coen brothers post!

the coen brothers are one of my favorite directors so far in this class, and maybe just in the real world. thats why im gonna make a connection from no country for old men to a real world situation. i believe no country is a dramatisized version of drug trafficing in our country. i believe that stuff like in no country does happen all the time. however i dont believe it happens on such a scale that no country does but it does happen. the scene that pops out to me is the end scene where lewellen was killed is very realistic and i think that kind of stuff happens all the time over money especially over such a large amount of money. also u always hear about guy in hotel shot dead or drive by shooting stuff like that makes that scene very realistic to me. a second scene that sticks out to me is when lewellen finds the trucks at the beginning of the movie and every one is dead. to me i think thats what actually would happen, i dont think every body would be killed but i do think that thats the kind of setting and place that drug trafficers would meet and do business. also the ending to me seems kind of resembling to how the real drug lords or the real bad guys dont usually get caught they somehow get away clean. also how the drugs continually get across our boarders with out us knowing or realizing that they have.

Altman post

for this post i thought i could relate the movie nashville to a kind of current event. i think the tupac notorious B.I.G. killing were, to me atleast, similar in retrospect. all having to do with the killing of huge music icons of the time wether it was barbra jean in the 70's or tupac and biggie smalls in the 90's. in nashville there was alot of political stuff going around and there was always the voice supporting the person running for the president. barbra jeans husband didnt want her to sing at the one place if there was gonna be political referances in the background but she did anyway and got herself killed while on the other hand tupac and biggie smalls were gangstas that spoke out against the government and put alot of thing out there for people to hear. and alot of people listened to them. but in the end biggie and tupac were gunned down just like barbra jean. also i think in class we talked about nashville sparking the killings of movie or music stars. so that is a good tie in to this is maybe if this movie wasnt put out there they would be alive but i dont think it would have mattered personally. nashville also depicted alot of people and alot of different personalitys which is a good representation of our society today the crazy, the talented the cheaters, the swingers, the ddoubters, the people who think they r talented but really arent. nashville is just a good representation of our society and can also tie into current events like the killings of tupac and biggie smalls

Dirty Harry!!!

dirty harry was a fantasic movie and had alot of similarites to some other eastwood movies. the basic plot is a crazy killer who is just killing people so the gov will give him 200000 dollars. and this movie also consisted of one of the greatest lines in the history of forever. "are you feeling lucky.... are ya punk!!" adding to clint eastwoods bad ass ness. but Harry Callahan will see to it that this killer will be shown justice through the law or not. this movie like in grand torino however not as bad but it had alot of racial slurs in it. whether it was the 70s or just the way he wanted it to be it had a strong resemblence to grand torino. another common link in all his films is violence and a good old fashion ass kicking. this movie was actually more graphic then i thought they had the technology for but i guess i was shown wrong. this movie didnt have dim lighting like iwo jima but it did have a lot of scenes at night or in the bright of day which i though was a good addition but was also trying to send a message off the difference between day and night. and also another similarity in his movies was the idea of sex or nudity. Dirty Harry had alot of nudity and stuff like that. the psycho killer murdered a nude girl by putting her in a hole to sufficate. and there was other nude scenes like that. but overall eastwood is a fabulous man who will always take some names and kick some ass never foget that.!