Sunday, December 20, 2015

TOW #13- ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Shatters Box Office Records by BROOKS BARNES

         

            Everyone was anticipating the new Star Wars movie this weekend and it seems as though people were  really really really anticipating it. As Brooke Barnes, a journalist for the New York Times who writes about Hollywood news, puts it, the movie took the people by storm and broke some records along the way. After Disney’s opening weekend for “Star Wars; The Force Awakens,” there was a rough estimate of $517 million in ticket sales worldwide. Its first three days earned $238 million in sales which, in respect to how much the movie “Avatar,” the highest grossing movie of all time, made in the first couple days ($85 million), this seems like a gigantic figure. Star Wars fans have been anticipating this film for a while and that truly showed this weekend.
            Besides talking about the movie this weekend, Barnes had another purpose of showing his audience the direction that he believes most movies are going it. Barnes believes that the real money in movies is coming from restarting or continuing franchises. This weekend was the example of the continuation of Star Wars, but later there will be more of the Avengers, Indiana Jones, and X-Men.

            One of the greatest components of this article that made it great was the wit and informality that can be seen. When describing the role movies are moving to, Barnes writes, “plan to battle back: Death Star-size movies that can capture the public’s imagination in ways reminiscent of the earliest years of blockbusterdom, before the hyperfragmentation of pop culture” (Barnes 1). This quote exemplifies his wit and humor, along with his informal jargon. These characteristics make the article seem more like a conversation making it all the more enjoyable to read. So when the audience, who is suppose to be the general public, reads this, it will appeal to all of them.

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