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The AMCI exhibition reveals the sets of Baz Luhrmann’s Australia and more then 300 works such as Cabaret, Alien and The Matrix. The set of Baz Luhrmann’s Australia was the biggest aspect of the exhibition because of course it was about Australia.
There were design models of behind the scenes of movies, as well as sketches, storyboard and televisions that showed the making of the Matrix.
It wasn’t the most inspiring place to be, nor did it really inform me of anything that would cause me to take any immediate interest in the films they were showing.
For an Australian exhibition I pretty much saw what I expected of our standard when it came to exhibitions. Even art exhibition are lacking in the design department. It was also quite costly at $15, I doubt they’ll get a large audience with that kind of fee.
1. The set up
It starts in the year 1900 with a man named Max Tooney who plays the trumpet and is narrating as well. Max plays on a ship that goes back and forth from Europe to America. And then starts telling a story of how he knows about a mysteries song that never been heard of before.
2. The inciting incident
A worker on a ship finds an abandoned baby and takes it in as his own. The baby grows up as a child on the ship while being looked after by his Guardian father.
3. Act 1 turning point
In a freak accident the father dies while working on the ship. And so the child is left on the boat. The child is to scared of what awaits him on land and so remains for the rest of life on board.
4. Mid point
Max Tooney for the first time meets 1900 when all grown up and plays the piano on board the ship.
5. Act 2 turning point
Max finds the boat that 1900 lived on is about to be put out of commission and to be blown up after decades of voyagers. Max stops the boat from being up so he can find 1900 still on board the boat.
6. Climax
1900 competes against Jelly Roll Morton in a piano dual and wins. Jelly is so amazed and shocked by 1900’s skills that he locks himself in his room for the rest of the boat trip.
7. Resolution
Max finally finds 1900 with on board the ship hidden from site. 1900 refuses to leave, telling max he won’t get off the ship even though its about to be blown up because it’s where his lived his entire life and there’s nothing for him outside that he needs to see. Max leaves 1900 on the ship do die and it explodes.
1. The set up
It begins with the apes are running around screaming at each other. And run off from the invading apes.
2. The inciting incident
The obelisk makes the apes wonder what it is and they approach it with caution. Some of them begin to touch it with bravery and feel it’s smooth touch. After coming into contact with the obelisk the Ape becomes smarter because the obelisk has given it more intelligence some how.
3. Act 1 turning point
Now that they ape understands how to use tools he uses the bone to win against the invading apes and everyone adopts this new understanding of the use of tools.
4. Mid point
They obelisk is found thousands of years later by the evolved apes that once touched a different obelisk. Thus comes the second jump in humanities evolution
5. Act 2 turning point
The HAL program makes a mistake for the first time and kills off one of the crew because he’s made a mistake and he doesn’t wont to be found out.
6. Climax
Dave comes to the rescue as it were an endures HAL’s attempt to kill him. He eventually turns HAL off even though Hal tries to stop him through verbal persuasion.
7. Resolution
Dave goes out to check on another obelisk and finds himself in a crazy space warp tunnel which sends him to another reality – a future reality, where it’s what it have would been if he never got sucked into the warp tunnel. He sees himself and ponders what’s going on and then some how turns into a baby floating in space.
Written and directed by Shane Meadows, This is England is a film about the white working classes of the 1980s in Britain.
The film explores how youths were active before the introduction of video games and how skinheads at that time racially viewed anyone who wasn’t of the white nationalism culture, or at least apart of groups such as the national front.
This was the sort of movie that didn’t require any special effects or million-dollar budget because of the angle of the story. The 12 year old boy Shaun was probably the best child actor I’ve ever seen, he new how to act and I was convinced at some moments that he wasn’t even acting but that he was like that in real life (that was possibly why he was chosen.)
I recommend it for everyone, even though it’s for mature audiences, it’s simply an educational film on the people of England in the 80’s and yet it delivers so much history and emotion, it’s most likely my most favorite movie so far.
The Spirit, a film directed by Frank Miller is a comic book story about the hero the ‘Spirit’ who defends Central City from crime.
The story itself seemed very well developed, Sand Saref’s hatred for the police and the law, triggered by her father’s accidental death by the Spirit’s uncle, entwines their destiny to eventually reunite. The correlation between the Spirit’s sense of respect for the law compared to Saref’s hatred for it was a brilliant way to impose depth and character envelopment between the two.
The eventual conclusion that the source of the spirit’s unnatural powers he uses to fight crime were an experiment conducted by the spirits’ very nemesis the Octopus, was a well planned and thought out construct that ties all the characters together.
Because of Frank Miller’s earlier work such as directing Sin City and producing 300, there are similarities portrayed in The spirit that can be seen in his previous works. These similarities between Sin City and The spirit are visually entertaining and illustrate a well defined sense of what was depicted in Will Eisner’s 1940s comic strip.
