Essay...funny games

We watched a two minute sequence of the film Funny Games, a remake of an Austrian film by Michael Haneke. The remake has kept to the original story, in the scene we are looking at the two main characters who are un- named (but are referred to as famous childrens t.v characters through out the film) are in the front room of the house. They have the woman held hostage in her own home, and are torturing her. They ask her how she would like to die, one option was "with the painless big gun", but before they could carry on she shoots the main guys friend and he dies.
The scene then starts to get interesting as the main guy says something like "that shouldn't of happened." He picks up a t.v control and presses one of the buttons. At first it's not clear what he's doing, but then the scene starts to rewind it's self.

Im going to look at the way editing has been used to create different effects.

What I think about Subtitles...

I've watched a few films with subtitles before i watched The Orphanage so i didn't really mind too much. One I've watched before is House of flying daggers, which i thought was really good.

Once you forget that your actually reading the film and not listening to it, you forget what your doing and just concentrate on the film its self. So in The Orphanage i got so used to reading it, i totally forgot, and only at the end did i remember. Also i think if your going to watch a film with subtitles you should make sure its going to interest you. Otherwise i think you'll be concentrating on reading, and how annoying it is, and thinking ''why couldn't this just be in English''.

So overall i didn't mind watching a subtitled film, and i wouldn't mind watching one again, as long as i new it was going to be good, because with The Orphanage i new it was going to be good because my mum's seen and told me to watch it too.

The Orphanage.

The Orphanage is a Spanish film by Sergio G Sanchez. A women called Laura moves back into her home where she lived as a little girl, an orphanage. She decides to renovate it, and turn it back in to an orphanage for disabled children.

Her son Simon, is a lonely child, and his only friends are made-up. This starts to worry Laura, along with the strange games he starts to play. The games become more realistic when he's convinced that his new friend Tomas is real. The game involves taking something you love most and hiding it, the aim is to find it again following the clues. She doesn't believe her son, and thinks he's doing it for attention. But as the game slowly becomes more real, and Simon disappears without a trace, could she start to believe?...


Belen Rueda-Laura, gives convincing portrayal as a mother desperately trying to find her son, and solve the strange puzzles behind his disappearance. The subtitles don't bother you after the first 5 minutes due to the engaging story line, and unpredictable twist at the end.

Homework - Die hard with a vengence review

Die hard film review

I really like this film, i think that Bruce Willis and Samuel L jackson's performence's are very believable. The mood of the film stays the same through out, which is quite dark, but funny at the same time.

They use varied lighting during the film, some times there are just silhouettes which makes you think about what the character is feeling as you cannot see thier face. Or, sometims they use them to create shaddows, e.g. during the film there are shaddows of people running up a tunnel, which creates the effect that they are bigger than usual.

The storyline is easy to follow as it was not too complex, it doesn't have any flash backs, which could sometimes seem confusing. Through out the film the tension rised. To achieve this they used music, some of which gave a comical feel to it. E.g. they used the song ( the animals went in two by two) when they were breaking into a bank. I think they used this because before you saw this, Bruce Willis solved a riddle to do with children and anilmals.)

Before you watch the film you would be able to tell which genre it was by 1. looking at the cover, 2. by reading the name. So by reading this you thought it would be a predictable action film. However, during the film you find out why the German terrorist was trying to kill Bruce Willis, which was not what you thought at first.

Overall, i thought this was a good film. I would recomend this film to all action film lovers. Also my dad who is 41, all ages of people would like this film including my grandad who is 75.