Movie Entertainment

There has never been anything like this show on television – every cult horror classic film all rolled into a one-hour television series stretched out over a several episodes. If you loved the twisted writing of LOST, you will be waiting for Wednesday nights with just as much anticipation.

Television dramas need the audience to feel connected to the characters while developing a weekly repertoire that draws them back. An audience will become invested in the storyline, needing to intake every tidbit they can consume from each of their favorite characters. AMERICAN HORROR STORY has put a new spin on typical television writing by opening the door to arm length character development.

This style keeps the viewer intrigued by purposefully putting a wall up between the audience and the characters while using a hook line reel. Its like playing chicken as a kid, riding your bicycle downhill against traffic and due to the youthful heart of invisibility, you begin to peddle faster. Who will swerve first? The speed forces your skin back from your face when out of nowhere a car backs out of their driveway crunching the bike under the back wheels. Your body begins tumbling in the air with no grasp on where gravity will drop you.

The sensation of flipping through the air equals the writing of AMERICAN HORROR STORY. The audience will be drawn into the story, yet never really grasping what decade they are viewing. The mental stability of some of the characters will be as off balance as the writing will keep the audience. It is the intrigue that will put this show on the map. Only FX and cable would have the gonads to step into a slim genre of shows who have attempted to bring out a new style to television.

Vampires are in but have been so glorified that the genre has been extremely watered down. For everyone who loves the vampire craze, this will not be a show for you. HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES, GRINDERHOUSE and PULP FICTION are all feature films that are the basic foundation for the style of AMERICAN HORROR STORY. They have laid the groundwork and established an audience, but will those people be satisfied with the weekly installments?

FX, in conjunction with the twisted writing by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, along with the added writers should push the limits of television as we know it now. Murphy and Falchuk, also the creators, will tap into an audience waiting in the wings for something refreshing.

Dr. Benjamin Harmon (Dylan McDermott) is a practicing psychiatrist whose patients become entangled in his family life. Vivien Harmon (Connie Britton) has drifted from her husband due to his previous infidelities. Moving to a new city gives hope for a fresh start.

Violet Harmon (Taissa Farmiga) is Ben and Vivien’s hard nosed spoiled daughter who quickly becomes attached to one of her dad’s patients. Tate Langdon (Evan Peters) is one boy no one would want their daughter to date, let alone be friends with. He is a patient of Ben’s who is drawn to Violet with feelings of protection.

Constance (Jessica Lange) is the strange new neighbor who has a twisted way with neighborly jesters. She can be cruel to her daughter, but that will not stop her from terrorizing anyone who may feel entitled to do the same. Addy (Jamie Brewer) is the down-syndrome daughter of Constance who does not understand her boundaries when it comes to the neighbor’s house.

Moira O’Hara (Frances Conroy) is a housekeeper who shows up and continues her job in the Harmon house with few questions asked. Everyone views Moira as an older woman except for Ben who sees her as a young, sexy, and attractive woman (Alex Breckenridge).

The lives of Moira, Tate and Constance have a connection to the house that Ben and Vivien have purchased. The show switches from the killings that have taken place in the house years earlier, the only question is what is real and what is fantasy or dreams. Some things or nothing can be real… what will your perception be?

We just love Disney films and no matter where in the world you are from, you are bound to love a Disney feature. Even though CGI has taken over the Disney movies, even today, the classical 2D Disney films of tomorrow make your day if you see them. So what was it about these Disney films that made them so famous and endearing? Many of these features can be found at the Disney cruise vacations that tour the world.

Perhaps it was the innocence of these films. These films are a great amalgamation of every emotion that we go through in our lives of today. The emotions of jealousy, honesty, hard work, hatred, love, etc…everything is presented in a Disney movie in such an artistic way that makes it highly entertaining. One of the Disney villains that displays the emotion of jealousy is the step mother in Cinderella. Almost every other Disney villain is made heinous in his or her own way, but I personally hated the step mom greatly. Perhaps this was because I loved Cinderella so much and her endearing character. The fact that she worked so hard given the adversity she was going through every day. How she was made the destitute one in her own house by her step mom and yet she had a bright and sunny outlook on life made me love her even more. Hence when I saw that she was being oppressed by her step mother made me just hate her step mom to the fullest.

Some Disney villains like the suitor of Belle in Beauty and the Beast are made to look quite stupid, and they are shown to have no intelligence. The suitor while trying to be brave is just shown consumed with his own looks and tends to forget everything else. While on the other hand, the step mom in Cinderella is shown to be quite intelligent and is shown to be able to play with words actually. For example, when her daughters learn that she has allowed Cinderella to go to the ball, they are furious with her mother but then her mother tells them that she has allowed Cinderella to go to the only if she gets done with all the chores. This particularly sends the signal that she has been quite keen with her words.

Yet another conniving and intelligent villain was Scare in the movie the Lion King in which he was the uncle of Simba and killed Mufasa who was the father of Samba.

The people at Walt Disney surely know how to entertain you and there are a number of ways they accomplish this. They have their own movies in which not only do they expose you to all the colors the Disney world has to offer, but they are also making live action movies which have other Disney themes in them. Moreover, Disneyland resorts are a great attraction for anybody. Finally, they even have their own Disney Cruise vacations where one can go with one’s family and enjoy the cruise along with their favorite Disney attractions. Finally they have their toys and memorabilia that are sold in great quantities all around the world.

The Disney brand has been around for a long time. The first animated feature film, Snow White, was made in the 1930s and was a pioneer as far as animated movies were concerned. Its tradition was followed by many Disney movies in which many Disney princesses were made popular. Examples are those of Ariel in the cartoon The Little Mermaid, Princess Jasmine in Aladdin, Belle in Beauty and the Beast, and so on. Even though the various Disney movies that are made are all different in which they have their own story lines, there are some things that are highly similar in all of these movies. For example, almost all these movies have sidekicks associated with them which are usually cute little creatures. For example in the movie Beauty and the Beast, there were actually a lot of these characters but the clock guy and the candle guy were the actual ones. Then we come to the movie Aladdin, in which the character was the Abu monkey which was the pet of Aladdin and that little parrot which was the pet of Jaffar. Coming to the Lion King, we know the role Timon and Pumba played in the movie. Finally in the movie The Little Mermaid, we all know the role played by that chubby fish which used to stay alongside Ariel.

Also all these movies have heinous Disney villains! Thus we find that there are striking trends that can be found in these movies that are similar. Also, a more obvious trend in these movies is that there is always a heinous villain that is determined to destroy the main protagonist. These simple movies do not show any internal conflict of character in the cartoons and there is least ambiguity which makes these characters the least human. After all these movies are all for kids.