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| Deadpool 2(2018,David Leitch) Deadpool 2 is a superhero movie, starring Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin and Julian Dennison, which is known to use the extra-diegetic gaze for comedic purposes. Just from the cast list alone you can see that this film was bound to do well. | A Bug’s Life(1998, John Lasseter) may seem like a mainstream film at first glance but this film was actually the second film to use completely computer generated animation, obviously this shows now due to a fast acceleration in technology which allowed this animation style to become much better but it still hold the test of time fairly well. | The shape of water(2017, Guillermo del Toro) is a film about a lonely janitor who meets and then falls in love with a humanoid amphibious creature. I put this film in the art category because it’s definitely not a film that the masses would enjoy which eliminates it from the mainstream category and I don’t think it was Historically significant either. |
| Love, Simon(2018, Greg Berlanti) is a story based around Simon Spier and how he keeps his sexual orientation a secret from his family. However, when a blackmailer threatens to reveal it, he goes on a roller-coaster journey to come to terms with his identity. I cant see this fil in any other category. | The wizard of Oz(1939, Victor Fleming) is a play/movie which is well known for being the first ever film to use colour, and keeping in mind that basically every film being made and probably to be made will be in colour I think it’s obvious to put this film in the historically significant category. | Battleship Potemkin(1925, Sergei Eisenstein) is a 1925 Soviet silent drama film produced by Mosfilm. Directed and co-written by Sergei Eisenstein, it presents a dramatization of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against its officers. A silent film is usually going to be an art film, this film could be argued to be in historically significant but I think it belongs in art film. |
| The Breakfast Club(1985, John Hughes) is about Five high school students, all with different mindsets, who face detainment in their school library on a Saturday morning. As time passes by, their egos fade and they become close buddies. | Toy Story(1995, John Lasseter) is Historically significant because it is literally the first completely computer-animated film, Bugs Life being second. With a 30 million USD budget it was extremely impressive since A bugs life has 15 million USD more and still was debatably visually subordinate. | The seventh samurai(1954, Akira Kurosawa) is based in Japan and follows a veteran samurai, who gathers six samurais to protect a village from the cruel bandits. As the samurais teach the natives how to defend themselves, the village is attacked by a pack of 40 bandits. |
| Submarine(2010, Richard Ayoade) Oliver (Craig Roberts) is a Welsh teen who has some things on his mind. First is losing his virginity before his 16th birthday. He sets out to woo his feisty classmate Jordana (Yasmin Paige). Then Oliver focuses on holding his family together. By the narrative this film is definitely fitting into the category ‘Mainstream’ | Once upon a time in the west(1964, Sergio Leone) Leone changed his approach over his earlier Westerns. Whereas the “Dollars” films were quirky and up-tempo, a celebratory yet tongue-in-cheek parody of the icons of the Wild West, this film is much slower in pace and sombre in theme. Leone’s distinctive style, which is very different from, but very much influenced by, Akira Kurosawa‘s Sanshiro Sugata (1943) | Fitzcarraldo(1982, Werner Herzog) This film is an art film because I feel the target audience is very niche which implies the director was aiming to make a film he was interested in and didn’t care if the masses enjoyed it, I think the film is foreign which would make the audience even more narrow but regardless its been nominated for awards. |
| Manhattan(1979, Woody Allen) Director Woody Allen’s love letter to New York City stars Allen as frustrated television writer Isaac Davis, a twice-divorced malcontent facing middle age alone after his wife, Jill (Meryl Streep), leaves him for a woman. Isaac is dating fresh-faced Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), a high school girl. Tis film just doesn’t sound historically significant or like it fits into the art film category. | AlphaVille(1965, Jean-Luc Godard) Government agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is dispatched on a secret mission to Alphaville, a dystopian metropolis in a distant corner of the galaxy. Caution is hot on the trail of rogue agent Henri Dickson (Akim Tamiroff) and a scientist named Von Braun, the creator of Alpha 60, a computer that uses mind control to rule over residents of Alphaville. Caution is aided in his quest to destroy the despotic computer ruler by Von Braun’s own daughter, Natacha. I put this film in historically significant because it was and still is very loved and is known to be one of the best sci-fi films to be made. But I also get the sense that this film inspired ‘Bladerunner(1982,Scott) |