45 MINUTES OUT OF THE MOVIE “KINGDOM OF HEAVEN”

45 MINUTES OUT OF THE MOVIE “KINGDOM OF HEAVEN”

1:44-3.33

Because I feel like the part where the knights are cutting off Balian’s wife’s head, and burring her, doesn’t add much at all to the story. Through out the movie Kingdom of heaven, I found the story about his wife to be un- important except for when he kills the man in the black smith store that is wearing his wife’s necklace and visits him at work.  1.89

           

12:13-12:45

I think that the director doesn’t need to state how much of a fighter Balain is, because through out the movie, he definitely proves him self worthy of being a brave knight. This fight seen at the camp just adds on more to his character but I think it’s unnecessary. 32

23:11-24:08

 This scene doesn’t really add up to the movie. I don’t think it’s very important for Balain to have this conversation in the town with one of the potential kings. 1 37

27:31-29:41

 I think they could have cut out the shipwreck to Jerusalem, because it doesn’t add up to the movie. I found this part to be very confusing. In the next scene, Balain is traveling in the desert, so I think that people would just suspect that he already took some kind of transportation and now is walking to find it. 2 10

34:56-35:25

 Him walking along isn’t very important to the movie. 109

38:01-38:38

 when Balain was caring for the horse, I found it to be a bit boring because it didn’t add anything to the movie in my opinion. 37

41:39-42:27

This isn’t important to the film, because this character ends up being killed in the end, and I don’t think the director

should waste the movies valuable time elaborating on him, or this conversation. 128

44.55-46.02

I think that this isn’t that important to the story because the queen and Balain talk right after so it would seem as if dinner would finish then they have their conversation. 147

48.00-49.15

During this part, I feel like it is a bit of the king just rambling on, and it doesn’t really make that much sense near the end of his talk. I think the director should have just stopped the conversation there.

115

49:20-51.08

This part doesn’t need to be in the film, because it makes more sense when it just cuts to the next scene and goes from there. You don’t miss anything by taking it out. 188

53.10-54.35

 In this scene it is elaborating on how the queen and Balain like each other, but I think it’s un-important, because they already established this in the beginning. 125

55.28-56.24

To me, this is just almost footage that Riddley Scott put in to make the movie longer and more developed, but I think the movie would still be fine with out the conversation between the queen and Balain. 96

58.12-101.39

The fight scene is short and not very important so I think that they should have taken it out, and just started a new scene when the king said, “assemble the army”. 5min

102.24-103.40

I don’t really understand why this fight scene is in the movie because I feel like it doesn’t do anything to enhance the plot. I still feel like the director is just adding in more, and more fighting scenes to elongate the film. I do not think that this is a good idea.116

105.36-106.07

When the knights are running towards each other to fight, the running seems to last for forever, so I think by cutting it down it will capture people’s attention much longer. 71

109.37-110.30

This traveling scene takes too long and makes the viewers loose attention on the film. 93

112.03-113.55

This part of the movie really confuses me, because the man gets beaten by the king, for yelling remarks in the town. I just don’t see how this helps and characters or the plot. That is why I took it out.152

115.00-116.50

The talk between the two men is confusing, and again its just a way that the director is trying to make the movie more developed and longer.1.5

125.20-128.27

 This part of the movie involves another pointless fighting scene and I think that the director could have used these 3 or so minutes to elaborate more on the main character Balian’s life. I don’t like how he did this scene either because I feel like some of the camera angles are off.  307

130.19-132.40

I feel like they don’t have to have a talk before they go to war. I think they should have just gone straight to battle and not wasted any viewing time. 2.21

133.36-140.19

This part of the movie really confuses me, and I don’t think that it’s necessary to have it in. I like the idea of having to wait until the very end to have a giant fight scene rather than having so many in the middle that aren’t important for the story.  6.83

146.36-147.23

The scene is lasting to long when they are at battle so I think it should be cut down just by a couple of minutes. 87

150.47-152.48

There is too much of a battle scene, and I think that they could have taken out a couple of minutes of it just to make it a bit shorter. 201

155.13-156.22

I think that the battle scene again is way too long because after this point, its just getting repetitive and un interesting. 109

202.00-203.00

the scene is again lasting way too long and the camera angles were the only parts that were changing in this part of the movie. 100

209.35-211.05

This particular part isn’t very important to the scene, and they should have taken it out so that they could’ve gotten on with showing the town of Jerusalem being converted. 1.7

Cinematic points of view on the film Stand By Me

          Cinematic points of view on the film Stand By Me.

  When watching the film stand by me, I realized many aspects of cinema through out the film. The points I would like to talk about are the following; the use of camera angles, costumes, lighting, and special effects.

  I noticed a lot of good use in the camera angle opportunities in this film. I found that when there was a switch to a different scene, they would choose an angle that could really make you feel like you were in the movie. At times, they would put the camera in front of the characters as they were walking along the train tracks and I thought that was a good choice for the director. I think that when they added that touch, you could really see the whole scene and everything that was going on. At other times, Robert Reiner (the director) would take the chance to do a scene from the characters point of view. This was very interesting to me, because I did feel like I was on the train tracks looking for Ray Brower along with them. This movie was defiantly about an adventure, and if you were not deeply engaged with it, you would get bored very easily because it would seem as just a movie where boys are walking along rail -road tracks looking for a body they may or may not discover.  In reality, them walking along is the whole movie. This is why camera angles were so important to make you feel like you were there.

   The costumes in this movie I thought were high budget and prominent. I think that Robert Reiner did a phenomenal job on suiting the characters to their clothes. As soon as a new character walked in the frame, I could tell what kind of person they would turn out to be, just by looking at what they were wearing. For example, Robert Reiner could spend a lot on the original costumes of the group of boys. He could do this because they really only had to wear one outfit for majority of the film. If I had read the book before I saw the movie, I would have pictured the boys in the same outfits as they were wearing in the movie.

 I noticed that the director used a lot of lighting techniques that caught my eye. I am going to talk about one scene in particular for this theory. In the scene where they were having an overnight camp -fire, each boy had to stay awake and guard the site. When each one was hiding behind the tree on the look out, they had one side of their face lit up, and the other was in shadows.  I thought that this symbolized one side of the boys being scared (the shadowed side). The shadowed side also showed that a lot of them do have a dark side to their personalities. The other side of their faces was lit up. The first thing that came to mind when I noticed this was, they were very vulnerable at the moment they were guarding. I really thought that this scene added a great amount of description about each boy’s personality to the film Stand By Me.

  The use of special effects was striking during the action scenes, such as running away from the train. When I was watching it, I was thinking about how hard it would be to get a train and chase the boys at perfect timing. I’m not sure if green screens were around at this time, but even if they were this part of the movie was impressing. I thought that getting the camera around at the right times to capture every second of exhilarating action was incredible. Other parts in the movie that used great special effects were every time a gun fired. The crew would have to make an explosion every time that a gun was fired, and it would have to be at the right time, every time. I think the film could have used a bit more action, or suspense, but each time that they did, I thought it was ample.