Wayne, Jeff. “War of the World Soundtrack Lyrics.” Allthelyrics.com. (2005). 13 March 2008.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
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Wayne, Jeff. “War of the World Soundtrack Lyrics.” Allthelyrics.com. (2005). 13 March 2008.
Terrance Anderson
Professor Talbot
March 13, 2008
Composition II
“War of the World”
Steven Spielberg has made many movies that have been at the top of the box office through out his entire producing career. The movie “World of the World” is one of his biggest and most important movies that he has created. Not only did this movie top the box office, but it has to do with something that he really believes in: extraterrestrials. “The years of being interested in extraterrestrials”, said Caroline McCarthy of Report: Spielberg’s Spooky Social Site “Spielberg is trying to make the world feel his lifelong passion” (par. 2). Spielberg has made many movies with extraterrestrials, for example: Third King, E.T., and Men in Black, and all of them were at the top of the box office. The action of this movie does not only bring excitement, but suspicious music to get people in that suspicious mood and it brings an all star cast.
No one wants to watch a movie if it does not have someone in it that they do not know. For this movie there several familiar faces that has been around for some years now. The main character is Ray Ferrier played by Tom Cruise, the father of the children in the movie. According to IMDb, Internet Movie Database, Tom Cruise has won three Oscars and been nominated for forty Oscars. He is ranked by Empire magazine as one of the top one hundred sexiest men in film history (p. 2). Everyone knows Tom Cruise from several movies that is why Spielberg went and got him. The other top actor in the movie is Tim Robbins who played Harlan Ogilvy, the man who was killed by Tom Cruise because he was going to put their lives in danger. According to IMDb, Tim Robbins has won an Oscar as well and been nominated for sixteen Oscars. He is ranked number sixty in the Empire Magazine as on of the top movie stars of all time (P.2). With these two movie stars carrying that much success on your movie, that will get the attention of several viewers.
For those individuals who love action, this is the movie for you to see. This movie no only has extraterrestrials, but there are also several explosions, fighting, machines, etc…Images is the most common way to caught the attention of people, so that is why this movie was top of the box office. The objective of Spielberg was to catch the attention of the viewers, so that is why he established several action scenes through out the entire movie. According to Caroline McCarthy of the Report: Spielberg’s Spooky Social Site “Steven Spielberg is developing a new social network where people can talk about their encounters with the paranormal and extraterrestrial” (par. 1). The reason for this site is because people want to believe the unbelievable at times. No one wants to be serious all the time, so with this site people can talk to others who feel the same way that they feel and talk about the unbelievable. That is how the action helps people to get the interest to watch the movie because it catches their attention and their beliefs. The movie takes place in modern day New Jersey, when the character Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) picks up his son and daughter up for the weekend. According to Printfinders.com “After a violent lighting storm, the street outside explodes as a 400 ft warlord emerges from the ground signaling the start of the systematic massacre of humankind” (par. 2). The movie uses the army to fight the aliens who is invading the earth and people are running from city to city to get away from the invaders but there is no escape. That is attention grabbing because it makes people wonder why the aliens are invading the world.
The concept of this quote is to catch the attention of the reader and it had to catch several people attention because the movie was top of the box office.
The music of the movie is to disturb the viewers of the movie. The more disturbed the viewers are the more suspicious the viewers are going to get. When people are going to watch a movie, they want to be surprised. Take this movie for example, there is a scene where Tom Cruise is running from a machine that the aliens are in controlling to kill the humans by sucking up their insides, the beat is a beat that gives the viewers the feeling to say hurry run. What I am trying to say is that the beat gives you a rush in a way because the viewers are so in the movie that they are in a rush to see what is going to happen next. According to Jeff Wayne, artist of the song “The Eve of the World” off the soundtrack War of the World:
No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men considered the possibility of life on other planets and yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us (par. 1).
This lyrical quote would have people do some thinking. This quote gives people the thought that maybe there is other type of intelligence out there in space watching over us planning the attack our world some day. That is what this movie is trying to accomplish with the music to this movie. It wants the viewers to get the feeling that maybe there is something else out there looking over us just waiting to attack us and kill us. When a movie is able to accomplish that task then it is considered a good movie. Now I know that might sound kind of like “WHAT!!!!?”, but it is the truth. The more interesting a movie is the more people are going to come and watch it.
Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest producers and directors of all time because of the quality of his movies. He makes movie that will catch the attention of everyone starting from children on up to adults. The movie “War of the World” is a very exciting movie. It has everything that a movie needs to have to be top in the box office and for the viewers to love it. According to IMDb, the movie was nominated for three Oscars and nineteen more awards (p. 1). Now when a movie starts to get nominated for Oscars, then somebody thinks that it is a good movie out there. This movie is fill with everything that is interesting and if someone has not seen if yet, then I advise them to go and see this movie “War of the World” as soon as possible.
Professor Talbot
March 13, 2008
Composition II
“War of the World”
Steven Spielberg has made many movies that have been at the top of the box office through out his entire producing career. The movie “World of the World” is one of his biggest and most important movies that he has created. Not only did this movie top the box office, but it has to do with something that he really believes in: extraterrestrials. “The years of being interested in extraterrestrials”, said Caroline McCarthy of Report: Spielberg’s Spooky Social Site “Spielberg is trying to make the world feel his lifelong passion” (par. 2). Spielberg has made many movies with extraterrestrials, for example: Third King, E.T., and Men in Black, and all of them were at the top of the box office. The action of this movie does not only bring excitement, but suspicious music to get people in that suspicious mood and it brings an all star cast.
No one wants to watch a movie if it does not have someone in it that they do not know. For this movie there several familiar faces that has been around for some years now. The main character is Ray Ferrier played by Tom Cruise, the father of the children in the movie. According to IMDb, Internet Movie Database, Tom Cruise has won three Oscars and been nominated for forty Oscars. He is ranked by Empire magazine as one of the top one hundred sexiest men in film history (p. 2). Everyone knows Tom Cruise from several movies that is why Spielberg went and got him. The other top actor in the movie is Tim Robbins who played Harlan Ogilvy, the man who was killed by Tom Cruise because he was going to put their lives in danger. According to IMDb, Tim Robbins has won an Oscar as well and been nominated for sixteen Oscars. He is ranked number sixty in the Empire Magazine as on of the top movie stars of all time (P.2). With these two movie stars carrying that much success on your movie, that will get the attention of several viewers.
For those individuals who love action, this is the movie for you to see. This movie no only has extraterrestrials, but there are also several explosions, fighting, machines, etc…Images is the most common way to caught the attention of people, so that is why this movie was top of the box office. The objective of Spielberg was to catch the attention of the viewers, so that is why he established several action scenes through out the entire movie. According to Caroline McCarthy of the Report: Spielberg’s Spooky Social Site “Steven Spielberg is developing a new social network where people can talk about their encounters with the paranormal and extraterrestrial” (par. 1). The reason for this site is because people want to believe the unbelievable at times. No one wants to be serious all the time, so with this site people can talk to others who feel the same way that they feel and talk about the unbelievable. That is how the action helps people to get the interest to watch the movie because it catches their attention and their beliefs. The movie takes place in modern day New Jersey, when the character Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) picks up his son and daughter up for the weekend. According to Printfinders.com “After a violent lighting storm, the street outside explodes as a 400 ft warlord emerges from the ground signaling the start of the systematic massacre of humankind” (par. 2). The movie uses the army to fight the aliens who is invading the earth and people are running from city to city to get away from the invaders but there is no escape. That is attention grabbing because it makes people wonder why the aliens are invading the world.
The concept of this quote is to catch the attention of the reader and it had to catch several people attention because the movie was top of the box office.
The music of the movie is to disturb the viewers of the movie. The more disturbed the viewers are the more suspicious the viewers are going to get. When people are going to watch a movie, they want to be surprised. Take this movie for example, there is a scene where Tom Cruise is running from a machine that the aliens are in controlling to kill the humans by sucking up their insides, the beat is a beat that gives the viewers the feeling to say hurry run. What I am trying to say is that the beat gives you a rush in a way because the viewers are so in the movie that they are in a rush to see what is going to happen next. According to Jeff Wayne, artist of the song “The Eve of the World” off the soundtrack War of the World:
No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men considered the possibility of life on other planets and yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us (par. 1).
This lyrical quote would have people do some thinking. This quote gives people the thought that maybe there is other type of intelligence out there in space watching over us planning the attack our world some day. That is what this movie is trying to accomplish with the music to this movie. It wants the viewers to get the feeling that maybe there is something else out there looking over us just waiting to attack us and kill us. When a movie is able to accomplish that task then it is considered a good movie. Now I know that might sound kind of like “WHAT!!!!?”, but it is the truth. The more interesting a movie is the more people are going to come and watch it.
Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest producers and directors of all time because of the quality of his movies. He makes movie that will catch the attention of everyone starting from children on up to adults. The movie “War of the World” is a very exciting movie. It has everything that a movie needs to have to be top in the box office and for the viewers to love it. According to IMDb, the movie was nominated for three Oscars and nineteen more awards (p. 1). Now when a movie starts to get nominated for Oscars, then somebody thinks that it is a good movie out there. This movie is fill with everything that is interesting and if someone has not seen if yet, then I advise them to go and see this movie “War of the World” as soon as possible.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Annotative Bibliography on Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg Materials: An Annotated Bibliography
Kois, Dan and Lane Brown. Uwe Boll vs. Steven Spielberg. 2008. 6 March 2008
This is an entertaining argument made by Uwe Boll, who is a legendary German director and former German boxer, is picking fights with Steven Spielberg in this article. According to Dan Kois and Lane Brown, Boll claims “he will crush Steven Spielberg when his latest horror comedy video game adaptation, Postal, opens on the same weekend as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” Boll is so confident that he will have a mighty box office outcome that he put his game in an email to the movie Website Bloody Disgusting.
McCarthy, Caroline. Report: Spielberg’s Spooky Social Site. 2008. 6 March 2008
McCarthy reports an interesting topic that Steven Spielberg is developing a new social network where people can talk about their encounters with the paranormal and extraterrestrial. “The project may have originally been associated with Yahoo but the project was killed off before launch,” TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington wrote. “But if our sources are right, the idea has lived on and a team in Los Angeles is working to launch it in the next few months.” Spielberg as made plenty of movies associated with extraterrestrials, for example: Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Men in Black, and World of the Worlds. The years of being interested in extraterrestrials, Spielberg is trying to make the world feel his lifelong passion.
Thompson, Max. “RMJM boss hits out at Spielberg and other Beijing boycotters.”
Architects’ Journal. 2008. 6 March 2008
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This is a serious article where Peter Morrison, who films has had an office in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai for years, taking a swipe at Steven Spielberg and others who have backed the boycotting of the Beijing Olympic Games. Spielberg does not think that the Olympic Games should be held in China because of the human rights problems and supply of arms to war. Morrison states that the Olympic Games should not just push the Chinese culture aside like that. “We’ve worked hard to improve the situation for parts of the built environment in China,” said Morrison, “I believe this is the key to the development of the country”. What Morrison is saying in the article is that the Olympic Games will help expand the different cultures in different countries.
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