Olympus Has Fallen - Film (Week 17)

Crew:
Director - Antoine Fuqua
Writer - Creighton Rothenberger
Producer - Gerard Butler & Danny Lerner
Cinematographer - Conrad W. Hall
Music - Trevor Morris

Cast:
Mike Banning - Gerard Butler
President Benjamin Asher - Aaron Eckhart
Connor - Finley Jacobsen
Forbes - Dylan McDermott
Kang - Rick Yune

Genre:
Action
Thriller

Themes:
Sacrifice
Loyalty
Terrorism

Running Time:
119 minutes

Year:
2013

Budget:
$70 million

Box Office:
$161 million

Production Company:
Millenium Films

Narrative:
An Ex Presidential guard reenters the white house in order to save the kidnapped president from terrorists.

Themes:
Sacrifice - Sacrifice is a main theme within the film as the Presidents ex guard puts his life on the line when he decides to go into the white house alone and help retrieve the President from Korean Terrorists. He decides to do this on his own accord.

Loyalty - Loyalty is another theme vital to the movie because, even though Mike Banning was dismissed from being the Presidential guard, he still decides to put his life on the line for him when he doesn't have to.

Saving Private Ryan

Crew:
Director - Steven Spielberg
Writing - Robert Robat
Producer - Ian Bryce & Mark Gordon & Gary Levnsohn & Steven Spielberg
Music - John Williams
Cinematography - Janusz Kaminski

Cast:
Captain Miller - Tom Hank
Sergeant Horvath - Tom Sizemore
Private Reiben - Edward Burns
Private Jackson - Barry Pepper
Private Mellish - Adam Goldberg

Genre:
Action
Drama
War

Themes:
Courage
Manhood

Running Time:
169 minutes

Year:
1998

Budget:
$70 million

Box Office:
$481 million

Production Company:
DreamWorks SKG
Paramount Pictures

Jerry Maguire

Crew:
Director - Cameron Crowe
Writer - Cameron Crowe
Producer - James L. Brooks & Cameron Crowe & Lawrence Mark & Richard Sakai
Cinematographer - Jamusz Kaminski
Editing - Joe Hutshing

Cast:
Jerry Maguire - Tom Cruise
Rod Tidwell - Cuba Gooding Jr.
Dorothy Boyd - Renee Zellweger
Avery Bishop - Kelly Preston
Frank Cushman - Jerry O'Conell

Genre:
Comedy
Drama
Romance

Themes:
Love
Determination

Running Time:
139 minutes

Year:
1996

Budget:
$50 million

Box Office:
$273 million

Production Company:
TriStar Films
Gracie Films

Knight & Day - Film (Week 16)

Crew:
Director - James Mangold
Writer - Patrick O'Neill
Producer - Todd Garner & Cathy Konrad & Steve Pink
Music - John Powell
Cinematographer - Phedon Papamichael

Cast:
Roy Miller - Tom Cruise
June Havens - Cameron Diaz
Fitzgerald - Peter Sasgaard
Antonio - Jordi Molla
Director George - viola Davis

Genre:
Action
Comedy
Romance

Themes:
Love
Trust

Running Time:
109 minutes

Year:
2010

Budget:
$117 million

Box Office:
$261 million

Production Company:
20th Century Fox Film
Regency Enterprises

Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Film (Week 15)

Crew:
Director - J.J. Abrams
Writer - J.J. Abrams & Lawrence Kasdan & Michael Ardnt
Producer - J.J. Abrams & Bryan Burk & Kathleen Kennedy
Music - John Williams
Cinematographer - Daniel Mindel

Cast:
Han Solo - Harrison Ford
Luke Skywalker - Mark Hamill
Princess Leia - Carrie Fisher
Kylo Ren - Adam Driver
Rey - Daisy Ridley
Finn - John Boyega

Genre:
Action
Adventure
Fantasy

Themes:
Courage
Trust
Hate
Love

Budget:
$200 million

Box Office:
$1.7 billion

Running Time:
135 minutes

Year:
2015

Production Company:
LucasFilms, Bad Robot

Precious - Film (Week 14)

Crew:
Director - Lee Daniels
Writer - Geoffrey Fletcher & Sapphire (Novel)
Producer - Lee Daniels & Gary Magness
Music - Mario Grigorov
Cinematography - Andrew Dunn

Cast:
Precious - Gabourey Sidibe
Mary - Mo'Nique
Mrs Rain - Paula Pattron
Mrs Weiss - Mariah Carey
Cornrows - Sherri Shepard

Genre:
Drama

Themes:
Abuse
Neglect
Incest
Education
Equality

Budget:
$10 million

Box Office:
$63 million

Time:
110 minutes

Year:
2009

Production Company:
Lionsgate

Abuse & neglect:
Abuse is a main theme within this film and is what the story revolves around. Precious is abused by her mother, who doesn't care about her. She makes precious do dinner for her, and if she doesn't like it, she makes precious eat it herself.  Her mother sits at home all day watching tv, making precious get food for and jobs to pay the bills. Her mother let her boyfriend have sex with precious and have had 2 babies together. She gets laughed at at school and bullied by students. She is unloved, hated, poor and angry.

Star Wars - Film (Week 13)

Crew:
Director - George Lucas
Writer - George Lucas
Producer - Gary Kurtz
Music - John Williams
Cinematographer - Gilbert Taylor

Cast:
Luke Skywalker - Mark Hamill
Han Solo - Harrison Ford
Princess Leia Organa
Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi - Alec Guinness
Darth Vader

Genre:
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Themes:

Budget:
$11 million

Box Office:
$786 million worldwide

Time:
121 minutes

Year:
1977

Production Company:
LucasFilm, Twentieth Century Fox

Music:
The music and sound effects within this film plays a huge role. It adds much more emotion to the scenes and atmosphere of the film itself. The music adds tension to eery scenes and there are lots of crescendos during battle scenes and intense scenes. The music also has a sci-fi/space feel to it with adds more of an effect. The opening music at the start (fan favourite) immediately adds excitement to the audience.

The colours is used in a way to identify each character. Darth Vaders is a bad guy, so he wears black. Luke and Leia are good people, so we hears white. Yoda and Obi-Wan wear tend to wear brown because they are well educated and have lots of knowledge of the force. It can also link to monks wearing robes who tend to be well educated.