Beginning Middle End

There is always a beginning, middle, and end. For instance, in the movie "Finding Nemo,"in the beginning, it started off with Nemo's dad and his wife, but then she died after she had her babies. Nemo, one of the babies, grew up without a family, so he only had his dad. Then in the middle, Nemo and his dad were swimming in different places and left their home. Then, toward the end, Nemos dad lost him and nemo was sent to a pet shop where a girl was going to take him, but luckily through all the conflict that occurred in the movie, nemo was able to return to his dad and go home. They have learned through their consequences. In this movie, it showed  a great example of a beginning, middle, and end because it starts off with happiness that is destroyed by the conflict. Same goes for the middle and end. We are able to describe what really is going on through the transition.

Conflict

I think it is funny that I get so dissapointed when I watch a movie that suddenly makes the scenes sad by including conflict within it. But I then thought: If there was no conflict then I would not be expecting anything interesting to arise. A movie that has conflict is “The Last Song” when Ronnie sees her dad after a long time but does not speak to him because he and her mother divorced. That is conflict because she is a young girl who does not understand conflict itself. She begins to find herself and speak to her dad again when she experiences much more conflict throughout her life.

Conflict in life:

When I found out that my grandma had cancer and just 6 months to live, I blamed everything. I blamed myself for not noticing my grandmas skin tone change, or her slow movement. I was so caught up in the moment of thinking that I had my family under my wings that instead I lost focus on my grandmas health. Till this day, a year later, I have realized that everything happens for a reason. Maybe in the beginning the conlflict is horrible, but that leads us to learning and understanding the true meaning of life which is to be positive and just hope for the best.

Conflict for a film:

A girls best friend was her dog, but the dog was old and past away

Undeserved Misfortune

"The Lovely Bones", by Alice Sebold there is a bunch of undeserved misfortune like when Susie tries to get away from George and she fights for her life. Susie being a young teen, doesn't not deserve to get murdered by an older man who has lived his life and did not let her live hers.

 Now, undeserved misfortune from life: I recently had to rewrite my personal statement from scratch, and obviously that is undeserving considering i am just a teen with a bunch of stress who needs pop corn and netflix. My misfortune has a resolution though, I was able to rewrite and submit. Yipey.

An idea for a film would be if someone who was always lonley and anti-social finally opened up to a new world and met people. Then that person met someone whom they feel a strong connection toward. Suddenly that person whom they were feeling butterflies over, past away. Then they’ll feel that this is why they were alone in the first place and do not want to get attatched ever again.

Superior Position

 Life is built through secrets. We may believe something, but another person may know the actual truth. For instance, last year, my grandmother’s doctor phoned my aunt saying that my grandma had breast cancer. My grandma was already going through a tough time because she had lost her eye vision, so instead, we kept it from her. It was really hard because I love my grandma so much, I felt so mean and guilty but this was for the best. It has been weeks without telling her, but we came to a conclusion that we have to tell her because she was already losing her hair. When we were going to tell her, she had told my other aunt, “I hope this isn’t cancerous, I haven’t been feeling very well.” So as hard as it was,  she assumed and we told her. She was strong, but still hurting inside. She inspires me to stay strong no matter what happens. Sometimes it is best to keep something a secret to prevent someone from hurting, but other times things should be said before it is too late.

My Film Blog

I would like to be a Producer in the future. So to have an opportunity to be a producer for a project is actually a really big deal for me. Considering I have a member in my family who is a producer, I can get all the feedback that I need. From what I know, a producer is the boss of everyone. I, myself, aren't a bossy person. I like to have a great time, but if something isn't right, I will be able to fix by addressing  the directors actions. I personally think that a film can have the most amazing actors, and storyline. But without having a good Producer, the film wouldn't be as amazing as to having a great producer. I have a broad imagination. I have my method of imagining stories by the dreams that I have dreamt of. I feel like my dreams are what leads me to the person that I am. I do, however, analyze what I dream of. Sometimes i have awesome dreams that weren't finished, and I like to end it by continuing the dream through my real - life thoughts. I think it'll be fun to be able to produce a film with my peers that can hopefully be liked by the rest of my class. I also would not mind acting or editing because acting seems fun and i like to edit videos as well.

My Review on The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man overall was a great film. The acting of John Merrick was great, just thinking of all that he went through as an actor and as a person. The person behind the make up and wardrobe  had gone through hours and hours or make up to make a perfect John Merrick, just thinking of him being under pounds of make up on his face and body is phenominal. Then aside to that, he had to act like the real Elephant Man when cameras were on, so in this scene were the night porter invited all of these random people to see the "freak" and when they poured alcohol on a position where the Elephant Man  cant cope with and will likely suffer, not like he wasn't suffering already, considering his make up was making him extremely sweaty so he did have something to complain about. This movie was really touching, I've seen many modern movies or even movies that were created not so far apart from The Elephant Man, and not one, has had me feeling so emotionally sad because of the torture people created on John. He was a human just like all of us. an unusual appearance but also and unusual heart and knowledge because he was more positive than many other people today.

My Name Is John Merrick

After all the torture that was held upon me through my staying with Mr.Bytes, or even so my temporary utopian life that I had lived through because of Dr. Fredrick Treves and so forth, made me become the strong man that i was. I had probably lived a life that not many 21 year olds lived: I had been participated in a many freak shows, pretty sad and embarrassing because I was treated like an animal and the title of it itself is offending but I experienced that. I came from nothing to something because of my knowledge that made Dr.Treves realize that I am a normal human being. I was able to communicate with two beautiful woman, though I did look stunned by their beauty and they were stunned by my not-so-beauty, I was still a human to them, and that's what really matters. I already ended my show even before it was ended. "[I]passed the setting sun, or rather--He passed [me]" So remember me as John Merrick, not the Elephant Man, but just as a huMAN.

Welcome to my nightmare. . .bwa ha ha ha ha!

I went to an award show last November with my friends, about eight of us. We had a great time, we saw Austin Mahone, Enrique Iglesias and other amazing artists. After the show, at about 6pm/7pm my friend told us that she wanted to lead us somewhere (she didn't have a car, we went on a metro.) Anyhow, we all decided to go where she wanted to go, but once we got there all i saw were cars, bridges, dimmed lights and factories. I was thinking "Where the HELL are we!?" My friend was like "Oh, don't worry. GPS says that we'll be there in a few more minutes." Well, OK then. . . We had gotten off of the metro then on to the bus where it had dropped us off in ghetto part of Los Angeles, in Santa Fe and 8th street, I believe. My friend started to look worried, she said nothing was wrong, but that her GPS wasn't leading us to the right direction anymore. We ran to the nearest location that had lights and people; we ended up in a Gas Station Liquor. Before we arrived there, about 8 cars were chasing my friends and I. They blocked our way out and kept being weird. After all the craziness that I experienced, the police came and helped us out. When I got home, I felt so appreciated of life, I hadn't felt sooo comfortable in like a few hours but it felt like years.Life is so beautiful and we should appreciate it. MY experience felt like a crazy nightmare; like getting followed by Michael Myers, Freddy K, Jason etc, all at once. Thanks to that I lost a few pounds though because I ran for my life. . . literally.

Compassionate Science

First off, Education is extremely important. One may have a ton of money and decide to not have any education, but educated people are wise people for various of reasons. I personally think that a person with knowledge and heart have the ability to change the world. If someone is wealthy, they'd probably just think about themselves and maybe donate money to charity and they'll let other people take charge. That's the problem right there. If we want to make a difference then we must take action and take a step forward to that goal. Money doesn't make happiness. Happiness is made by the knowledge of knowing what we did to make a difference in our community, our state, our country. . . our world. If we continue our course of education throughout the years of our life, we will gain the knowledge and make huge differences. One of us may probably find a cure for cancer and we may never know, maybe one day someone will discover a type of antibiotic that will make us live forever, or maybe increase our life span. One way this can be worked out is the proper use of technology and education.

Predicting the Future

I predict that in a few hundred years from now, there will be flying cars. Though people have been predicting that since the beginning of our years (1900s) or maybe even before, it can still have the currency to happen. Maybe there is somebody now, at this very moment, planning techniques to make a flying car; a similar person to Victor Frankenstein, who created a monster with old parts of a human’s anatomy. Another thing that I have always predicted, are helicopters flying in between freeways. I was sort of struck when I watched the film Metropolis by Fritz Lang because in the film, he had predicted helicopters flying in mid air; flying in between the bridges of the freeways. He predicts it to happen in the year 2026, that sounds legitimately correct but I think it’ll take a few more years than that, considering that our people are still trying to figure out how to create another iPhone generation, they might not even be thinking of a helicopter, that’s too old fashioned to them, I assume. I also predict humans living underwater, but I don’t want to scare myself so I’ll just stop right here, ha ha. 

Funniest Moment

A few weeks ago, I had signed up to Drivers Ed (Driving class), I called for an appointment and so when the day arrived for my first instruction; I drove around my city, then off to another city, then to another, but it seemed like the farther I went, the instructor became more rude. He said, “Why even waste my time and your time driving?” then I said “I am paying you for this, how am I wasting my time, as a matter of fact, it shouldn’t be wasting yours, either.” I arrived home and decided not to take a class with him. SO I changed instructor. He was really patient and said that I am a good driver. He later asked why I had changed instructor. I started yapping about that man all the way through our lesson and back. Until when my new instructor said. . .”That’s my dad.” I didn’t know what to think, I know the proper way would be,"Oh my, I'm sorry."but instead I started bursting out with laughter, I couldn’t control myself. 

Modern Times Review

In Modern Times, I really liked how Chaplin made the scenes with a mixture of what life looked like in the past and what life looks like now. So he basically predicted the future by adding what it would look like to live the American Dream, where he and his girlfriend had a home to live in, although, it wasn’t fancy, it still included many features of what a home would look like now. I also appreciated his comic; he was very funny in every way possible. I also noticed something in the movie that no one had mentioned in my class; Chaplin also compared the movie with his past life, in the scene where Chaplin had forgotten the lyrics for his performance, he also connected that to his mother when he was just a child, she had forgotten the lyrics,but Chaplin, somehow, found himself on stage, even when he didn’t know what to do, he still managed to entertain the crowd in Modern Times and at his mother’s performance when he was a young child. 

My Thoughts on Bullying

When I was younger, I've never really understood the reasoning behind bullying someone. As a kid, we felt lost. But even now as a young adult we still feel lost. Being bullied can happen to anyone, there are no limits to aging, but there are limits to stopping. When I was younger a girl once tricked me to become friends with her friends, I was so naïve, I didn’t know how life worked. So there I was at a field trip across the street from my old elementary at a park thinking that I finally made more friends but then the girl, my “friend” just runs up me and throws water at me. For others life was already taught to oneself, they already know the consequences, but others like myself know nothing. But even now as a teenager, or even adults we still question, why do people bully? We are only human.

My Favorite Movie

My favorite movie is the “Fault in Our Stars."The story that was written in the book and movie speaks of cancer but not only of cancer and sadness; it brings appreciation to ones heart. I really like how the director started off the movie with a teenager named Hazel Grace (main character; cancer patient) saying a monologue of her life, but instead of her speaking about her having Cancer, she says the whole opposite. She mentioned how her life was perfect and so on, until when she says “I’m just kidding” then suddenly, BOOM, the movie screen blacks out and the story of her actual life begins. I also like how to story seems real, Cancer is real, sadness is real and even love is real but even though this movie wasn’t based on a true story. It made me realize how short life is. they convinced me to believe that it was based on a true story after I felt the water in my eyes.