The Social Network

The Social Network Blog
The Social Network is about the making of Facebook. It was made by this guy attending a pretigious school in the East of the United States about ten years ago.Mark Zuckberg's girlfriend just broke up with himfor being rude and non-existent in their relationship.Mark wants payback so he goes on his internetblog and bad mouths her the entire night. The next night he goes back on his blog, drunk and angry he startscomparing girls at his school to variousfarm animals and sends it out to the rest of his peers. Mark is confronted by a bunch of people telling him what a bad person he is asked to take the site down. Mark didn't take it down though, he only just added more names and more animals to compare them to. Later in the year, Mark is approached by two twin brothers, they asked him to make a site kinda like myspace but only for college students. Mark and his best friend both become intrigued by the idea to do the same thing but they tweaked it so it wasn't exactly like the site that the twins asked him to make.  Zuckerberg and his friend are taken to lawsuit by the twins after a while for allegidely copying the program that they origionally hired Mark to make for them. Mark and his friend enlist someone to invest in their website called The Facebook. Their new associate told them to change their name to Facebook instead of The Facebook because it sounded cleaner and more upbeat. The movie goes through a the entire story and lawsuit of Facebook that Mark Zuckerburg had to deal with.
I thought this movie was really boring. It was slow and it seemed to take its time getting to the interesting things such as when Mark bought a house, the parties and the drinking and smoking and girls and all that stuff was way more intersting than the lawsuit  that was upon them. However, showing the drinking and the partying made me feel like Mark didn't care about his company as much as he was lead on to have cared in the first part of the movie. Justin Timberlake was, of course, gorgeous in the movie but he didn't do a great job of acting like the sophisticated associate that the character he was playing acted as in real life. I probably wouldn't recconmend this movie just because of the slow plot line. I was bored.

Wall-E

 Wall-E was about a small robot in the future cleaning up our world because it is over polluted. The little robots name is Wall-E, all of the other robots like him are broken down and no longer working. Him and his bug friend are the only ones on Earth that are still alive, the population of the world is floating in space in a resort-like spaceship controlled by robots. Because the entire spacecraft is managed by by computers, the population is completely morbidly obese. Meanwhile, Wall-E is back on Earth picking up trash when another robot, named Eva is sent to find plant life so the whole human race can come back and live on the planet. Wall-E falls instantly in love with Eva, and she is reluctant  to do the same, although she ends up loving him by the end of the movie. Wall-E shows Eva a plant that he found and Eva takes it back to the spaceship. Wall-E, seeing Eva leaving gets on the spaceship so he can be with Eva. When Wall-E gets onto the spaceship he sees how everyone has gotten very lazy and fat. The entire space craft is ran by robots, clean up ladies, waiters, and chefs, even the pilot is a robot. The population rides around on space chairs and no one had stood on their feet in weeks. The people don't even have their own children anymore. They are birthed by eggs that are fertile and are born out of incubators. As soon as Eva gives the pilot the plant, she shuts down and gets sent to storage with other robots. Wall-E, seeing his love get sent to storage, follows her there and accidentally turns on all of the robots in the storage area and they start running amongst throughout the ship.
       Wall-E was a really good movie for a Pixar Animation, normally I dislike Pixar, but the effects and the fact that it was essantially a silent movie really made me happy, and gave me hope for future Pixar movies.I felt really good about the making of Wall-E because it really opened the viewers eyes up to how populated we are all making the world, and how obesity is on a high rise. This movie really hit two birds with one stone.

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

I remember watching eternal sunshine of the spotless mind my freshman year the morning after homecoming but I don't remember making the connections that I did when we watched this movie in class. I absolutely adore this movie, the acting was fantastic, but I think the thing that I liked most was the story line. The plot of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was basically that Joel is a normal guy who is living a boring life but then he meets clementine. Clementine is different, she has weird hair does strange things and wears weird clothes, she works at a book store and tries to live her life as extravagant as possible. Well clementine and Joel have a falling out, they love each other but Clementine comes home late one night drunk and Joel had been waiting for her for hours, he tells her that the only way she makes friends is by sleeping with them, Clementine leaves and ends up getting Joel erased from her memory without telling him. So, on Valentines Day Joel goes to Barnes and Nobel to give Clementine a Valentines Day gift, but she doesn't remember him. He gets so confused and his friends end up telling him how they received a letter from the memory eraser company letting them know what was going on; Clementine got her memory erased and Joel can't find out. Joel ends up finding out and wants to remove all of that hurt that Clementine had put on him, so he decides to get his memory erased by the same company. In the morning Joel wakes up and meets Clementine...again. The scene replays of the day they first met, and at the end Clementine reads her mails and it says that they she had her memory erased, she freaks out to Joel and Joel goes home to his apartment where the same letter is waiting...

Animal Farm

Animal Farm by George Orwell was incredibly boring. However, at the end of the book I was rewarded by making so many connections to today's political problems even though it was a book set in 1940. Being someone who is interested in dictatorship and I found it interesting that George Orwell portrayed a government with farm animals as the main citizens. The parts that I didn't understand a whole lot was why he included the part about Molly and her bows, and why the windmill was important. Although, I thought it was really cool how at the end of the book the pigs morphed into humans. The way I pictured it was that the pigs were still legitimate animals but in all of the other farm animals' eyes, they saw humans because that's how Jones treated them. The allusion of animal farm portrayed to Nazi Germany, or Russia, however, turning the citizens into animals made it very hard to picture the same things happening to people which made the books plot line seem more fiction than it actually was. I think that the part where I actually realized that the animals 

Animal Farm by George Orwell was incredibly boring. However, at the end of the book I was rewarded by making so many connections to today's political problems even though it was a book set in 1940. Being someone who is interested in dictatorship and I found it interesting that George Orwell portrayed a government with farm animals as the main citizens. The parts that I didn't understand a whole lot was why he included the part about Molly and her bows, and why the windmill was important. Although, I thought it was really cool how at the end of the book the pigs morphed into humans. The way I pictured it was that the pigs were still legitimate animals but in all of the other farm animals' eyes, they saw humans because that's how Jones treated them. The allusion of animal farm portrayed to Nazi Germany, or Russia, however, turning the citizens into animals made it very hard to picture the same things happening to people which made the books plot line seem more fiction than it actually was. I think that the part where I actually realized that the animals were starting to act like humans is when the pigs got drunk and Napoleon ran out wearing one of Jones' hats. The only part that I could really connect to a government issue is when Napoleon had the chickens killed on the spot by the dogs. I can on next that to Nazi Germany because hitter used to have Jews killed on the spot by his army members. In this case, Napolean's army members are his dogs. I would say that most students are incredibly bored and annoyed that it is a requirement to read Animal Farm in English class, however, if we were to read it in a history class, it will still be as boring as it would be I English, but the students would be able to connect more to the book after learning about nazi Germany than they would be able yo connect with of just a reading assignment in English class.

           In all, Animal farm is a really boring book about animals as dictators, but it portrays the pasts governments well, and is an example of what an allusion is for students, because it connects to hints we learned in history class.

Moulin Rouge Reaction Piece

Moulin Rouge is set in France during the 1800s. Although they party a lot in the movie the events are fictional. The whole movie is is either inside the Moulin Rouge Lounge or in Christian's apartment.
     Some film techniques that I noticed were used, is at the very beginning, it shows a conductor and curtains, at the end of the symphony, the camera is zoomed into the curtains, which takes the viewer into the story which is the movie. Another film techniques that I realized were used was when the gentlemen inside the club were told to throw their hats up into the air. The camera shows them taking off their hats and throwing them into the air and then it zooms out and shows the men taking off their hats again and throwing them up into the air. Farther into the movie, when Christian is singing to Satine, you see him jumo off of the roof of the elephant room onto to Eiffel Tower, and spin around on top of it. The last film technique that I spotted was at the end of the movie. It was when the owner of the Moulin Rouge throws the Duke's gun out the window and it hits the Eiffel Tower. This film technique gives the viewer a funny but reassuring take on the movie and shows that Christian and Satine are safe once and for all.
    I thought it was a weird touch that the music that was used in the film wasn't old. It featured newer artists like Madonna and Nirvana. The music was like this because love is a timeless belief, music is too. Another reason that newer music could have been used in the film is to receive a younger audience, and so more people connect with the film.
     Using a typewriter in the movie gave the film a point of view. It makes the viewer keep in mind that this is Christian's story and point of view.
     The theme of the Moulin Rouge is the greatest thing about love is to love and be loved.

Effective Writing Piece

Graduating high school is the beginning, it's a new start, on a clean slate where no one knows who you are. Whoever you were in high school will mean nothing once you walk across the stage in front of the people that made the past four years a living hell for you, and all of their adoring family and friends fanning themselves with the paper programs that will be left behind. Whatever mark you made in high school will be forgotten. Nobody cares how popular you were in the past years or what kind of experiences you had. Only you care. In order to get through high school successfully you need to forget about peoples opinions and accept everyone for who they are. Once you throw your hat high into the air, it takes all of the bricks, criticisms, and the weird looks that had all built up and vaporizes. Graduating high school is the beginning.

Most Effective Movie

     The movie Blackfish changed my life. It was a documentary about how animals are treated in Sea World. It focused a  whale hat has killed three of its trainers in the past couple of years. They talked about how the living conditions of the whale was terrible and that it made his behavior reflect on it. This movie made such an impact on my life because I have always been interested in animal behavior, this movie completely peaked my interest. I went and saw it with a couple of friends in downtown Portland and it impacted all of us. One of my friends, the more naive one, wants to write a letter to the president about how dangerous animal behavior in the U.S., reflects on their keeping conditions. There were other stories about how a couple of dolphins went crazy on one of their trainers, probably because of how they were kept when they weren't in a show.