13 April 2010, I went to watch “Kick Ass” without planning because one of my friends wants to watch it. I watched the thriller before and I like it so I decided to go. Kick Ass movie is very violence and cool movie I have seen.
The character was so cool I will introduce some of the main character in Kick ass.
The little girl called “Mindy Macready” She is cute and she is awesome Mindy’s live with her dad and she’s not an ordinary little girl. Mindy keep practicing with her dad there for someday, she will revenge for her loses mommy under the name “Hit Girl”.
Damon Macready, Damon used to be a cop, a very good cop but there is a bad guy rune his life. It’s a time for revenge, His dress up as a hero and call himself “Big Daddy” his hero suit looks like batman by the way.
Dave Lizewski, Kick Ass the unpopular guy who wants to be a hero just because he believes that anyone could be a hero. Dave is not good at fighting at all, however he become famous and his life in danger when bad guys wanted to kill him.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Red Myth), Christopher is a high school boy who is a big fan of comic book he wants to be friend with Kick ass and want to be a hero but his dad is a bad guy. He have to make a decision for to be a hero or a bad guy.
I found out that Kick Ass is very violence because some of the scene I have to close my eyes. On the other hand I found that I really like this film because the way they tell story and it’s totally different from any hero film I have ever watched. I think the movie is very interesting and worth to watch in a cinema
As one of Anime fan for more than 10 years, I’m gonna choose Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, as known as Spirited Away, a Japanese anime movie by Studio Ghibli, Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, in 20 July 2001. the reason I choose this movie is no other than because I love this movie. Yeah, it’s kinda personal reason, but we start to review some movie because of we like it right?, even though the concept of young girl swept to a fantastical world is certainly not original. We even saw it in Alice in Wonderland. It’s in the Wizard of OZ. in anime perspective, there is Escaflowne, Fushigi Yugi, etc. but Spirited Away seems to stand above the rest. now, what makes this movie important that makes me want to made a review for this movie. Maybe better if I reserve the question, what makes this movie not important?, you see, this movie rated 8.66/10 from 6917 Voter in anidb.net, and even it’s got 8.5/10 from 91662 voters in imdb.com. and not forget it’s also got 8.78/10 from 44853 voter in myanimelist.net, and ranked 18 from all anime from all time in myanimelist.net. it’s even won an oscar, but not only oscar, Spirited Away also win in 35 award, and nominated in 19 more award. It’s even got rank 4 from all the All Anime thatyou think will never be hated by anyone in Anime-planet.com. This is the first film to earn US$200 million in grosses before opening in the U.S. It’s not a startle for this movie to get so much award, because this movie is so astonishing, and beautifully made, animated, and with beautiful sound, which made this masterpiece.
-Now we’re talking about the special effect, the special effect that used in this anime movie is normal special effect that used in every anime, but with the difference by any means Hayao Miyazaki blends both traditional and digital animation techniques to create breathtaking panoramas, characters and scenes. And like the sentence that I quote from the book behind the Art of Miyazaki’s Spirited Away.” The animators draw in outlines so that the gods immersed in the bath and working women aren’t hidden by the steam. The steam formed with particles is inserted into this outline”, and another quote that explains “with CG it’s easy to create steam and clouds that look real. But that’s not what we were aiming for in Spirited Away. We had the animators draw in those outlines in order to create the images we wanted”, from both two quote from the book, it’s really visible that the special effect that used in the Spirited Away is really one or two level higher level than any anime that comes out at that times, even the special effect is look as the same level with the nowdays anime. Which is really impressive because the movie is still being a comparison for new anime movie. And not to say that Spirited Away using a Limited animation style tecnique, which is still used by nowdays anime. In other means, what I wanna say is that Spirited Away is one of some anime that become the trendsetter for the Limited animation Style. Not to say that Limited animation sytle is still used for now days anime. that’s why Spirited Away is become iconic for the anime in the world. but it’s not that Spirited Away is better that the other studio Ghibli movies, it’s just that they didn’t have Oscar back then, so movie like Hotaru no Haka (Grave of Firefly), or Totoro, or Laputa, etc.doesn’t have time to shine in the western world. so all to this point is, this movie is an astonishing, intoxication, beautiful masterpiece.
-With the direction of Hayao Miyazaki, we seeing this movie from a child eye’s perspective which made this movie more interesting than usual. And thanks to Joe Higashi to composed the beautiful, artistic, and memorable background music for this movie which is perfectly fit to this movie situation. Not saying Hiromasa Yonebayashi, as the key animation, the one who responsible to animation in the movie, made this fabulous beautiful animation, that made this movie look like real, not forget Kazuo Nagai as Background Artist, to made this beautiful environment for this movie, which is really synch with the movie. And even the Voice actor for the movie, if you hear the Japanese voice acting, is almost said to perfect, because the way Rumi Hiiragi, the voice actor of Chihiro, is almost perfect, the expression, the tone, is like a perfect gem.
Taxi Driver (1976) Director: Martin ScorseseThis famous film directed by Martin Scorsese is about a mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process. As i know the film directly caused a guy on the assassination of President Reagan, to show his love to Jodie Foster. Undoubtedly, this is a successful affect to the film, although by the extreme method. Maybe the loneliness inside this guy was struck a chord with Travis( as Robert De Niro) , desperate to fill in his emptiness. Does a film has such strong power to do that? Lets go deeper of this film to find out. 1.Travis The film was set in 1976, for the United State never be a time of trouble. Soldiers just came back from Vietnam, the whole nation abandoned them, they are sensitive, desperate and they lost hope.
As Travis, back from Vietnam with his tired body and fragile nerves, sleepless in New York's night. Being a taxi driver seems to be the best job for him. At the darkest time in this sin city, Travis treat it honesty, but New York just killed his passion with those dirty life: teen prostitute, murder.....from that time, he knows he can never be a part of new york, he dont belongs to this world, but he can't go anywhere. Travis has lost, the only place he can find himself is this girl Betsy, a secretary at a president candidate campaign office. But Betsy is just a girl that never understand Travis's world. Lack of social skills, Betsy easily broke Travis's heart, and he was decided to assassinate the president competitor.
Between that, i remember there is a scene, Travis was with some drivers at a coffeehouse, one of them called "Wiz", Travis wanted to ask him something:
Wiz, wait. Can I talk to you for a second? Bye, Killer. You can have all you want. Don't be hittin' on me! Don't be hittin'! You better take your ass out, boy! - Yeah? - I know you and I ain't talked much. But I figured you've been around a lot so you could-- Shoot, that's why they call me the "Wizard." I got-- It's just that I got-- - I got-- - Things got you down? - Yeah. - It happens to the best of us. Yeah, it got me real down. I just want to go out and really, really do something. Taxi life, you mean? Yeah, well-- No, it's-- I don't know. I just wanna go out... and really-- I really wanna-- I got some bad ideas in my head. I just-- Look at it this way. A man takes a job, you know? And that job-- I mean, like that-- That becomes what he is. You know, like-- You do a thing and that's what you are.
This scene shows not only the Travis's wicked mind(with tears) but also lead us to understand how the young people feels in that time. People has no direction in their lives , thats also one of the main reasons that why people became prostitutes, murders....
2.Melting drinks The melting drinks also shows Travis thought his life is melting, by new york's corrupted life, but he staring the drinks, like he was asking himself: do i hav to be like this?
3.Some camera angles and the music
In the film, there are a lots shots like:camera follows parts of the taxi and then from inside the taxi, camera turns to outside views....these scene maybe have no meaning, but really give audience about the loneliness about Travis and the city, the noise street seems to be dead silence. When these scene showing, these was always a slow jazz music following, it really reaching people's heart, makes you feel lonely, cold.
But when the film reaches the final part, when everyone were lay on the floor, the music turns way louder, it became a whole different feeling, which is always happens when a hero dies, strong, loud and tragic.
4.Guns and violence
Martin Scorsese always with violent elements.Travis needs to vent，hes not ok with the the society, he want to do something that makes him feel like he is alive. So he choose to be what he was, a soldier. He wants to use guns and violence to break this world, at least to prove he is different.As I mention above, Travis has been to Vietnam war, he is lack of education, the only thing he expert of is killing, thats why he choose use guns to "stand up and fight".
It’s coming on 16 October 2003. This film direct by Quentin Tarantino. He is director and writer director together. He got idea from Yakuza , samurai and cowboy to make this movie. Kill bill has running time 111 minutes. He has budget$30 million[3]to make this movie. He has revenue US$180.9 million. This movie has 2 parts but today I want to talk about only part one.
This movie told about America the Bride, who want to revenge people. They try to kill her in wedding ceremony by shoots her in the side of her head but she didn’t die. However she has to sleep in hospital about 4 year. When she wake up she got really bad news, she lost her children but in the end of movie bill say her child is alive. That why she really wants to kill everyone who make her be like this. She escapes from the hospital by steal Buck’s truck who wants to play with her body. After kill him, she take his key truck. However she sleeps in the hospital long time so she can’t move her legs and her toes (but why she can use her hand really well?)
She use 13 hour for practice in the buck’s truck. After that she can move normally.she travels to Okinawa to obtain sword from Hattori Hanzo who is sushi chef. After she gets the sword next thing she is going to do. She travels to Tokyo. She confronts with O-Ren Ishii at a restaurant named The House of Blue Leaves in. This part of movie is end after the bride can kill O-Ren.
Character in the movie
The Bride
The Bride ( Uma Thurman )is be leading actress. These movies it makes her look like she want to kill everyone who knows with her by her sword. This part is not told about her history so much but we can know from her behavior in this film. First thing she can use sword really well, it can tell maybe she had a lot of experience about sword. Maybe she ever studies how to use sword from somewhere.
She got her sword from Hattori Hanzo in Okinawa, Japan. While she travels we can know something that different from real world.
In this movie you can take your sword to plane. First time I
think is strange but you can see it not only her who take sword to travel by plane. So, this movie you will see almost of character take their sword all time more than take a gun.
She writes what she wants to do in her book like children. Why she do like that. She worry she will forget what she want to do? Or Her brain has a problem.
Deadly Viper Assassination Squad
Deadly Viper Assassination Squad ( Vivica A. Fox) She is one of assassin of who try to kill the bride. After this event she ran away from this her job. She married and has 1 daughter with her husband. This movie didn’t tell about her husband so much. She is first one who killed by the bride. I like her eye when she want to hidden what happen when her daughter back from school. She plead the bride because she don’t want her daughter know what happen with her mum but in my opinion, if you are be that child. You see your mum with someone who never seems before and your mum has wound all body. Can you imagine what happen with your mum? Of cause yes I can.
O-Ren Ishii
O-Ren Ishii ( Lucy Liu ) she is leader Yakuza in Japan. She is not real Japan people and she can’t speak Japan
language but she can be Yakuza leader in Japan because she will kill everyone who doesn’t agree with her. She has her army (The Crazy 88) this gang is make by people 88 person. Almost person in the crazy88 will be wear black mask. Except, O-Ren's lawyer,
Sofie Fatale (Julie Dreyfus ) and her personal bodyguard .Sofie is a best friend of O-Ren and she is lawyer and translator when O-Ren want to speak with the other Japan people. Gogo Yubari ( Chiaki Kuriyama ).Gogo Yubari she is 17 year old. She looks like normal student but she like to kill people. This movie makes me understand like this because she looks happy when her weapon can make enem
y hurt. For the other person in crazy88 are really feeble. They just shout noise and run around restaurant. When does
the bride move her sword. It will have someone in this group die or lost their hand or some part of their body. It look like the bride sword can easy to cut everything like a jelly. For O-Ren Ishii, this movie introduces her history by long
animation sequence. It good idea to make this movie like this because you can make some detail in animation better than make by normal film. When she is young O-ren family is killed by Yakuza. She can escape from Yakuza by hidden her body under a bad and look Yakuza kill her father and her mother. When she 11 year old she can revenge the person who kill her family. I think she try to find a way to kill same when yakuza kill her mum and her dad. This movie didn’t tell why she is will be killer. Maybe after she can revenge, she found she like to kill people? Or she will be killer because she wants money. In this movie she killed by the bride sword. I think something before O-Ren will die
she say about the sword “it is sword from Hattori Hanzo “. What wrong, If the bride sword is not sword from Hattori Hanzo Can she kill O-Ren. This movie is try to show the sword of Hattori Hanzo is better than other sword. If you have not Hattori Hanzo sword you can’t fights with the bride.
Bill
He is like a leader of assassin and he is father of child in the bride stomach. This part of movie didn’t show detail about him so much, we can see only his hand and listen his sound from the telephone. I don’t
understand. While, he try to kill her when the bride want to marry but why he dissuade his subordinate to kill her in the hospital, while she sleep like a corpse. Or he want to kill her by himself. He say like the bride should has chance to revenge everyone who make her be like that. Maybe Bill disappointed with the bride because she will marry with the other guy. So, he go to that event and trigger his gun shoot at her head and He accept a mistake after he do. So, that why he did not kill the bride in the hospital.
Hattori Hanzo
Hattori Hanzo (Sonny Chiba) He is a renowned sword smith who has retired his life to be a sushi chef. It good idea that change from person who make swor
d to kill people to be person who make knife for slice a fish. This name is really popular in Japan movie. If you watch Japan movie that has ninja you will see this name it that movie. He has ever known with bill before. He want bill die that why he give his sword to the bride. Harrori Hanzo is ever being teacher of Bill. This story didn’t tell why he want
bill to die.
Elle Driver
Elle Driver or code name California mountain snake. She tries to kill the bride in the hospital by w
ear nurse suit and coming to the bride room but bill is break her before.
Other people in the movie
I have something funny in my idea. The police who is first person to meet the brief in the temple. They ware suit but he use cowboy hat. I think is not match wi
th their suit. In my country the movie like this movie it will be fit for only person who older than 18 year old. And some woman can’t watch this movie until end movie because it looks brutally so much for her.
Music in the movie
¼ % in this movie it will be sound effect while they have fighting. So this movie hasn’t music so much. Director chooses to use popular music and pop culture to be reference. Music in this movie is make movie look like in former times and it will have sound like alarm when the movie is exciting. This movie has the brief sound to explain about the story and sound someone teach her something in the beginning of movie and in the end.
I don’t understand everything in this movie. Why the bride is
not die when bullet pass her head. Why they don’t use gun but use sword to kill together. Why some scene in this movie it change to black and white color. However this movie is one of my favorite. Sometime I don’t want to understand everything in the movie, I just want to watch good action from the movie. This movie can mix two country between America and Japan really good. this movie has good camera view. Some movie camera is move so fast you will not see anything until they fighting is end.
Something that I think is bad. Font in this movie is terrible. It easy to read but it look bad. And in this movie you will not see any police in Japan. Why ? it hasn’t law or hasn’t police in Japan?
