Brief Screening

Calvin Michiels

Brief Screening Report

Hunger Games

The scene from the movie that I think is the most important is when Catnis and Peter both hear over the announcing system that if the last two people to survive are from the same district they will both be announced the winners of the 74^th annual Hunger Games. At this point they are both in pretty rough shape, Catnis has no food and has just lost her fellow teammate that she was working with and Peter has a sever sword wound on one of his legs that is beginning to get infected. Neither of them have the energy to fight off any more enemies, so for a while all the remaining people are just hiding out and hoping that the others will die off. Peter is rewarded with some medicine that will help his wounded leg heal overnight. Catnis and Peter decide to camp it out in a cave for the night and hope they can make it another day. The people running the Hunger Games realize no action is happening so they decide to send out a couple of vicious dogs to see if they can kill some of the remaining contestants. They are successful with this, but in the end it wasn’t a very good idea because now Peter and Catnis are trying to fight very hard to be the last two people left in the game. Towards the end they get another announcement saying they were just kidding about the whole thing, they say only one person can be ruled the winner of the 74^th annual Hunger Games. Peter and Catnis are way too close to each other and are not willing to kill one another so what they plan to do is eat some poison berries so that they both die so that there isn’t even a winner. The people in charge recognize what their plan is and decide at the last moment that they are just going to let them both be the winners. This all happens within the last ten minutes of the movie and I find it the most important because it’s where they realize that they really like each other. 

The Setting of Horror Movies

Calvin Michiels 

Horror Movies

           Horror movies almost all have the same general setup and all follow basically the same theme or plot. There is always a group of kids or maybe just one person by themselves and its always dark and mysterious. The setting is almost always the same, they are either in a house in the middle of nowhere or at a family cabin also out in the middle of nowhere. Its always dark at the moment when the movie has reached its most scary time, because things usually aren't as frightening when its light out. The characters usually end up running away but in the end get caught by whatever it is they are running from. The general horror movie is almost impossible for me to watch because they are so predictable, the characters in the movie all seem to be dumbfounded by the noises they hear or stuff they see. There is a simple answer to all of there problems in the end, just leave wherever it is you are. 

Realism - Anti-Realism

My Understanding

           I feel that realism is anything that happens in our world that has been factually proven or in history. For example things like movies on WWI, or the bombing of Pearl Harbor. When movies are focused on realism they usually take thing from our world that are somewhat believable and people would have an easy time understanding and believing. Anti-realism on the other hand is anything that we believe is not real or fake in other words. A good example of this is any movie that has to do with the world being taken over, like Men In Black. Another example is when aliens come to the earth like in ET. these movies are all non-realistic and people understand that these things will more than likely never happen. Verisimilitude is the difference in theory on how close one movie compared to the other movie is to the truth. What actually makes a movie real in our eyes? It all depends on your beliefs and how you perceive the movie.