sugar cane

 The movie Sugar Cane Alley or black shack alley (which was apparently too vulgar for the theatres), is set on the Caribbean isle of Martinique, where slavery was huge. A boy, Jose, has lost his parents and is being raised by his grandmother, Ma ’Tine. Ma ‘Tine does not want him to share the same life as her and the other people in the village by beginning to work in the sugar cane fields. Instead, she sends him off to school. During school he is met with a challenge, one of his teachers thinks he cheated on one of his papers, the teacher thinks it is too good to be written by a boy his age, but after discovering his background he realizes that he did not cheat and that he is actually very gifted. His grandmother dies of what we can assume was a heart attack. The movie ends with Jose going back to school, leaving the sugar cane fields in the past.

persepolis

There was a question asked in class about the role religion played in her life and if this movie was trying to convey the need for religion. I’m in the middle with this idea. I think that religion was important in her life, maybe not so much during the middle when she was having trouble in life but definitely in the beginning and end. In the beginning she is seen talking to god almost as if she was talking to a friend. She follows his words and takes his advice and is very routine in doing such. Her life is good but when she asked him to leave it gets bad, and in the end when god comes back her life becomes better. I think she is trying to say that her life got better when god was a part of it but I don’t think that she is trying to push god on to anyone, just simply stating of showing her findings on religion

man on wire

I enjoyed the movie man on wire. I like the idea that a man who was tight rope walker saw objects or buildings around the world and his mission was to walk across them. How many people on earth can say “I walked between the twin towers.” Only one person ever in history can say that. He truly is one of a kind. The years of training on the tight rope while having his friends tug and pull on the rope to create a real like simulation of what could happen when he is up there. This man and his friends where truly dedicated to do this. The risked their lives trying to accomplish these acts and spent some time in jail for it as well.

They created fake lives in an attempt to get to the top of the tower with success. They waited under a tarp, motionless, for hours on end to string up the wire. At one point Philipe was naked searching for an arrow so that he could find the string attached to the end to pull the wire across and when the wire was slacked between the two towers his friends spent hours of hard work trying to pull it back up. The dedication it took from all of these people to make one thing happen is incredible. This maybe the only thing they are remembered for and it’s sad that the towers where destroyed because they were a symbol of what they did.

zombocolypse

I think apocalypse movies in general are a big hit in the media right now because of the whole end of the world thing. People see a zombie apocalypse as a possibility. We have all of the TV show’s like dooms-day prepares, the walking dead, falling skies, and the colony. Everyone loves to watch these shows because it makes people think “well what would I do if this actually happened? Where would I go, how would I survive?” I myself have thought of this before and have a fool proof plan to outlast an apocalypse.

 My plan is to gather my three closest friends, gather our own weapons and ammunition at our disposal and travel by my car to Cabelas in Kansas City. We would then spend months preparing a war machine made from a semi-trailer equip with the top gun of a tank, many turrets, a flame thrower, and on the front end a big spiked snowplow. Then after months of building this machine and gathering as much food as possible we would then travel around the U.S. gathering people. Once we have around 300 people and enough food we would then go down to Florida where we would acquire a cruise ship. On this ship we would be able to survive forever

nightmare

The nightmare before Christmas should absolutely be named a Tim Burton movie. The concept of this movie was Tim’s to begin with he just had other people help him make his dream a reality. If they didn’t give Tim the credit he deserved then it would be a form of plagiarism. It’s just like an athlete writing a book, they didn’t actually write the book themselves they had one or even a team of authors help them do it but it is still called their book. Another reason they named it a Tim Burton movie was probably strictly for publicity. Many people will go to see a Tim Burton movie just because he was the one who made it, no one would go see a movie by someone they‘ve never heard before. Yes, Tim’s name was put on the cover of this movie even though it wasn’t directed by him, but the people who helped out in the movie still got the credit for what they did; they were all recognized in the credits and got paid so I don’t see why it is such a big deal to everyone. Putting Tim Burton’s name on the movie was the correct thing to do.

scissor hands

A happy ending could have been a possibility for Edward. If we assume that saving Kevin works out and he is seen as a hero then he would go back into society they way he did before with everyone wanting his art work in their yard, on their head, and even on their dog. Edward was different from everyone but they saw it as something that was new. They town they live in was so “cookie cutter” it was easy for Edward to stand out and become popular one might say. Every one in the town saw his hands as a deformity and every one who knew a doctor or plastic surgeon offered up their assistance to him. Edward seems eager to meet these doctors because he wants to become normal. If Edward was to get new hands he wouldn’t be as special. In my opinion the reason Kim was interested in him was because he was different and that he truly cared about her. In the end if he was to get new hands he might get the girl but he might not have the same social status as he did before. To him this would’ve been a happy ending but to some it might not be the case.

the secret impresses some: the prestige

I believe the secret impresses few. With that being said, the secret impresses me. Knowing the secret takes away from the “AW” moment but I think it lets me know how simple or complex a trick can actually be. If I see an amazing illusion and find out the secret to doing it is actually very easy then it amazes me even more that something so simple can create such a spectacular thing makes the trick even cooler, especially seeing the look on peoples face when you know the trick and they don’t it makes them wonder. For example in the prestige Angier went to great lengths to discover Borden’s trick for the transported man but found out it wasn’t as spectacular as he had imagined. And the same with Borden when he found the truth to Angier’s trick, when Borden discovered that the “magic” was actually real science he was amazed. So I truly believe that knowing the secret doesn’t take away from the trick, it takes away the mystery sure but sometimes the trick of doing something might be more jaw dropping than the actual illusion itself. A lot like Angier’s machine, the science behind it is way more fascinating than thinking he used a double