A01: I have done alot of migrain analsys already therefore i will not need to improve very much in this area. I have already analysed the trailer and the poster of domino and lots of other trailers and posters such as casino royale and wanted. However, there is always room for improvments so i will try to analyse more extracts from videos related to my toopic as it will give me a greater understanding of the topic i am researching.
A02: I will need to improve my A01 a lot as i will need to understand the wider context of my film domino. I will need to research the history of the film im studying, and the social factors. For A02 i will need to talk more about theories and theorists as i clearly did not talk much about in my research so far.
A05: I already researched a large amount on my toppic which will help me in the future however i can research more from books and articles not only the internet.
Tuesday 23 September 2008
Thursday 18 September 2008
Strip scene
Bounty hunting, according to director Tony Scott and writer Richard Kelly anyway, is no longer just about stealth, cunning and measured aggression. Now it's about stripping, too.
To explain: there's a scene in Domino so spectacularly daft it probably deserves a star on its lonesome. In it, Keira Knightley is on her first ever bust as the titular bounty hunter. The bust goes wrong, climaxing in a pump-action standoff in which she and her two colleagues, Ed and Choco, are surrounded by a roomful of hoodlums pointing guns at their heads. Fingers are poised on hair-triggers. Tension hangs thick in the air. One false move and they'll be torn apart in a hail of bullets...
And what, precisely, does our deadly heroine decide to do about this predicament? Go for her gun? A knife, maybe? Oh no. She decides to take her clothes off and give the bad guys a lapdance. You know, to calm the situation.
This scene is a great expmale of how woman are still and will always be used as sex objects. Even though Keira knightly challenges alot of stereotypes in this film, she will still be a passive woman in a patrical society.
(info from totalfilm.com)
To explain: there's a scene in Domino so spectacularly daft it probably deserves a star on its lonesome. In it, Keira Knightley is on her first ever bust as the titular bounty hunter. The bust goes wrong, climaxing in a pump-action standoff in which she and her two colleagues, Ed and Choco, are surrounded by a roomful of hoodlums pointing guns at their heads. Fingers are poised on hair-triggers. Tension hangs thick in the air. One false move and they'll be torn apart in a hail of bullets...
And what, precisely, does our deadly heroine decide to do about this predicament? Go for her gun? A knife, maybe? Oh no. She decides to take her clothes off and give the bad guys a lapdance. You know, to calm the situation.
This scene is a great expmale of how woman are still and will always be used as sex objects. Even though Keira knightly challenges alot of stereotypes in this film, she will still be a passive woman in a patrical society.
(info from totalfilm.com)
What is the story of Domino
Domino Harvey, a bounty hunter, has been arrested by the FBI, who are investigating the theft of $10 million from an armored truck, which happened 36 hours previously. Domino is interviewed by criminal psychologist Taryn Mills and agrees to tell her everything she knows about the case.
Domino, a former model living in Los Angeles, becomes a bounty hunter after seeing an advert in a newspaper. Her colleagues are Ed Moseby, Choco and their driver Alf. They are employed by Claremont Williams III, a bail bondsman who also runs an armored car business.
Claremont's mistress, Lateesha Rodriguez, works for the Los Angeles Department of Motor Vehicles. Lateesha has been running a counterfeit drivers licence racket. A teenager named Frances arrives at the DMV and asks Lateesha for fake drivers licences for himself, his brother, and two of their friends.
Lateesha's granddaughter Mica is suffering from a blood disease and needs an operation urgently. The operation that Mica needs costs $300,000 which Lateesha does not have. Claremont comes up with a plan to get the money by robbing Drake Bishop, a billionaire client of his armored car business, of $10 million.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation are tipped about Lateesha's counterfeit drivers licence racket. They threaten to send her to jail unless she gives them information about Frances, whom they have been surveilling. Lateesha tells the FBI that Frances, his brother and his two friends are going to commit the robbery that she and Claremont are going to carry out.
Lateesha carries out the robbery with the help of Lashandra, Lashindra and Raoul, three of her co-workers at the DMV. Claremont finds out that Frances and his brother, who Lateesha framed for the robbery, are the sons of Anthony Cigliutti, a mob boss. Claremont phones Lateesha and tells her to abort the plan. Lateesha, Lashandra and Lashindra and Raoul go, leaving the money with Locus Fender, the getaway driver. Unknown to Claremont, Drake Bishop has been working with Anthony Cigliutti. Bishop has been laundering money for Cigliutti, meaning that the money that Claremont and Lateesha have stolen belongs to the mob.
Claremont gets Domino, Ed and Choco to apprehend Frances, his brother and his two friends and then tells them to deliver them to men working for Drake Bishop. Claremont then phones Domino and tells Domino, Ed and Choco to retrieve the $10 million from Locus Fender and to deliver it to Drake Bishop at the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Anthony Cigliutti is told about his sons arrest and is mistakenly led to believe that Drake Bishop has had his sons killed, when they have actually been released by Bishop's men on finding that they did not know anything about the robbery.
In Las Vegas, Domino gives $300,000 of the money to Lateesha for Mica's operation. Domino, Ed and Choco then go to meet Drake Bishop at the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino. Domino and Bishop, who is with his men, discuss the money. Anthony Cigliutti then turns up with his men. Cigliutti believes Bishop has had his sons killed and shoots Bishop. A gunfight breaks out and everybody is killed except Domino who manages to escape.
After having told Taryn Mills everything, Domino is released by the FBI. Mills advises Domino to retire from bounty hunting.
(info from wikipedia and total.com)
Domino, a former model living in Los Angeles, becomes a bounty hunter after seeing an advert in a newspaper. Her colleagues are Ed Moseby, Choco and their driver Alf. They are employed by Claremont Williams III, a bail bondsman who also runs an armored car business.
Claremont's mistress, Lateesha Rodriguez, works for the Los Angeles Department of Motor Vehicles. Lateesha has been running a counterfeit drivers licence racket. A teenager named Frances arrives at the DMV and asks Lateesha for fake drivers licences for himself, his brother, and two of their friends.
Lateesha's granddaughter Mica is suffering from a blood disease and needs an operation urgently. The operation that Mica needs costs $300,000 which Lateesha does not have. Claremont comes up with a plan to get the money by robbing Drake Bishop, a billionaire client of his armored car business, of $10 million.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation are tipped about Lateesha's counterfeit drivers licence racket. They threaten to send her to jail unless she gives them information about Frances, whom they have been surveilling. Lateesha tells the FBI that Frances, his brother and his two friends are going to commit the robbery that she and Claremont are going to carry out.
Lateesha carries out the robbery with the help of Lashandra, Lashindra and Raoul, three of her co-workers at the DMV. Claremont finds out that Frances and his brother, who Lateesha framed for the robbery, are the sons of Anthony Cigliutti, a mob boss. Claremont phones Lateesha and tells her to abort the plan. Lateesha, Lashandra and Lashindra and Raoul go, leaving the money with Locus Fender, the getaway driver. Unknown to Claremont, Drake Bishop has been working with Anthony Cigliutti. Bishop has been laundering money for Cigliutti, meaning that the money that Claremont and Lateesha have stolen belongs to the mob.
Claremont gets Domino, Ed and Choco to apprehend Frances, his brother and his two friends and then tells them to deliver them to men working for Drake Bishop. Claremont then phones Domino and tells Domino, Ed and Choco to retrieve the $10 million from Locus Fender and to deliver it to Drake Bishop at the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Anthony Cigliutti is told about his sons arrest and is mistakenly led to believe that Drake Bishop has had his sons killed, when they have actually been released by Bishop's men on finding that they did not know anything about the robbery.
In Las Vegas, Domino gives $300,000 of the money to Lateesha for Mica's operation. Domino, Ed and Choco then go to meet Drake Bishop at the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino. Domino and Bishop, who is with his men, discuss the money. Anthony Cigliutti then turns up with his men. Cigliutti believes Bishop has had his sons killed and shoots Bishop. A gunfight breaks out and everybody is killed except Domino who manages to escape.
After having told Taryn Mills everything, Domino is released by the FBI. Mills advises Domino to retire from bounty hunting.
(info from wikipedia and total.com)
Thursday 11 September 2008
Alan Rusbridger
Job: editor, the Guardian, executive editor, the Observer
Age: 53
Industry: publishing, new media
Circulation: Guardian 371,754, Observer 451,363 (May 2007)
Salary: £355,000 (including £17,000 benefits)
2006 ranking: 35
- Rusbridger joined the Guardian as a reporter in 1979 and was appointed deputy editor in 1993, joining the Guardian Newspapers board a year later.
-Alan rusbridger is the sone of G H Rusbridger.
- He is the editor of The Guardian and has been since 1995.
- His dad is the director of education of Zambia.
- Alan first joined the guardian in 1979 as a reporter.
- He wrote the paper’s diary column and was a feature writer.
- Editor of the guardian since 1995 and the executive editor of the observer.
- The guardians websit the guardian unlimited beat the wallstreet journal online and the new york times to win the webby awards as the best newspaper website of the year for the 3rd consecetive time.
- Alan Rusbridger is also the executive editor of The Observer.
- In addition to journalism, he has written three children's books as well as being the co-author (with Ronan Bennett) of a BBC drama, Fields of Gold.
-Alan Rusbridger was educated in Cambridge university and he did BA on English literature. Alan is known to be interested in music and golf.
- Alan Rusbridger lives in London with a family that includes, a wife, two daughters, a dog called Angus and a cat called Retro.
Age: 53
Industry: publishing, new media
Circulation: Guardian 371,754, Observer 451,363 (May 2007)
Salary: £355,000 (including £17,000 benefits)
2006 ranking: 35
- Rusbridger joined the Guardian as a reporter in 1979 and was appointed deputy editor in 1993, joining the Guardian Newspapers board a year later.
-Alan rusbridger is the sone of G H Rusbridger.
- He is the editor of The Guardian and has been since 1995.
- His dad is the director of education of Zambia.
- Alan first joined the guardian in 1979 as a reporter.
- He wrote the paper’s diary column and was a feature writer.
- Editor of the guardian since 1995 and the executive editor of the observer.
- The guardians websit the guardian unlimited beat the wallstreet journal online and the new york times to win the webby awards as the best newspaper website of the year for the 3rd consecetive time.
- Alan Rusbridger is also the executive editor of The Observer.
- In addition to journalism, he has written three children's books as well as being the co-author (with Ronan Bennett) of a BBC drama, Fields of Gold.
-Alan Rusbridger was educated in Cambridge university and he did BA on English literature. Alan is known to be interested in music and golf.
- Alan Rusbridger lives in London with a family that includes, a wife, two daughters, a dog called Angus and a cat called Retro.
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