Tybalt

"What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word. As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee: Have at thee, coward!"

One of the most popular written stories of all times is Shakespeare´s Romeo and Juliet. The romance story has been adapted to a modern film named “Romeo + Juliet” in 1996. This movie has the same storyline and characters; the only thing that was changed was the time and place. Because of the modern adjustment, characters personality and way of acting was affected so they could fit the adaption. In comparison with the original story, Romeo and Juliet 1996´s characters actions seemed to be more exaggerated.  So the best adaption, role and acting of the movie was Tybalt. I could say that Tybalt was the best character portrayed in this film.

First of all Tybalt is the best adapted character in “Romeo + Juliet”. In the movie all characters changed their personality in an odd way, Tybalt personality changed in the best way he could: the badass male character. As an example, Juliet’s mother personality was changed to a crazy mother that only knows how to shout and make the ridiculous. Otherwise, Tybalt was just mad to kill Montague crew, which is just an exaggeration of the original character. Tybalt clothes are according to his character. All of Montague crew´s clothes are very weird, why would they wear Hawaiian shirts? I would not think about guns and tropical clothes mixed together. Opposite, Tybalt wore black suits which it makes you think about mafia, and obviously you would think of guns. Also Tybalt main purpose in the story was highlighted because of the adaption. In the film, the scene when Tybalt kills Mercutio was set in a good place and in a good timing, which makes remember about his hate for Montague and loyalty for his house. This scene would be the main reason for the problems getting bigger between Montague and Capulet.

He is a good model of a perfect antagonist.  In the film is very clear that Tybalt was evil from the beginning until he dies. The movie begins with a confrontation between Montague and Capulet´s crew, where Tybalt is shown as a man with no mercy. Also until the end of his life he thought of shooting Romeo.  Tybalt made the most important action to ruin main character´s life.  If Tybalt would not kill Mercutio, Romeo would not kill Tybalt so anything of the rest would not have happened. He didn’t thought about the consequences of his actions. One of the most important thing of bad people is that they do not feel empathy or they would not feel bad for anything. In other words Tybalt is a senseless person, which we can corroborate when he stabbed Mercutio.

Finally the acting skills make you believe in the character. The facial expressions, his body posture and movements are from a stereotyped villain character. The typical mouth expression with a cigarette, the evil look of the eyes and the slow way of walking are some of the characteristics of Tybalt. Also the spectators can feel his hate for Montague. When an actor is portraying well his character you can feel his/her emotions; in this case Tybalt hate´s for Montague is seen in the first scene, also at the party and until the end when he kills Mercutio.  It makes you feel that he could not be forgiven. All Tybalt´s actions makes you hate him and misunderstand him. This could not be accomplished if his acting skills were bad.

So the adaption, the good representation of a perfect antagonist and the acting of Tybalt, makes him the best character portrayed in this film. I would say that Romeo + Juliet would not be worth watching movie without this fabulous character. 

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Freytag's Pyramid

Exposition:

The main character and setting is defined. Cecilia is a daydreamer waitress who loves to watch movies at the cinema so she can escape from her life. She is married to Monk wich is a terrible husband, who doesn´t care and don´t love her. 

At the tonwn´s cinema, the movie "The Purple Rose of Cairo" is shown. So Cecilia watches the movie.

Inciting Moment

When Cecilia returns to her house, she sees her husband and a girl in the house. Cecilia decides to go away from home. Because Cecile is disappointed, she decides to watch the movie again so she can forget about her problems.

While watching the movie, Tom Baxter a character from the movie jumps out of the screen to talk to Cecilia.

Rising action

Tom Baxter is in love with Cecilia, so he decides to escape from the movie and starts dating Cecilia.

The movie is a chaos, and also the producer and Gil Shepherd (the actor that wasTom Baxter in the movie)  are involved in the case. They try to have a solution so the problem could be solved.

Complication

Gil in his search for his own creation (Tom) finds Cecilia. So finally Gil knows where Tom is.

Climax

Gil and Tom see each other. As a result they begin to fight about what was real and what was the best thing to do in this case.

Reversal

Tom wants to be real so he could love Cecilia in all aspects. Cecilia shows Tom the "real life".

Falling action

Cecilia is discovered by his husband, causing her problems and a fight between Tom and Monk. Also she begans to be a good friend of Gil.

 Tom begins to experience what life is, he accidentally gets into a date house, so he discovers another panorama of life.

Catastrophe

Gil and Cecilia fall in love.

Moment of Last Suspense

Cecilia is confused, Tom the fiction and Gil the reality are in love of her. And also she loves both. She needs to decide who she will love.

Denouement

Cecilia decides to be with Gil, because he is something that is real. So she will go with him to Hollywood.

But at last, Gil decides to go alone and leave Cecilia

So Cecilia tries to forget about all her pain in the movies again. 

What dreams may come

"What dreams may come is a great movie"

Have you ever wondered how heaven and hell look like? A movie called “What dreams may come” portrays the scenario of heaven and hell in a unique way. The story is based on the book of the same title by Richard Matheson. The combination of the story, the characters and scenarios makes this movie interesting. I can affirm that “What dreams may come” is a worth watching movie.

First, the story of this movie is great. It is very common on romantic dramas to know what will happen at the end, but in this movie it is not predictable at all. A group of unexpected events makes the spectator to question about what will happen further in the story. Also, the use of flashbacks through the film makes you understand more about the characters and their actions. The events in the narrative can make you go from laughing to crying as well.

The characters are very interesting. The way each character acts on specific situations, makes you think about human behavior. One of the questions that I made myself while watching it was: why do people act like that in painful situations? Another thing that is special about characters is their development. Through the movie, the characters evolve themselves changing their way of thinking and acting. Furthermore, the actors’ acting skills make you understand and feel the emotional events during the story.

Finally, the visual aspects are impressive. Heaven and hell are portrayed in a very unique way. In heaven, each person can live in the world they wanted to live; for example, the main character lives on his wife´s painting. The visual effects are extraordinary. As a result of the good effects used, the movie won an Oscar on this aspect. Moreover, the use of paint, mud, paper, and other strange material effects in the scenes makes the scenarios unbeatable.

The story, the characters and visual effects make this movie great. Therefore, I can say that this film is one of my favorites and also it is a worth watching movie.   

"After life, there is more"

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"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results"

"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results" 

 -  James Dean  -

James Dean was an american icon of 50´s and also is one of the greatest screen legends of american cinema.

He was born in 1931 in Marion,Indiana and later on he moved to California, where he began his major in drama. In 1951, he dropped school to be a full-time actor in comercials and in  "Hill Number One". He began to struggle in Hollywood to obtain a job. Later on he acomplished to act in a movie called "East of eden"(1995).

Thanks to his appearance in "East of Eden", he got the main role for one of the most popular teen movies. "Rebel without a cause"(1995) and "Giant" (1996) were the most important movies of his acting career. Both of these movies are distinguished as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." by  United States National Film Registry. Also he became the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in these two movies. 

On September 30 1995, James Dean died in a car accident while having a car race in California. 


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"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today" 

-James Dean-

Calling Home

It was midnight and I couldn´t sleep, next day was my first day of school and I was praying for more summer vacations. Being the whole day in my house during summer for my mother means doing cleaning and making house stuff. Sometimes I thought I really hate doing cleaning, but still that night before school I would rather prefer doing chores and being in my house than making school work.  The thoughts of denying that my precious spare time was going to decrease caused me to fell asleep.  The next day was unavoidable, the annoying sound of the alarm was bouncing in my head during a few minutes. Even though the night before I was all mad about school, while taking a shower and eating breakfast I realized that it was new semester so It was a chance for me to improve in all aspects. “I should be more organized, make better notes with nice handwriting, don´t be late, make all my homework, improve my grades” where some of the things I told to myself while I was stuck in the middle of the traffic.

Unconsciously the first period of school went by, Biology was my last period exam and I didn´t answered it well at all. I began to remember what I told to myself the first day of classes, and sadly I realized I failed to kept my promises. Although I was a little bit disappointed of myself there was still hope: Second Period. Anyway in my mind I kept asking myself:  Why the first day of all years and the first day for work we usually make promises if we know we would only be keeping them in the first weeks? Unhappily after my horrible first period I didn´t made anything to change, and in a blink of an eye third and last period was almost over. I truly began to think that maybe I would change and be better in grades for the last period, but in my mind I kept asking me, why I wasn´t giving my best for school? Does everyone that makes promises about changing themselves fail attempting it?

One day in the evening I was enjoying my time in the cafeteria just talking about dumb things, I remembered that I needed to call home. I couldn´t ever imagine what was happening in my house at that moment. “Hello” my mom answered in a very tearful voice, what´s happening mom? I could felt that I would hear something really bad. “Your uncle is in the hospital, you know he is very sick” I didn´t thought of anything else, the only thought in my mind was of failure. School finished and I couldn´t raise my grades, also the worst thing happened in the year, my uncle passed away. I realized that although he was a very hard working person, he really enjoyed his life. Also he never failed to keep his promises and he struggled until the last moment. This is one of the most important things I remember since that day: give your best until the last moment and enjoy everything you do, so you can have a happy life.

Now every time that is a new beginning I don´t promise anything to myself, I just do things while thinking about enjoying them and giving my best for doing them