O Brother, Where Art Though?

I personally thought that the whole movie was great. I think that the funniest parts of the movie were when Everett kept on saying "were in a tight spot." I really liked how Everett would get his whole crew into bad situations and hardly slip out of them. I also liked the part were the valley was flooded, and they saw a cow standing on top of a house.

Epic Simile

The last day of school, it's 2:36pm with thirty seconds remaining until summer, sitting, gazing at the clock, tick, tick, tick, im as anxious as a young child on christmas morning, waiting until it's present time, sitting impatiently, gazing at the shiny rapping paper, waiting to find out if he got exactly what he asked for.

Of Mice and Men Movie Trailer

Progress

Currently, we know what people are going to be in our movie and what their parts are. This weekend we hope to film most of the movie trailer. I think that time will set us back. Editing and producing a quality movie will take time. Also, I think that finding an appropriate place to film might cause an issue.
I am not to sure what else I could talk about so I'll discuss the book so far. At first, I didnt really like the book but know I'm warming up to it. Listening to the tape and hearing Lennie's part is halarious. I have an idea on what will happen in the end but im not too sure. Hopefully the book won't end ubruptly.

Glog

Romeo and Juliet Video

This is a video that I found on youtube when I searched "star-crossed lovers." Its a gimmick on Romeo and Juliet with various clips from Highschool Musical. It basically relates to the whole story line. There are two families, the son and daughter of the families meet at a graduation party. With no idea who the other is, they fall in love that night. Pretty cheesy.

Photo

This photo relates to the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. These are two lovers who are kissing on a balcony just like in Act II Scene two. The only way this doesnt relate is the fact that they are already married. If these people were not wearing a tuxido and dress, this is how I would picture the balcony scene. I found this picture on www.flickr.com.

Romeo and Juliet: Act Two

The situation that I found most interesting in Act Two, was when Romeo was in the Capulet's yard and then Juliet came out on the balcony talking to herself. Romeo went looking for Juliet after the party. He sees her walk out on the balcony. She starts talking to herself about how she wishes Romeo could be someone else besides a Capulet so they could be together. Romeo startes talking to her and she gets frightend. They then start talking about how they can be together and then the conversation rises to the topic of marriage. They decide their going to marry the next day. If I was Romeo, I would not jump to marraige so quickly, esspecially fully knowing to consequences he would have from his family.
I think this event will greatly impact the story. If they do end up getting married, it could cause an all out war between the Capulets and Montagues. I also think Romeo and Juliet will both get punished by their families. I think that my reaction to the situation would not have been as good as Romeo's. If I saw a girl I loved walk out onto a balcony and start to talk to herself, I would definetly be weirded out, not wishing she would talk more so I could hear her voice. I have never been in any type of situation even close to this.

Characters In Romeo and Juliet

The character in Romeo and Juliet that really stands out to me is Tybolt. He seems to be a really angry person and loves to fight. After Tybolt says he hates the word peace, it started to seem pretty obvious what kind of person he is. In act one, when Romeo arrived at the Caputlet party, Tybolt said that he wanted to kill him and it would not be a sin to do so. Then he said Romeo is mocking the Capulet family by being there. This shows that Tybolt makes up excuses to start unnessesary trouble. Tybolt seems like he would be very tall, short hair, peirced lip, and if it was modern times, a stereotypical redneck.
I think that if I met Tybolt in my everday life, I wouldnt be too fond of him. He seems like he would be a jerk and always starting usless trouble. I do know someone very similar to Tybolt. He thinks that fighting is funny and is always jerk. Whenever he encounters someone he doesn't like, he tries to be funny by pushing them into walls or triping them. When aggravated, he does threaten to hurt people, but not to the extent that Tybolt goes to.

Romeo and Juliet: Premonitions

A premonition that I had was at Fort Flagler this past summer. I went and stay there for two nights, and the first night, I had a dream that I accidently ran off a cliff and broke my leg. I just disregarded it becuase it was a dream and I didn't think that it would be be real at all. But then, the next night at flashlight tag in the bunkers, I was lying down in the grass and popped up quickly to start running and I heard a loup "pop!" I later found out that I had broken my hip.

Im not really sure if there is anything that I could have done to prevent the breaking of my hip. It was pitch black out, and the grass was wet, it was an accident waiting to happen. But I just disregarded it becuase I was having fun. I never would have thought slipping on wet grass would break my hip. In the future, I'll listen to my gut instincts more before doing things im not all that sure about.

Shakespeare Stories

A movie that revolves around one of the Shakespeare play plots is Wedding Crashers. In Wedding Crashers, Owen Wilson, and Vince Vaughn crash weddings to try and find girls. But after crashing one, Owen finds out that the girl he had met is ingaged. He falls in love with her and she falls in love with him but her fiance is a huge jerk and beats up Owen. This is a perfect a perfect example of a love triangle.
This movie is closly related to Shakespear's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. In both stories, there is a girls father who wants them to marry a rich man but the girl likes another man who is not rich but a gentleman. I don't think that the movie producers followed the story line too well from a Midsummer Night's Dream but only used the love triangle idea. I think all in all, Shakespeare has a huge infulence on modern media. Almost all modern movies have these plots or something very similar.

Anticipating Shakespeare

I was able to understand a bit of the dialoge through out Midsummer Night's Dream but most of it was pretty hard. The language did get slightly easier as the movie went on but it was diffucult for me to understand what the characters were talking about and how one word had multiple meanings. I think that the plot in the movie was good, it wasn't really complicated but it had enough going on so it didnt get boring. My perception on Shakespeare is that his play writes are really well thought of and the characters explain themselves so it seems like you know a lot about them in not much time.
I don't know much about Romeo and Juliet but I've heard many good things about it. I think I will probably like it but it might get a little irritating listening to everyone in class reading out a part becuase it won't flow as well becuase of the old-time language. I might enjoy the next two months of class as much as you, but I can get really frusturated when I don't know whats going on in the book and I can see that happening very easily with the difference in language. Im going to try to enjoy it to the fullest I can, and I guess we'll see what happends.

The Worst Part of Animal Farm

I think that, by far, the worst part of the book was when the animals were slain after they admitted to the crimes associated with Snowball. The animals simply told Napoloean that they were working with Snowball and the dogs murdered them right on the spot. I really find this disturbing because the animals knew that it wasn't true, but in order to suit Napoleon and his rediculous assumptions of Snowballs crimes, they admitted to the crimes. Also, I found it disturbing when the chickens were slain because there was a rumor going around the farm about how they wanted to poison Napoleon's food.
I think that Napoleon should have cut the rations in half or made the animals do extra work, but to just rip their throtes out on the spot! Well that is just cruel. I really don't like the way that Napoleon treats the other animals. He treats himself like a king, while the other animals suffer from overwork and little rations. Also, in my opinion, I think that Napoleon should also be punished. Just for his pleasure, he slightly changed the commandments to suit his liking. But then the all the animals are just too gullible and think that they just forgot the "last two words" of the commandment.

Animal Farm

So far, I think that the book is pretty good. I like how it closly follows the Russian Revolution and the characters are very similar by their actions. I have not read many fables but I think I will give some more a try. I usually think of fables as cheezy knock-offs but I'm really liking this one, esspecially as we read on and the story takes some unexpecting turns. Im thinking that Jones is just going to come back but I also think that I could be wrong.
Im not to fond of how the animals in the story are super gullable. And I also don't like how the windmill is being made. Napolean hasn't yet told the animals exactly how it is going to cut there work to three days a week. I am interested to find out if Snowball is indeed alive and selling himself and Napolean's ideas to the other farm. I don't really understand how Napolean is telling the guy what to do becuase if that man knows they could talk wouldnt he just go and spread that through the whole town? It just doesnt make a whole lot of sence.