The Job I Want

Producer because I think I am responsible enough for this job. I'd love to be the person in charge of the music because I love the way music sets the mood for scenes and the entire movie.

Underserved Misfortune

Movie: Up
In this movie a perfect love story comes to an end after the wife dies. The poor man has done nothing but love his wife and care for her and now that she's gone he has no one. They are also trying to take away his house which is the only memory he has of her.


Life:
The consequences of my friend's actions.


Movie:
yes

Conflict

Movie- One Day
In the movie One Day, the main conflict is that two people who love each other and are each other's best friends are miserable in their individual lives and should be together but aren't. Life gets in the way of both of their happiness but the timing is never right. Once it is right and they are together like they should be something beyond their control happens and separates them for good.



Life-
Life is the conflict.




Idea for Short Film-
sure

My Review of The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man was a great story and was not like any other basic movie that one sees and forgets about immediately after. The movie stayed with me throughout the day even after leaving class and made myself question whether I am a good person or a bad person. By the time we finished the movie in class, I had become a more compassionate person, more wary of other's feelings. One theme, perhaps the most obvious theme, of questioning one's own morality impacted me most. I liked the initial simplicity of the movie: the biography of a man living with extreme deformities in the 1880's. Later, when we analyzed the complexity of the movie and connected it to humanity's rape on mother nature and figured out the hidden religious allusions I grew began to dislike the movie. Though it was genius to subtly incorporate such complex and deep meanings within the movie in extraordinary and creative ways I think I lost how I identified and connected with the movie. Either way, Lynch was very successful in incorporating multiple themes in one movie but I personally connected most with the most simplistic theme of questioning "Am I a good man, or am I a bad man?".

My name is John Merrick

Why am I different?


Although I suppose it does not matter why I am different because it does not change the fact that I am. I think its more curious why everyone else is so different. I do not understand why or how some can be kind and treat me like the human that I am, and even look passed my face and be so kind as to kiss my cheek, while others scream and cry and... when they see me. How would I act if I was normal and I met someone like me?

Welcome to my nightmare

I think my greatest fear is having to hide for my life. I was introduced to world war two and the horrors that the Nazi committed against the Jewish people at a very young age and I think that may have traumatized me a bit. My worst nightmare is connected to this fear. I had just seen the movie "War of the Worlds" maybe a week before I had this dream and I think it triggered my fear and caused the nightmare. It is kind of interesting that it was this movie in particular because I never really found the actual movie scary, but in my nightmare it was the scariest thing I ever had to experience. There is a scene in the movie where the protagonist family is hiding from the alien machines in a basemen and all is quiet. The machine sends a thing that looks like an eye but is the size of one of those big beach balls that people throw around in baseball games. It is this scene in particular that most resembles my nightmare. In my nightmare, I and four other kids who I did not know were all hiding together. I remember feeling like I could not breathe because I was afraid it would give us away. I was not afraid of dying after being found, but rather, I was afraid of being discovered. It was like being found by them meant something worse than death. An irrational fear I suppose, but a fear nonetheless.

Compassionate Science

Science is not always connected to compassion, love, or sympathy but rather, to innovation and ways to facilitate things already given. Compassionate science is almost unheard of, but that should not be so. As a human kind, we should use technological advances to help those in need whom cannot do or lack things we take for granted, instead of developing new machines to increase production and take people's jobs. I personally know I have the compassion to help those in need, but I do not have the drive great enough to do something about it. To me, feeling empathetic towards those deprived of certain things like a proper home or an arm comes easy, but it takes a great person to get up and try to change those things. After watching this video in film class, I am done putting up excuses for myself to justify my "inability" to help. I will put my part to try to change lives.

The Future

One hundred and fifty years from now I believe that the future will be exactly the way it was in the middle ages combined with much of today. Between today and 2,114 a nuclear war would have developed between the major countries in the world, but since all major powers have already created nuclear weapons, I think the war will end in a stalemate and everyone would be thrown back to the life style of a third world country or it will never end and the world would be in constant war or threat of war. Due to human's natural urge to be organized, there would be class systems and the lower and larger class would be exploited (as always) while the rich and upper class get busy doing the horribly enduring and tiring task of bossing everyone around and call it "ruling". The lower class would rely on drugs to get through the day which would discourage any wishes to rise in the ranks. One thousand years or so after that, a meteorite would crash into Earth with such force that it will knock the world out of its orbit pushing it further away from the sun eliminating any future possibilities of life. The world would be too cold for any life form to survive, and slowly all life would stop existing on Earth. Our days are counted.

One Time I Laughed REALLY REALLY Hard

I cannot pinpoint one specific moment but I do remember that every day in second period with my best friend Jesus was a blast. We would talk all period and laughed at the silliest things which looking back now are really not that funny. We had a great teacher that managed to teach us even while Jesus and I were half listening, but most of the time he was he reason for our laughter. He was such an awkward teacher and every time he would teach his powerpoint lessons, he would have a little dance where he awkwardly shook side to side and asked if we understood. It was extremely difficult to stay serious and focused while I was trying to hold back laughter, specially when Jesus and I made eye contact and it was like in the entire class, only he and I saw it. Several times, though I do not remember what exactly happened, I laughed so hard that I actually cried.

Review on Modern Times

Modern times is an exceptional movie which provides more of a message than some movies with much more dialogue. The movie touches topics regarding police brutality and their abuse of power, a strong communist community, and the unfair treatment of the average worker. Modern Times accurately depicts the living conditions and terrible experiences people had to live through during the Great Depression and provides insight to the many flaws and the lack of government help for people going through tough times and unemployment. The character of the gamin presents an example of how the depression left many kids in the streets to fend for themselves and ultimately led them to unlawful things in order to survive (breaking into a department store to find a place to sleep and attempting to steal a loaf of bread to eat). Charlie Chaplin's character serves to demonstrate how "the machine" can eat up its workers and make them go mad, which literally happens to the character.

My Thoughts on Bullying

A close friend of mine was bullied all through high school. From a primary source I have learned of the long-term effects of bullying which include low self-esteem, lack of confidence, and sometimes even thoughts considering suicide. To this day I do not understand what could make one person do something like that to another person. I cannot fathom how bitter one must be to want to hurt someone and push him or her to the point of not wanting to live. It is a shame that sympathy cannot be taught in a classroom setting and must be learned through experience because in most cases when the bully finally learns of his or her wrong doings it is far too late. Bullying scars a person forever, its effects cannot be understated. I feel we hear of the term bullying a lot, but very rarely do we ever stop to think about what it feels to be bullied and how we can help prevent it. I wish that I could have been there to help my friend out in high school, but since I was not I try to help those around me not go through the same thing. Do not wait until it happens to someone you know, because like I said, it is a permanent damage.

My Favorite Movie

My favorite movie is Say Anything with John Cusack, directed by Cameron Crowe. The movie is a romantic drama which is a genre usually a bit too cheesy for me, but I connected with this movie because of how it covers the topics of morality and the relationship between a daughter and her father. A girl, Diane Court,  that is accustomed to doing the right thing finds the balance between having fun and being responsible. She also questions ideas that she was brought up believing which I admired about about her because previously she did everything to please her father and this broke her out of that cycle. It is an admirable thing to me, to question something you have believed all your life and to question something that your most trusted advisor advocates. The movie also focuses around the innocent love a genuinely good guy has for a girl that, based on society's standards, appears to be too much for him. I love how the movie crushes this belief by allowing the two to be together. In the movie Diane Court does not see Lloyd Dobler as a "nobody" who will amount to nothing, but as a great person who treats her right and constantly reminds her how much he cares about her. The movie exposes love as what it can be when two people care about each other and though this may appear to be more fiction in our contemporary times, it gives hope that pure love can exist.