Joe Leggett's Film Blog

Wasp (made in 2003) and Soft (made in 2006) are two short films that share many similarities and differences. Andrea Arnold directed Wasp, with a feature from a young Danny Dyer too. Soft was directed by Simon Ellis, who was nominated for a BAFTA for this film. There is a similar feel between the two movies as both share a very dark theme. For example, the performance by the mother, Zoe (Natalie Press) in certain scenes gives the audience a feeling of uncomfortableness and shock. A strong moment where this occurs is the scene where Zoe is in a car with Dave (Danny Dyer) having a sexual moment. Meanwhile, Zoe's kids are yards away on the floor outside. The youngest child who is a baby still had leftover food (which the children picked up from the floor) around her mouth and this attracted a wasp. The wasp flew into her mouth and the children screamed to alert the mother. She ran to the scene and had worry across her face. She then began screaming to a point where her voice breaks ...

Both 'Get off my Land' and 'Ralph' are short films with a deeper meaning behind them. Ralph is the longer of the two(going past the ten minute mark), with Get off my Land being around four minutes long. The two films have many similarities and differences, but are both undoubtably very well produced. One aspect that they share is the naivety of the protagonist characters. In Get off my Land, the main character is a man who looks to be very uncomfortable with his environment. His story results in him arguing with an elderly man about the idea of his 'private' land. You could call the man stubborn or even just plain stupid, but ultimately his actions got him shot. The man proposes the idea of fighting the old man when he walks off. The viewer is led to believe that the old man is walking away from the conflict in a forfeit. This seems o be obvious at the time because it is clear that the protagonist character has a physical advantage over the old man. Instead, t...

Remember Me is an underrated gem. It was released in 2010 with Alan Coulter the person directing it. Robert Pattinson plays the protagonist character-Tyler Hawkins. The second biggest character in the movie-Ally Craig is played by Australian actress, Emilie de Ravin. Remember Me is a very well made movie and it made me care about the characters and be invested in what I'm watching. What more can you ask for from a movie? Robert Pattinson faces a lot of criticism for his performance as 'Edward Cullen' in Twilight. People called the movie 'cringe', 'cheesy'...and just generally 'bad'. However, I was pleasantly surprised that Pattinson's performance was a huge step up from what he did in Twilight. I feel that in Twilight, he wasn't given enough creative freedom to use his full skillset of acting skills because of the character that he played. Of course, this commonly happens with movies that are based off of books. In Remember Me, Pattinson pl...

Genre The element of genre greatly affects our interpretation of what we see on our screen. This means that we react to movies with different genres differently, we feel different feelings about different genres and of course, we prefer certain genres more than others. Every film is now categorized with a certain genre to give people a rough idea of whether or not it would be ‘their type of film’. People see types of genre as a form of identification of what they are about to watch. Some genres are more popular than others. This is because people’s taste varies and they like certain genres. Over time, the films that people generally watch the most have been given the most attention (e.g. bigger budgets and bigger actors/actresses). For example, some people prefer horror movies or thriller movies because they are thrill seekers and the human mind naturally has a craving for the emotion of being ‘scared’. Others prefer romance movies. This could be because they are envious, in a...