I decided to pick one male director and one female director for the movies I was going to watch. I decided on George Lucas and Barbra Streisand as the directors. The two Lucas films I watched were “American Graffiti” and “THX 1138″ and the two Streisand films I watched were “Yentl” and “The Prince of Tides”.

I’ll start with Lucas’s films first. “THX 1138″ was a very weird movie. I didn’t like it at all. When I first started watching it I was like what in the world is going on. It didn’t make any sense to me and the talking was very hard to understand at one point I put on the subtitles so I could understand what was being said. Half way through the movie I decided that I couldn’t watch it any more because I wasn’t understanding it. I decided to watch it with the commentary on and this help in understanding the movie. The movie was still really bad but at least I could hear what the director was thinking while he made the movie. The things I didn’t like about the movie were the weird sexual video and the machine or the weird “Jesus” (I think that who its suppose to be) screen telling you to buy more and be happy basically the whole movie was weird. The movie was just to much for me. The movie didn’t make sense with the “shell dwellers” and the prison you go to if you don’t take your drugs or the fact that “Love” was a foreign concept. This movie was Lucas’s first theatrical film and it wasn’t a good try. His second movie “American Graffiti” I liked a lot better. It was more down to earth and it had this fun aspect to it. It was also interesting to see all the familiar faces but very young. For instance Harrison Ford, Ron Howard, and Richard Dreyfus. This movie was set back in the fifty’s when kids would cruise the streets in their cars with friend and go to drive in burger joints. The music in the movie was great it really made the movie. I found my self singing the songs. This movie was a lot better than the other one. It was very interesting that these two movies were so different yet each of them were by the same director.

The first Streisand’s film I watched was “Yentl”. I really liked this movie. It obviously has this old feel to it. I liked this movie because Streisand does so much in it. She acts, writes, directs, and sings through out the movie. It defiantly has some weird turns in it besides her pretending to be a man to study the Talmud. For instance when she has to marry Hadass another women and when she falls in love with he roommate and study partner Avigdor. This was the first time I had ever seen this movie but I think Barbra did a great job. She also sings wonderfully in the movie. “The Prince of Tides” was a very sad movie until the end when Tom gets his life back and his sister starts to get well. This movie was OK. It seemed like it got of track a little bit with their love story but in the end its their love that saves them both especially Tom. I think that these two movies were very emotional and delt a lot with feelings and relationships.

I’m glad that I chose a female and male director because you defiantly see a difference in the way they make their films. After watching each film I really only liked two of them “American Graffiti” and “Yentl” one form a males point of view and the other from a women’s.

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