https://padlet.com/kjones023_1/fbr5jjtieht00chh en-us 2020-09-28 18:58:29 UTC 2020-10-05 18:34:13 UTC hello@padlet.com kjones023_1 https://padlet.com/kjones023_1/fbr5jjtieht00chh/wish/785626427 My favorite part about this movie was the set because I’ve been there! Universal Studios, only fifteen minutes from my house, offers a tram ride through many different stages and lots featuring many popular movies. As the tram passes through the sets of Back to The Future, Jurassic Park, Pirates of the Caribbean and many more, it comes to a halt at the Bates Motel. As seen in the movie, you pull up to a long dirt road with the motel right alongside it and the Bates home seen up on a cliff. As everyone is looking in awe at the set, we see an actor dressed as Norman leaving the first room of the motel holding a mannequin of a woman. He then proceeds to shove her in the truck of his car and is about to leave when he notices the tram stopped and all eyes on him. He grabs a knife and starts speed walking up to us just as the tram begins to drive away and onto the next set. This fun reenactment makes you feel as if you’re really in the movie. I’d be convinced it was a real motel until you look up and see the tip of Whoville from The Grinch directly behind it. I think that really is the magic of movies- transforming a set into a new world with a different story every time. Although in the film the Bates house looks far up on the hill behind the motel and looks eerie and daunting, seeing the set in daytime is much less threatening and actually much closer to the motel than portrayed in the movie. I think having the house behind the motel creates a sense of power Norman has over the motel; how he always has eyes on his victims and towers over them. I also think by making the motel off the grind it creates a creepy ambiance for the audience and the characters requesting a room; there is no one to see what is going on and nowhere to run. As Marion pulls up to the vacant Bates Motel she seems skeptical about it’s random location and extreme lack of guests but the ominous vibes of the set feed into the audiences’ fear for her life. With the set looking so secluded and empty it gives the film a spooky atmosphere and extra thrill the audience can enjoy. ]]> 2020-09-28 19:01:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kjones023_1/fbr5jjtieht00chh/wish/785626427 kjones023_1 https://padlet.com/kjones023_1/fbr5jjtieht00chh/wish/804339745 The way women were portrayed in Night of the Living Dead was extremely sexist and regressive. The women’s liberation movement ,which sought to create equal rights and freedoms for women began in the 1960s, so why create a movie so counterrevolutionary to what was happening in the world at that time? At first, I had hope for Barabra who got away from the first zombie and began running for her life despite her brother dying in front of her. She put up a good fight and was smart about locking herself in the old abandoned house but, when it came to protecting herself and the house she was seen as helpless. When Ben desperately tries to get her to board up the windows and doors she just stands still and does nothing to help her case and now all the audience sees is a paralyed woman and a big strong man saving the day. As she begins to talk she sounds delirious and still in shock which makes Ben relentlessly slap her across the face without hesitation. Here we see the power Ben thinks he has over Barbara and the lack of sympathy he expresses to her. Another scene that stuck out to me was when we see all the zombies flock to the house at night and of course the only naked one is a woman. There is a blatant shot of her breasts as she walks to the house and I had to ask myself “was this necessary”? Did the director feel the need to put in some sexual aspect into the movie to keep it “intriguing”? So now we’ve seen women being slapped, helpless and destitute, what’s next? Not only do the men in this movie constantly bark orders at each other, they seem to have little regard to what the women are saying. Helen constantly tries to persuade her husband that it’s a good idea to stay in the house rather than the cellar but all he can think about is getting Ben’s gun. The men then continue to risk the lives of everyone in the house because they all think they know what they’re doing. If this movie only had women in it I know they would have survived the night and been saved by the rescue teams.       

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