standing at the end of the drive way waiting for the bus and the bus just drives right by. This is funny because I've had this happen to me, aparently wer were suppose to ride a different bus that day but nobody told us so when my brother and I saw the bus drive by we just thought they skipped us.
4. I think the scene where the principle is in the pool and the jet skiiers are just terrorizing him. This is funny because somtimes you have those day where you just want to relax and it seems like everybody is determined to no let you.
5. and finally funny scene number five is....... When the lunch lady comes to the table and gives them more sloppy joes. This is funny because it shows a stereotypical lunch lady, but the kids tease her and make her less creapy.
2. Another scene that I though was funny was when Billy Madison was playing sick and the maid sad that if he's going to stay home he can help her shave her legs and he says "Oh, God I'll go to school". I thought this was funny because she is like Billy's mother and when they want us to go to school they give us and untimatum that they know we'll refuse.
3. Funny scene number three! When Billy is standing at the end of the drive way waiting for the bus and the bus just drives right by. This is funny because I've had this happen to me, aparently wer were suppose to ride a different bus that day but nobody told us so when my brother and I saw the bus drive by we just thought they skipped us.
4. I think the scene where the principle is in the pool and the jet skiiers are just terrorizing him. This is funny because somtimes you have those day where you just want to relax and it seems like everybody is determined to no let you.
5. and finally funny scene number five is....... When the lunch lady comes to the table and gives them more sloppy joes. This is funny because it shows a stereotypical lunch lady, but the kids tease her and make her less creapy.
The Forest for the Trees
Synopsis:
It starts out with this woman, Melanie, moving out of her apartment and moving to a new town to be a teacher. She gets there and and all the students are terrible to her. They never listen and they throw things at her.
One day when she is in her apartment opening a package, it's a pair of binoculars. While she is fiddleing around with them she sees this woman talking on the phone crying. Later she meets this woman, Tina, in a clothing store that she owns. They become friends.
This woman has a boyfriend that she doesn't really like. One day while Tina is at Melanie's her boyfriend comes over and they watch him through the window. Eventually Tina leaves to go confront him.
As the days go by Melanie starts looking out her window to see if Tina comes home. She shows up and Melanine calls her but Tina doesn't answer. Then Melanie says "I know you're home, I saw you walking to your apartment".
Tina has a party for her workers and Melanie helps her set up. Melanie askes her to leave because the party is just for the workers. So she does, but later she shows up and you can tell that Tina doesn't really want her there but she lets her stay anyway.
Then the school has spring break and Melanie has a couple weeks off. It's Tina's birthday and she invites Melanie. At the party Tina's boyfriend shows up and Melanie tells him that maybe he shouldn't come up. Tina gets very mad when she finds this out and tells Melanie to leave. Later Melanie shows up to apologise but Tina just tells her to leave.
By this time school is back in session and Melanie is very upset so she just leaves class and the movie ends with her driving and then while she is still driving crawling in the back seat and letting the car go where ever it want and she is not afraid.
It starts out with this woman, Melanie, moving out of her apartment and moving to a new town to be a teacher. She gets there and and all the students are terrible to her. They never listen and they throw things at her.
One day when she is in her apartment opening a package, it's a pair of binoculars. While she is fiddleing around with them she sees this woman talking on the phone crying. Later she meets this woman, Tina, in a clothing store that she owns. They become friends.
This woman has a boyfriend that she doesn't really like. One day while Tina is at Melanie's her boyfriend comes over and they watch him through the window. Eventually Tina leaves to go confront him.
As the days go by Melanie starts looking out her window to see if Tina comes home. She shows up and Melanine calls her but Tina doesn't answer. Then Melanie says "I know you're home, I saw you walking to your apartment".
Tina has a party for her workers and Melanie helps her set up. Melanie askes her to leave because the party is just for the workers. So she does, but later she shows up and you can tell that Tina doesn't really want her there but she lets her stay anyway.
Then the school has spring break and Melanie has a couple weeks off. It's Tina's birthday and she invites Melanie. At the party Tina's boyfriend shows up and Melanie tells him that maybe he shouldn't come up. Tina gets very mad when she finds this out and tells Melanie to leave. Later Melanie shows up to apologise but Tina just tells her to leave.
By this time school is back in session and Melanie is very upset so she just leaves class and the movie ends with her driving and then while she is still driving crawling in the back seat and letting the car go where ever it want and she is not afraid.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The Secret Window
Comparison The Secret Window vs. Psycho
1. The men are both skitsofrenick. One is a man he made up and the other is his mother.
2. They both kill people as the other person and they have to clean it up thinking this other person did it.
3. They both try to get rid of the people that know the truth.
4. They both are trying to fix something. In the Secret Window he is trying to fix the ending of his book. In Psycho he is trying to fix the fact that his mother died.
5. In both movies the men end up killing the women they like. as the other person.
6. In Secret Window he actually figures out that he is crazy and in Psycho he permently becomes his mother.
7. In the end of Psycho the man actually get caught but in Secret Window they can't prove that he actually killed the people.
8. In Secret Window he ends up killing four people and a dog. In Psycho he kills two people and attempts two more.
9. I think that the man in Psycho was worse that the man in Secret Window because the only thing that changed the man in Secret Window was a hat, but in Psycho he actually dressed up as his mother.
10. Both had something traumatic happen to make them create this person inside them. In Secret Window it was him finding his wife having an affaire, and in Psycho is was the death of his mother.
1. The men are both skitsofrenick. One is a man he made up and the other is his mother.
2. They both kill people as the other person and they have to clean it up thinking this other person did it.
3. They both try to get rid of the people that know the truth.
4. They both are trying to fix something. In the Secret Window he is trying to fix the ending of his book. In Psycho he is trying to fix the fact that his mother died.
5. In both movies the men end up killing the women they like. as the other person.
6. In Secret Window he actually figures out that he is crazy and in Psycho he permently becomes his mother.
7. In the end of Psycho the man actually get caught but in Secret Window they can't prove that he actually killed the people.
8. In Secret Window he ends up killing four people and a dog. In Psycho he kills two people and attempts two more.
9. I think that the man in Psycho was worse that the man in Secret Window because the only thing that changed the man in Secret Window was a hat, but in Psycho he actually dressed up as his mother.
10. Both had something traumatic happen to make them create this person inside them. In Secret Window it was him finding his wife having an affaire, and in Psycho is was the death of his mother.
Unforgiven
10 Scenes that Demonstrate Being Unforgiven
1. One scene that represented being unforgiven is when Ned's wife didn't want him to go with Will because of what they did back when Will was still into killing and robbing.
2. Another scene that represents unforgiven is in the billards place when the women are questioning why all that the sheriff is going to do is whip the men that cut up one of their faces.
3. The scene where the women are adding up all their money so they can pay a man to kill the two men that cup up that girls face.
4. I guess it's not really a scene but I think a symbol of being unforgiven in this movie is how Will treats himself. I don't think that he has really forgiven himself for what he has done.
5. Another scene to me that represents being unforgiven is when Will is leaning over his wifes grave. I don't think that he has forgiven her for dieing. Although she can't help it but he still always thinks of her.
6. The scene where the sheriff whips Ned even though he didn't do anything because he thinks that he killed that man. They torcher him so bad that they end up killing him.
7. I think a scene that shows being unforgiven is when the kid is sitting by the tree and he says that he could never be like Will becasue he just killed the man that cut up the girls face.
8. Another scene is when English Bob is leaving and the biographer stays behind to get the real story. I don't think English Bob has forgiven the biographer.
9. I think the scene where English Bob and the sheriff meet shows being unforgiven. I don't think that the sheriff has forgive English Bob for what he did in his past.
10. This last one isn't really a scene but I think that Will's mother-in-law hasn't forgiven him for marring her daughter.
1. One scene that represented being unforgiven is when Ned's wife didn't want him to go with Will because of what they did back when Will was still into killing and robbing.
2. Another scene that represents unforgiven is in the billards place when the women are questioning why all that the sheriff is going to do is whip the men that cut up one of their faces.
3. The scene where the women are adding up all their money so they can pay a man to kill the two men that cup up that girls face.
4. I guess it's not really a scene but I think a symbol of being unforgiven in this movie is how Will treats himself. I don't think that he has really forgiven himself for what he has done.
5. Another scene to me that represents being unforgiven is when Will is leaning over his wifes grave. I don't think that he has forgiven her for dieing. Although she can't help it but he still always thinks of her.
6. The scene where the sheriff whips Ned even though he didn't do anything because he thinks that he killed that man. They torcher him so bad that they end up killing him.
7. I think a scene that shows being unforgiven is when the kid is sitting by the tree and he says that he could never be like Will becasue he just killed the man that cut up the girls face.
8. Another scene is when English Bob is leaving and the biographer stays behind to get the real story. I don't think English Bob has forgiven the biographer.
9. I think the scene where English Bob and the sheriff meet shows being unforgiven. I don't think that the sheriff has forgive English Bob for what he did in his past.
10. This last one isn't really a scene but I think that Will's mother-in-law hasn't forgiven him for marring her daughter.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Never Back Down
I personally really like this movie and this is a pod cast on what our whole class thought.
Never Back Down Podcast
Never Back Down Podcast
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
V for Vendetta and The Dark Knight Comparison
In this blog I will tell you about the similarities and differences between V for Vendetta and Batman: The Dark Knight.
Similarities:
Batman and V are both masked figiures and nobody knows who they really are.
Another is that they are trying to help the public.
The Joker is creating chaos in the city.
To Harvy "Two Face" Dent was a good man who turned bad.
The citizens of the two cities are standing up for their city. In Vendetta by gathering in one large mass and going to the final explosion, and in Batman by trying to kill the man that know the identety of the real batman.
Differences:
Gothem doesn't exist Great Britain does.
V is trying to empower the people and Batman is just trying to save the people.
The people like the "bad guy" in V for Vendetta but they don't like the "bad guy" in Batman.
The people used to consider Batman a superhero.
In The Dark Knight the government doesn't control every little thing.
In V for Vendetta V is trying to get revenge on the people that tortured him the Joker is just being crazy.
Similarities:
Batman and V are both masked figiures and nobody knows who they really are.
Another is that they are trying to help the public.
The Joker is creating chaos in the city.
To Harvy "Two Face" Dent was a good man who turned bad.
The citizens of the two cities are standing up for their city. In Vendetta by gathering in one large mass and going to the final explosion, and in Batman by trying to kill the man that know the identety of the real batman.
Differences:
Gothem doesn't exist Great Britain does.
V is trying to empower the people and Batman is just trying to save the people.
The people like the "bad guy" in V for Vendetta but they don't like the "bad guy" in Batman.
The people used to consider Batman a superhero.
In The Dark Knight the government doesn't control every little thing.
In V for Vendetta V is trying to get revenge on the people that tortured him the Joker is just being crazy.
Cinema Paradisco
This is a foreighn film that we watched and I and going to choose 10 memorable scenes.
1. In the begining when Toto's mother is afraid to call him because she is afraid that he will not show up to Alfredo's funeral.
2. When the reverand censcors the films.
3. When Toto sneaks up to the film booth and stops the movie and Alfedo says that he learned that just by watching.
4. When they decide to project the movie onto the building to show the people on the street the movie.
5. When the film catches on fire and Toto saves Alfredo from burning to death, but the fire also leaves Alfredo blind.
6. When Toto stands outside the girls window until new years eve.
7. When Toto gets back from the war and nobody is there to greet him.
8. At the train station when Alfedo tells him to never come back and if he does come back not to see him.
9. When they are walking down the street for the funeral and Toto sees all the people from the movie theater.
10. In the end when Alfredo but together all the parts of the movie that the Reverand took out of the movies because they thought they were too risque and made a film out of them and gave them to Toto.
1. In the begining when Toto's mother is afraid to call him because she is afraid that he will not show up to Alfredo's funeral.
2. When the reverand censcors the films.
3. When Toto sneaks up to the film booth and stops the movie and Alfedo says that he learned that just by watching.
4. When they decide to project the movie onto the building to show the people on the street the movie.
5. When the film catches on fire and Toto saves Alfredo from burning to death, but the fire also leaves Alfredo blind.
6. When Toto stands outside the girls window until new years eve.
7. When Toto gets back from the war and nobody is there to greet him.
8. At the train station when Alfedo tells him to never come back and if he does come back not to see him.
9. When they are walking down the street for the funeral and Toto sees all the people from the movie theater.
10. In the end when Alfredo but together all the parts of the movie that the Reverand took out of the movies because they thought they were too risque and made a film out of them and gave them to Toto.
Friday, January 30, 2009
The Simpsons Movie Review
There are over 20 people in my film studies class and very few of them have never seen the Simpsons. The Simpsons is one of those cartoons that have withstood the test of time. It has been around for about 20 years. Although the number of episodes per season have varied.
My Rating Scale
1 - Terrible
2 - Tolerable
3 - It's Ok
4 - Great
5 - I Would Watch This Again
I would give this movie a 4.5 out of 5. It is a very funny very entertaining movie just like the episodes.
Director
David Silverman
Main Characters
Dan Castellanet - Homer Simpson
Julie Kavner - Marge Simpson
Nancy Cartwright - Bart Simpson
Yeardley Smith - Lisa Simpson
Supporting Characters
Harry Shearer - Ned Flanders
I think he is a supporting character because he is a good character but he isn't one of the main ones, and he kind of makes the audience thing about what's going on because he is so different than Homer.
Genre - Animation and Comedy
The Story
It starts out with a look at Springfield lake. It looks at all the pollutants that are being dumped into that lake. Then Lisa is going around asking people to sign a petition to help clean up Lake Springfield. They all slam the door in her face. It isn't until the government tells them that Springfield is one of the most polluted city in America that they start being more eco friendly. Homer then finds a pig and keeps all it's waste in a silo and he has to take it to the treatment plant, which is full of people recycling their waste so the line is very long. Then he hears that they are giving away doughnuts at the local doughtnut shop. So Homer, a doughnut lover, decides that the line is to long and goes and dumps the pig waste in Lake Springfield. This makes the lake bubble and turn black, it has now become a hazardous and is turning animals into mutants with multiple eyes. So the government but's a dome over the whole town of Springfield.
The people then find out that it was Homer who caused the government to put the dome over them. They start a mob and start burning down their house. They escape because Maggie, Homers youngest daughter, found a sink hole that lead outside of the dome. To escape the search parties they move to Alaska. There Homer finds an old Inuit woman and she helps him find out what he needs to do to get the locals of Springfield to like him again. He needs to get rid of the dome.
He goes back to Springfield and saves the day by blowing up the dome.
Great Quotes
"DOH!" - Homer
" Why does everything I whip leave me?" - Homer
" We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!" - Homer
"Stay back I've go a chainsaw!" - Homer
"I've spent my whole life doing nothing but collecting comic books... and now there's only time to say... LIFE WELL SPENT!" - Comic Book Guy
As you've read this I hope you understand why I gave this movie a 4 out of 5 for my rating. I've always liked The Simpsons and how could I not watch the movie? If your favorite cartoon came out with a movie wouldn't you want to watch it?
My Rating Scale
1 - Terrible
2 - Tolerable
3 - It's Ok
4 - Great
5 - I Would Watch This Again
I would give this movie a 4.5 out of 5. It is a very funny very entertaining movie just like the episodes.
Director
David Silverman
Main Characters
Dan Castellanet - Homer Simpson
Julie Kavner - Marge Simpson
Nancy Cartwright - Bart Simpson
Yeardley Smith - Lisa Simpson
Supporting Characters
Harry Shearer - Ned Flanders
I think he is a supporting character because he is a good character but he isn't one of the main ones, and he kind of makes the audience thing about what's going on because he is so different than Homer.
Genre - Animation and Comedy
The Story
It starts out with a look at Springfield lake. It looks at all the pollutants that are being dumped into that lake. Then Lisa is going around asking people to sign a petition to help clean up Lake Springfield. They all slam the door in her face. It isn't until the government tells them that Springfield is one of the most polluted city in America that they start being more eco friendly. Homer then finds a pig and keeps all it's waste in a silo and he has to take it to the treatment plant, which is full of people recycling their waste so the line is very long. Then he hears that they are giving away doughnuts at the local doughtnut shop. So Homer, a doughnut lover, decides that the line is to long and goes and dumps the pig waste in Lake Springfield. This makes the lake bubble and turn black, it has now become a hazardous and is turning animals into mutants with multiple eyes. So the government but's a dome over the whole town of Springfield.
The people then find out that it was Homer who caused the government to put the dome over them. They start a mob and start burning down their house. They escape because Maggie, Homers youngest daughter, found a sink hole that lead outside of the dome. To escape the search parties they move to Alaska. There Homer finds an old Inuit woman and she helps him find out what he needs to do to get the locals of Springfield to like him again. He needs to get rid of the dome.
He goes back to Springfield and saves the day by blowing up the dome.
Great Quotes
"DOH!" - Homer
" Why does everything I whip leave me?" - Homer
" We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!" - Homer
"Stay back I've go a chainsaw!" - Homer
"I've spent my whole life doing nothing but collecting comic books... and now there's only time to say... LIFE WELL SPENT!" - Comic Book Guy
As you've read this I hope you understand why I gave this movie a 4 out of 5 for my rating. I've always liked The Simpsons and how could I not watch the movie? If your favorite cartoon came out with a movie wouldn't you want to watch it?
Friday, January 23, 2009
The Graduate Review
This is a review about the movie the graduate another film studies flick. The graduate is a great movie another one of those that you should deffinitely watch.
Rating Scale
1 - Terrible
2 - Tolerable
3 - It's OK
4 - Great
5 - I would watch this again
I would give this movie a 4 because it is very entertaining.
The Story
The Graduate is about Benjamin Braddock, a college graduate, who comes home after college and his parents throw him a big party with all of their friends. This is where he meets a woman, Mrs. Robinson, she wants to leave the party so she asks Benjamin to escort her home. Now Benjamin Braddock is not the kind of person to say no to one of his parents friends. When they get to her house she is "afraid" to go in the house when all the lights are off. She asks if he will come in side with her and turn on the lights for he, which he does. This is where everything gets to be very strange for Benjamin. He goes inside and she follows him. They reach the parlor where Mrs. Robinson offers him a drink which she refuses to let him refuse. So they have a drink and he gets all gitty and starts thinking that she is trying to suduce him. She denies this and asks him if he would like to see a portrait of her daughter, Elaine, and again he is not the person to say no. They go upstairs to her daughts room and look as the picture. Mrs. Robinson then procedes to disrobe. Benjamin freaks out and attemps to leave but as he's coming down the stairs he hears a rustling at the door so he pretends to act natural back in the den. Right as he gets positioned Mr. Robinson walks in and gives him another drink and says that he sould ask his daughter out.
Back at his home Benjamin goes over what just happened and decides to call Mrs. Robinson. They decide to meet a Hotel and this is where the affair starts. They continue this affair for a few months until Mrs. Robinsons daughter comes home and everybody is pressuring Benjamin to ask out Elaine, which he does, and Mrs. Robinson is very upset about this. On their date Benjamin brings Elaine to a strip club to have drinks this upsets her very much and she runs out of the building in tears with Benjamin chasing her. He feels bad about what he did so he brings her to a burger joint and start talking, this is where he falls in love with her. Mrs. Robinson doesn't like this at all so when they are suppose to have their next date Mrs. Robinson says if he doesn't break it off with her she is going to tell her everything. He then proceeds to run up to the house and into Elaines room where he tells her everything. She is angry and goes back to college. He follows her to college and they fall in love but she is already ingaged to another man. The whole Robinson is at this church where Elaine is getting married. He sees this and yells Elaine and pounds on the window between them. He runs down and wisks her away and the movie ends with them driving away on a bus stairing strait ahead.
Director
Mike Nicholas
Main Characters
Benjamin Braddock - Dustin Hoffman
Mrs. Robinson - Anne Brancoft
Elaine Robinson - Katharine Ross
Genre - Comedy and Drama
Great Quotes
"Mrs. Robinson you're trying to suduce men." - Benjamin Braddock
"No Mrs. Robinson I think you're the most attractive of all my parents friends" - Benjamin Braddock
"ELAINE" - Benjamin Braddock
I believe that The Graduate will be one of those movies that will surpass time and be a great movie forever. Dustin Hoffman is truely a great actor no matter what role he plays whether it be The Graduate, Rain Man, or Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. This is an actor who is very versitile and can play any role that he wants.
Source: imbd.com
Rating Scale
1 - Terrible
2 - Tolerable
3 - It's OK
4 - Great
5 - I would watch this again
I would give this movie a 4 because it is very entertaining.
The Story
The Graduate is about Benjamin Braddock, a college graduate, who comes home after college and his parents throw him a big party with all of their friends. This is where he meets a woman, Mrs. Robinson, she wants to leave the party so she asks Benjamin to escort her home. Now Benjamin Braddock is not the kind of person to say no to one of his parents friends. When they get to her house she is "afraid" to go in the house when all the lights are off. She asks if he will come in side with her and turn on the lights for he, which he does. This is where everything gets to be very strange for Benjamin. He goes inside and she follows him. They reach the parlor where Mrs. Robinson offers him a drink which she refuses to let him refuse. So they have a drink and he gets all gitty and starts thinking that she is trying to suduce him. She denies this and asks him if he would like to see a portrait of her daughter, Elaine, and again he is not the person to say no. They go upstairs to her daughts room and look as the picture. Mrs. Robinson then procedes to disrobe. Benjamin freaks out and attemps to leave but as he's coming down the stairs he hears a rustling at the door so he pretends to act natural back in the den. Right as he gets positioned Mr. Robinson walks in and gives him another drink and says that he sould ask his daughter out.
Back at his home Benjamin goes over what just happened and decides to call Mrs. Robinson. They decide to meet a Hotel and this is where the affair starts. They continue this affair for a few months until Mrs. Robinsons daughter comes home and everybody is pressuring Benjamin to ask out Elaine, which he does, and Mrs. Robinson is very upset about this. On their date Benjamin brings Elaine to a strip club to have drinks this upsets her very much and she runs out of the building in tears with Benjamin chasing her. He feels bad about what he did so he brings her to a burger joint and start talking, this is where he falls in love with her. Mrs. Robinson doesn't like this at all so when they are suppose to have their next date Mrs. Robinson says if he doesn't break it off with her she is going to tell her everything. He then proceeds to run up to the house and into Elaines room where he tells her everything. She is angry and goes back to college. He follows her to college and they fall in love but she is already ingaged to another man. The whole Robinson is at this church where Elaine is getting married. He sees this and yells Elaine and pounds on the window between them. He runs down and wisks her away and the movie ends with them driving away on a bus stairing strait ahead.
Director
Mike Nicholas
Main Characters
Benjamin Braddock - Dustin Hoffman
Mrs. Robinson - Anne Brancoft
Elaine Robinson - Katharine Ross
Genre - Comedy and Drama
Great Quotes
"Mrs. Robinson you're trying to suduce men." - Benjamin Braddock
"No Mrs. Robinson I think you're the most attractive of all my parents friends" - Benjamin Braddock
"ELAINE" - Benjamin Braddock
I believe that The Graduate will be one of those movies that will surpass time and be a great movie forever. Dustin Hoffman is truely a great actor no matter what role he plays whether it be The Graduate, Rain Man, or Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. This is an actor who is very versitile and can play any role that he wants.
Source: imbd.com
Friday, January 16, 2009
Review: Psycho
The movie Psycho is one of the best that we have watched so far in our Film Studies class. If you have never seen it I suggest you do. It is not one of thoes scare you to death films, the thing that does make it scary is suspence and the music.
Rating Scale
1-terrible
2-tolerable
3-its ok
4-great
5-i would watch this again
I would rate this movie a 4 on my scale, just because I tought it was good and it was the origional scary movie.
Background
This movie was based on the book Psycho, which was based on a serial killer from Plainsfield, Wisconsin. This man was a grave robber who would make trophies and keepsakes out of peoples bones and skin. When he was arrested they searched his home and what they found would scar you for life. The police found bowls made from human skulls, a window shade made from human lips, lamp shades made from human skin, picked organs, and skulls on his bed posts. After his arrest he was proclaimed mentally unstable and spent the rest of his life in a mental institue. After his death his grave stone was vandalized many time, and people took chippings from it as souvenirs, and in 2000 the whole grave stone was stolen. It then turned up in 2001 in Seattle, it now is displayed in a museum in Waushara County, Wisconsin.
Summary of Psycho
It starts out with a woman, Marion Crane, and a man, Sam Loomis, in a hotel room during her lunch break. She wants to marry this man but he has debts and alamony from his first marrage. She gets angry and goes back to work where her boss is selling this billionare a house. This man flirts with her and starts waving aroud 40,000 dollars. All this time she is complaining of a headach and tells her boss that she wants to go home. He says that is alright but first she has to put this 40,000 dollars in a lockbox at the bank. Then it cuts to her in her appartment packing clothes with the money sitting on her bed. She then steals the money and leaves the town to go to her boyfriends and give him the money to pay off his debts. When it gets late she pulls over to take a nap, but she sleeps through the night. The next morning this police officer wakes her up and askes her if anything is wrong. She says no and leaves, but the police officer follows her to the next town where she trades in her car for a new one. She then leaves this town and starts her journey again. It starts to storm and she viers off the main highway and ends up at the Bates Hotel. She rents a room for the night and when the inn keeper, Norman Bates, goes back up to his house she starts to take a shower. Then Bates' mother comes down and murders her, Norman then has to get rid of the body so he packs up all her things in her car and proceeds to dump her in a swamp neer his house. Marions sister, Lila, then files a missing persons report and a private detective then starts searching for her. He falls upon at the Bates Hotel and wants to question the mother so he breaks into the house where he is murdered and dumped into the same swam as Marion. Lila and Sam then go to the Bates Hotel and start their own investigation. Lila then find out that Bates' mother is actuall dead and hidden in the cellar. As she makes this discovery Norman then rushes in dressed in a dress and a wig to look like his mother ready to kill Lila. Sam comes in just in time to wrestle the knife out of Normans hand. Bates is then question not as Norman but as his mother and he tells the police everything that has happened.
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Lead Actors:
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates
Janet Leigh - Marion Crane
Supporting Actors:
John Gavin - Sam Loomis
Vera Miles - Lila Crane
The actors and actresses in this movie were great because they made everything interesting and some what real to the audience.
The Genre of this movie is Thriller.
Great Quotes:
"Only carry as much cash as you can afford to lose." -Tom Cassidy
"Mothe isn't quite herself today" - Norman Bates
"A hobby should pass the time, not fill it." - Norman Bates
Again I say if you have not yet seen this movie you should. It is an origional that most thrillers today have based some of scenes off of. Although it is in black and white it is still a great movie.
Source: Wikipedia and imbd
Rating Scale
1-terrible
2-tolerable
3-its ok
4-great
5-i would watch this again
I would rate this movie a 4 on my scale, just because I tought it was good and it was the origional scary movie.
Background
This movie was based on the book Psycho, which was based on a serial killer from Plainsfield, Wisconsin. This man was a grave robber who would make trophies and keepsakes out of peoples bones and skin. When he was arrested they searched his home and what they found would scar you for life. The police found bowls made from human skulls, a window shade made from human lips, lamp shades made from human skin, picked organs, and skulls on his bed posts. After his arrest he was proclaimed mentally unstable and spent the rest of his life in a mental institue. After his death his grave stone was vandalized many time, and people took chippings from it as souvenirs, and in 2000 the whole grave stone was stolen. It then turned up in 2001 in Seattle, it now is displayed in a museum in Waushara County, Wisconsin.
Summary of Psycho
It starts out with a woman, Marion Crane, and a man, Sam Loomis, in a hotel room during her lunch break. She wants to marry this man but he has debts and alamony from his first marrage. She gets angry and goes back to work where her boss is selling this billionare a house. This man flirts with her and starts waving aroud 40,000 dollars. All this time she is complaining of a headach and tells her boss that she wants to go home. He says that is alright but first she has to put this 40,000 dollars in a lockbox at the bank. Then it cuts to her in her appartment packing clothes with the money sitting on her bed. She then steals the money and leaves the town to go to her boyfriends and give him the money to pay off his debts. When it gets late she pulls over to take a nap, but she sleeps through the night. The next morning this police officer wakes her up and askes her if anything is wrong. She says no and leaves, but the police officer follows her to the next town where she trades in her car for a new one. She then leaves this town and starts her journey again. It starts to storm and she viers off the main highway and ends up at the Bates Hotel. She rents a room for the night and when the inn keeper, Norman Bates, goes back up to his house she starts to take a shower. Then Bates' mother comes down and murders her, Norman then has to get rid of the body so he packs up all her things in her car and proceeds to dump her in a swamp neer his house. Marions sister, Lila, then files a missing persons report and a private detective then starts searching for her. He falls upon at the Bates Hotel and wants to question the mother so he breaks into the house where he is murdered and dumped into the same swam as Marion. Lila and Sam then go to the Bates Hotel and start their own investigation. Lila then find out that Bates' mother is actuall dead and hidden in the cellar. As she makes this discovery Norman then rushes in dressed in a dress and a wig to look like his mother ready to kill Lila. Sam comes in just in time to wrestle the knife out of Normans hand. Bates is then question not as Norman but as his mother and he tells the police everything that has happened.
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Lead Actors:
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates
Janet Leigh - Marion Crane
Supporting Actors:
John Gavin - Sam Loomis
Vera Miles - Lila Crane
The actors and actresses in this movie were great because they made everything interesting and some what real to the audience.
The Genre of this movie is Thriller.
Great Quotes:
"Only carry as much cash as you can afford to lose." -Tom Cassidy
"Mothe isn't quite herself today" - Norman Bates
"A hobby should pass the time, not fill it." - Norman Bates
Again I say if you have not yet seen this movie you should. It is an origional that most thrillers today have based some of scenes off of. Although it is in black and white it is still a great movie.
Source: Wikipedia and imbd
Friday, January 9, 2009
My Top 10 Movies
10. The Big Labowski
9. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
8. The Dark Knight
7. Twilight
6. The Gladiator
5. Little Miss Sunshine
4. Yes Man
3. 10 Things I Hate About You
2. Shawshank Redemption
1. Ace Ventura When Nature Calls
9. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
8. The Dark Knight
7. Twilight
6. The Gladiator
5. Little Miss Sunshine
4. Yes Man
3. 10 Things I Hate About You
2. Shawshank Redemption
1. Ace Ventura When Nature Calls
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