Gracie's Blog

      Jurassic Park is my first memorable dinosaur experience. Between the characters running for their lives, experimenting with creating them, and adapting to a world where humans and dinosaurs exist, Jurassic Park changed the general public's knowledge of dinosaurs. Through the special effects used, the filmmakers's choices, and the comparison to new movies, this movie changed the film industry.      The special effects used in Jurassic Park worked incredibly well. Dinosaurs are not in existence, sadly, so several techniques were used to make them look as realistic as possible. In some scenes, puppet dinosaur heads or full figures interacted with the actors. One of my favorite scenes was with the Triceratops in the field that was sick. The use of a puppet when Alan is listening to the breathing was incredible.  The movement of the belly moving up and down made the scene intimate. CGI was used to create smooth movement compared to stop-motion as well...

    Memento is a movie to pay attention to. With the flashbacks, color, and montages this was an incredible watch. Christopher Nolan did a great job of portraying and telling the story of Leonard, a man who has had memory issues ever since attempting to protect his wife from invaders. We see him not only try to remember anything he can but also use pictures and notes to live his life. Using black and white versus color pictures, flashes of different memories, and discontinuity make for a great movie.     Several instances in the movie show black and white scenes while the others show scenes in color.  Black and white in this movie represents when time is moving forward. Most of the scenes the viewer sees, with color, are moving backward in time. The backward and forward movement of time seemed to overlap towards the end when Leonard developed a picture showing the viewer that the stories from both had connected. I loved this aspect of the film because I had neve...