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Film Review Essay #2
Thomas Chapman
Cannon 1/29/09
For this film review I chose to write about Grand Torino, the most recent film by Clint Eastwood who stars in the film as its main character. In the review I read from rotten tomatoes.com, the movie received a 76% and was hailed as a “potent symbolic gesture to Eastwood’s own growth as a storyteller.” Many critics were not as kind. The author makes many subjective claims, often referring to Eastwood’s past films as the basis of which his new one is compared. The author objectively defends his/her claims by making references to Million Dollar Baby and Dirty Harry in the sense that Grand Torino follows a similar style: in which the main characters are extremely defensive and cynical to the events that happen around them. Like in Million Dollar Baby, Clint’s character’s defenses are dropped to show the humanity within the main character and the bonds that can then form between him and revolving characters. The author also categorizes the film’s cinematography as “matter-of-fact” and depicts each scene with the realistic feeling that it was thought up in. One subjective claim the author makes about the film is its ending: The film’s ending is predictable, but executed in a successful manner. One thing that I would add to this review is more discussion on its cinematography and dialogue between characters. While the author described it as “matter-of-fact,” it is hard to understand exactly what he/she means by that, but the cinematography was definitely not flashy or stylized and was very simple in that respect. The dialogue within the film was lacking in certain parts however, and I believe that should have been pointed out in the review.
Thomas Chapman
Cannon 1/29/09
For this film review I chose to write about Grand Torino, the most recent film by Clint Eastwood who stars in the film as its main character. In the review I read from rotten tomatoes.com, the movie received a 76% and was hailed as a “potent symbolic gesture to Eastwood’s own growth as a storyteller.” Many critics were not as kind. The author makes many subjective claims, often referring to Eastwood’s past films as the basis of which his new one is compared. The author objectively defends his/her claims by making references to Million Dollar Baby and Dirty Harry in the sense that Grand Torino follows a similar style: in which the main characters are extremely defensive and cynical to the events that happen around them. Like in Million Dollar Baby, Clint’s character’s defenses are dropped to show the humanity within the main character and the bonds that can then form between him and revolving characters. The author also categorizes the film’s cinematography as “matter-of-fact” and depicts each scene with the realistic feeling that it was thought up in. One subjective claim the author makes about the film is its ending: The film’s ending is predictable, but executed in a successful manner. One thing that I would add to this review is more discussion on its cinematography and dialogue between characters. While the author described it as “matter-of-fact,” it is hard to understand exactly what he/she means by that, but the cinematography was definitely not flashy or stylized and was very simple in that respect. The dialogue within the film was lacking in certain parts however, and I believe that should have been pointed out in the review.