I feel that do the right thing could be related to a real world example to people who live in Edina, yes I know that this sounds kind of weird but I feel that it is kind of true many people hate the kids and anyone who lives in Edina and they do it just because of where we live. Some examples are; if I am at the airport wearing an Edina sweatshirt there is always someone who will yell out “cake eater” an sometimes its funny and ill turn to who ever I am with and say “yeah I do like cake” and then there are sometimes where is just gets plain old and I wish people would just stop saying it. I feel that just because I live and go to school in Edina does not give people the right to say mean things to me or anyone else who lives in Edina. This is like when any colored person would be back talked or in the movie when they colored people would yell at the Japanese people and make fun of them for moving here and that they do not belong here.
Another example is when I was dating someone who went to a different school, we had been dating for quiet awhile and many of his friends would ask him are you still dating that spoiled rich girl from Edina, and some of the people who would ask them that didn’t even know me or even my name. It would drive me crazy having him tell me this, they had no right to say anything like that about me because they didn’t even know who I was. I feel that this is like when Sal’s sons would say so many wrong things about the colored people that lived in the area of where his store was. And most of the time they didn’t know the exact person who they were talking about just the colored people in general.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Battle
What I chose to read was the Washington Post article by Ann Hornaday who is on the Washington Post staff. This was different then what I thought it would be. I was thinking that it would be more like critics saying bad things about the movie and maybe mentioning some good parts to it but that is not what they did at all. What I thought was cool is they did some kind of interview where they would ask a question and in some kind of way they would answer it.
Some things that I did not agree with were; the parts where they said that the movie did not have any heroes I felt that each person was their own hero in their own way, another was where is said the French had their own moral backing and could go back and forth, I felt that it was true because it seemed like the French really did that it seemed like if something failed for them they would find a different was to get back at the Arab.
One of my favorite things about this review is the fact that Mrs. Hornaday she made the violence in the movie relate to the violence that we are experiencing right now with the war that we have put out selves into.
Some things that I did not agree with were; the parts where they said that the movie did not have any heroes I felt that each person was their own hero in their own way, another was where is said the French had their own moral backing and could go back and forth, I felt that it was true because it seemed like the French really did that it seemed like if something failed for them they would find a different was to get back at the Arab.
One of my favorite things about this review is the fact that Mrs. Hornaday she made the violence in the movie relate to the violence that we are experiencing right now with the war that we have put out selves into.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
What happens in china town
Where did this movie end up... in CHINATOWN!! Surprise, you could have figured it out that it was mostly likely going to end up there because why would the movie have been named it other wise because you never saw them visit it earlier in the movie. Even with all of the times that either Mr. Gates referred to “Chinatown” or someone else had mentioned it , I always tired to figure out what it was but they never gave you enough clues to what it would be about, and that is what makes the ending so great and powerful it blast right into Chinatown, with Evelyn getting killed in the end.
But what really bothered me was the ending, I wanted it to end happy, with Evelyn dying I felt like she did not need to die. I wanted it to be more like out of the past where just that crazy girl ends up dying cause I felt like I always had a bad feeling for her but not for Evelyn but you would expect her to be one of the “bad” people but in this movie it flips things around. With what she had to live with, the story of trying to tell people about her child and her sister and how they were the same person, knowing that her father had raped her and then he killed her husband. So many things have happened to her and she was still just trying to give her child the best life she could and also trying to move on from what had happened with her father when she was younger. In the end you can understand how good of a person she is.
But what really bothered me was the ending, I wanted it to end happy, with Evelyn dying I felt like she did not need to die. I wanted it to be more like out of the past where just that crazy girl ends up dying cause I felt like I always had a bad feeling for her but not for Evelyn but you would expect her to be one of the “bad” people but in this movie it flips things around. With what she had to live with, the story of trying to tell people about her child and her sister and how they were the same person, knowing that her father had raped her and then he killed her husband. So many things have happened to her and she was still just trying to give her child the best life she could and also trying to move on from what had happened with her father when she was younger. In the end you can understand how good of a person she is.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Kiss Me Deadly
The movie Kiss Me Deadly directed by Robert Aldrich, was interesting. Now I could leave it at that, beacuse that is what I really thought of the movie but I would I not like to fail this blog, so i'm going to try to go into more detail about it. Even though I feel that it is difficult to do that.
What I thought was so strange about the movie was the two endings I feel that both of them are just weird and do not fit in properly with the technology that we have, but what I figured is for the time that the movie was released (1955) that is wht many of the movies were doing, so it was acceptable.
The first ending that we saw where Mike Hammer and Velda get away was confusing becasue if the box could blow up the house, wouldn't it start the rest of the world on fire and be the end of the world? Yet Mike and Velda get away, well I think that is what Aldrich was trying to get at. I feel that it just does not make sense.
Although the second ending to me makes more sense, because it is up to you to figure out what would happen to them and th rest of world. Yet it makes Mike Hammer seem like he just dropped off from everything that he was already doing, because he was just killing people before, by doing nothing.
In the end I feel like the movie would not have done well in this time period, because of all of the new technology that we ahve now.
What I thought was so strange about the movie was the two endings I feel that both of them are just weird and do not fit in properly with the technology that we have, but what I figured is for the time that the movie was released (1955) that is wht many of the movies were doing, so it was acceptable.
The first ending that we saw where Mike Hammer and Velda get away was confusing becasue if the box could blow up the house, wouldn't it start the rest of the world on fire and be the end of the world? Yet Mike and Velda get away, well I think that is what Aldrich was trying to get at. I feel that it just does not make sense.
Although the second ending to me makes more sense, because it is up to you to figure out what would happen to them and th rest of world. Yet it makes Mike Hammer seem like he just dropped off from everything that he was already doing, because he was just killing people before, by doing nothing.
In the end I feel like the movie would not have done well in this time period, because of all of the new technology that we ahve now.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Out of the Past
I thought that Out of the Past directed by Jacques Tourneur was an interesting movie. I don't think that I have ever seen a movie that was in the genre of film noir. I also don't think that I have ever really appreciated any movies in black in white before I started this class, and this movie really makes me understand why black and white movies are so important.
The low-key lighting in this movie is amazing! The way that they don't use light makes it so much more interesting to watch and understand why a director would do that.
Also the way that Kathie starts out as a nice young women who could have never done anything wrong, and slowly as the movie continues you find out a lot more of how she is a cold hard killer.
I think that this plays a big role in film noirs in general that you find more out about how bad the characters really can be and how they can be such bad killers or liars, as the movie comes to an end, and in this case Kathie totally change she started out supposedly loving him and by the en of the movie she kills him.
The low-key lighting in this movie is amazing! The way that they don't use light makes it so much more interesting to watch and understand why a director would do that.
Also the way that Kathie starts out as a nice young women who could have never done anything wrong, and slowly as the movie continues you find out a lot more of how she is a cold hard killer.
I think that this plays a big role in film noirs in general that you find more out about how bad the characters really can be and how they can be such bad killers or liars, as the movie comes to an end, and in this case Kathie totally change she started out supposedly loving him and by the en of the movie she kills him.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind directed by Michel Gondry, was a great movie. I thought it was so cute how people could just find each other again. I think that is so amazing.
One thing I didn't like about it, which is kind of bad because it was basically the main part of the whole movie, but i didn't like how they both got each other erased from each others memory because I think that you should remember the things that you have done in one relationship so you will be able to make the next one better. I know most people will want to only forget the bad parts of the relationship, but if you only remember the good parts then you may feel like you should get back together with that person. That's why I think it is good to remember the good times you had together but also the bad and change the way you do things or say things to the next person you are dating.
But in the end I thought it was so cute that they found each other again. I think that true love like that is amazing and if two people in love can go through what they did and still end up finding each other, i believe that they are meant to be together. I wish we could see what really happened to them in the end, but I like being able to think that they did live happy together forever.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
His Girl Friday
After watching His Girl Friday. I thought that it was kind of interesting I mean it kept me watching it and tuned in to it but it wasn't the kind of love movie that I loved and there wasn't enough action in it for me to really enjoy it.
I also thought that you could tell what the ending was going to be in the first 10-15 minutes of the movie, and the middle stuff did not matter then, because they did not influence the ending at all, well at least thats what I thought because even if Walter was trying to make hildy stay because of a big story. But you knew he was going to do that from the begining and it didn't matter how big the story was going to be.
End the end the movie was not horriable. Just one that i would never pick up one day and say i want to watch this movie because i thought it was so good before.
I also thought that you could tell what the ending was going to be in the first 10-15 minutes of the movie, and the middle stuff did not matter then, because they did not influence the ending at all, well at least thats what I thought because even if Walter was trying to make hildy stay because of a big story. But you knew he was going to do that from the begining and it didn't matter how big the story was going to be.
End the end the movie was not horriable. Just one that i would never pick up one day and say i want to watch this movie because i thought it was so good before.
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