Movie Review : Easy Rider

In Easy Rider, the mid 20th century intriguing drama directed by Dennis Hopper, we were drawn back to 1969 to shed light on the influences of drugs, sex, and culture as the characters began to question the American system in this counterculture movement. The counterculture movement provoked an alternative lifestyle that came about during the Vietnam War. The tensions following the protests of human inequalities embodying racial segregation and the frustration faced with the draft system resulted in the Civil Rights Movement. This film, Easy Rider, helped to formulate and to transition over to the New Hollywood slump era.

John Ford built a standard that many future directors would follow with his classic 1939 film “Stagecoach”. Although there were a plethora of western films made before 1939, the film “Stagecoach” revolutionized the western genre by elevating the genre from a “B” film into a more serious genre. The film challenged not only western stereotypes but also class divisions in society. Utilizing specific aspects of mise-en-scène and cinematography, John Ford displays his views of society.

Night of the Living Dead (Romero, 1968) is a movie that contains a large amount of historical significance. This movie is well known for its incredible relevance to the year that it was released. The movie has been described as “A Newsreel of 1968”, and there is ample reason to make that statement. The year 1968 was a very tumultuous period in American history that saw a great deal of violence overseas and in the United States itself. There were many history altering events that took place during 1968, which would all serve to rile up and instill fear and anger in the American people. 1968 saw the latest presidential election in which there was great division amongst the parties, and was the election in which Robert Kennedy was assassinated. Not only did that year see the assassination of another Kennedy, but it also bore witness to the assassination of the most prominent civil rights leader of the time, Martin Luther King Jr. With these tragedies a war in Vietnam raged which had riled much of the country into protest, especially young people.

During the 1960s our nation was going through many important and crucial events. From the Vietnam War to national politics, and even civil rights, our country was changing a lot. In particular, the year 1968, was when our country went through a major turning point, especially when you take in consideration the major events that involved the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement such as the “Tet Offense”, violent protests, and the Civil Rights Act being passed.

Hollywood cinema is primarily subjected to telling stories. The inclination of Hollywood narratives comes not just from good chronicles but from good story telling. The following essay will discuss Hollywood’s commercial aesthetic as applied to storytelling, expand on the characteristics of the “principles of classical film narration” and evaluate alternative modes of narration and other deviations from the classical mode.

Clint Eastwood’s, Unforgiven, represents a “new” type of Western that defies the formula previously used to create traditional Western films. Unlike Shane, a film with a clear-cut threat to the community, endangering all homesteaders, a lack of defense, creating an unfair advantage to the threat imposed, and a true hero, one who saves the day and must willingly return to where he came from, Unforgiven is a Western that is told through a different formula. Eastwood tackles this revisionist piece and lacks the three basic components to any classic Western film – a threat, lack of defense, and a hero.

The Wild West is one of the most famous time periods in American history. Spanning from post Civil War to the early 1900’s, the West was plagued by outlaws, deadly diseases, and harsh weather. The grim reality of the Old West is often overlooked, due to Hollywood’s portrayal of it. Many movies about the West are generally over dramatic; sending the message that shootouts happened everyday at high noon and other over the top conceptions. The reality of the “Wild West”, America in the 1800’s and early 1900’s, is not how Hollywood romanticizes it.

The unrest of the 1960s reached a boiling point in 1968, a year that can be considered the most turbulent year in American history. The tumultuous events that took place in 1968 effectively transformed the face of the nation in every aspect; economically, socially, and politically. Failed military tactics, assassinations, and violent civil rights movements were the defining characteristics of 1968. Despite the few good things that came out of that year, much of 1968 was dedicated to rebuilding the country, tragedy after tragedy. The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, involvement in the Vietnam War, and escalating civil rights movements are a few of the quintessential events that contributed to

This paper argues that the semantic and syntactic elements of the American West commonly used in most Westerns creates a tone for a more contemporary version of the popularized American Westerns intertwined with a bit of thriller in the ‘Tracked’ scene of the 2007 Coen Brothers’ film, No Country for Old Men. I will prove that said scene establishes new aspects against the traditional westerns known internationally by incorporating Rick Altman’s analysis of semantic and syntactic themes in film genre in order to demonstrate the relationship between categorizing the film as a Western and finding the more structural meaning from the actions of the characters throughout the scene. My argument is also reinforced by Camilla Fojas’s analysis of the Western genre and how certain descriptive changes such as the time period can build a new subgenre of the western which helps this paper prove that the revision of a traditional genre can bring more attention to the well-known outdated Western people have come to love. My analysis identifies distinctive low key lighting, proper set up of the scene, and syntactics operating in ‘Tracked’ and demonstrates that categorizing Westerns under more than one genre through hybridization can polarized it in every sense as much more than just the good guy verses the bad guy.

If you like gratuitous violence, gun toting bad guys, and funny buddy movies, Ride Along Two is just what the doctor ordered. Ride Along is a Movie about two brother in law/friends,who go on a mission to stop a bad guy that is very rich. And the bad guy has a hacker and a hitman. But Kevin was bothering Ice Cube to go to Miami but he decides how stupid Kevin is so he said yeah so he can use him as a decoy. Because Kevin Hart looks up to Ice Cube in the movie because he is high class cop and he is strong. Ice Cube really doesn't like him as much. But Kevin hart looks up to him as a brother or something. This movie is very interesting if you like comedy.

During the 1960’s and the 1970’s, America was experiencing a cultural evolution that moved from the stereotypes in the 1950’s to a more free expression nation. There was numerous reasons why this culture changed, which resulted from the Cold War, the Vietnam War, Cuba Missile Crisis, or the tensions of equality among races and gender. The entertainment industry changed their media to attract their customers, which led to controversial movies and a new form of music. A movie that was a huge success due to its relevance at the time and people was “Easy Rider”. The movie was released in 1969 and became a success.

The New Hollywood era took place during the late 1960s and it represented a change from a Hollywood that focused on musicals and histories to one that focused on realism. Realism was best shown through location shooting, filming off set with portable cameras to better capture realistic scenes. This new style of movies was meant to capture the attention of the youth by focusing on sexual freedom and anti-establishment political themes. With the end of the production code, movies were allowed to contain violence, sex, and other similar acts that had been previously outlawed. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Easy Rider (1969) were two prominent, gangster style, western movies produced during the New Hollywood era and most certainly interested the youth

Ride Along 2 is an 2016 American action funny side film directed by Tim Storyand on paper by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi. It is the continuation to the film Ride Along 2014. The movie usual negative reviews from critics, but has earned over $118 millions.

The other day I went to watch Ride Along 2 with my friend. During the movie, there’s a part that the two detective went to Miami on a mission. The scene that they enter the city, first part show them in their car and then while it was showing different locations of Miami, one scene shows a half-naked women, in bathing suit, taking a shower.That moment the first thing that came to my mind was “I have to write about this for my history class.” I felt really offended and sad at the same time because I believed there was no reason to show that women and the fact that they use women’s body to get people’s attention sicken me. Women are human being and not an object for advertisement.

Before going in-depth to the history of the Western genre, it is important to note the film conventions of the genre because they are incredibly influential to the movement of the genre cycle. The structure of the Classic Western is set up with a hero and a villain in a town. Will Wright says, “Each film is the story of a hero who is somehow estranged from his society but on whose ability rests the fate of that society. The villains threatened the society until the hero acts to protect and save it” (Wright, 1975). This is the classical plot for a western, while a vengeance plot in the western is “the vengeance hero leaves the society because of his strength and their weakness and abandons his fight because of these same values (of society)” (Wright, 1975). Some of these conventions can also be seen as cliché because of the myths tied together with the Western. These include opening scenes of vast landscapes or when “a cowboy makes a dramatic entrance through the batwing saloon doors, the man playing the piano abruptly stops” (Varner, 2008) or the more obvious, the hero riding off into the sunset at the end of the film. (Varner, 2008) The Western conventions then evolve over time until the end of the Classic Westerns, in which Spaghetti Westerns, parodies, and Post Westerns can easily point out the conventions and use them to make a new story.