Can't sleep...Exams will eat me...
Today was rather pointless, considering I didn't get any studying done. I did manage to catch the last of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, which I find to be a pretty imaginative adaptation. Leonardo DiCaprio again earns more of my respect, despite the fact that I still think he's a girl.
Exhibit A:
Anyway, so after we watched the video, we got a long lecture about the significance of the TV at the beginning and the end of the movie, and how Baz Luhrmann is blaming the media for Romeo and Juliet. I saw ms Goodman's paper she wrote about it in grad school. Good stuff, but I smiled to myself when I saw the corrections her teacher had made to it. It was some of the same stuff she writes on our work.
After school was voice and body, and I managed to royally screw over the guy's Ensemble song about fifty times, whether with missing cues or movements, or just plain crappy singing. Wasn't the most fun session I've ever had, especially since Raynard was starting to have a cow.
Anyway, I'm tired and sore, and I'm gonna hit the sack in a few. It's been a long day....
Here we go again.
Actor's Salute:
Christian Bale
Whether it's befriending a kamikaze (above, Empire of the Sun), singing out as a Newsie, or attempting to feed a stray cat to an ATM (American Psycho), Christian Bale exhibits excellence in all his films. The man has style. He knows his stuff, has chops, and he also knows how to pick good roles, unlike some actors. He's a favorite in my book.
Newsies:
"I can't be something I'm not."
"What, a scab?"
"No. Smart"
Business Card Psycho
Reign of Fire: "Forget the bird and use the bloody scope, you wanker!"
Equilibrium
John Preston. Grammaton Cleric.
"The gun katas. Through analysis of thousands of recorded gunfights, the Cleric has determined that the geometric distribution of antagonists in any gun battle is a statistically predictable element. The gun kata treats the gun as a total weapon, each fluid position representing a maximum kill zone, inflicting maximum damage on the maximum number of opponents while keeping the defender clear of the statistically traditional trajectories of return fire. By the rote mastery of this art, your firing efficiency will rise by no less than 120%. The difference of a 63% increase to lethal proficiency makes the master of the gun katas an adversary not to be taken lightly. "
And of course, the Dark Knight.
Exhibit A:
Anyway, so after we watched the video, we got a long lecture about the significance of the TV at the beginning and the end of the movie, and how Baz Luhrmann is blaming the media for Romeo and Juliet. I saw ms Goodman's paper she wrote about it in grad school. Good stuff, but I smiled to myself when I saw the corrections her teacher had made to it. It was some of the same stuff she writes on our work.
After school was voice and body, and I managed to royally screw over the guy's Ensemble song about fifty times, whether with missing cues or movements, or just plain crappy singing. Wasn't the most fun session I've ever had, especially since Raynard was starting to have a cow.
Anyway, I'm tired and sore, and I'm gonna hit the sack in a few. It's been a long day....
Here we go again.
Actor's Salute:
Christian Bale
Whether it's befriending a kamikaze (above, Empire of the Sun), singing out as a Newsie, or attempting to feed a stray cat to an ATM (American Psycho), Christian Bale exhibits excellence in all his films. The man has style. He knows his stuff, has chops, and he also knows how to pick good roles, unlike some actors. He's a favorite in my book.
Newsies:
"I can't be something I'm not."
"What, a scab?"
"No. Smart"
Business Card Psycho
Reign of Fire: "Forget the bird and use the bloody scope, you wanker!"
Equilibrium
John Preston. Grammaton Cleric.
"The gun katas. Through analysis of thousands of recorded gunfights, the Cleric has determined that the geometric distribution of antagonists in any gun battle is a statistically predictable element. The gun kata treats the gun as a total weapon, each fluid position representing a maximum kill zone, inflicting maximum damage on the maximum number of opponents while keeping the defender clear of the statistically traditional trajectories of return fire. By the rote mastery of this art, your firing efficiency will rise by no less than 120%. The difference of a 63% increase to lethal proficiency makes the master of the gun katas an adversary not to be taken lightly. "
And of course, the Dark Knight.