The movie Mamma Mia has great actors such as Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, Christine Baraski, Julie Walters and Dominic Cooper. I have chosen my three favorite actors to analyze Meryl Streep Brosnan and Amanda Seyfried.

Meryl Streep is her greatest in this movie. She singings, she dances, she laughs, she crying, she is the mother, she is the fun friend, she is the wild lover and she is the heart broken lover as well. Meryl Streep as the textbook mentions is a wild card. She is capable of playing many different roles. Among Meryl’s best roles are, The Iron Lady, Doubt, Julie and Julia, The Deer Hunter. Meryl Streep used the experiences in all her roles and used them in the movie Mamma Mia. Meryl Streep can be in a serious movie like the Doubt and the audience hate her then play It’s complicated making everybody laugh and love her again.

Pierce Brosnan is an Irish actor who most of us meet as James Bond in which he started in four films. Bronsnan is a personality actor. All the roles I have since him on the good looking guy to die for. In the movie, Mamma Mia he is Donnas lost love him she always loved and who no one was able to replace. After is success in James Bond he has moved to romantic comedies.

Amanda Seyfried is the sweetheart of very movie. The has played in dramas like Nine Lives, Alpha Dog and she has done a great job her beautiful sweet self allows her to play role of sweet girls very natural. In Mamma Mia, she plays exactly that role the beautiful and sweet Sophie who is in love and wants to find her father. I placed Amanda between a personality and a character actor.

 

References

 

Sobchack, V. (2007). The dolby era: Film sound in contemporary Hollywood. Film Quarterly, 60(2), 80-80,79. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/212304484?accountid=32521

 

Cox, G. (2011). ‘Connecting hearing to viewing and knowing to feeling’: Sound as evocation in non-fiction film with particular reference to No Escape (Cox, 2009)1. Soundtrack, 4(1), 43-62. doi:10.1386/st.4.1.43_1

 

 

Mamma Mia is a musical so the dialogue is very limited. Songs and the performance of them express most of the mood or feelings. The characters have a small dialogue and then the feelings or expressions are intensified and develop further through the songs and dances. For example the song Mamma Mia, expressed the feelings Donna was feeling. She was excited to see her love and at the same time, she is recalling her heartbreak. Another example is when Donna is singing “ Slipping through my fingers”, when Sophie is about to get married. The song “Slipping through my fingers”, expresses the feelings parents have when children are growing and they are regretting all the lost time. A third example could be the song “The winner takes it all”. The song expresses the feeling of Donna when she lost Sam. It describes a woman that wants to be strong but she is totally broken in the inside.

In a musical like Mamma Mia, the music is everything. The songs give the mood of the movie. Example, when they are singing “Chiquitita”, you feel the pain and you want to cry with them. With the song “Dancing Queen”, you want to get up, dance just like the dancing queen. Another example could be the song,” Our last summer”, you get into the mood of recalling your past summers.

Mamma Mia does not only have happy songs it also has sad songs that could be identify with another genre other than comedy. Songs, like “Chiquitita”, “The winner takes it all,” “When all is said is done,” “ I have a dream”, give it a more serious and drama feeling to the scene.

The effect of songs in a film makes it a fantasy and gives it an unrealistic effect. People do not go around singing in there everyday life. The reason we watch is type of film is to going to fantasyland at least for a couple of hours.

References

Sobchack, V. (2007). The dolby era: Film sound in contemporary Hollywood. Film Quarterly, 60(2), 80-80,79. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/212304484?accountid=32521

Cox, G. (2011). ‘Connecting hearing to viewing and knowing to feeling’: Sound as evocation in non-fiction film with particular reference to No Escape (Cox, 2009)1. Soundtrack, 4(1), 43-62. doi:10.1386/st.4.1.43_1

 

Title: Bambi

 

Writer: Larry Morey
       George Stallings

 

Director: David D. Hand
                   Perce Pearce

 

Producer: Walt Disney

Year: 1942

Actors: 

Peter Behn (Voice of young Thumper)
Hardie Albright (Voice of older Bambi)
Ann Gillis (Voice of older Faline)
Thelma Hubbard (Voice of girl bunny, quail mother and female pheasant)
Sterling Holloway (Voice of older Flower)

 

 

Story: Bambi is a movie from 1942 one of Walt Disney’s first films. A book inspired the story. The film is about the deer’s life since birth until he becomes the prince of the forest. The story describes the cycle of life in the forest and the interaction between the animals.  Though it is a children animated film, it shows a cruel reality of the cycle of life, death.

 

Plot: The story starts in spring with the birth of the young prince deer (Bambi). Along with the other animals of the forest that came to meet Bambi was Thumper (a baby rabbit who becomes one of Bambi’s best friends). After having a great laugh because of Bambi’s weak legs, Thumper takes Bambi to explore his world.

 

Thumper introduced Bambi to the forest its animals and plants. When Bambi was exploring the flowers he bumps into a skunk who he confuses with a flower. The skunk is very pleased to be mistaken for a flower and becomes Bambi’s other best friend.

 

Bambi’s mother takes him to the meadow and explains to him that the meadow is dangerous because they do not have the protection of the forest. At the meadow, Bambi meets Faline, a female baby deer. Faline and Bambi played at the meadow until the arrival of the great prince (Bambi’s Father). When the great prince walk in all the deer stand still and its as he approach Bambi he gave him a long look without saying a word.

 

One day at the meadow, the presence of hunters was detected. Bambi’s mother looks for him everywhere. In the confusion, she was killed by one of the hunters. Bambi was very scared and confused he looked for his mother everywhere but could not find her. Bambi’s father came to for him. Bambi was not seen again until mating season.

 

At mating season, the animals were acting very strangely. Owl explained to Bambi, Thumper and Flower about mating and that love could happen to anybody. Thumper found is mate; Flower found his mate and Bambi met Faline again. Bambi was force to fight for Faline with another young deer and was victorious.

Bambi left Faline after mating. Faline was chased by hunter dogs and Bambi came to her rescue. A great fired started at this point, but the animals managed to survive.

 

The movie ends in spring when the animals have there off springs. Faline and Bambi’s had twins and all the forest animals again as they did with Bambi’s birth go pay their respects. Bambi proudly watches is family from the mountain with his father. Bambi takes his place as the prince of the forest.     

 

Chronology:  The film was told in chronological order.  This is the best method to explain the cycle of animal life. The film starts at Bambi’s birth. Then, Bambi’s mother is killed. Next, Bambi and Faline mate. Finally, the film ends with the birth of Bambi’s twins and he becoming the great prince.

The chronological story telling also helped to develop the whole process of the cycle of life. If the film were presented a different way the impact would not be as dramatic.

Resources:

Disney Movie Trailers. (1942). Bambi official movie trailer . [Video file]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLvX-erABqY 

HAWKINS, R. J. (2005, Mar 04). ‘Bambi’ commentary track re-creates walt disney’s creative process. Daily Breeze Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/338730531?accountid=32521