The movie the great debaters is based on a true story about a debate coach Melvin Tolson played by two time academy award winner Denzel Washington. The Story took place in the 1930's where lynching and unequal rights was widely practiced mainly in the south. He wanted to prove to the world that Blacks were smart too and to inspire his people and get them equal opportunity as the Whites. He fought against the odds eventhough the odds of his team making it was very very slim to none, he was stubborn and he casted a girl to be apart of the Wiley College debate team , eventhough white women had couple of years before got the right to vote, did not mean that the country was ready to free the black man from slavery yet alone give their women the right to voice their opinion publicly. I personally enjoyed this movie because it took me back to the era of slavery. I know there are a lot of films that touch upon this subject but there is no hope for the people involved. My favorite scene is the scene where they debate Harvard University and the most commonly repeated phrase being "A law that is unjust is n law at all", basically saying that each and every individual have got to have the same amount of right and freedom to explore what they like. They ended up wining the debate and they won twelve more debates following their first win. The main point of the film was to show all the hard things that colored folks have over come and all the progress that has been made. There were some high key lighting emphasizing on some of the highlights of the movie and low key lighting showing more dark tone tone with the unjust that was happening. A lot has changed from that period of time but there is a long way to go to over come racial tension and ensuring that everyone gets the justice they deserve.Thursday, October 30, 2008
The movie the great debaters is based on a true story about a debate coach Melvin Tolson played by two time academy award winner Denzel Washington. The Story took place in the 1930's where lynching and unequal rights was widely practiced mainly in the south. He wanted to prove to the world that Blacks were smart too and to inspire his people and get them equal opportunity as the Whites. He fought against the odds eventhough the odds of his team making it was very very slim to none, he was stubborn and he casted a girl to be apart of the Wiley College debate team , eventhough white women had couple of years before got the right to vote, did not mean that the country was ready to free the black man from slavery yet alone give their women the right to voice their opinion publicly. I personally enjoyed this movie because it took me back to the era of slavery. I know there are a lot of films that touch upon this subject but there is no hope for the people involved. My favorite scene is the scene where they debate Harvard University and the most commonly repeated phrase being "A law that is unjust is n law at all", basically saying that each and every individual have got to have the same amount of right and freedom to explore what they like. They ended up wining the debate and they won twelve more debates following their first win. The main point of the film was to show all the hard things that colored folks have over come and all the progress that has been made. There were some high key lighting emphasizing on some of the highlights of the movie and low key lighting showing more dark tone tone with the unjust that was happening. A lot has changed from that period of time but there is a long way to go to over come racial tension and ensuring that everyone gets the justice they deserve.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Citizen Kane
The first scene of Citizen Kane was mysterious because it starts off with a close up shot of the sign "No Trespassing" and the viewers automatically know that they are about to enter a restricted place. There are so many questions that go through the viewers head because we wonder what was the significance of the dying words of Mr Kane which was "Rosebud". As we find out at the end of the movie the word itself isnt as important as it seemed at the begginning of the movie as the director purposely made the dying words of Mr Kane significance but it was all to throw the viewers off. Mr Kane also had a snow globe in his hand and you wonder what is the connection between rosebud and the snow globe. At the end we learn the rosebud is the sled Mr Kane used to play with and the only thing that remained constant in his lifetime. As a child his parents gave him up in order for him to pursue a better life and most importantly to get him away for his abusive father. He had all the material things money can buy. Most of the shots were shot in low key lighting to emphasis the emptiness and the life Mr Kane lived. Even though, he had lots of money, he was deep down lonely and sad. He had changed his persona and through Mr Leiland, a close friend of his. We learn that Mr Kane changed drastically because he wanted to be loved by everyone and he felt the people owed him the love. You can not help but to feel sorry for the guy, after all his parents sort of chose his lifetime from the early stage of his life. He could've known better and chose to use his popularity and celebrity status to make a difference in hiscommunity. I guess one can say that he tried but that money is the root to evil and that he got carried away with the worldly things and not caring for others.
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