The Phantom of the Opera

My favorite movie of all time would have to be The phantom of the opera and my favorite scene is the masquarade ball scene.

This is my favorite scene as its so colourful and as the movie is very sad and has an eerie feel to it this scene brightens the movie up with a cheerful song and colour and a cast full of happiness and celebration.

The music in this scene is very loud and creates a happier side to the characters. Its also a celebration for the owners of this theatre who have just opened a new show and want to celebrate the opening with all of there cast and crew and cloest family and friends. Unfortunantly a cruel encounter from the Phantom himself makes everyone scared and question there celbrations.

The masquarade ball has a lot of signiicance in not only this movie but in the times back then. Masquarade balls were very popular and a place were men a women would meet and dance and possibly encounter a life partner. It has relevance in this film as the phantom always wears a mask due to his disease and everyone else wears masks in celebration.

The whole scene is colourful and bright and i love this scene for the music and the costumes as its all colourful and enjoyable.

I rate this movie 5 stars and the scene about 4.5 stars.  

Psycho - Film Review

Psycho is a thrilling and scary movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock which is a 1960 classic. You get with hit with the feeling of the theme of the movie as soon as it started with the music and the view of the buildings.

Norman had created an illusion for himself that his mother was not dead. He remained faithful to his mother years after her passing, which is the compelled him to kill Marion Crane. The shower scene is a key feature of the film. There is a variety of angles the scene was shot. She is brutally stabbed by, what seemed to be, an old woman in a long dress. Norman arrives too late, but like the dutiful son he carefully cleans the room and disposes of the body and the evidence in the swamp.

The shower scene of her death is famous in the world of horror movies. This would have been the very first horror film created. This motion picture was the core of all modern horror films. Many ideas involved with the horror industry were sprung from this film. It was also very uncommon, in the time this was filmed, for the main character to die in the middle of the film. Alfred Hitchcock's ideas were considered very original and not fully accepted by viewers at the time, but eventually became a hit.

After this movie coming out it was the base for all modern horror movies and most of the ideas from this have been portrayed through other movies.

I enjoyed this movie thouroughly and it obviously did the trick for scare factor as i was scared to shower the night after we watched this film.