My favorite films anylasis

My favorite films analysis

-Angelo Douglas
Black Panther
Summary of movie
The film which genres consist of action,superhero,fantasy,science fiction and adventure is about a man named T'Challa who comes home to take his place as king of Wakanda. As he takes his place of king an enemy contests T'Challa named Killmonger for the place as king. As they fight in honor Killmonger wins and people are lead to believe that killmonger killed T'Challa in the fight as T'Challas body is nowhere to be found. When the people of wakanda find out that T'Challa isnt really dead some people in wakanda fight alongside T'Challa to take back his place as king while other fight alongside Killmonger .While others in wakanda fight, killmoger and T'Challa have their last batttle but this time Killmonger is the one to lose and die.


Opening scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cwPRZzcB5o)
The onpening scene lasts for 2 minutes and 5 seconds.What occurs in the opening scene is a man tells a story about what vibranium is and what it caused. To be more specific he explains that a meteorite made of vibranium crashes onto the earth specifically africa millions of years ago.Tribes in the area were in constant war until a warrior recieved a message from the panther goddess that led him to a plant that gave him superhuman abilitys.With the ability he stopped the wars occuring and became king under all the tribes exept one. As the world evolved it grew into chaos so to keep wakanda safe they hhid in plain site to keep wakandians safe.
The opening scene connects to the plot because it explains how wakanda was created and why they have vibranium.It also explains that the vibranium is,which is something that only wakandian people have to keep it away and a secret from the outside world because they may use it for war.It also explains why only the king has the power of the black panther to keep the tribes in peace.This opening scene is important to the story because without this explanation


Avengers infinity War
Summary of the movie
The genres of this film consist of sci-fi, action, and adventure.At the beggining of the movie we see thanos get a infinity stone from Loki and as you can see he already had one. Thoughout the movie thanos and his comrades attempt to get all of the infinity stone.While he attemprs to get the infinity stones the avengers do there best to stop him.There best isnt enough and they lose to thanos.
Opening scene (Avengers Infinity War - Opening Scene - Loki and Heimdall Death Scene - THOR vs THANOS - HD Bluray - YouTube)
What occurs in the opening scene is Thanos and his comrades step over the bodys of the people they've killed. Then Thanos threatens Loki for an infinity stone or his brother dies but Loki ingores his deal and sends the hulk to fight thanos but he loses. Then the hulk is sent away by Heimdall leaving thor and loki behind but loki sadly dies because of this.
This opening scene relates to the movie because it shows thanos's objective. Which his objective is to collect all of the infinity stones and in the opening scene you see he only has 3 more infinity stones needed. In the opening scene you also see hulk sent away to another area but later on in the movie we find out hulk is sent to earth and tells the avengers that thanos is coming for the rest of the infinity stones.
Batman vs Superman:Dawn of Justice
Summary of the movie
The genres of this movie consist of this movie include sci-fi,action,and adventure.What occurs in this movie is batman and superman fighting obviously but the details of why they fight are more complicated.Superman is forced to fight batman because lex luthor holds hostage Martha and if he dosent fight batman shell be killed instantly.Batman chooses to fight superman because he sees him as a threat a do many others in the city.As they fight superman explains what lex luthor has done and they team up to save martha.The lex luthor unleashes an alien like being named doomsday which is where wonderwoman,batman, and superman team up to stop it.
Opening Scene (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Opening Scene (1080p HD) - Bing video)
What occurs in the opening scene is bruces(flashback) backstory or past. In the beggining of the opening scene people are walking to a graveyard which is most likely his parents and bruce runs away.As hes running away we see flashbacks of bruces past which consists of him and his family coming from the movies smiling and laughing. Then a man off the street tries to robs them but in the process kills both bruces mom and father.dying. This opening scene relates to the movie becuase it shows why batman has trust issues amd dosent trust superman and want to fight him


Comparing and contrasting the movies opening scenes
Visual elements(cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing)
*In batman vs superman and adventure films hand held shots are used alot to raise tension.
*In batman vs superman and black panther both have an opening shot,dollyin/out, and midshot
*in batman vs superman and black panther the opening scenes are both showing events that occured in the past
*Avengers infinity war and batmnan the lighting is darker which indicates a darker/sadder mood
*Even though black panther has darker lighting like batman vs super man they both have different reasons for it batman vs supermans reason is fkr a sad mood black panther darker lighting is to indicate darker times(older times)
Auditory elements - sound, music, dialogue
*Avengers infinity war and batmman vs superman could both have music that raises tension because they both have something to do with a scary moment when the killer kills
*In black panther there is a non diegetic voice over of a man telling a story while in avengers infinity war there is no voice over of anyone but there is dialogue between character
*Batman vs supeermans opening seen had a sound effect of a gunshot while avengers infinity war had a sound effect of a
*In avengers infinity war there

Character - predict what roles are likely to be important
*In both batman vs superman and black panther a difference in characters i noticed is a character caused peace(king) and in batman vs superman a character caused chaos
*A similarity in batman vs superman and avengers infinity war is they both have a villian killing someone which could lead to someone trying to avenge the dead
*Both avengers infinity war and batman vs superman both consist of victims of death



Representation - is there a stereotype obvious in the opening
*batman vs superman and avengers infinity war both have a dark stereotype because there is death included
*black panther and batman vs superman are different because they both are talking about the past but black panthers is focused on peace while batmans is mostly focused on sadness because of death