Genre

Masala film:

Question no. 1: Identify the major characteristics of the masala film.

Answer: I think the major characteristics of the masala films are songs and dances. We cannot thing a masala film without songs and dances. These are the main things in the Bollywood masala movie.

Question no. 2: How do they differ from the narrative conventions of Hollywood?

Answer: In the present situation, one of the best entertainment sources is film. Many different countries of the world have different kinds of viewers of films. Here we can show the differences between the narrative conventions of Hollywood.

In Hollywood, a movie can be made in a single pattern or genre. But the bollywood movies never maintain a single pattern. Glamour is the most important thing that an actor and actress must have to have. Songs are another important thing in the bollywood masala films. In bollywood, masala movie makers use various types of songs like romantic, sad and emotional, item songs, Punjabi, fusion, and some times comedy songs. But in the Hollywood, without musical films they do not emphasize songs in their films. Bollywood masala movies are always emphasize the casting, not the story. But Hollywood filmmakers are always given importance in the story.

Now we can say that Hollywood movie is different from the bollywood movie. Bollywood movie has everything like songs, dances, family drama, romance, emotion etc. For that reason bollywood movie is called masala movie.

Question no. 3: What is the significance of the songs in the masala films?

Answer: In bollywood masala film, songs play a vital role. It is hard to imagine a bollywood masala film without songs. There are different types of songs are used by the filmmakers in the bollywood masala film to express different types of motion. Now a day the main focus is given by the filmmaker is in item songs, because the item songs are generally used as advertisement in a particular film. There are different types of songs are used in Indian masala film like sad, romantic, Punjabi, Gujrati, Bengali, Sufi, fusion, rock, hip-hop etc. these songs are used in specific situation. For example when the situation is sad, they used sad songs and when the situation is romantic, they used romantic songs.

Knowledge and Power

Enemy of the State:

In this movie “Enemy of the State”, we have seen lots of technological equipments. The characters used their knowledge to make these technological equipments. When they utilized their knowledge in a specific way, it’s called power. At first in this movie we saw that a congressman was killed by another congressman only for keep the information secret of a telecommunication company. This murder was captured in a secret video camera. When the cameraman had taken his video tape, N.S.A agents saw him and follow him. The cameraman wanted to spread the total information of this murder but before that he was killed in an accident. He was able to give the video tape to a lawyer named Robert Clayton Dean before his death. But Dean was totally unknown about the whole matter. To get back the video tape, the N.S.A agents used their technological power. By using their knowledge they made Dean’s life hell. When Dean knows all the matter, he used his knowledge to sort out from this problem with the help of a city police officer named Brill. At last we see that Dean had used his critical thinking knowledge to save himself and he was successful to do that. If a person has only money or guns, it does not mean that he has power. But if he has thinking capability or knowledge to sort out his problems, we can call it power.

Urban Myth

1. If you pull apart leave, flower, and fruit from tree at night, you will have bad luck. Because it is known in urban area that if you do this you will be cursed by the tree.
2. If you be pushed by someone once on your forehead, horns can be grown up on your head.
3. If you eat any seed of fruit, a tree will grow in your stomach.
4. If any girl or woman goes outside by open their long hair, an evil will be possessed on their head.
5. A baby should wear a bit of black tinsel on the forehead; otherwise the baby will be under the influence of an evil eye.

swastikam

Now days the word swastika is very debating the people of east and the people of east and the people of the west. The word swastika is comes form the Sanskrit word savastika. The word savastika means “good to be suffix”. Many cultures of many different countries used this sign; like Japan, china, India etc. the sing swastika was used to represent life, sun, power, strength and good luck in many culture of the eastern people. So the people of eastern part thought this is the sing of piece. But in the year of 1920 Adolf Hitler decided that the Nazi party needed their own flag. For this flag Hitler used the sing of swastika. On August 7^th 1920 at the Slazburg Congress, this flag become the official emblem of the Nazi party. For this reason people of the western countries thought the sing of swastika is the symbol of hate, anti-Semitism, violence, death and murder.

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/swastika/a/swastikahistory.htm

The Social Construction Of Reality - II

"Wag the Dog" is all about the political situation before the election in United States. This movie also carries a serious relation between politics and media. Only for getting sympathy from public, the President of United States made a fake war against Albania. They used the name Albania because the name sound sinister and the people of United States do not know much about Albania. For this reason, it is very easy for the president of United States to arrange a fake war. To get out from sex Scandal and also wanting to win the election, president used the media and the media did well. After that he became more famous then the past people believe in media as much as they can. They Influenced by the media and they don’t want to justify, what media shows is that right or wrong. We believe what media brings to us that are true and this is also a reality. This reality came to us from the past political and social situation.

Social construction of reality

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke(12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the dispute with King George III and Great Britain that led to the American Revolution and for his strong opposition to the French Revolution. The latter made Burke one of the leading figures within the conservative faction of the Whig party (which he dubbed the "Old Whigs"), in opposition to the pro-French-Revolution "New Whigs", led by Charles James Fox. He also published a philosophical work. In this work he attempted to define Emotions and Passions as well as how they are triggered in a person. He is often regarded by conservatives as the philosophical founder of Anglo-American conservatism.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli Living from 1469 to 1527, Niccolo Machiavelli saw what we now consider the height of the Italian Renaissance- a period that produced some of Italy's greatest achievements in the arts and sciences, but that also produced horrible scandals and the establishment of foreign domination over the peninsula. Brought up while members of the powerful Medici family were masters of Florence, he studied the classics and learned to read and write in Latin He was a diplomat, a student of history, and a writer of comedy- and his sharp and unique insights changed the face of political science forever.

Renaissance

Renaissance was the cultural movement of Europe which was happened the 14th to the 17th century. it encompassed a revival of learning based on classical sources, the development of linear perspective in painting, and gradual but widespread educational reform. Traditionally, this intellectual transformation has resulted in the Renaissance being viewed as the "bridge" between the Middle Ages and the Modern era.

The term Doctrinaire Radicalism refers to socio-cultural reforming or revolutionary activities which doesn’t even care whether human lives or certain happiness is harmfully affected for itself or not. It is certainly a devastating way of reforming human thoughts, e.g. the activities of revolutionaries had tried to do in The French Revolution in 1789.

As we, the human being are social creature and more precisely can’t live alone, naturally our way of whether thinking or living is vastly induced by many social facts like our interaction with others in our society, more specifically the persons around us. And a huge portion of it comes by inheriting from our ancestors. So what happens, even the concept of “Reality” or “Unreality” is also actually is nothing but a made up concept, inherited from past. That’s why it is called the reality which is Socially Constructed.

the word ‘A priori’ is used to distinguish between deductive and inductive way of thinking. A person can study over his social errors caused by inductive thinking and must get some Notions from its research. As its impact the notion can totally change the point of view/the way of thinking from experiential to logical. Thus the new notion got from the experimental process is called 'A priori'.