hitchcock

All three Hitchcock movies we watched in class were all pretty good, except the 39 steps. I didn't like that it was in black and white and the whole plot kind of bored me. Rear Window was really boring in the beginning but when you start to fall asleep then BAM the action starts and it get pretty suspenseful and shady. Vertigo was also really good until you get really into it and the end comes along, then it just makes you super frustrated. When Madeleine "falls" out of the window to her death? She was like literally five feet from the edge. It was for sure a run and jump. The filming was really bad behind that one. Unless, it was trying to leave the ending to interpretation. Then it did a really good job, because I really think it was a run and jump and Mr. Klobuchar seems to disagree. Hitchcock uses many different elements that makes him different from other directors. For example; how he always uses a blonde woman that a middle aged man falls in love with...how he appears in his movies...how the man makes the woman change: like in vertigo he recreates Judy back into Madeleine and in rear window the woman changes into a more "manly" woman. I think he's a very good director and does a good job at creating movies that no other movies are like.

Cinderella Man

For my second Ron Howard movie, I watched Cinderella Man. I deffinetly liked this movie more than Apollo 13. Although both movies were very suspenseful and exciting, I think Ron Howard made Cinderella Man a better movie by the way he used love, suspense, and passion for boxing. Cinderella Man is a movie based on a true story of a former heavyweight boxing champion, James J Braddock. The story is about Jim Braddock (Russell Crowe) and his wife, Mae (Renee Zellweger) are two very poor people with three young children and their struggle to find work, make money and feed their children. During the Great Depression, Jim works some very low paying jobs, with a passion to get into the ring again. Suddenly, a boxer cancels a fight and Jim gets a shot at his dream once again. After many fights Jim finally meets his toughest match, Max Baer, for the championship. This is where the movie is the most suspenseful due to the fact Baer has killed two people before in the ring. After a brutal fight, Jim wins heavyweight boxing champion. It was really exciting I got shivers. I think he really deserved to win this fight because he had the heart and now his family can live a healthy life. I really enjoyed this movie, and Ron Howard is one of my favorite directors now and I can't wait to watch more movies directed by him.

Apollo 13

The first movie that I watched in my series of movies directed by Ron Howard was "Apollo 13". So far I like Ron Howard's style in film making. He does a really good job in making the movie really suspenseful and he does a good job at useing "flashforwards" of dreams to make you wonder if that incident will really happen, which draws the viewer in even further. Jim Lovells wife has a dream about Jim and company's rocket loosing oxygen which starts making glass shatter and everything just go downhill from there. The dream occured later on in the movie, when all the oxygen leaks outside of the rocket but the team manages to get through it. Ron puts little details in the film of like Jim peeing in this tube-like thing and it just makes you wonder how/where they poop. Anyways, I saw this movie a long time ago but seeing it twice makes you appreciate it more. Ron Howard does a really good job at making the movie suspenseful by adding in scary music or just little sounds that are "a joke" by the other people on the rocket. It always keeps you on the edge of your seat. In all, I really liked the movie and I'm excited to watch two of his other movies!