This is my second test of a blog made in word.

The next stuff has been cut and pasted in:

Dogme 95:

1. Filming must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought in. If a particular prop is necessary for the story, a location must be chosen where this prop is to be found.
   
2. The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa. Music must not be used unless it occurs within the scene being filmed, i.e., diegetic.
   
3. The camera must be a hand-held camera. Any movement or immobility attainable in the hand is permitted. The film must not take place where the camera is standing; filming must take place where the action takes place.
   
4. The film must be in colour. Special lighting is not acceptable (if there is too little light for exposure the scene must be cut or a single lamp be attached to the camera).
   
5. Optical work and filters are forbidden.
   
6. The film must not contain superficial action (murders, weapons, etc. must not occur.)
   
7. Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden (that is to say that the film takes place here and now).
   
8. Genre movies are not acceptable.
   
9. The final picture must be transferred to the Academy 35mm film, with an aspect ratio of 4:3, that is, not widescreen. Originally, the requirement was that the film had to be filmed on Academy 35mm film, but the rule was relaxed to allow low-budget productions.
   
10. The director must not be credited.
    

This film was adapted according the real life of Jake La Motta, the former Middle Weight boxing champion in the world. Jake La Motta, the Italian boxer who was born in Brooklyn of New York with sturdy body and quick movement, was called “Raging Bull” in boxing field. Director Martin Scorcese tried to unveil the contradiction of humanity though the career of the great boxing champion.

It is necessary to mention the main actor of this film, Robert De Niro, before we go on to analysis this film.

If a person is too narcissism, it is very tormenting. He will torment not only others but also himself. That is De Niro. In case of the limit of NG is 4 or 5 times for other actors, De Niro can make it more than 30 times, because of worrying about himself.

This is not the only way to torture. When he was dissatisfied with his partner, he would shout with abuse to him:”I’m gonna bust your grape!” De Niro hates any director who attempts to direct the next step of his performing. Suppose anybody does, his face will look rather bad.
 

Certainly, he was better at suffering himself. He could buy thousand of costumes in order to look more like the character. He would go to the factory to work to experience the script. He also can exercise himself to be a muscle man, and then destroy the muscles by gluttony, if it is necessary.

Returning to the film, the beginning of Raging Bull is pretty cool. Jake La Motta (by Robert De Niro) wore the capote. I don’t know whether there was sweat or rainwater on the capote. It is so excited when Jack was doing the warming on the boxing ring under the dim light. There were looming audiences around the ring and three very thick horizontal ropes coming into view. The ropes round the La Motta whose motions were shot in high-speed (low motion). So that the scene looked having a clear metaphor. Jack La Motta was like a wild animal in the cage which was watched. He moved around and roared but useless. It is Martin’s films that can describe the opposites.

Jack La Motta was a poor man. On the boxing ring, he was a hero. He can beat down any opponent. But in his private life, he was timid, slow and suspicious. In order to get rid of his cat-and-dog life with his ex-wife, he went to pub with his brother. And to pursuit of a girl, named Vickie, was another purpose. He was timid so he let his brother to date Vickie for him. And when La Motta brought Vickie to take the air, he attempted to put his arm on girl’s shoulder, but he still had no guts to do that only stayed his arm on the chair back. They played skittle ball. The girl hit the ball and the ball was disappeared. They found around but the ball still hid in mystery. They felt so boring. After that they go to La Motta’s father’s house. At first, La Motta opened the fridge and asked the girl what she wanted to eat. She said no. Then he closed the fridge and sat with Vickie beside one table. They sit face to face and nothing to talk. La Motta told her to sit a bit close. Then the girl sat the side of the table, still nothing to say. Finally Jack told Vickie to sit on his leg. The girl followed but didn’t know what to say as well. This period of action looks so funny. A great boxer in the boxing ring seemed so bashful. Following that when Vickie saw the photo of Jack and his brother, he stand behind the girl, kissed her, and kissed her again. In this awkward situation, Jack La Motta didn’t say any words to relax the atmosphere. The boxer is a rough man, he couldn’t say any wisecracking words. Through this period scene, the personality of boxer was showed pretty incisively and vividly. The film was so different that made people think the images were truth instead of film scene.

“Did you fuck with my brother?” boxing champion questioned his wife with nervous sound again and again. At this time, the champion had already broken down. After that La Motta rushed into his brother, Joey’s house and almost killed him. When he hit his brother, elder Martin used the POV to show Jack’s craze and Joey’s fear. Before that on his way to his brother’s home, a period of long shot express Jack was like an animal and nobody can stop him. Jack walked fast, and then his wife caught him but still can’t make him reduce the speed a bit. He was like a red-eye bull. The boxing champion was able to control the ring, but couldn’t catch his life. It seemed a bit sad.

“Hey, Ray. I never went down. You never got me down, Ray.” After he kept two years of Middle Weight boxing champion in the world, he was defeated by a player who was beat down by himself several years ago. These two years was the most brilliant two years in Jack La Motta’s life. Martin Scorcese chose a period of life recorded by family camera with color, it is the only part with color in this film, and added an easy music of light opera. In this color part, the elder Martin used fast motion to express the happy mood. But after these two years, he was defeat. He didn’t go down, though the fist punched him like raindrops. He was a unbending soul. On the boxing ring, he could be defeated; he faced fail, but never went down. That was an attitude to face the loss. Here, slow motions were very prefect to show the hesitate and scare in his opponent’s mind. Many close shot focused on Jack’s face, hands and legs. His hands caught the rope of the ring, and slide, and caught again. His blood flew down the shaking legs, mixed sweat. These close shots gave us an image of a tough guy.

In my opinion, this film was not the real legend of boxing champion Jack La Motta. The director Martin Scorcese wanted to show us that nobody is prefect, nobody is too atrocious to forgive. A great boxer in the ring might be an evil in his private life. On the other hand, the elder Martin let the audience to discover how the jealous made a man into an animal, and destroyed all his life. If we analysis the person who created by the elder Martin separately, on the boxing ring, he was a brave heart and sturdy warrior; in his private life, he was a selfish animal. He didn’t care about anyone except himself. Perhaps Martin Scorcese just wanted to express this kind of contradiction in order to reflect on ourselves.

Director and actor Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing is a film depicting racial conflict in the city of New York during 1980's. It centres around a group of African Americans, Italians and a Korean couple sharing a block in Brooklyn and the anger and frustration they feel towards each other which is only amplified by the intense heat throughout the film. The director makes it clear that the main theme in the film is racism by the conflicts that arise between the characters based on race. An example of this is when Radio Raheem is trying to buy batteries for his radio at the Korean store. He treats the owners, Sunny and Kim, with disrespect because of their race. Also with well thought out cinematography we are able to witness how these characters truly feel about one another and sharing their neighbourhood. Another theme in the film includes rage which is ultimately the cause of the consequences at the end of the film with no one willing to compromise but instead trying to solve their problems with anger and violence. The director shows this with the use of colours and medium shots of the characters. Conflict is also a theme that appears throughout the film with most of the characters getting into arguments over little things. This is portrayed in an interesting way through the use of colour and music.

The film allows the audience to experience a day in Brooklyn, New York on the hottest day of summer where the sun isn’t the only thing bringin the heat. The main character in the film is Mookie, played by Spike Lee, who is a young African American obsessed with money. He works in a pizzeria owned by Sal with his two sons Pino and Vito. Conflicts arise when Buggin Out demands that Sal put some pictures of African Americans on his wall of fame. Sal refuses which causes Buggin Out to seek help and boycott Sals pizzeria which results in severe consequences at the end of the film. You also get to see conflict between other characters throughout the film such as mother sister and Da Mayor.

Do the right thing deals with the issue of racism with the use of a diverse range of characters each representing different views on racial tension. One character that really stands out in the film is Radio Raheem. He represents the voice of African Americans or rather his stereo does with the song Fight the Power by Public Enemy. Spike Lee wanted this song to be the theme of young black America. Another character worth mentioning is Buggin Out. He is responsible for most of the racial tension in the film as he is the perfect example of discrimination based on race. This is shown in many scenes in the film especially the one where another character bumps into him and gets dirt on his new shoes. Buggin Out becomes furious and tells the man to get out of his neighbourhood even though the man says he was born there. This is because he is of different race.

As well as the characters cinematography is also used to describe how the characters of different race feel about each other. An example of this is the scene where the two white cops drive past the three black men who are always sitting at the corner. The shot is seen in slow motion so the audience have a lot of time to study the expressions of each character as they all stare at each other. There is a look of disgust on their faces which tells us that they have a strong feeling of hate towards each other. When the shot returns back to normal speed we hear the cops and the three men call each other a waste.

By using colour to set the mood spike lee has shown that rage is a strong theme in the film. A lot of the characters wear warm colours such as red and yellow. Buggin Out is wearing a yellow shirt and Radio Raheem wears a mix of red, yellow and orange. This not only represents the heat but is symbolic of the rage that the characters have inside because we know that these two characters show a lot of anger and violence throughout the film. Another example of this is the bright red wall that is seen behind the three men sitting at the corner. The colour of the wall represents the anger and frustration the men are feeling as they sit around and complain. The colour blue is also used in the film as the opposite to red. Da mayor is wearing a blue suit and this shows that he is not full of rage like most of the others but instead he is a calm character.

Spike Lee also uses cinematography to show rage throughout the film. In the scene where Sal smashes Radio Raheems stereo with a baseball bat all the shots are medium so we can see the characters express their rage not only through their facial expressions but through their actions and body language as well. The camera switches from character to character, mostly between Radio Raheem, Buggin Out and Sal, making the argument and the characters anger seem more intense by the second. As the argument progresses we see more and more of Sals body in the shots as his rage turns his words into actions and he starts to smash Radio Raheems stereo with the baseball bat.

There is a lot of conflict seen throughout the film that the director portrays in a symbolic way. In one scene conflict is shown between two characters with the use of music. the scene im referring to is when Radio Raheem is walking down the street and a group of men tell him to turn of his music. When he doesn’t turn it off one of the men steps forward as if he’s challenging him and turns his own music up. Radio Raheem responds to this by turning his music up even higher. This is symbolic in the way that their stereos represent their voices shouting at each other. Another way this theme is represented is through the use of colour. An example of this is the colour of clothing that the brothers Pino and Vito wear. Pino is shown wearing white and Vito is wearing black which shows that they have entirely different personalities and views on race which explains why they are constantly fighting. Sals personality is also reflected through the colour of his clothing which is green. This shows that Sal is a neutral character and this is also the way he feels about black and white people. Another scene I think portrays this theme is when Radio Raheem explains the relationship between love and hate to Mookie. "Let me tell you the story of right hand - left hand, the tale of good and evil". I think this is a good example of the battle between the right thing to do and the wrong thing which is clearly something SpikeLee wants his audience to think about. When Radio Raheem explains this his dialogue and movements are aggressive showing us the conflict between the two sides: good and evil, love and hate. This also symbolises the conflict between the different races in the film.

Spike Lee uses these three themes in his film to send out a message showing the audience the racial conflicts at that time that still exist today and that there are always decisions to be made and whether you choose the right one or the wrong one there will always be consequences. By ending the film with quotes from both Martin Luther King Jr and Malcom X, one against violence and one for it, it leaves the audience to think about what really is the right thing.

Suxing’s analysis of virgin suicide
“You have not been around girl, you are not old enough to know what tragedy there is in life.” “Obliviously doctor you never been a 13-year-old girl.” After watching "Virgin Suicides" this conversation between doctor and first suicide girl Cecilia is the deepest image of mine. We all been teenager, do you still remember the period during adolescent? "Virgin Suicides" may fresh the memory of you.
Introduction
"Virgin Suicides" is a film talking about adolescent men and women. It directed by women director Sofia Coppla, this film is for her virgin. She is also the screen-writer, actress and producer. (From reference)She was the third female film director to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing. (From reference) Film is base on novel; the fiction writer is Jeffrey Eugenides. The whole film takes 97 minutes.
Brief summary
The Virgin suicides is a beautiful story about five sisters, and their mysterious existence, told in the words of the neighborhood boys who worshiped them and who come together 20 years later to try and solve the mystery of the Lisbon sisters. (From reference) It is a solitary story of the girls isolation and the sleepy portrayal of how they watched powerless as their fragile lives disappeared(From reference). Whole story happen at a small town in the Midwest, the time is about 1970s. Lisbon family the father, Ronald, is a math teacher at the local high school and the mother is a homemaker(From reference). They’ve got 13-year-old Cecilia, 14-year-old Lux, 15-year-old Bonnie, 16-year-old Mary, and 17-year-old Therese (from reference)
Theme 1-Analysis
Talk about first suicide girl Cecilia. Five daughters the youngest only 13 years old Cecilia has already lost faith in life, for many times she wants to commit suicide, same like other adolescent girls, Cecilia love fantasy but maybe too much, as the evaluation of the boys to her "do not know what she was thinking, she was living in her own world" It’s true Cecilia always living in her world, she against real life, she has her own ideas about life but it seems still childish, she is extremely vulnerable and fragile, like the other four girls, but to the youngest girl Cecilia she seems more sensitive than others. She’s too fragile to across the threshold of puberty. She committed suicide in the bathroom holding Jesus’ card in her hand, I think she wanted to escape from real life to a better world she thinks. But she did not succeed. The doctor saves her. The doctor explained to Cecilia’s parents that "Cecilia did not want to commit suicide, she just wanted to arouse the attention of her family, nothing more." Doctors believe will be fine if Cecilia spends more time to contact with heterosexual, but it is the real fact? Maybe not like that simple. Parents began to organize opportunities for five daughters to contact with boy, but Cecilia is still depression, still can’t get out of her own world. At one night, she has chosen to jump off the beyond to end of her shot life. So in there, director by using the character Cecilia’s death to change the plot of the whole movie,. Youngest daughter died for this family is a huge blow,so their dogmatic and conservative parents began to do more severe discipline to the other four girls.

Theme 2-Analysis
Talk bout other 4 adolescent girls who actually get suicide at last. The most gorgeous girl among their 4 daughters is our hero Lux, she is the main character of this movie and she drives the plot. The opening shot of this film is to use close-up shot to present her beauty. Lux’s beautiful face comes for a long time in the air appears dull, fuzzy image. Detractor wants use this shot show us, it actually not a very real story, it’s the memory from the boys who are the neighbor of Lisbon family. This movie is their memory so the story is not very true, just likes Lux's face in the sky, like blurred. At the middle of the film, Lux’s boyfriend leave her, after that Lux begin to indulge her disposition casually, although she was locked at home by parents, she still deliberately smoking on the beyond at midnight to look sultry, because she knows the boys in voyeurism, she would like it to lure them. After the Lux’s lure, 5 boys escape from girl's parents, secretly go to Lux's home. When they came to the room the girl was found suicide in addition to Lux, 5 boys fled in panic. Lux's body was also found in a car next day. Five young girls commit suicide one after another, no one can understand.
Whole story is very simple, there is no soul-stirring thing in this movie, just telling the story of 5 girls go to suicide step by step. But it left a question to the audience, five young and beautiful girls why they so extreme to choose suicide? The film does not directly tell the audience so we need to think. Adolescent men and women, hormones are very strong normally encourage them to become fidget or depression. People in this period are usually more sensitive at the same time they are more vulnerable. For naturally, girls even more sensitive, they are more like fantasies in adolescence, they are very fragile and prone to depression. Because Lisbon’s five daughters’ natural character plus inappropriate parental guidance, the symptoms of puberty is more obvious in these 5 girls. At last, they kill themselves, maybe they want to use in this way to protest their parents’ self-righteousness. Perhaps no one can understand the idea of these 4 adolescent girls. We can only guess, as to the real cause of the girls’ suicide, we are hard to say. Adolescent girls may have same feeling like five girls in the movie.Maybe only them can figure the 5 girls out.

Theme 3-Analysis
Talk about Lisbon family. Surface, Lisbon family has an enviable, excellent family environment, coupled with five beautiful daughters. The main action of the first 5 minutes of the movie is staffs are examining the tree and prepare to cut it. It introduces the tree in front of Lisbon’s villa already necrosis, it seems like not very important but why the film spends long time to present this necrosis tree to audience? Surface, It shows the appearance of tree is tall and lush while the inside of the tree already necrosis. But the main goal of the movie is want to tell the audience this tree is just like Lisbon’s family, the appearance Lisbon’s family is a happy family, in fact Lisbon’s family already appeared crisis which is very difficult to resolve.

Theme 4-Analysis
Talk about girls’ parents. How can the 4 adolescent girls to accept such strict parents care? In the process of 4 girls make friends with boys, beautiful Lux caused the attention of the school's heartthrob, he began to pursue Lux, pay many attentions to her, he ultimate success of Seek the Lux. They go to the party together. They attract each other. At end of the night after ball they have sex on the playground. Lux did not come home one night caused her mother’s angry. She locks Lux and the other three daughters at home. Meanwhile, Lux’s boyfriend abandoned Lux. Mother forced her to burn her favorite album. How bad they did to their children? They think they've done good things for their children. But is that really good to lock four daughters at home? The outside world for them is completely unable to see. They only can rely on the music through phone to warm their injuries hearts. They think that in this way their children are very safe. But the girls are getting weird, also caused fantasy of their own genes, they become very depressed, they can only be cranky all day. Their parents isolated them let them be even more extreme and fragile. Stubborn parents are not have very good communication with them, cannot truly understand their own daughters. I thought the parents’ wrong guidance is the main reason cause the tragedy. Their care and love is too extreme, girls cannot accept their parent’s education. But the stubborn parents still disapproval, they think they do the right thing to their children and even at last the stubborn mother still saying "children should be happy, how safe to stay at home. What is so bad?" Her mother still cannot understand until she loses her 5 daughters.

Theme 5-Analysis
Talk about director and cinematographer. Director Sofia Coppla her first try is great, we cannot image how this film will be if they use a male director. She make this film seems very feminine and that what we want to see, cause this movie is about the story of 5 girls. She detailed description of the adolescent girls.
All the audience got a weird feeling for a long time after girl’s suicide. We unable extricate ourselves from the movie. One of the successes in this movie is manufacturing a kind of strange atmosphere of depression, breathless. Cinematographer create the proper atmosphere for the film, they using a lot of yellow, blue lights to help describe the depress feeling of the 5 girls. They use many close-up shots to show emotion, like they usually shot Lux’s face. Also lots of long shots to describe the environment of place which whole story happen. Using some slow motion to present girls’ fidget and depression. They use some extreme close-up shots to present the adolescent girls’ beautiful.

I believe the main goal of this film is to warn all of us audience to concern about the adolescent young men and women, parents need to communicate with them, give them more understanding and helping to avoid tragedy.
Like "Virgin Suicides" movie, like the yellow images. she was the memory of 5 boys, also the memories of youth from each of us. it is sad but very beautiful.