A powerful, romantic story filled with everything a good play, which is a book, which is a movie needs. What am I talking about? Im talking about a book club maker, a mentor for many, and maybe a tear forcer for some: Romeo and Juliet. But I'm not talking about the play. I'm talking about the movie with Leonardo de Caprio in it (I don't remember the directors name). The movie showed Romeo and Juliet in modern time. What the movie did was it really expressed the love and violence that there is in the play to show that Romeo and Juliet is not just a stupid play that Shakespare wanted people to see, its a play that you should feel as well.
One thing that this movie made me feel was the talk about love, specifically young love. Romeo and Juliet weren't really even considered fully mature yet, yet their love seemed much more powerful than the average that we see today. People complain that young love isn't real love because they haven't really experianced the world for that long yet or they just haven't experianced love itself. What this movie made me realize is that the definition of young love is love as well as old love as well as strong love as well as weak love. Everyone is capable to love and to share love with another because love in a way is the liking someone over a period of time because of traits they have that you like.
Another thing this movie made me feel was that love and violence always exist together. Romeo and Juliet's love caused some violence to erupt like their deaths because their love caused them and the other Montagues and Capulets to do crazy things and one of the things was violence. Romeo and Juliet's love caused them to kill themselves because of the terrible luck of them both seeing the other dead. Also, love occured because of the violence. With the Montagues and Capulets doing violence towards each other, it was bound for love to step right in between all that violence.
Another thing this movie made me question is that is there such thing as a controlled fate? In the movie, Romeo, throughout the movie talks to the stars because he thinks the stars controll peoples fate. I'm christian and I believe that God knows everyones future, but can you decide on your own future? I think that Shakespare included the theme of fate in the story because of Romeo and Juliets love. Was it fate that brought them together or was it just coencidental love? Romeo probably thought that it was the stars that brought him and Juliet together and apart because it was such a powerful love at first sight that it couldn't have just been by accident. They were bound to be together.
Hatred is another thing in the movie because how much hatred do you have to have for someone to lead you to do violence against them. In the movie, when Mercussio was killed, you could see the danger and lust in Romeo's eyes when he was driving the car. You can also tell the amount of hatred Romeo had because he had just come from his own marriage with the love of his life and he was so mad, he prctically forgot all about it when he got revenge.
The movie was a very good example of how Romeo and Juliet should be looked at because, although all the gunslinging and extreme kissing may not seem to be in the play, it should be looked at as just as the movie is looked at. All the concepts of love and hatred and violence in the movie and play is very vital for the world to see the dangers, the excitement, and the extremes of these concepts because I'm sure that the world was and will always be flooding with many of the concepts shown in Romeo and Juliet.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Diary of Assasains
My independent reading book that I've been reading is called "Brotherhood of the Roses" by David Morrell. This book is very intresting because its about one of the coolest things next to ninjas, assasains. What my favorite part about the writing is the awsome descriptions, characters and of course, the action.
David describes the scenes perfectly. He really gets into detail when he is desrcribing a person and what makes it cool is he makes the characters describe other characters in the eyes of an assasain. He takes time in describing things like cars, guns, and basically anything that an assasain would see as intresting( everything).
The characters in the book are really developed. Not only that, but their emossions are shown throughout the book. He shows how they feel by showing and not telling. For example, instead of saying Saul was sad as he pointed the gun at his father's head, he would say Tears swamped Saul's face as his magnum pressed against his father's temple. I think that this is pretty intresting of how David can do this because when I'm writing, I try not to tell, but its hard not to because you have to find examples to show what someone feels and how they act or what they do to show emotion.
I like how action scenes are described in this book because he makes them very dramatic and long lasting. In my stories, for me, its hard to make fight scenes because I think that they sound very stupid. You have to describe every move one by one and you have to make sure they vary. In some action scenes, I get scared that my favorite characters are going to die because with bullets flying everywhere, its hard not to get hit by one.
One major reason why I like this book so much is that it inspired me to write my independent writing piece about the diary of an assassin. This book really helped me with my story because it will help me with revising my story because it will help with show not tell, expanding descriptions, character development and much more.
David describes the scenes perfectly. He really gets into detail when he is desrcribing a person and what makes it cool is he makes the characters describe other characters in the eyes of an assasain. He takes time in describing things like cars, guns, and basically anything that an assasain would see as intresting( everything).
The characters in the book are really developed. Not only that, but their emossions are shown throughout the book. He shows how they feel by showing and not telling. For example, instead of saying Saul was sad as he pointed the gun at his father's head, he would say Tears swamped Saul's face as his magnum pressed against his father's temple. I think that this is pretty intresting of how David can do this because when I'm writing, I try not to tell, but its hard not to because you have to find examples to show what someone feels and how they act or what they do to show emotion.
I like how action scenes are described in this book because he makes them very dramatic and long lasting. In my stories, for me, its hard to make fight scenes because I think that they sound very stupid. You have to describe every move one by one and you have to make sure they vary. In some action scenes, I get scared that my favorite characters are going to die because with bullets flying everywhere, its hard not to get hit by one.
One major reason why I like this book so much is that it inspired me to write my independent writing piece about the diary of an assassin. This book really helped me with my story because it will help me with revising my story because it will help with show not tell, expanding descriptions, character development and much more.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Better Than Chicken
After reading these post, not only have I learned much more intresting ways of how to elaborate, but I also learned that these 3 star mentors are truely great writers and that these post are better than chicken.
http://booksupontheswiftofthewind.blogspot.com/Love
I really like Anisha's methods and styles of her writing. Some things she does that really makes for a good blog is that she really digs deep into the concepts of every inch of this poem. She doesn't only think about the poem, but how it relates to the world. Also, she doesn't only find one theme in the poem. She also describes of what love is to her. She elaborates on her ideas and sticks with one major theme until the end. What I also like is how she starts to connect to the poems meaning and what she hopes will happen to it.
http://shadman1212.blogspot.com/Howdoyouseeyourself
Shadman's poem really made my day. I thought that this poem to reach out to many because the painting he responded to about Picasso, he saw that many people probably saw this as ugly because of all the features of his face. In the poem he repeats It all depends on you and I like that he said this because this could mean anything, but whatb I thought Shadman was trying to say was that you can be ugly if you think you're ugly. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. I felt like this poem is strong enough to probably drop the percentage rate of kids in schools being bullied by 10%.
http://kaylaceelovesbooks.blogspot.com/ 1st one doesn't have a title response to poem
I really liked how Kayla responded to the picture with her poem because from that one small picture, she was able to blossom her ideas onto her blog. What I also liked is how she described each one of her backgrounds with how life was there, how it looked, and how she felt about it. I really liked how she said that it does't matter where you're going, but where you're from because what this means to me is that the past will always stay with you, some thinghs just stay the same, and you can never forget what you're coming from.
http://booksupontheswiftofthewind.blogspot.com/Love
I really like Anisha's methods and styles of her writing. Some things she does that really makes for a good blog is that she really digs deep into the concepts of every inch of this poem. She doesn't only think about the poem, but how it relates to the world. Also, she doesn't only find one theme in the poem. She also describes of what love is to her. She elaborates on her ideas and sticks with one major theme until the end. What I also like is how she starts to connect to the poems meaning and what she hopes will happen to it.
http://shadman1212.blogspot.com/Howdoyouseeyourself
Shadman's poem really made my day. I thought that this poem to reach out to many because the painting he responded to about Picasso, he saw that many people probably saw this as ugly because of all the features of his face. In the poem he repeats It all depends on you and I like that he said this because this could mean anything, but whatb I thought Shadman was trying to say was that you can be ugly if you think you're ugly. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. I felt like this poem is strong enough to probably drop the percentage rate of kids in schools being bullied by 10%.
http://kaylaceelovesbooks.blogspot.com/ 1st one doesn't have a title response to poem
I really liked how Kayla responded to the picture with her poem because from that one small picture, she was able to blossom her ideas onto her blog. What I also liked is how she described each one of her backgrounds with how life was there, how it looked, and how she felt about it. I really liked how she said that it does't matter where you're going, but where you're from because what this means to me is that the past will always stay with you, some thinghs just stay the same, and you can never forget what you're coming from.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Starry Night
Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
Over That Quiet Town by Malik Padellan
The wave currents in the sky
swirl on top another,
whirlpools of color
over that quiet town
Stars pokadot the night,
beaming light in every direction
scaring away darkness
over that quiet town
The moon, hooked like a claw
shines the brightest
melting in the sky
over that quiet town
For the town is not just silence,
but joy and happiness.
Although it is not with the sky,
from an angle, grass pulls on stars
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Perfection
I have recently finished watching the movie Tron Legacy, and though I gave it a 7 out of 10, I couldn't stop thinking about the concept and the morale of the movie. Its about a boy who's father worked in a big game production and one game, Tron, he went beyond of just making prodigious components of the game and was actually able to develop the grid, which was where the game Tron took place. The reason he made the grid was because of all imperfections reallity has. What he wanted to do was make a world with no imperfections, a perfect world, but with huge wants comes huge consequences and the world ends up being "perfect" in the wrong eyes. What is perfection? Is it even possible to be perfect?
My mom always tells me nobodys perfect, and even though I know this, its hard to tell what others think about the word perfect. When you see those conceded people just stepping over everyone, they probably think themselves as perfect and people who inhance their looks so that one day they will reach perfection because they think that beauty is all that matters to be a good person. I think that its impossible to be perfect( to have been in the past, to be in the present, or will be in the future). You can find many reasons of why someones imperfect by observing there opinions on things, their perspectives, and even just having a conversation. Though someone can argue with my belief because its impossible to know if someones perfect or not because it can be good in Jane's eyes, while its bad in Bob's, and though some might say that they're perfect in their own eyes because they do whats right to them, its hard to know whats the right and wrong things in this world because of all the different cultures and beliefs. I don't know if what I do is good because I'm christian, so I do what the christian religion sees as good.
Perfect- flawless, unblemished. Its impossible to reach perfection with such an opinionized and judgemental world. I'm trying to give a message to you like do what you think is right and you may be close to perfect, but that might not work well with some people.
My mom always tells me nobodys perfect, and even though I know this, its hard to tell what others think about the word perfect. When you see those conceded people just stepping over everyone, they probably think themselves as perfect and people who inhance their looks so that one day they will reach perfection because they think that beauty is all that matters to be a good person. I think that its impossible to be perfect( to have been in the past, to be in the present, or will be in the future). You can find many reasons of why someones imperfect by observing there opinions on things, their perspectives, and even just having a conversation. Though someone can argue with my belief because its impossible to know if someones perfect or not because it can be good in Jane's eyes, while its bad in Bob's, and though some might say that they're perfect in their own eyes because they do whats right to them, its hard to know whats the right and wrong things in this world because of all the different cultures and beliefs. I don't know if what I do is good because I'm christian, so I do what the christian religion sees as good.
Perfect- flawless, unblemished. Its impossible to reach perfection with such an opinionized and judgemental world. I'm trying to give a message to you like do what you think is right and you may be close to perfect, but that might not work well with some people.
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