Activity 2

Historically Significant films: Battleship Potemkin, The Seventh Samurai, Fitzcarraldo, Once Upon a Time in the West.

Art Films:  A Bugs Life, the Shape of Water, the Wizard of Oz, Deadpool 2, Submarine, Alphaville, Toy Story.

Mainstream Films: The Breakfast Club, Love Simon, Manhattan.

• Battleship Potemkin: 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein.
• The Seventh Samurai: 954 Japanese epicsamurai drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa.
• Fitzcarraldo: 1982 West German adventure-drama film written and directed by Werner Herzog.
• Once Upon a Time in the West: 968 epic Spaghetti Western film co-written and directed by Sergio Leone.
• A Bugs Life: 1998 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by John Lasseter.
• The Shape of Water: 2017 American romantic dark fantasy drama film directed by Guillermo Del Toro.
• The Wizard of Oz: 1939 American musical fantasy film directed primarily by Victor Fleming.
• Deadpool 2: 2018 American Superhero film directed by David Leitch.
• Submarine:  2010 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Ayoade.
• Alphaville: 1965 French New Wave science fiction noir film directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
• Toy Story: 1995 American computer-animatedbuddy comedy adventure film directed by John Lasseter.
• The Breakfast Club: 1985 American comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes.
• Love Simon: 2018 American romantic teen comedy-drama film directed by Greg Berlanti.
• Manhattan: 1979 American romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen.

Film plays a big role within setting the standards of society as the concept of a popular film eventually becomes reality due to the population who watched it wanting to imitate the admirable characters. The mainstream films tend to be based around common real life situations in order to relate to an audience and gain popularity. Art films are based around fantasy and commonly used as an escape from reality and require large levels of creativity for one to become popular. Historically Significant films are based around real life events that happened years ago. Most historically significant films have been modernised and are known to be inaccurate, as directors try to make the situation more appealing and interesting for the audience. The reason popular films make a big impact on society is because life imitates art, so eventually mainstream and semi-realistic storylines can become reality. This is also why movies with dark and triggering concepts, such as suicide, tend to get a lot of hate despite being popular. Film makers tend to romanticise certain events to make it entertaining for an audience rather than depressing, to increase popularity. Therefore, people worry that these films will influence society as they do.