Term 2, Week 1: Reflection on Foreign Films
Tuesday Today, we were discussing on Hollywood and foreign films which will be our topic for the first half of the film. Mr Andrews was discussing how Hollywood is taking over in the box office in the world. However, some of the films that Hollywood released is actually an English version (or American version to be exact) of some foreign films. Some of the films they bought the rights for and some literally copy it without permission. This is interesting because I looked into the list that Hollywood created their version from foreign films and there's a lot. Therefore, there are more than Hollywood films. This term's task will be writing an essay by comparing between original Japanese films and their Hollywood counterpart which are Ring and The Ring , The Seven Samurai and Magnificent Seven . Over the next lessons, we are going to watch a French film called Amélie . Thursday Today we were disscussing on the Auteur task and essay task. ...