Tina Tang的部落格

Spring Break!!!!

An American Tail

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090633/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XC0REIj_F0

clip: (Somewhere Out There)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an0j7_zu9vI

McFarland, USA

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2097298/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-VAOlHGE6Q

Kevin Costner

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Costner

The Joy Luck Club

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107282/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nYDMp1LdT8

The Joy Luck Club (novel)

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joy_Luck_Club_(novel)

The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco who start a club known as The Joy Luck Club, playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters. The three mothers and four daughters (one mother, Suyuan Woo, dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes. Each part is preceded by a parable relating to the game.

Jing-mei Woo and her Father

She holds a swan feather. From the novel’s opening: For a long time now the woman had wanted to give her daughter the single swan feather and tell her, "This feather may look worthless, but it comes from afar and carries with it all my good intentions."

Amy Tan

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Tan

Amy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience. Her best-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages. In 1993, the book was adapted into a commercially successful film.

Forrest Gump

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYSnxZKTZzU

clip: (Life is Like a Box of Chocolates.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egkrxkiUnoo

clip: (Opening Scene)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7voy1vit6Y

As the film opens we see a white feather fluttering on the wind as it gradually floats down, eventually landing next to Forrest Gump’s dirty-tennis-shoe-clad foot. Gump is sitting on a park bench in Savannah, Georgia, a box of chocolates perched on his lap. These two symbols, the feather and the chocolates, illustrate the film’s true key theme: Fate – the uncontrollable events that make each of us what we are. But the film’s emphasis is not on fate itself, but on our responses to what fate deals us. While we can’t decide what happens to us, we each have important choices to make in the circumstances in which we find ourselves. Thus in many ways the film’s message is existentialist.

American Dream

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream

The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, the set of ideals (Democracy, Rights, Liberty, Opportunity, and Equality) in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers. In the definition of the American Dream by James Truslow Adams in 1931, "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.

The American Dream is rooted in the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims that "all men are created equal" with the right to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Far and Away

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104231/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnrqzfqSM1o

The Star-Spangled Banner

Beyonce National Anthem at Presidential Inauguration Ceremony 2013:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGDH18R7GfA

The Star-Spangled Banner

Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,

O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,

Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,

What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,

As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,

In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:

‘Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore

That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,

A home and a country should leave us no more!

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!

Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Supporting actor

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supporting_actor

A supporting actor is an actor who performs a role in a play or film below that of the leading actor(s), and above that of a bit part.

All 50 United States License Plates

http://www.theus50.com/fastfacts/licenses-state.php

New York

North Carolina

Georgia

Florida

Redneck

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck

The term redneck is a derogatory term chiefly used for a rural poor white person of the Southern United States. Its usage is similar in meaning to cracker (especially regarding Georgia and Florida), hillbilly (especially regarding Appalachia and the Ozarks), and white trash (but without the last term's suggestions of immorality).

Patrick Huber has emphasized the theme of masculinity in the continued expansion of the term in the 20th century, noting, "The redneck has been stereotyped in the media and popular culture as a poor, dirty, uneducated, and racist Southern white man."

Yankee

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee

Within Southern American English, "Yankee" refers to Northerners, or those from the regions of the Union side of the American Civil War.

New York Yankees

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Yankees

New York Mets

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Mets

MetLife

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetLife

advertisement: (Get Met. It pays.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4DVQPX2_T4

Flags of the Confederate States of America

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America

Flag of Georgia (U.S. state)

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Georgia_(U.S._state)

John Travolta

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Travolta

Grease

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077631/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2CCEixOVVU

Olivia Newton-John

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Newton-John

clip: (Grease)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPRHEqfm1JY

Phenomenon

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117333/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0vmMGgtrKk

Movie Review: Pope Joan – Medieval Legend Comes to Life Onscreen

medievalists.net:

http://www.medievalists.net/2016/03/20/movie-review-pope-joan-medieval-legend-comes-to-life-onscreen/

Pope Joan

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458455/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKF4Lmt3NsM

From Up On Poppy Hill (來自紅花坂)

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798188/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nzpk_Br6yo

Gladiator

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-b7B8tOAQU

The Chronicles of Narnia

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia

The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven high fantasy novels by author C. S. Lewis. It is considered a classic of children's literature and is the author's best-known work, having sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages.

Set in the fictional realm of Narnia, a fantasy world of magic, mythical beasts, and talking animals, the series narrates the adventures of various children who play central roles in the unfolding history of that world. Except in The Horse and His Boy, the protagonists are all children from the real world, magically transported to Narnia, where they are called upon by the lion Aslan to protect Narnia from evil and restore the throne to its rightful line. The books span the entire history of Narnia, from its creation in The Magician's Nephew to its eventual destruction in The Last Battle.

Inspiration for the series was taken from multiple sources; in addition to adapting numerous traditional Christian themes, Lewis freely borrowed characters and ideas from Greek and Roman mythology as well as from traditional British and Irish fairy tales. The books have profoundly influenced adult and children's fantasy literature since World War II. Lewis's exploration of themes not usually present in children's literature, such as religion, as well as the books' perceived treatment of issues including race and gender, has caused some controversy.

C. S. Lewis

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363771/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LshOd31d-yE

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499448/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q0Da4jlxBk

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0980970/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrJQDPpIK6I

Iris (mythology)

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_(mythology)

In Greek mythology, Iris is the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. She is also known as one of the goddesses of the sea and the sky. Iris links the gods to humanity. She travels with the speed of wind from one end of the world to the other, and into the depths of the sea and the underworld.

The Hours

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274558/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZJCVilXbjQ

Oliver Twist

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Twist

Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by Charles Dickens. The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London, where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin.

Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century.

In this early example of the social novel, Dickens satirizes the hypocrisies of his time, including child labour, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of working as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's own youthful experiences contributed as well.

Oliver Twist (1948)

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040662/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShOk4nQ4knA

Oliver Twist (2005)

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380599/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icymw_K_d3A

Roman Polanski

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski

Movie review paper content

1. Motivation (Introduce the target and what interests you in this movie.)
2. About (The content of the movie.)
3. Recommend or not? Why?

Hugo

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970179/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR-kP-olcpM

Auguste and Louis Lumière

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_and_Louis_Lumi%C3%A8re

The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean, were the first filmmakers in history. They patented the cinematograph, which in contrast to Edison's "peepshow" kinetoscope allowed simultaneous viewing by multiple parties.

Lumière v. Méliès: A Cinematic Dichotomy

ransom fellowship:

http://www.ransomfellowship.org/articledetail.asp?AID=513&B=Matthew%20Hundley&TID=2

Lumière

* Focus = Actual

* Shot on location

* Document events

* Camera role = witness real event

* Truth = Surface

Méliès

* Focus = Fantastical

* Shot in studio

* Tell magical stories

* Camera role = make fantasy believable

* Truth = Embedded

Neorealism (art)

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neorealism_(art)

Neorealism is characterized by a general atmosphere of authenticity. André Bazin, a French film theorist and critic, argued that neorealism portrays: truth, naturalness, authenticity, and is a cinema of duration. The necessary characteristics of neo-realism in film include:

*a definite social context

*a sense of historical actuality and immediacy

*political commitment to progressive social change

*authentic on-location shooting as opposed to the artificial studio

*a rejection of classical Hollywood acting styles

*extensive use of non-professional actors as much as possible;

*a documentary style of cinematography

Production designer

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_designer

In film and television, a production designer or P.D is the person responsible for the physical overall look of a filmed event such as a TV program, video game, music video, or advertisement. Production designers have a key creative role in the creation of motion pictures and television. Working directly with the director and producer, they must select the settings and style to visually tell the story. The term "production designer" was coined by William Cameron Menzies while he was working on the film “Gone with the Wind”. Previously (and often subsequently) the people with the same responsibilities were called "art directors".

Margaret Mitchell

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mitchell

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author and journalist. One novel by Mitchell was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel, Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937.

Gone with the Wind

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mM8iNarcRc

Victor Fleming

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Fleming

Victor Lonzo Fleming was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were “The Wizard of Oz” (1939), and “Gone with the Wind” (1939), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfpF8UUVTeM

The Scarlet Letter

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter

The Scarlet Letter (1995)

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114345/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q34XCy4oljg

Easy A

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1282140/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKY4GpVoTqQ

clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXVmp89pnZs

Harper Lee

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee

Nelle Harper Lee, better known by her pen name Harper Lee, was an American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature.

The plot and characters of To Kill a Mockingbird are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The novel deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as depicted through the eyes of two children. The novel was inspired by racist attitudes in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.

To Kill a Mockingbird

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird

Chinatown

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T37QkBc4IGY

clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uSz0mEtEsQ

Roman Polanski

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski

Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański, known professionally as Roman Polanski, is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer, and actor. Having made films in Poland, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers".

Tess

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080009/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF77gX8rjV0

clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tHNwc3bTAA

Email spam

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spam

Email spam, also known as junk email or unsolicited bulk email (UBE), is a subset of electronic spam involving nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by email. The messages may contain disguised links that appear to be for familiar websites but in fact lead to phishing web sites or sites that are hosting malware. Spam email may also include malware as scripts or other executable file attachments. Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk.

Spam (food)

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)

Spam (stylized SPAM) is a brand of canned precooked meat products made by Hormel Foods Corporation. It was first introduced in 1937 and gained popularity worldwide after its use during World War II. By 2003, Spam was sold in 41 countries on six continents and trademarked in over 100 countries. In 2007, the seven billionth can of Spam was sold.

According to its label, Spam's basic ingredients are pork shoulder meat, with ham meat added, salt, water, modified potato starch as a binder, sugar, and sodium nitrite as a preservative. Natural gelatin forms during cooking in its tins on the production line. Many have raised concerns over Spam's nutritional attributes, as Spam contains almost double the amount of fat compared to its protein content.

By the early 1970s the name "Spam" was often misused to describe any canned meat product containing pork, such as pork luncheon meat. With expansion in communications technology, it became the subject of urban legends about mystery meat and other appearances in pop culture. Most notable was a Monty Python sketch portraying Spam as tasting horrible, ubiquitous and inescapable, characteristics which led to its name being borrowed for unsolicited electronic messages, especially spam email.

dailymotion: (Spam-Ku)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4d7n9_spam-ku_shortfilms

Budae jjigae(部隊鍋)

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budae_jjigae

Budae jjigae (literally "troop stew") is a type of jjigae (a thick Korean soup similar to a Western stew). Soon after the Korean War, food was scarce in Seoul, South Korea. Some people made use of surplus foods from U.S. military, such as hot dogs, Spam, or ham, and incorporated them into a traditional spicy soup flavored with gochujang (red chili paste) and kimchi.

Marie Antoinette

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422720/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuByY-DnGYo

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010323/

clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04u-5Fn3wR8

Dogville

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276919/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5-LqwUHTaM

Anna Karenina

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1781769/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPGLRO3fZnQ

Barry Lyndon

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072684/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZGPy4C2XVw

Stanley Kubrick

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick

A Clockwork Orange

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu7MIT52TvE

Days of Heaven

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077405/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlZDsMCW0U4

Nanook of the North

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013427/

full movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoUafjAH0cg

Hero

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero

A hero or heroine is a person or main character of a literary work that, in the face of danger, combats adversity through impressive feats of ingenuity, bravery or strength, often sacrificing his or her own personal concerns for some greater good.

The concept of the hero was first founded in classical literature. It is the main or revered character in heroic epic poetry celebrated through ancient legends of a people; often striving for military conquest and living by a continually flawed personal honor code. Examples of heroes range from mythological figures, such as Gilgamesh, Achilles and Iphigenia, to historical figures, such as Joan of Arc and Gandhi, to modern societal heroes like Rosa Parks.

Roman Fever

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Fever

"Roman Fever" is a short story by American writer Edith Wharton. It was first published in the magazine Liberty in 1934, and was later included in Wharton's last short-story collection, The World Over.

Nero

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero

Nero was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his grand-uncle Claudius to become his heir and successor, and succeeded to the throne in 54 following Claudius' death. In 64 AD, most of Rome was destroyed in the Great Fire of Rome, which many Romans believed Nero himself had started in order to clear land for his planned palatial complex, the Domus Aurea.

Nero Burning ROM

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Burning_ROM

Nero Burning ROM, commonly called Nero, is an optical disc authoring program from Nero AG. The software is part of the Nero Multimedia Suite but is also available as a stand-alone product. It is used for burning and copying optical discs such as CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays. The program also supports label printing technologies LightScribe and LabelFlash and can be used to convert audio files into other audio formats.

Diegesis

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diegesis

Diegesis is a style of fiction storytelling that presents an interior view of a world in which:

1. details about the world itself and the experiences of its characters are revealed explicitly through narrative
2. the story is told or recounted, as opposed to shown or enacted.

In diegesis the narrator tells the story. The narrator presents the actions (and sometimes thoughts) of the characters to the readers or audience.

Bartholomew's Song

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0818741/

short film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM-HZYTtcMA

Destin Daniel Cretton

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destin_Daniel_Cretton

Destin Daniel Cretton is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor. He is best known for writing and directing his second feature film, Short Term 12 (2013).

Death to the Tinman

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0921766/

short film:

https://vimeo.com/60850548

Ray Tintori

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Tintori

Ray Tintori is an American director, screenwriter and founding member of the Court 13 filmmaking collective. He has directed three short films and music videos for bands. The director of Death to the Tinman (2006).

The Wizard of Oz

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_3T4DGw10U

Dorothy (go home)

Scarecrow (a brain)

Tin Man (a heart)

Cowardly Lion (courage)

The Lake House

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410297/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V02lqEpbk2Y

clip: (dance scene)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SEWam-uEoU

Il Mare

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282599/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3nUCU0K9rc

Interstellar

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LqzF5WauAw

clip: (Quantifiable Connection Scene)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtTkcM9BfXM&ebc=ANyPxKp3xFjVfvQgSJTwD7nBZYi43uxX97VcPftNxrlJe0LVScu3K0wfCDySmZMCUc4RGKVt5XadvNeoZ6PZFTI767Q3aMLNDA

The Departed

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGWvwjZ0eDc

Nikita (1990)

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100263/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MploONnAKhI

Point of No Return

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107843/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loWM25F_SOY

Edward Said

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said

James Bond

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond

The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming.

Lost in Translation

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAS92XPvIM

Scarlett Johansson

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlett_Johansson

Sofia Coppola

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Coppola

Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American screenwriter, director, producer and actress. In 2003, she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the comedy-drama Lost in Translation, and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. In 2010, with the drama somewhere, she became the first American woman (and fourth American filmmaker) to win the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. Her father is director, producer and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola.

Apocalypse Now

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snDR7XsSkB4

Francis Ford Coppola

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola

The Hateful Eight

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3460252/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_UI1GzaWv0

Kill Bill

IMDb: (vol. 1)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/

IMDb: (vol. 2)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378194/

trailer: (vol. 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kSuas6mRpk

trailer: (vol. 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTt8cCIvGYI

Quentin Tarantino

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American filmmaker and actor. His films are characterized by non-linear storylines, satirical subject matter, and aestheticization of violence, utilization of ensemble casts consisting of established and lesser-known performers, references to pop culture, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s, and features of neo-noir film.

From Dusk Till Dawn

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116367/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjKVOfFovQ8

Pulp Fiction

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewlwcEBTvcg

Saving Mr. Banks

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2140373/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvKcwNyOnWo

P. L. Travers

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._L._Travers

Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, was an Australian-born British novelist, actress, and journalist who migrated to England and lived most of her adult life there. She is known best for the Mary Poppins series of children's books featuring the magical English nanny Mary Poppins. Her father Travers Robert Goff was of Irish descent and born in Deptford, South London, England. He was unsuccessful as a bank manager due to his chronic alcoholism, and was eventually demoted to the position of bank clerk.

Mary Poppins

wiki: (book)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Poppins

IMDb: (movie)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058331/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOfH7uEojKk

clip: (Mary Poppins Chalk Drawing Scene)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy7XEMeBROQ

clip: (Let's Go Fly A Kite)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA-g8YYPKVo

Nanny McPhee

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396752/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFcsn70hlHQ

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

2011 Oscars: Live Performance By PS22 Chorus:

https://www.schooltube.com/video/b2294fecbeaa423720c2/

The Wizard of Oz (1/8) Movie Clip (1939):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSZxmZmBfnU

Somewhere over the rainbow

Way up high

And the dreams that you dreamed of

Once in a lullaby1

Somewhere over the rainbow

Blue birds fly

And the dreams that you dreamed of

Dreams really do come true ooh oh1

Someday I'll wish upon a star

Wake up where the clouds are far behind me

Where trouble melts like lemon drops

High above the chimney tops

That's where you'll find me1

Oh, somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly

And the dream that you dare to,

Oh why, oh why can't I?

Well I see trees of green and red roses too,

I'll watch them bloom for me and you

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world1

Well I see skies of blue

And I see clouds of white

And the brightness of day

I like the dark

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky

Are also on the faces of people passing by

I see friends shaking hands

Saying, "How do you do?"

They're really saying, I...I love you

I hear babies cry and I watch them grow,

They'll learn much more than we'll know

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world world

Someday I'll wish upon a star,

Wake up where the clouds are far behind me

Where trouble melts like lemon drops

High above the chimney top

That's where you'll find me

Oh, somewhere over the rainbow way up high

And the dream that you dare to, why, oh why can't I? I?

Leonardo DiCaprio

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio

DiCaprio's parents met while attending college and subsequently moved to Los Angeles. He was named Leonardo because his pregnant mother was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in a museum in Italy when DiCaprio first kicked.

Film

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film

A featured film, movie, motion picture or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession. The process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques; by means of CGI and computer animation; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects.

Literature

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature

Literature consists of written productions, often restricted to those deemed to have artistic or intellectual value. Its Latin root literatura/litteratura was used to refer to all written accounts, but intertwined with the roman concept of cultura: learning or cultivation. Literature often uses language differently than ordinary language. Literature can be classified according to whether it is fiction or non-fiction and whether it is poetry or prose; it can be further distinguished according to major forms such as the novel, short story or drama; and works are often categorized according to historical periods or their adherence to certain aesthetic features or expectations (genre).

Floating City

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2387469/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf_VvfG2fYM

2012

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190080/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvI66Xaj9-o

The Imitation Game

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5CjKEFb-sM

The Theory of Everything

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2980516/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Salz7uGp72c

When Marnie Was There

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3398268/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjmrxqcQdYg

Joan G. Robinson

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_G._Robinson

Joan G. Robinson was a British author and illustrator of children's books. She published her first book for children in 1939 and followed on with a set of young adult novels, starting with When Marnie Was There, published in 1967 and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal that year. Hayao Miyazaki selected Marnie as one of his fifty recommended children's books, and Studio Ghibli adapted it into the film of the same name.

Utopia

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia

A utopian society is a community or society that, in theory, possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities. Utopian ideals often place emphasis on egalitarian principles of equality in economics, government and justice, with the method and structure of proposed implementation varying based on ideology. The word was coined by Sir Thomas More from Greek language for his 1516 book Utopia. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempt to create ideal societies, and the imagined societies portrayed in fiction. Alternative views on structural and qualitative attributes of society have spawned other concepts most prominently dystopia.

Dystopia

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia

A dystopia is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. It is translated as “not-good place”, an antonym of utopia. Dystopian societies appear in many artistic works, particularly in stories set in the future. Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization, totalitarian governments, environmental disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. Dystopian societies appear in many subgenres of fiction and are often used to draw attention to real-world issues regarding society, environment, politics, economics, religion, psychology, ethics, science, and technology, which if unaddressed could potentially lead to such a dystopia-like condition.

五段論證法

Introduction (thesis statement) + 3 supporting paragraphs (topic sentences) + conclusion

我的快樂電影學-導演陳玉珊專訪蔡康永

http://www.alive.com.tw/Life/0055/Article-ARTL000045767.html

Detachment

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683526/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7lBleOF9Pw

clip: (We must learn to read.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_zRSMVi50w

Gone with the Wind

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mM8iNarcRc

clip: (After all, tomorrow is another day.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUDNRU_tv6A

The Godfather

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY1S34973zA

clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i96VS_z8y7g

Virginia Tech shooting = Virginia Tech massacre

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_shooting

University of Iowa shooting

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Iowa_shooting

.38-caliber = .38 Special

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.38_Special

Raft

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raft

Traditional raft in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Modern raft

Henry Mancini

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Mancini

Moon River

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_River

"Moon River" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It received an Academy Award for Best Original Song for its performance by Audrey Hepburn in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).

youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOByH_iOn88

lyrics:

Moon river, wider than a mile

I'm crossin' you in style some day

Old dream maker, you heartbreaker

Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way

Two drifters, off to see the world

There's such a lot of world to see

We're after the same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bend

My huckleberry friend, Moon River, and me

Two drifters, off to see the world

There's such a lot of world to see

We're after the same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bend

My huckleberry friend, Moon River, and me

The Pink Panther Theme

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pink_Panther_Theme

"The Pink Panther Theme" is an instrumental composition by Henry Mancini written as the theme for the 1963 film The Pink Panther and subsequently nominated for the 1964 Academy Award for Best Original Score.

youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OPc7MRm4Y8

Breakfast at Tiffany's

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054698/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urQVzgEO_w8

T. S. Eliot

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot

The Waste Land

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waste_Land

Wide Sargasso Sea

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Sargasso_Sea

Sleepless in Seattle

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108160/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4KQsPnz8Tw

Shall We Dance

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358135/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr3AjEn2uO8

My Best Friend's Wedding

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119738/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq4h7X9aff4

Early Edition

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115163/

Season 1 Episode 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqcjLHqe3cI

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044081/

Marlon Brando ~ 'Hey Stella!'~ A Streetcar Named Desire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1A0p0F_iH8

Over the Hedge - STELLAAAAAAA !!!!! :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVAWLO0mPOY

I Wish I Was In Dixie Land

youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OKdbc0DYpM

The Shawshank Redemption

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hB3S9bIaco

Renaissance

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in Europe, from the 14th to the 17th century, considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history. It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe, marking the beginning of the Early Modern Age.

English Renaissance theatre

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Renaissance_theatre

Under Elizabeth, the drama was a unified expression as far as social class was concerned: the Court watched the same plays the commoners saw in the public playhouses. With the development of the private theatres, drama became more oriented towards the tastes and values of an upper-class audience.

Anecdote of the Jar

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdote_of_the_Jar

"Anecdote of the Jar" is a poem from Wallace Stevens’ first book of poetry, Harmonium.

Ode on a Grecian Urn

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_on_a_Grecian_Urn

poetry foundation:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173742

Sunday Morning (poem)

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Morning_(poem)

poetry foundation:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/guide/251528#poem

"Sunday Morning" is a poem from Wallace Stevens' first book of poetry, Harmonium.

Southern belle

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_belle

The Southern belle is a stock character representing a young woman of the American Deep South's upper socioeconomic class.

Plantation

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation

A plantation is a large piece of land (or water) usually in a tropical or semitropical area where one crop is specifically planted for widespread commercial sale and usually tended by resident laborers.

Tennessee Williams

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire (play)

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Streetcar_Named_Desire_(play)

A Streetcar Named Desire (film)

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044081/

clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1A0p0F_iH8

Catch Me If You Can

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264464/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71rDQ7z4eFg

Marcel Proust

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust

Pai Hsien-yung 白先勇

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pai_Hsien-yung

New Orleans

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans

The city is named after the Duke of Orleans, who reigned as Regent for Louis XV from 1715 to 1723, as it was established by French colonists and strongly influenced by their European culture. It is well known for its distinct French and Spanish Creole architecture, as well as its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage.

Cajun cuisine

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_cuisine

This style of cooking is named for the French-speaking Acadian people deported by the British from Acadia in Canada to the Acadian region of Louisiana. It is what could be called a rustic cuisine; locally available ingredients predominate and preparation is simple. An authentic Cajun meal is usually a three-pot affair, with one pot dedicated to the main dish, one dedicated to steamed rice, special made sausages, or some seafood dish, and the third containing whatever vegetable is plentiful or available. Shrimp and pork sausage are staple meats used in a variety of dishes.

Mardi Gras

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_Gras

Mardi Gras, also called Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday, in English, refers to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after the Christian feasts of the Epiphany (Three King's Day) and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday", reflecting the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season.

Nikita (film)

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100263/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=167URLa-On0

Point of No Return

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107843/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loWM25F_SOY

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110148/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7m_n2aM51Q

The Skeleton Key

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397101/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=654uzrc6Lsk

Louisiana Voodoo

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Voodoo

Louisiana Voodoo, also known as New Orleans Voodoo, describes a set of spiritual folkways that developed from the traditions of the African diaspora. It is a cultural form of the Afro-American religions developed by enslaved West Africans and the French, Spanish, and Creole populations of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Voodoo is one of many incarnations of African-based spiritual folkways rooted in West African Dahomeyan Vodun. Its liturgical language is Louisiana Creole French, the language of the Louisiana Creole people.

The Pelican Brief

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107798/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7seUNbY1_w

All the King's Men

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405676/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruq0GPvloVc

Gothic fiction

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction

• Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the genre of Gothic horror and gothic fiction, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction, horror, death and romance.
• It originated in England in the second half of the 18th century and had much success in the 19th, as witnessed by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Southern Gothic

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Gothic

• Southern Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction in American literature that takes place exclusively in the American South.
• Common themes in Southern Gothic literature include deeply flawed, disturbing or eccentric characters who may or may not dabble in hoodoo, ambivalent gender roles, decayed or derelict settings, grotesque situations, and other sinister events relating to or stemming from poverty, alienation, crime, or violence.

Sam Smith - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnEqv8WcVq8

lyrics:

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Let your heart be light

From now on your troubles will be out of sight

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Make the Yuletide gay

From now on your troubles will be miles away

Here we are as in olden days

Happy golden days of yore

Faithful friends who are dear to us

TGather near to us once more

Through the years we all will be together

If the fates allow

Hang a shining star upon the highest place

So have yourself a merry little Christmas

Meet Me in St. Louis

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037059/

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas With Snowman Clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmx1L8G25q4

Joy to The World

youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xo64Q2ucQ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30OaM6b48k8

Aesthetics

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics

Oscar Wilde

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde

He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism.

Modernism

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism

• Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief.
• Some commentators define Modernism as a mode of thinking—one or more philosophically defined characteristics, like self-consciousness or self-reference, that run across all the novelties in the arts and the disciplines.
• According to one critic, Modernism developed out of Romanticism's revolt against the effects of the Industrial Revolution and bourgeois values: "The ground motive of modernism, Graff asserts, was criticism of the nineteenth-century bourgeois social order and its world view [...] the modernists, carrying the torch of romanticism".

“Heaven and earth,

Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him

As if increase of appetite had grown

By what it fed on, and yet, within a month—

Let me not think on't—Frailty, thy name is woman!—“

                                                                      Hamlet Act 1, scene 2, 142–146

Hamlet is angry that his mother, Gertrude, has married his uncle Claudius within a month of his father's death. The speech generalizes the attribution of weakness of character from one particular woman to womankind.

fra- (stand for break)

frame

fragment

fragile

Shrine

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrine

Flower child

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_child

Flower child originated as a synonym for hippie, especially among the idealistic young people who gathered in San Francisco and the surrounding area during the Summer of Love in 1967. It was the custom of "flower children" to wear and distribute flowers or floral-themed decorations to symbolize ideals of universal belonging, peace and love. The mass media picked up on the term and used it to refer in a broad sense to any hippie. Flower children were also associated with the flower power political movement, which originated in ideas written by Allen Ginsberg in 1965.

Hippie

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie

Death of a Salesman

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Salesman

Death of a Salesman is a 1949 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was the recipient of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. The play premiered on Broadway in February 1949, running for 742 performances, and has been revived on Broadway four times, winning three Tony Awards for Best Revival. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest plays of the 20th century.

Arthur Miller

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Miller

Forrest Gump

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPIEn0M8su0

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." –Forrest Gump

Elizabeth

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127536/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyGBwrtIamw

Memoir

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoir

Indochine

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104507/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxMoREEix6Q

The Patriot

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187393/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5u1am7pmrw

Mel Gibson

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Gibson

Heaven & Earth

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107096/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yYV6k4t-Ec

12 Years a Slave

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2024544/

trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02Ie8wKKRg

Oliver Stone

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Stone