INDIAN MASALA FILM

Identify the major characteristic of the film.

As we know about different genre of film, like action, romance, thriller, melodrama, comedy, sci-fi movie etc. Each of them has an individual identity. This thing is mainly for Hollywood films. But In Indian film industry Bollywood have its own identity. Maslala. And this masala films are really very appreciated by a huge number of people from India.
There are numbers of genres were found in bollywood masala films like they use song, dance, melodrama, stunts, fight, comedy all together. This makes an Indian film Spices. And these are the major characteristics of the masala film.

How do these differ from the narrative convention of Hollywood?

Yes Indian masala film is different then Hollywood film. How? What really Hollywood does, when they are making any film they are more specific about the film. What they are making, they focus on mainly specific genre. Hollywood film maker’s are pity much narrative about there film making but Indian film have no specific genre. Indian film makers just concentrate on the Script and drama. They put so many things together in a very successful way.

What is the significance of songs in the masala film?

The most significant thing in masala film song is dance. Some time it’s for showing happiness or joyful life, some times sadness. A masala song some time contains moral massages, Social awareness. The most important part is they can use any kind a song in a film in imaginary way.

Film Analyses of the movie “Enemy of the State” Enlighten of Power and Knowledge.

Knowledge and power these tow things are more or less same thing because if I am well knowledge about a subject or I can say expert that time I can do what I want to do. And that’s call power. So knowledge and power walk always said by said. Any one can be powerful in a particular matter if he/she has particular knowledge about that matter. Like this enlighten of power and knowledge, now I will go to analyses the film “Enemy of the State”.
Enemy of the State is a full frame action-suspense-thriller movie. The story is about a successful lawyer Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith) how he trapped into a big hassle without his concern. One day when he was shopping around that time he suddenly meat with one of his Client, by this time that guy put a video tape in Dean’s bag without his knowing. The video tape was containing a political murder of a congress man by high official of the National Security Agency. After having the video Dean’s entire life has been changed. They were searching for the video and they were powerful too. Those bad guys made Dean’s normal life into a hell. They capture his Bank account his credit card, cutoff his phone line hack his mobile with satellite frequency monitoring system. Even they put chip or a kind of device that show his states. When no body was to help him out that time a old guy who was former National Security Agency’s Commanding officer. He helps him how to get out of this situation. He thought Dean, how to use those device system. By applying the same technology at the end of the film Dean conquer victory on his enemy. And the moral of the story is if you have knowledge, it mean you have power to do something.

The Myths

1. There is a myth that does not answer if any one calls you once by your name, because only bad sprites call once by your name.

2. Do not eat egg before exam otherwise you will be failing in the exam.

3. Another myth is don’t stop any one when he/she is going some where because it brings bad luck for them.

4. Do not carry banana with you when you are traveling some where because it brings bad luck.

5. If dogs start barking at middle of the night it means Bad sprites are around us- and it’s a myth.

“Swastika” — a different connotation for Eastern and Western audience.

Swastika — the sign of peace, symbol of good luck. This symbol or sign contain a huge religious belief among the Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism because of its connotation meaning. Swastika is an ancient symbol. It’s widely used in world major religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. And these two religions are mainly surrounded in Eastern part of the world. For Hindus this sign represent the symbol of God Prajapati Brahma (creator of earth). So they do respect this sign as a God Brahma. In Buddhism they also respect this sign as symbol of love and peace. But now it has widely different connotation for Eastern and Western Audiences. Because of the Eastern swastika was copied and used as an official emblem of the Nazi Party and continued by modern Neo-Nazis too. This sign was used as a sign of Hitler and the official symbol of Germany during the World War II. After the war this sign’s connotative meaning has represented it as a symbol of fear or symbol of blood for the Western part of people. So in my point of view this is the main difference among Eastern and Western audience because they are taking the connotative meaning of Swastika in completely different way.

References:
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika)

Film Analysis of "Wag the Dog" (political and social satire)

Analysis of "Wag the Dog"


Wag the Dog is a satire produced by Barry Levinson and written by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet. I chose to watch and write about this movie because I heard it was funny. However, I thought it was actually kind of pathetic. It stared Dustin Hoffman who played Conrad Brean and Robert DeNiro who played Stanley Motss.

The plot is based on a president who is accused of having a sexual relationship with an under aged girl two weeks before his re-election. But before anyone could think about what the president was up to, Robert DeNiro manipulates the public into believing there is a war going on with Albania with the help of Dustin Hoffman who arranges a war scene that would be seen worldwide on CNN. It was staged with a young Albanian girl (Kirsten Dunst) running from the small town, which was being bombed while holding a small kitten in her arms while screaming, and the only person who could resolve the situation was the current president.

From what I understood, our government has so much power that they can make us believe such a lie. It makes me not trust the government even more than ever. It was a message trying to prove a slogan, “Don’t change horses in mid-stream.” It was used throughout the movie in commercials, which was the message I think they were trying to get across that changing presidents in such a time of need is ridiculous.

The message in Wag the Dog wasn’t very believing. Why not change horses in midstream? Who ever said one can’t change their mind. Especially when it comes to politics and the government. They have a right to change their mind mid-stream and so do we and that is what gives us the choice to vote and pick whom and what we want. For instance, we are able to choose our president to our husbands. So I don’t have a set decision if the slogan was good or bad but all I know is I couldn’t come up with anything better except maybe a song, which they did.

Spirit to Spiritual

There are lots of things in the world, lots of unanswered question's are surrounded by us and by some how most of us don't even wanted to talk about it. Just like that one thing is always has been out of discussion's is Spirit or Spiritual matter. You can counter asking me is it real; yes! it is real. Now you can ask me who told you that it's real? 1st of all when i was just a little kid; my Grand mother used to tell different kind of story about Spiritual things, but when i grown up i treat those story as a child story. But i was wrong, those was not all of lies; there are some thing that has existed from many decay. Yes now i believe in Spirit or Spiritual things because i find there existence. Yes I u used to feel them some times. you may be thinking that i am getting mad but i don't wanna give any prove because it will take a long time and may be it could made an argument but if we belief in God that doesn't vary witch religion your from but in every religion there has been written that human can die because it's a rule of nature but Spirit don't. In holly books you can find the word easily that human and spirit are live together in same world.