Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Sleeper Hit Films

Hollywood will always blow millions of dollars on advertisement for their flms. They want you to know as much as possible about their films so you can spend your money and go see. They'll put the poster of their film in your stores, a picture of it in your magazine, have its trailer pop up on youtube before seeing your video, and have it on your TV constantly. If they don't let you know how would you know about it. If the studio feels the film will do great it will do whatever it takes to make sure you know about it. Don't worry it is not some evil conspiracy by Hollywood it is that they believe without advertisement their is no chance for their movie to make money.
Above is an example of advertisement for the new Star Wars: the Force Awakens movie coming out. Above is an example of a tie-in advertisement. You see Walmart promoting Star Wars:The Force Awakens, and the film intern promoting Walmart. Stuff like this is used all the time to promote a movie that will be expected to be successful. If a movie is not expected to be successful it would never get promotion such as this.
However that is not the case for these movies. My blog is about the movies that were expected to be losers. The bums of the film industries. The movies that would get beat up and mangled and kicked to the side by critics and movie goers. The movies in my blog are about Sleeper Hits. Sleeper Hits are films that had a small opening or were poorly promoted or not promoted at all and went to receive huge mainstream success anyway. Some of the films went on to become cult classics and something that film critics always get caught off guard by. Sleeper hits to me are what the film industry is all about. It proves that the audience decides what movies will be considered successful purely on their entertainment and originality instead of on their advertisements. In my investigation and reading of the sleeper hits I wrote about I found most of them to be comedies. From that fact I can assume comedies are always a category that is tricky. It can either be a huge bust or a huge success depending on the audience. I focused on my favorite sleeper hit films and I wrote about what I enjoyed about them individually and its impact to its viewers.
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The Karate Kid: The remake

For my last post I thought I talk about the remake of my favorite movie. The Karate Kid (1984) is my favorite movie of all time. I know everything there is to know about that movie. I know the actors, where they are from, the story, the director you name it. So when the remake of my favorite movie came out needless to say the bar was high. The first thing that popped in my head is they better not try to make this movie just like the original because if they do that is it! Ive always had a secret hatred for remakes and if they did it with this one then they already messed up. As you have noticed most remakes have not been good. Whenever you here complaints about remakes it is usually that the movie did  not do the original justice. It is rare to find a good remake. Especially with bad ones off the top of my head like The Sandlot, Conan the Barbarian, and almost every horror movie remake has not been good.
 I didn't want to make any assumptions yet so I thought I should give this movie the benefit of the doubt and not prejudge it, besides it was the remake of my favorite movie so I thought that alone should make it good. When I finally saw the movie my initial reaction was positive. I thought it was a solid movie, and it was entertaining. I wasn't completed wowed or amazed like the original, but it was good enough not for me to be disappointed and I didn't consider this movie as another sorry remake. Fortunately for all Karate Kid fans this film was a decent remake.
The film grossed over 343 million worldwide which was a huge surprise to critics. Critics expected for the movie to do poorly in their numbers and did not expect the movie to garner this much money. It made 56 million over the opening weekend which was twice what critics were expecting for it to make. Which made this the sleeper hit of the year in 2010. However many are confused to how it did so great since the main actor Jaden Smith did not do so great as an actor. However others will agree Jackie Chan did a exceptional job in his part. Its funny because the same was thought about in the original. Ralph Machiho did a alrite job to some critics, but Pat Morita did a phenomenal job which earned him a best supporting actor nomination.
This film while loved by some and hated by some it showed Jackie Chan's wide acting range. He wasn't just some martial artist who did films he was now looked at as an exceptional actor with martial arts skills. So he filled the need for great acting in the film. Jaden Smith supplied the need of comedy and attractiveness. He definitely got his humor and charm from his farther so he does attract a family audience. The title of the movie brought in viewers seeking that nostalgia. Jackie Chan brought in all the martial arts enthusiasts into the theater and Jaden Smith brought in the families and viewers expecting a great performance from him like his father.

The Karate Kid: PG: 2h 20min: Action,drama,family: 2010
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There's Something About Mary: The Farrelly Brothers genius

This is the peak of the Farrelly Brothers power and genius! The Farrelly brothers were both raised in Cumberland Rhode Island. When they finished highschool they both decided to go to college with the dream to become film writers and Directors. The two hilarious Directors made the movie There's Something about Mary which is the third movie out of the first four classic they made. I call their first four movies the gospels of comedy! This film was their next stab at  making people laugh and they did not disappoint the film grossed over 370 million!
In the first four films the Fareelly brothers made including There's something About Mary they all share common themes. The first is they all start in a road trip specifically in Providence except for Kingpin. If you play close attention their films as well always show intelligent able bodied people in their films as stupid, while the people with disabilities will seem very intelligent or inspirational. In general the Farrelly brothers use people with mental or physical disabilities in their movies all the time especially this one. For example in There's something about Mary you see intelligent people like Ted and Pat the private investigator always making a fool of themselves or looking stupid, and you can't help but dislike them at times and pity them. While Mary's brother Warren while mentally disabled is such a lovable character. The film focuses on his strengths instead of his faults such as solving the rubix cube in less than a minute in the beginning of the movie. This was something I appreciate the most about the Farrelly brothers which is their willingness to have people play mentally disabled people and actually have mentally disabled people in their movies without doing so in a over the top offensive way but at the same time making it still be funny. When seeing their movies one could be caught off guard at first, because a person will think "ok am I suppose to find this funny or not?". I believe since the Directors show these characters in strong roles they do not receive so much backlash as people would expect.

So as you can see in this interview with W. Earl Brown the Farrelly brothers were always willing to stretch that political correctness barrier. To be honest they are able to get away with  a lot with what they do because it's just funny. If it wasn't funny they would receive a lot more negative feedback. The farrelly brothers were known to introduce ideas and scenes in their movies for their actors to do that would make even the actors feel uncomfortable at first. In There's Something About Mary when they told Cameron Diaz about the "hair gel scene" she thought it was a terrible idea and that the audience would be disgusted at the idea that the "gel" in her hair was being acted as semen. When they showed the scene to a small audience to test it they all found it hilarious and they went with it.
Obscene? Inappropriate maybe? Most people would answer no way! The Farrelly brothers movies have always been successful and especially in this films case. There's something about Mary was only fourth in gross income in sales that year. So obviously people really enjoy the crude, and slapstick humor. The Farrelly brothers however know when the joke needs to end. They were asked to do a sequel to the movie but declined becasue they felt a sequel just wouldn't make sense. They still continue to make movies and make people laugh. There's Something About Mary happens to be their best

There's Something About Mary: R: 1h 59 min: comedy, romance: 1998
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Juno: Ellen Pages Breakout Role


Seeing this movie the first thing that caught my attention was the performance of Ellen page. It was the first time I was introduced to her as an actress. The only movie Ellen Page did was Hard Candy the year before and the other works she was involved in were all roles she landed in television in Canada. Juno was her breakthrough performance and earned her nominations for Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award for best actress.

When I first heard about the movie the first thing I noticed from the trailer was Michael Cera who was also from Superbad. Side note that movie was also awesome! All the hype and great things about this movie were not coming from Michael Cera but coming from Ellen page's impactive performance. Watching the movie seeing Ellen page's hilariously cynical attitude towards her pregnancy and life in general is what carried the movie. The movie introduces that a lead female character can have an impact on the movie and bring movie sales without being over sexualized, romantic, or stupid (sexuality and culture 241).

The character Juno was a short, un curvy, simple young high school girl. When you just read that last sentence you probably already prejudged it as a boring movie. But she was hilarious, strong, and original. You would think watching a movie about a young pregnant girl would be full of crying and senseless drama, and her wondering why her boyfriend doesn't love her. But that wasn't the case at all she is just a cool girl who happens to be pregnant and that she deals with it by treating it as a joke and hiding behind her sarcasm. Over the course of the  movie she tries to answer her own question that she raises which is "I don't know what kind of girl I am". She also figures out that she really loves that goof ball Paulie. "goldfigure". But her unique performance as a strong female lead is what this made this sleeper hit come awake. Its a must see!

Juno: PG-13, 96 minutes, romantic comedy, 2007
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Thursday, December 10, 2015

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: The East Coming to The West

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon the most successful foreign language film in the U.S! It was the first foreign-language film to break the US $100 million mark in box office receipts. It is a huge surprise because Americans are known for being put off once a foreign language film is released. There is the stigma that it is going to be silly if it is dubbed. If it is subbed instead you will have to deal with the tiring job of reading the subtitles while trying to keep up with the movie. So as you can see the films in the foreign-language category already deal with a lot of obstacles before people even see their movies. While the movie being a success in the East wasn't a surprise; it being a success in the West was. It is unknown that the East does just as well in the West with their own movies. They often do well domestically in their own countries, but internationally that is another story. The U.S. is always looked at as the leader in film making and a film is only considered truly successful when it is successful in the U.S.
The director Ang Lee is a very extraordinary and versatile director. After Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Ang Lee directed The Hulk and Brokeback Mountain. What is interesting is how diverse he makes all his films from each other. You would rarely see one of his films and think "wow this is so much similar to the other" or "this is definitely Ang Lee's work". To be able to make something so mystical and action packed such as Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and then to make something so romantic and Taboo such as Brokeback Mountain is truly something unique. Ang Lee was able to make the movie in such a way that it was relatable not to just an Asian audience but to an American audience as well. 
Over the years the fascination for Asian culture has been growing in America. You can see it in the growing interest in the kung-fu movies in the 1970's, and then later the global success in the Japanese video games and  cartoons in the 1990's (Chan, Wu 195). While the success will seem a bit of a surprise initially, when you really think about it Americans were getting more used to accepting the entertainment that the East was offering. All it took was a great movie like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon to ignite that interest. Their were already fans of the Asian culture and entertainment within the United States before this movie, but once this movie came out it shed even more light on Asian films. 
As you see here in the clip it is something extremely different from what American viewers would be used to. First off you see two females fighting in this scene. In most American films during this time it was very rare you will see females fighting and if they did it would be no where near as proficient as this. This particular film also had it's focus on the beauty and skill of martial arts particularly wuxia which is Chinese swordsmanship. While we have action in our films it is not as intricate and focused on the person such as this movie. If you see a movie like Rambo it is not really him fighting the enemy using his fists the whole time. It is him using a gun, a bazooka, a bomb, etc. In this film you see the characters use their bodies, a bamboo stick, and a sword. The focus is more on the characters' skill as a martial artist and what they can do instead of what they can use. With that said their is a focus in romance in this film as well. A stigma that many viewers may have on the Martial arts films is that it is always about action and it is pointless and confusing. In this film their is a clear focus on plot and romance and while the older "kung-fu" movies may have been that way it was definitely not the case for this film.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: PG-13: 120 min: Action, Drama, Romance: 2001


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Napoleon Dynamite


Apparently Napoleon is not the only one who appreciates his own awkwardness. To be honest my first reaction was like "what the hell" how is this movie so popular. I was pre-judging however before I saw the movie, the only advertisement that I have seen is the trailer. I did not see the trailer in till about a year later when I saw the DVD version of Dodgeball in my house. My niece was hounding me about how funny it was so I gave the film a chance and I watched the whole film. The best phrase to describe it was that it was the driest, funniest, most awkwardly refreshing movie I've seen. All I kept thinking is why do I think this is funny right now, it shouldn't be funny. Why I thought something so simple as Napoleon stuffing tatter tots in his back pocket to be hilarious? Also the fact I started to believe Kip was a ladies man like he said he was. 

Why is it that a movie that I knew nothing about came to be something I felt "how could I have lived without seeing this movie? How is it that something that seemed to have no hope for success become so successful? The only thought that came to me was its originality. I'll admit that is such a typical answer, every great movie is deemed "original" and "new". However it really does deserve to be called original. When I saw the trailer the first thing I thought was "good lord what the hell is Jared Hess thinking?" Jared Hess is the director of Napoleon Dynamite. In the trailer it seemed to be a random, typical coming of age movie, and also depressing. Everyone in the trailer has a serious, emotionless mug on their face; it almost seemed the actors themselves were depressed. So at first glance that turned me away. Second non of the actors in the movie seemed recognizable, and Jared Hess the director was a new name to me as well. The only thing that brought me to watch this movie and for most viewers was word of mouth which saved this movie. The movie made only over 100,000 in it opening weekend. Then it kept doubling in its earnings every week instead of decreasing in till it got to a steady increase by week 6. All together it made over 45,000,000!
You can see as Jon Heder explains the impact his character has for the audience. His character Napoleon Dynamite almost became a sort of an icon for viewers everywhere. He became a character that everyone recognized and someone frequently quoted and mimicked in other shows, movies, and peoples lives. I can't tell you how many Napoleon Dynamites I see walking around during Halloween.

 Napoleon Dynamite: 1hr 36: comedy: 2004

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MAD MAX: The Futuristic Western


 
MAD MAX! One of the best science fiction movies out there. Critics and regular movie goers love this movie. Its obviously a cult classic appearing on all TV stations as reruns and it came out almost 30 years ago. Mad Max is almost like the futuristic version of old westerns. The hero (Mel Gibson) is a Australian cop stuck to deal with the lawlessness in a post-apocalyptic world. The world is filled with famine, disease, and violence because their lacking humanity's most treasured resource oil. Its full of some of the best car chases, crashes, and violence. Here is a clip to see how similar it is to the beloved old westerns but at the same time how unique it is. 

 
Not bad for 1979 right! It looks like a film that has a little Dirty Harry in it, some Death Wish, mixed in with like some samurai legend elements. In the course of the film Max Rockatansky is viewed as some unwilling hero who is thrown in this whole mess to save whats left of the torn up world he lives in. Mad Max is similar to a old western ranger in a sense that while he is a product of his environment he still overcomes and becomes redeemed and a redeemer for the world that's around him. 
 

George Miller the creator and director of the film franchise Mad Max is a special character as well. One question when watching this movie is why is it so Gorey and violent. George Miller based the violence and gore on his accident that he experienced in his life. The budget for the film was only 350,000. For a movie with so much car crashes, chases, and violence its a huge surprise on how they pulled it off. What is also interesting is that George Miller was a practicing medical doctor while he was filming this movie. The money that he received for the production were mostly donations from his other medical associates. So the fact that he as a director put his own money into this movie and made it himself makes it that much more special. You can see the creativity in the movie that could not have come from another Director other than George Miller. If he wanted, George Miller probably could have sold the rights of the film to a bigger corporation and let them deal with it but he most likely than would not be the director and a lot of bogus changes would have been made to the movie and it wouldn't be the movie we love today.


George Miller with actors Tom Hardy and Mel Gibson
It is a film that garnered the attention of a lot of viewers because it brought back that nostalgia of old western and strong gritty heroes. American Film always had that, but with the Mad Max franchise it brought a new twist to it, because instead of being a film that has senseless violence; which it has don't get me wrong, it also had a very important message or theme to it we can learn from. In one way you can take the message that the film represents our destruction as a society because of our importance in technology has taken over our lives, and because of that it is leading to our destruction. Or you can take the humorous satire message out of it that it represents a doomed world that keeps going back to its old patterns which will eventually destroy it.

Mad Max: R: 88 min: 1979: Action, Sci-Fi
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Rocky: Americas Manly Man


Rocky, it was the movie I watched and I thought other than the accent I wanted to be just like him. He was the kind of guy you knew would be the under dog but all you could do was root for him to win because he was such a nice guy. Rocky is the classic underdog story. I remember when my dad would jokingly say "hey don't worry son I'm like Rocky I can get through anything". So what is so amazing about this movie? First the story behind the making of the movie is just as amazing. No one expected the unknown Sylvester Stallone had the skills or the money to pull off such a film. Sylvester Stallone struggled as an actor and moved back to New York with a dream to become a great actor. He came up with the idea of Rocky and wrote the film in only three and a half days. He loosely based it off the famous fight between Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner a rugged club fighter know one knew who made it through all fifteen rounds with the champ. 

As you watch the video you see Chuck Wepner the challenger being pummeled by the champ like nothing. While you admire the champ for his skills and grace you cant help but have a weird attraction to Chuck's ugly, unpolished, street type of fighting. You can tell he is no where near the level of the champ but for the life of him the guy will not quit at all; he just keeps fighting and you wonder how it is possible.

In this video its the final fight in Rocky. Rocky Balboa finally fights Apollo Creed. As you can see Creed is so similar to Muhammad Ali in his flashiness, his charisma, and confidence. You see Creed even moves like Ali in how he fights. Rocky you see hes very humble you can tell hes shy as soon as he introduces himself in the ring. When he fights you can see that he is sloppy, wild, and stubborn. For most of the fight you see Rocky taking a viscous beating. However unlike in the previous clip Rocky was able to hurt the champ. Sylvester Stallone is smart enough to show Rocky is no joke. While we love our underdogs we prefer for them to be winners as well. People are only behind the underdogs only hoping they will win not lose. SPOILER ALERT! Rocky still lost this fight to Apollo Creed but the only difference is Chuck Wepner was forgotten, Rocky Balboa was remembered forever.
Rocky statue in front of Philadelphia art museum

Rocky was only shot in 28 days with a budget of only about one million. Its an underdog story both in the film and the making of the film. It would also become nominated for ten academy awards for which it won  Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Film editing. The people loved the film so much because it is something we can all relate too and admire and at the same time is something so American.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Memento: The Clueless Hero

Before the films that we all love such as The Dark Knight Trilogy and Inception this is what I consider to be Christopher Nolan's first masterpiece the Director of Memento. The Director is known for focusing on the plot of all his films and the complexity of the story. This movie was the first movie where I actually had to pay attention to understand what was happening. During the course of this movie all the viewers have to become investigators and figure out whats happening during the story. In most movies while the viewer may be aloof to what is happening at least the character knows the story and we have a guide to rely on during the movie. In the course of the film we are not only trying to figure out the story, but the main character is also trying to figure out who he is and the story repeatedly. Leonard Shelby the main character of the movie is the most unreliable character in the movie.









Leonard Shelby played by Guy Pearce has suffered a head injury while trying to save his wife from being murdered. He now suffers from short term memory loss a condition where he cannot retain new memory. He only retains memory the night his wife was murdered and prior. So this fact about the character is what makes the story so interesting. Because since neither us as the audience and the main character have no idea what is going on, the story is open to interpretation. This film gives us the unique opportunity to create our own back story, our own interpretations, and our own answers. Lenny made his whole purpose to find the killer of his wife and kill him. Could Lenny have had been the killer and we just don't know it? Did he already find the killer? Are the people in his life really for his benefit or not? These questions will continue to be murky through out the film. Whenever we learn something for the first time, it his also new to him. Since Lenny was an investigator prior to this he learns many ways to retain information in a way that can not be changed and is trustworthy.












As you see in the picture Lenny has tattoos of information all over his body. Like Lenny always says "facts are important and they must be recorded". He doesn't let his condition stop him from getting the facts that he needs and keeping them. The most reliable way he keeps information and probably the most iconic is he tattoos of facts on his body. The most noticeable one is the one across his chest that reads "find him and kill him". He also takes Polaroid pictures of every person he meets and puts a fact about them behind the picture and keeps them with him at all times. Here's a clip of how he deals with his condition and how the tattoos help him in being able to still have control of the situation somewhat.
So as you can see here while Lenny is the hero of the story he is the most vulnerable person in it. You can't help but feel bad for him, but at the same time expect for him to pull through and overcome because that is what a hero in the story does. However it is more complex than that in this film. You come to learn that you cannot only trust the other characters in the film but Lenny as well. You would ask well how is that possible when he has no control over the facts, and when he can hardly retain them? That is wear lies the important question. Are the small facts that Lenny has being manipulated by himself for himself and why?

The film employs all different types of unique qualities to make the film such a fantastic film. The construction of the story is made in a way where the viewer is discovering the ending along with the main character. The way it is filmed using both modern and old noir type styles and the way the hero is portrayed is unique. I highly recommend and hopefully you can figure it out in the first view.

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Saturday, October 31, 2015

The Blair Witch Project: Fact or Fiction?

 
 Is it real? that was the question that ran through many minds of the people that saw this movie in theaters. Terror and suspense went through all the minds of the people when they finished this movie and they asked themselves the question is any of this even real? Is what I am seeing a movie or the last moments of peoples lives that happened to be bought by a big company (Artisan entertainment) and showcased to the world for our sick pleasure? I'm going to save your blood pressure by telling you don't worry the three main actors of the film made it out alive. But how did this movie come to be the most successful independent film in film history what did the directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez do differently and how?
On the left is the poster that was put all over the city near the venue where the sundance film festival was to be showcased. They put up the posters up in the city five months before the film festival, more than enough time to cause some hysteria and problems. To the directors surprise people took the poster very seriously by assuming these three teenagers were missing. They did mean to cause and uproar but they did not expect it would rise up to this level. Fun fact! The creators ended up taking the posters down because and executive producer from the film industry actually got kidnapped so out of respect they took them down.
The affect of the poster was huge in that it got the audience to question is what they were seeing a documentary or just a cleverly filmed movie. Another tactic the creators used to add to the films mythology was the use of the films website. As soon as Artisan Entertainment saw the film in the Sundance film festival they bought the rights to the movie and continued to create more ways to make the film seem real. They took the films website and added a timeline to it, police reports, and pictures. People were really into it. Here is a link to the movies website and how it looks now. http://www.blairwitch.com/. Why was the website being used such a good idea and why was the company able to get away with this? The internet is hands down the best way to spread hoaxes, fake celebrity deaths, rumors and more. This is possible because this is perfectly legal. you are completely free to put false information on the web and call it true and if people believe it that is their problem. So what about the very film itself? All the advertisement they did were great but what about the film? First here is a clip of the opening scene.

As soon as you noticed in the opening scene of the movie their were no credits. This is the first thing viewers see when they watch the movie. So you would ask yourself is this just some found footage? This was the first popular movie to use the first person style for their film. So it also received a lot of buzz and attention because viewers want to see this new movie that was filmed like "someone and their buddies made". It added to the terror and fright viewers received when watching the movie, because it seemed real. Since The Blair Witch Project was so successful in using this tactic many horror films and later regular films perfected and used this type of filming style to make their movies. Their is the paranormal activity franchise, Cloverfield, Project Almanac, and Chornicle, and others. "The creators of The Blair Witch Project manipulated the various media through which its narrative was presented in a manner that encouraged initial audiences to experience its fictional story as if it were non-fictional."(The "Witchcraft" of Media Manipulation: Pamela and The Blair Witch project). The bottom line is all viewers want something real. The creators of The Blair Witch Project wanted to project what they were showing was real and we accept it even thou deep down we know it is not. However it's fun to pretend what we are seeing is real and that is what I did with this movie and many others. I tried my best not to spoil the movie so I hope you watch it. I did spoil the fact that it's not a real documentary but its 2015 I hope you figured that out by now.

The Blair Witch Project: 81 min: horror: 1999
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