tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866155982785104592024-03-05T04:26:56.516-08:00Mind the GapJaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-14684233905999963952013-06-02T20:41:00.001-07:002013-06-02T20:41:11.819-07:00Princesses: Long Island Smut
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On Sunday night I sat down with my mother and my sisters to
watch the premiere episode of Bravo! TV’s latest train-wreck of a reality show,
“Princesses: Long Island.” The show is a derivative of the ‘Real Housewives of’
franchise that turned being fame-grubbing and unemployable into a full-time
profession on TV and is singlehandedly responsible for the spike in sales of
Pinot Grigio over the last five years. Only this time around the river bend,
Bravo and Executive Producer Andy Cohen are exploiting the lives of Jewish
girls who live with their wealthy parents in Long Island as opposed to botoxed
divorcees and socialites. <o:p></o:p></div>
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These ‘charming’ ladies spout out delightfully stereotypical
phrases such as “I’m Jewish, I’m American, and I’m a Princess. Bring it on” and
“I’m not your typical Nice Jewish Girl.” Their lives revolve around living in
their parent’s mansions, shopping, pampering themselves, and the search for a
husband. The parents say things like “You should be looking to date a Doctor or
a Lawyer, someone who can take care of you” to their daughter who is moving
past her prime at the ripe age of 27. In this bubble, there is never any
discussion of jobs, or brains or anything past ‘Can I have another AmEx card,
mine’s maxed out this month’ and finding a husband that they can service with
cooking and not working for the rest of their spoiled rotten lives. <o:p></o:p></div>
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God forbid anyone treat these college-educated women like adults, or value them
for what’s inside their skull as opposed to how thick it is.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Their depiction is offensive on several levels. In one
scene, one of the girls tells the camera that her family is Reform Jewish, and
is therefore, “not really that Jewish,” and then proceeds to serve her
Modern-Orthodox friend a non-Kosher hotdog under the pretense that it is
Kosher. And this disturbed me on several levels. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m sad that the stereotype of “not really that Jewish” is
one that will probably stick to Reform Jews when in most cases that is not the
case. I know so many Reform Jews that have an unbelievable connection to their
faith that I often envy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m sad that instead of inquiring about what makes food
Kosher or not Kosher, this girl chose to deceive a friend who obviously cares
about upholding that Mitzvoth, and instead chose to be lazy about her friend’s
faith for seemingly no reason. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m sad that when Bravo TV found two girls who had been
friends since they were children from differing sects of Judaism, they decided
to make them into a punch line instead of opening up a dialogue that mainstream
America rarely gets exposed to. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m sad that instead of having any conversation at all about
Judaism that could have been complex and interesting, Bravo put up an hour long
info-mercial for what people who have never met a Jewish girl in their life
think that we behave. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But more than anything, I’m sad that we were complicit about
it as viewers. Why are we as a country more drawn to watching other people
scream at each other and act like fools than watch <i>Mad Men</i> or <i>Parks and
Recreation</i> or read a book? It’s not like we all pretend that Princesses and
Real Housewives is quality programming while secretly thinking its smut. It is
smut and everyone knows it, but we watch this garbage out of some sort of
compulsory cultural stigma, or under the guise of a guilty pleasure, or maybe
because it is just far enough removed from our lives that we don’t care. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m disappointed in myself that it didn’t even bother me until
I felt like the victim to even say anything. I can’t think or a face or
religion or ethnic group that hasn’t been victimized for the gain of TV, and
how sad is that? I want to go back to when the first episode of garbage aired
and write a protest letter to the network. I want to go back and delete all of
the episodes of the Kardashians and Honey Boo Boo out of my mind permanently,
but I can’t do that. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The only thing I can do as a viewer is vote with my
television set and stop watching. And if I can get on my soapbox, I think we
all should stop watching shows that exploit real people, no matter how complicit
these people are in the activity. I think we should demand more as viewers
until we no longer have to flip through 1,000 channels to find a single show
where women are treated like they have a brain and nobody’s race or religion is
stereotyped so blatantly. <o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Jaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-87647062009491917572013-04-26T07:21:00.001-07:002013-04-26T07:24:57.702-07:0023 Years in 23 Images. 23 years ago today, my best friend Andy was born.<br />
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Now in a normal best friend relationship, people would buy presents for their best friend for their birthday.<br />
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So instead of presents, you're getting the story of our friendship.<br />
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Andy and I met in our first year of Meshuganotes. </div>
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But we really became best friends on our first trip to JCFPA in New York. <br />
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Because he almost got himself murdered.<br />
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And every year we celebrate with a friendiversary.<br />
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Our Sophomore year Andy joined TBDBITL. <br />
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But he still had time to hang out with me.<br />
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Mostly we hung out in the basement of Fresh Express.<br />
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And Sammy was there too.<br />
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Sometimes Andy would get confused.<br />
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And sometimes he would cry for no reason.<br />
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Sometimes we fight over Baz Luhrmann.<br />
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And he would always be messy.<br />
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Happy Birthday Andy!!!! </div>
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I have a lot of problems with “self-help” books. Most of them are hocking some ridiculous diet that no one can possibly expect to follow 100% of the time and is bound to actually make you gain weight like eating nothing but paper.<br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Anytime I see a book for “60 days to 6 pack abs” or “Mastering Mastery” part of me dies a little because literature is dying too.</span></div>
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That's because the purpose of 99% of Self-Help books is to make you believe that all you really need to make your life better is spend 25.95 on Jillian Michael’s new Metabolism friendly cookbook. They want to make you buy into the latest fad diet where they tell you to eat all gluten-free almond paste in January, then tell you in March that you shouldn’t be eating fatty proteins like nuts and instead you should only each spinach and cottage cheese. And don’t worry if the $30 you spent on "The Remake Your Life Training Manuel" didn’t work because there will always be another meditation DVD for you to buy because the mega-million dollar self help business isn't actually built on fixing people; it's built on getting people to pay to "better" themselves while working to keep them essentially the same.</div>
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What is the most depressing though is how badly I want to read self-help books of actual substance. I love improving myself. Seriously. I am the person who believes if we aren’t actively trying to make ourselves do something better at all times, why are we even breathing? I fashion myself as a less annoying female version of Chris Traeger, although I am sure if you talked to most people that hang out with me, they would say I am, literally, just as annoying as he is.</div>
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Goals are the difference between people who work a boring job for a paycheck and those who see the value in all experiences. Trying to better ourselves is the difference between waking up in the morning and thinking about what lies ahead and a stoner who honestly believes that we are human/ape slaves controlled by an omnipotent alien overlord who placed us on earth to mine gold.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But too many self-help books nowadays focus too much on what you’re doing wrong, and not on why you are doing it, and what you can do to be better. Which brings me to <i>The Power of Habit</i>.</div>
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<b><i>The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and
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I can't praise this book enough. It's the perfect
combination of non-fiction storytelling with self-help guidance and
miraculously doesn't make you feel like crap for not being perfect already.
Duhigg combines the scientific dissection of success and failure in the same
way Malcolm Gladwell did in Outliers with the practical knowledge of how to
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Don’t get me wrong, I loved Outliers, but it’s not a
self-help book as much as a documentary of success. I remember in one chapter,
Gladwell writes of an experiment about how kids who were held back a grade in
Kindergarten by their parents were overwhelmingly more successful in life than
their counterparts who started Kindergarten on time, because they were older,
more mature and developed faster than their contemporaries. It was fascinating
information, but it did absolutely nothing to help me in my present situation,
especially since I started Kindergarten at age 4 and was apparently supposed to
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The brilliance of Duhigg is the same scientific information
set to practical application. Did you know that habits occur on a physiological
loop, based on Cue, Routine and Reward? Neither did I. Or that cravings are
practically impossible to overcome once they have been “cued,” so instead of
just making yourself miserable not eating a brownie, try instituting a new
routine that makes you crave exercise instead?<o:p></o:p></div>
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What I learned from Duhigg was how I could use the existing
science of habits to deal with my own problems. Charles Duhigg doesn’t know
that practically every morning since I was 12 I’ve hit the snooze button on my
alarm clock multiple times, and that on mornings I sleep in extra late I tend
to eat a breakfast of Toaster Strudels as opposed to mornings when I wake up on
time and I eat grapefruit and eggs. But that didn’t matter, because he knew
that if I changed the “cue” of hitting the snooze button, I would invariably
eat a healthier breakfast in the morning. And so far he is correct. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I seriously cannot recommend this book enough. It’s an
extremely helpful and entertaining read. You’ll see the routines in your life
in an entirely new light through Duhigg’s writing, and you’ll find it’s not so
difficult to change it for the better. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I should begin this review by saying that I don’t usually
read Young Adult fiction. And I don’t really care too much for Superhero
movies. And I’ve never seen X-Men. So there are no preexisting conditions for
me to like <i>One </i>by Leigh Ann Kopans. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>One</i> is the story
of Merrin Grey, your typical High School girl who lives in a futuristic version
of the United States where people have super powers. In this world, you need
two abilities to be a Super, like being combustible and being indestructible.
But Merrin is a One. Merrin can float, but she can’t create a vacuum to push
air away from her so she can fly. And that means she doesn’t really fit in
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You think you know where this is going don’t you? You think
this is the story of a girl who doesn’t fit in anywhere, but she finds a boy
who likes her and gives her some self worth and she fits in better. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But you’re wrong. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This isn’t a story about how boys validate girls by being in
a relationship and then they learn to rely on that feeling to feel good about
themselves. This isn’t a story about a girl who gets saved from her own poor
choices by a boy. This is a story about a girl who knows her own self worth and
knows she can achieve them on her own. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Merrin is going to fly. I could tell within the first three
pages she would fly, because anyone with the sheer amount of determination
Merrin has would ever let something so trivial as biology hold her back from
her dreams. She’s the strong-willed, in-control, and totally amazing teen
heroine we’ve all been waiting for. <br />
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In the midst of Bella’s and Ana’s, Merrin has the brains of
Hermione Granger, the conviction of Eowyn, and the scrappiness of Katniss
Everdeen. I love her. She’s not infallible, but I love her. And I’m so glad
that there are people writing about strong female characters that kiss boys and
kick ass. <o:p></o:p></div>
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People should be recommending this book to everyone they
know but especially to young people. Young girls should be learning how to act
like Merrin and young boys should be learning how to treat women like Elias
does. It was a surprising and suspenseful read with backbone. A great read!!!<o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Jaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-83799676543234652712013-02-22T17:05:00.003-08:002013-02-22T17:05:56.164-08:00So Many Epics of American Slavery, So Little Time: Part 2
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post is a continuation of my review of </span><i style="font-family: Calibri;">Lincoln</i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
and </span><i style="font-family: Calibri;">Django Unchained</i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, which you can read
by scrolling down. This review may make more sense if you read Part 1 first.
Then again it may not, since as I am constantly reminded, I have very little
control over the human brain’s ability to reason. </span></div>
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Lincoln is the story of the white man who was finally able to pull the trigger
on outlawing slavery, <i>Django Unchained</i>
is the story of the white man who taught a really angry black slave how to pull
the trigger well enough to murder everyone in sight. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Note Did you hear that Slavery was actually only officially outlawed in all 50
states a few days ago? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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story of a pair of bounty hunters, which apparently can exist outside the world
of Boba Fett. Granted this is a Tarantino Film, so nothing in it is real at
all, so maybe not. The snowman shooting team of “good guys” who brutally kill
almost everyone in the film are: a freed slave named Django (the D is silent)
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also stars Leonardo DiCaprio as gross teeth dude, Kerry Washington as the most
beautiful woman alive, and Samuel L. Jackson as the guy from Snakes on a Plane
who has time-travelled to antebellum Mississippi by using his Jedi mind powers.
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with these Mother F***ing N*****s on this Mother F***ing Plantation! </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about my review of this film: I don’t generally love Quentin Tarantino. I liked
<i>Pulp Fiction</i>, and I appreciate it as
a film, but I’d still rather watch this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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being said, I really didn’t like or “get” Django. It’s easier to start with
what I didn’t like, since that is subjective, so we will go there first. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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didn’t like that it was 3 bazillion hours long. It could have seriously ended
after the first massive shootout at Candyland, but no, they had to keep Django
alive so they could kill him. But then they could have killed him, but they had
to keep him alive so they could sell him to mine workers. But then Django has
to kill them so he can go back to the plantation and kill everyone else, for
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didn’t like that it was contrived, and really skim on plot. For example: why
didn’t they just buy Broomhilda and go? I understand that Schultz had a point
of honor about shaking hands with Leo (again, I don’t get this), but they could
have just bought her from the beginning and left! Their entire hair-brained
idea hinges on the fact that Django has to pretend like he doesn’t care about
slaves being brutally victimized, and Broomhilda pretending like she doesn’t
know Django. Both of which, are clearly impossible for the love-birds to pull
off, and unfortunately, it’s idiotic of them to assume they could do that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this major plot hole, the rest of the film is a plot-less, revenge driven
schlock fest that is only propelled by a mix of Tarantino’s White Guilt and
penchant thirst to cover everything possible in red paint and corn syrup. It’s
not that I don’t want to see Jamie Foxx enact revenge on bad people for
slavery, I just only need to see it for maybe an hour. The remaining time could
and should have been better spent on some of the witty dialogue Waltz uses on
the people who are the victims of his bounties. Now that’s entertainment. </span></div>
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didn’t like that it was excessively violent. Yes, I understand that this is a
Tarantino movie, so if there wasn’t violence we would just be watching a 25
minutes G-rated comic book about a dentist who teaches rich Plantation owner’s
about the importance of brushing and helps a young couple get back together. But
the gratuitous violence that is Tarantino is at even a new level for him in
this film. In the first final shoot-out, blood covers the white walls of Candyland
as if it were wallpaper. It’s gross.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Clearly
Quentin Tarantino has lost touch with what is good filmmaking and what is just
his own wet dream. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">However, there
were a few things that I did enjoy about the film. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">For one:
Christoph Waltz is really great in this. His performance is the reason that the
Best Supporting Actor race is in such a dead heat right now. And he really does
a great job portraying someone who detests slavery as an institution and feels
for slaves in a time when no one else did.
Given that this is only the second movie I have seen him in, that I
actually like him in the film, and that the first movie was <i>Inglourious Basterds</i>, I’d say he did a
pretty solid job. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And that is
coming from someone who is convinced that Ralph Fiennes is evil after having
seen him in <i>Schindler’s List</i>. I
screamed for Jennifer Lopez’s safety throughout the entirety of <i>Maid in Manhattan</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Run J. Lo Run!
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And I also
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Imma Take Yo
Grandpa’s Style!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">But really,
the problem with this film, is that it’s just totally driven by revenge and white
guilt. And it’s the same problem with <i>Lincoln</i>.
Both of these films are thriving on the fact that white people feel bad about
slavery and that any film made about it is automatically “good” and “important.”
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I certainly don’t
want to argue that slavery isn’t important, or that white people shouldn’t feel
bad about it. It was important, and white people should feel bad about it. But
Django and Lincoln really only fly with audiences because of this fact, and
they don’t stand up as films in their own right, at least they didn’t with me.
I can’t just accept that both of them are
“important” and thusly must be good. <i>Lincoln</i>
is wicked boring, and <i>Django Unchained</i>
is very poorly plotted out, and doesn’t really make that much sense. I can’t
just give them a pass for being important. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Really, we
should feel bad that racism is still alive in America and that we don’t do
enough to combat it. <i>THAT</i> is a movie
that would be important. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It turns out that this is the year of Best Picture pairs. A
few weeks ago Mind The Gap reviewed “Battle: Arab’s Hate America” and today’s
installment is “Battle: White Man’s Guilt” starring <i>Lincoln</i> and <i>Django Unchained</i>.
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the Trailer is What You Get for Three Hours.” These films have essentially two
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<i>Lincoln</i> is by all
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the “best” picture of the year to have:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>A-List “Serious”
Actors</b>: If there is one thing that is great about <i>Lincoln</i>, it’s Daniel Day-Lewis. He breathes so much life into a
President that many Americans don’t know more than that he was tall and “freed
the slaves” (which is a debatable factoid as is). He’s compelling and charming
as Honest Abe, but not in any way that could be deemed a caricature. DDL makes
it believable that the same man could command the White House with his mere
presence and still manage to tell a joke that centers on how the English shit. I’d like to see Obama try and tell a joke that revolves
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Also: They look A LOT alike.<br />
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Maybe this is just my outer feminist talking, but in one
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">“Really Mary, I’ve
got things to do and I don’t have time to deal with you being hysterical right
now. My emotions are really complex and you wouldn’t understand, so I won’t
even try to explain it because your feeble woman-mind probably would just get
confused. Also, I was sad in my own way, you just didn’t ‘get it’ because I
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Just so we are clear: This is what Lincoln looks like on the outside:</div>
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Poor Mary Todd. She really can’t catch a break. But let’s
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totally have more chances to win them, and <i>Les
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I'm sorry that people are so jealous of me, But I can't help it that I'm popular. </span></div>
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For me though, the best performance in <i>Lincoln</i> is Tommy Lee-Jones as Thaddeus Stevens. Maybe I just like
him because everyone likes Lincoln and Thaddeus is one of America’s greatest
bad-asses, and never gets the recognition he deserves. Or maybe it’s because he
is the only character with an actual struggle of character to face. Lincoln’s
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Thaddeus is faced with a choice of disavowing his personal beliefs for a political cause he isn’t sure is the right course, or being made to suffer the consequences of saving his reputation and possibly destroying African American suffrage. And when his sacrifice turns into political victory, my heart soared. Not like it soared at the end of <i>Argo</i>, but like close-ish. </div>
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<b>“Important”
Historical Subject Matter: </b>People on both sides of the aisle love to wax
poetic about America’s 16<sup>th</sup> Commander in Chief. Not that I have a
beef with Lincoln as a President or Person; I just have a beef with waxing
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Like, Oh My God! Lincoln was all like 'Four Score and something whatever' and I was like, That is So Fetch!</span></div>
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If there is one thing American’s love, it is their own
Americana. And Lincoln is more American than Apple Pie, Hot Dogs and pretending
like we know how to use the fireworks we bought in Indiana all put together. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to say that Lincoln was
a bad President. All I am trying to say is that I doubt his years in office
were as hunky-dory and black and white as the film makes us believe. The film
does a decent job of portraying Lincoln’s inner conflict between ending the war
and freeing the slaves as a dichotomy, but watching the film in the 21<sup>st</sup>
century grants us the hindsight he didn’t have. We already know he makes the “right”
choice to worry about slaves before worrying about a peace treaty because we
know he will get both. He didn’t know that, and it would be interesting to see
a film where maybe Lincoln had some more push-back. Most of the senators in
this film think he’s overly ambitious, but that he is ultimately doing the
right thing. Even those who oppose the choice to focus on Emancipation over
Peace felt he had the “right” idea in terms of morality. I doubt this was the
case at the time. I would have liked to have seen more people really challenging
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We do get one very interesting scene in <i>Lincoln</i>, where Abe rides through the battlefield/graveyard
following his decision to stall the Confederate delegation, postponing peace in
favor of policy. The sadness and horror registers on his face; that all of the
dead bodies that day should fall on his conscience. Spielberg tries to remedy
this in our conscience with a victory of ending slavery, but it seems a strange
ending for a film that started off with shots of men strangling each other in
the mud and stomping on their opponents faces. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I hate to burst everyone’s bubble, but anyone who took US
History in High School should know that the Civil War wasn’t really fought
about slavery. It was fought over the legitimacy of State’s Rights versus the
power of the Federal Government, and the South’s “Right” to continue their
economy, which was built on the trading of people, AKA slaves. Not that it wasn’t
important to free the slaves, because I totally agree, slavery is wrong. But
the main reason people in the South wanted to keep slavery was more because
they didn’t want to pay workers, not because they thought black people were inferior
beings. They just incidentally thought that they were. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Which leads me to my next point…</div>
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<b>Relevant Present-Day
Parallels:</b> It is absolutely impossible to watch Lincoln without seeing our
current society in every scene. In the opener, Lincoln talks to a young African
American who is calm and civilized, and clearly honored to be conversing with
the President. Then two white boys run up and blabber about seeing Abe at
Gettysburg and try to recite his speech like buffoons. Naturally Lincoln is
polite as can be, but when he leaves, the young African American recites the
speech perfectly. It sort of screams, America Will Have a Black President
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But to me what was an even more interesting parallel was the
struggle Lincoln faced with a divided Congress that was unwilling to work with
him, who were also essentially fighting about an economic issue. And how did
they get their Amendment passed? Through bribery, manipulation, and dirty
politicking. Thank Goodness America hasn’t changed that much since 1865. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Despite all of these things, the film just isn’t very interesting.
And it is really long! I was never surprised, or intrigued while watching it. I
mean it’s not like I’m expecting to see anything new, it’s a Spielberg film and
it looks like Spielberg films. It’s the same plot I remember from US History
class, and the ending isn’t really a shocker. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I love Steven Spielberg, but he may have passed his prime a
little bit. Everything he seems to be making now is just a competent, vanilla version
of the same thematics he’s been doing for years. War is still bad. Lincoln was
a good guy. But I probably could have grasped that in about an hour and a half.
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Part 2, AKA My Review of Django Unchained is coming soon!</div>
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Unless you are living under 30 proverbial culture-blocked rocks,
then you probably know that NBC’s 30 Rock had its finale on Thursday. This past
week has been a media saturation of the show’s greatest hits over the past 7
seasons, and if there is one good thing about 30 Rock ending, it’s that someone
took the time to compile that many tributes.</div>
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It means that a few other people out there love 30 Rock as
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Could it have been a better send-off? Doubtful. The
hour-long finale was packed full of references to the show's greatest hits, and
still managed to tie everything up nicely in a way we weren't expecting. If I
was the writers for The Office, I'd probably just give up, since at this point
everyone is just playing for second banana.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But now that the dust and smoke has cleared, and we will
never again be treated to new Blergs or What the What’s, there’s nothing to do
other than reminisce and try not to cry in front of my former high school’s
graduation ceremony… And maybe do a recap!<o:p></o:p></div>
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And while if you don't watch this masterpiece of film you're
missing out on what will probably win all the Emmy's next year (finger's
crossed), I'm going to break down its best moments for you anyway. Because I
feel for all of my readers that same feeling that was tragically coopted by the
romance industrial complex, which comes to us by way of the High German Luba,
from the Latin Lubere, meaning to be pleasing. I feel about all of you the way
our Anglo-Saxon fore-fathers would have felt about a hot bowl of bear meat, or
our enemies skull, split.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The episode begins with Criss and the twins going off to
work and school in the chaotic mess that has always been 30 Rock. But then
there’s silence, and Liz is left with something we know she doesn’t know what
to do with: time. And in what I’m sure is almost a verbatim chat room from the
internet, Liz gets accosted and called a "Double Hitler" while looking for advice
on adjusting to her new role in life. Best line of the exchange: “So What? My 2
year old is super gay and we love him even more than a straight child because
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Liz attempts to get a new job at NBC while Jack confronts
the ultimate question, is he happy? And it turns out, he’s not. In a montage
that is straight out of a 30 Rock fan-fic dream, we see Jack crushing work,
hobbies, family life, sex and relationships, and philanthropy in a Six Sigma
Wheel of Happiness domination, but even after he has managed to get himself an
effigy from the Occupy Wall Street movement and have Nancy Pelosi publicly
denounce him, he still isn’t happy. It’s a turn of melancholy that 30 Rock
doesn’t do very often, and feels real despite the absurdity of this world. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The emotional heart of the episode is in the goodbyes, and
they are genuinely heartbreaking. Liz and Tracy in a strip club, Jack and Liz
at the harbor and Jenna and her mirror. Each one is brilliant, and is
essentially answering the questions 30 Rock has posed from the pilot: Can TV be
successful without sacrificing quality. And it turns out, it can. Tracy says it
best in the last few minutes of the episode: <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Well, that’s our show. Not too many people watched it, but
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This show was absolutely SOLID for 7 seasons, something very
few shows even come close to, and it’s ending because it never got the
viewership it deserved. It’s the plight that will always follow the 30 Rock’s
of the world and will always keep crap like Two and A Half Men on the air.
Kenneth gives Liz a list of words that are “TV No-No words” almost all of which
apply to 30 Rock. Shows about Shows. Writer. High Concept. Immortal Characters.
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episode is the ending we have all been waiting for. Liz is back working at NBC
on a show starring Grizz (despite their sexual history), content with her adopted twins. Jack is crushing
see-through dishwashers. Jenna wins a Tony (sort-of), Tracy’s father comes back
and years into the future, Kenneth is still head of NBC, and Liz Lemon’s great-granddaughter
is pitching him the story for a show about the people at 30 Rock. It just doesn’t
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But I will try to muddle through the pain and do a New Year's Resolutions check in. Given that January is over in a few days, it seems like I should assess how well I've actually done on these resolutions. Here's a refresher of what I said I would be doing:<br />
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New Year's Resolutions:<br />
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1. Read a new book at least every month<br />
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2. Write at least one blog post a week of any length / Write in journal twice a week<br />
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3. Dress Well Everyday<br />
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4. Focus on self-improvement through all facets of life<br />
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5. Watch Downton Abbey Every Sunday at 9 PM forever <br />
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1. Technically it hasn't been an entire month yet, and so I still have time to finish this one. I started to read <em>Musicophilia</em> and got about 30 pages into it, but then I lost interest and gave up. The problem with Musicophilia is not that it's not very interesting, but that I don't understand neuroscience, hence it is not very interesting to me. I seriously recommend it to all neuroscience and music enthusiasts. Although this category isn't a total loss, because I have been reading <em>The Hobbit</em>, which I have admittedly read before, but only once, and that was in the 6th grade, so I barely remember it, and it practically counts as a new book that way. I just finished "Riddles in the Dark," and while I'm gaining some understanding the complexities of this novel, I'm rapidly losing appreciation for the first installment of the film trilogy, which is kind of a bummer. I understand why Peter Jackson is rebooting it into three films (he has run out of movies to make that have giant apes in them, and is worried about having enough savings for retirement), but I'm not exactly cool with the vast changes to the tone of the novel. I sometimes wish you didn't have to choose between a good movie and a good adaptation, but this is the Sophie's Choice we all live with. <br />
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2. So far so good on this account. I've been blogging semi-regularly, to the delight of the 10 people who read this that aren't part of my immediate family, or my Grandparents in Florida (shout out! I love you). I could probably journal more, but since that doesn't matter to all 16 of you guys, it's really none of your business anyway. <br />
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3. In fact, I have been dressing well recently. Today I'm wearing an orange J Crew cardigan with pants that are actually tailored well, and boots with heels (what the What??) so the hems don't drag on the floor. I haven't yet progressed to wearing make-up to work, but as my Father and I agreed yesterday on our way back from the mall, vanity is too time consuming for us. And we prefer marshmallows in our hot chocolate rather than clouds in coffee. Although I never say no to a good creamer. <br />
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4. This is pretty hard to quantify, since there are so many facets of life with which I could improve. For example, I have in fact been to the gym twice a week since the beginning of the New Year, and have even been eating healthier, and restricting my donut intake strictly to the weekends. However, I haven't made the slightest attempt to improve my non-existent cartography skills. Doubt I'll be sailing to Asia anytime soon. <br />
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5. This is the only category I've succeeded in 100%. What does that say about my life and choices? Probably that I need to look at them. <br />
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Final Tally: Resolutions -1.5 / Jaclyn - 3.5. Take that Naysayers! In conclusion, I urge everyone to watch the 30 Rock Finale on Thursday at 8 PM EST, and to write Julian Fellowes some hate mail.Jaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-10170109807995832352013-01-22T10:11:00.001-08:002013-01-23T06:10:23.011-08:00From A to Z - Argo and Zero Dark ThirtyIn response to my previous post about Donuts, I'm going to go a little artsy-fartsy with this post.<br />
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As part of an on-going series where I review the Oscar Best Picture nominees, I went and saw <i>Argo</i> and<i> Zero Dark Thirty</i> this past week. It's incredibly striking that in a year's worth of film, two of the nine nominees were films primarily set in Arab countries that deal with American military history and the CIA. Yet they couldn't be more different.<br />
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<i>Argo</i> tells the story of a secret extraction mission of six American diplomats from hiding in Iran. The backdrop of the Iran hostage crisis provides the historical setting for the thriller, but in many ways, this is just a film about what American's love best: Patriotism and Hollywood. For all of the reasons that people claim they like to go to the theatre, <i>Argo</i> is tapping into some of the most iconic and popular themes in Hollywood films, Hollywood itself.<br />
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This isn't anything new; people have been making films about making films for as long as film has been a medium. And Christopher Nolan would have us all believing that films are about making films. But <i>Argo</i> is attempting to do something different in its "retelling" of the classic Hollywood outsider story. Whether this is the story of how the director creates the world of the film (<i>Inception,</i> 2010), the biography of one of film's earliest visionaries (<i>Hugo, </i>2011), the foreigner in Hollywood overcoming language barriers (<i>The Artist,</i> 2011) or the story of the CIA agent who turns "actor" to do his job (<em>Argo</em> 2012), the American obsession with Hollywood has never been more prominent than it has in the last couple of years (with the possible of exception of the 1950's).<br />
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Why is that? Hollywood has been an American identity since the early 20's, which makes it hardly anything new. Let's not forget that it isn't the average American making films about Hollywood, it's Hollywood itself, rich hippies who give their income to liberal politicians and complain when their tax rates go up. Are they really just that narcissistic?<br />
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For me it is impossible to watch <i>Argo</i> and not be conscious of the fact that this film is about a Hollywood outsider, and it was produced, directed, and starred Ben Affleck, arguably one of Hollywood's biggest insiders. Don't get me wrong, I loved Ben Affleck in this film, and in my opinion, it's one of the best films of the year without doubt. But it's just impossible to watch without the understand that it is just as steeped in Hollywood history, politics and pretense as any other mainstream film this year (read: Lincoln).<br />
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Although, <i>Argo</i> doesn't seem to be making that much of an effort to hide the involvement of Hollywood in this film. If anything, Hollywood is the 2nd CIA Agent in Iran, the sixth man on the basketball court, and the extra shot gun that Michael McKean had all along in <i>Clue</i>. What's not to love? John Goodman is good natured and funny as the make-up artist who could be entrusted with ridiculously classified CIA material. Alan Arkin is delightful as the no-nonsense and vaguely Jewish director who makes a nonsense film because well, everyone wants to help America and the CIA right?<br />
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Truthfully, I didn't dislike this film at all. Actually, I really loved it. It's the best film I have seen in the Oscar race yet, and I highly recommend it. The script is well written, the cinematography is compelling, the acting is great, and the pacing is superb in a style that has been perfected by Hollywood over the years. And *<strong>SPOILER ALERT*</strong> even I shed a few tears of joy when the 747 carrying the diplomats made it far enough into the air that you knew that they were safe. Without any sarcasm at all, I would call it a masterful film. The ending 30 minutes is reminiscent to me of the ending 30 minutes of <em>Apollo 13</em>, which I consider to be one of the Top 10 best endings in film. <br />
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But even a masterful film is fallible. In a post-9/11 world, <i>Argo</i> is the kind of film that can make everyone feel good, except for anyone who is Iranian, or remembers the 1970's. I won't pretend that I know a lot about Iranian politics, and I didn't live through the Iran hostage crisis, but from what I know about it, people were angry on both sides that the United States government decided to harbor the Shah in exchange for the safety of American citizens in Iran. It's the kind of political move that could never happen nowadays, and it gets addressed for less than half a minute within the opening 10 minutes of the film and is never taken further in depth. It is unimportant to this film, which is an oversight. <br />
Our government harbored a murderer, and wouldn't negotiate with terrorists, and 52 American citizens spent 444 days in captivity, in an almost certain hell. <i>Argo</i> tries not to gloss over this showing us images of the scared hostages at the beginning, and the torture they received within the Embassy. But in the end, we get a happy ending with the safety of the six people we care about, with only an intertitle to let us know that eventually the hostages made it home, after another 357 days in captivity, skipping over the fact that when these diplomats made it home to America, the Iran Hostage Crisis was still an entire year from being over, and tensions were getting higher.<br />
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Not to mention, there was a lot of Hollywood Movie Magic that was involved in making Argo the suspenseful thriller it is. Much of the tension involving the identity of the diplomats was fabricated, as well as the scene in the bazaar, and the entire conflict at the airport, including the high speed car chase.<br />
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It's not that this film isn't necessarily not the Best Picture of the year. I really loved it, and it's the best film I've seen so far. Just that I think it is important to think about all of the different issues at pay within the film.<br />
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If <i>Argo</i> is an overly glamorized and happily resolved version of a historical triumph, in contrast, <i>Zero Dark Thirty</i> is very un-glamorous, un-Hollywood, and generally unresolved version of the manhunt for Osama Bin Laden over the past decade.<br />
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Spanning the decade that followed 9/11 up to the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, <i>Zero Dark Thirty </i>follows the journey of Maya (Jessica Chastain) as she hunts down Osama Bin Laden. Maya is tough. She has follow-through, and doesn't let anyone stand in her way, let alone CIA procedures, and don't get me wrong, the acting is great. But the characterization really isn't as great. Maya is tough, but that's about it. Sometimes we see her flinch, and we know that she cares, but she has no back story. She has no attachments she seems to really care about. <strong>*SPOILER ALERT* </strong>When her friend dies she is sad. But there is no depth to that relationship. Maya and Jessica are the only two women in the CIA brigades that we see, but very little is made out of this relationship. Maybe they are friends because they have a shared experience as women. Maybe in 2013 we don't need to outline that for the audience because it's not important they are women, it's just important they are people. <br />
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So very little is made out of Maya being a woman. NO ONE mentions it. I understand that this movie was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, but am I supposed to believe that not one of the Arab Al Quaeda prisoners would care that she was a woman? Or that government over the past decade has been completely equal to women? Maybe this isn't a movie about that, but I would argue that the very nature of centering the entire story around a female character makes it that kind of story. And while it's not like I want to see her struggle, I just want to see her do something. Maya is so surface level with her emotions, it makes it hard to genuinely feel a connection with her. <br />
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Then again, Zero Dark Thirty is so surface level as a film that it makes it hard to connect with as well. This is the story of the manhunt for Osama Bin Laden. Not the story of a CIA agent who is a woman in a man's world. Not the story of the role of the United States in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Not the story of anything except the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. This film is practically a documentary, in the way it is shot and how very little outside emotions/backstory is given to the characters or the scenario. In fact, the character who I feel most for in the film is Hakim, who is an Arab working for the CIA, and has one lone moment of emotion, when he sees the dead body of an Arab woman who was hiding Bin Laden. <br />
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I've been receiving some complaints that my blog is too focused on movie opinions that only Andy cares about. That's probably true. So in order to cater to a wider audience, this morning's post will be "more accessible." Of course, I will be writing about Donuts. (Get what I did with the use of 'wider' there?) </div>
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This post is coming to you from Russell's Point, OH (AKA The R.P.) where I've spent this lovely morning eating donuts from the Donut Shop and watching Hot Fuzz. </div>
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To begin: I wholeheartedly recommend the Donut Shop to everyone. You may have previously only known it as the Donut Shop that was once closed due to a marijuana problem, but now it is re-opened and (probably) drug free. It's located on historic Indian Lake, where you can find it by the giant Donut they have on the sign outside. In the summer, you can dock your boat right next to it, and then take your delicious fried dough out on the water and enjoy it with a nice cold beverage. </div>
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However this morning, I'm enjoying my donuts with a delicious brewed fresh hot coffee. As per my new rule, if I don't eat any donuts on the weekdays, I can have as many donuts as I want on the weekends. BUT if I do eat a donut on a weekday, I'm not allowed to have ANY donuts on the weekends. This is to stop me from eating Tim Bits at work all the time. </div>
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Luckily, I exercised enough restraint this week to earn myself 2.5 delicious doughy circles. This morning I had a half of a strawberry cake doughnut, which was fresh and sweet, a classic sour cream "cruller" which is always a personal favorite, and the cream cheese donut. This is an invention of the Donut Shop which I have yet to see anywhere else. It is your typical yeast doughnut: chewy, sweet, doughy, and the like. EXCEPT that then it is filled with cream cheese pastry cream like a cheese danish. Essentially it is the ultimate Jewish donut. And when we found each other over a year ago, my heart and my taste buds sang a duet sweeter than Barbra Streisand and Michael Crawford sing "Music of the Night." </div>
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Also a good choice at the Donut Shop, Alex's favorite Apple Fritter. Crunchy and sweet on the outside, dense and fleshy on the inside, with the perfect balance of apple and yeast flavors. I wholeheartedly endorse the raspberry jelly donuts as well, which they make iced or with powdered sugar. We had them during Hanukkah as Sufganiyot, and they were a great success. </div>
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And to accompany the donuts, we've watched <i>Hot Fuzz</i>, and have now moved on to Twin Peaks, where there Sheriff and Kyle Maclachlan are eating donuts too. Because nothing goes better with cops than donuts. </div>
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If you've never seen <i>Hot Fuzz</i>, I totally recommend it. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are funnier than in <i>Shaun of the Dead</i>, and just as many hilarious British people are in it, including Professor Slughorn, Filch the Caretaker, Bilbo Baggins, and Davy Jones. It's a plethora of recognizable faces that American's will only know as characters, but that's not the point. </div>
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I won't make any recommendations about Twin Peaks because I'm only on episode two, and it's David Lynch, so I know it's gonna get weirder. But so far, it's great. Please no spoilers in the comments. </div>
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Jaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-91869069306724858652013-01-16T20:28:00.000-08:002013-01-16T20:29:05.720-08:00Has Johnny Manziel Peaked?Disclaimer: This is not really a blog about sports. I apologize to people who thought it would be. <br />
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The other day at dinner, I had an interesting conversation with my Dad. He was discussing this years Heisman winner, a Quarterback from Texas A&M named Johnny Manziel who is apprently the first Freshman to ever win the trophy. Now personally, I know very little about the Heisman voting process, and frankly, I don't care unless someone from Ohio State wins. Although, if there is one thing that I care about, it is preserving Archie Griffin's legacy as the only Two-Time winner, because I've met him and in real life, he is super rad.<br />
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Anyway, Dad was talking about him winning, and I was obviously displeased that he is a Freshman winner, because this gives him at least two if not three more chances to win the Heisman again, and this is not good for the Buckeye legacy. Luckily for me, Dad thinks that Archie's record should be fine, because he doubts that Manziel will ever win it again because of something about other players and fame and football, and yada yada yada. <br />
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Without really giving it much thought I said, "That's good, I don't want him to win it again." To which my Dad replied, "Good for you, but how do you think it feels to be a Freshman in college and know that your life has peaked?"<br />
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And it got me to thinking, do our lives peak? And if so, are we aware of it when it happens? When I make a batch of zucchini spice cupcakes for Thanksgiving with a Cream Cheese frosting and everyone adores them, does the thought cross my mind that these cupcakes will probably be the best spice cupcakes I ever make? It gets worse: Do you ever realize when you are in college that these might be the happiest, best-looking, free-est days of your life? And if you don't realize it when it happens, will you only look back on your life with longing for the past? Doesn't that just make us all Winston Smith living in <i>1984</i>?<br />
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But the alternative is worse isn't it? what if instead of looking back at your life and realizing your best days are behind you, you are Johnny Manziel? What if for some reason you know that this may be as good at football as you are ever going to get, and you are unlikely to ever win another Heisman, or play as a professional Quarterback? Do you relish the few brief moments you have that you know will be your best, or do you despair as you look into the future?<br />
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There's a scene in <i>Pirate Radio </i>where Phillip Seymour Hoffman tells Young Karl that the best days of Rock and Roll are behind them, and that Rock and Roll is dead. He thinks that the heyday is over, and the best it ever was going to get is going to be is The Kinks. The film is set in 1966.<br />
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It seems to me that thinking you have peaked is the reason that one peaks. The minute you decide that you've reached your full potential, is when you unconsciously decide to leave part of it untapped forever.<br />
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My personal hero, Ina Garten, started out her career at Stanford University studying economics. She married, earned a job working at the White House, climbed the ladder at the Office of Management and Budget and worked for the likes of Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford writing nuclear policy. Some people would look at that point of their lives, decide they had peaked, continue to work hard, and eventually retire. Ina decided instead to buy a specialty food store in the Hamptons, and try running her own business for a change. She quit Washington, moved to New York, and made a new name for herself in cooking. Some people would quit then, after the success of their second career venture was a hit. But "some people" don't become the Barefoot Contessa.<br />
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Because that's what we are all doing. We are all just trying different recipes until one turns out right. And if you are anything like Ina Garten, you aren't just satisfied with "peaking" at one great batch of Zucchini Spice cupcakes. You want to make them better. Or try a new ingredient. Or find a way to do something else that pushes you and the world further.<br />
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Archie Griffin does amazing work with the Ohio State University Alumni Association, even though he won his two Heisman trophies years ago. Steven Spielberg is nominated for a Best Picture practically every year, even though he won his first Oscar in 1993 and has been making mainstream films since the 70's. And I guess for Johnny Manziel's sake, I hope he doesn't think he's peaked either. I mean there's always coaching football right?<br />
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<br />Jaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-84187578135861304072013-01-15T06:57:00.001-08:002013-01-16T10:14:19.116-08:00Yes, I Saw Les Mis, and No I Didn't Love It. I know what you all are thinking. 'HOW could you not just LOOOOOOVE <i>Les Mis</i>?' And 'Somebody exorcise this heartless demon from the human race.' But before you do that, just hear me out:<br />
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No, I didn't love it. And I didn't really think it was that great of a film, but that doesn't mean it was total smut.<br />
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It was really only partial smut. And I'm not sorry.<br />
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For starters, answer me this: How was anyone supposed to go see <i>Les Mis</i> and not be automatically a little disappointed that it didn't live up to the hype it got? The Godfather couldn't live up to the hype that followed the premiere of <i>Les Mis</i>. I can barely believe Tom Hooper could put up a decent film given the micro-scrutiny this film was given beginning with just the casting and carrying through the premiere.<br />
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To begin, I'm not entirely sure why this is a Tom Hooper project at all. There is absolutely no train of thought that makes sense in my mind where the follow up to <i>The Kings Speech</i> is a movie-musical adaptation of a beloved work about the French Revolution. Unless Tom Hooper is trying to make his name in overly-sentimentalized historical pieces. But at least <i>The Kings Speech</i> was good.<br />
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(On a separate note, if I do have one major Kudos for him, it would be the decision not to cast T. Swift. I just know that while she would be "singing" On My Own, all I would really see is "Marius, You Belong With Me!" And then I'd be waiting for her to take her glasses off and Marius realizes that he's really loved her all along, and that Cosette is trilly and mean, and then this wouldn't be <i>Les Mis</i>, it would be the fan-fic of <i>Les Mis</i> written by every 15 year old Gay male theatre fan living in Iowa.)<br />
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If my boyfriend has one Kudos for Tom Hooper, it's that he appreciated the un-proportionate amount of cleavage to dresses in the film.<br />
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I will start with what I did actually enjoy about this film. 1. Anne Hathaway. Her acting is superb, I genuinely feel sorry for her (which is a pretty huge feet by any standards, let alone that she's sort of America's Sweetheart), and despite that I'm sure Tom Hooper told her to cry during most of her singing, she belts out some notes like a champ. She really could have only been better if Tom Hooper had just let her sing like she really can sing, or if he hadn't directed this movie at all.<br />
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That critique goes for Hugh Jackman as well. His singing is less than stellar in Les Mis, and Why? He has a fantastic voice. Don't believe me? Here's his opening in the 1994 version of <i>Oklahoma</i>.<br />
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He can really sing. And yet, he chose to go with some weird sprecht-singing hybrid that totally defeats the purpose of his casting. It's not that he's bad in it, I just don't understand his choices. Because they were bad. <br />
And yes I know he just won a Golden Globe for this, but my money is still on DDL for the Oscar. Even if I am the only person who thought it was weird that Ireland's favorite son is playing America's favorite President, he has the statuette wrapped up like Mary Todd in all of her costumes. See Also: Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher last year. <br />
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And while I'm on the subject, this was the least French version of the French Revolution I have ever seen, and I can't understand why I'm the only person who is conceivably bothered by this. For starters, much of this is filmed at the University of Greenwich, which was designed by Christopher Wren, AKA England's favorite architect, and it was distracting and weird when at the very end of the film at this barracade of all dead people, the background is iconic English architecture. <br />
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You are wrong. Given that people are speaking the English language, I find their American accent mildly passable, since they are singing most of the time anyway, and it becomes indiscernible. But Gavroche's accent is out of place (and Helena Bonham Carter's too), and I'm sure was included because it makes him cute and adorable, crushing the audience's soul even further when he gets repeatedly shot and dies because he's being an idiot and walking in front of a platoon of soldiers.<br />
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It got to the point where I was just waiting for him to help Eponine and her slum parents pick the pockets of the wealthy rich-folk, and then head back into their sewer home after singing a rousing chorus of "Consider Yourself." Gee, I hope the Artful Gavroche helps Marius get adopted by a wealthy Mr. Brownlow, I mean Jean Valjean. <br />
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This points to a further trend that I'm seeing in movies today, that American film audiences hear a British accent and they understand it as foreign/european. For those of you who know anything about the 2012 film version of Anna Karenina that just came out, EVERYONE in that movie speaks in British RP ("received pronunciation" AKA like Julie Andrews sounds) and no one seems bothered at all that the entire film is set in Russia and everyone in it is Russian.<br />
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I don't expect anything to come from this revelation. We all already know that American film audiences are remarkably stupid. But maybe if we all recognized the difference between the accents of France/Russia/England/America, we could make interesting, more culturally realistic film. <br />
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This is the problem with people like Tom Hooper and Joe Wright. It's all fine and dandy for them to over-sentimentalize their own culture and history. They want to have their Kings Speech and eat it with a side of Pride and Prejudice. And nobody blinks an eye when the scores of those films are composed of pieces of classical German music, because they feel like they are entitled to whatever cultural European capital they want to use in representing the English because, well, the English are the only "real" culture in Europe right? Apprantely for American audiences, this is true. <br />
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But when they feel like this right as Englishmen gives them the right to impose their cultural capital on others, I take offense, because first of all, who gives them the right to make films version of the works of Tolstoy and Victor Hugo? How do you think Joe Wright would feel is Guillermo Del Toro decided his next film was an adaptation of Jane Austen? Or for that matter, how does any English-person feel when American's adapt Shakespeare?<br />
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(On a side note, if Michael Haneke is reading this, Call Me! I have ideas!)<br />
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Disclaimer: I do no personally know Tom Hooper or Joe Wright, so anything I say they are thinking/feeling is a representation of what I'm sure they actually are. <br />
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Don't go see Les Mis. It's about 45 minutes too long and the best character/singer dies after the first 20 minutes anyway. I recommend just watching this clip 10 times in a row instead. <br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Terhj8mjPwY">Les Mis < Oscars Opening 2009</a>Jaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-24409050433902409192013-01-06T20:13:00.002-08:002013-01-13T18:03:49.770-08:00New Year, New BlogsHappy 2013 Readers.<br />
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A lot has changed since I stopped writing posts here. Here's the cliff notes version:<br />
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I graduated college, but you already know that. After a grueling 15 days of being virtually unemployed, I was offered a job with a fantastic non-profit here in town, and was delighted to accept it. I'd say more, but anything I write here would be a representation of my work, and given that I am wildly unpredictable and usually considered a "loose cannon," it would probably be for the best if I just represented myself. Oh wait I'm thinking of Rush Limbaugh.<br />
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OK fine, I'm working for the CIA. Just don't tell anyone.<br />
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I had a month to enjoy a summer vacation before I started work. Most of that time was spent eating doughnuts and lounging on a pontoon boat in Russell's Point, Ohio with my boyfriend. And lovely time it was too. Then I started work in August, and I've been living at home and enjoying working ever since.<br />
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Given that it is a New Year and<br />
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New Year's Resolutions:<br />
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1. Read a new book at least every month<br />
2. Write at least one blog post a week of any length / Write in journal twice a week<br />
3. Dress Well Everyday<br />
4. Focus on self-improvement through all facets of life<br />
5. Watch Downton Abbey Every Sunday at 9 PM forever.<br />
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The first book on the list is <u>Musicophilia</u> by Oliver Sacks. It's very good but it has a lot of medical terminology in it, which makes it a painfully slow read. I've been reading it for 3 days and I'm on page 32. If I can get used to this pace, my February book may very well end up being <u>Lolita</u>.<br />
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In other news, I watched seasons 1 and 2 of Portlandia this weekend, which is the funniest show making fun of hipsters I can think of right now. And the episode about the Brunch Place was seriously like living through this one time I went to Tasi for brunch in the short north. Maclachlan is offically my third favorite mayer, after of course Mayor Michael Coleman, and the bartender/mayor of Russel's Point at the Landing.<br />
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That's all for now folks. Stay tuned for a year of what I'm sure will be neurotic and hopefully not as repetitive as I usually am as I usually am as I usually am.<br />
<br />Jaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-65521797217494319982012-06-11T17:59:00.000-07:002012-06-11T17:59:12.628-07:00Day 1 of the Rest of Your LifeYesterday I graduated from College. Four years of college, and two Bachelor's of Arts Degrees has led me to today. So here come the ramblings of a pseudo-unemployed ex-collegiate.<br />
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My first task as an ex-collegiate was to attempt to make eggs for breakfast. But then I had no eggs. I found egg-whites in the refrigerator, and attempted to cook with those, but I kid you not, they exploded in the skillet. Correct me if I'm wrong, but egg's should not do this. And when I say exploded, these literally bubbled up like they were possessed by Satan. One second, a soupy liquid, the next, foam erupting from a skillet cauldron as if it were an extra in Act IV of Macbeth. Needless to say, I did not eat said eggs.<br />
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So then I ate a half of a pecan roll and coffee. An excellent beginning to my healthy habits summer. <br />
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Sidebar: I'm attempting a healthy habits summer because now that I am officially no longer a college student, there's no reason to have college weight. Here's what I ate today:<br />
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1/2 of a pecan roll and coffee<br />
1/2 of a Thai Chicken Pizza on wheat crust<br />
Panera Asian sesame salad<br />
1/2 of a Sierra Turkey Sandwich<br />
Baguette Side<br />
1/2 of a Chocolate Chip Cookie<br />
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And now, I'm sitting on the couch hoping I don't throw up from all the carbs and sweets I've consumed. Better luck tomorrow I guess.<br />
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I went to my internship this morning and printed attendance sheets for two hours, and then I did data entry for an hour. Then I went home and applied for a job and answered emails. So not a total waste of a day, although not very exciting either.<br />
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Other exciting events of the day involved watching the 2nd greatest Disney Live Action Musical EVER: Newsies. I sang along to ever word, and recited most of the dialogue too. Just ask Andy.<br />
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Tonight, I'm gonna clean my room and watch The IT Crowd.<br />Jaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-41787048817419831812011-11-11T12:32:00.001-08:002011-11-11T12:32:34.661-08:00Shugs Rock the BeatlesCheck Out Meshuganotes rocking the Beatles' Medley<br />
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Arranged by yours truly!!<br />
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p6ZbLE1VUcJaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-27578604652442248002011-09-30T05:31:00.000-07:002011-09-30T05:31:04.310-07:00Day 22: Movie You Wish You Could Live In<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkLBxB0i20X16frvGBukgUXmSvk07XLbTIZJqjRyUUmOzC06mn1u128DOkUjC10lZOQnFtJ2ROdZAeHMXOmb7_ypWyvTVCgCwPEkIOFhYeSxujw9kySyi8NqKIkyI7A9bdlN2Zh5Wyja8/s1600/chocolat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkLBxB0i20X16frvGBukgUXmSvk07XLbTIZJqjRyUUmOzC06mn1u128DOkUjC10lZOQnFtJ2ROdZAeHMXOmb7_ypWyvTVCgCwPEkIOFhYeSxujw9kySyi8NqKIkyI7A9bdlN2Zh5Wyja8/s400/chocolat.jpg" width="268" /></a>I've thought about this a lot. In fact it was one of the random questions that was asked to me during Meshuganotes auditions this past week. And without a doubt, I would want to live in Chocolat. <br />
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There are a lot of ways I could explain this movie to you, but the most effective way seems to be of course a vague list in no particular order. <br />
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1. Provincial France.<br />
2. Chocolate all the time.<br />
3. Johnny Depp as Boyfriend. <br />
4. Chocolate all the time.<br />
5. Great score to characterize your life. <br />
6. Chocolate all the time. <br />
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The movie is one of the best movies I've ever seen. Really. It's sweet, sentimental, and has just the right amount of serious thematics to make it a worthwhile watch. Not to mention it is a gorgeous movie just to see. I highly recommend it to everyone. Jaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-80088213595398563962011-09-29T17:20:00.000-07:002011-09-29T17:20:42.368-07:00Day 21: Movie with your favorite actor – Johnny Depp<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1rhycfwoHnOsgnvPkb8nfmkxhwgaUuWvCkC3-oBCNw66HwZQ72-D7a1xuMyPcWqOw8W6Jdcyg7tXReULJtz2lmFdHR_9JfsSEC1mKjPJ7h0Cp92lz6eUtNLG1IMIB9AvEi1HxC69_RBk/s1600/finding_neverland.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1rhycfwoHnOsgnvPkb8nfmkxhwgaUuWvCkC3-oBCNw66HwZQ72-D7a1xuMyPcWqOw8W6Jdcyg7tXReULJtz2lmFdHR_9JfsSEC1mKjPJ7h0Cp92lz6eUtNLG1IMIB9AvEi1HxC69_RBk/s400/finding_neverland.jpg" width="268" /></a>What is there really to say about Senior Depp that hasn't already been said? That he is dashingly good looking when he wants to be? That he is tremendously odd? That he is old enough to be my Dad? That he's been snubbed of an Oscar? <br />
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Yup, I've said all of those things. And they are all true. <br />
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Finding Neverland is to date probably his greatest acting achievement. I would cite Edward Scissorhands or Pirates of the Caribbean, but I refuse to acknowledge the last three movies in the series of the latter, and it is too easy for Johnny Depp to be weird. Finding Neverland is his greatest work because he manages to pull off a sentimental, but subtle performance as author J.M. Barrie. And the film is brilliantly cast alongside Depp featuring Dustin Hoffman and Kate Winslet. <br />
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A cryer for sure, but definitely worth the watch. It is so well made. Jaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-57600890055166438882011-09-28T20:39:00.000-07:002011-09-28T20:39:56.308-07:00Day 20: Movie with your favorite actress – Juliette Binoche<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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She's beautiful, talented, exotic, and literally, magical. Juliette Binoche is just so good in everything she does. And I love her. Must watch movies include: The English Patient, Cache, Chocolat and of Course Dan in Real Life. <br />
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In Dan in Real Life, Binoche plays the fascinating and heartfelt love interest of Steve Carell, but Girlfriend of his brother Dane Cook. This film has one of the most brilliant supporting casts I've seen in Romantic Comedy in recent years (including Amy Ryan, Alison Pill, Emily Blunt, Norbert Leo Butz, and Dianne Wiest). <br />
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This film is one of my favorite movies to watch on a rainy day, or a sad day, or really any day. And it is easily the best romantic comedy to come out of the first decade of the new millennium. I highly recommend it for a family night, a date night, or a night in. Jaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-90206690207305755072011-09-28T20:19:00.000-07:002011-09-28T20:19:52.473-07:00Day 19: Film that made you cry the hardest<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-lEA4Z7t-k_KQBRLxgBMS_nyJz4cltYnvjkGQZsr6JDF7VGVIy0oG1NUtqafS7hENyRGqzQrVbUCWYj0ZyjMT2-IPtncXBc6Gror6gMZ6eWDCD1F80XWOQNIlUhkmziG0SANkCdp6hzA/s1600/schindlers_list.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-lEA4Z7t-k_KQBRLxgBMS_nyJz4cltYnvjkGQZsr6JDF7VGVIy0oG1NUtqafS7hENyRGqzQrVbUCWYj0ZyjMT2-IPtncXBc6Gror6gMZ6eWDCD1F80XWOQNIlUhkmziG0SANkCdp6hzA/s400/schindlers_list.jpg" width="268" /></a>Sad movies are in my genes. If you know anything about my Mom, you know she only wants to watch a movie if it makes you laugh so hard that you cry, or if it is so mind-numbingly depressing you actually NEED to sit through the entirety of the end credits just to compose your red splotchy eyes and sniveling snout. And I when I was growing up, it was basically required family hazing that every so often we would have to put our busy lives on hold so we could sit down as a family and watch a movie that made us feel genuinely terrible for being alive and healthy while being foolish enough to think our trivial problems had any bearing on what true sorrow actually is. <br />
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And the saddest movie of them all is Schindler's List.<br />
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1. It's about the Holocaust. Traditionally the most depressing of all movie genres (The War is Evil and Genocide is worse Genre to be specific)<br />
2. The whole plot line is bleak the entirety of the movie, despite the fact that one lone character manages to have hope throughout the movie. <br />
3. It's about bad things happening to good people. And not bad things like losing your car keys, bad things like being sent to death camps to watch your family die. <br />
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I watched Schindler's List for the first time 3 days after my 13th Birthday when my Mother decided that I was old enough to understand it. Let me tell you, it is not Birthday fare. I cried the entire evening onward after the scene where Schindler breaks down on the train tracks because of his gold pin. <br />
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As if that weren't bad enough, my middle school made us watch it that same year as the end of the year Spring Movie. Because that's what every young, 13 year old Jewish girl wants to do at the end of her last year of Middle School: Watch the saddest movie ever made with 300 gentiles. (On a side note, I firmly believe that the middle school administrators wanted to specifically torture our class, because the year before they made us watch The Patriot, and like the class after us got to watch like Finding Nemo.)<br />
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Anyways, it has gotten to the point where if I just hear the violin solo from the film there's a 70% chance that I will immediately burst into tears. Brilliant Film, but Hard to Watch (Not based on the book Stone Cold Bummer by Manipulate). <br />
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<br />Jaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-11513193059399278752011-09-28T15:22:00.000-07:002011-09-28T15:22:23.150-07:00Day 18: Film that is your guilty pleasure<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV8p2rFtYdAw9EStD2BA3-eh-DK1s_pcgliQpT3whkfyk3vrVtrheQrjdA1Oi3LQXNa7WMx6dS2Qb5tEAAGbzcCkzkOC7eWpHRfA7anlpUdAtIJkZIGe-GA7rl5g3Uq6Qs72tiTvDXL8w/s1600/sisterhood_of_the_traveling_pants.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV8p2rFtYdAw9EStD2BA3-eh-DK1s_pcgliQpT3whkfyk3vrVtrheQrjdA1Oi3LQXNa7WMx6dS2Qb5tEAAGbzcCkzkOC7eWpHRfA7anlpUdAtIJkZIGe-GA7rl5g3Uq6Qs72tiTvDXL8w/s320/sisterhood_of_the_traveling_pants.jpg" width="205" /></a>This movie is honestly just a movie for preteen girls and collegiate girls who don't want to leave their high school friends behind forever, not that I would ever know what that was like... <br />
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But I do think this is a very interesting film. For one, it deals with a lot of mature issues for a flim that was marketed to 12 year olds. Love, Loss, Sexuality and the Divine aren't really the themes I usually catch in my viewings of Lizzie Maguire, again, not that I would have watched that either... <br />
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What I will say is that this film can really only appeal to women. Granted women of all ages, and I would highly recommend that mother's and daughters watch it together, but let Dad off the hook. He won't like it, and would probably rather be spending that time playing online poker anyway. Jaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-91465348722235796232011-09-28T15:02:00.000-07:002011-09-28T15:02:28.102-07:00Day 17: Least favorite book adaptationRemember how in my last post I talked about how many bad book adaptations there are in the world of film? This is one of them. <br />
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Ella Enchanted. <br />
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The book is a young adult novel, based around the cute concept of the idea that the protagonist maiden is cursed in that she must always follow all orders or she will die. It's not War and Peace but it aint terrible. It certainly is well thought out in the conventions it creates for itself, and is an interesting intellectual exercise in following orders. <br />
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The movie is nothing like that. The only thing that is the same from the book is the curse of the young girl, but everything else is entirely changed, and in what I would argue is arbitrarily. For one, Ella runs away from home and meets an elf. Elves are not in the book at all. And then there are two random musical numbers just so Anne Hathaway can sing some bad pop songs that don't even work in the conventional world of the musical, let alone a movie that isn't a musical.<br />
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And it is campy. SO campy. Don't go see it. I won't even dignify this film by finding a poster for it. It's that bad. Jaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-72110794004129632442011-09-28T14:56:00.000-07:002011-09-28T14:56:11.114-07:00Day 16: Favorite book adaptationI think I anguished over this one. <div>
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1. There are a LOT of movie adaptations of books. </div>
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2. Many of them are fine and ok movies, but terrible adaptations of the book. </div>
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3. Many of them are carbon copies of the book in a film version, but are not very good movies. </div>
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But there is one glorious exception: Breakfast at Tiffany's. Ok, technically not a book but a novella, and yet still the best I think there is. Close second award goes to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but we will see them later on in the series. </div>
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The novella by Truman Capote is first of all, brilliant in its own right. Everyone should read it. But what the movie does that is so spectacular is that it adapts the novel, so that the movie has a distinctively different moral feeling, and yet at the same time, it is so true to character, description and dialogue, it feels like watching the same characters doing exactly the same things as in the novella, with an entirely different outcome, and it is ok. It makes perfect sense the way the movie plays out. The noted differences are important and anything but arbitrary. The movie is just Classical Hollywood glammed up a bit and it's delightful to watch. </div>
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And on an entirely different note, it is one of my favorite movie posters of all time. </div>
Jaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-28814533130054285632011-09-21T16:11:00.000-07:002011-09-21T16:11:09.223-07:00Day 15: Favorite Play AdaptationThis is a hell of a category, because I love plays, and because I think other than book adaptations, play's work the best as far as translation into film genre goes. Way better than Musical's, that is for sure. <div>
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And who wrote more plays than any other to ever be adapted into film? Why William Shakespeare of course. Shakespeare's works have been adapted so many different and captivating ways into film that it is impossible to even name all of the different films done. But my absolute version of any Shakespeare play, or any play for that matter, adapted into film is Scotland P. A.</div>
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It is your typical adaptation of Macbeth, in the setting of a fast food burger joint in the 1970's when the invention of the drive through was just being pioneered. </div>
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Sounds weird right? It's way weirder than you think it is. But also way more awesome. </div>
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The witches are drugged out hippies induced by marijuana hallucinations. The old King Duncan is murdered by being fried to death in the french fry oil. Macbeth's secret ambition is to own the fast food joint, and Macduff's is to run a veggie stand. And Lady Macbeth does by going insane and cutting off her hand with a meat cleaver. </div>
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It's probably the greatest Shakespearian adaptation ever made. That's right, you heard me Laurence Olivier!</div>
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Shakespeare lover's and hater's all should watch it. </div>
Jaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-30693209435505886362011-09-21T15:50:00.000-07:002011-09-21T15:50:19.352-07:00Day 14: Favorite documentary<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ9SaIhjTrMgw_Ply2f9y3qHD0HXh31YIxNOTPv3LrR5om6HPtNuwshjdwuD_X5sUzGQYeDT63bfREsZ2sH1YwVu2t5jC0VSdhUyv61BDNA8cJ3aPKuSq5AmfcuenG0faRvbHYOwXlpNw/s1600/inside_job.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ9SaIhjTrMgw_Ply2f9y3qHD0HXh31YIxNOTPv3LrR5om6HPtNuwshjdwuD_X5sUzGQYeDT63bfREsZ2sH1YwVu2t5jC0VSdhUyv61BDNA8cJ3aPKuSq5AmfcuenG0faRvbHYOwXlpNw/s400/inside_job.jpg" width="268" /></a>I don't really love Documentaries as a genre. To me, film is a medium of art form meant as a means of expression, and while I'm absolutely not suggesting that every single Documentary is without worthwhile stylistic choices, I'm just saying, most are. So for me to really like a documentary I have to be basically engrossed in the subject matter of it. Which is not an easy feat, by any means for any film, let alone one that is unconventional in its very form. <br />
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So this past year for some reason or another, my mother watched Inside Job. And became absolutely obsessed with it. She literally begged us to watch it, and at one point really refused to talk about anything else than this film. Eventually I of course became fed up with this and decided to go ahead and humor her by viewing it. And it wasn't half bad. Some may even say I found it interesting and enjoyable. <br />
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This was almost good enough for my mother, but I think she was secretly disappointed that I wasn't outraged at the hypocrisy and deceit in our financial institutions and called to arms in an effort to dismantle capitalism. Truthfully, I was just outraged that Morgan Freeman wasn't available to narrate. <br />
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But nonetheless, it is a truly interesting story of corruption and greed. I do recommend that everyone watch it at least once, because we all deserve to experience the unbiased liberal slant the film wants to see. And because it is probably the best documentary I've ever seen. <br />
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And then we can all watch Wall Street because that movie is awesomer. Jaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-486615598278510459.post-19345705695236596632011-09-21T15:41:00.000-07:002011-09-21T15:41:23.455-07:00Day 13: Favorite chick flickFor those of you who are wondering why I haven't posted in almost a week, and have been devastated that I might have given up on my project, fear not! I haven't posted in forever because the apartment I just moved into will not have internet set up in it until the 25th, so I've been unable to update the September movie series. Be prepared for the posts to be slow until then, for in order for me to post I have to walk my lazy ass to a coffee shop or steal the internet from Ohio State's campus, but never fear, because I WILL finish all 30 movies before October 1st!<br />
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Moving Right Along:<br />
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I love chick flicks. I do not love the term chick flicks. It implies that the movies are exclusively for girls, and not for women, let alone men. <br />
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Regardless, Chick Flicks are still one of my favorite genres of film. There are really good ones, and there are really really bad ones (I'm looking at you Katherine Heigl) but for every dime a dozen movie about a stupid blonde, there is a fabulous chick flick that is empowering to men and women, delightful and entertaining. <br />
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That movie is Whip It. <br />
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Whip It is the punk rock daughter of every "feel good" chick flick makeover film with an extra splash of bad-ass-ed-ness and some superbly casted and talented actors *Cough* Kristin Wiig *Cough*.<br />
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The film is the directorial debut of Drew Barrymore, and if you ask me, it's the third-wave feminist Chick Flick that Women's Studies Professor's have been searching for their whole lives. <br />
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Main Themes: Girls Kick Butt, and are Hot. Girls don't need men to make them happy, and they are frequently better off without dirtbag boyfriends. And Girls are Awesome.<br />
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And if there was any reason to watch any movie, it would be for the kick-ass names of the Roller Derby Girls in the film. Personal Fave Name? Bloody Holly. Close second to Jabba the Slut.<br />
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My Roller Derby Name is Ace of Skates. Andy's is Weird Al Yank-a-Bitch.<br />
<br />Jaclyn H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08080050134987229318noreply@blogger.com0