Beginning, Middle, and End

The movie Artificial Intelligence is an excellent example of a film with a great ending. For those of you who haven't seen the movie, the plot consists of a boy who happens to be searching for his long lost mother. The only problem is that the boy doesn't know that he is a robot and believes that he was lost when he was actually abandoned. At the end, the boy finds out that he is in fact, a robot, and that his mother had passed away several years ago. However, a group of intelligent life forms find the boy and are able to resurrect his mother for a single day. The fact that makes this movie ending great is that the boy is able to reunite with his mother despite the constraints of time and mortality that would have otherwise made his dream impossible. In everyone's life there is always a beginning, middle, and an end, no matter what point in time it may be. At this point in my life, my time to become independent is beginning. Soon enough, I'll be off to a college or university and will probably move out of my home and possibly even the state, depending on where I may end up. I'll have to begin to make some career choices and maybe even get a part time job. This beginning however, results from an end of another thing. That is, the end of my carefree youth. From now on, I will no longer be able to enjoy the trouble free lifestyle that I have now, there will be several challenges to come along with adulthood and difficult decisions will have to be made. Therefore, I must mature and try to make as little mistakes as possible in order to succeed in the future.

Undeserved Misfortune

Undeserved misfortune is one of the five essential elements of a great film. It can be found in all movies as well as in real personal experiences. In Inglorious Bastards, we can observe the undeserved misfortune in the scene where Soshana's entire family is brutally murdered simply for being Jewish. This, in turn, makes the audience care for Soshana and sympathize with her plan to avenge her family by assassinating Hitler. Undeserved misfortune can also be observed in real life experiences. I once had a friend named Edgar in seventh grade; we weren't exactly best friends, but we used to talk a lot, especially about video games. Then, I remember that he suddenly stopped talking to me. I didn't know why, I just assumed that we didn't have things to talk about, so I left things as they were. I would occasionally pass by him from time to time, but he would always give me this angry look. I hadn't done any wrong to him, so I was confused as to why he was so mad at me. Then one day, he finally approached me and told me that he had heard from  some other people that I was saying things behind his back. I was surprised to hear that and immediately denied it, but he didn't believe me. Things took a turn for the worse, but we eventually cleared things up and we never really talked much after that. And so a simple rumor caused me to lose a friend, even though I didn't have many since it was my first year at that school. I suppose that this event could be turned into an idea for a film.

My Film Job

Out of all the available positions for film production, I think that I would be best suited as the casting director for several reasons. First of all, I'm great at memorizing things so I wouldn't have a problem remembering the dialogue and helping out the actors with their lines. I also work well with others, so cooperating with the other members of the group will not be an issue. As a casting director, I feel that I would be able to bring a character's actions and emotions to life, without having to deal with my personal embarrassment of being on camera. Overall, I think that the casting director position would make me asset to the group and allow me to grow as a person.

Conflict

Conflict is one of the most important elements of a film. Conflict keeps things interesting and it can be found in several films and real life situations. In The Fifth Element, the conflict of the movie consists of a group of heroes, named Lilu and Dallas, who are desperately trying to stop a deranged man from collecting four sacred stones. In this case, the conflict of the film is man versus man. However, the sacred stones are needed to prevent the apocalypse from occurring which could also make the conflict man versus nature. Conflict can also be found in real life experiences. I remember that I had once bought a ticket to a school dance, but I had doubts of even going because I couldn't dance and I wasn't sure if any of my friends were going. It was also my first time going to a dance, so I didn't know what to expect. I guess you could say that this conflict was man versus self. Eventually, I decided to go, and I had a great time. This experience could be turned into an idea for a film, but it would be difficult, as it would require several extras.