Formal Film Studies: Sofia Coppola

I had a few friends tell me to watch The Bling Ring a non famous movie by Sofia Coppola. Watching this movie made me wonder what other movies she made. I chose to watch The Bling Ring, Maria Antoinette, and The Virgin Suicides. I wanted to see how she pa-trades women in her films when shes also a women. 

The Bling Ring is about spoiled teens who live in Hollywood, and get into trouble by robbing celebrity homes. When caught on camera they have to try and be loyal friends and figure out how not to get caught. Thought the movie the girls seems heartless and kinda emotionless, to make the movie unpredictable I feel like Sofia Coppola picked people who could play off the spoil rich girls. In are culture girls have lots of emotions, and she flipped it. I think Sofia Coppola wanted to switch how all women are seen as and wants her viewers learn not all women are sweet girls. This movie is great for people who like teen movies with a twist, Sofia Coppola did a great job by showing women roles are more then what people usually think.

 

Maria Antonieta is about a young girl who will become a queen of France, and shes not a typical proper lady shes a little more out their and is a flirt when she goes to balls and when shes around men. She's a "wild child". This movie has a big role in how women are seen, People expect her to be a good girl but changes it around because she wants to be herself. This shows women can have there own identity and we do not have to be how society thinks we should be. Since the movie is suppose to be back in time and women had more of an expectation of proper, Sofia Coppola took it and made it more modern and makes me feel that women always have a say and should be how they want not how we are expected to be. 

The Virgin Suicides is about girls who have strict parents but disobey them, by talking to the boy across the street. I feel like this movie shows that girls are not sweet, we also have are own say, and will do things to prove that we are out there. Girls are trying to make an identity for themselves. Once again I think Sofia Coppola wants people to see that females are also a little crazy and a lot of us try to break the old way. Theses girls had everything they needed but they had to prove themselves more then they should have.

I feel like in all three movies women where these ladies who wanted to break out there shells but not in a good way so they misbehaved. I feel like females now have put themselves out there to makes themselves look like all they want is sex or to be sexy to society. I do agree that we should have are own voice but many have took it to face and I feel like Sofia Coppola has shown that throughout all three movies. What happen to getting attention is a positive way?

Sofia Coppola is a women who noticed that teenage girls are not the same women there once was, yes we need to have an open mind but we are not sexual objects and by makes these films females can realize how ridiculous females make themselves look. From theses movies I look a learning lesson and see that we do not need to be sexual objects.  

Create a movie

The Talent Show

The movie we chose to do was animation, due to the fact that is was different, and not many animation movies were out. The basic plot of the movie is Mickey Mouse and his friends need fruit and the fruit tree that they always get them from was no longer there. They saw a poster for a talent show and the prize was a big basket of fruit. So the friends joined the show, and sang and danced. They won the prize at the end and had lots of fruit for there tree house. This movie was in entertain their was no real big message behind it. We thought the kids would also need something to view during the Great Depression and many studios only made movies for adults. We thought Walt Disney would do a good job because he makes other cartoons, so we went to someone who was interested in the same topic.The cast we chose was Mickey Mouse played by Walt Disney, Minnie Mouse played by Marcellite Garner, Pluto, Donald Duck played by Clarence Nash. Since Walt Disney played Mickey Mouse we thought it would be a good idea to use these characters. They also fit because the story line was so basic there characters are well known and the kids would love to see them on another adventure. Hays code did not affect are movie. If their was something different I could have done it would have to be get more characters in the movie and have them do like a dance party at the end to make the kids feel like its okay to be involved in big things even though the real would is rough around them it might even get them up and dancing. I just feel it import to say positive sometimes even though things around you seem to be falling apart.