The Godfather

The Godfather was a very interesting movie. However, I did not enjoy this movie because I found it gorry and boring. I did not like how they used gore in the movie. One instance of gore is when they chopped off the horses head and placed it in the mobster's bed while he was sleeping. I found this too gruesome because it portrays cruelty towards animals.
The Godfather bored me because the plotline was too hard to follow. There was too much dialogue. I also thought there could be more action in this movie. There was very little action, which made it hard to focus and enjoy the film, also making it hard to capture my attention towards the film.
I do, however, realize that this movie was made to depict life in mafia families, and, in that respect it was well done.

Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke was a very good movie. First of all, one thing I liked about was that it was in color. Almost every movie we have watched so far, except for Peter Jackson's King Kong, was in black and white. It was nice to actually see an older movie in color. Plus the story line was very good, so it helped to keep the class focused and made it easier to understand what was going on in the movie. In the beginning Luke was found cutting off the heads of parking meters drunk by a policeman. He was then taken to do two years in prison. While Luke was in prison he had to call all the prison guards "boss." At first Luke stayed calm and cool while in prison. He would do all the work he was told to do without argument. He was also taking bets a lot no matter how impossible they seemed. He ate 50 raw eggs in only one hour. But after he started spending time in the box for no reason he started running away multiple times. The guards then kept beating up Luke and making him work extra hard to make sure he wouldn't try to escape again. After the second time Luke tried to escape they beat him up and warned him that he wouldn't try to escape anymore. But Luke tried to run away for a third time and this time there was no warning. Luke was shot in a church and killed. This movie was a very good movie overall, and I think the ending to the movie is the biggest reason it was so great.

Sound Vs. No Sound

There are major differences in watching the shower scene with sound and without sound. With sound the scene has so much more emotion than without it. Sound has the ability to influence the audience's emotions in a movie. In a scary scene, such as the shower scene in Psycho, the sound and music are what create the suspense. Without sound a movie is so much more boring and there is no suspense at all. What makes a movie good is the tension added by music and sound, otherwise a movie is hard to follow and gives the audience no emotion at all. For instance, the class viewed the shower scene in Psycho first without sound, then without sound. There were major differences in this scene when sound is added. The thrilling music gave the shower scene the thrill and suspense for the audience the way the musics volume was increasing higher and higher to make the attack from Norman more shocking to the audience. Plus, when Marion is getting stabbed in the shower, the sound of her getting stabbed also gives it thrill. When the class viewed the scene without sound the thrill and suspense were lost. There was no music to change your emotion, and you couldn't hear the noise of the knife stabbing Marion. Without music this scene would not have been the same and the audience would have been lost, especially since this is the turning point of the movie.