Film Evaluation

The Experiment 2001

Is a film based on an experiment in the 1970s where they hired a group people decided them in half and told one half they had be guards and the other had to be prisoners. They then proceeded to put them in a fake prison, to see how humans responded to authority. This film is very loosely based around this event, I think there is a certain point in the film where you start realize this.This being when the guards start to believe it's a real prison and attack the scientists controlling the experiment. But nevertheless the director managed to keep me interested and seeing as I was having to follow the subtitles this is interesting.

Amadeus 1984

Is a drama based of the life of Mozart directed by Milos Forman, the thing that struck me most about this film was how fresh the cinematography was. I couldn't believe that it was shot in 1984 as it looks new. The use of depth of field and wide screen aspect ratios is largely different from most films of the 1980s. I can also see where modern costume dramas get their influences from these elements.

Planet of The Apes 1968

Is a film based on the book by Pierre Boulle from 1963, it tells the story of a group of astronauts who end up traveling into the future and arrive on a planet populated where Apes are the dominant species and humans and seen as underdeveloped. As it was filmed in the 1960s I was unsure how they would make the apes look believable, but I was impressed with what they did. Every now and then the lips wouldn't move when they were speaking but generally it was quite convincing. The mise en scene in general in this film was impressive and still stands up today proving that it doesn't all have to be created with CGI.