The Magnificent Seven & The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence

The Magnificent Seven & The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence

Hannah Steed

I think that what the "Magnificent Seven" did was very noble. They were the only people that were willing to help the villagers protect their lively hoods. Calvera was taking their stuff all the time, messing with their families. The villagers were tired of putting up with Calvera and his tricks, so they hired these men to help them get rid of their problem. They asked a lot of people, but no one was willing to do it. Until they asked Chris, it took a little convincing but they finally worked out an agreement. Chis got a few men to help him. It took a lot of bravery for the men to face Calvera, but when they did it paid off tremendously. All it takes is a little bravery, and team work.

In "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence", Ranse finds out that basically his whole life has been a lie. Now, it wasn't until the end of the movie when he found out. His wife was in love with another man. Ranse found out when he asked her who put the cactus rose on his coffin. She was in love with Tom. So he was just heartbroken about that. Also, Ranse didn't shoot Liberty, Tom did. That was probably the worst part of the whole movie. Ranse was devastated to find out that he was basically living a lie. The two people that he trusted the most, were lying to him almost the whole time. I felt bad for Ranse, like I really did. I thought that was horrible.  

The Great Escape (1963)

The Great Escape (1963)

By: Hannah Steed

This movie shows us how important teamwork is. It shows if it a very unique way.  The men in this movie couldn't have dug the tunnels alone. It was impossible. It was barley possible using teamwork. Hilts, Roger, and their crew worked really well together, I think. I don't recall a time in the film where they fought. They had a few disagreements, but they were solved rather quickly. I thought it was amazing how the movie showed a historical event, while getting an important message to the viewer(s). They had a whole bunch of skilled men stuck in this camp, and every one of them was very eager to get out, so everyone was more that willing to contribute as much as they possibly could with the escape. They had lookouts, people to dig the holes, people to plan the escape, some to distract the officers while they dug, and that has men to hide the holes. There were many other important jobs that were carried out by these men, and it ended up paying off, for the most part.

Without teamwork, the idea of this elaborate plan probably would not even survive. It took everyone in the camp to attempt this almost impossible task. It would take time, hard work, and patience to complete this task, and that's what the men were willing to donate. They were so ready to get out of that camp. This movie teaches the viewer that you how important teamwork was and is to people all over the world. Even military people have to have help sometimes, no one can do everything alone. It take moke that one person to do most things, there isn't many things that you can do alone. 

The Wizard of OZ (1939)

The Wizard of OZ

Hannah Steed

The director changed from B&W to color because they had just learned to do color, so they thought this movie would be a good one to put color into. I also think that it had to do with the representation of when the going gets tough, people think that they can just run away from their problems and be done with them. The way that the director utilized technicolor and B&W was great. They didn't make tho whole thing B&W and they didn't make the whole thing color. They used both styles and used each one to represent different things in the movie.

I think the songs add a lot to the entertainment/fantasy side of the movie. It shows that the beginning of the movie. Without the movie I think that it would be kinda boring, most of the fun comes form the songs. So, without the songs, the viewers would get bored and not want to watch all the was through, and it wouldn't be very popular.

I think that "The Wizard of OZ" is one of the greatest movies of all time. This film is for adults and children, it has the fun and whimsical aspects for a child, and the reflection of America during this time period for adults.  But what makes this movie so great is that it showed that you can't count on someone else to sole your problems for you, all you need is for someone to help you find what you were looking for, like when Tin Man, Dorthy, Lion, and Scarecrow were going to the Wizard because they wanted something, but the Wizard didn't give they the things they wanted. Instead, he gave they a task to show them that they already had courage, a heart, and a brain. And this movie was really showing us that everything is about mind set. If you believe it, you can do it. 

Bambi/Toy Story

Bambi (1942)/Toy Story(1995)

Hannah Steed

These were two really great movies. The evolution of animation is shown greatly in the comparisons and contrasts between the two films. I think that CGI makes the film look better, but I think that it really takes something away from the film. Before CGI, it took Disney massive amounts of time, effort, and patients, and he had to really have a passion for animation. Walt had to draw/paint everything that they wanted to happen in Bambi. CGI makes everything easier and look better, but I think it take some aspects of hard work out of the experience. It take a lot more work to make animated films when CGI wasn't possible. If you messed up, you basically had to start all the way over. Compared to CGI, where you could just fix the problem within minutes (depending on how large the mistake is). Without CGI, animation would take way longer, just imagine on how long it took to complete Bambi vs. how long it to to complete Toy Story. I'm pretty sure that Bambi was harder to accomplish than Toy Story. I'm sure Toy Story wasn't a walk in the park, but it probably took less time.

The stories were great too. I have seen these movies before, when I was younger, so I had no doubt whatsoever in my mind that I would fall in love with them all over again. And I did, but I also learned some things about the stories of the movies, that i was probably too young to understand the first time I watched them. When I was a kid, I didn't know Bambi was a boy. I guess I just thought that Bambi was a girl name. I also thought the same with Flower, probably for the same reason. I guess I kinda learned that there was more to the movie that the "entertainment" there are deeper meanings to these movies. I don't know what the actual meanings of these movies were but I thought that Bambi was about life, thing happen some are good and some are bad, but you can't let things stop you from achieving the greatest goals in life. I found Toy Story to be more about jealousy, Woody was jealouse of Buzz because, he thought that Andy loved Buzz more that he loved Woody. It teaches you that there will always be someone prettier, smarter, or funnier, but that shouldn't stop you from being the best you that you can be.