Film Treatment

Film Treatment

A boy pours himself a glass of Orange Juice. Puts the bottle back in the fridge. The boy sits down and looks up. A woman walks into the room. The woman sits down next to the boy. The boy starts yelling at the woman as she gets up and runs out of the room. The boy with a smile on his face now starts drinking the juice.

The boy is walking to school as he sees some kids playing basketball. He walks over to the kids playing basketball and grabs the ball from them. There is a shock of disbelief in the basketball boys’ faces. The boy now with the ball throws the ball over the fence and walks away to the basketball kids running in the opposite direction.

The boy is now in class as he is in detention slouched shoulders and a look of anger in face. The teacher tries to talk to him but he is not responding. The teacher finally giving up walks back to her/his desk when the boy yells out at the teacher calling him stupid. The teacher with the power to get him in trouble confronts him. The two argue until the teacher backs off powerless. The boy continues to slouch until he sees a pretty girl walk into the classroom. He politely greets her and smiles. The girl who did not see the argument sits down next to him. The two talk for a while and exchange names until the girl gets up and leaves because her detention times is up. The boy now grinning gets up and talks to the teacher asking who that was. The teacher to his disbelief says what girl. The boy tries to explain himself but just shakes his head and walks out of the classroom.

The boy now in pe sees the girl he was talking to earlier with a group of people who seem to be enjoying themselves. He stops and stares for a while as he does not have joy in his life. He walks over, without the pe teachers consent, and taps the familiar girl on the shoulder. The girl turns around and greets the boy. The two talk for a little while but the boy has to leave because pe is now over but the girl gives him a slip of paper. The boy walks away and notices a number on the slip of paper. Overjoyed, he gives a fist pump in excitement. He starts to walk away with his chest out like he is the best.

The boy is now running on a street. He opens the door to his house and runs into his room with phone in hand. He dials the number and it rings until the sound of a woman’s voice is heard. The boy nervously says hello and the two rekindle the chemistry they showed together. They decide to meet up at Starbucks and the boy shows a huge smile.

Now at Starbucks, The two enjoy a cup of hot chocolate. They are talking a lot and laughing loudly while other people are staring at him eerily. They leave and they share a hug while the boy smiles.

Its morning again and the boy is pouring himself a glass of orange juice again. The same woman, as we now know was his Mom, walks in fear in face. He says good morning to his Mom and asks her if she wanted anything to drink. The Mom sensing something is wrong, slowly creeps up to the nearest chair and sits down. The boy tells his mom he loves her and the two start talking again. The boy throughout the conversation is listening intently and looks to be interested. The scene fades out as they talk

The boy is now walking to school when he comes across the basketball boys. Their basketball comes across the boy’s feet, he picks it up and throws it back to them and walks away.

He is now in the hallways as he is saying hi to everyone. He walks into a classroom and he sees nobody there except that girl he likes. He sits down in the seat next to her and they start talking. The girl gets up and in urgency and tells the boy to come with her. He follows her to a staircase. She said she needs to talk with him. She abruptly says that she is not a real person. To the boy’s shock he still thinks she is just talking about her personality. The girl said that she is a ghost who was set out to straighten out the boy’s attitude towards the world. She goes up the stairs and vanishes. The boy still shocked just stands there, than starts running. He runs into the hallway than crashes into a girl. He apologizes and the girl starts flirting. The two start talking and they happily walk off the screen and the screen goes black.

Oral #1

Full Metal Jacket

1. What tradition or genre is it in?1. Full Metal Jacket would fall in the sub genres of anti-war and Vietnam war. It takes place in Vietnam therefore considering it as a Vietnam war  film and it also shows the horrendous happenings in war and the directors ideology towards war is being against it. Going throughout the life of a soldier from the belittling drill sergeant at the training camps all the way to the Viet Cong where you are fighting for your life shows its dramatic features while also being a stereotypical war film, as most are actually anti-war films.

2. In a stereotypical war movie, there is a private or a sergeant who goes into the war seeing ally casualties everywhere which carves him into the solid character that he becomes. He has a task to carry out that needs to be done get into enemy territory. His squadron loses a few men, than they start an offense on the enemy. The private or sergeant ends up completing this task that was assigned but this most likely ends his life and his legacy lives on. In Full Metal Jacket the protagonist, has to go and clear out Viet Cong held territories and he loses many ally troops in his squadron. Therefore Full Metal Jacket is a war film and since it is in Vietnam and they are in war, this has to fall into the Vietnam war sub genre. The movie take place in the late 60’s and the scenes in the movie compare to what Vietnam looked like during the Vietnam war in the late 60’s with napalm and Agent Orange having its effects on the land and buildings. During the Vietnam war, many Americans opposed the war and there where many protests against so not many people that weren’t involved in the government supported the war. Since this is true, most Vietnam war films were also anti-war films because if you show what really happens in war to the public, the people will be afraid of themselves in the war and potentially dieing. This will create the directors ideology about war to be spread to the people and will gain support. A pro-war film would glorify the allies and make them look like they are supermen with very little loss of men. The enemy would be annihilated and the protagonists would come out as heroes. There are not many pro-war films that I have heard of so therefore that can basically leave anti-war to its purpose. The film shows lots of lives being lost and that war is very stressful as you never know if you are gonna die or live or even when the next enemy ambush might happen.

3. It can be connected to the war films like Apocalypse Now, the war aspect of Forrest Gump, and Saving Private Ryan. If you look at the aspects of the movies where the characters are in action, they show that war is frightening and that there is death all around the allies. The protagonists all have an assigned tasks to do and they end up succeeding there task but without the loss of many ally soldiers. The films are all anti-war and glorify the thought of death in the mind of the soldier.

4. The director is Stanley Kubrick who is famous for the film 2001: Space Odyssey and The Shining. Kubrick had a huge impact on the film industry as many famous directors now a days look up to his works as a guide line on how they want there film to be portrayed as. He uses special effects to add emphasis on the point he is trying to get across as the technology they had when he was alive making movies weren’t the best on creating realistic scenes but Kubrick used these effects to make his films surprisingly realistic.

5. Kubrick was already notably famous for his previous works as everything he touches or has an influence on turns to gold. He can most notably use his actors in emphasized roles as it easy to spot its main protagonist as he is glorified, or just everything around him is centered on him.

6. Full Metal Jacket has the special effects used during the scenes as the Agent Orange, napalm, and gun fire around as the land is burned with agent orange and the buildings are destroyed by the napalm.

7. The theme of the film which i took it as is that war is not the key to everything as the thought of death inside a person’s head will drive them crazy as they can never know what is going to happen next. Kubrick thought of war as bad since he glorified what happens to soldiers and how they are not only physically wounded but mentally too.
8. Its target audience are Americans in there 20’s and 30’s since the majority of Americans that will make a stand are within these age groups. It probably was also meant to be for the non-hippies to get them on the side of anti-war as the hippies were already anti-war since they wanted peace.

Ideology

1. What is ideology and how can it be implicit vs. explicit?

It describes the set of beliefs or principles that someone believes in. In film, the director or writers ideology is the message that the audience is supposed to see as there style. Explicit is when the character declares to be the subject of the film. Implicit is when the director wants the film to be debatable and have different perspectives from the audience. There is no real answer to what the film is about, but it is what you see the film as.

2. Ideology and Expectations;Give an example of an a actor that presents a predictable ideological package that studios are quick to use. List as many of their film roles as possible – noting the particular actions/dialogues associated with the character that they play. Make a list of the five adjectives that you think best capture their typical role. Produce a detailed description of what you think their next role will be like.

Adam Sandler
Billy Madison- A spoiled, rich, and apparently stupid man who has to go back into school grades 1-12 to get his father’s hotel chain.
Happy Gilmore- An angry hockey player who finds out his hidden talent of being able to play golf and how he turns pro.
The Longest Yard- A crazy pro football player who gets sent to jail and starts up a football team of prisoners in a big football game against the guards.
Anger Management- A mellow 30 year old guy who gets sent to anger management and has to pass all of the tests thrown at him.
The Waterboy- A stupid redneck boy who goes to college and ends up having a great talent for playing football.
Grown Ups- A rich film agent goes to his old coaches funeral and reunites with his old teamates and best friends
5 adjectives- (Athletic) (Witty) (Bipolar) (Hidden Anger) (friendly)
His next major role will probably be an Athletic quiet man. The man would probably have something bad happen to him and he will have to somehow use his talents to help with it. Adam Sandler always appears in a comedy film and I think he will remain in this business for the rest of his career.

3. Personal Ideologies and the Enjoyment of Film: Think of a film that you enjoy and know well. Consider which characters you like. Analyze your favorite character using these useful questions to bear in mind when considering ideology are:

A film I tend to enjoy is Spaceballs due to its hilarious spoofs and random occurring events. My favorite character is Dark Helmet as he appears to be a strong and fearless villain but he is really a weak egomaniac that wants everything his way. They portray him to be the klutz of the film as anything bad that happens ends up being him. The only thing that the film does wrong to portray in the film is to give him a personal side where people can actually feel sorry for him. They should have given him a sad story where the audience can relate and make a comedic sense out of it. As an example he could never play sports so he was picked on as a kid. He was just so terrible that it could be comedic.

4. Changing Ideologies: Why would the ideologies of a given era or time period change the way a narrative is presented to its audience? Can you give an example of a film narrative that has changed over generations?

Areas of different regions enjoys different kinds of film or how it is presented. The US tends to enjoy thriller or action films that have lots of guns and killing. These actors in the film have to learn how loss is and act like they need revenge. Where in Japan, they tend to enjoy animated films and numerous films that are animated are coming from Japan. Every region has it’s own style of film as California has that kind of laid back appeal while New York has that kind of tough guy appeal.

5. Ideology and the "Effects" Debate: Do you feel that films can affect you and your behavior without being conscience of it?

Yes it most definitely can effect what the population sees as right or wrong. If the guy in the movie can do it that we can do. Films are mostly based after what the audience wants to see and what is in style. But if the director breaks this balance than it can start a new trend.

6. Ideology and Realism:Define Suspension of disbelief and give an example from a recent film you have watched.

Suspension of Disbelief is allowing the changes and accepting what cannot be seen to be real. The Paranormal Activity series of movies goes off the realism of ghosts buy nobody really knows if ghosts are real or not. The fear of ghosts make this film so effective in creating suspension. It leaves people having nightmares for weeks due to the unknowing of what happened in the film can happen to you. Can people really believe in what the film show as real?

7. Ideology & ownership: Does the financial support of a film or the ownership of a production company influence the ideology represented in a film? Explain with an example.

Yes it can most certainly can. If a large production company wants to make a film look like the way they want it than all they have to do is threaten to take all the funds going into the film out. They basically own the rights of the film and can do as they please. They are going to advertise the film as they want it to be and make it look like a popular style.