...the budget was settled. A movie is great if it reached a large percentage of the population and that population determined through criticism and good reviews that the movie is worthy to be seen for a second, third, or fourth time. Another justification of greatness is if the film warrants purchasing the film on Blu-ray disc or a digitally copy to put on your computers hard drive. I will be critiquing the 1985 film Back to the Future starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Thomas F. Wilson. These are the main characters of the film for which the story revolves around. Michal J. Fox plays the main character, Marty McFly, who travels back in time in a Delorean time machine invented by Christopher Lloyd’s character, Dr. Emmett Brown. Lea Thompson plays Lorraine McFly, Marty’s mother, Crispin Glover plays George McFly, Marty’s father. Thomas F. Wilson is the antagonist as Biff Tannen. There are plenty of supporting roles throughout the film but the main characters will be the focus of the critique. Director for Back to the Future is Robert Zemeckis, he role is to translate the screenwriters story so the actors and crew can carry it out. He is the boss in every stage of the film making process and often receives an outsize measure of credit or the blame. The cinematographer is Dean Cundey, his responsibilities are the look of the...
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...BACK TO THE FUTURE 1985 ENG225: Introduction to Film Brad Waltman Brian Brinson 09/15/2014 Back to the Future Back to the Future is one of the comic science films that earned and still earns much respect by moviegoers. Zemeckis, written by both Zemeckis and Gale and produced by Spielberg, directed the movie. The stars in the movie are Michael Fox, Crispin Glover, Thomas Wilson, Lea Thompson and Christopher Lloyd. Fox (Marty McFly) plays the role of the main character who is sent back in time by the time machine of his friend, Doc (Shail & Stoate, 2010). Back in the 1955, Marty meets his parents during the college life and strives to unite them before resuming to his future life. The story was written because of amusement of Gale who bumped into his father’s papers back in the college. He mused upon whether he would befriend his father if they attended the same college back then (Engelen, 2007). The film begins with an ambitious Marty who is into music so much but his parents live an inferior life. His supervisor bullies the father while his mother is an alcoholic who reminisces about the past and how she mate Marty’s father in the college. When Marty meets his friend Doc, he unveils a time machine that can speed to the future or past. Accidentally, Marty is taken back to 1955 where he interacts with his then teenage parents; succeeds to bring them together before resuming his future state of life. After resuming the future state of life, Marty realizes that things...
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...Is it smart to mess with the past? If you wanna change something in the past, you can change many things in the future. The choices you make can effect your future. It can make a huge impact of what you do in your future. Like in the story, “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury going back in the past can jeopardize the future even if you try to change on little thing. “Who controls the past controls the future,” said George Orwell. When you don't follow the rules it can cause many changes in your future. When people make choices, either good or bad, it effects your future in different ways and thats where you make choices. If you make a bad choice or decision you won't have a good result. Everything you do has to have a consequence even if its good. In “Back to the Future,” Marty accidentally goes back in the future and meets his mom and she falls in love with him and he tried to get his dad and mom back together in the past and he has try and fix things before he disappears. You are made wise not by the recollection of your past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. Most kids think about about what if they had a different life, but if they did they would be a completely different person. You can't change the the past, but you can make an effort to make the future look better. Looking back at your past you will see that there are some bright times and some that aren't to bright. Its natural to think about the choices you made in the past. You wonder what if you made a...
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...miniature jeans, the sweatshirt bunched beneath the seat belt’s strap, the hiking boots dangling off the floor like weights. “You OK?” he said. “You have to pee?” He slowed and drove the car onto the shoulder and the boy got out to pee. He looked at him standing on that rise in the brome and the bunchgrass, his little hips pushed forward. When the boy walked back to the car he swung the door open for him, then reached over and pulled the door shut and bumped out on the empty road. Not much had changed, really. A half hour out of Hoquiam he began to see the clear-cuts through the firs: a strange, white light, as if the world dropped away fifty feet out from the pavement. He hoped the boy wouldn’t notice. The two of them had been talking about what to do if you saw a mountain lion (don’t run, never run), and what they’d have for lunch. Twenty minutes later they were past it, and the light behind the trees had disappeared. He’d been at the house by dawn, as he’d promised. He sat in the driveway for a while looking at the yard, the azaleas he’d planted, the grass in the yard beaten flat by the rain. For a long time he hadn’t wanted her back, hadn’t wanted much of anything, really. He went inside, wiping his shoes and ducking his head like a visitor, and when the boy came running into the living room he threw him over his shoulder, careful not to hit his head on...
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...say but does not understand each other. Mainly because the man has his mind set on convincing Jig to take the operation no matter what and that if Jig takes his option, their lives will go back to the way it was before. In the beginning Jig described the child she is bearing as a “white elephant” meaning, something not wanted. As the story progresses Jig then realizes that the child is not totally a white elephant. But she is not certain that if she took the man’s option, their life would be the same as he says. Jig does not directly says that she wants keep the child. Though she was giving small hints to the man but the man ignores this little action. Alcohol played a big part in the story. They needed alcohol because the characters think that this will help them discuss their dispute or avoid discussing what they need to discuss. When Jig stated “I want to try this new drink. That's all we do isn't it- look at things and try new drinks?” She is as if accusatory, a passive aggressive way of saying she wants a change. At one point in the story, Jig realizes that talking will not lead them to any wise decisions and she asks the man to stop talking. When the man took their bags to other side of tracks, Jig was left alone giving her the chance to finally think alone. When the man came back, Jig smiled at him. He sees this and asks her if she feels...
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...one of the humans that frequented the loft. We had a unique connection with home. No matter where we were in the world, no matter how far or how foreign the lands were, we could always find our way back. Its call, a physical manifestation of our attachment to the place, was a quality the humans found useful. Every once in a while we were coerced into temporary captivity, taken on a weeklong journey, only to be sent home upon arrival with a missive attached to one leg. But this journey has lasted much longer than a week. I was taken first across the Channel, then to hell. For the past two months I have looked on as humans spit fire and death at one another, listened as the incessant explosions tore limbs from bodies and stained the air with shrieks of pain, and now, finally, watched as the humans who accompany me are gradually whittled down, besieged as I am, by bars and bullets of cold iron and hard steel. But most of all I have endured the unbearable longing for home. A man walks in. He opens the cage. Two others share my cage. He reaches in; I instinctively fly away. He grabs ahold of one of my fellows. He goes outside. I listen, tentatively. The sound of gunfire roars momentarily. The thread of connection to my comrade is severed as its life is extinguished. The man comes back, stonefaced. Again, he misses me, again death roars,...
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...Distracting ourselves is one of them. Sending a text message, watching a dog in the distance or thinking about what needs done at home are all ways of distracting ourselves. Interrupting someone as they speak is also a good way to let them know you are not listening. Topping their story with one of your own can let someone know they are not being listened to. Just because you've done the same things as them doesn't mean they want to know about it. Just listen to their story and be genuinely interested in what they are saying. There are several ways to break those habits and become a good listener. Squarely facing the speaker, uncrossing your arms, leaning towards the speaker and making eye contact are excellent ways to start. Repeating things back to the speaker is another way, however this needs to be used when appropriate. Also realize when you're not listening and fix it. Be mindful of what the person is saying to you, leave your phone in your pocket and be honest with them. Let them know you weren't listening and ask them to repeat the last part. Body language can say a lot about a person and how they are feeling. Body language is very relevant to management and leadership and can be a good tool to understanding someone. There are some cultural differences in body language however. Something...
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...and then changed their minds!” Jerry said. He tossed the bloody rock off the cliff, and started to walk, smacking his hands together. Jerry said, “Well, are you coming?” Bill said, “Where are you going?” “Heading back to the car” Said Jerry. “What about them? We’re just going to leave them?” asked Bill. “Sure, those two whores are good for nothing. Unless you like them dead as well” said Jerry. He just kept walking. Bill was still standing by the girls, but when Jerry was out of sight, Bill ran after him. When they came down Jerry picked up one of the girls bike. Bill said, “What are you doing?” “A present for Linda” Jerry said. He smiled. Bill just looked at Jerry They sat in the car. Jerry in the driver’s seat, and Bill in the passenger seat. They didn’t say a word to each other on their way home. Bill looked at Jerry once. Jerry’s eyes were crazy. He was driving very slowly. When they got back home, Jerry parked the car. Suddenly he looked normal to Bill. His eyes had no longer that spark of insanity; they were calm as ever. “What are we going to do?” Bill asked. “About what?” Jerry said, looking at him, and then he walked in shouting “We’re back!” He went out to the kitchen, grabbing a beer. Linda asked why it had taken so long for them to get back. Jerry said it was because they had seen a view so beautiful they just couldn’t take their eyes off it. Carol said, “Well that’s nice” When Bill and Carol went home later that night Bill said to Carol “Carol, I’ve been...
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...a BEARDED MAN onto wet sand. He lies there. A CHILD’S SHOUT makes him LIFT his head to see: a LITTLE BLONDE BOY crouching, back towards us, watching the tide eat a SANDCASTLE. A LITTLE BLONDE GIRL joins the boy. The Bearded Man tries to call them, but they RUN OFF, FACES UNSEEN. He COLLAPSES. The barrel of a rifle ROLLS the Bearded Man onto his back. A JAPANESE SECURITY GUARD looks down at him, then calls up the beach to a colleague leaning against a JEEP. Behind them is a cliff, and on top of that, a JAPANESE CASTLE. INT. ELEGANT DINING ROOM, JAPANESE CASTLE - LATER The Security Guard waits as an ATTENDANT speaks to an ELDERLY JAPANESE MAN sitting at the dining table, back to us. ATTENDANT (in Japanese) He was delirious. But he asked for you by name. And... (to the Security Guard) Show him. SECURITY GUARD (in Japanese) He was carrying nothing but this... He puts a HANDGUN on the table. The Elderly Man keeps eating. SECURITY GUARD ...and this. The Security Guard places a SMALL PEWTER CONE alongside the gun. The Elderly Man STOPS eating. Picks up the cone. ELDERLY JAPANESE MAN (in Japanese) Bring him here. And some food. INT. SAME - MOMENTS LATER The Elderly Man watches the Bearded Man WOLF down his food. He SLIDES the handgun down the table towards him. ELDERLY JAPANESE MAN (in English) Are you here to kill me? The Bearded Man glances up at him, then back to his food. 2. The Elderly Japanese Man picks up the cone between thumb and forefinger. ELDERLY JAPANESE MAN I know...
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...remaining. Practice seemed to be going on forever. I stood by this big window getting ready to practice the turn I was having trouble with while watching my coach walk towards the front of the building to talk to one of the parents. Once I saw her reach her destination, I started to practice. After a few minutes of practicing I became really frustrated about not being able to get my turn correct, I took a deep breath and tried again. Suddenly, my foot slipped out from underneath me and I feel the ground rising up to meet me. I shut my eyes, preparing myself for the pain that was sure to come. The pain I felt when I hit the ground was something far worse than I prepared for. My back erupted in sharp-shooting pain that left me paralyzed in my left leg and the left side of my back. While lying on the ground I thought to myself, I don’t think I’m going to be able to get off the ground. A few minutes later I finally got the courage to stand. Making my way slowly towards my coach, I walked up to her saying, “I just fell and my left leg and side went numb, now it’s just tingling.” “Oh, you will be okay; just keep practicing.” She responded. I looked at her thinking to myself, Are you crazy? I walked off going to do what she told me, even though I was terrified of falling again. Later that night I came home in excruciating pain. No matter what position I either stood, sat or lied in, I could not get relief. I walked into my parents room and found them...
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...bass guitar up there, I wanted it so, so badly, but 90 dollars to a 14 year old is an unprecedented amount of money. Joyce, being the kind soul that she is, allowed me to come up and do various tasks for her, shelving DVD's, cleaning showcases, those types of things. Now as I'm older, I'm more aware of the quality of am instrument and I'll snag most of the good stuff that comes through at a discounted price. Just a perk of having a good friend. Now this one particular day, in 2009, I was up there putting a payment on a vintage Les Paul that came through, nothing out of the ordinary. I drove up after school and was hanging out behind the counter for a while just visiting, waiting for my Mom to come up and exercise with Joyce in their "Back Room Ghetto Gym" they have set up in the storage room. Just Joyce, her father Rev. Ron Clark and I, enjoying a beautiful Fall day, windows wide open, front door propped wide, feeling the cool breeze rush in as each car passed. Ron was playing Solitaire on his perch next to the front showcase and Joyce and I were discussing how big of an idiot my Dad was. Just a normal...
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...a person wouldn't have any time on their hands but, somehow she always managed to mentor and teach me new things everyday. She’s the type of person who you imagine having eight arms or eyes in the back of her head, going to PTA meetings for all of us, conferences and managing a job at the school just made her more prepared to come home to of us. Growing up with such an inspiring person, I managed to get some of her best qualities like her love for travel, knowledge, books, and giving time for those who need it. Having so many children made it hard for my mother to be able to afford for all of us to travel, instead of getting upset and nagging to us about money she stayed positive, reading us adventurous fiction books when we were small and soon after started reading us non-fiction on Paris, Rome, Spain, etc so that we could learn as much as possible from these books to one day travel where she never got the chance to and have us know absolutely everything about their cultures. I value every door of opportunity my mother has opened for me. To know a city like it's my home, the climate, and the language without ever visiting is an amazing thing. While I cherished the love of traveling and reading qualities passed on to me, I mostly treasured the quality of knowing how to give back, starting at only nine my mother dragged my siblings and I down to the church to look for community service jobs, at the time this idea of my mother's was extremely underappreciated, I never saw the...
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...I was thinking the other day, most movies today try so hard to be grounded in reality. Sometimes I just want to sit down, and watch a movie that doesn’t take itself so seriously. Back to the Future doesn't seem to give two hoots if it’s realistic or not. It's just pure fun, and doesn’t care about the internet trolls. Michael J. Fox was born to play Marty McFly. The best decision the movie made was firing Eric Stoltz, who was originally cast as McFly. Fox perfectly captures the quick-witted everyman, who is just trying to get his parents to fall in love. Don’t forget Christopher Lloyd’s portrayal of Doc Brown, the mad scientist who stole Plutonium from Libyan Terrorists. Lloyd is brilliant as Doc, and rightly so his most memorable role. Let’s not forget the production hell Back to the Future had to go through. First, every major production company originally passed on the project. Then once they got started they had to recast the...
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...Familiar Advertisement Both Papa John’s and Pizza Hut used the ‘Back To The Future’ movie theme for their commercial. Pizza Hut’s commercial was first aired back in 2008. In the commercial, two teenage boys travelled in time from 1989 to 2015. They found that the word was very different and the only thing that hasn’t changed was Pizza Hut. Last year, on the other hand, Papa John’s decided to use the opposite approach in their commercial and travel back in time to the 80’s. They had an offer where if you buy a large pizza for the regular price, you get another large pizza for 30 cents. Similar Brand Domino’s Pizza is a very similar brand to Papa John’s. There has been an ongoing war between the two brands for years. They offer almost the...
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...My entire life I have spent looking forward to the future. I was always asking to start something new, play a new sport, join a new club, or play a new game. As a result of this, I was never very patient as a child. I can remember sitting in dentist offices, bouncing in my chair, waiting for a nurse to enter the lobby and call my name. Now, as a 15 year old, I have grown to be much more composed but I still possess these enthusiastic qualities. Thought elementary school I couldn’t wait to enter middle school. In middle school, I was eager to begin high school. Currently I am in 9th grade, attending American Heritage School in Plantation, Florida. Just today, as I am writing this, was the day the students in freshman year chose our classes for 10th grade. Even though I have become tolerant than I was in my childhood, I can compare myself today while choosing my 10th grade courses, to that day in the dentist. As I am progressing through my...
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