I loved action packed movies a lot and I sometimes lose interest to the movie that I'm watching that is if the action isn't flowing well with the components from lighting, editing to the camera angles. You may think that it may sound weird but I don't want to watch an action movie where the camera isn't flowing but rather it takes a scene then out of nowhere another scene comes into play. The director Joss Whedon directed this film and other including "The Avengers", "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." and "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" which where intended to amuse the audiences from all of the action and amazing graphic editing and amazing camera work that looks like as if there was just one camera filming the whole time and you as the audiences personally spectating from the action is taking place. Action movies varies when it comes to the story line and what other genre it collides with. In most movies that I've have seen have good cameras at scenes but in most however are very little used. I get upset because most movies have the capability to achieve more from their camera work and form better angles. This movie had a lot of really good angles. (Spoiler) The film starts of with the team fighting against the enemies and win as usual. When the team celebrates their victory, they accidentally unleash a powerful enemy named Ultron that somehow cam the cyber world. Ultron came out when the team were celebrating and the enemy downloaded itself into a robot that was built from Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) . When Ultron came to up close, he attacked severely with other robots which he summoned to attack the team. The team lost and they retrieved because they weren't prepared for what happened to them. Upon deciding on how could've they let that happen, they start to turn against each other assuming it was each others fault. When they start to realize that going against each other won't help anything, that's when the team started to suite up and go to the war the verse against Ultron and the enemies he summoned. After an intense battle with Ultron, the team (not surprisingly) defeated Ultron and reclaimed their victory. In the beginning of the movie, When the team versed against their enemies their was a clean continues good clean flow with each individual fighting the enemies while helping each other fighting with the quantity of enemies. Their was clean continuity editing with each character fighting with the characters fighting one enemy and then fighting another enemy from a different angle. The angle and the height matched perfectly as the characters fought from ground level and fighting on rooftops. The camera was at a good range of distances as the characters fought from one enemy to the next exposing them and the enemy and a little of the background, the long shots. At the above picture, when the characters lined at a perfect angle, it exposes all of them at a long shot along with Hulk and Iron Man being exposed at medium shot.
Another Part of what I liked was the fight between Hulk and Iron Man. When they fought each other, the camera would go back and forth with each other at a continuous motion when they would go back from the strike and they themselves would hit the others person. The camera would go continuously from long shot to full shot and sometimes to medium shot. There was constantly different shots happening while it's giving a nice flowing and continuity editing with the angles of the camera and the distances.
In my opinion, What I enjoyed about this movie was not the generic exposition to rising action to climax and resolution in a predictive manner but whether I enjoyed the different types of camera angles and the different type of camera shots. The editing was flawless and caught my attention to the movie. It was like seeing an illusion image, it caught my attention to the movie and wondered what other camera cool shots and angles the director was going to bring to the plate. I recommend this movie to those who on behalf love action, superhero movies but also like to see really good camera angles and shots the editing provided for a flawless and continuous motion with the scene. All in all, I think this movie was one of the greatest that's associated the camera but the story was as always generic.
Memento is filled with different cinematic elements in different unique ways, giving the movie perfection with elegance and something to ponder on. The element I would to focus on from the film is on editing.
In the film, editing was used effectively at most moments of the film when the main character, Leonard, would switch from color scenes to the black and white scenes. The moment where the editing was used most effectively was when Leonard killed Teddy and the scene transitions to Leonard talking in a black and white scene. It was effective because it set the tone that Leonard has short term memory loss because he saying where am I. It also started the movie at the beginning and the opposite from the ending. With the movie playing in reverse, the black and white were playing their scenes in chronological order explaining somewhat of what's going with the movie and also explaining of why the main character has tattoos and other "small" things.
Another moment where editing was important was at the scenes where Leonard was interviewing Sammy Jankis. When Leonard would interview Sammy, he would talk about the side effects of his condition and how Sammy forgets everything. Leonard talks about how he forgets everything and that his wife tries to help but he forgets and that it would be hard it to remember this relates to Leonard and his condition as well. The scenes relates Sammy to Leonard in how they both forget things within the first couple of minutes.
Sammy and Leonard also don't experience any emotion such as fear and anger. Toward the end of the film, Leonard goes to the exact same position as Sammy suggesting that he has the same conditions and experience the same symptoms where it seems like they don't care about anything and don't know where they are.
The scene where it least effective is where Leonard is talking on the phone and then he ask "who is this". I think it's least effective because Leonard at some point did remember who he was talking to but just forgot considering he has short term memory loss. The scene doesn't have any important plot compared to the movie and no foreshadowing but just simply Leonard forgetting who he was talking to. The scene didn't contribute any important information related to the film and the bigger picture the film is trying to bring to the audience. The director's use of lighting helps with the film dramatically because the black and white scenes give the background of the character and who Leonard is. Leonard talks about what he's doing and why he has the tattoos on his body and about who he's trying to catch. The black and white scenes also give a foreshadowing of the movie. One foreshadow was when Leonard sat in the same position as Sammy. It gave information about who Leonard really was because when he described Sammy, he described himself because Sammy and Leonard as the same. A movie that relates to Memento is Inception. Both movies are hard to follow usually lead the audience into confusion while simultaneously trying focus on the main objective. The audience struggles a lot trying to connect everything together to make sense of what they just watched.
Different movies leave different audiences to ponder in their thoughts with the following question of "why"? Movies get its high rating from the audiences either from the movie having a great storyline without the audiences having predictive judgement of what's about to happen or where the audience is kept in suspense on what's about to happen next or from the story line being inverted (where the main characters are set apart from the others either from their behavior or why they matter), not too generic. Some of the most famous movies like Taxi Driver left audiences with a great suspense and in question as Robert De Niro is practicing with a pistol for a future cause. Movies that I found interesting that kept audiences on the edge of their seats was Memento (directed by Christopher Nolan), Nightcrawler (directed by Dan Gilroy) and The wolf of Wall Street (directed by the famous Martin Scorsese). The characters from the movies live in their own world and are also living in the prerogative that they have the right to do whatever they want to get what they want with desire without any restrictions until they achieve their own goals. The characters will also try to lure in others to help them in their way to get their treasure or goal.
Industry: The movies give a different a different path of the story then those from the modern generic movies. When compared to the other Hollywood movies, the directors of these movies decided to take a different approach and give a different look to the main characters. The main characters in the movies have a different attitude, wanting to become the bad villains that corrupted the world or their surroundings in some way either through politics and money or craving their own desires in some way. The movies show how corrupt an individual could be either by cheating through the American currency system to obtain riches or to get to their own personal goal of killing someone or getting rewarded and praise from everybody else. The unpleasant main characters also manipulates others into helping them knowing little the character are using them to obtain and cheating the system to obtain their dream victory thus corrupting the system. Leonard Shelby (played by Guy Pearce) is an individual trying avenge his wife's death by killing the murder go always from the justice system and going by his own justice system the victim whom he thinks killed his wife. I forgot to mention that he by the way has short term memory loss so he forgets what he does in about 10 minutes or so. With the short term memory loss, he kills Teddy (played by Joe Pantoliano) from assumption since he met Leonard's criteria's and not from any actual facts. Leonard also killed him with his own system of justice and not the laws with a fair trial. Leonard also helps Natalie (played by Carrie-Ann Moss) by killing her boyfriend. One of main characters Natalie, manipulates Leonard so that he can kill Her boyfriend for her. Natalie takes advantage of his condition. In night crawler, Lou (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) is an individual who wanted to get and obtain every bodies attention through the use of capturing disturbing videos of citizens being killed or a car chase. Lou manipulates the news station employer Nina (played by Rene Russo) by talking to her in a nice tone showing that he's an intelligent person and by being nice to making not say no to him. At one point of the movie, he manipulates into telling her how much money he wants. In the Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) manipulates the job of an American stock broker by telling the customers that they'll succeed if they invest their money. With the invested money that the customers out, Jordan actually steal their money for himself thus obtaining his American Dream of being rich. Most Hollywood movies tell the story where the main character or characters start being liked and are at the exposition state. As movie continues, the characters are moved into a rising action until they reach they're biggest threat or climax. Afterwards they fall into a depression and are picked up by resolution. The three movies are showed differently by the main characters being the bad guys instead and they succeed at what they're trying to achieve even though they go through obstacles and challenges ahead of them.
Camera: The camera angles and lighting are unique with the lighting being consistent with the theme of the character and the angles focusing on the main characters but also the other people the main characters come across to.
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