Beginning, Middle, and End

        All movies have a beginning, middle, and end. An example can be the movie Frozen where in the beginning we are shown how the sisters are seperated so that the magic that Elsa has can be controlled. In the middle we see conflict errupt with Elsa releasing her powers and putting the whole town to sleep. Anna chases after her and there she meets a reindeer, his rider, and a snowman. The middle is the longest part of the movie, where most of the action happens, like Anna finidng Elsa's castle and ice being put in her heart. The end is the resolution, where after Elsa is caputered and she ties to leave she is saved by Anna from being killed and Elsa unfreezes Anna. In the end all loose ends of the story are resolved and it usually becomes a, "they lived happily ever after."

Undeserved Misfortune

      The second essential for a good movie is Undeserved Misfortune. An example of Undeserved misfortune is when in the movie, The Dark Knight, Harvey Dent had half his face melted off and his fiancee killed in an explosion. It was undeserved because Harvey was a good person and had continuously tried his hardest to make Gotham a better place.
      An example of undeserved misfortune from real life is when my cousin was attacked when he was making a pick up for his father, who is a trucker, and he was hit in the head. The hit had actually damaged his brain and he spent a while in the hospital. He might need help doing things and communicating for the rest of his life. His brain capacity is now to that of someone mentally disabled and it is undeserved because my cousin was a good son, a good person. And the only reason why he was attacked was because he was doing his job and he didn't even know his attackers, had never done anything to them, there was no reason for them to attack him. Yet, he was unfortunae enough to have this happen to him.
 

Conflict

       One of the five essentials for a good movie is conflict. An example of conflict from a movie can be the conflict between Harry Potter and Voldemort in the Harry Potter series. How they, and their sides, represent the fight between "good" and "evil". In every movie the conflict between Harry and Voldemort grows. Like in the first movie Harry and Voldemort race for the stone. In the second movie Harry fights against Voldemort's spirit and so on and so on until it reaches Harry's battle with Voldemort in the final movie.
        An example of conflict in real life can be when me sisiter and I where younger and we had a fight for all our possesions. All the things that we shared, like our dolls, and plushies, and movies, were taken by one or the other and we fought on what belonged to who. We spent weeks taking things from each other, trying to hide them, and keep them away from each other. The fight started because we didn't want to share anymore and although it wasn't a big it was a type of conflict between me and my sister.

My Film Job

      From all the film jobs available I think that I would like to be a screenwriter. I like writing, making up stories, and so I think that screenwriter is a good job for me. If I can't be a Screenwriter my second choice would be Story Board Artist because then I can at least draw out the story how imagine it to look. They both also take work and that way I can feel like I am participating in my production company.
      The last option I have for a job would be Director because I have always wanted to film something. I've always wanted to act like a Director, but that would be my last choice since I'm not sure I would make a good job. I would like to only film a scene or two anyways, I don't think I could film a whole film, I don't really have the patience. That is why my first option is Screenwriter, followed by Story Board Artist.

My Review of the Elephant Man

     The Elephant Man shows how unlucky some people turn out to be in this world and shows the harshness they have to go trough because of others. It also shows the cruelty of humans to someone that they don't perceive as normal, someone that they think doesn't fit in society so has no right to be treated as an equal. Throughout the movie I felt lucky and glad that I was born "normal", that I actually had nothing that would make me stand out as much as John did. Yet at the same time I felt sad for John, for everything he had to go through- being put on display, chased around, abused, mocked and ridiculed.

      I was also disgusted with myself, with humans in general, for seeing how we treat each other, how we don't care for another's well being if it brings us amusement or profit. How we express our disgust and fear so bluntly to someone without any care of how it can affect them. The movie seemed to show the ugly side of humans so thoroughly that I was depressed in how correct society was represented. Humans are selfish, greedy, and sometimes uncaring creatures and we do what we believe is right without caring about the affects it can have on others. 

     Yet at the same time it was heartwarming to see how some people helped John, how they showed the good side of humanity. Some of us actually care about others and will do what is needed to keep each other happy and safe. I was also inspired by John's happiness, how no matter what happened to him he didn't let it push him down, he continued living his life to the fullest. The movie seemed to show how ugly humans are but at the same time it showed how caring we could be, it showed both sides of the coin, and at the same time it showed the unwavering hope that we all have within us, even when it seems that everyone else is trying to push us down. 

My Name is John Merrick

    Doctor Treves took me to a Doctor convention today. They stared at me the same as everyone else has. All my life I have been on display and it seems that even when they are studying me- they say it is to help me, but is it really?- it is the same. Turn around, turn around, stand up, turn around, that seems to be the only thing that they can tell me.

    They look at my body, at my face, and because I'm already so ruined there who is to say that my brain isn't as well? They don't bother to see if I understand, they have made up there minds already and to them I'm completely destroyed in body and mind, I'm nothing but a shell of a man who was unfortunate enough to be born this way. That, of course, does not stop them from staring at me like a freak. Even when they try not to they still stare. 

    Is it so hard to believe that I am a man? I'm human, human, just like the rest of them. I'm not an animal, I never asked to be an animal, but it seems that they all like to think that I decided my fate. They stare, and they sneer, and they scream, and they mock, and they like to have themselves believe that I don't understand. But I do understand, and I see, and I feel, and I wish day and night that there was a cure to be just like a normal person. 

   Doctor Treves is trying to understand what is wrong with me- for my benefit?- but as all the other doctors stare at me with disgust and curiosity I know that even if they are doing this to try to help I'm once again put on display for another's benefit. Turn around, turn around, stand up, turn around, that seems to be my life. 

Welcome to My Nightmare

     Fear is a funny thing, it affects people differently and is different for every person, and even if people have the same fears they have different reason for acquiring that fear. I have a fear of the dark, I don't really know how it started but ever since I was little I've been afraid of being alone in someplace dark. I think its not even the dark that scares me but what it can hide inside of it. What can be in the same room as me without me even knowing.
    Ever since I was little I've imagined someone, murders or kidnappers, hiding in the corners of my room, covered by the dark, watching as they waited for me to sleep. I always felt like I can feel their eyes on me, hear them breathe. Sometimes, when I was younger, I would even confuse the things in my room as a type of monster. In my mind the shape of a hanged coat, for example, would change into a headless one armed monster.
     What also seems to scare me of the dark is the pressure it seems to omit. Or at least I feel like it omits some sort of pressure. When its dark enough that i can barley see my hand in front of me I feel like something is closing in, like I'm in a box with no way out. To me the dark seems like the time when the ugliest, the most evil, of things come out to hide in corners and shadows to wait to take someone away, to take you away.

Compassionate Science

    To change the world you need to be completely dedicated to your cause and actually want to help, actually want to make a difference. There are so many things that can be done to help people. You can give them better medicine, a better education, better homes, better living conditions, help them in things that others might take for granted. To do this though you need to focus on your education, on the subject that you feel that you can help them with, because if you don't know what you are doing then you can't help them live better can you?
   I do want to help people, I'm not sure how yet, but I want to make a difference. I want to give people the same opportunities that I have-maybe even better- because they are the same as us, they haven't done anything wrong so why should they have to suffer more than we do?
    I don't know yet what i will be doing to help people but i do know that i will become an engineer to learn how to build things. Hopefully a certain felid within engineering will call my interest and i will be able to build homes, or arms and legs, that will help those that live in bad conditions. That will make their lives a little better or easier. Hopefully, in the future, I also have that dedication needed to stick to my project.

The Future

   I think that in the future, seeing as how we are producing a lot of pollution into our environment, that our earth will be destroyed. I think that metropolis is on to something, in the future we will be turned underground because of the toxic fumes we are putting into our environment with pollution or, like in movies, we will go into outer space.
   Because of all the pollution humans ourselves will be affected genetically and we will evolve into something else, we will mutate. We will grow more arms, or legs, or bigger heads. We will be completely different then we are today. Maybe we will become more powerful and more resistant to certain products of nature, like heat and cold, to resist the change that will come to earth because of pollution. We might go to another planet where our change will be the most obvious and maybe we will become the aliens that we have been imagining for years.
    Of course if we don't ruin the earth we will evolve technologically and we will have certain advancements, if we don't waste all our natural resources, like micro chips in the brain to have unlimited supply of information. Or maybe teleportations to travel form one place to another faster, like a city or country. We will even be able to make machines or, genetically enhance ourselves, to become faster and stronger. Thats what I think will happen in the future.

The Time I Laughed Really Hard

There are many times I've laughed before, where I've laughed so hard my side has hurt and I was out of breath. To be sincere I don’t really remember many of the occasions that led up to those laughs. I really just mostly remember the feeling of laughing until I’m gasping for breath. 

            There is one occasion I remember of laughing hard, it isn't the funniest, but it’s the only one I remember at this moment, probably because its one of the earliest memories I have of my family. When I was younger we had traveled to see my family a lot, the first time I remember meeting them I was around four years old.

            We had been at my grandfather’s farm and there was a party to celebrate our arrival. I remember the adults dancing on the porch, it had rained the day before and the ground under the porch was mud. I think it was maybe really funny to me at that time because of my age but one of my uncles, who was already a little drunk had danced too close to the edge and had tripped off the porch. I remember seeing him reach forward and grab an aunt and then she grabbed the person next to her and on and on until some five people had been pulled of the porch and had landed in the mud. The kids had all laughed and ran forward to pelt them with mud it was really funny actually then to see them all on the ground, wet and dirty, but i really think the funniest thing was my uncles laugh. His laugh is one of those that makes you laugh along instantly and i think that was what had most of us laughing in that moment.

Modern Times

   Charlie Chaplin's movie, Modern Times, is a representation of the harshness of life and the sadness that comes with hopelessness. Especially the hopelessness that was existing at that time with the Great Depression. Charlie shows how hard it is for people of the working class and the struggles that they go tbrough, but at the same time he seems  to tell them to continue living and to try to always be happy.
    That is what I like about Chaplin, how he shows the real struggles of life of the people but at the same time shows the small miracles that can make their life worth while. The best thing is that Charlie knows what the people are going through because he experienced it himself. He doesn't have to imagine it, which means that he doesn't have to imagine what can make them happy. He doesn't have to guess what the people need to hear and see.
    I like Chaplin because he honestly knows human life and he shows realistic dreams and seems to encourage you to follow them and always keep trying. Modern Times is one of the  many movies that Chaplin tries to entertain us with but at the same time tries to use to inspire us. It is a great movie.

Bullying

    I've never seen bullying, or experienced it, but I dont like it. I think bullying is wrong and isn't needed. Most people bully to feel better about themselves but they don't realize that they are hurting that person who they're making fun of. They don't know what problems that person can have at home and the bllying can actually be making their lives worse.
   People don't realize how powerful words can be, how much someone can want acceptance from their peers and be irrevocably hurt when they are pushed away and ridiculed. Low self-esteem  is something dangerous to have, it can lead to depression and that can lead to the person doing dangerous things to themselves.
    Bullying can lead to a person doing self harm, drugs, and even suicide. Bullying can ruin someone's life and bullies don't realize that, don't realize that they can affect someone so much that it can be the difference between life or death. Any type of bullying is horrible, from verbal to physical to cyber. It doesn't matter how you feel, it doesn't matter if you want to feel better about yourself by running someone else, you shouldn't do it and that's final.

My Favorite Movie

   There are many movies I like but my favorite is Letters to Juliet. I like the story and how an actual tradition in Italy, writing letters for advise on love and putting it on Juliet's wall, is used to incorporate the romance. I also like the whole story of an old love and the message it seems to convey, that as long as the love is true it can withstand even time. I also like how Sophie, the protagonist, seems to find love on the way even if she wasn't looking for it. Expressing that love comes unexpectedly.
   I also like the different scenes in the movie of Italy- which is one of the first countries i would like to visit- of the countryside and towns, all looking very beautiful. I liked the actors and the music and the plot and i think it was a very good movie. Not too romantic but enough to make you smile at the end. It maybe a little too cliche for some people, or it might seem boring with not enough romance, but i liked the movie. It seemed inspiring to me and simple, good entertainment.