"C'mon, let's go punch some fish!"
"You gotta look mean or people won't respect you. White people will run all over you if you don't look mean. You gotta look like a warrior! Like you just came back from killing a buffalo!"
"But our tribe never hunted buffalo. We were fishermen."
"What? You want to look like you just came back from catching a fish?"
Been a while since I reviewed a film on here, isn't it ? Wait, no - Princess and the Frog. Still.
Just watched the film 'Smoke Signals,' with Adam Beach and Evan Adams. That was a very good movie.
Roger Ebert really captured one thing that makes the film so good: it's not self-conscious about its Native American subject matter. It simply is, a movie that depicts and exists in the realm of these Native Americans on a road trip to - where? to the past? to the future? to get some ashes. In particular, I thought the dynamic between Victor and Thomas was great, the way it developed throughout the film, and Thomas getting his whole "REAL Native American" makeover - which has like zero effect.
What I found interesting was that - well, Roger Ebert didn't mention this in his review, while to me it seemed blatantly obvious - Thomas is the medicine man. He's Black Elk, he's the shaman, the seer of their tribe, but because they're - just a couple of teenagers driving from one rez to another, he appears to be a geek that only knows about the world through TV and through thick oversized glasses.
But he's the one who tells stories. When he tells stories, he closes his eyes, and starts spinning a tale, and he's "so full of shit," because these stories haven't got a grain of truth to them, but he fills them with grandeur and vast imagery and glory so that their audience wants them to be real, so that they become truer than the very reality that was demanded. His grandmother gets it: she asks him "Tell me what happened! Tell me what will happen." and he closes his eyes, and begins to tell her.
It's really very cool.
Also, Vegetarian Times magazine? I like what you're doing and all, but, first of all, it's very pretentious to make reference to the "four healthful food groups." Also, you can use the word "healthy" once in a while, it doesn't have to be always "healthful." And you know what? why don't you just call yourselves VEGAN Times and have done with it because I like me some milk, honey and cheese! Vegetarianism is great, but - not every vegetarian is a vegan, and meat is not out to destroy the human race.
Also, the title of this entry is from a hilarious cartoon spoofing the new Avatar: the Last Airbender movie. Guys, I'm wondering whether I should vociferously boycott this film for walking all over the original cartoon, laughing at its Asian influences, and then spitting in its face - or go see it with my friends and have a good time?
Argh. Such are the conflicts I face.
So, one internship possibility fell through, but my brother's suggested another. Who knows?
Also, guys, I am officially a mild Lady Gaga fan. I just love Bad Romance.
"But our tribe never hunted buffalo. We were fishermen."
"What? You want to look like you just came back from catching a fish?"
Been a while since I reviewed a film on here, isn't it ? Wait, no - Princess and the Frog. Still.
Just watched the film 'Smoke Signals,' with Adam Beach and Evan Adams. That was a very good movie.
Roger Ebert really captured one thing that makes the film so good: it's not self-conscious about its Native American subject matter. It simply is, a movie that depicts and exists in the realm of these Native Americans on a road trip to - where? to the past? to the future? to get some ashes. In particular, I thought the dynamic between Victor and Thomas was great, the way it developed throughout the film, and Thomas getting his whole "REAL Native American" makeover - which has like zero effect.
What I found interesting was that - well, Roger Ebert didn't mention this in his review, while to me it seemed blatantly obvious - Thomas is the medicine man. He's Black Elk, he's the shaman, the seer of their tribe, but because they're - just a couple of teenagers driving from one rez to another, he appears to be a geek that only knows about the world through TV and through thick oversized glasses.
But he's the one who tells stories. When he tells stories, he closes his eyes, and starts spinning a tale, and he's "so full of shit," because these stories haven't got a grain of truth to them, but he fills them with grandeur and vast imagery and glory so that their audience wants them to be real, so that they become truer than the very reality that was demanded. His grandmother gets it: she asks him "Tell me what happened! Tell me what will happen." and he closes his eyes, and begins to tell her.
It's really very cool.
Also, Vegetarian Times magazine? I like what you're doing and all, but, first of all, it's very pretentious to make reference to the "four healthful food groups." Also, you can use the word "healthy" once in a while, it doesn't have to be always "healthful." And you know what? why don't you just call yourselves VEGAN Times and have done with it because I like me some milk, honey and cheese! Vegetarianism is great, but - not every vegetarian is a vegan, and meat is not out to destroy the human race.
Also, the title of this entry is from a hilarious cartoon spoofing the new Avatar: the Last Airbender movie. Guys, I'm wondering whether I should vociferously boycott this film for walking all over the original cartoon, laughing at its Asian influences, and then spitting in its face - or go see it with my friends and have a good time?
Argh. Such are the conflicts I face.
So, one internship possibility fell through, but my brother's suggested another. Who knows?
Also, guys, I am officially a mild Lady Gaga fan. I just love Bad Romance.