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Film Review: The Emperor's New Groove

The Emperor's New Groove focuses on Cooscos the emperor. I will be analyzing how the story is structured and how it comes together in the end as well as how age appropriate the movie is for its target audience.

The movie begins with one of the ending scenes, the emperor is already a lama and he is sitting in the rain being upset. This scene happens later in the film but they choose to start with this one so that Coosco can narrate the story in the beginning. This is an effective way of showing us the character of Coosco because the point and moral ending of the story is that the character of Coosco changes from being a bad, annoying and mean ruler to one that is good and nice to his people. So the beginning helps us understand how selfish he really is. He is being very sarcastic and we see clips of him throwing out peasants, denying them food.

The entire story is a moral one, and we see the personality of Coosco change through the circumstances that have led him to being stuck with a village man who lives on top of a hill he wants to build his summer home on. Initially, Kuzco was set in his plan to tear down the entire village on top of the hill and create a summer house for himself where he can have parties. By the end, Kuzco and this village man become good friends through the life threatening situations they were put in and thus became better friends that in turn risked each others lives and grew both as people. Through the movie the village man believes in Kuzco's coming of person and helps him on his journey to find the castle even after Kuzco lied to him in shaking hands in agreement that he wouldn't build his summer home on the hill side they live on. Through the whole movie this village man is seen as a moral figure, like an idol to the viewers. He is honest to his word, he goes out of his way to help people and he supports his family no matter what.

The moral story and general story line is not hard to understand as it comes together very easily and can be noticed from the beginning of the film. This is what makes this film appropriate for the target audience that is children. Normally films targeted at children of a young age, include a moral issue that is resolved at the end with a happy story. There are many supporting characters that keep the attention of the children viewers, such as the evil villain yzma, who is against Kuzco and is on her own mission to kill him and her servant Crunk, who is seen as also a character plagued by moral issues such as killing Kuzco. 

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Article Review: Movies Should Go For Modest Titles

Movies Should Go For Modest Titles

In this article, the idea that movies should opt for modest titles is evaluated. The main reason this was posted was in response to the new Wizard of Oz movie entitled: Oz the Great and Powerful.

The boasting of movies in titles puts the movie up for criticism using the title if the movie doesn't live up to its exaggerated title. Google mentioned that the new Oz movie was "Oz: Neither Great Nor Powerful". 

The article reflects on past hollywood movies that did the same thing with their movie titles. 

To be fair to Oz, it isn't the first film to try to get away with a boastful title. It's the trend that refuses to die. Last year, we had The Amazing Spider-Man. Before that, we had The Incredible Hulk. Later this year, we'll have The Great Gatsby. All of them brave enough to poke their heads above the parapet. All of them desperate to sing their own praises before anyone else can.

The article then refers to how the movie titles often aren't meant to reflect the quality but the characters. Seen in the examples above, spider-man being amazing is one thing, while Gatsby and Oz are meant to be ironic. But its clearly gotten to a point where its not appreciated anymore.

Whats an interesting point the article makes is a reference to the history and how this idea of glorified titles was brought up, seemingly by old comic book ideals.

Well, historically this seems to be a throwback to the world of comic books, where every cover had to be bigger and bolder and more colourful than the last, just to get the attention of the customer. Writing "Amazing" or "Incredible" or "Mighty" or "Fantastic" in huge letters across the comics was just another sales ploy. And it worked, because the customers tended to be children.

The problems with this nowadays in big hollywood films is that the movies tend to now raise our expectations for the film. Which makes when the movies aren't good even worse, because its more of a let down to the viewer.

Something I thought was pretty amusing and I think we all can relate to is the metaphor for how these movies are to the viewer

walking through a tourist hotspot at lunchtime – the film titles are all standing in the doorway screaming their own praises at you, begging you to give them a chance, promising much more than you'd ever expect. And, inevitably, you always end up with a disappointing bowl of watery pasta that costs much more than you planned to spend.

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Film Analysis: Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction is widely regarded as the most influential American movies of the 1990's. Pulp Fiction solidified the carrer of director Quentin Tarantino. Since this film has successfully portrayed american live in that social era, I'll be analyzing the setting of the movie in the introduction scenes and how Tarantino effectively captures the ideal of true american cinema.

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The opening scene to the entire movie focuses on two characters discussing the crime they have committed, the man being apprehensive about the robbery they were going to commit. The scene starts as they are seemingly mid way through their conversation, leaving the viewer confused about what they are discussing. By the end of the scene we realize that they are criminals that rob banks and convenience stores, and now have moved on to robbing restaurants. Starting with the one they are sitting in. 

The setting they are in this opening scene is an old-fashioned style diner, it seems to be mid day, the only light is shining through the blinds on the windows. The table is metallic, and the seats are red leather. the table is connected to the wall in a typical booth type of seating which is common in old-fashioned american diners. The entire scene is very well representative in showing the american lifestyle. This first scene also introduces the theme of convicts and crime.

Both of the characters are messy looking and slightly off. The man's style of outspoken, candid atitude by his body language. He is laid back and yet very anxiously moving around very quickly when he is talking. The shots transition between the main full table shot and and close up shots of the characters faces. There is something off about the woman, she seems strange in the way she talks and interacts with the waitress, her hair is scruffy, she looks ill taken for which makes her character suspicious. 

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 Which then foreshadows when next the characters decide to rob the restaurant, they hold up the guns seemingly have been very well prepared to at any instant. Showing the viewer that they are carrer criminals, thus successfully introducing the characters. 

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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Review

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Review

 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a dark comedy murder mystery that is narrated by Harry Lockheart (Robert Downey Jr.), a thief who pretends to be an investigator while pretending to be an actor has lessons with a real detective, “gay” perry, and works a case with his childhood dream girl, Harmony Faith. The story follows the works of Raymond Chandler; the movie has five chapter headings, all taken from Chandler’s titles.

Harry gets himself into a very dangerous murder investigation where he loses his finger. It was never really addressed that fingers have fingerprints, and his could have been easy found at any one of the many crime scenes. This happens a lot in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, where technicalities in murders go overlooked; which is what would happen in the crime books that the movie is mimicking (while at the same time it’s a satire of the book). The movie has a lot to do with the books, if you look into more detail you notice things like the chapter named after Chandler's The Lady in the Lake, a gun is thrown into the lake, giving us the girl and the gun formula, which was so popular in typically bad crime novels.

I thought the movie was really good; I liked how it’s a dark comedy with funny, smart-ass comments from the narrations. The humor was very effective, I really liked the too-cool-for-school mockery style of the film, it reminded me of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World a little bit.

The narrations don’t seem to explain anything or advance the story. The dialogue is about everything else in the movie besides what the characters are talking about. I feel like it was easy to get los because no real attempt at coherence was made. When this happens Harry breaks the fourth wall and sits at the end of the movie and actually talks to the audience, this allows the audience to see the scene as if they were watching real events to put emphasis on the humor.I think here, the usage of the broken fourth wall could represent reading a book (Raymond Chandler books) in that essentially when you are reading a book, the whole time you are being told a story. Some books mentally take their readers into the story.

“Put a little of everything on your plate and you'll be stuffed by the end, but what did you eat?”

Some people see this as a bad thing, but I like it. There is no need to understand. You can choose to pay attention to every little detail, or skip over it. Both experiences would be rewarding.

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Film Analysis: Se7en

The movie Se7en is a suspense crime thriller about two investigators on a hunt to track down a serial killer who kills in the theme of the seven deadly sins. I thought this movie was really interesting. I especially liked how the plot came about that the investigated serial killer was killing people for their ignorance of the seven deadly sins, which at first just seemed like different murders with a small suspicion that they may be linked.

A lot of the film is very dark and this reflects film noir, particularly the scenes in the first murder: Gluttony.

The lack of light and the use of sound created when the investigators enter the first house evokes the sense of mystery. Despite, the detective having described the crime outside, there is still a sense right from the entrance that that something isn't quite right. When the  investigators enter, the physical sounds we here are: the rain ominously against the house, the wood below their feet creek as they walk through the house. Then on top of that, high pitched but suspicious music is played in periodic manner as they search for the body. This music when searching gives the audience the feeling that anything could be around the corners, and the fact that the hallway is very dark and shadowed reflects this mystery. The shots are mainly lit by just flash lights held by the two investigators in almost every shot, there is thirty or more percent blackness.

The lighting with the flashlights is effective in getting the viewer to look at something. For example in this shot, the main idea is to get the viewer to notice the untidy shelves and only the untidy shelves. And then for them to relate that to the previous (similar in the same lighting) shot of just the tomato sauce to make a connection between the two. It is now certain that the viewer has made this observation, opposed to the possibility of Morgan Freeman being lit by the light and possibly distracting from the idea, meaning its vital to the story.

This makes it so that as the investigators see the hints around the house, we do too thus making the viewer question the case themselves. Almost making us a part of the investigation.

As the investigators then find the body and look around for clues, the ominous music from before is still in the background yet it is more ambiant, and only becomes prominent when something is revealed, for example when its revealed that the feet and hands of the man are tied. Indicating then that it's a murder. Whats interesting is that now the sound of the rain is gone. Seemingly because the scenes have now made the viewer think about the investigation so the rain noise faded away to draw attention to whats going on in the room and to detach the viewers from the outside to think clearer.

There is an instance where one investigator is picking at details on the body, where there is clear use of leading lines, but also clear defiance of the rule of thirds. Which made me wonder why this was the case. 

The leading lines are from the investigators flash light, that also light his body. His face is turned toward the body, and the flashlight is also pointing towards the body, making you look at the area of light, the investigator and then where he and the flashlight are pointing to. The thing is, that the body is in a smaller portion of the shot and we cant see it very well indicating that something else is off about the body we dont know yet. Also the face is down and all we see of the body is the back mainly, nothing specific about his injuries so far - following the previous suggestion that this is a murder case, indicates there is more about information about this murder to find out. This is reflected by the position of the body. Face down, unspecific, hiding.

The issue with the rule of thirds is one that is applied for most of the shots in this first house. Where the horizontal lines are met accurately, but not the vertical; often the character is in the middle of a shot. I think this last photo shows the directors intentions. The shots make the viewers uneasy, for example the use of black surrounding the investigator and the body make it like we are focusing in. As well as we can see that balance is off with all the awkward rectangles around in the darker parts of the shot as well: the window at a tilt, the small lampshade next to it on another angle, some rectangular shape on the right (possibly a refrigerator) there are lines on the wall, and the doorway behind the investigator is another angle. All contributing to the uneasy feeling we get from the shot.

The acting is really good in this movie, I particularly like Morgan Freeman because he's great in every thing he does. On an unrelated note, this movie was released just a few months before the day I was born.

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Article Review: James Bond, Sex and Masculinity

James Bond, Sex and Masculinity: What the 007 reveals about our culture's views on gender and heroism

This article specifically outlines the cultural impact of the Bond movies on our lives today. Which is interesting because the Bond movies have been around for 50 years; the article describes that the bond movies have outlasted cold wars, government betrayals, terrorist threats and even video game consoles.

The article outlines that James Bond challenges our American Superhero Ideal. Despite the fact that classics like John Wayne, Bruce Willis or Jason Bourne have been middle class, Bond is an extremely high class, gadget using, fancy man, yet he still is categorically mentioned as a "strictly for men" group. I think what most puts Bond in this grouping, and is mentioned in this article, would be his unnatural perfect man qualities. That he kills without guilt, drinks but is never drunk, smokes but never had cancer, all that and he has kept his health and no woman says no to him. He is essentially the ideal man, which is why its so appealing to men.

One thing I think is particularly interesting about this article is that it suggests that Bond has one fault. That fault being that despite the lesser known On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, since Bond sleeps around so much he is unable to feel the true love of a woman and to fully open his heart up to another.

Bond may be naked, but he’s never truly naked before anyone, and in this way he can never be truly loved. What the Bond women (and we) love is the façade.

However, this separation of Bond from normal men plays along in this every man's fantasy man image that makes the films so irresistible.

The article takes a pretty random turn when the bond films are described as being ironic and falling short. It suggests that its ironic for James Bond to be an idealistic man for society when the things he does are potentially very dangerous. Which is ironic in a sense, although I wouldn't say it represents Bond "falling short". All in all, the bond films are an easy escape, the alluring qualities about him have carried the movies for decades and will continue to do so.

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Film Analysis: Paranormal Activity One

Paranormal Activity is a supernatural horror film set in a suburban home of a young couple who are haunted by a demonic presence in their home. The scenes are filmed with "found footage" which is filming seemingly done by the actors themselves; here the boyfriend decides he wants to video tape the house at night to see for himself if anything is going on.

We as viewers see the camera recordings in the night as they are happening and in the day time, we see when the characters watch the recordings from the previous night. Normally, the events start as small things and progressively get worse, for example a door will shut and then open again one night. The next night the characters will awake to hear noises or groans along with crashes for example. All leading up to when the demonic presence starts appearing in the day, and to actually possessing the family members, dragging them into the basement etc.

The setting is simple, the effects are basic and the whole movie doesn't have more than five characters. So what makes paranormal activity so scary? The alluring sense of a realistic place, a random young couple from a typical city living in a normal suburban house. The characters, the setting could apply to anyone and most people who watch the movies can relate to the atmosphere. Also a lot of the scenes, not a lot of things happen, for example when in the middle of the night doors slam, or you hear a screaming noise. Its not much physically happening but its almost predetermined, every person will then relentlessly search their mind for every possibly worst senario that could have made that noise. Reflecting what the characters themselves are clearly thinking as well.

A particularly frightening scene from the movie is on the fifteenth night, when they are both asleep and then suddenly the girlfriend, Katie, gets up and stands near the bed and just stares at her boyfriend, Micah for two straight hours. Then leaves and goes outside to sit on the swing in the backyard. Micah is woken up when she is gone, follows her to the back yard. When his efforts to get her back inside fail, he goes upstairs again to get her a blanket but on his way he hears a bang in the bedroom and finds that the tv has been turned on and then right behind him is Katie, who goes straight to bed saying that Micah woke her up. In the morning she remembers nothing of what she did and is faced with the video recording of herself in the night.

This scene stands out as one of the scariest because it portrays the image of someone close to you turning into something they're not over night and turning on you is frightening from the perspective of the Micah. Suddenly not knowing who his girlfriend is anymore and its almost like she is gone, there is a demon that occupies her body. I think its more frightening from Katie's perspective. In the morning watching a recording of yourself possessed in the night and having no recollection of it in the morning. This again, appeals to the frightened audience that in your sleep, anything could happen and you are defenseless, as was katie.

The movie has two endings, the one I think is more appropriate is the last night Katie gets out of bed and stands beside it staring at Micah for another two hours (like before) and then walks downstairs. After a moment of silence, Katie screams Micah's name. Hearing this, he wakes up and rushes to her. You hear Katie screaming and then she stops and a brief silence is followed by the sound of heavy footsteps coming up the stairs. After another brief silence, Micah's body is violently hurled at the camera in the bedroom, knocking it over sideways and shows Katie standing in the doorway of the bedroom. She then walks into the room soaked in blood. Momentarily crouches over Micah's body then slowly looks up at the camera. And all of a sudden lunges at the camera. The scene cuts to black and ends with an epilogue text states that Micah's body was discovered by the police on October 11, 2006, and that Katie's whereabouts remain unknown.

I like this one better because it draws more focus on the idea of the unknown, which is essentially the base idea of the movie. Leaving the viewer constantly questioning whats going on around them.

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Article Review: Scare Yourself Thin

Scare yourself thin: horror movies help burn calories, study finds

Turns out an actual university study founded that you can burn roughly a chocolate bars worth of calories from watching horror movies.

Before I go on, I'd like to quickly mention that The Gaurdian is a reputable source of information for many articles on film.

The study took place in the University of Westminister, where subjects were set in a room and had to watch a series of 90 minute horror films. Where their heart rate, oxygen intake and carbon dioxide output were measured by scientists recording for the study. The study found that films with regular gripping, jump out of your seats moments were most likely films to help burn more calories because they increased the heart rate by a great extent each time one of these types of scenes is played for the subject audience. The subjects watched 10 films in total, every single horror film they watched got the subject's hearts pouding, and thus calories burning. The science of it all seems pretty simple in itself.

Dr Richard Mackenzie, senior lecturer and specialist in cell metabolism and physiology at the university stated that "As the pulse quickens and blood pumps around the body faster, the body experiences a surge in adrenaline. It is this release of fast-acting adrenaline, produced during short bursts of intense stress (or in this case, brought on by fear), which is known to lower the appetite, increase the basal metabolic rate and ultimately burn a higher level of calories." which is the scientific explanation for why a scare you get from watching a horror movie would help you burn calories. This then brings attention to the question, what is it about the movies that makes your heart beat so fast? How do they achieve this effect on their audience members?

Top 10 energy-burning scary movies

1. The Shining: 184 calories

2. Jaws: 161 calories

3. The Exorcist: 158 calories

4. Alien: 152 calories

5. Saw: 133 calories

6. A Nightmare on Elm Street: 118 calories

7. Paranormal Activity: 111 calories

8. The Blair Witch Project: 105 calories

9. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 107 calories

10. [Rec]: 101 calories

The classically terrifying phycological thriller 'The Shining' by Stanley Kubrick ranks highest on calorie burning. This makes sense because the film is scary in many different levels, firstly that the setting of the film is particularly unsettling in an creepy empty hotel in the middle of winter exiled from any other people. Secondly, most of the movie's scenes are also particularly disturbing in their own right, for example the chilling iconic scene of twin girls at the end of an empty hallway can definitely put a viewer on edge.

Finally, the film outlines insanity as an illness turns that turns the father into a derranged physopathic killer. Relating to a common fear that even someone loving and close like your father can turn crazy and hack his family to pieces.

All these reasons along with Stanley Kubrick's effective use of suspenseful cinematography, come together successfully to create a terrifying movie that is often ranked as the scariest movie ever. Calorie burning or not.

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Film Analysis: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

The film 'Seeking a Friend for the End of the World" is a film set in a modern day, where a 70-mile-wide asteroid is on a course set straight for earth and the last attempt to stop it failed; giving the population just weeks before they face their impending death.

  From the beginning of the film to the end is a time span of 21 days, where the main character, Dodge's (Steve Carrell) wife leaves him immediately and later he meets Penny (Keira Knightly) who turns out to be who he spends his last minutes on earth with. The two contrast in personality; Dodge being a man who has played exactly by the rules his entire life, while Penny is an extrovert with a vibrant personality who strayed away from the conformities in her life. They first meet when a riot sets off in their apartment building and leave for a road trip to complete their last wish before the end of the world. For dodge its to get closure from the (seemingly) love of his life, and for Penny to be with her parents. Both of these events don't transpire the way they were set out to, Penny and Dodge fall in love and die together when the asteroid hits.

The scene I'm going to analyse is a dinner scene. The scene takes place in the empty house of Dodge's past love, the woman he wanted closure from (not his wife). However, the house turns out to be all the closure he needed. The scene starts out with Penny finishing making dinner for them, using what was left in the kitchen. Penny and Dodge eat by the fireplace, sitting on the ground using the coffee table for their dining table. The atmosphere created is very comfortable, its night time so they are completely lit by the fire light, the dog is sitting near them, and in the background the record player they set up is playing a soft tune. Its very humbly romantic and it certainly sets the mood.

The main shot is a wide angle shot of the whole scene, including the two, the fireplace, the dog and surroundings. This shot is used for general conversation they are having, particularly genuine conversation, they talk about what their plans are for the end of their days, about their past and families. That shot is cut with either shots from one of the characters perspectives, looking at the oposite character with both people in the shot or it cuts to close up shots of the characters faces when they are saying something with emotion, or something important. I think this scene is when the audience first gets a glimpse of Dodge falling in love with Penny. Because she is doing most of the talking, and when she does she will say something and the shots will change from his perspective of her talking and an up close shot of his face looking at her as she speaks. The changing of shots like this makes it clear in his eyes his feelings for her.

There is one shot in the scene where its the only full close up of Penny, when she talks about what she isn't going to do with her last days and she gets very emotional when talking about it:

"I'm not gonna waste my time on the wrong person. I'm not gonna waste my parents time introducing them to some future stranger. And those days spent picking out what to wear for nights that don't mean anything. And wondering if you're with the right person or if this is the guy you're meant to have kids with. All those ridiculous questions..."

Through the time she says that, you can tell clearly from her facial expressions its emotional for her, she's just slightly tearing up. The camera angle helps the audience with that effect. Just after she tells him that, there is the only shot of her looking at him, how he looked at her before. In the same close up shot, with longing in her eyes. The scene then connects the two by switching back and forth from him looking at her to her looking at him both with the same expression, and at that moment you can sense the feelings they have for each other. Its really a heart warming scene.

If you haven't seen the movie, I highly recommend you watch it. :)

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The article describes the idea that recently there has been an increase in the amount of violence towards women in films. Especially pertaining to one film in particular, 'The Killer Inside Me' by Michael Winterbottom. However, the article outlines other movies that show the same factor.

The scene in particular that drew so much attention to this issue of violence against women was in the movie 'The Killer Inside Me' is the scene of the death of a prostitute, Joyce. Played by actress Jessica Alba. The scene was a murder where the heroine gets beaten to death, the scene isn't anything that is remarkably gory or particularly graphic compared to other films, but there was something about this scene that shocked viewers. In the article, the writer of the article mentioned:

"even so, I was almost overwhelmed during the scene. It's tough watching a woman whimpering "Why?" as her eye is punched out of place and her bones crunch"

The article mentions another movie with the same violent attributes, 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' that focuses on a woman who gets revenge on men who inflict violence on women. Yet clearly states that neither film condone any violence against women whatsoever. Back to the previous movie, the violence had a direct correlation with the characters falling in love with the main male in the story. Its often said that there is a fine line between the two, which is troubling but something to think about. This is why for awhile feminists have been trying to pick around the topic. This idea is seen in the 'Twilight' series as well.

The suggestion that this idea has been around for awhile is indicated in that most of the movies we see today are adapted from texts from the past, 'The Killer Inside Me' was adapted from a book written by Jim Thompson in 1952. So this idea of violence against women dates back far. This most likely relates to, the now outdated opinion, that men and women aren't equal beings. In the book, along with violence was the sexualized manner of the women characters, where they didn't have very much else to them besides "pretty underwear and bruised flesh."

The suggestion that women are seen in a lot of movies as the victim. The suggestion that is constantly being repeated in our heads in various movies, various genres so everyone is being exposed; just puts this outdated, sexist ideals into our heads.

(: I thought this article was really interesting, definitely worth a look over. The violence topic is outlined really well and its effective when the writer relates the movies to different books and other movies.

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The article I'll be focusing on this week is about stereotypes in film. The article outlines older women, black and gay people. I think the article has a lot of strong supporting arguments.

"Of 4,315 adults across the UK who were surveyed, a clear majority believe cinema too often falls back on discredited stereotypes, including sexless older women, drug dealing, oversexualised black people and gay people whose lives are dominated by their sexuality.

Here, It shows that they have a reputable recourse for their investigation into the stereotyping of films. Essentially, I think the message they are getting across is that film-makers need to try harder to create films which authentically reflect the viewers lives. This encompasses all the viewers, not age specific or race etc. The article also describes Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia! as a positive example of an older woman shown embracing life. However, this is not always the case.

"Film is often two large strides behind TV in terms of advancing positive depictions of lesbian and gay people," said Ruth Hunt, Stonewall's Director of Public Affairs. "Films rarely incorporate positive lesbian and gay characters and storylines."

The fact of the matter is that black people are portrayed as their worst stereotype most of the time in film, as are asian and gay people are more and more being over sexualized. 

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Organizing Work On Your Blog: Pages

Hey, I would recommend for you guys to do what I did on my page to organize my work for film on my blog. I made two linked pages within my blog, one for film analysis and the other for film article reviews. You can go to my blog to see what I did; it’s right under the “contact” link under my photo. It’s to organize your posts for future reference, the posts show up on your main blog, and show up inside the appropriate pages. So for instance, If I wanted to go back to see a certain post on my blog, I wouldn’t have to sift through posts like this one, I could go straight to the right page where all my posts are organized. What you do is simple: 1. Go to your blog (e.g If I wanted to get to mine i would go to www.authorizedbackstage.tumblr.com) 2. In the top right corner click the “customize” tab 3. Go to the left customize side bar, scroll to the tab that says “pages” click that, and then click “add a new page” 4. A pop up window will open where you can create your new page. It will ask you for a url, a page title, if you want to show a link to your page (yes you do) and for a body (put nothing, it doesn’t matter) 5. The page url is the important part because it’s how you organize your posts to show up on your new page, to do this you need to tag them so that they coincide with each other. The url for my fIlm review page is: www.authorizedbackstage.tumblr.com/tagged/filmreview 6. This works when creating my film review posts I would tag them with “filmreview” exactly as it appears in the last part of the url. Tagging is easy, for example one of the tags I tagged this post with is “TAG”. The tags are shown below the post when they are posted. 7. Then you have a place where only your film article reviews show up, and another place where only your film analysis. And they will both be on your main page as well. If you need help, I could help you guys out tomorrow ^^ Or you could just keep your blog one page. Your choice :)

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