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Guillermo Del Torro is best known for his famous horror films. In his movies, he uses monsters to express his feelings toward monsters and he identify his films by using monsters because of his deep passion towards them. He also tries to give others a creative side and unique imagination. Del Toro creates these monsters to emphasize the reality of his work. As a child Del Toro had many thoughts and dreams of monsters, which now greatly has an affect on his work.

In the Devil's Backbone Del Toro used an orphanage as a building of gothic romance and used the ghost story to prove the same thing that he wanted to prove in Pan's Labyrinth, that is the only real monsters are human. In the Devil's Backbone,emphasized on the true definition of a ghost because a ghost is a tragedy doomed to repeat itself time and time again and something dead that still seems to be alive. His intentions were to express to viewers that his reason for using ghosts were to show othere hat the ghost are not what they are afraid of and that what they are really afraid of are people.

In Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo Del Torro used the pale man for the viewers to find his work more appealing. When he use these effects thaey are only tools to make his work look less like a fairytale and more realistic.

From my point of view I would say that Guillermo Del Toro has a significant relationship with monsters and treat his monsters as if they are real people.

The Bad Sleep Well

The Bad Sleep Well was the first film to be produced under Akira Kirosawa's production company. In this particular film Kirosawa combines elements from Shakespaere's play Hamlet, which is Akira Kirosawa's favorite play.Kurosawa’s film has far more r, realism. On the other hand, Shakespeare's play reflects more upon poetry instead of drama. This movie is mainly about Koichi Nishi, who is a young executive wants revenge for his father's death and decides to search for the killer himself.

Although this was not one of my favorite movies, I noticed how creative Kirosawa was when he did this movie. For instance the sound, and the ay he used the lighting. Everything was done in black and whit photography. He also had great focus camera work. On the action scenes in this movie the camera was very focused when it captured things, especially the movement.

As far as the costumes in the movie, I would have to say that they were fine because they were definitely apart of the Japanese culture.

The Conversation

The title of the movie basically explains what the movie is all about. The movie revolves around Harry Caul, a surveillance expert that finds a conversation between a woman and a man in a courtyard quiute interesting. With the devices that he built himself, he realizes that he may have put the two people in danger by recording their conversation. Although this was not the first time that this occurred, Harry was very paranoid and almost delusional because he feared that he was being watched. This explains why his apartment have several locks on the door. I can say that this movie was suspenseful because you didn't know what was going to occur next because something strange would suddenly happen. For instance, the part when Harry ws in the hotel and he stepped on the balcony after hearing screaming from the next room and a bloody hand appears on the glass. It affects him because he hides under the cover and goes crazy, you would think he was trying to think nothing ever happened. In this film, I would have to say that I really didn't care for the sound. It really annoyed me because it sounded as if someone was talking in a microphone with stuffed paper of some kind in their mouths the majority of the time. The costumes in this film were okay but I was aware of the raincoat that Harry wore after it was pointed out and I couldn't understand why someone would decide to do such a thing for without a purpose, being that it was dry outside. The setting of the film mainly took place in the courtyard, at his office, and in the hotel. Overall I would say that this was a film that you definitely had to pay close attention to in order to understand what was going on and I found it pretty much interesting.

The Pursiut of Happiness

In this particular movie, the director,Gabriele Muccino, did a fantastic job as well as all of the actors that contributed their time also. On a scale from one to ten, I would give this film a perfect score because it didn't seem to have any flaws.The lighting was good, being that the film was shot both day and night. I didn't find too many special effects and if there were some, they weren't very noticeable. I also found the costumes to be appropriate because in the movie we were dealing with a working environment and a learning environment. In each environment the sytles of clothing were different. In the working environment there were people wearing suits ad ties and in the daycare, the children wore jeans and shirts. The sound was also great in the movie because it was mostly filmed in crowded areas and everything was clear, including everything that was going on in the backgrounds. I also think many families can relate to the movie in many different ways because many families are struggling and trying to make end meet.

The Old Man and the Sea

In the movie, The Old Man and the Sea, the director, Ernest Hemingway did a great job with the setting because the majority of the film took place in the sea and the film was about an old fisherman who decided to go fishing and expected to defeat fish. In the film I think that the special effects were good because whenever there was action, the camera captured everything between the man and the fish. Everything seemed so real and there were several moments where they captured action under water also. I think the costumes were also appropriate. The sound in this film was also better than what I expected to be, due to the film being old.

O Brother Where Art Thou

I would start off by saying this film was one of my favorites. In this movie, nothing seemed to be wrong. It was intersting and I liked the way the men talked. I think because the film was not as old as the other movies and it was filmed a few years back that it helped the sound and made it easier due to all of the new technology that has been introduced. When it comes down to the costumes, I also didn't find anything to be unappropriate. The special effects were also good. In the scene where the police showed up to arrest the men and the barn was set on fire, I think the way the little boy drove through it was quite good because they made it look as if it really happened, although we knew the car would have probably gone up in flames also.