lunes, 7 de noviembre de 2011

THE FOUR FEATHERS

Zoltam Korda, based on a novel written in 1909 by A,E,N Mason.
British Empire-1939



Pilot:
A British officer dedices to resting his assignement when his unit is sent to war.
Order to redeen himself, he chesses as an arab and goes to Egipt. He finds an opportunity to return the feathers of cowardice by his friends by helping and freeing them.

Quotations:
"I am a coward Doctor. If I had been anything but a slider I night have lived my whole life and concealed it."

SABRINA

Billy Wilder - 1954

Genre: Romance, drama and comedy.

Starts:
-Audrey Hepburn
-William Holden
-Humphrey Bogart

Plot:
The oung daughter of a chauffeur falls in love with David, a rich mum, but he doesn't pay attention to her. Sabina goes to Paris and comes to back a very sophisticated woman. David fells drawn to her.
David's brother, Linus, fears for the family money and tries to keep Sabrina off his brother by charming her himself.

Subject:
Glowly from childhood to adulthood.

Song:
Edith Piaf- La vie en rose

Keywords: Playboy-engegement party- bachltor- class differencies.

EAST IS EAST

Damien O'Donnell, 1999

CAST:
-Om Puri
-Linda Bassett
-Jordan Routledge

SYNOPSIS:
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.

GENRE:
Socialdrama

CRASH

Paul Haggis, 2004

CAST:
-Don Cheadle
-Sandra Bullock
-Matt Dillon

SYNOPSIS:
Several stories, interweave during 5 days in L.A. All the characters get related: the body of a young thief with a police detective, a racist cop, a succesful. Holliwood director and his wife, a Persian-immigrant family, a hispanic locksmith and his daughter who is, afraid of bullets, and more...
They call experience what the limits are and where they are. Victims and agressors, at the same time, they all will "crash" in 36 hours.

KEYWORDS:
Collision-racism-violence-discrimination-solitude

GENRE:
Socialdrama