You can also get extra credit by doing 45-60 minutes of research into another culture and then reporting on what you learned in a comment on this post.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Extra Credit
You can also get extra credit by doing 45-60 minutes of research into another culture and then reporting on what you learned in a comment on this post.
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BAD DUBBING MAKES ME SO ANGRY!!!!!! Why aren't more of these films available in subtitled version!?
ReplyDeleteI'm glad the film illicited a strong emotional response from you. That's what movies are for! Good work going the extra mile watching additional films.
Over Spring Break, I spent a lot of time with my brother. He’s really into film as well and finding new things to watch. He frequently comes over with new movies he buys so that we can watch them together. Near the end of the break, he came over with a Spanish horror film called The Orphanage made in 2007. He really loves horror films, but I’m not usually too into them. I decided to watch it with him anyway.
ReplyDeleteI found the film to actually be pretty interesting. It was pretty refreshing to see another culture’s take on horror. In the states we’re so used to just pop-out scary films with absolutely no storyline or plot whatsoever (probably why I’m not interested in horror films beyond ones like The Shining). This movie actually had an interesting story that kept me engaged through the end.
The Orphanage is about a woman, Laura, who was an orphan as a child. She now has her own family with a husband and an adopted son infected with HIV. They have just recently purchased the empty orphanage home that the woman grew up in and she wants to start a new orphanage for children with special needs. After moving into the new home, her adopted son, Simon, begins talking about having new friends. Laura and her Husband, Carlos, just assume that these new friends are only imaginary because Simon is very lonely and doesn’t have many real friends due to his illness and moving homes. Soon after they moved, Simon has gone missing. The family is searching for him for months, until Laura begins to search deeper into the history of her old home, and comes to realize that she is not alone in this house. The “imaginary” friends that Simon had are showing themselves to Laura and it becomes clear that it was not Simon’s imagination. These children were young, ill orphans that passed away while living in the home. In the end, Laura finds her son, but with a twist. This movie had an ending I didn’t expect and I found it to be pretty interesting.
What I liked the most about the film was that it wasn’t like most of the horror films that we watch in the United States. The film wasn’t driven on cheap scares or poor acting. Watching a horror film from another country made me more willing to give horror films a chance (NOT in the States though).
-Ryan Ditta
Extra credit for you! I added the points to a couple of your late assignments so they aren't late anymore. Del Toro makes some interesting stuff. Have you seen Pan's Labrynth? Did you know that Del Toro was going to direct The Hobbit for a while when Peter Jackson was having a fight with New Line Cinema?
DeleteI watched a chineese movie called Detective Dee. It's about a detective (named Dee) that gets imprisoned becuase he tried to kill the woman promised to be Emporess. But then some scandal and killings occer and she highers Dee to figure it all out. The plot was well done and I liked it. It was really cool the way they had their plot twists, it suprised me. Some of it was cheesey like the effects and stuff though.
ReplyDeleteI learned more about the system of China and their government and also punishment. It had a lot of lies and back stabbing on both sides. It was crazy and awesome. I would recomend it to others.
Sir Whovian, Out!
This is kind of a short reply but I'll give you some points for it. Way to go the extra mile watching international films!
DeleteI watched a Bosnian movie called "No Man's Land. It's really interesting. The movie starts out with three bosnians who are walking together in the war and then get lost in the fog. They wake up, the fog is cleared and then they get massacred by the serbs. After that happens this bosnian guy wakes up from being blown off his feet from a bomb or something, and finds a gun, then hides in this shelter house thing and smokes a cigarette. While he's smoking a cigarette, the serbs attach a mine bomb in the ground, under a bosnian, so if another bosnian tries to help him, once the dude is lifted off the ground, the mine will explode.
DeleteNow after they plant this mine, the bosnian guy finds these serbs and shoots both of them, one of the serbs is still alive and the bosnian doesn't kill him. The bosnian keeps asking the serb to deactivate the mine, but this serb who's alive, is a new kid and he don't know how to do it.
The serb and bosnian have problems with eachother and they argue, but they never figure anything out, they kind of build a little relationship as friends. It goes to show alot of us are very alike, more than we think we know.
The Serb and the bosnian start dancing half naked on the land, so the United Nations could see them and maybe get there help, they finally get the UN's attention and when they get there, they don't have a mine expert, so it takes them about 4 hours or so to get the mine expert over there.
Once the mine expert is there, he tries to deactivate it, but the mine is too technical, he has never seen one like it. Before he checked it, he asked for the bosnian and the serb to get out because it's dangerous. The Serb and the bosnian end up trying to kill eachother, and the United Nations tries to keep everyone safe, especially the media that is there so The UN both shoots the serb and the bosnian, so they both end up dead.
At the end of the movie the guy who's stuck to the mine just stays there, so he'll probably die there, unless he decides to get up and explode himself. Well that's all I got Josh, The End =) -Robert Menasco
i watched The Tiger And The Snow. AMAZING. it's another film by Raberto Banini (the man who did Life Is Beautiful). I think he's brillient. He writes, directs and stars along with his wife in his films. And boy is he good.
ReplyDeleteI can see a lot of his common theams. He really likes the use of love mixed with war and a whole lot of positive thinking. In this film the woman he loves takes a trip to Bagdad with a mutual friend, Fuad, in 2003 when the war had broken out. When Attilio (played by Banini) gets a call from his friend that Vittoria (played by Nicoletta Braschi, Banini's wife) had been injured by an exploding building, he quickly finds a way to get to her side. When he gets there he finds out she doesn't have long to live and the (dumb-ass) Americans won't let the medics through to administer medicine, he has to find ways to keep her alive.
The ending was awesome, which I won't tell you becuase it was a suprose but it makes it all come together and make sence. I really liked how there were just little details that really added to the story and actually make it all the more sweet in the end.
I think I have to day that my favorite film maker is Raberto Banini. And I would recomend this film to everyone.
Sir Whovian, Out!
What a shinning endorsement! Life Is Beautiful is the only Benini film I have seen but now I want to check out more of his stuff. Are all his films about very human characters struggling to support one another during times of war and violence? Seems to be a theme of his. I wonder what life experience has lead him to this place?
DeleteI will definitely watch this movie.
Hey Josh!! Roe's back. This time I have watched "Jet Li's- Fearless" & OMG!!!! This movie was so intense, so far it's my most favorite foreign movie I have ever seen & by far the best martial arts movie I have ever seen.
ReplyDeleteThe Movie starts off as Huo as a kid and he watches his father fight master Chin and Chin beats him. Huo talks to his mom and says someday he will beat him and prove them that it's still huo as the master. So Huo started to practice martial arts and had his brother or friend do his homework for him.
When he grew, he started fighting and he had to face this guy then he would be champion, they fought on a high wooden ring, Huo when, by breaking the other dudes hands and the dude fell off the high land.
After he won, he still thought there was one more guy to fight to be the real champion. Master chin then came back to town, later that night master chin beat up one of Huo's disciples, so huo was pissed and ruined Master chins bday, they fought and huo killed him.
The next day one of Master chins disciples killed huo's mom and his daughter. Huo couldn't take it so he went out of town and ended up in a farm field, the people called him "ox" over there because he slept as much as the Ox did, he met this blind girl and became really good friends with her, he learned more about the nature over there. He left eventually and told the blind girl that he would be back someday.
When he went back to his town, it changed a whole lot and alot of the western society has immigrated there. Huo paid his respects to master chin and his family, then he went to his moms and daughters coffin and talked to them.
He saw something on the newspaper about the strongest guy and he's challenging any martial arts person to a fight. Huo got some money from a friend and then fought this strong guy. Huo won, but didn't kill this big guy, they both were humble. People were now trying to set-up Huo and they put him in a 4 verse 1 match. Huo drank some of his tea between round 3 I think and someone put poison in his tea. He kept throwing up black stuff, his opponent wanted him to stop fighting but he wouldn't, the next round, the opponent made him stop and raised Huo's hand up and yelled "Huo!!!!". So he was telling the people master Huo is the winner, everybody yelled his name while he was dying.
At the end, the blind girl was walking and she saw huo/ox as a ghost and she teared.
That's it!! I loved it!!
Good work, Roe! These are very detailed responses! I LOVE IT! But I would like to hear a lot more about how the film affected you and less about the plot! Now, be sure to watch and comment on one more so I can give you the points we agreed upon according to our deal.
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