Here is the link to my ideal film shelf that features some of my favorite films and the films that I have found to be the most impactful on me as a person!
Below is the link, enjoy!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cpgQOe1yGZlgoeoH4wHt8L_LyeMpRkok8d-IMly4qv0/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y1JTJCzxypaDDvAkRjzsTyzIsFcyKyr29sS9Jd1cs7U/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1k2daRmPZLSA4MdURZvd9hZ2PzVgR6WP87_IgPywATeM/edit?usp=sharing
Here are the films that represent me! Psychological thrillers, coming-of-age stories, and sappy romances, my filmshelf has it all. Read about it here! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lXC-g3g0nFpsailxYy9aLEoyhNOzuiychHvgbL8DMpU/edit?usp=sharing
Some of my favorite films, why I like them and how I feel they relate to me personally :)
IT chapter 2 I chose this movie because I feel like I could connect to it in a way. This movie symbolizes hope in a way. I say this because as most of you know IT is a horror movie. It’s about a group of 7 kids in Derry Maine that have to face their fears of a clown and figure out how they are going to kill it and that does take time. I feel like I could connect to them because it shows how they overcome their fears and obstacles in life. As we know at the end of the movie ( spoiler alert) Mike kills It with the help of a friend. I feel the same way as if all my fear and anxious moments have gone away or have gotten better with a matter of time and friends/family.
Indiana Jones Indiana Jones is a movie about adventure.I feel connected to this movie because it’s all about taking adventurous.Sometimes they have to take a risk during their adventure. My family and friends are very adventurous and so am I.I love to go on adventures. If the adventures I go on involve risks then I take them. I remember one time when my friend’s family and I were hiking in the woods and we went on a path that seemed to be the right way. It turned out to not be an actual path and we were slipping down a muddy hill with barely anywhere to grab onto and water below. That was such a memorable experience and a risky situation to be in. We finally figured out a way to get out of there safely. This mostly always happens in the Indiana Jones movies where they find a safe way to get out of a risky situation and rescue themselves.
Bend it like Beckham I chose this movie because it’s about two ambitious girls that have their hearts set on professional soccer careers. I can relate to this because I am really passionate about soccer. I don’t plan on having a career in soccer in the future. The movie is kind of similar to what happened to me the last two years. This is because I had to get surgery and couldn’t play soccer and I really wanted to. I begged my mom to let me play soccer this year. I was so out of shape that it was going to be hard for me to play from scratch and I was begging my mom to let me play. I wasn’t able to, sadly. I hope that I can keep my passion for soccer in the future, because it’s something that is super important to me and that I don’t want to stop. Just because something stopped me from playing doesn’t mean that I can never play again. It’s just like in the movie how ambitious she is to get a professional career in soccer.
Sing
The first movie/film I chose to talk about was singing, the first movie not the second one. This is an animated movie with animals that sing and perform. The movie focuses on a struggling theater owner who stages a singing competition. He does this to prevent his theater from being closed and shut down. Some of the animals feel like they are not good enough and have anxiety to sing and perform. They finally feel like they can do it and they go on to perform. This is just like me. Sometimes I felt like giving up but I did not. I just kept going until I felt confident. I feel that I could connect to this movie because it is all about singing, also because I understand how the animals feel before performing and how they get anxious. This is because I used to and still perform sometimes. I was in plays and musicals at school and I would get really anxious beforehand that I would start to panic. I know I am less anxious and not afraid to sing in front of people. When you practice over and over
Pitch perfect
I chose pitch perfect because it is also based on singing but mostly acapella and also has a lot of friendship in it. Even though the movie is about acapella I can still connect to it. Friendship to me is everything. It means that I can trust my friends. I even remember when I was younger I used to want to sing in their group because I thought they were really cool and I wanted to be famous. I even tried to sing acapella by myself and it didn’t really work out the best. I still sing but not acapella. The movie shows the difficult times they have and how they still do their acapella performances. I really loved this movie it really motivated me to do stuff and keep doing the stuff I love even being insecure about did not stop me.
Movies are very important in our lives. They can influence how we interact with the world surrounding us. Visit the URL below to see the major movies that have impacted my way of thinking.
Kiki’s Delivery Service: My parents, my mom in particular, have a distrust of Disney and Disney movies so they didn’t let me watch them when I was younger. Instead, I grew up on Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli movies. The ones I watched most were my neighbor Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service. Kiki’s Delivery Service is about a young witch who is sent off into the city to find her way. I don’t remember much of the plot because it’s been about a decade since I last watched it. Kiki makes some friends, starts having trouble with her magic, and then a blimp explodes. I really liked watching a young girl just run around and figure things out. People were just nice to her and helped her figure things out, and that was a very reassuring image of how the world worked. For example, when she’s trying to find boarding, a baker just offers her a house in exchange for delivering things on her broomstick. It’s not a particularly coherent movie. Most Miyazaki films aren’t. They’re more about the feelings than the actual plot, which may be why my understanding of the plot is “Girl in blue dress / cat / geeky boy / blimp / artist / baker.”
Brave: I know I just said my parents don’t trust Disney, but Brave is technically Pixar and their ban became more lax as Disney’s princesses became more feminist. All that to say we Saw Brave when it came out in the theaters and Merida has been my favorite princess ever since. Brave is this Scottish tomboy princess who takes after her father and won’t fit the mold her mother wants. She loves riding and climbing and being in the woods and archery, and refuses to be a lady like her mother wants. Mostly I love her because I relate to her. We’re both Scottish, we both have curly hair, and we both have a complicated relationship with controlling mothers. However, for better or worse my life includes significantly less magic, archery, and bears. Brave continues the theme of young women figuring themselves out by running around, but Merida does so at odds with her family rather than being explicitly sent to a foreign place to do so. My parents banned Barbies for similar reasons to their ban on Disney movies, but similarly they made an exception for Brave. I had a Merida Barbie who I made clothes for out of knotted fabric scraps.
Hunger Games: There was a camp called Girl On Fire at my local arboretum when I was about 10. It was a hunger games themed wilderness survival skills day camp. It seemed really fun and I wanted to go, so my mom signed me up. The one problem was I had never read the hunger games. Gregor The Overlander, another series by suzanne collins, was one of my favorite series growing up, and I read it to the point where I’ve memorized parts of it. However my mom wouldn’t let me read the hunger games yet because “it was too dark.” but here I was about to got to this two week long camp with no knowledge of the source material. So the night before she and I watched the entire first movie together. That was the first time in my life I watched a movie adaptation of a book before I read the book it was based on. When I finally did read the book my imagination of the world felt more vivid and grounded because I was basing it on the movie. Most of the time when I’m reading, I struggle to visualize it, or my mental images have little relation to the descriptions of the characters. The hunger games is now one of my favorite series and I’ve never finished the movies.
Steven Universe The Movie: Steven Universe was my favorite tv show for a very long time. It is a cartoon about a young boy who has inherited a gem and powers from his supernatural mother and is being raised by three supernatural ladies (who are also gems) in a temple. It shaped a lot of my understanding of relationships and what it means to be family. Steven runs around for five seasons just fixing people’s relationship problems. He’s a fourteen year old who looks like a ten year old, and he just fixes the adults’ problems for most of his life. It also gave me my love for gay cartoons. Steven Universe the movie was my favorite movie for a year or two just by default because Steven Universe was my favorite tv show. Steven Universe the show has many original songs and Steven Universe the movie is a full scale musical. I watched it for the first time at a friend’s house who was also into Steven Universe and had cable tv. I hyped myself up for a week before it aired and I came dressed up as my favorite character. The movie itself is a doomsday movie that explores characters identity and traumas and what it means to change and heal. It’s a good movie but it doesn’t really represent me anymore, and that’s a little bit cool and a little bit sad.
Inside: I think the film that best captures the experience of quarantine during COVID is Inside by Bo Burnham. My first experience of Bo Burnham was Inside, but I now know that he is a musical comedian who made his way from YouTube to comedy shows and spent his quarantine filming a one-man movie in a single room. This film effectively explores the isolation of quarantine, but also the technological discovery and social justice upheaval of 2020 to 2021. The film can’t be said to have any particular plot aside from an increasing sense of isolation and futility. It is more a collection of bits about social commentary, many of which come in song form. A few of my favorites are “Welcome to the Internet,” about the predatory nature of social media, “How the World Works,” a conversation between a corporate-controlled kids’ show host and a Marxist sock puppet, and “Content,” which opens the movie by setting it in the frame of a content creator publishing something to his audience. However, taken together, these vignettes form a complete impression of isolation and inescapability. It is fitting that this movie was released as quarantine was lifting because otherwise I don’t know how its relatability would have been bearable to the general public. I sincerely hope Bo Burnham is okay and I doubt it.
I love movies, i just love em. They are a big thing for me, especially what I have down below. I think that you should also watch these if you haven’t.
The Iron Giant, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Bladerunner 2049, The Spongebob Squarepants movie, and Jurassic Park.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1imlxhC-epwwoDiBHo8Ttv1nxjJhRJClCmQwZjUmKmKA/edit?usp=sharing
