Steven Spielberg changed the direction of his filmmaking after 9/11, moving to darker films that reflected the post-9/11 world. Spielberg felt the attacks inspired him to tell stories that dealt with more serious topics. While he made some lighter films like Catch Me If You Can after 9/11, most of his later work like Minority Report and War of the Worlds addressed darker themes and futures. Spielberg believes world events influence his filmmaking and help him evolve as an artist.
Critical Literacy Skills in the Advanced Placement Classroom: The Synergy of Screen and Print
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Presentation by Dr. Renee H. Shea at the SchoolDocs 2009 conference.
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Violence is an important part of Hollywood films in order to depict the sensational and explicit appeal. Films under the genre of gangster and war featured violence as the central theme of the film. The featuring of violence in these movies had to be accounted and was justified rationally.
Violence is very attractive in films, conflicts are often built around violence, and it is a very effective mechanism used to sell films.
91 percent of Hollywood movies or television contained violence, even extreme violence. Several researchers have described an increase of violent content in movies, despite a national rating system.
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To look at torture porn both as a horror sub-genre and as a cinematic reflection on social and political milieu, and make an attempt interpreting Hostel (2005) positioned as torture porn for revealing the underlying issues of political commentary inspired by Abu Ghraib abuse and torture in Iraq.
Violence is an important part of Hollywood films in order to depict the sensational and explicit appeal. Films under the genre of gangster and war featured violence as the central theme of the film. The featuring of violence in these movies had to be accounted and was justified rationally.
Violence is very attractive in films, conflicts are often built around violence, and it is a very effective mechanism used to sell films.
91 percent of Hollywood movies or television contained violence, even extreme violence. Several researchers have described an increase of violent content in movies, despite a national rating system.
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CHAPTER 9Section 9.1 Film: Beyond Entertainment
Chapter Objectives
After reading this chapter, students should:
• Be able to discuss how film can impact
society and how society may impact film
• Understand the influence of regulation and
censorship in Hollywood
• Be familiar with the Hollywood Production
Code of 1930 and its replacement by the
MPAA ratings system
• Understand some of the ways that films are
edited for television broadcast
• Be familiar with the Hollywood blacklist
and the extent of its impact
• Understand the impact of social media,
such as Facebook and Twitter, on film
today
9.1 Film: Beyond Entertainment
Since their inception, movies have provided inexpensive mass entertainment; cinema is an incredibly popular medium. As we have already seen, audiences spent more than $10 billion on movie tickets in 2009. People definitely enjoy going to the movies;
that much is obvious. It is clear that movies have had a profound impact on society. And
not only are audiences influenced by what they see at the movies; audiences influence
what is shown in theaters as well.
Whether it is in appearance, fashion, or behavior, films romanticize a certain lifestyle
that is eagerly imitated by audiences. Fashion magazines promise that we can “Get
Angelina’s Look” if we follow the tips inside. Celebrity gossip publications keep readers
up-to-date on the comings and goings of seemingly everyone who has appeared in a
movie. The Internet and social media are practically choked with chatter about film—
box-office results, reviews, gossip, and more. Beyond such obviously shallower aspects,
film can influence how we live, our morality, and our behavior. What is open to discus-
sion, however, is the direction of the influence—do films influence culture or do they
reflect it? Or is it both?
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Yes, we go to the movies to be entertained; as Steven J. Ross says in Movies and American
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historical documents that help us see—and perhaps more fully understand—the world in
which they were made” (Ross, 2002). Movies, in other words, have something to say, often
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The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
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1. Steven
Spielberg Reveals Darker Film-making
Following 9/11 Events
Steven Spielberg changed the direction of his moviemaking after the 9/11 terror attacks in America,
because the disasters inspired him to create "darker" films.
The director, whose latest film War Horse is released in the UK on Friday, is celebrated for family
friendly projects such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones franchise and Jurassic Park,
but he felt compelled to alter his style after the 2001 atrocities which left almost 3,000 people dead.
Spielberg tells the Independent newspaper: "9/11 changed a lot for me. It changed a lot for everybody
in the world. And my films did grow darker after 9/11."
He has made some lighter films following the tragedy, such as Catch Me If You Canwith Leonardo
DiCaprio, which has been hailed by some as his best film of the last decade.
But the filmmaker has predominantly concentrated on more serious topics and indepth storylines -
and he even makes a specific reference to the terrorist attacks in his film War of the Worlds.
He adds, "Minority Report was a very dark look at the future, and certainly War of the Worlds, which
was a very direct reference to 9/11. It was a real post-9/11 story.
"Not intended that way, but that's the way it turned out. So I think the world has a great impact on how
it colours my movies.
"I think that's a good sign. It just means I'm changing by being aware of what's happening."
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I’m here today to defend War of the Worlds, a movie that’s a minor
entry in the Spielberg canon but that would be a major, career -
defining work for almost anyone else. In 2005 it was a powerful
reaction to the world post-9/11, but in 2013 it’s still a powerful
reflection of living in a world where anything can go cataclysmically
wrong at any time. It’s Spielberg’s ultimate statement on life in the
21st century, about living in an America that no longer feels secure. While the imagery of War of the Worlds is
explicitly 9/11 related - Tom Cruise coming home from the initial attack covered in grey ash recalls the hordes of
New Yorkers stumbling from the dust cloud of the World Trade Center collapse - the emotions continue to
resonate in a world of super hurricanes and 9.0 earthquakes.
As the film goes on the Tom Cruise Hero’s Journey continues to be subverted. Instead of learning to be selfless,
Ray learns the true meaning of selfishness, as applied to his family. The scene where Ray and his two kids,
owners of one of the few working vehicles in the post-invasion landscape, drives right through a crowd of people
to get to a ferry is powerful on many levels. Spielberg, an expert craftsman, makes the scene cinematically tense
and terrifying, but it also disorients in a fundamental way - we’re rooting for our hero to blow past (and possibly
through) other human beings in order to save his own family. Later he’s able to get his family on the ferry, but
almost callously leaves behind his neighbor and her child.
Robbie, Ray’s son, is a stark contrast. He wants to join the army and ‘strike back’ at the Tripods. As the ferry
takes off he runs to the ramp and begins to help people scramble aboard. Again and again he wants to make
choices that would, in a standard action movie, be considered the heroic choices - but here they’re all the wrong
ones. The image of Tom Cruise trying to hold Robbie down as he attempts to charge over the hill into battle is
one fraught with years of pop culture weight - you’re seeing Maverick and Ethan Hunt trying to get someone to
play it safe. For once you’re agreeing with cinema’s most self -centered star - sacrificing yourself for others
doesn’t make a lot of sense in this situation.
2. The Hurt Locker, review
The Hurt Locker is not so much about Iraq as it is about war and addiction to danger.
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Kathryn Bigelow; Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty. Rating: * * * *
The Hurt Locker has been talked up as that rarest of things: a film about the war in
Iraq that doesn’t preach or pontificate, that isn’t instant box-office poison. Directed
by Kathryn Bigelow, whose track record includes Point Break (1991) and Strange
Days (1995), it’s a super-sharp, nerve-shredding thriller that reveals more about the
realities of contemporary military conflict than most documentaries, is as fissile and
explosive as a Transformers movie, and delivers a powerful and often haunting
critique of American society both at home and as its faultlines are expressed abroad.
Written by Mark Boal, who furnished the story for another Iraq-based film, 2007’s In
the Valley of Elah, and based on his experiences an embedded Rolling Stone
journalist, it is set in 2004 and follows the members of an elite US bomb-disposal
team as they move across the debris-littered streets of Baghdad looking for
explosive devices to defuse.
After one of them is blown up, Staff Sergeant William James (Jeremy Renner) arrives
on the scene. It turns out he’s something of a wild card, a fearless operator who
virtually runs to sites of maximum danger, not only disregarding the advice of
colleagues, but chucking away the handsets designed to let him hear their concerns
about his actions.
It’s understandable if members of his team, among them Sergeant Sanborn
(Anthony Mackie) and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty), treat him with the
same suspicion they regard every inch of the shredded, debris-littered alleys and
public squares they are meant to be looking after. Sanborn, as if to prove that race
and class are incendiary issues even for a squad unified by shared objectives, calls
him a “red-neck piece of trailer trash” and punches him out.
At one point, Sanborn and Eldridge even speculate about killing James, but over
time they develop respect if not admiration for his unconventional methods. When
they discover that he keeps parts of old bombs under his bed as macabre spoils of
war, it’s clear that he’s someone for whom the quotation that prefaces the film —
about war being the ultimate drug — is a truism.
Bigelow has always been strong on the psychology and dynamics of male bonding.
The scenes in which the men get drunk and start wrestling are captured in all their
muscular, playful, erotic intensity. When James feeds juice to Sanborn, wilting after
3. hours in the desert peering through binoculars at a distant combatant, he does so
with a delicacy that seems to be borne of more than camaraderie or necessity, from
a love that only men who have risked their lives together on a frontline can ever
truly appreciate.
The Hurt Locker excels though at making us feel that we are stranded alone with the
bomb squad in a landscape full of unknown and potentially infinite dangers.
Cinematographer Barry Ackroyd (United 93) makes telling use of grainy, often
handheld photography that recalls the jittery, verite pictures of this conflict that have
emerged through channels such as YouTube. It also conveys the nervousness and
paranoia the Americans feel when every passing butcher, DVD-vendor or taxi-driver
could be an insurgent-in-waiting.
Also of the highest order is Paul N.J. Ottoson’s sound design which renders an
unforgettable sonic portrait of Baghdad, a ghosted city full of eerie silences and
insidious whispers punctuated by military sirens, the stentorian roar of US soldiers,
and the noise of metal ripping through human flesh.
There are small roles for Guy Pearce and, almost comically, for Ralph Fiennes. But the
film gains from its lead performers not being A-list stars. Renner is a major find,
often recalling the young Russell Crowe in his brawny swagger and isolated
intensity.
The Hurt Locker has been criticized in some quarters for not being sufficiently
political. One could certainly make a case that it’s not so much about Iraq as it is
about war more generally. Perhaps its real subject isn’t even war, but about
addiction - to danger, to the company of tough men.
Whatever, the world doesn’t need another film belatedly tut-tutting about Iraq.
Bigelow isn’t opposed to commenting on America’s relationship to the Middle East;
a secondary plot about James’s fondness for an Iraqi boy called Beckham is handled
with black, brilliant irony. But the heart of her story lies in its visceral dramatization
of more timeless feelings: fear and loneliness.
4. "Zero Dark Thirty" has almost impercebtibly reframed the debate from what constitutes torture to whether
torture works
Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" has inspired passionate debate about whether the waterboarding it depicts
really helped lead Navy SEALS to a secret Pakistani compound where they killed Osama bin Laden.
But the film has also — almost imperceptibly — changed our national debate about toture by illustrating
waterboarding for a mass audience for the first time.
The debate over the practice was largely tabled after
President Obama banned its use quickly after coming into
office in January 2009. But "Zero Dark Thirty" has revived it,
and the film has gained enough attention to land Bigelow on
the cover of Time.
Whether or not the film's depiciton of waterboarding is
accurate, Americans can now discuss the same set of images
instead of relying on their own perceptions of what it looks like.
And almost everyone who sees it, from the right and left,
agrees the version of waterboarding seen in the film looks like
torture.
At the height of the war on terror, Americans were deeply
divided on whether waterboarding was truly horrific or merely
another unpleasant indignity inflicted on people being
interrogated, like uncomfortable chairs or loud music.
Also read: 'Zero Dark Thirty' Hits the U.K.: Did Critics Zero
in on Torture Scenes?
A few years ago, varied perspectives on what waterboarding was colored the strikingly different perspectives of
what happened to prisoners at CIA black sites. A July 2005 poll of 1,500 people by the Pew Research Center
found that 43 percent were in favor of the use of waterboarding, with 53 percent opposed.
The next year, Vice President Dick Cheney went along with a questioner who characterized waterboarding as "a
dunk in water," saying the issue was "a no-brainer."
That was just one attempt by the Bush administration to reframe what opponents called torture, using phrases
like "enhanced interrogation techniques."
5. Years later, there is nothing resembling consensus on whether torture works. And "Zero Dark Thirty" has only
inflamed opinons on the subject.
But at least it has framed a debate.
"The torture debate certainly shifted as a result, with conservatives pointing to the end game (we got Osama)
and liberals shaking their fingers at how we caught him," Christian Toto, an editor and movie reviewer for the
conservative site Breitbart.com, told TheWrap. "Great movies provoke these kinds of discussions. Ideological
films, which Hollywood all too often delivers, tell us what to think."