Afloat

Although i was not there for the first part of the movie i loved the part where George Clooney and his friends are about to be killed when the dam breaks. It was funny to see how one minute George is praying for gods help, and the next he says the whole thing with the dam breaking was science and that i all. I liked this scene the best because it was funny and the guys played the part well. I liked how the men still cracked jokes even when they where in trouble. Overall i really liked the movie and i thought it was cool to see how closely related this movie was to the odyssey.

Embracing Life

Seeing the beautiful glistening sun after months of rain was like a small child running into her fathers arms for the first time. Seeing the happy smile break across her fathers face as they run across the fresh mowed lawn to embrace one another.

Of Mice and Men video post

Assignment Overview

I haven't made alot of progress though but i do know who will be in my group and we are pretty sure about when we would like to film the movie. My group for the movie project wil inlcude me, Ellie, and Mya. We have brain stormed some ideas about who we would like to play in the trailer. I would like to be George, Ellie wants to be Slim, and Mia will be Lennie. I also would like to see if one of my other friends can help out in the movie to so that we arent short handed and we have enough people. I hope to film the trailer sometime this weekend, becasue during the school week will be to hectic. Some of the things that i hope to do is introduce all the characters in the beginning and then go into the trailer, and make it really exciting. Overall i 'm still figuring out alot of things about what we want to do with the trailer but i'm super excited and really glad that Mrs. Gilman assigned us this project.

The Notebook / Romeo and Juliet

This trailer reminds me of Romeo and Juliet because of how much they really love one another. Noah and Ally where from two totally separate lives. Ally was wealthy and Noah was poor. In Romeo and Juliet both of them are from the same class but their parents despise one another. In the Notebook Noah and Ally fall in love but Allys parents do not want her going out with him. Ally must move away and forget about Noah. She finds someone who she ends up falling in love with and her parents very much approve. In Romeo and Juliet, Their parents would never have agreed to let them get married, and Juliet's parents want her to marry Paris who she does not love. In the end Ally comes back to Noah and they die together after living a long and happy life. Both Romeo and Juliet love each other so much they are willing to give up their lives for one another, just like ally is willing to give up everything for Noah.



* i found this trailer when i looked up the Notebook on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3G3fILPQAU

Pictures are worth a 1,000 words!

This picture was taken by myself. This picture reminds me of Romeo and Juliet because both Romeo and Juliet were not allowed to be together. Their lives were so different and yet they were alike in many ways. This pictures represents their life. Its like they have a wall between one another, or that how their parents would like it to be. Overall this picture reminded me of Romeo and Juliet because of how they are supposed to be apart yet they love each other so much that they are willing to risk their lives to stay together.

Scene Two Romantics

My favorite scene in act two of Romeo and Juliet is the balcony scene. This scene is my favorite because i love the way they speak to one another. The way Shakespeare wrote it was so poetic and romantic but yet it was still funny at parts. In this scene Romeo cannot stand to be away from Juliet so he climbs up to her balcony and starts speaking to her. At first Romeo is talking softly so Juliet does not here him. She starts talking about how she loves Romeo, when she finds him on her balcony. They talk for a while and they decide they will wed the next afternoon. I think this scene will affect both Romeo and Juliet greatly. I think this will affect them because they both want to marry one another but neither of there family's know. This could cause great problems because in the future if their parents found out they could be banished from seeing one another, and they could get in trouble because they wont stop seeing one another. I think that this scene opens up everything to go wrong from then on. Their love just is not made to work, so when they have balcony scenes like this you know that they future wont be good when their parents find out. If i were Juliet in this situation i think that i would would be very excited that Romeo came back to see me. At the same time though i would be very frightened for because Romeo snuck up on me like that. my reaction would be both confusion, frustration because i know he shouldn't be here, and love. Overall though if i where Juliet the love would win over and the scene would most likely play out for me just like it did in the book. Overall i am thoroughly enjoying Romeo and Juliet and cannot wait to read more!