Slumdog Millionaire

Our rating 4.5/5

Our opinions...

JC- I have to admit, the first time I watched this film I was anticipating a boring, uninteresting plot that would have to make up random happenings just to fill in the holes. I mean its based on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, what could possibly be contained in this film that would capture the minds of people around the World? Well, the answer to that is the contents of Slumdog Millionaire really gave you the sense of a true underdog story, that anything can happen through even a little bit of luck. The story follows Jamaal (Dev Patel) and Salim Malik (Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail) throughout their troubled parentless lives, after of course their mother is killed in a riot. It describes the young brothers' bond and relationship as they grow closer and closer together. Jamaal uses these life events to try and maneuver his way to Who Wants to be a Millionaire and eventually to the 10 million rupees question. Along these lifelong adventures, the brothers come across another orphan by the name of Latika. The three were split up when they were younger and it seemed as if Jamaal and Latika were destined to find eachother again which miraculously occurs at the end of the film.

The acting...
JC- In my opinion the acting was wondrous and gave you a really great sense of their emotions and hardships. They helped you understand vividly what the slums of India can really be like. You could see fear and even happiness in the actors' eyes as they eeked their way through very rough times. Dev Patel portrayed Jamaal perfectly displaying his determination and perserverance to succeed in life. Not to mention that this was an independent film, the so-called "no name" actors did an excellent job and would do as good or better than a famous actor would've.
EA- I like jordan thought the acting in this film was amazing. The non-stop hardships that jamal had to face were extrodinary and the actor portrayed them with amazing poise and i thought he did an awesome job. All of the actors did great jobs at the parts they did and not that i know of any Indian actors/actresses but i wouldnt of changed a thing about the acting portion of this film. I thought they did an outstanding job.

Differences between independant vs major film corporations....
Differnces in this film to normal american made big money corporations, well there was a major lack of special effects in this movie you could tell that this film was for the most part in India. Most independent will not have the financial oppurtunitys to film in tons of different sites, or use lots of like CGI or other type of computer graphics in there films. This film did not have any big name actors/actresses and from stories i have heard did not pay there children actors and actresses very well. Those actor/actresses were found in the slums and went back after the movie was made. All in all though even though this film was not made by big money corporations, i loved this movie just as much as any movie made by said big money companys. Slumdog millionaire was a great movie and would recommend it to anyone.