#1 Home Alone- Tori Douglas

Home Alone-1990- Tori Douglas
Theme: Crime

Home Alone is a wonderful Christmas, but not so Christmas movie. The movie turned out to be family favorite over the past twenty-some years. There is a lot of action and adventure with a lot of comedy in-between that Kevin McCallister, who is played by Macaulay Culkin, gets into over the holiday season.

The overall plot, which I’m sure we all know is that Kevin is at home with family but they are traveling to France the next morning. Things don’t turn out well for Kevin, being sent to the attic and such, he misses the car to the airport, thus missing the plane to France. Although, the neighborhood burglars, Harry and Marv, don’t know this as they are robbing other neighbors.

As for technical uses of visual grammar within the movie, there is so much to talk about, the rule of thirds was always in the back of my mind throughout the movie and it really came into play. Majority of the time all the characters and objects were off center but still caught the viewer’s eye. Close-ups were also a large part of the movie, showing emotions of the characters without them having to say how they feel.

This movie came to be so successful after all these years and a lot has to do with Macaulay Culkin’s performance as Kevin McCallister. He was a like able child actor with a big screen presence, and he gave a mixture of innocence and mischief to the role in Home Alone. It's sure to be a classic for years to come.

The theme that I chose for my netfilix movie project is crime, this ranges from hard crime, Goodfellas or the Godfather, to silly stunts as seen by Harry and Marv from Home Alone. I believe that action movies involving 'bad guys' were popular in the 90's and have proven to still be popular today.