Introduction to Movies

Introduction to Movies

Introduction

Hancock is an American comedy, drama and action superhero movie released in 2008 starring Will Smith as the lead character named as Hancock. Hancock, the hottest celebrity showcase has Will Smith playing a drunk with a super hangover and some superpowers as well. He is good at it, however there are for all time some side effects, like when he saves the life of a man whose car is just going to be struck by a train, though becomes the reason of a train destruction (Goodridge, 2008). All he needs is a fine PR man. Fortunately, the man whose life is saved by him is exactly that. That man is Ray Embrey who has a bright idea: He' will pay back Hancock by providing him a complete makeover. This gives the feeling of a slapstick comedy however weirdly it is not. This movie has lots of laughs, though Smith shuns playing Hancock as a funny guy and characterizes him as depressed, thoughtful and serious

Story Telling

This story belongs to Hancock, who is a bulletproof drunk with the gift of escape. As performed by Will Smith, he is a bad-tempered stumblebum whom the audiences meet lying on a bench and sleeping in the city center of Los Angeles, yet the policemen are after a white SUV (which is at present and eternally the typical vehicle of preference for Hollywood malfeasance) along the highway. Eventually when Hancock gets up, he jumps into action; ruining the sidewalk as he bounds into the sky, and destroying police cars as he appears on the scene. The superhero Hancock also flies similar to a wino: he when stops at a crime cannot stop himself for ruining the property and then by no means turning up for the lots of awaiting civil suits (Stax, 2008). His favorite threat involves placing the head of an evildoer into the rear end of another. Hancock will not be remembered as Will Smith's finest moment. It's also - by some distance - his least family-friendly summer blockbuster. Smith has come through difficult patches before and remained the world's most bankable movie star (even The Wild Wild West took over $100m at the US box office), so this is probably a blip rather than an Eddie Murphy-style early 90s meltdown. The film does at least have an engaging premise: what if there was a superhero who just wasn't that bothered? Smith is said character: a boozing lowlife called Hancock who just happens to have the ability to chase down and destroy all of the bad guys in Los Angeles. His angst and world-weariness is a good central hook.

But what's not good is the execution, and for several reasons. Firstly the plot: laborious and high concept, it requires several major acceptances on behalf of the audience. Hancock hooks up (in a series of ongoing coincidences) with PR guru Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman) who decides that he needs a makeover in order to make him more appealing to the Angelenos who ...