Blog 15

First day of class, I walked in the room thinking that I should expect anything. First days are always the toughest and the most quietest. Everyone is new to you. You have no idea what their thinking or plotting.  When Professor Luke introduced himself, I honestly couldn’t understand what he was saying. When Luke said that we have blog almost everything online, I was so angry. I wanted to pull my hair off. I thought that writing these blogs online is a complete waste of time. As time went by, day after day I didn’t really get into the habit posting stuff online. It started to become annoying because I felt I was behind. As the semester progressed, ENG became a fun and enjoyable class. Watching movies and blogging for me didn’t really work to my advantage, although I was more of a visual learner. When I was blogging I had to go back for key details in the movies by looking it up on YouTube. In this class I got to know everyone a little by little. Since been in cluster was like being in high school all over again, I got to feel like an immature teenager once again thanks to Mr. Luciano. He was the only one that provoked and pushed me to brink of losing myself. It was really fun though, having someone to remind you of the good old days. As for everyone else they were just normal ordinary people except for Mr. Millers, he made this class really memorable. I got almost lifetime worth of laughter. 

Blog 13: Minority Report Response

     A world that is perfect, great in every way, no murder in sight, predetermined by the “precogs. I think society should just simply care for security and nothing else. I really believe that we should all be safe while roaming the streets or whether we’re in some public place. I would rather give up my privacy, because at least I know I’ll be safe wherever I go.  The movie minority report depicts a perfect Utopian world, a place where no crimes have taken place since the start of Precrime task force. The “Precogs” are these mutated human with the power to see the future. Under director Lamar Burgess, chief of the task force John Anderton and other officers would analyze and interpret these visions to find out where it would happen and track down the murders so they could intercept and act fast so that it never happened. As the movie goes deeper and deeper into the main idea, we see that society has come to accept a world where the government invades your privacy. Killers are being arrested and put in to chambers and locked down like there frozen for life. People are safer because they choose to have a system like that. For example when “Howard Marks is in bedroom putting on his glasses when a group of armed police officers breaks in, frantically tackles him, and slaps restraints on him” because he “is under arrest for the future murder of Sarah Marks and Donald Dubin, a crime passion that was to occur just seconds in the future when he found his wife in bed with her lover.” Although I think we should just care for security and forget about people’s freewill, the Precrime system is very much flawed. I think that it was the right decision for Mr. Marks to be put in jail because we all want safety.  Then if this is so true then we don’t have free will, we’re all just all human working like a computer. In the movie John Anderton is being set up. As those visions started playing, he is immediately confused and shock because he is for seen killing Leo Crow. He is being set up because Director Lamar wanted him to find this guy and kill him because he thinks that he killed his son. The system is flawed because he finds out that his future can be averted, which puts doubt in because he may have a secondary future.

Special Project: MOMI activity

During your visit to the Museum of the Moving Image, you must have realized that both the layout of the museum and the course of the guides' tour create a narrative. Discuss what you understood that narrative to be and what your reaction (positive, negative, skeptical) is to this narrative.

     During the visit to the museum of the moving image I was impressed with the things I saw. The Phenakistoscope was so cool. I was literally so into the spinning wheel. The snakes were like going into this deep black hole and if you spin it in the other direction its looks like their coming out. The Feral Fount was so amazing. It was the best thing I ever saw. Dough was like passing through the hand. It had flashing lights and it was spinning really fast. The Charlie Chaplin penny arcade was like looking into a slideshow. You have to manually turn it to see the picture go really fast. It had all his movies stored on mini films. The Linda Blair doll was in the movie the Exorcist. It was so cool. I loved that scary doll, it was so real and it looks like it was alive. I saw the Freddy Kruger hand claws. It was so amazing. I wish I had it for Halloween. They had Freddy’s chest and his huge shirt. I loved the Egyptian theater. The drawings was really well done.

Blog12: Outline for Major Paper

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The Godfather portray the life in New York City During 1945 to 1955. It shows how the economic financial   status of how people lived during that time.

 It shows how people were shopping for Christmas Gifts, going to movies and living a decent life.

Blog 10: Gattaca

In the essay “The Man on the Moon” George J. Annas writes that “The New ideal human. The genetically engineered ‘superior’ human, will almost certainly come to represent ‘the other’. If history is a guide, either the humans will view the ‘better’ humans as the other and seek to control or destroy them, or vice versa” (236). Gattaca is a futurist movie about how humans are genetically engineered to be perfect, so they aren’t born with any risks of ever being sick or even at risk of getting some kind of disease. I agree with Annas hypothesis because normal flawed humans beings would view the perfect humans as the other because they would be able to do the things we can’t even do. I sure the government would want to control them, use and bend them for their evil purposes. Then again I think as time goes by they might be a lot more perfect “superior” humans around and they might want turn against us, flawed humans and eliminate us because they might see us as the other and might think of us as incapable of doing every perfect. For example Hitler one of the most horrific devils of his time murdered millions of Jews. I think he felt that the Jews were somehow better than his own so he felt threatened by them; I guess he saw them as his other so he took action. Another example is the inventor of apple, Steve Jobs came out with the iPhone and the iPad, millions of people went crazy trying to obtain these items because I think they felt like the other around others that had these gadgets, so they went out all the way to get it to look superior. In some ways people like Steve Jobs is trying control everyone because he wants everyone to have his gadgets, so he might invent something else to make us nuts. In the movie Gattaca Vincent as a little boy was said to be flawed and he going to die when he thirty. The parents had another son which they had fixed him so he will be perfect in every way. As the movie progressed we see that he tried to be like a Superior human. He pretended to be someone else to get in. Vincent got to go up in space where he wanted to go, but his brother died because he wasn’t perfect forever. Something went wrong with him. Vincent proved that even a flawed human is very capable of anything just like a superior is. We humans are born flawed. We aren’t perfect, but that why each of us is different; we each can do something someone else can’t do. We shouldn’t play god and alter and fix every single flaw because sooner or later we all will get what coming to us. It might be good but it will ultimately defeat the purpose of being human, therefore we’ll be like robots walking around.

Blog 9: Hero "Are we that in need of a Hero"

In the movie Hero we see a perfectly illustrated fascination of what we consider a hero. I think a hero is someone who puts innocent lives first instead of his own, sacrificing himself to save people from dangerous and impossible situations. People come from all different backgrounds, but we as humans weren’t meant to be perfect. Sometimes people choose to live in their own fantasy illusions, when things aren’t so good. We believe what we want to believe, no matter how misguided we may seem. The movie Hero portrays two bums Bernie Laplante and John Bubber, Laplante being the real protagonist who saved the lives of the people on the burning plane and Bubber the homeless guy that pretends to be the hero. In the movie we see how the media portrays a hero and makes him America’s center of attention.

In the movie Hero, Bernie Laplante wasn’t perfect or respectable. He was a man that did everything he could to survive. He didn’t give a dam, but in some ways, he still cared about what his son thought of him. I think he wanted to be there for him, but he kept screwing up.

           Laplante was on his way to pick up his son when his old car broke down and suddenly a plane crashed right in front of him on the bridge. He went down to and opened the door to let the people out and he saved them from burning up. He asked his friend Chick in the bar “What would you say if I ran into a burning plane and saved a bunch of people and risk my life” Chick said that “you wouldn’t do it. It’s a character thing.” I think a hero is someone who would risk his life to save to save others, but I wouldn’t believe Bernie Laplante because he didn’t look like a hero. In the public eyes he wouldn’t be a hero because he isn’t good looking or properly dressed.

          John Bubber this homeless guy who only had his car was driving and he gave Laplante a ride. Laplante told him his story about what had happed at the crash site and he also gave him his one sided shoe since he lost the other side. Later America wanted to know who their Hero was, so I think that Bernie was afraid of coming out and saying that he was the hero who saved those people, then again it was clear that he knew that it was “a character thing” and he didn’t have the looks and charms to be that hero. I think people shouldn’t judge, it’s like the saying “don’t judge a book by its cover.” That’s exactly what people would have done if Bernie had being revealed to America as the real hero. I think that’s more of the reason he kept a low profile.
Gale Gayley the big time reporter was one of victims on flight 104, that crashed, but she wanted to know who saved her. Her television station wanted higher ratings so they offer a million dollars for an exclusive interview with the hero that comes forward. John Bubber came forward, because he had the other side of the shoe.
 
        The media instantly makes a big deal out of him by turning into a celebrity because he was a solider who saved people in Vietnam. John Bubber said “that we are all heroes if you catch us at the right time.” I think he was saying that you have to be where something terrible going to happen to play the hero role. The director made it very convincing that John was the hero all because he looked great and acted the part. Soon John Bubber was idealistic hero we all wanted, because people saw him as well dressed, good looking person who had great hair.
 In today’s society we would look at the news and believe everything they say. In the movie Laplante said that “you can’t believe everything you hear on the news.” Just like the media made it very believable, although we knew that Bernie Laplante was the real hero and John wasn’t, people wouldn’t accept Laplante because he didn’t fit the ideal image of a hero. In the movie his wife said “it’s against his religion to stick his neck out.” 
The media made John into this guy who could do anything. I don’t think it was fair for John to get the credit for been a hero, but in the movie we see that Laplante didn’t want to be in the spot lights. He wanted to be left alone, but he wanted the money so he could help his family, his son.

        We all want a hero in our lives that can save us from this world we live in, full of violent killing, cursing, lies and betrayal, sex and drugs. In the end of the movie John Bubber couldn’t handle lying to people anymore so he wanted to jump off the building to his doom. Then Laplante comes to talk him and save him from jumping off, but then it becomes clear to Gale who’s emotionally attach to Bubber that he isn’t the hero who save her. Then she talks to Laplante who confesses that he was the one who did. But she went along with the story because as reporter she knew that Laplante couldn’t be the hero America dreamed of having. She knew that people out there wouldn’t accept a person like Laplante.

Blog 8: Follow up

     A day I will never forget, I was in high school, going to my next class, the usually up the stairs when this girl wouldn’t let me pass. I didn’t understand the reason why she didn’t let me pass. I guess at the time I was too short and I didn’t dress as good as other students would. I would only get dressed up when I feel like. My mood reflects what I ware and how I feel. Anyways the other days were the same, she kept waiting there all the time and it was the same old song every day. There was only one entrance up to the attic. I didn’t hate her, I didn’t know her, and she kept pissing me off. One day I was heading up the stairs, but I was late to class, so I thought I was in luck, the crazy girl isn’t going to be there and I was going up and she still was there. I guess she was one of those girls that liked to cut class. That same day a guy was in a hurry running down the stairs and I was held there waiting arguing with her when this guy hit her by accident and she fell down the stairs. She was more on the upward position facing down towards me and she took a hard fall. I didn’t give a dam; I left her there because they were no cameras. I went to class as usually.