Monday, October 11, 2010

Seven Pounds.

Hi guys, this week I was thinking about movies that I had already seen, so I remembered of one called seven pounds, which was released in 2008 by Gabriele Muccino. According to Wikipedia this film which is combines between drama and romance made by Columbia Pictures had a box office success, grossing $168,167,691 worldwide, three times its $55 million dollar production budget.
The film is based on a script written by Grant Nieporte. Filming this movie took place in various locations of LA, Pasadena, California and Malibu, and it began to be shooting in February 2008. Points of interest used in the film include the Travel Inn in Tujunga, California, the Colorado Bar, The Huntington Library, The Sheraton and The Pasadena Ice Skating Rink all in Pasadena, as well as Malibu Beach in Malibu, this are most of the scenarios of this film. Seven Pounds was promoted on a five-city tour across the United States in November 2008, screening in Cleveland, Miami, Dallas, St. Louis, and Denver to raise funds for food banks in each region. The main character which is Will Smith, is a young men who is ready to died, so he is meeting good people, with good hearts, humble people that are good inside, that are sick or are facing with illnesses. So he is meeting them to know their life and at the end donating them his organs. I think that the movie have a good message about life, which means that is very important to care about other people that need from you, also to be human, and if you can help people they would be grateful to receive your help. I think that the main character really focus on his role while performing the movie, he is so concentrate in this paper that he takes very seriously his character and his dialog, the way he talks toward people is really amazing that makes you catch easily his messages. The shots of this film are almost by medium shots and close ups, because in that way the author makes us see the moods of the characters, their reactions toward receiving the organs, and in that way we catch easily and faster the scene. The light are very combined, specially most of the inside scenarios, which means hotels, rooms, houses, because most of the are based to be filmed at night. This film has almost no digital effects or visual effects as other movies,it is simple in that way, but I really liked the message and the way that the author show us who few people in life care about the well of other human beings. God bless this kind of people.

2 comments:

  1. I have never seen this movie but I would like to do it because it's really estrange that the director hadn't use that much the effects but in my opinion, sometimes those kinds of movies tell more to people because it looks real. Even though, movies with a lot of effects and shots gave a lot to people and look real too.

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  2. this movie i saw it the last year and WAS AN AMAZING MOVIE. the message is beautiful and unique , we have to live every day of your life and never leave anything to the last if you can do at that time.

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