http://blogs.elsweb.org/royalewithcheese Just another blogs.elsweb.org weblog Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:32:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo is a film about a ronin samurai who wanders into a town filled with chaos and corruption, and he soon feels he must find a way to clean up the place. This is a common theme in Western films; a man comes into town and shakes ... http://blogs.elsweb.org/royalewithcheese/2007/04/30/final-blog-yojimbo/ As soon as this group mentioned "The Glass Key," I thought "Yeah, Veronica Lake was kind of a "bad girl" while playing Janet Henry. She was the individual writing notes to people about the murder of her brother. She was attempting the find out who the killer was, ... http://blogs.elsweb.org/royalewithcheese/2007/04/28/the-original-invisible-woman/ For class on 4-25-2007. I cannot see Vertigo as a film that is all about men possessing women. I see it as a film that is more about how men and women construct desires within each other. This idea was brought up in class, and after seeing a few ... http://blogs.elsweb.org/royalewithcheese/2007/04/28/the-most-important-of-the-five-senses-sight/ This is for class on 4-20-2007 I enjoyed the end of Freeland's article, the area I presented on in class. (I was the last one to speak.) But she brought up a point that seemed a little far fetched. She pointed out that all of the dinosaurs in the ... http://blogs.elsweb.org/royalewithcheese/2007/04/25/freeland-jurassic-park-female-dinosaurs/ For the class on 4-18-2007 "Vertigo" was set up to be a MacGuffin, it just was. After seeing the film, I could fully understand what Professor Campbell meant when he used this term. Right from the beginning of the film Det. John 'Scottie' Ferguson (James Stewart) begins watching Madeleine ... http://blogs.elsweb.org/royalewithcheese/2007/04/21/macguffin/ For the class on 4-16-2007. I forgot to write a point in my last post so I'll write it here; it was supposed to go at the end of the previous post. Arne is the example of not "playing the game" so to speak, and he has a major impact ... http://blogs.elsweb.org/royalewithcheese/2007/04/21/anticipating-the-end/ I see Eben as a lost soul in the world; he doesn’t really seem to belong. He paints landscapes that no one wants and tries to get by on nothing. Eben seemed very close to giving up on life, but suddenly he met Jennie. Soon after their ... http://blogs.elsweb.org/royalewithcheese/2007/04/15/inspiration-or-cause/ The 1948 version of "Portrait of Jennie" has a few characteristics that strick me as odd. First, the film seems to take on the features of an old detective movie. Eben is sitting in a chair or starring out of a window into the night, a pondering look ... http://blogs.elsweb.org/royalewithcheese/2007/04/12/1948-portrait-of-jennie/ For class on 4-9-2007 I'm having a hard time figuring out what Jennie was exactly. At first she seemed like a ghost, but Eben could touch her and everyone could see her as well; she even rode in Gus's cab at one point. But she keeps going away and ... http://blogs.elsweb.org/royalewithcheese/2007/04/11/the-disappearing-act/ As we watched the Dave Hoover walk toward the darkness and hold his gun up in the air, I believe that’s all he did. The gun did not look like it went off. It even sounded like the gun shot was added in later, maybe during editing. ... http://blogs.elsweb.org/royalewithcheese/2007/04/08/the-magic-bullet/