Could someone please help me provide feedback to my classmate. Here is the topic

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Could someone please help me provide feedback to my classmate.

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After watching the George Méliès' film A Trip to the Moon (1902) think about the differences and similarities between how you believed someone would had processed that movie then emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually (among numerous ways) and how you processed the last “big event” or blockbuster movie you saw. Tell us what you think are different and similar.

Going beyond the entertainment value of a non-documentary movie, what other value do you get out of seeing movie?

Here is my classmate post: The premise of this move was traveling to the moon. While space exploration would ne be accomplished for over 50 years, it clearly was something that was on the mind of people back in 1902. This leads me to believe that a viewer of this move back then would have enjoyed it because it was something that had not been done yet but was a thought about subject. The movie also had a little drama to it from my perception. It seemed to me that in the beginning of the movie the main character could not get anyone to believe in his plan to travel to the moon, then his ideas became excepted, and in the end was touted as the hero of the story. This week’s reading (Filmsite) stated that this movie was created through “long shots strung together, punctuated with disappearances, double exposures, and other trick photography”, they also stated that Melies used elaborate sets to enhance this movie. Lastly the reading stated that this was his 400th film, which would have given him plenty of experience in creating films.

The most recent movie that I have seen was the Pixar Animation movie Up (please do not judge me, I have three kids and their movies tend to be all that I watch these days). In this movie the main character, Carl, is a unlikable old man who nobody seems to like very much. Carl, who was a balloon salesman decided to fly his house to a faraway destination (via balloons), but along the way became the hero in the story to a young man, Russell, who snuck into Carl’s house before it flew away. In the end Carl and Russell defeat the villain of the story, Charles, who is the leader of a pack of dogs who are trying to foil Carl and Russell’s journey. Up had a very similar storyline as A Trip to the Moon in my opinion. Much like Carl main character from A Trip to the Moon portrayed in their main character by nobody believing in him in the beginning of that movie. Also, in A Trip to the Moon they took an unlikely journey to a far and foreign location and were met by an unlikely foe, the pack of dogs lead by Charles. And lastly just as the main “bad guy” was defeated in Up and Carl becoming the hero of the story the same was so in A Trip to the Moon. I was a bit taken aback that two movies, that were made over 100 years apart had such a similar premise in their story lines.

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Note: This response is in UK English, please paste the response to MS Word and you should be able to spot discrepancies easily. Please elaborate the response with your personal views and any relevant classwork if necessary.

(Answer) The writer of the review tries to point out how a “trip to the moon” has the same fascinating effect on the audience that 2015 Hill Valley from “Back to the future” had on the 1980’s audience. Even today, a child would be fascinated with the idea of owning a hover-board and clothes that dried out automatically.

Considering that it was the early 1900’s, filmmakers basically wanted to achieve a spectacle more than anything else. Today the audience wants a film to be more relatable than for it to be a spectacle. If this film was watched today, the audience would relate to the protagonist being an underdog as opposed to the fascination of traveling to the moon that was the chief attraction of the film in those days. The writer’s critique points out these aspects well.

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