tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81592088076858239022024-03-14T00:49:56.962-07:00Asylum for NerdsThree college students met each other in a class on Witches in Media and since have been best friends. Through college they hung out and shared their interests and now they come together as recent college grads to share their views with the world! From reviews on movies, comics, books, and music, welcome to the ASYLUM FOR NERDS!!!Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10149389367448659181noreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159208807685823902.post-78802154746680907012018-01-05T17:06:00.000-08:002018-06-30T19:32:36.123-07:00Character Analysis: Vincent Moore<div class="MsoNormal">
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film “<i>CHAPPiE</i>” came out in 2015, it
didn’t really strike me as anything that I wanted to see. Flash forward some time later, I was
introduced to the South African hip-hop group Die Antwoord, and when I found
out that they star as themselves in a the film “CHAPPiE”, I decided to seek out
the film, and what can I say other than I really liked. It had elements of “<i>RoboCop</i>” and “<i>Iron Man</i>”,
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with that being said, I decided that I wanted to do a Character Analysis on one
of the members of Die Antwoord, however, I found it quite difficult to choose
which one I preferred to write about, and then the more I thought about it, I
decided that they were more or less playing <i>slightly</i>
fictionalized versions of their on stage personas. Well, Die Antwoord, weren’t the only stars in
the film I that I enjoyed. Hugh Jackman
also appeared in the film, and when I realized that I had never done a
Character Analysis on any of Hugh Jackman’s characters, I decided that I needed
to change that, and so here is my Character Analysis on his character from “<i>CHAPPiE</i>”, Vincent Moore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Moore from “<i>CHAPPiE</i>” (2015)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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soldier turned robotics engineer for the Tetravaal Corporation in Johannesburg,
South Africa. He is the creator of the
giant weaponized robot controlled by a human remote control called MOOSE. Moore’s work (and funding) are constantly
being slashed due to a more popular and efficient Police Robot Droid designed
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rage and he concocts a plan to sabotage Deon’s robot droids and convince his
boss, Michelle Bradley, to let him put the MOOSE into action. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> As a former soldier, Vincent definitely gives
off an alpha male vibe to everyone around his office. He uses his imposing stature to intimidate
his co-workers—especially Deon—and openly carries a pistol on his belt
everywhere he goes, including the office.
He strangely enough comes across as a strict conservative and somewhat
religious, often inviting his co-workers to join him at church on Sunday. In some ways he comes across as your stereotypical
Midwestern American whose life revolves around Guns and giving glory to God. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Vincent uses his military skill to stalk Deon and discovers that he has created a
police droid with Artificial Intelligence.
He uses his connections at the Tetravaal Corporation to ambush Chappie
steal the companies Guard Key to shut down the other droids, which causes chaos
and anarchy to reign all over the city of Johannesburg. He pins the blame on Deon, and finally
convinces his superiors that his MOOSE is their only hope at restoring law and
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> However,
Vincent also has ulterior motives. He doesn’t just want to look like he saved the
city, he wants to destroy Deon, his robot creation Chappie, and anyone else who
stands in his ways. </span></div>
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by Australian actor, Hugh Jackman.
Despite being set in South Africa, Jackman’s character was allowed to
keep his natural Australian accent (with no rhyme or reason why an Australian
solider might being working for a weapons company in South Africa). Jackman is a very versatile actor who can
play any character from a larger than life flamboyant singer to a bad ass super
hero. In “CHAPPiE” we finally get to see him as an all-out villain, and not
like a dark brooding anti-hero, like Wolverine. In this film it’s very clear that Jackman’s
character is the baddy, and he does a great job with it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Vincent Moore is more or
less a combination of every “<i>Iron Man</i>”
movie villain. He creates a giant killer
robot that only he can control with the intention of destroying a colleagues
robotic creation like Obidiah Stane. He
is driven to sabotage a more successful rival and show off his untested robotic
creations and earn a government contract like Justin Hammer, and his driven by vengeance
like Aldrich Killian. </span></div>
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slight similarities to another Jackman character, Charlie Kenton, from the
movie “<i>Real Steel</i>” as both characters
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to track down Deon, Chappie, and group of gangsters that Chappie has befriended
(played by Ninja and Yolandi of Die Antwoord).
In an attempt to destroy Chappie once and for all, he ends up shooting
Deon and murdering Yolandi, who Chappie views as his mother. In a blinding rage Chappie destroys MOOSE
before traveling to Tetravaal headquarters and proceeds to senselessly beat Vince
to the near point of death, thus leaving the fate of hi character open to
interpretation (or a possible return if
the film ever spawns a Sequel). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> So a little background
story first: This year, I went to the city of New Orleans for my 28<sup>th</sup>
birthday this year. It was my first time
in the city, I have no clue what made me want to go, but it just seemed like my
kind of place, so me and my best friend booked a flight down and spent the week
down there, and fell in love with the French Quarter. Since I got back, I’ve been obsessed with
all things New Orleans. I’ve been
reading books about the city, watching movies and TV shows set there, that city
put some kind of spell on me. And well,
I figured this would be the time to talk about an Anne Rice character seeing as
a good portion of her <u>Vampire Chronicles</u> stories are set in the New
Orleans area. And I could think of any
better Anne Rice character to write about than Lestat de Lioncourt. Now I should clarify that I am only going to
be talking about the <b><u>Film versions</u></b>
of Lestat only, so I’m sure to leave out some key details about his life in
this post because I’m only focusing on the film versions of him, and there’s
bound to be differences or changes to the events in the life of Lestat in the
films vs. the events of his life in the books, and there are a lot of things in
both film versions that seem to contradict one another. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lioncourt from “<i>Interview with a Vampire</i>”
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introduction to Lestat de Lioncourt we see that was a French Nobleman sometime
in the late 18<sup>th</sup> century. He
was transformed into a vampire by a vampire named Marius in the winter of 1788,
on an island in the Mediterranean.
Marius teaches Lestat everything he needs to know about being a vampire,
though he absolutely detests having to hide his vampirism, when he feels he
should be able to tell everyone. He
records his thoughts in a diary while living with Marius, and eventually
discovers the crypt of Queen Akasha—the Vampire Mother of All vampires—and unintentionally
awakens her. </span></div>
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constantly in pursuit of a new kill or person to turn into a personal play
thing. He is manipulative and likes to
play mind games with people. To him
people are things for him to play with. To
Lestat, mortals are either food, or someone he can turn into to use has his own
personal plaything. He has total
disregard for all persons other than himself.
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years later he wound up in 1791, where he met a young man named Louis de Pointe
du Lac, of which he becomes infatuated with and turns into a vampire. Although, Louis requested that Lestat turn
him into a vampire, Louis has an extremely difficult time coming to grips with
his new life as a vampire and his reluctance to take any human lives so that he
might live another day, and instead opting to feast on the blood of animals
instead. Louis’s desire to remain <i>human</i> by avoiding taking the lives of
humans tests Lestat’s patience and prompts him to lash out at Louis in anger,
and he is constantly peppering him with verbal abuse and antagonizes him for
not accepting his life as a vampire.
Lestat often has to finish Louis' kills for him. Fearing Louis will leave him, he turns a young
Orphan girl, named Claudia, into a vampire so the two of them might raise her
as their daughter. Lestat is very
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is also quite musically gifted. In “<i>Queen of the Damned</i>” it is revealed that
Lestat is quite an accomplished musician.
He plays the violin and is also a great singer with hypnotic-like
vocals, and at this point in his life he’s more interested in feeding on humans
rather than turning them into vampires, and at no point does he try to turn any
of his bandmates into vampires either. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lestat is played by Hollywood Legend Tom Cruise in “<i>Interview with a Vampire</i>” and actor
Stuart Townsend in “<i>Queen of the Damned</i>”. Each actor portrays Lestat in entirely
different ways. Cruise’s Lestat is a
colorful, charming, attention seeker, who craves the admiration and affection
of others. Townsend’s Lestat is definitely
a more brooding, apathetic type. He’s
arrogant, but also gives off a loner vibe.
Like Cruises Lestat he has a desire to be heard by all, but strangely
enough does not want to be seen. Very
rarely in “<i>Queen of the Damned</i>” do
you see Lestat appear with his bandmates unless he’s performing on stage,
otherwise he seeks isolation and hides in his castle in England. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Lestat in <u>The
Vampire Chronicles</u> novels was inspired by Author Anne Rice’s husband Stan
Rice. In fact Lestat in the novel was
almost named Lestan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> As for the film
portrayals of Lestat, well like the actors who play Lestat they both present
their representations of Lestat in very different ways. Tom Cruise definitely comes
across as more foppish and sophisticated.
He is a person who wants and desires only the finer things in life, and
will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
He is focused on outward appearances and looking his best. There are definitely a lot of homoerotic
undertones in Cruises portrayal—just like in the novelization of <u>Interview with
a Vampire</u>—but in the film comes more across as a bisexual or polyamorous
man seducing both men and women indiscriminately. He appears to prefer young women, just to
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would say Cruise’s Lestat is quite similar to Colin Firth’s character Valmont
from the 1989 film “<i>Valmont</i>” (<i>*I don’t think Cruise’s Lestat is anything
like John Malkovich’ portrayal of Valmont form “Dangerous Liaisons” even though
they’re the same character from the same French novel*</i>). Both are members of French High Society and
are in constant pursuit of gaining things for their own selfish needs. </span></div>
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in “<i>Queen of the Damned</i>” shares some
of those qualities too, but is also quite different. Townsend’s portrayal Lestat comes across as
more “androgynous” than sexually ambiguous.
He only feeds on women in “<i>Queen
of the Damned</i>” and often has the bands manager bring him two willing female
fans each night for him to feast upon. Lestat
in “<i>Queen of the Damned</i>” does not try
to cover up his vampirism, and is very open about being a vampire—much to the
disapproval of his fellow vampires—and reminds me of a cross between popular
Goth rock musicians like Peter Murphy, Trent Reznor, Peter Steele, and Marilyn
Manson.</span></div>
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characters, I would say Townsend’s Lestat is similar to Brandon Lee’s Erik
Draven from “<i>The Crow</i>”, and I would definitely
say that Townsend’s Lestat probably inspired the look and portrayal of the
character Queenie from the 2009 film “<i>SUCK</i>”;
both are Vampire Rock Stars who use their vampirism to catapult their music
careers and stardom.</span></div>
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beginning of the post there are a lot of contradictions between Lestat’s lives
in both films that don’t sync up suffer from a lot of continuity issues. Another aspect where the Lestat’s differ is
that “<i>Interview with a Vampire</i>” is
based off of just one of the Anne Rice novels while; “<i>Queen of the Damned</i>” takes aspects from both the novel <u>Queen of
the Damned</u> and <u>The Vampire Lestat</u>.
So there are parts in the film version of “Queen of the Damned” that don’t
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has survived multiple assassination attempts at the hands of Claudia and Louis
including, tricking him into drinking a dead person’s blood, slitting his
throat, feeding his corpse to a swamp alligator, and setting him on fire. Despite all these things happening to him,
Lestat seems to possess some Rasputin like mystical abilities surviving all the
murder attempts. Lestat spends the next
two-hundred years or so sulking in his own self-pity and misery in New Orleans
as the world changes around him while he himself sits in his weekend state
yearning to return to his former glory.
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with a Vampire</i>” in San Francisco lurking in the shadows—possibly still in
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Lestat himself that he has spent the past 100 years asleep in his crypt—making his
chance meeting with Louis in New Orleans impossible—waiting to die as the world
passes by around him, until he hears the sound of a local rock band, where he
assumes the role of the bands new lead singer and helps catapult them into the
mainstream media. After surviving
multiple assassination attempts and defeating the Vampire Queen Akasha he disappears
into the London night with his new girlfriend, Jesse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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time no post. Life’s been very busy for
my lately as I continue to work towards my Masters, AND I started a new job,
that I am very happy with, so I’ve had very little time to watch movies, let
alone write new reviews. Well, I’m here
to talk to you today about one of my favorite film franchises of all-time; The “<i>Batman</i>” Films. I’ve always been a fan of Batman, ever since
I was a little boy. I grew up watching
Kevin Conroy voice Batman on “Batman the Animated Series”, I watched the Joel
Schumacher Batman films, when I was a little, and I even watched a little bit
of the Original Batman TV series, starring the late and great Adam West. I did not see the original Tim Burton, Batman
movies. I’ve wanted to do a Character
Analysis on a Batman Character for so long, but I kept running into the same
issues every time. Most of the Characters
in the Batman films are directly inspired from the DC Comics, which would
require some extensive research so I could discuss the differences between the
characters in the Comics and the same characters in the films. Not to mention that as of this date there
have been 8 different Feature Length films featuring Batman, not to mention
countless Direct to Video/DVD Animated Films, and would require a ton more
research and would take me too long to complete. But at last I finally came across a character
from a Batman film—My Favorite Batman film actually—that is worthy of a
Character Analysis; a character who never appeared in any prior Batman comics
and was specifically created for a one time film role only. So without further delay please enjoy my Character
Analysis of Max Shreck from “<i>Batman
Returns</i>”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Max Shreck is the millionaire owner of Shreck’s Department Store
in Gotham City. Shreck’s displays acts
of generosity around the Holiday Season, donating loads of toys and money to
those in need all over Gotham City. Many
people refer to him as the Santa Claus of Gotham City. However beneath his generous exterior lies a
manipulative and malevolent man. He has
plans to expand his business empire by constructing a large Power Plant in
Gotham City, with a little financial and political backing from the Mayor of
Gotham City and the wealthiest man in the city, Bruce Wayne. However, Shreck has some sinister motives for
his power plant. His plant isn’t going
to supply power to the residents of Gotham City, but rather suck and store
power, leaving the residents of Gotham City powerless (pun intended). However, Shreck’s incompetent secretary
Selena Kyle, accidentally uncovers Shreck’s evil plan, for which he tries to
kill her by tossing her out a window near the top floor of his building, for having
figured out his nefarious plan. Shreck
ends up being kidnapped and blackmailed by an evil underground villain known as
The Penguin, who threatens to expose Shreck’s sinister deeds—including murder,
fraud, and pollution—if he doesn’t help him with his own evil plans. Shreck agrees to help The Penguin (whose real
name is Oswald Cobblepot). Using his money
and power Shreck helps the Penguin stage a fake kidnapping where the Penguin
will heroically rescue the Mayor of Gotham City’s infant child. Once The Penguin has found favor and
popularity amongst the residents of Gotham City, Shreck plans to use his money
and power to get The Penguin elected Mayor of Gotham, so that he can get the
approval he needs to build his power plant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Max Shreck is played by Hollywood Legend and Academy Award
Winner, Christopher Walken. “Batman
Returns” was the first time Walken ever collaborated with writer/director Tim
Burton. Walken and Burton would work
again together on the film “Sleepy Hollow” (1999), where Walken played The
Hessian Soldier/Headless Horseman. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Actor Maximillian Schreck as Count Orlock in "Noseferatu"</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Unlike many other characters that have appeared in the Batman
films, Max Shreck had not appeared in any prior Batman Comics. He was created specifically for the film to
fill the villain void left by actor Billy Dee Williams after he opted to not
reprise his role as Harvey Dent in “Batman Returns” (…at least according to
Wikipedia). Shreck’s name is nod to the
German Actor Maximillian Schreck who played the fiendish Count Orlock in the
1922 Classic German Horror film, “<i>Nosferatu</i>”. Other than a name Max Shreck shares no
similarities to the actor of the same name. I
honestly think Shreck shares some similarities and was possibly influenced by
Donald Trump (before he became President of course). When you look at the
similar hair styles, their ruthless business savvy minds, their use of Power
and Money to achieve their own personal gains, while seemingly trying to pass
themselves off as <i>Regular Joes</i> with
caring, generous hearts, I definitely think Christopher Walken was trying to
channel some Donald Trump into his acting performance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gotham City, Shreck tries to return to Business Empire like nothing
changed. Shreck is now being pursued by
three persons, Selena Kyle (who has no donned the alias Cat Woman) for trying
to murder her, The Penguin for welching on their deal, and Batman/Bruce Wayne,
who has uncovered that Shreck and The Penguin were in cahoots together. Shreck sacrifices himself to save his son,
Chip (who had saved his life earlier in the film) and agrees to go with the
Penguin where he will be killed. While a
fierce battle goes under the Gotham Zoo between Batman, the Penguin, and
Catwoman, Shreck tries to escape unnoticed.
After trying once again to finish off Selena Kyle/Cat Woman for good,
Shreck is brutally electrocuted to death by Selena Kyle, thus is the last we
ever see or hear of Max Shreck in the Batman films. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10149389367448659181noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159208807685823902.post-41432080683328174472017-03-14T15:44:00.001-07:002018-06-30T19:33:39.013-07:00YET ANOTHER 5 songs you probably forgot about until you read this article<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Wow, my last post—and third
in this edition—got such positive feedback that I just had to write another
one, where I attempt to remind you songs that you—may have—completely forgot
about. Now, one thing I often overlook
to when I compile these lists is artists who were semi-popular in the US, but
were huge in their home countries. So
for some of these artists, you may be saying “Who the hell is that”?, but I do distinctly
remember them having <i>moderate</i>—at best—success
in the US. So let’s not waste any more
time, and let’s just have some fun <i>memberin</i>’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mind when you think of Gwen Stefani.
Some people remember her as the bada$$ lead singer of the band No Doubt,
other people are more familiar with her pop songs and solo career, while other’s
know her as one of the co-Hosts on the popular American reality show “The Voice”. There’s <i>no
doubt </i>(pun TOTALLY intended) that Gwen Stefani is one of the best and most
influential female singers of all-time, and I believe that one of her most
underappreciated works she has done was her collaboration on the song “<i>Southside</i>” with Moby. I have no idea what genre of music Moby
qualifies under. I’ve heard some people
say he’s a DJ, other people tell me he’s a producer, while others say he’s an <i>experimental artist</i>, but one thing is
for certain, his song “Southside” is probably his greatest contribution to
music, and including Gwen Stefani on the song was a brilliant move on his part. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mars, Meghan Trainor, and the late Amy Whinehouse all seem to have that
Retro-Inspired Sound in some of their music.
You know that sound that’s hybrid of pop-music and old 50’s and 60’s
rock music? Well, it’s amazing that
everyone talks about how influential these artists are in creating and
developing that sound, and yet never hear anyone talk about Jimmy Ray! Now, you’re probably asking yourself, “Who
the hell is Jimmy Ray?”. Jimmy Ray is in
English Pop/Rock Musician (so that’s probably the biggest reason you never
heard of him, but what’s cool and interesting about Jimmy Ray was that he was
creating Pop Music with a Retro sound style all the way back in 1998! Jimmy Ray’s one and only hit “Are you Jimmy
Ray” got some popular airplay (largely thanks to his music video) in early
1998. The best way I can describe Jimmy
Ray’s look and sound is early Elvis Presley meets Johnny Cash’s Man in Black,
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Female country singers like Miranda Lambert, Gretchen Wilson, Carrie Underwood
Faith Hill, and ladies from Little Big Town, and Lady Antebellum that someone
in music world would say “Hey, what about LeAnn Rimes?”. You rarely hear people mention her name
today, but “Blue”—a cover song she sang and recorded—when she was only 13 years
old, blew up all over the radio in the 1990’s.
My parents had this album, all my aunts and uncles had this album and
played it, and she was good. She has a
lot better voice than a lot of other women in country music today, so I just
want to know why we don’t hear anything about LeAnn Rimes anymore, especially
her early work on the radio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was her song “<i>Gotta Tell You</i>”, which I
remember got a heavy rotation down at the roller rink the music video was
featured a lot of Disney Channel in the 1990’s back when they used to play
music videos for songs that were featured in some of their upcoming
movies. Samantha Mumba may not have
found a lot of success in the U.S. as a musician, but she has found some
success in her native Ireland...as an actress!
She’s appeared in a few films, and I actually saw her in a zombie horror-comedy
film called “<i>Boy Eats Girl</i>” (believe
me, the title is not as erotic as it sounds).
I couldn’t believe it was her when I saw it, but I’m glad to hear she is
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by Paula Cole on this list, but after consulting a few friends of mine, who
told me that they still remember this song, and can actually sing the chorus to
the song, proves to me that it’s a song that isn’t too far removed from people’s
memories, but another song that I mentioned, from the same year that “Where
have all the cowboy’s gone” didn’t ring a bell for any of them. The other song I mentioned was “Sunny Came
Home” by Shawn Colvin. What’s crazy is
this song one two Grammy’s for Song of the Year and Record of the Year—it actually
beat out “where have all the cowboy’s gone” for both awards, and yet less
people remember it. When Shawn Colvin, I
hope Sunny Come’s Home, and more people begin to remember your one hit song.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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brought back some good memories for you, and be sure to click the links below
to check out the other songs we’ve talked about in the past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the memories of certain songs and musical acts from not too long ago, so I can
bring on a feeling nostalgic euphoria. Now,
I’ve talked multiple times in the past about One-Hit Wonders on the blog, and
attempt to figure out why makes them one-hit wonders, and discuss how it is
possible we can actually forget some of these tracks for so long, and one day
randomly think about it, and wait for the flood of memories to come back. Well I’m hoping once again to attempt to
help you recapture some of those feelings right now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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actually inspired this list. You see the
other day I was having a co-worker, and at the end they just through their
hands up in the air and said the term “C’est la vie” (French for “such is life”)
and then the next thing you know I’m walking through the halls singing “say you
will/say you won’t/say you’ll do what I don’t/say you’re true/say to me c’est
la vie”. Yes “C’est la vie” the one hit
song from the Irish girl group B*Witched.
You probably remember this song from the Disney Chanel original TV movie
“Smart House”, you know the one where the boy wins the robotic house, that’s
voiced by Katy Segal, and then he reprograms it, and she goes all Hal-9000 on
them? See a double Nostalgia Whammy for
you, you’re welcome. It’s clear that
B*Witched was trying to be like the Irish equivalent of the Spice Girls, but
they came way up short, and I think they have more in common with the A-Teens
then they do the Spice Girls. Still not
a bad song though.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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were dominated with faux-sensitive, soft sing, piano playing whiny babies like
Lukas Graham and Charlie Puth, there faux-sensitive soft singing, guitar
playing fools like Evan and Jaron. I
will give these twin brothers some credit, this was a really catch song, and
you got the feeling that they actually were trying to write a good song and not
just some commercial pandering love ballad.
I haven’t really heard much about them as of late, but I had a friend in
college who told me that Jaron has since gone solo and now performs as a
Country act. I’m not really into country
music, but I can only hope that for those who go to see him perform live that
he breaks out this song he wrote and performed with his brother at the end of
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with many other people—thought that this was a song by Savage Garden, but years
later I learned that it was not Savage Garden who wrote and performed this
song, but rather a British singer/songwriter by the name of Daniel Bedingfield
who is the brother of Brit-Pop Singer, Natasha Bedinfield. Well, when you have a more famous sibling,
and a majority of people think that a song you wrote and performed was played
by another group, you can’t really expect to have much of a music career, and I
think Daniel Bedingfield should be happy that his career made it this far.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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still thoroughly enjoy and will sing the lyrics to the song “Handlebars” by
Flobots. I can’t really blame them, the
song starts off simple guitar riff, and just gets louder and more bombastic as
it gets on. It’s a song that tells the
story of two different paths taken by friends to become somebody in the world,
and you know what it’s super catchy, enjoyable, relatable, has message that I think
we all can understand, and you know what: if you don’t like this song, I think
there’s something really wrong with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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accomplished singer in her career. You
don’t really hear a lot of people talk about her musical career, when compared
to her famous brother Michael, and her other brothers in the Jackson 5. Even when people do talk about Janet Jackson,
it’s mostly about her early tracks, but she was still making good music even in
the late 90’s. One such example of her
great songwriting comes from the song “Together Again”, a ballad that was transformed
into a Pop song. It’s a song she—supposedly—wrote
to deal with the grief after losing a good friend of hers to AIDS, but
surprisingly has an optimistic beat and melody to it. I feel like when some people are sad their
first instinct is to play out their emotions with something sad and somber like
Adele to help them get through whatever it is they are dealing with, but I
honestly think Janet Jackson’s “Together Again” would be a much better choice,
because you could not only sing along to it, but you can also dance your bad
feelings out to it as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this list bring back any fond memories for you?
What are some other songs that you feel like people forget about too
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and most successful films of all-time has to be Fritz Lang’s “<i>Metropolis</i>”. For a film that is almost a century old it
still receives praise for its style, set, practical effects, and story. The film only has 5-6 actual characters that
you get to know from watching the film.
There’s the bitter Joh Fredersen, the sweet-natured Freder, and of
course the lovely Maria, but as I learned through a quick search of Google,
there have already been tons of Analysis’s done on these characters, but much
to my surprise, there was one character that not—for the most part—has gained
little fanfare, so today I am here to do my analysis on, Rotwang, the mad
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Rotwang is a scientist and advisor to Joh Fredersen, the Master
of Metropolis. Rotwang, is a peculiar
man to say the least. He lives in a
small, dumpy house in the center of the city.
This house has only one door and one window, and also has access to the
cities catacombs via the basement.
Rotwang spends most of the day in his home performing his various
experiments and mourning the death of his former lover, Hel, who left him for
Joh Fredersen, and perished during childbirth. </span></div>
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with the industrialist Joh Fredersen, to say the least, and surprisingly is
kept as a top advisor by Joh Fredersen.
Rotwang shows Joh Fredersen, his latest creation, a “Man-Machine” that he
intends to use to bring Hel back from the dead (by trapping her soul in the
robot). Rotwang actually lost one of his
hands while working on the Man-Machine.
Joh Fredersen sees potential in Rotwang’s newest invention and instead
instructs him to construct the Man-Machine in the image of his son’s lover,
Maria—the powerful and influential leader of the Working Class—in hopes of
disrupting there movement. Rotwang
reluctantly obliges, but double-crosses Joh Fredersen, by programming the
Maria-bot (That’s just what I’m calling her) to only obey his commands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rotwang is played by German Actor Rudolf Klein-Rogge, who has
appeared in some of the earliest and most influential German films in
History. He has an uncredited role in “<i>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari</i>”, and also
played the role of Dr. Mabuse. Rudolf
Klein-Rogge is known most commonly for playing Mad Scientist roles in films.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rotwang is a one of the earliest incarnations of a Mad Scientist
in film, and thus, he has played a huge influence as to how the role is played
in films. Rotwang obviously shares a lot
of traits with Victor Frankenstein from Mary Shelley’s <u>Frankenstein</u>,
both are mad scientists with the desire to try and bring a person back from the
dead, albeit, two completely different methods.
And both are said to have a God-Complex and are, “mad”. </span></div>
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see similarities between Rotwang and Hjalmar from “<i>The Black Cat</i>” (1934). Both
are German men who have an unhealthy obsession with trying to bring back their
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> I also see
similarities between him and Jack Dante from the film “<i>Death Machine</i>”, as are reclusive scientists, with mental
instabilities who live in their own little world, but are still gainfully
employed by rich and powerful companies, where they are paid to create <i>godknowswhat </i>in their laboratories and
then use their robot creations to unleash death and destruction on their
masses. Oh yes, Rotwang is probably the most influential Mad Scientist
character in the history of film.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After his Maria-bot orders the workers to unleash untold
destruction on the Metropolis, Rotwang goes to reap the benefits of his
work. He is unaware that the workers
have come to their senses and have burned the Maria-bot (believing it to be the
real Maria). Rotwang eventually comes
across the real Maria, but believes she is actually his Man-Machine. Rotwang partakes in a chase and epic fight on
top of the cathedral, with Freder (the son of Joh and Hel Fredersen), where he
is knocked of the roof and plummets to his death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10149389367448659181noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159208807685823902.post-2948170045575749592017-02-04T13:57:00.000-08:002018-06-30T19:32:36.088-07:00Character Analysis: Maximilian von Mayerling<div class="MsoNormal">
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kicked off again in America. People are
marking their predictions as to what films will win what awards, and the best
and brightest of Hollywood anxiously await to hear their names called at Award
Show ceremony’s, waiting for their moment in the sun. Many Hollywood celebrities like Leonardo
DiCaprio, Hellen Mirren, Jennifer Lawrence, and Jack Nicholson have stood the
test of time. But for every Hollywood
icon there are thousands more whose 15 minutes of fame has run out, and their
left to reflect on their former fame and glory.
Yes, the “Hollywood Lifestyle” is often viewed as world of glamour, privilege,
and absolute perfection, but there is also a dark seedy underbelly of the
Hollywood life that not a lot of people like to talk about or see. One of the best films that captures the
Hollywood lifestyle after the limelight fades in the 1950 classic “<i>Sunset Boulevard</i>”. This is one of those films that not everyone sees,
but still knows the plot and still understand pop culture references being made
about it (similar to “<i>Jaws</i>” and “<i>Star Wars</i>”). The film doesn’t have a large cast, but does
feature some very memorable characters, and I’m here to talk about probably the
most overlooked character in the film, and that would be, Max von Mayerling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Maximilian “Max” von
Mayerling is the loyal and dedicated house servant to Norma Desmond, a former
silent film star. Max is the only
employee of Miss Desmond. He serves as
her butler, chauffer, and special assistant.
It is revealed towards the end of the film by Max, himself, that he was
a film director. He discovered Norma
Desmond when she was 16-years-old, and “made her a star”. Max boasts to Ms. Desmond’s house guest, Joe
Gills, that years ago he was as good of a director as Hollywood legends D.W.
Griffinth and Cecil B. DeMille (who also has a cameo in the film). Max also confides to Joe that he was also
Norma’s first husband, and after she left him, his life became unbearable, but
he returned to be her house servant, and vows to do anything he can to protect
her.
It’s blatantly obvious to anyone watching the film that Max still loves
Norma, but one can’t help with wonder if he’s also suffering from some
delusional disorder like his employer.
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also safe to say that Max is an enabler.
He constantly praises Ms. Desmond for her works, and constantly
reassures her that she is still a star, even though her fame and popularity
have been pretty much extinguished. Max
is so bent on keeping Ms. Desmond happy that he even handwrites and mails Ms.
Desmond hundreds of fake fan letters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Max is played by Austrian-American Actor Eric(h) von Stroheim. Stroheim’s family immigrated to the U.S. in
1909, and six years later he was working in Hollywood along legends like D.W.
Griffinth, just like his character in the film.
For his role of Max, in “<i>Sunset
Boulevard</i>” Stroheim earned his only Oscar nomination for Best Supporting
Actor (which he lost to George Sanders who won it for his role of Addison De
Witt in “<i>All About Eve</i>”). Stroheim had a lot of directorial positions
early on in his career, and towards the end he took on more supporting actor
roles in films. With all his experience
and expertise in the field, it goes without saying that Eric von Stroheim was
the most qualified person to play the role of Max in “<i>Sunset Boulevard</i>”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all-time. And yes, I’m saying he’s more
famous and well known than Alfred Pennyworth from “Batman” because he was originally
from a comic book and did not appear in films or television until much later
on. How many times have you seen a butler
on TV or in a movie named, Max. It’s
kind of become the generic butler name. Seriously, he’s been parodied in
children’s films such as “Cats Don’t Dance”, and children’s TV shows like “<i>The Rugrats</i>” and even “<i>Tiny Toon Adventures</i>” did a whole
episode parodying the movie “S<i>unset
Boulevard</i>” with Hampton Pig playing Max.
Eric von Stroheim set the standard of how butlers are shown and
portrayed in film in television in the same way that Anthony Michael Hall
showed everyone how to play a sympathetic nerd in every movie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After Norma Desmond murders Joe Gillis (Spoilers!), Max finds
her in a delirious state. It has
appeared that she has finally snapped. Max
is the person who helps the police convince Norma to head downstairs by—once again
enabling her—and convincing her that they were all there to start shooting her
new film. With Max acting as the (fake)
assistant director, he coaxes Ms. Desmond downstairs, and that’s really the
last we see of him. If I had to make an
assumption as to whatever became of Max, I’m sure he must be visiting Ms.
Desmond every day at whatever Psychiatric Hospital she was brought to, and is
still enabling her delusions of grandeur.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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guy. I may not have played (or have been
very good at sports in my youth, but I always enjoyed watching them. I enjoy
all kinds of sports, Football, Baseball, Auto Racing, Hockey, Basketball, it
doesn’t matter to me, if it’s good and entertaining I’ll watch it...well, as
long as my favorite teams are winning.
Plus, I grew up in the 90’s, which was like the Golden Age of the Sports
movies for kids: “<i>The Mighty Ducks</i>”,
“<i>Rookie of the Year</i>”, “<i>The Little Giants</i>”, and “<i>Cool Runnings</i>”, are just a few example
of some of the great sports movies we got between the late 1980’s and 1990’s. So I decided for this edition of Character
Analysis I wanted to write one on a character from a Sports film, and the first
character that popped into my mind comes from a newer (and lesser known) sports
movie from 2011, “<i>Goon</i>”. So if you haven’t seen “Goon” yet, I highly
recommend you go and do it after you read this Analysis of the films
protagonist, Doug “The Thug” Glatt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bouncer from the small fictional town of Orangetown, Massachusetts. Doug feels ostracized for not being more like
his family. Unlike his father and older
brother, Ira, who are successful doctors, Doug is clumsy, and bumbles when he
talks, or tries to talk back to someone, and often viewed as an embarrassment
and disappointment by his parents and the members of the Jewish Temple they
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> One night, Doug attends a local minor
league hockey game with his buddy, Pat.
After Pat taunts a player on the opposing team who was sent to the
penalty box, the player goes into the stands to fight. Doug tries to de-escalate the situation, but
after the player calls him and Pat “faggots”. Doug takes serious offense to
that word because his older brother Ira is gay and proceeds to violently pummel
the player in the stands to the astonishment of the fans and other hockey
players. The next day while appearing on
Pat’s Public Access TV Show, “Hot Ice”, Doug is invited by the coach of the
Orangetown Assassins, who witnessed the fight in the stands, and invites Doug
to come and try out for the team. Doug
is mocked by the other members of the Assassins for his poor ice skating and
his inability to come up with insults, but then he decides to let his fists to
the talking, and beats up multiple players on the team. The coach of the Assassins sees that Doug is
a sweet-natured—almost childlike—adult, but believes that with Doug on the team
as their enforcer he can help lead the team to victory. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Doug’s coach in Orangetown tells him that his
brother Ronnie, who is also hockey coach for a Minor League Team, wants to sign
Doug to a contract with his team the Halifax Highlanders. Coach Ronnie wants him to protect a star
player, named Xavier LaFlamme, who was once a promising prospect, but after
suffering a serious concussion in one of his first Pro Hockey Games, is to
petrified to play effectively because of his fear of getting hit again. Doug journey’s to Halifax to join the
Highlanders, and is not only going to be Xavier LaFlamme’s protector on the
ice, but also his roommate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> The Highlanders are a “who’s who”
of misfits and other failed hockey prospects.
Doug is the only person who is proud to be a member of the Highlanders,
and is constantly seeking the approval of teammates and is always looking to
them for guidance. Doug makes an
immediate impact on the team, by knocking out an opposing player with just one
punch, which earns him the admiration of his new coach, his teammates (except
LaFlamme), and a local girl, named Eva, who Doug has a crush on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Doug’s family and Pat journey up to
Halifax to see him play, and are mortified when they see him get into a fight
on the ice, while the entire arena chants “Doug the Thug!”. After the game, Doug’s parents try to get him
to give up playing hockey, but he doesn’t want to because he finally feels like
he’s good at something and a part of something important. Doug’s parents continue to express their
disappointment with him, and tell him that they basically view him as an
embarrassment, and leave in disgust. The
only people in Doug’s lives who are supportive of his hockey fighting are his
friend Pat, his older brother Ira, and Eva.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Doug Glatt is played by actor Sean William Scott, who most
people remember as the guy who played Steve Stiffler in the “<i>American Pie</i>” film franchise. I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed Sean
William Scott in this role because you really get to see how good of an actor
he really is. Scott has appeared in
other films that got much wider releases, but were absolutely despised by
critics and audiences such as “<i>Role
Models</i>”, “<i>Dukes of Hazzard</i>”, “<i>Dude, Where’s My Car?</i>”, “<i>Mr. Woodcock</i>”, and “<i>Movie 43</i>”. I feel by appearing in a lesser known film that only got
a limited release, people can finally see the true acting talents of Sean
William Scott, and not just assume he’s playing some doofy or moronic character
who likes to smoke weed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The character of Doug Glatt was inspired by a real life minor
league hockey player named Doug Smith, who also was an enforcer. The film itself is a loose adaptation of the
book “<u>Goon: The True Story of an Unlikely Journey into Minor League Hockey</u>”.
There’s no doubt in my mind that Doug
shares similarities with characters from other ice hockey movies such as the
Hanson Brothers from the 1970’s cult classic Hockey film “<i>Slap Shot</i>”, and also Dean Portman from “<i>D-2:The Mighty Ducks</i>”, as they are also both enforcers on a hockey
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> I
would also say that Doug has a lot of similarities with Adam Sandler’s
character Bobby Boucher from “<i>The
Waterboy</i>” because both are sweet-natured simple men, who are fans of their
sport and get recruited to join a losing sports team after the coaches witness
them commit an extreme act of violence against an opposing player. Both of their parents disapprove them playing
their sport, and both have found a girlfriend who is first attracted to them
because of their physicality of play.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the final game of the season and with the playoffs on the
line, Doug and the Highlanders must face off against the St. Johns Shamrocks,
and their brutal enforcer Ross “The Boss” Rhea.
Rhea promised to “lay [Doug] the f*ck out” if they ever met on the
ice. In one of the most brutal hockey
fights ever seen, Doug knocks out Rhea—with a broken ankle no less—and then
skates off to the locker room to have his ankle treated. Doug’s showing of toughness and bravery
inspires his roommate/teammate Xavier LaFlamme to play his heart out and goes
on to score a hat trick that wins them the game. While waiting in the locker room with his
girlfriend Eva, Doug reflects on the fight he just had with Rhea uttering, “I
think I nailed him”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Enforcers”, the sequel to this film is scheduled for release in 2017, I
will post a follow up to this Character Analysis once it is released and I get
a chance to see it*</span>Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10149389367448659181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159208807685823902.post-89475124291829934342016-11-11T18:34:00.002-08:002018-06-30T19:32:36.138-07:00Character Analysis: Arnie Grape<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Is there any actor in
Hollywood who is more respected, more famous, and more praised than Leonardo
DiCaprio? ...Well maybe Daniel Day-Lewis, but Leo is also a Silver Screen
treasure. No matter what film you’ve
seen him in, he is guaranteed to give you an Award Winning Performance. So I thought it would be a good idea to write
do an Analysis on one of Leo’s roles, and asked my friends what they
thought. My only stipulation is it had
to be a fictional character that he played, so no Howard Hughes, or Frank
Abagnale, or J. Edgar Hoover, or Hugh Glass, but pretty much any other
character was fair game, and the people have spoken and they have requested
that I do an analysis on Arnie Grape from the Indie classic “<i>What’s Eating Gilbert Grape</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from “<i>What’s Eating Gilbert Grape</i>”
(1993)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Arnie Grape is a
17-year-old boy with Intellectual Disabilities who lives in the small town of Endora,
Iowa. When he was a baby the doctors
said he would not live past the age of 10 (presumably because of his condition). Arnie lives with his Momma, his older brother
Gilbert, his older sister Amy, and his younger sister, Ellen. It is mentioned by Arnie’s brother Gilbert
that they also had a brother named Larry, but it is never really specified what
happened to him, he is just referred to as “gone”. When Arnie was 1-years-old his father,
Albert, hung himself in the basement of their house. Arnie is very affectionate towards his mother
and his older brother Gilbert Arnie’s
mother loves him dearly, but due to her morbid obesity and limited mobility cannot
really provide Arnie and his siblings.
Arnie’s older brother Gilbert has the sole job of watching out for
him. Wherever Gilbert goes, Arnie comes
with him. Arnie spends most of his days
hanging out at Lamson’s Grocery store, where his brother Gilbert works as a
stock/delivery boy. Although
he is intellectually disabled, Arnie is known to get himself in trouble. On more than one occasion the police have
been called because Arnie has climbed up the town’s water tower and refuse’s to
come down. Arnie eventually gets
arrested for climbing the water tower after the Sheriff gets fed up. He is placed in a holding cell until his
mother comes down and demands that the Sheriff release her son. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Arnie is played by actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The role of Arnie in “<i>What’s Eating Gilbert Grape</i>” was only the fourth movie role
DiCaprio ever played, and it is said that he was offered the role of Thackery
Binx in the Disney film “<i>Hocus Pocus</i>”,
so that he could take on the role of Arnie in “<i>What’s Eating Gilbert Grape</i>”.
It is no easy feat for any actor to play a character who has
intellectual disabilities, especially for an actor as young as DiCaprio was at
the time (he was only 19-years-old when he played the role of Arnie), but
DiCaprio did a fantastic job, and the critics took notice. For his role of Arnie, DiCaprio earned his
first Oscar Nomination for Best Supporting Actor (but he would unfortunately lose
to Tommy Lee Jones for “<i>The Fugitive</i>”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In order to get in character for his role, DiCaprio spent a few
days at a home for Mentally Disabled Teens, talking to them and observing their
mannerisms. That’s really all the information I could find about what DiCaprio
did to research the role. And just like
all people with Intellectual Disabilities DiCaprio’s role of Arnie is unlike any
other film character with Intellectual Disabilities so it’s not possible for me
to make a fair or accurate comparison. </span></div>
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birthday party. In order to spare their
recently deceased mother more embarrassment and ridicule the family decides to
burn down their house with their mothers corpse still inside. The next time we see Arnie his waiting by the
roadside with his older brother Gilbert, one year later.
Their friend Becky (who Gilbert began a romantic relationship with) has
arrived with her grandmother for their annual trip and the two of them have
decided to join them on their cross country journey.</span>Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10149389367448659181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159208807685823902.post-90102980159574751352016-10-27T13:15:00.000-07:002018-06-30T19:32:36.142-07:00Character Analysis: Wallace Wells<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> I’m not as big a fan
of comics as many people, but there are some comics I’m rather fond of. One of my favorite comics is Bryan Lee
O’Malley’s <i>Scott Pilgrim</i> comics. I’ve always identified with the titular title
character, Scott, so much. I mean we’re
both socially awkward Canadians in their mid-20’s who play the bass, and have
an evil ex-girlfriend who’s a singer...you can’t be more relatable than
that. I’m also a huge fan of the movie
based on O’Malley’s comics, so I asked my friends to pick a character from the
Scott Pilgrim universe for me to write an analysis on, and by overwhelming
request they I chosen Wallace Wells as the Character for my Analysis. Now, just to clarify, I’m only doing an
analysis on Wallace from the film version, and not the Wallace from O’Malley’s
comics (because they do have some significant differences).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Wells from “<i>Scott Pilgrim vs. the World</i>”
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both the comics and the film. Although,
not state in the film, it is revealed in the comics that Wallace has a day job
working in an office. He shares a very
tiny apartment with Scott and more or less pays for everything they have. He and Scott even have to share a mattress on
the floor. Wallace cares about, Scott
but also teases him a lot. It is Wallace
who rats out Scott to his younger sister Stacy, and tells him that he is dating
a 17-year-old girl named Knives Chau.
Wallace in the film is also a fun loving bachelor in the film. At the first battle of the bands he steals
Stacy’s date, Jimmy, away from her.
Judging by Stacy’s reaction, in the film, this is not the first time
Wallace has done it. Wallace is a key
figure in helping Scott train, figure out a battle strategy, and the locations
of some of Romona’s seven evil ex’s.
Wallace also helps Scott deal with his breakup with Envy Adams which
shows that he does care for his friend Scott.
And despite his own promiscuous behavior in the film, Wallace tells
Scott that if he will tell Ramona the truth about him already having if a
girlfriend unless he breaks up with Knives.
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younger brother of former child star, Macaulay Culkin. He was absolutely hilarious in this
role. Culkin’s brother, Macaulay, played
a gay character in the film “Party Monster”, and was very overly flamboyant
& stereotypical with his role, so it was nice to see that Kieran took a
more subtle approach to his role.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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based off his former roommate Christopher Butcher, who is the co-founder
PopImage; a website all about comics. I
also believe that Wallace is your typical mentor character. He’s the guy sent
to there to help the hero/protagonist train and achieve their goal. I’d put Wallace in the same category as Mr. Miyagi
from “<i>The Karate Kid</i>”, Phil from “<i>Hercules</i>” (1997), and Paulie from the “<i>Rocky</i>” franchise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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find out what happens to Wallace, at least in the film. In the comics we find out that he is dating
and living with his boyfriend, Mobile (who does not appear in the film), who is
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and I just think he’s the greatest. I wanted to do a Character Analysis on one
of his film characters, but I couldn’t make up my mind who I wanted to write
one about. I could’ve gone with Grimm,
the character he played in his directorial debut, “<i>Cabin Fever</i>” and I also debated doing one about Keanu Reeves
character from his film “<i>Knock Knock</i>”. In the end I decided to go with the main
character from the first Eli Roth film I ever saw, Paxton from “<i>Hostel</i>” and “<i>Hostel 2</i>”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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American traveling with his friend Josh across Europe with their Icelandic
friend, Oli. At one point, Paxton
mentions that he’s “studying for the Bar” which implies that he’s a recent law
school graduate. Paxton and his friends
have arrived in Europe for sex, drugs, and partying. Paxton is trying to help his buddy Josh soil
his wild oats and some of the many fine women of Amsterdam. Paxton, and his friends end up taking shelter
at the apartment of a young Dutch boy named Alex. They tell Alex, that they’ve been looking all
over Europe for fine women, and tells them about an amazing hostel in
Bratislava, Slovakia where the girls are hot and they go crazy for American
guys and will do anything and everything sexual with them. Paxton and his friends decide to skip their
trip to Barcelona, and head to Bratislava instead. When they finally arrive at the hostel it’s
even better than they ever dreamed.
However, after both is friends mysteriously vanish without a trace, and
Paxton experiences a sense of déjà vu at the hostel, he becomes increasingly
frustrated and concerned about where his friends have gone. Paxton tracks down two of the girls he met at
the hostel and orders that he take them to where his friends are. He is led to an abandoned factory in in the
countryside where he learns that his friends were sold to the highest bidder by
a group called “The Elite Hunting Club” to be tortured and killed, and that he
is next to be killed on the list.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Paxton is played by actor Jay Hernandez. Who has a small name with a lot of experience
in a lot of big name movies. Before “<i>Hostel</i>”, Hernandez appeared in Disney
film “<i>The Rookie</i>” and “<i>Friday Night Lights</i>”. Since then, Hernandez has gone on to star in
films such as “<i>World Trade Center</i>”, “<i>Quarantine</i>”, and most recently starred
as El Diablo in “<i>Suicide Squad</i>”. Hernandez did a great job in the role as
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Paxton is exactly what you think of when you think of a stereotypical
young American in Europe. He’s spoiled,
vulgar, arrogant, feels he is entitled, and that he’s more important than
everyone else. I also think that Paxton
shares some similarities with Pinocchio.
Both are young boys with wanderlust who are lead astray by people they
thought they could trust (In Paxton’s case Alex and Natalya, in Pinocchio’s
case Honest John and Gideon) and sold off to the highest bidder (I.E. The
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client who paid for him (in German), but he German man does not listen to his
pleas. After a substantial amount of
serendipity, Paxton manages to escape his captors, and even gets revenge on
Alex and the two girls for being responsible for their pain and suffering. Paxton manages to get on the train and escape
to safety, where he eventually ends up killing the Dutch Businessman who killed
his friend Josh. The next time we see
Paxton it is at the beginning of “<i>Hostel:
Part II</i>”. Paxton is dealing with
PTSD following his ordeal, and has not told anyone, except his girlfriend, the
truth about what happened overseas. The
next day Paxton’s girlfriend awakes to find his decapitated body in their
kitchen, and the box with Paxton’s head in it is delivered to the head of the
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Disney again, shall we? Equally as
Iconic as the films themselves, Disney has given us some of the most memorable
film soundtracks of all-time. From the
soundtrack of “Snow White” which not only was the first full-length animated
feature made, but also was the first commercially issued film soundtrack made
available for sale to the public, to the Academy Award Winning works of Howard
Ashman and Alan Menken. Disney is
responsible for some of the most memorable and beloved songs of all-time. However, for every song in a Disney film like
“<i>Pinocchio’s</i>” “When You Wish Upon a
Star” or “<i>Frozen’s</i>” “<i>Let it Go</i>”, you’ll end up with one that
falls flat like “Scrumps” from “<i>Sleeping
Beauty</i>”, and then every now and then there’s a song that isn’t disliked,
but it just somehow becomes forgotten.
Maybe it was because the film wasn’t well received or maybe it got
outshined, by another more popular song from the film, but for whatever reason
these are my Top 5 Underrated Disney Songs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this is the most underappreciated Disney film out there today. For all the talk of Disney Princess’s there
is on the internet, you rarely ever here anyone talk about a Disney <i>King’s</i>.
Yes Kings have played some minor roles in Disney films, but “<i>The Sword in the Stone</i>” is the first
film that’s main character actually becomes a King, and he didn’t start out as
a Prince like Phillip, Eric, or Hans, he starts out as an orphan peasant and
becomes a King! Probably the best song
in the “<i>Sword in the Stone</i>” has to be
a fun little song called “<i>Higitus Figitus</i>”
sung by the wizard, Merlin. Merlin sings
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this is one of the most boring films Disney has ever created, but “The
Aristocats” isn’t without some merits.
It’s strongest (and probably only good part of the film) is the song
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song from a “Disney Sing-A-Long Video” that my grandparents had when I was a
kid. My older sister and I used to sing
this song when we were younger. Yes,
long before the days of Lindsay Lohan, Disney had an earlier film version of “The
Parent Trap”. I’ve never seen the
original, but I still remember this song after all these years. The plot to the film is pretty much identical
to the remake Disney did in the 90’s with Lindsay Lohan. The actress was Haley Mills, who would later
go on to appear in an TV show called “<i>Good
Morning Miss Bliss</i>”, which would later be renamed as the more popular, “<i>Saved by the Bell</i>”. I must say though just judging from this one
scene in the film that I know, Lindsay Lohan’s fake British accent is a
thousand times better than Hayley Mills fake American accent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is said that Disney Studios created Professor Ratigan in “The
Great Mouse Detective” specifically for Vincent Price. I’ve also heard reports that Professor
Ratigan was Price’s favorite role. It
should come as no surprise that someone who was so invested in a role gave one
of the Best singing performances in any Disney film. Yes, the Villain’s in Disney films typically
do get an awesome song, but Price’s delivery in the song “The World’s Greatest
Criminal Mind” truly makes it one of the best Villain songs ever. Just listen to Price sing, he clearly loves
how bad his character is in this film.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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version of Robert Louis Stevensons <u>Treasure Island</u> for two reasons: 1.)
I am a Steampunk Hobbyist, and there is definitely a great deal of Steampunk
influence in “<i>Treasure Planet</i>” and 2.) The Amazing song written and performed
by John Rzeznik of The Goo Goo Dolls.
Rzeznik was no stranger to writing scores to films. His song “Iris” which he wrote for the
soundtrack to the film “The City of Angels” helped propel his band into the
spotlight. Years later he would be hired
by Disney to write a title track and Theme song for the films main character,
Jim. While “I’m still here” wasn’t as
popular on the charts as “Iris” (possibly because it was written for a kids for
a film), it is still a great song, and in my opinion the most underrated Disney
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The other day when I was at work, we were listening to the radio
when “Jessie’s Girl” by Rick Springfield started playing. My boss immediately exclaimed with enthusiasm
that the first album she ever owned was a Rick Springfield album that her older
sister bought for her. Then that got me thinking;
what was the first album I ever owned? I
had to think about it, like really <i>really</i>
have to think about it. Then it came to
me, and then it got me thinking that there are probably many other unique and
interesting stories about people’s first exposure to music? Who did they listen to? How old were
they? What memories do they have of that
first album? Do they still like that kind of music? So here I am with a new music segment on the
blog that I like to call “My First Album” where people come to share the
memories of the first album they ever owned.
I’d like to thank all my participants, and without further delay here is
the story of my first album and many other peoples.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">FIRST ALBUM: <i>Slam Dunk (Da
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MEMORIES OF IT: My older sister gave it to me. It used to be
hers, but she told me I could have it. I
liked it because the CD had a basketball design on it. I didn’t have a CD player at the time, so I
would always have to borrow my older sisters in order to listen to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MEMORIES OF IT: My parents bought the album for me when I was 13.
I remember playing the air trumpet along with them…you know like air
guitar. I thought I sounded like Herb
Alpert.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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album on repeat the whole summer [of 1999], when I visited my father as we
traveled to Cape Cod and places<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was really when they were fairly new, but not as it came out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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my parents and sister and lip synching into the TV remote like it was a
microphone and the [albums] cover. I
would always try to figure out who all the people on the cover were.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MEMORIES OF IT: Sitting in the back seat of my mom’s gold
Pathfinder then rediscovering the album in 8<sup>th</sup> grade and thinking I
was punk as hell, but it was a gateway to better punk to be honest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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enjoyable feeling than riding in a car listening to a radio, when all of a
sudden they start playing a song that you loved, but haven’t heard or thought
about for 10-15 years? I think not! It’s amazing how quickly a certain song can
bring back so many fond memories of a time not-so-long-ago. Maybe it was a song you remember hearing for
the first time at a school dance or was playing when you had your first kiss,
or maybe you just have fond memories of riding in the car with your friends
singing these song lyrics as loud as you can, for whatever reason, these songs
often get shuffled into the bottom of the CD pile, but are easily remembered
when heard for the first time in a long time, and I am here again to count down
5 more songs that you’ve probably forgotten about until now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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She was cute girl with an acoustic guitar before that became a genre of
music. In many ways you could consider
her to be an Indie Artist, but she was much more than that. Her debut single “Everywhere” off her album “The
Spirit Room” launched her into the mainstream music scene. Michelle Branch had
some moderate success in the early 2000’s.
She even won a Grammy in 2003 for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for
her performance of “Game of Love” with Rock N Roll Legend Carlos Santana. However, this was also a time when the most
popular female recording artists were Pop stars like Britney Spears and
Christina Aguilera. And unlike other similar artists—such as Avril Lavigne and
Nelly Furtado— who jumped on the Pop Princess bandwagon, Michelle Branch stayed
true to herself and unfortunately faded into obscurity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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but I am quite fond of Boy Bands. I just
think they’re really awesome. I’m not
sure if BBMak <i>technically</i> counts as a
Boy Band, but for arguments sake, I’m going to say that they are one. BBMak wasn’t like other Boy Bands at the time;
there were only 3 of them instead of the usual 5, and they were British. Their debut single “<i>Back Here</i>” made swarms of young girl’s hearts melt, and I think this
is one of the most underappreciated songs released by a Boy Band. I’m dead serious when I say this, Boy Bands
are so old they’re retro now, and they’re making a comeback on radio, and I
think it is solemn duty call our local radio stations and request that they
play more BBMak, and hopefully that will lead to a much overdue BBMak reunion
tour. Maybe they can go on tour with
5ive? or Take That? I’d pay money to see
that show.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It seems like each time I do one of these music reviews, I’m a
little bit nicer to Chad Kroeger (but somehow get even more cruel to Avril
Lavigne, but enough about her), and I think one of his few positive contributions
to Popular Music is his song “Hero” which appeared on the “<i>Spiderman</i>” movie soundtrack.
“<i>Spiderman</i>” was released in
theaters only a few months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and since the film
was set in New York City, this film became a must see for many grieving
American’s. I don’t know whether or not “Hero”
was planned to be included on the soundtrack before or after 9/11, but this
song became an Anthem for many Americans (myself included). “Hero” is not only a song for a superhero
like Spiderman, but it also echoed true with America’s admiration for its real
life superheroes, the members of the NYPD & FDNY. This song was the biggest
deal when it was released and it’s ashamed it doesn’t receive as much attention
as it deserves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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favorite subgenre, I’d have to say it’s definitely Miami bass. Bands like Tag Team, 2 Live Crew, and Quad
City DJ’s have produced some of my favorite dance tracks. <i>Tracks,
like “C’mon N’ Ride it (the Train)</i>” by Florida’s Quad City DJ’s is one of
those tracks. This is a pure party song,
and I can remember hearing it fondly being played down at my local roller rink,
and everyone skating and having a good time.
We need more DJ’s to play this song not only on the radio, but at
weddings, high school dances, house parties, and everywhere else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2000’s has to Dream Street. They were
one of the last boy bands to have <i>success</i>
radio stations began to shift away from this kind of music in favor of Rap and
Hip-Hop Artists like Eminem, 50-Cent, Ludacris, Outkast, and many others. Unlike, other boy bands at the time that
featured grown men in the early to mid-20’s, Dream Street consisted of actual teenage
boys, the most popular and famous of which was Jesse McCartney, who would later
become Disney’s early 2000’s version of Zac Efron, before a company like Disney
knew what to do with a Zac Efron. Unlike
other Boy Bands who broke up after they became famous, Dream Street broke up
just before they became famous, because the parents claimed that the groups
producers exposed them to things like booze and pornography. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Who doesn’t think dinosaurs are cool? Seriously, they’re just one of the coolest
and most fascinating creatures to have ever walked the earth. It’s such a shame that we as humans didn’t
get to exist at the same time. Fortunately
for us, we have been blessed with awesome Action/Adventure “<i>Jurassic Park</i>” films, based off of the
popular novels by Michael Crichton. I’ve
been debating for some time which character I wanted to write an analysis on
there are so many memorable and important characters that I could have picked,
but I have finally decided which one, I’d like to write it on, and it’s not one
of the human characters, but rather one of the memorable dinosaur characters, Indominus
Rex from “<i>Jurassic World</i>”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Indominus Rex is the creation of Dr. Henry Wu (with heavy
encouragement and funding provided by Simon Masrani). Indominus Rex in combination of a few
dinosaurs; Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor, Giganotosaurus, Majungsaurus,
Rugops, and Therizinosaurus. Indominus
Rex also contains elements of modern animals like cuttlefish, tree frogs, and
viper snakes. Its name means “Untamable
King”. Indominus Rex is a female, and
was born with a sibling, but killed her sibling as soon as they hatched. It’s rumored that she also at her sibling,
which would make her a cannibal. Indominus
Rex is unlike any other dinosaur. While
most carnivorous dinosaurs at Jurassic World hunt in order to survive, Indominus
Rex hunts for sport. The I-Rex is also a
very strategic hunter. It can camouflage
itself, it can lower it’s body temperature to make it appear invisible and it’s
body can withstand blasts from the most powerful manmade weapons. I-Rex can also run at speeds up to
30MPH. It is truly, an animal that is
the absolute top of the food chain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There are a number of different characters that I believe the Indominus
Rex is similar too, as I already mentioned above it’s DNA is a combination of
several other dinosaurs and animals.
Sticking with other characters from the franchise, the Indominus Rex is
very similar to Velociraptors from “<i>Jurassic
Park</i>”, both Indomious Rex and the Velociraptors, are kept in high security
paddocks because of their advanced intelligence, and extreme danger to
humans. They spend the majority of the
early parts of their respected films plotting their escape, testing their
security’s strengths and weaknesses, and they both eventually do manage to
escape and run amuck on the Island. </span></div>
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to Bruce the shark from Steven Spielberg’s Horror Classic “<i>Jaws</i>”. Like Bruce, Indominus
Rex is a lone killer who is a fast and efficient killer who strikes fear in all
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Rex also shares similarities with Mewtwo from “<i>Pokemon: The First Movie</i>”; both are created in labs using a
combination of DNA from other powerful members of their species. Both were created to serve and entertain man,
and both rebelled against their creators, and escaped to spread a path of death
and destruction. I personally, think
that Indominus Rex is on a much higher level of thinking than the other
dinosaurs, which leads me to my last character similarity the sharks from “<i>Deep Blue Sea</i>”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> In
“Deep Blue Sea”, the scientists are trying to find a cure for Alzheimer’s and
they do this by performing experiments on the sharks brains, and as a side effect
of all this experimentation, the sharks became smarter, and better
hunters. I can’t help, but wonder if Indominus
Rex is going through a similar thing. Is
it getting smarter with each kill, is it truly the ultimate predator? Does it have thoughts or emotions? Or is it
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After escaping form it’s paddock and unleashing massive amounts
of destruction and devastation, not to mention many countless injuries and deaths
of both humans and dinosaurs, it all comes down to one final epic showdown, between
Indominus Rex, a small group of surviving humans, and a trained
velociraptor. One of the top officials
at Jurassic World orders that the Tyrannosaurus Rex be released from its
paddock in hopes that it may be able to stop or kill Indominus Rex. The T-Rex, Velociraptor, and Indominus Rex
take part in an epic battle before it is knocked into a protective gate and
dragged deep into the water by a gigantic Mosasaur, where it killed and
(presumably) eaten. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Deep down in the very
pit of my soul, I’m still a Punk at heart.
I grew up listening to bands like The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Green
Day, Black Flag, and as I got older I became more involved in the Straight Edge
Scene and local hardcore scenes. Even
today, I make an attempt to attend every local punk show I can. I hope someday to look back on my Punk days
with fondness, like how I look back at James Merendino’s 1999 Indie Classic “<i>SLC Punk</i>”. I’ve enjoyed this film ever since I first saw
it in college, and now fans of “<i>SLC Punk</i>”
have been blessed with a sequel, “<i>Punk's
Dead: SLC Punk 2</i>”, and much to our delight, many of the original cast
members have showed up to reprise their roles a whopping 17 years later. So today I’m going to pay homage to my
favorite character from those films, Sean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Heroin Bob. The year is 1985, Sean is a high school student at Southeast High
School in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is a
former Mod, who later became a Punk (with giant spikey green hair and everything). He sells acid to Mods for money. After being chased by the schools resource
officer, Sean runs across the soccer field where his pants get soaked by the
automatic sprinklers. All the acid in
Sean’s pants melts and dissolves into his skin.
Heroin Bob claims that Sean got the equivalent of 112 hits of acid all
at once. All that acid fried Sean’s
brain and caused him to suffer hallucinations.
He is found sitting out on a chair in his front yard in the snow by
Heroin Bob, who Sean believes is actually Jesus. Sean tells Bob that Satan is in his house and
killed his mom and turned her into a bull.
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next time we see Sean he is living on the streets begging for loose change. He
sees his other friend Steve-O, and tells him about how much it sucks being
homeless, and how he’s struggling to find work.
You can clearly see that Sean is still suffering from some pretty severe psychological effects as a result of absorbing all of that acid into his body. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sean is played in both films by Actor Devon Sawa. Sawa did a great job with the role in both
films and managed to be one of the most memorable characters in the film
despite having a very limited screen time.
What’s even more impressive is how Sawa managed to portray Sean in two completely
different ways with almost 20 years in between films. I’m going to be a little bit bias and say
that Sawa did a much better job in “<i>SLC
Punk</i>” then in “<i>Punk's Dead: SLC Punk 2</i>”,
but that’s just my opinion. An
interesting side note: Sawa was one of the Co-producers of the sequel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In “<i>Punk's Dead: SLC Punk 2</i>”
we see that 20 years later, Sean has finally gotten his life together. He finally got the psychological help he
needed and is working for an Unnamed State Senator at the Capitol in Salt Lake
City. When he’s not working at the
Capital he’s usually hanging out at Warrior Music, a Black Metal music shop
owned by his good friend “John the Mod” (who is no longer a Mod). Sean tells Trish (the mother of Heroin Bob’s
son, Ross) that he used to swing by his office every now and then and ask him
for advice and for him to tell him about the father he never met. Sean is the one who figures out where Ross
most likely went to in the sequel, and at the end is the voice of reason to
help out Trish and Ross work through their differences and emotional turmoil’s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> “Forrest Gump”; just
hearing the title of this Award Winning film immediately makes you think of
many different quotes like “Mama, always said life is like a box of chocolates”
and “Run Forrest! Run!”. So many
memorable lines, and scenes, and characters make this 1994 and instant
classic. I actually had quite a
difficult time trying to pick a character to write this week’s Analysis
on. I didn’t want to write one about
Forrest because I thought that would take me weeks to write, so I put it to a
vote again, and by an overwhelming response, the people have requested that I
write one on Lieutenant Dan Taylor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We aren’t introduced
to Lt. Dan until way into the film. We
first meet him in Vietnam where he is the Lieutenant to Forrest and Bubba’s
platoon. According to Forrest, one
person in Lt. Dan’s family has fought and died in every major American war. Lt. Dan believes he has a destiny to die on
the battlefield with his men, just like his ancestors. This could imply that
Lt. Dan possibly is a superstitious person.
Despite the fact, that he is ready and willing to die in combat, he is
very protectant over all of his men.
After his platoon is ambushed by the Vietcong, Lt. Dan is badly injured,
and calls for a massive airstrike to wipe out the Vietcong. Lt. Dan is completely aware that for him this
means that he will be killed by friendly fire.
Against his commands (and wishes) Lt. Dan is rescued by Forrest, and is
taken to an Army Medical Center where he has both of his legs amputated. Lt.
Dan becomes very resentful towards Forrest, for “cheating him out of his destiny”
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see Lt. Dan is outside of a television studio in New York City. He confronts Forrest who has become a minor
celebrity, and even received a Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery on
the battlefield in Vietnam. Lt. Dan is
just as resentful as ever. Since his
discharge from the Army, he has yet to find stable employment and is living off
the Government (because he is disabled).
He is now an alcoholic, and may be using it numb away possible
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Lt. Dan later ends up defending Forrest after a prostitute (that he was acquainted
with) asks if Forrest is stupid. He
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ultimately ends up giving more orders and running the entire operation over
Forrest.</span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Forrest and Lt. Dan survive a
Hurricane while out at sea and end up being the only shrimp boat in southern
Alabama.</span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After that the Bubba Gump
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lt. Dan
is played by actor Gary Sinise. Sinise
did a phenomenal job with the role. When
you think of all the characters in the film Sinise is the only actor who has to
play their role with a variety of different ranges. When you look at all the characters: Forrest
is always sweet & simple, Mama is always kindhearted & loving, but Lt.
Dan starts off caring & humble, becomes cold & bitter and then
eventually comes full circle. That’s a
lot of changes for one character to go through in just one film. Not to mention he had to play a Veteran of
Foreign war who became physically disabled.
That was probably the most challenging aspect of the role for
Sinise. And since appearing in “<i>Forrest Gump</i>” has been on multiple USO
Tours and puts on charity events to raise money for veterans who are disabled. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Off the top of my head I can’t think of any characters that Lt.
Dan is similar too. If I really wanted
to stretch it, I suppose I could say that he is similar to Willem Defoe’s
character Sgt. Elias Grodin in Oliver Stone’s 1986 film “<i>Platoon</i>” their similarities are they both soldiers in Vietnam, and
both are badly injured in combat. Their
major differences—besides rank—is that Sgt. Grodin dies on the battlefield
while Lt. Dan survives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Company in Apple Computers, and ends up making he and Forrest
millionaires. The last time we see Lt.
Dan in the film is at Forrest and Jenny’s wedding. He is walking up right, and has new legs made
out of titanium alloy. He is also
engaged to a woman named Susan, and he properly thanks Forrest for saving his
life on the battlefield years earlier. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10149389367448659181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159208807685823902.post-57635365491852752302016-06-05T18:03:00.001-07:002018-06-30T19:32:36.108-07:00Character Analysis: Beni Gabor<div class="MsoNormal">
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History teacher. Every day when I subbed
at the High School I would hope and wish that one of the History teachers would
have called out so I could cover for their class and get some valuable
experience teaching in their classrooms.
I can recall on more than one occasion covering for a History teacher
whose class was learning about Ancient Egypt, and the only instructions they’d
have left for me was “Play this DVD for All Classes”. So my job that day was to sit in the
classroom and watch “<i>The Mummy</i>”
remake 4-5 times. The film wasn’t all
that educational and taught very little of Ancient Egyptial culture, but it
always amazed me was how much the students got into the film. I never understood why; the CGI is crude by
today’s standards, the action is minimal, the acting ranges from monotone and
underdeveloped to campy and over the top, but the students all seemed to enjoy
watching it. So I decided that I would
do a Character Analysis on a character from “<i>The Mummy</i>”, and I could think of no better secondary character in
the film than that neurotic, money driven little twerp, Beni Gabor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the early 1920’s where he is a member of the French Foreign Legion serving
alongside Rick O’Connell, an American.
Although, it’s never mentioned in the film Beni is not French, he is a
Hungarian...what an American and a Hungarian are doing serving in the French
Foreign Legion, I have no clue. While in
the French Foreign Legion they come under attack by a group of Taureg
Nomads. Beni initially tells O’Connell
that he will heroically fight beside him until the end before retreating and
hiding himself in an ancient crypt in the city, leaving O’Connell and others to
be massacred. Beni and O’Connell end up
being the only survivors of the siege.
The next time we see Beni it is a few years later, he on a riverboat
cruising down the Nile River when he runs into Rick O’Connell. Beni offers a half-hearted apology to O’Connell
for abandoning him years ago in Hamunaptra.
He lets O’Connell and the others know that he is on the boat trying to
take another group of explorers to Hamunaptra so they all might reap the riches
of the Ancient Egyptian tombs. After the
boat is ambushed by members of the Mejia, Beni quickly returns to his cowardice
ways and abandons all others in hopes of saving his own life. He makes it to safety, with his group and all
of the horses that were on the boat, but is informed by O’Connell that he is on
the wrong side of the river. This
scene paints a reoccurring image of Beni that we see throughout the film. Beni
is not only a coward, but is also very greedy and incredibly selfish. He thinks
only of himself, and his only motivation in life is acquire vast riches. Beni
eventually leads his group to Hamunaptra—where he meets up once again with Rick
O’Connell and his group—and the two groups explore and plunder the ancient
tombs and take the tombs treasure as their bounty. After, Evelyn’s reading of The Ancient
Egyptian Book of the Dead causes the resurrection of Imhotep, an Ancient
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Imhotep begins picking off members of Beni’s
group one-by-one, and Beni comes face to face with the half-resurrected Corpse
of Imhotep while hiding out in the tomb.
Fearing for his life once again, Beni brandishes various religious
artifacts that he where’s around his neck and recites short prayers hoping that
one of the prayers will ward off Imhotep.
It is only when he holds up a Star of David and starts reciting a prayer
in Hebrew that Imhotep decides not to kill Beni because he speaks “the language
of the slaves”. Imhotep makes a deal
with Beni; in return for helping him find the canopic jars with his organs and
helping him complete his resurrection, he will spare Beni’s life and promises
him gold and other riches. Beni is happy
to oblige. From that short scene between
the two we can deduce that Beni is most likely a very superstitious
person. His superstitions probably
derive from the fact that he is fully aware that he is a lying, deceitful,
greedy, traitorous thief, and he hopes that by keeping these religious trinkets
close to him, he will be always be safe. After Imhotep’s resurrection is
completed he takes Beni back to Hamunaptra where he releases him from his
duties and allows him to take whatever he wants from the treasure room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Beni is played by actor Kevin J. O’Connor. O’Connor has made a pretty decent career
playing secondary characters in many Big-Budget and Box Office Hits. O’Connor is known to do many collaborations
with writer/director Stephen Sommers. It
should come as no surprise that O’Connor would be cast in “<i>The Mummy</i>” since it was written & directed by Stephen
Somers. Kevin J. O’Connor did a great
job with this role and when you take a moment in think about it, he’s an
Irish-American actor playing a Hungarian character who is a member of the
French Foreign Legion stationed in Egypt.
That’s a mind blowing amount of multicultural references.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was that he was a Human version of Dijon from “<i>Ducktales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp</i>”. Both Dijon and Beni are deceitful thieves who
mislead groups of people they initially promised to help, but in all actuality
they are working for an evil supernatural being and are motivated only by their
own greed and/or fear of being killed by the supernatural beings if they do not
help them. If you watch clips of the two
of them you’ll see they even dress similar.
I definitely think O’Connor used some of Dijon’s character traits in his
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that Beni is (possibly) meant to represent a negative & stereotypical portrayal
of Jewish people. The evidence behind their
reasons was that 1.) Beni can speak Hebrew 2.) The Stereotype that Jewish people
are only motivated by gold and/or money 3.) His last name is Gabor, and that is
a Jewish name. I did a quick search
on-line and I saw websites that said Gabor was just a Hungarian name and I saw
other websites that said it was a Hebrew name.
According to one website “Gabor means God is my Strength in Hebrew”. I’m afraid I don’t know enough about Jewish
culture or the Hebrew language to confirm or deny these claims, and I apologize
if the information I’m presenting is incorrect or inappropriate, it was not my
intention to anger or offend anyone. I was just merely trying to present an
alternative view. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the film by O’Connell that he would get what he rightly has coming to him
someday, Beni finally gets a heavy dose of a karma towards the end of the
film. While leaving the treasure room
for the second time with bags of gold and other priceless treasures, Beni takes
a rest and exactly triggers an ancient booby trap in the tomb. The tomb causes the walls to seal shut and
fill all the passage ways with sand.
While O’Connell and his group make it out, Beni is not so lucky. He becomes trapped in the tomb surrounded by
all the Golden treasures he could ever want in life. Unfortunately, for him he has no way of
escaping the tomb with all the treasures, and just when it looks like it couldn’t
get any worst for him, a swarm of scarab beetles appears and eats Beni alive,
killing him in one of the most brutal ways I can ever imagine a person being
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Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10149389367448659181noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159208807685823902.post-80806405294963790662016-05-30T18:51:00.001-07:002018-06-30T19:32:36.131-07:00Character Analysis: Brian Johnson<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Well it’s almost that
time of year again. Another school year
has come and gone. Many students are
looking forward to graduation, while others are looking forward to Summer
vacation. So I decided that in honor of
the end of another school year, I would write a Character Analysis on a student
character in film. Very few films stand
the test of time and hold as much relevance today as they did back then as John
Hughes 1985 cult classic “<i>The Breakfast
Club</i>”. The story of a group of 5
students from different social groups and backgrounds who are forced to spend
their Saturday in detention. Instead of
working on the essay their Principal assigned them to write, they spend most of
the day talking, arguing, sharing stories about their home lives, smoking pot,
dancing, and just trying not to get caught by Mr. Vernon. Anyone of the characters from “<i>The Breakfast Club</i>” would have been a
great choice for me to write a Character Analysis on, but the one I have chosen
to write one on is Brian Johnson: The Geek.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brian Johnson is one of 5 students at Shermer High School forced
to spend their Saturday in detention.
Early on we see Brian has come to the detention prepared to study and
work on various class assignments. As
his day progresses we view him desperately trying to seek the approval of the
others. When questioned by student John
Bender, if he’s still a virgin, Brian makes up a lie saying that he lost his
virginity to a girl he met at Niagara Falls, and then lies and said he also had
sex with Claire—a popular girl in the Saturday detention with them. Brian
is in detention because his flare gun went off in his locker. Brian admits that this is the reason why he
is in detention when he’s sitting around the library with the other students. When asked by Andrew why he had a gun in his
locker, Brian replied “I can’t have an F”.
Brian tells his classmates that he failed his Shop Class earlier this
year; it was the first time he ever received an F. Brian goes on to tell the others about how
strict his parents are with his grades, and how he’s devastated at the loss of
his perfect Grade Point Average. This
confession makes Brian appear somewhat mentally unstable and anal
retentive. Brian’s stress over his
grades is most likely brought on by the pressure from his parents to achieve
academic perfection. He says that “I can’t
have an F. And I know my parents can have it”, so by that we can accurately
assume that his parents hold him to the highest standard (academically). It is unclear if Brian brought the flare gun to
school mistaking it for a real gun, but it is heavily implied that he was
having suicidal thoughts over receiving an F.
Claire tells Brian that “killing yourself is not an option” to which he
snaps back “Well I didn’t do it!”. Why a
student deserves a Saturday detention rather than psychological help for
contemplating suicide is beyond me, and I’m just going to chock that one into
the “<i>it was a different time back then</i>”
scenario. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brian is played by actor Anthony Michael Hall. This wasn’t the first time Hall has played
the Geek character in a film. In fact,
he’s the actor who revolutionized the Geek character in film and made him the
everyman that people like and root for.
Before Anthony Michael Hall, most film characters who played geeks were
neurotic and panned up for comedic relief like Jerry Lewis’s character in “<i>The Nutty Professor</i>”. Anthony Michael Hall’s geek character
archetype led to many successful and beloved acting performances in films like “<i>Sixteen Candles</i>”, “<i>Weird Science</i>”, and “<i>The
Breakfast Club</i>”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As I mentioned above, Anthony Michael Hall has set the standard
for how to play a geek character in film. Every other geek character in film
pretty much takes direct inspiration from Anthony Michael Hall, everyone form
Ducky in “<i>Pretty in Pink</i>” (another John
Hughes film), to McLovin in “<i>Superbad</i>”,
and Columbus in “<i>Zombieland</i>”. All
share many distinctive similarities to all of Hall’s performances. Their characters are socially-awkward,
(usually) intelligent, they have unique but distinguishable quirks, and they
fail time after time at trying to pick up women.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After spending the whole day talking to the others and sharing
in some friendly bonding and experiences that may last a lifetime, Brian has to
come to a sad—but inevitable—realization.
When school resumes on Monday morning, they will most likely go back to
their own social groups, and will not remain friends. Even with this devastating news from his
newest <i>friends</i>, Brian tells the
others that he would never shun or ignore any of them if they approached him in
the hallway; even though they all told him that they would most likely turn
away from him if he approached them. As
the detention draws to an end, all the others approach Brian and convince him
to write the essay that they were all supposed to be working on during their
detention, since they consider him to be the smartest. Brian agrees to do this favor for his new <i>friends</i> and composes a letter roughly
1/10<sup>th</sup> the size that their Principal instructed them to write at the
beginning of the detention setting. The essay
that Brian wrote is read out loud as the film ends, and he signs it “Sincerely
Yours, The Breakfast Club”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I like “<i>Frozen</i>”. There I said it, and I’m not even
embarrassed. Even the toughest and most
rugged of men can have a Disney side.
Not only is this one of my favorite Animated Films, but it’s one of my
favorite films of All-Time. Nothing
makes me happier then when my three-year-old niece asks me if we can watch “<i>Frozen</i>” together. I enjoy this film. I like the animation, I like the songs (yes,
even “Let it go”), I like the story, but most of all this film has probably my
favorite Disney Character ever, Olaf.
From the first time I saw this titular snowman in the film, I became
instantly intrigued and fascinated by him; I found him to be charming, funny,
and especially entertaining. So today we
are paying tribute to Olaf and analyze what makes him so darn awesome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Queen of Arendelle. We first see him very early on in the film. He is just a typical snowman created by a
very young Elsa for her younger sister Anna.
Olaf cannot speak, or move, and has no conscious thoughts. Many years later after Elsa runs away to the
high icy mountain tops she uses her snow powers to create a snowman before
creating a giant ice palace for herself to reside in. For reasons never explained, Olaf is now
alive and wanders through the mountains of woods on his own until he comes
across Anna, Kristoff, and Sven the reindeer.
Olaf greets them with this typical greeting “Hi, I’m Olaf, and I like
warm hugs”. Olaf is a very kind-natured,
innocent, and naive snowman whose only dream is to experience Summer
(completely unaware of the fact that he will melt in the heat). Olaf agrees to take the others to Elsa’s ice
palace. Even though, he was told not to
enter the palace by Anna, Olaf can’t help himself and rushes in to meet his creator. Even though, Elsa comes off as cold-hearted
(no pun intended) and a little hostile, Olaf is beyond excited to meet his
creator, and she is even more surprised to learn that he is alive. Despite being tossed out, by Elsa’s evil snow
henchman, Olaf is still delighted to have met her and hopes to see her
again. Unfortunately, Elsa’s ice powers
hit her sister Anna in the heart, and now it’s up to Olaf, Kristoff, and Sven
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was best known for playing Elder Arnold Cunningham in the hit Broadway show, “<i>The Book of Mormon</i>”. Gad, not only does a fantastic job as a voice
actor, but being a Broadway actor too also means he was more than capable of
providing the singing voice for Olaf as well.
This is a nice change of pace, because in the past Disney Animated films
have one voice actor for the speaking parts, and one for the singing
parts. Josh Gad does an amazing job at
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adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s <u>The Snow Queen</u>. Walt Disney
himself started developing the plot to the film back in 1959. Disney, unfortunately never got adapt the
story into an animated film, and the project remained in limbo for decades (not
to mention went through many re-writes).
Olaf was not a part of the original story of <u>The Snow Queen</u>, and
is definitely a creation of a Disney in an attempt to create a character for
comic relief purposes. Olaf, definitely falls
in the same category of Wisecracking, funny Disney Sidekick like the late Robin
William’s, Genie from “<i>Aladdin</i>” and
Eddie Murphy’s, Mushu from “<i>Mulan</i>”. Film Critic, Chad Rocco (aka CR! From Channel
Awesome) did an episode on Olaf for his show “<i>Familiar Faces</i>”, and I highly recommend you check out his video on
Youtube for more details.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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intense battle between Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf, and Prince Hans. The spell is broken when Anna sacrifices
herself to save her sister, and everyone lives happily ever after. Arendelle is thawed and Olaf finally gets to
experience summer, despite melting, he is brought back to his solid state by
Elsa and she uses her ice powers to give him his own personal flurry so he can
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The First rule of Asylum for Nerds is you must share this
article. The second rule of Asylum for
Nerds is you must share this article.
Fight Club: has there ever been a more masculine title for a
book/film? I don’t think so. Ever since Fox Studios made a film version of
Chuck Palahniuk’s novel of the same name, “<i>Fight
Club</i>” has gone on to inspire a loyal cult following. Millions of men around the world have
identified with the stories nameless narrator, and have also aspired to be like
the macho and ripped Tyler Durden. Even
though the Narrator and Tyler Durden (played by Edward Norton and Brad Pitt
respectively) are the two most easily identical characters associated with the
book and film, they aren’t the only ones who are iconic or memorable. There’s also Helena Bonham-Carter’s character
Marla Singer, and Meatloaf’s Robert Paulson, but ther is another—nameless—character
in the film who has gained a loyal cult following (in both the film and in real
life), and that character is Angel Face.
But what is it about this character that makes him so special and
memorable? Let’s take a look at him
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at Fight Club held by the Narrator & Tyler Durden. We never learn his actual name, he is merely referred
to as “Angel Face” is both the novel and the film, though, he is sometimes
referred to as “Mister Perfect Angel Face” by the resentful Narrator. Angel Face is described as being very young
and having beautiful blonde hair and facial features. It is because of the reasons that the
narrator harbors a deep resentment towards him, and believes that Angel Face is
trying to usurp him, and find favoritism with Tyler Durden. This resentment eventually boils over and Angel
Face is savagely bludgeoned by the Narrator one night at Fight Club. The Narrator proclaims “[he] wanted to
destroy something beautiful”, and hence Angel Face loses his good looks. The next time we see Angel Face in the film he
is being recruited for Tyler Durden’s newest plan, Project Mayhem, and still
bears the disfigured scars left on his face by the Narrator. He takes great pleasure in their corporate
destruction and is a highly active and willing participant in Project Mayhem<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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& Musician Jared Leto. Leto definitely
fits the description of Angel Face in the film; he was young, good looking, and
had blonde hair. Leto was really the
best choice for the role, and I believe is just as important as Brad Pitt for
making this film a must-see for many Female audience members. I know so many women who are huge fans of Leto’s
band 30 Seconds to Mars, and saw this film solely to see him act in it. Another reason why I believe Leto was the
best choice for the person to play Angel Face in “Fight Club” is because of his
now famous notoriety for playing characters in film who end up being horribly
disfigured and brutally killed such as in “<i>Requiem
for a Dream</i>”, “<i>American Psycho</i>”,
and “<i>Panic Room</i>”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We have seen other characters like Angel Face in film and
stories before; the young person who joins a cause (possibly) looking for
belonging and acceptance, and becomes heavily involved in the cause doing
anything and everything he is asked to do by the group’s leader. The only character I can think off the top of
my head who draws similarities to Angel Face is a character named Tim from a
2008 German film called “<i>Die Welle</i>”
(or “<i>The Wave</i>”). Both are dedicated to their group’s leader
and their cause, and feel that what they are doing for their cause is extremely
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the rest of the members of Project Mayhem.
We see them arrive at Parker-Morris Building just as the Narrator begins
to have is existential battle with his alter ego, Tyler Durden (and no, I did
not feel the need to declare a <b>SPOILER
Warning </b>because if you haven’t already seen “<i>Fight Club</i>” before reading this article it’s your own damn
fault!) The last scene we see in the
film is of the Narrator and Marla Singer watching the buildings being blown up
by the members of Project Mayhem, it is never officially stated in the film
whether or not Angel Face and the other members of Project Mayhem died in the
destruction as well or if they were merely just there to watch the show. Personally, I think he must have died in the
explosion with all the others, but that’s just my opinion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10149389367448659181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159208807685823902.post-23174634701684862662016-05-01T10:12:00.000-07:002018-06-30T19:32:36.083-07:00Character Analysis: Lipstick-Face Demon<div class="MsoNormal">
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become immune to fear. However, most
recently there has been a new Horror movie character that has managed to
terrify me multiple times. He is a
character who has made me scream out in terror in the theaters multiple times
and that character has the bizarre name of “Lipstick-Face Demon”. Don’t let the name fool you; this character
from James Wan and Leigh Whannell’s “<i>Insidious</i>”
Franchise is more terrifying than Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael
Myers, and Leatherface. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to make this as simple as I can. Lipstick Face Demon’s <i>first appearance</i> technically comes in “<i>Insidious Chapter 3</i>” because everything occurs before the events in
the first film. Lipstick-Face Demon
appears behind Elise Reiner, a spiritual medium, in her bedroom at the very end
of the film. He is—well-a demon who is
from the astral plain known as “The Further”.
He has dark black skin, furry legs, and hooves for feet. He also has razor sharp finger nails and
green-yellow eyes, and his voice can only be heard by a select few. Lipstick-Face Demon captures the spirit of a
young boy named, Dalton Lambert. With no
medical explanation for why their son isn’t responding to anything, and
mysterious and spooky things starting to happen around their home, the Lambert
family ends up seeking help from Elise. Elise informs the family that their son
is lost somewhere in The Further and that he is being held captive by a
malevolent demon, who hopes to use Dalton’s body as way to break free of The
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all, but is someone who has close ties to the Horror film industry. Joseph Bishara plays Lipstick-Face Demon in “<i>Insidious</i>” and “<i>Insidious Chapter 3</i>”, and he is also the Films Composer. Bishara has composed the soundtrack for all
three “<i>Insidious</i>” films as well as
the scores in other James Wan films such as “<i>Annabelle</i>”, “<i>The</i> <i>Conjuring</i>” and its sequel, and many
other Horror films. I think it’s pretty
nifty that the films composer has a small, but iconic role in the film. It’s definitely a neat little fun-fact. Plus, I find it funny that I find Bishara
terrifying as Lipstick-Face Demon, but when you see him without the make up on
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initial thought of him: “Hey, he kind of looks like Darth Maul from “<i>Star Wars—Episode 1</i>”, and I definitely see
the similarities with the red and black faces.
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hey, it’s been a while since I’ve talked about Disney, so here I
am to do another Character Analysis. I’d
like to start out by thanking my friends and family for helping me choose which
Disney character I was going to do an analysis on, and by the narrowest margin
of 3-votes-to-2, they requested that I do a Character Analysis on Charlotte La
Bouff from “<i>The Princess and the Frog</i>”. I hope you all appreciate it, and if there
are any other characters you’d like me to do a Character Analysis on you can
always make a request in the comment section.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wealthy Sugar Baron from New Orleans.
Despite being raised in a life of great wealth and privilege, she still
manages to end up best friends with Tiana, a young black girl from a lower
class, hardworking family. Charlotte has
one goal in life: marry a prince and become a princess. Charlotte is incredibly hyper (possibly an
undiagnosed sufferer of ADHD) and is constantly making herself the center of attention
with her loud hit pitched screams of joy and her constant grabbing of people to
make them pay attention to her and grasp the magnitude of how excited she is. Charlotte is overjoyed when she hears that
Prince Naveen of Maldonia is going to be making a trip to New Orleans in hopes
of marrying a rich Southern Belle. She is so excited that she keeps
interrupting her father as he tries to tell Tiana about how he has invited Prince
Naveen to stay with his family.
Charlotte is gung-ho and making a good impression on the Prince, and
hires her best friend Tiana to make beignets for their masquerade ball. Unbeknownst to Charlotte, though, Prince
Naveen has been transformed into a frog, by the evil Voodoo Witch Doctor, Dr.
Facilier, and his valet Lawrence has been giving a charm that makes him look
like the Prince. It is Facilier’s plan
to get Lawrence (who is impersonating as the Prince) to marry Charlotte, and
then kill her father after so the two of them can inherit his fortune. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Young Charlotte is voiced by Breanna Brooks and Jennifer Cody
does the voice work for adult Charlotte. Both actresses do a phenomenal job in
their brief screen time, and really do capture the sound of that Deep Southern/New
Orleans accent. Cody actually won an
Annie Award for her voice acting performance in “<i>The Princess and the Frog</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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nod to the classic Disney trope of the young girls who watched their early
films and used to dream of growing up to be a princess and wanting to marry a handsome
prince in a </span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;">fairy tale</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> wedding. I can’t prove that, but when you really watch the scenes at the beginning of the film
with young Charlotte and Tiana, we see Charlotte dressed up as princess,
listening to Tiana’s mother read them both the story of The Princess and the
Frog, and she proclaims without hesitation that she would kiss over one hundred
frogs if it meant she could grow up to marry a prince and be a real princess. I
kind of feel like the writers were really trying to pay (a slight) homage to
their old ways of marketing their films to young girls with that scene.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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her after the two of them break the spell and defeat the evil Dr.
Facilier. Even though, she doesn’t end
up marrying Prince Naveen, Charlotte is enthusiastically happy for her best
friend and wishes Tiana the happily after romance that she has been waiting for
her entire life. However, Charlotte does
end up meeting Prince Naveen’s younger brother and the two of them dance
together at the Mardis Gras Ball. Upon
learning that Prince Naveen’s younger brother is only six-and-a-half-years-old
she proclaims that she’s already waited that long to marry a prince and she can
wait a little longer...which really makes her look like a gold-digger if you
ask me. Also, the fact that Prince Naveen’s
brother is only six-years-old also makes Charlotte look kind of like a child
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Brianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10149389367448659181noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159208807685823902.post-22309053367189175752016-03-22T13:50:00.001-07:002018-06-30T19:37:06.412-07:005 of the Best Bands of the 90's that you've never heard of<div class="MsoNormal">
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trend. I love turning on the radio and
still being to hear awesome musical acts such as Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins,
Radiohead, Bush, Foo Fighters, Alice in Chains, Oasis, and many other great
bands. However, there were so many other
bands that didn’t get as much credit as the other groups in the 90’s for whatever
reasons; maybe it was a lack of play on radio or MTV, maybe they were only
popular around one geographic location, maybe they didn’t have a record label
that could distribute their records to a wide enough audience, or maybe the
band was only together for a very short time.
Any who, we are fortunate enough to live in a time where we have a much
wider access to music (both old and new) and I’m here to pay tribute to those
bands who deserved more credit and notoriety in the 90’s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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became more successful in the U.S.
Everyone talks about the Seattle Grunge scene in the 90’s, and scores of
fans proclaimed their love for two of the biggest bands from Seattle: Nirvana
and Pearl Jam. And one band managed to
encompass the best parts of both those bands; that band was Silverchair. This Alt Rock Band from Australia wrote and
recorded their first album when they were just 14, and they had some mild
success in the U.S. early in their careers, but they just didn’t have the
staying power of most groups of that time, which is crazy considering how long
they’ve lasted. Silverchair’s original
line up (Daniel Johns, Chris Janou, and Ben Gillies) played together for over
20 years, and when you consider that Nirvana’s final line up (Cobain,
Novoselic, and Grohl) was around for only 3
years and is still considered one of the most successful bands at all
time, it’s amazing that Silverchair wasn’t as popular. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Illinois, HUM. Now people say that
Weezer was the dorkiest looking band of the 90’s, but I’d make the argument
that award should probably go to HUM. I
also think that was the ultimate downfall of the band HUM, other than having a
pretty silly band name, the band really did not have any member who stood out
that could be the face of the band.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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after the spoiled brat from the Roald Dahl’s <u>Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory</u>. What’s most surprising
about Veruca Salt’s lack of success is that the band was fronted by two
attractive young women, Louise Post and Nina Gordon. Now you would have thought in the same time
with other popular female musicians and bands like L-7, Alanis Morissette, Liz
Phair, and The Breeders that they would have been able to stand the test of time,
but alas Veruca Salt faded into obscurity.
However, I was beyond thrilled a few years back when they made live appearance
and performance of their biggest hit “Seether” on the Conan O’ Brien show. And by the way, did you know that the rock
band Seether, took their name from that song too? Just goes to show that the unknowing
influence they’ve had on your musical tastes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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groups, but surprisingly they didn’t last that long. The band called it quits in 1994, and unfortunately
their lead singer and rhythm guitarist Josh Clayton-Fell passed away in 2000
from testicular cancer, so there’s no chance of them reuniting. However, the other members of the group have
gone on to find some success in the music industry, and the band did leave us
with one of the Most 90’s Music Videos of All-Time, for their song “Three
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band from just outside of Chicago. I’ve
actually had the pleasure of seeing Local H play live when I was in college (it
was the first show I ever went to without my parents). This two man group managed to have some
success in the mid 90’s touring the U.S. with Silverchair, and despite the fact
that Scott Lucas is the only remaining member of the group, the band continue
to be known for their energetic live shows, and their most popularly recognized
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Hello all. Well once again I’m here to talk about
something I’m particularly fond of—at least musically—One-Hit Wonders! You know, I’ve always been intrigued by the
term “One-Hit Wonder; I think in order for any band or artist to have any
success they need to have some credibility and/or fan following. Just because they didn’t maintain popularity
in the mainstream doesn’t mean they don’t have any other good songs in their
set list. And now I’m back here again to
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could figure out how to play it on guitar in under 5 minutes—but this isn’t the
only good song. For me personally, I
think The Outfield’s best track has to be “Say it isn’t so”; an awesome rock
ballad about trying to find lost love again.
I’m actually surprised that this wasn’t a bigger follow up hit to “Your
Love”. I think at the very least The
Outfield should have been popular in the US until the Grunge Movement went
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you’ve heard of. Pretty much everyone
knows them for their popular song “My Own Worst Enemy”, but they have one other
song that I actually think is better. “Miserable”
is a more somber and much heavier song, and really the own reason most people
know this song is because of the accompanying music video that features the
band sing on top of a giant bikini-clad Pamela Anderson. “Miserable” also features one of the best
opening lyrical verses in the history of rock:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is a perfect song or any person whose been broken up with a
person who everyone had already told them was wrong for them. I thoroughly enjoy this song whether I’m
watching it’s hilariously entertaining music video or listening to it on the
radio in my car.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This New Zealand Punk-Pop Quartet got famous after their song
was sampled for an early IPod commercial, and I know so many people who try to
sing this song as fast and as well as the bands vocalist Tyson Kennedy (but I
can’t be the only one that’s realized the songs opening riff is just a sped up
verson of Green Day’s “Warning”).
However Steriogram has a number of other great songs such as “White
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#1 spot on <i>Billboards Hot Mainstream Rock
Tracks</i>, it’s going to be hard to follow that act up. However, I think the bands
singer/songwriter/guitarist Travis Meekes found the perfect counter track with “Shelf
in the Room”. It’s more mellow, more
somber, and has some more serious lyrical content, but still rocks as hard as “Touch,
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of being a Post-Grunge Band when mainstream radio listeners were starting to
move away from that distinctive sound.
They are known primarily for the heavy distorted rock track “Shine”, but
they actually have a great number of songs that keep them playing on the 90’s
Alt Rock Festival circuit with bands like Eve 6, Smashmouth, Gin Blossoms. One of those tracks is “Heavy”. If you played NHL 2001 back in the day on the
Original Sony PlayStation you remember hearing this song playing every time you
started playing the game. It’s a great
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