The Rabbitte Perspective

The end of an unforgettable chapter/going into the unknown... "If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story." - Orson Welles So... My 3 year University journey last week officially ended and yeah, what a day it was! I graduated as a Bachelor of Arts (*cough FILM *cough) with a 2:1 (narrowly and annoyingly missing out on a 1st!!) in Film Studies. Honestly, it feels as though the time I have spent at University, with the friends in my course that I've made (who I hope to see sometime soon!) and the lecturers that I can't thank enough for their help and advice, has just flown by all in one flash. It's definitely a weird predicament that I'm situated in now because, although I'm happy as Larry that 'I've done it' and have gotten my degree along with everyone else, I am also in a position where I am oddly lost; I don't know what lies ahead of me in the near future, which is exciting, yet, scary at...

Zombies meets Attack on Titan?! More and more, whether it is within the medium of Video-Games, T.V. or films, the genre's of horror and or dystopian-sci-fi, have indeed flooded our personal viewing space. Whether you like them or not, for the past 5 to 10 years, it's arguable that we've seen or heard of T.V. series and other artistic interpretations that have latched onto these dystopian/horror genre's that focus on the 'what if?' scenario; a scenario which see's a character or a specific group placed into a setting or time that is in a state of catastrophe that reflects our societies greatest fears and miseries. A well-known example of this, of course, is The Walking Dead which is a series that centres around a group of survivors running/fighting against a mass zombie apocalypse. Naturally, this premise of 'zombie survival' and other dystopian-esque narratives became much more prevalent in anime, more noticeably within Attack On Titan , a Jap...

Carrying on the formula... It's not surprising really that Chris Columbus took up the directorial plinth once again to direct the 2nd instalment of the Harry Potter film series, since he profoundly did a rather successful yet simple job of creating the platform and mood for the first flick. In actuality, there does seem to be this rather odd correlation between each and every well-known film franchise in terms of the person who directs the films of that particular film series. Good examples of this of course come in the forms of Christopher Nolan and Peter Jackson who have both made multiple films for the respected film series; Nolan with The Dark Knight trilogy and Jackson with his efforts of both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit sets of films. What is noticeable about these two directors (and potentially others as well) is how, after each film they made, they significantly found a way, either within the contexts of the film or with the technical aspects, to improve on ...