Five Essential Elements Blog: Conflict

There is conflict in EVERY movie and the ones that stick out to the most are usually superhero movies. The Dark Knight has many conflicts but the Joker planning to kill a boat full of prisoners or a boat full of innocent people takes the cake. The Dark Knight must stop Joker so no one dies, since it is a superhero movie he obviously gets to save them. Like in movies there is also conflict in life. In life people can go through a lot. The type of conflict most people may have is themselves. A person's conscious makes people second guess or doubt themselves. This occurs in what can be a person's worst time, a time where you need a quick decision. The decision you made quickly could be something the person regrets. An idea for conflict in a film could be not knowing what to do in a situation so two different sides can be filmed the story of one decision and the story of another both just have a few key differences.

My Film Job

Although I would like my film job to be a director, I am going to go with wanting to be an editor. The editor, well edits the film and helps the director and producer achieve what they are trying to achieve. I think the editing job better suits me. I don't really see myself as the creative type so I would rather leave that part to someone who better fits the role. The reason of being an editor is that I like to work with computers and I would like the experience of editing a film. I have edited a little bit in 6th grade but not to the degree where you can insert music and deal with sound and film separately.  It's something I would like to learn to do. More importantly it's something I would like to do, why do something if you're not going to like doing it.

My Review of The Elephant Man

The Elephant man was a great movie, directed by David Lynch, it is about a disfigured man known as the elephant being taken in by Dr. Treves to be examined which lead to unfortunate events. I liked that Lynch made the movie in black and white instead of color as it made things more emotional. Scenes were more intense, more horrific, and more upsetting. The movie can really get you thinking about how people can change, how you change as well. I found myself to be one of those people that are disgusted by the elephant man but his slow introduction into the movie made me adjust and really see that he was just another person as well as the nicest, probably even when he was alive, and best in the movie. The ending, thought to be confusing, weird, even sad, was actually beautiful sure the ending with the mother was kind of weird but he wanted to meet her and he die sadly he knew what he was doing.

My Name is John Merrick . . .

I was thrown into a cage next to many monkeys. They howled at me and tried to attack me. Then the wonderful people came to save me and put me on a boat going back home where I could see Dr. Treves again. Back home mothershead is such a nice person helping to take care of me. When I got back to the station a little boy started to follow me and did not me get away. I accidentally knocked over a little girl which only caused people to notice me and begin pursue me. I tried to lose them by going down a flight of stairs but they chased me to corner like if I were an animal. I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man.... a man. A guard was nice enough to bring me the rest of the way home where Dr. Treves... hugged me. I was back home and a few days later Dr. Treves and I went to one of Ms. Kendalls beautiful plays, such a wonderful lady she is. Later back home I completed my church  

Blog #7 Fear

Fear is an obstacle people ignore throughout their lives or something they learn to overcome and better themselves by doing so. Fear isn't a tangible thing it's something that we perceive is physical and therefore takes the form of something wether it's spiders, bugs or an occurrence drowning, falling from heights. An example of fear restraining people is drowning. The fear of drowning can cause people to go throughout their lives without learning to swim this can be bad in the way that without knowing how to swim what would happen if you were on a cruise and the boat hits something hard enough to start sinking. The rafts are all gone due to panic how would you save yourself then. Swimming would be necessary to learn something new that might end up saving your life. A fear of heights although might not be thought to better yourself if overcome isn't really true. By overcoming a fear of heights by either parachuting or bungee jumping will help you become more outgoing and adventurous instead of just wondering "what if. . . I did ___".

Compassionate Science

The sciences are filled with a variety of ways to help and learn. There are doctors, engineers, biologists, etc. These compassionate sciences can help the world by saving lives as well as making them better. Doctors save lives everyday by giving you vaccines to deadly diseases, by operating surgeries on tumors, and by making sure you are healthy enough to live another fifty years. The vaccines doctors recieve are made by scientists who are trying to stop the unhealthy pathogens from bringing down your immune system. Engineers better lives by creating new designs for machines that can help out. There are cars that drive themselves which can help the blind people. There are prosthetic limbs which bring back a person's leg or arm so they can simply do what any other person can. There are many ways in which sciences can better the lives of many and it is the goal for some of us to help out as well.

The Future!

In around 15 years I expect another war to have broken out due to lack of resources. Some country is going to want to take over other countries with more fossil fuels to keep their electricity running. Military technology will have improved to the point where bombs will not be being used anymore instead there will be lasers for more precise aim and fewer casualties, and hopefully lightsabers because face it, it would be cool to own a lightsaber. Further down the road maybe 50 years from now we will have colonized on another planet or have had at least been able to travel around our galaxy. If not we will be getting some sort of alternative fuel from another planet that lasts longer. With colonization wars will start between countries to claim ownership of whole planets instead of land the size of a continent. One hundred years from now it might be peaceful as different countries will have had expanded to separate planets. Animals will have evolved to adapt to new planets because most likely a pet will escape captivity. Earth will have had become a play to sell and trade between different planets/nations. Of course once it has become peaceful aliens will arrive among us in peace but humans who are shocked will probably kill one and start war once again because the aliens will want to protect themselves. Inter-galactic space travel will arrive way further in the future maybe 5,000 years.

One Time I Laughed Real Hard

I've laughed real hard lots of times but I can't really remember how I came about to laughing except for one. When I was in 4th grade, so around more or less 9 years old. I was at my friends house, he lived across the street and his neighbors was another friend of ours. The one's whose house we were at had a "scary" mask, more hideous if anything. We were outside in his front lawn and he pulls out the mask and starts chasing us (now that I am older it's not really funny but then it was just plain hilarious) and there was this wooden power line pole. And me and my other friend ran across the street just to get away knowing he wouldn't cross. But he ran towards our voices and ran right into the pole. Me and my other friend could not stop laughing, it was like a scene from a comedy movie, he ran into the pole and fell backwards to the floor. He took off the mask and starts rubbing his head and said oww. Maybe it was the fact that karma got him back real soon or because we were young enough to think slap-stick was hilarious but we could not stop laughing at him for crashing into that pole. I was crying from so much laughter and my friend was on the sidewalk just holding his stomach from so much laughing while my other friend just stared at us from across the street sitting on the floor rubbing his head.

Blog #3 Modern Times Review

Modern times was a great movie from 1936. It was funny and yet touching. Charlie Chaplin made something amazing that was different from what his original script. The music would always fit the tone the movie had at specific parts. The movie was comical having crazy situations such as being sucked into a machine, as well as being beaten by one. Even though it had a sort of comical side it was touching in the fact that the little tramp wasn't rich he was just another worker in a factory doing his job well enough to get literally consumed by it, the little tramp was the little man. It was great to see a happy ending in a film filled with lots of poverty, a nice walk into the sunset. But the fact was that it's amazing this was all away from his original script, having talking throughout the whole film instead of just certain parts, being taken away from a beginning of a sci-fi to something that was modern. Chaplin probably couldn't have had a better movie than what was ended up with.

My Thoughts on Bullying

People most likely bully because they might want to interact with someone but don't how to without starting a conflict, maybe they just plain like to bully people, or they have bottled up anger. Bullying can be both verbal and physical. If a bully just likes to bully others then maybe that person just wants other to feel worse than he does in that moment. For all we know that person could've had family problems at home, such as: a death in the family, parent lost their job, a break up, etc. This person is feeling hostile and angry and needs to let it out so they might either insult someone or hurt someone or something physically. Under the situation of which he might just want to get closer to someone, the "bully" might just want an excuse to start a conversation which will most likely backfire and turn into an argument. The bully might want to interact with someone new but has no way to get the nerve to talk to you so he makes a "joke" that just fails miserably to make the person, they are trying to engage, laugh.

My Favorite Movie

My favorite movie out of my favorite 10 would have to be Pacific Rim. This movie is a Sci-fi directed by Guillermo del toro. The whole summary is basically in its first trailer. A group of "aliens" known as kaiju (beasts) come through a fissure between tectonic plates beneath the sea. The kaiju devastate the earth with their destruction, it started with only one appearing in San Francisco and it took them hours to take it out. So all the nations in the world make an alliance, and share resources to make Jaegers (warriors). These Jaegers are just as tall as the Kaijus, and they are huge. So this movie giant robotic warriors fighting giant beasts from another world. And basically the pilots of the Jaegers try to stop them from coming and destroying major cities around the world. The pilots must be compatible with each other in order to synchronize the ability to pilot the jaegers because one pilot can not handle the stress of piloting the robots, which means most partners are family related. It is my favorite movie because giant robots vs giant monsters.