Casino Royale, Conventions

Casino Royale

Poster
For the poster of the this movie they used dark colours, black, and the dark green of the poker table. Also they didn't use bright lights, only the ones that you can see at the background of the picture, which were used to light up one side of Jame Bond's face, this effect creates mystery and suspense. The poster also shows Bond grabbing a gun, this gives out that the movie might have action scenes. The tittle also gives out hints about the genre, the 007 that blends into the tittle reminds you of FBI, and the codes they use to identify their agents.


Movie Trailer

After watching the trailer you can tell is an action movie right away. At the beginning of the trailer you can see the protagonist of the movie (James Bond) having a conversation with a guy and while they talk you can see action scenes, gun shooting, also there is a lady explaining Bond's mission. Also the quick shots makes everything more exciting. There is a scene where the protagonist is kissing a woman, this shows that there is romance involved in the movie, and later on the same girl is trapped on a cage and you can tell Bond is going to rescue her. The trailer generates a lot of suspense, and pulls you into the movie, it makes you want to watch it.



Movie 

The movie was very good, it defenitetly met my expectations after watching the trailer. It had a lot of car chasing and gun shooting, also fights. Casino Royale was the perfect name for this movie, since it had a lot of gambling, and not only on the poker table. There was a lot of suspense and scenes that made you want to keep watching. The movie was quite long, when you thought it was the end something else would happen.









Action Movie Conventions:
Weapons-Knives and Guns, Killing- death of loved ones, Explosions and crashes, Fights.

Modern Family

Modern Family is an American comedy series. It came out September 23rd 2009.

It tells the story of three families, whom are all related at the same time. This comedy series is called "Modern Family" because these families don`t follow the old stereotypes of what "a family is supposed to look like". For example we have the gay couple, Mitchell and Cameron, they adopted a Vietnamese baby, Lily, and take care of her like if she was their own. Jay and Gloria are married, but she is almost twenty years younger than him and has a kid, Manny, from her old marriage. Clair is Jay`s daughter (Mitchell is also Jay`s son) and she is married to Phil, and together they have three kids.

Some of the Characters!

 Jay is on his sixties, old millionaire, father of two. He is married to a beautiful Colombian woman, (who is much younger than him) and becomes step dad of her son. Jay is very homophobic, but this has to change when he finds out his son is homosexual, the love he feels for his son will make him change his attitude towards gay people. He spends most of his time at the golf club, where he meets with his friends. Jay tries to get Many (his step son) to kinda give up on his Colombian roots, but at the end is Jay the one who's getting used to have that Latin atmosphere around him.

Gloria is a beautiful Colombian woman, she is a very loving wife and mother. Her accent leads her to mispronounce English words, earrings as "hair-rings", among many others. Gloria is always trying to get along with Clair (Jay's daughter), because she has a feeling that Clair doesn't like her very much. Gloria can be very impulsive, and is full of energy, always protecting the people he loves, she is also very loud, and always shouting. She has a high tolerance for spicy food, is an amazing gun shooter, and also is the most religious person in the whole family. She loves her son to death and will do anything to make him happy.

Phil is married to Clair, he sees himself as the "cool" dad who texts lol- laugh out loud, omg-oh my god, and wtf- why the face. He is always trying to bond with his three kids. Phil has a crush on Gloria but  he doesn't always show it . He is also scared of clowns, and is competitive when it comes to playing basketball with his son Luke. Phil will do beyond the impossible to get Jay's approval, in one occasion he fixed his printer, and kept bringing it up for he rest of the season.


Funny  Quotes!

Manny: What kind of man writes poetry on the computer?
Jay: You could have ended that sentence after poetry

Gloria: You had a 3 hour nap on Sunday.
Jay: I was tired.
Gloria: From what, your 2 hour nap on Saturday?

Claire: You have dumb ideas.
Phil: Name one...that went on for awhile

Gloria: If she learns how to froth his cappuccino I am history!


This show is presented as a "mockumentary", they talk directly into the camera, and talk about their every day's lives. The episodes take place at the houses of each family. This show is targeted to the different people in our society. For example, Gloria is Colombian and USA is known for the many Latin American cultures mixed in the American population, therefore Gloria represents all the Latin people. Mitchell and Cam represent the gay community, and how they have come a long way in our society.
At the end of each episode they leave a message to the audience, kinda like a path to follow that will help them to be a better family.

I really enjoy this show, it shows many sides of our society, and situations that we might go through at some point in our lives. I started watching it around three weeks ago and I'm already on season four!


  

The Shawshank Redemption

       "Get busy living, or get busy dying" 

 The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film.
This is a very inspiring film , it shows that if you really want something you can get it, and that hope can be the light when everything else is dark.

Andy Dufresne, was convicted for killing his wife and her lover. Andy was innocent, he did not commit this crime, but at the same time he had no way to prove his innocence, therefore he settled to his two life sentences. He was hopeful, he always thought that things would get better, it would take time but eventually they would. He started working at the library, this was a way to spend his time and also be helpful.
 Before he went to prison he worked at a bank so he was very good with numbers, this gave him the chance to work for the warden. This also made Andy's chances to get out of prison smaller, because he knew where all the warden's money was coming from, and I he ever said this to anybody it would get the warden fired.
Andy spent 19 years in prison. Every year he spent there was used to work on his escape, he dug a hole on his cell that took him all the way out of the building. He stole the money from the warden and used it once he got out of jail.
Andy never gave up, he knew he was innocent, and god wouldn't sentence him for something he didn't do. He was always hopeful, and had a goal, to get out of that place and restart his life. He planned his escape carefully and when the time was right, he left, just like he always wanted. He started his own business in Mexico and moved close to the Pacific Ocean, a place that has no memory.

Red was Andy best friend, but he wasn't always like this, when Andy first got to the building Red judged him wrong, he thought Andy would cry and wouldn't make it the first night he was there, what he never thought was that Andy was about to change his life and the way he looked at things. Red was a hopeless man, he thought that there was nothing for him outside of those walls, that it was better just to get used to it and live with it. Andy changed this, he restored Red's hope  he told Red about his plans outside of prison, and that he was welcome to be part of those plans. When Andy left Shawshank, this showed Red that there was a chance, and that things could get better. His hope was restored and he started a new life along with his best friend.

Warden is a religious man, he believes in god, and money. His program of prison cheap labour gets him a lot of money, and he'll do anything it takes to keep it. Andy is in charge of "cleaning" and banking this money, because Andy knows about all this the warden will eliminate any possibility of Andy getting out of prison. All Samuel knew was his dirty business with the cheap labour  that has his life and what he worked for. Also he believed strongly on the bible and he also quotes many of the bible passages which come back and haunt them due to his hypocritical nature. Norton kills himself once the police finds out about his dirty work and his fraud. He was a hopeless man, he never changed or even saw change as an option, he was mean and selfish and abused his power. 

I really enjoyed this movie. It shows that things can get better, and that hope, can be that extra push you need to follow your dreams and achieve your goals.