E.T. Extra Terrestrial (1982) & Day For NIght (1973)

After watching "Day For Night" It made me realize how complicated and how much time it takes just to get one scene perfect. The most shocking part for me was the opening scene they had to retake over and over again since it was one long continuous scene. Because of this, everything had to be absolutely perfect and if one extra was even a second late they would have to redo the whole thing. It also showed me how much the actors and their personal life can effect a movie. Weather its love interests with another actor on set or a pregnancy it can be a very dramatic process that effects the whole movie






 

My all time favorite movie is E.T. In E.T there were also many obstacles they had to face while filming, but many different ones than in "Day for night." In "Day for Night"  they filmed most of the movie out of order just like many other films but the thing about E.T. is they had to film it in order. The reason they did this was they wanted to build a completely real and authentic emotional connection between Henry Thomas who played Elliott and E.T. By doing this, in the scene where the scientist takes E.T away from Elliott, every tear he cried was real and they only had to do the scene in one take since it was so real and emotional. Since in E.T. many of the characters were children they didn't have to worry about love interests or pregnancies like in "Day for Night" but Filming with children comes with other struggles. One obstacle they faced was Henry had to kiss a girl in one scene which he did not want to do at all because obviously girls have cuties. In conclusion, every film comes with different struggles but when comparing "Day for Night" and my favorite film "E.T." the main issue was the age difference and the different struggles adult actors face and children actors face.

500 Days of Summer (2009)

The most recent film I watched was called "500 Days of Summer" directed by Marc Webb. Marc Webb is also the director of "The Amazing Spiderman" along with the band My Chemical Romance's "Life on the Murder Scene." "500 Days of Summer" is a romantic comedy about an aspiring architect named Tom who falls in love with a girl named Summer. Most love stories start from the beginning, then the couple gets into a fight, they brake up, and then they remember how much they love each other and end up getting back together. Unlike any other love story this one starts from the very end. The director starts with a scene showing Tom at his friends house acting very angry and depressed. Then Tom goes into telling his friend how he got in that emotional state and what happened between him and Summer. We immediately know this story does not end well between him and Summer because of the way the way it was foreshadowed it in the beginning. Again, unlike any other love story that starts from the beginning, this one is authentically told by Toms point of view and how he remembers it. Since it is told how he remembers it going, it does skip around a lot and is not in chronological order. The way the director shows how time passed in between scenes is by a title screen that shows you what day it is similar to what they use in silent movies to show dialogue. My favorite part of the movie was the music references. They played a lot of my favorite songs in the movie and made many band references such as Simon & Garfunkel, The Smiths, and The Beatles. My favorite line in the movie was when Summer was telling Tom about who her favorite Beatle is and she tells him its Ringo. Nobodies favorite Beatle is ever Ringo, its always either John or Paul so Tom asks "Why? nobody likes Ringo." and Summer replies with "Exactly." My personal favorite band are The Beatles so that line made the whole movie for me. Overall it was a neat twist on a generic love story and was very funny. My only critic was although the story was told differently then any other, the plot was very similar and predictable to your stereotypical love story.