Wednesday, October 31, 2007

His Girl Friday

I think that this movie is a nice movie. People talk really fast and sometimes I have a hard time understanding them. I think that movie really showed me how it was like when a girl is being loved by two men. This movie doesn't really showed the romantic comedy because most of the part there are no romantic scene. Only the scene toward the end of the movie, is the only romantic part I see so far. I would called it a screwball comedy more. I see that Hildy is a very strong woman that can control people around her. When she is a specific person the way she talk changed. Like when Hildy is with Walter they talk really fast and forcefully, most of the time the way they talk look like they are having a problem. But when she is talking to Bruce, she talk slow and nicely. Hildy also wear a costume that look not so lady like. Like she wear a hat that look like a news reporter hat. This movie really make me feel that love is something that is so difficult to understand. It is also very hard too to maintain the love of someone. May be in the beginning that person loves you, but in the end that person end up marrying the others rather than you. Love is so difficult thing for me. But I like this movie, but the scene towards the end is quite confusing.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Unforgiven

For me I think that this movie is quite a scary movie because so many people die and they kill each other by guns. They are like wanting to have revenge with others all the time. Which I don't really like this movie. But the part that makes me feel very satisfied and happy is that when Will shoot at Little Bill. I feel happy because I think that he deserved to die and if he won't get killed by Will, there would always be someone else that wanting to kill him because of what he have done to other people. But over all I think that this movie is ok, only the shooting noise startle me a bit.

Monday, October 15, 2007

The King and I (Behind the Scenes)



This story plot comes from the story written by Anna Leonowens, who became school teacher to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s. This movie is a bit like an autobiography but it is illegal, because of the historical inaccuracies about the King of Siam. Then soon it became a movie.
This movie have to be remake 5 times because some part have a bad description about the King of Thailand and the Thai people don’t like that images to tell the people that the King is like this. So I will just tell the original one. This director is John Van Druten, he is famous from this movie. Choreographed by Jerome Robbins, scenic and light design by Jo Mielziner, and costumes designed by Irene Sharaff. There are a lot of camera work and light during the part that the King held a royal party and the camera were like on the ceiling and you can see how bright the light from the ceiling was.
This film won an oscar as the best music. They have their own original sound track and they use the whole orchestra to play the songs in the movie. Every scene have their own music and every music is very wonderful. It make this film won so many osca for best music, acting, etc.
This film was first released in 1951 and when the Thai people watch it, most Thai were shocked by the portrayal of their revered nineteenth-century king (King Mongkut) in the musical The king and I. The stage and screen versions were based on Margaret Landon’s 1944 book entitled Anna and the King of Siam. To correct the record, well-known Thai intellectuals Seni and Kukrit Pramoj wrote this account in 1948. The Pramoj brothers send their manuscript to the American politician and diplomat, who drew on it for this biography entitled Mongkut the King of Siam (1961) Moffat donated the Pramoj manuscript in the Library in 1961. Then there are remarked happened.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

First Western Movie review

On the first scene of stagecoach I have seen how a western look like, and people were like speaking so fast and quite hard to understand what they are talking about. This is my first western movie that I have ever watch and see so I don't know which movie I can compare it to.

I think that this movie is quite fun when I see the chasing happening. It really chapture the attendtion of the class, and my favorite part of this movie is on the last scene that they are running away from the Indians and it make me feel like that you "can do it, you can do it". Because it is very exciting.

If I look into the editing I see that these kinds of movies doesn't have a lot of effect that involve with pictures, but there are alot of sound effects. They use alot of tracking dolls and crane. Have a bit of tilt and pan, and most of the time they use cut, and some dissolve. Their back ground music and sound effect really heat up the movie!

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Citizen Kane

I think that I would like to talk about editing because, I think that editing in this movie is quite interesting because they combine paintings and real people perfectly. I think that doing things like this can save alot of money. They don't have to build a giant house just to shoot it for 2-3 times. It also save alot of time because they don't have to wait for the house to be build, and in the scene that Mr. Kane is talking to a lot of people when he is encouraging people to vote for him. He combine the painting and the real people together, so they don't need to hire alot of people just to sit there. I think that if we go back into that century that there are no program to help to make the movie. I think that the people who is working on this movie is really good.

Monday, October 1, 2007

Film Review




Title: Zoi Sang Jarn (Emerald of the moon light)
Director: Supon Vicheancharn & Chatchai Narksuriya
Main Characters: Puti, Dueantemduang, Maelanee, Keesana
Writer: Supachai Sitiaumpornpun
Producer: Bangkok Drama
Singer: Nichapa Poraam, Vitsarach Suwattanasiri
Composer: peayda Hachaiyaphume, Chaiyawan Puhut


This movie is very similar with another movie that is called Amarutalai
Because both of them is a movie about the mysterious cases that involves historian time in it.
The main character are: Puti (Patchapa Narmparn); Tem (Srisika Jensen)
The setting is mostly in the forest, and cave, and in an ancient temple, and the building in the city where the labritaory is.
The main situation is that long, long before, many, many thousands of year ago, there is a kingdom called Maha na korn Bangbot. This kingdom live a king, and the king have a queen. And as time goes by the king falled in love with the loyal secretary of the king, and when the queen notice that, she have an evil plan. Because in this town there is 2 crystal that belong to the king and this crystal is very powerful and there is a tale that who ever drink and bath in the crystal they will never die and become more powerful. But this crystal have a cursed that who ever swallowed the crystal they will have a power, but they will die if they don’t bring the crystal out before the crystal started to destroy the body. Because the queen swallowed the crystal she became powerful and then she died, and when the king know that the queen died he tough that the royal secretary killed the queen. So she was prosecuted. So after 4000 years they were born again as an historian so the king who is still a lived tries to be able to torture the royal secretary again because of the anger that he keep it in him for thousands and thousands of years.

What will happen next you can watch this in the full version with a length of the movie of 50 hours long and over millions of dollar have been spend on the production of this movie, and 5 years of movie production.

Analysis of the film

I think that it involved convolute, because many things is combined, like they combined the history to the modern. It is also realistic because now in the present there is a place were they research for the ancient stuff and it is very interesting to see the thing from the history.
In this movie most of the time they speak in a normal way, but when it is time that they are remembering the history or the history and the present meet each other people began to speak in an old language that some words I don’t really understand.
I think that the theme of this movie is history because nearly everything is about history.
I found some symbol in the movie like in the beginning of the movie it is showing the professor going into the ancient temple and he uses the bird key to open the door to the temple where the king was. Then in the middle of the movie, they showed it again that the another professor come in again with the bird.
I feel that the actor is really like they are really them and the even is really happening. Because they can be able to react to the situation very well. Which I really enjoyed it.
In the beginning they usually wear like a modern dress, nothing special, but they have guns and satellite, and so many hi-tech stuff that were used in the military. It is very unique to what i have seen in the another movie.
In the movie they use a lot of camera movement. I notice that not even 30 second yet they change the camera, and I get to see the different point of view of each character, so I think that they are making this movie look very interesting. I also see that they use every kind of lens angle.
This movie have a lot of quick cuts, the editing is really good, they can hide every thing that will make people notice nothing is wrong in the movie. They is a lot of magic inside.
There are many sound effect, and normally the movie in Thailand have allot of sound effect, the American movie doesn’t have that much sound effect like in the Thai movie. They also added a sound effect to make everything look so creepy when they get inside the temple. The bird sound is super scary.

This movie is my favorite movie of this year so far.