Thursday, May 5, 2011

California Dreamin'

My paternal grandfather immigrated from Mexico to California and met my grandmother who was already in the states, had my father and raised him here. My mother, born and raised in Mexico met my father while he visited Mexico and they both came to live in San Jose. There's a discernible amount of dichotomy between the Trasks and Hamiltons, the Trasks (Adam, Charles, Cal, Aron) seem to have grown up in a rougher environment and seem more estranged from each other, as opposed to the Hamiltons who to me seem to exemplify the typical knit together family that overcome hardship together. Those who come to California seek opportunity and an environment of diversity with little to no discriminatory worry.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Gangster Genre

Throughout cinematic history, the Gangster film has always been characterized by having crime, violence and a character with a certain dilemma and develops throughout the course of the film dynamically, like Scarface and GoodFellas. The way it's changed is that in the early days, the filming of gangster life seemed more held back and less violence and grittiness, whereas today's gangster films display this violence and grit since the Hayes' Code is now defunct.

Angels With Dirty Faces

Given the principles of the Hayes Code, the film breaks it by having the criminals prevail in their actions without getting caught and by showing the police in a way that's not in full respect of them.

MLA

1) Facts that one is knowledgeable of before reading an outside source. EX: The DOI was signed in 1776.
2) The title and page number(s) are cited.
3) The page number is not cited, but the title of the source is.