“Into The Wild”

The other day I saw a film. What is this film called, well “Into The Wild” based on the book by Jon Krakauer. The book is about Christopher McCandles. Christopher was a bright one lad with a lot a head of him however, his childhood was troubled, due to a abusive father and secretive parents.

Christopher decided one day to give up his trust fund and go tramping, across America. On his travels he meets many people including fellow trampers and a leather maker. Touch there hearts as he lives with them. For those of you tramping is when you pack up with the essentials and live with what you have.

Why? Christopher was searching. Searching for what? Happiness, which lead him to Alaska. And after spending 9 weeks in Alaska, he got poisoned by Wild Sweet Pea. However what he was searching for he found in his traveling, “Happiness is real, only when share”.

So this got me thinking, about what I want out of life…yes I know I am only 16 and I am not dreaming. I WANT TO LIVE. I WANT TO SEE THE WORLD. this is my dream, being a super tramp. Christopher Johnson McCandles you are my hero, and I will learn from your mistakes. You are SUPERTRAMP!

So I have found a way of copping with all the stresses of exams and life, some people have music and writing, mine is movies, and with the introduction of Netflix into the household this is much easier than normal.

The day is Sunday, I have just come back from a long night of partying with my Jamboree mates, turn on my xbox to have a sesh on COD but I remember that Netflix is on here and so I have a look to see what movies are on here. Then I see it the film that starts my film sesh of 7 and a half hours...that film The Usual Suspects, if you have not heard of it then it is a must see. Following that film, I saw The Godfather, and after playing Marlone Brando's "The Don" I thought, I gotta watch that and didn't release that it was a 3 hour film, next was Taxidriver, one of Robert De Nero's best performances.

The reason I'm writing about this is not to tell you have great my taste in films is or that I have a passion for great filmtography or the geniuses behind these films are revolutionaries in the filming industry, no, becuase no matter if your a drama student or have no education in the dramatic arts you can still enjoy a good movie. But I'm telling you that when your struggleing with something, or getting stressed, always find time to do the things that keep you sane and calm. Good luck.

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Earth Hour

 

So what you all doing on the 31st march…I know exactly what you should be doing and that is WWF’s Earth Hour.

WWF’s Earth Hour is a simple idea that’s quickly turned into a global phenomenon. Hundreds of millions of people turning off their lights for one hour, on the same night, all across the planet.

So when is it in the UK, well I can tell you that, it’s 8:30 for an hour.

Oh but that's boring no s I won’t be able to see anything it’ll be all dark…well use some candles then, because that is what your ancestors used to use, you can also think of this as an opportunity to get to know and talk to your family, by playing a board game by candle light or even spend it talking to them. If you want anymore information on Earth Hour, or sign up to it then click on this link -> http://www.earthhour.org/

Emmerdale – the village that has problems, oh wait all soap villages do.

As a 16 year old, I like nothing better than to sit on my bottom drinking Coke and munching on a family sized packet of crisps, which everyone knows I’m not going to share. So who would dare disturb me while I'm in the trance like state? The answer to that is simple question, the only women who every teenage boy is afraid of...their mother, yes the woman who brought them into the world, and nags at them for the rest of their time on it. So at 7 o’clock every evening, the dredged sound of footsteps and then the door opens to the living room, and she appears in the door way to kick you off the sofa and change the channel from a very funny episode of The Big Band Theory, but to the worst of all the channels ITV - not paid for by the public so they feel it’s their duty to cover of television sets with what plainly is just rubbish.

So now the program has started and I’m forced to sit through half an hour of poor acting and a predictable story line, with Viv’s materialistic lifestyle and the love triangle between Marlon, Paddy and Rona, this is follows the unwritten rules of all soaps. And that is all characters must have a problem that lasts about a year, then once that year is up there shall die in an idiotic fashion, on which the whole street must stay in a month’s mourning period.

So it’s now half way through and I’m half dead lying on the sofa as if I’m on my deaf bed, but the now the add break is on and you have 2 minutes and 43 seconds to recover and see the next 15 minutes of what may reduce your brain to a squishy, grey pulp.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and here we go, with the another quarter of an hour torture session by the writers of the dullest TV in the world, so how do you survive this, easy make conversation with your surrounding people as to drown out the hideous noise that is extruding from your television set.

Now you find yourself counting down the minutes to the end of this horrific show.

And so the show ends, with around 20 people dying and 50 injured, during a fire, or bomb attack, but the compulsive desire to watch the omnibus and the next episode and hour later is too great that you must see what happens next.

THE GLADIATOR WHO DEFIED AN EMPIRE

Gladiator – 2000

 

From Richard Harris’s inspiring but short entrance on the screen to the unlikely ending to the film, Ridley Scott certainly has made a name for himself with this film, and so has the superb Russell Crowe, with the role of “The Spanion”.

I found this film most exhilarating and refreshing giving a whole new standard for the Roman era of films, completing with such likes as Ben Hur and the and the acclaimed TV series of “Spartacus  Blood and Sand” even now 12 years later it is still brilliant with spectacular special effects this is a master piece of a film.

As I am not a big fan of Joaquin Phoenix, I found his character arrogant and annoying to watch, but that was his character but portrayed well by Joaquin, but I take my hat of to him because a role like that is hard to play.

12 years later and its still getting 8/10.

a iconic yet moving film by Ridley Scott.