Wednesday, April 29, 2009

~*~::{Reading Blog #44: Duel}::~*~

This week in English, we watched the first movie Steven Spielberg ever directed, “Duel.”  This movie is about a crazed trucker that frantically tries to drive a man, David Mann, off of a highway for no apparent reason.  This whole movie follows after David Mann as he is on his way to a business meeting.  At a random point, a trucker decides “Hey.  I’m gonna run this guy off the highway.” And throughout the whole movie, David is chased after this truck for no apparent reason.  I think this movie was actually really good because of how it was directed.  Mr. Spielberg knew what it took to make a scary movie.  By not showing the audience what the driver looked like, it made it so the audience could imagine what he looked like.  Everyone was a suspect in this movie.  To make the truck look like it was going faster than it actually was and to make it look bigger, low shots on the road were taken.  These low shots made the truck look larger and faster.  Also, the truck was made to look old and worn.  By making it look old and gross, it made it look scarier…like an actual monster; not just a truck.  Spielberg also created tension and stress during the movie by making cuts shorter and faster with intense music.  This helped to speed up everyone’s heart rate and make them more excited like they were living the stress and torture along with David Mann.  In short, Steven Spielberg is an amazing director that can create stress and tension in a movie in many different ways.  By making the movie “Duel” as successfully as he did, he demonstrated  his potential as a famous director.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

~*~::{Reading Blog #43: Burned}::~*~

Currently, I am reading the book “Burned” by Ellen Hopkins. Personally, I really do enjoy reading this book. I think it is very good and it has a lot of emotion and you can learn a lot about the character just from reading this. The main character is an average teenager, and she goes through her life thinking many things different from what her family wants her to believe. She is a Mormon and her family doesn’t want her thinking about sex or freedoms or doing what she wants when she grows up…naturally, the only things she can think about are sex, freedom, and doing what she wants to do when she grows up. So far in the book, she has rebelled against her father’s wishes and thought about not being Mormon anymore, and she has been moved out to live with her aunt in Nevada for the summer. Little did she know that she would find romance in this dusty little state in such a short time. Soon enough, she falls for a local neighbor boy and has sex with him (going against her father’s wishes again) and falling totally in love with him. I do like this book, but I just think that it’s a little dramatic. I mean, I’m a teenager and we all have our little dramatic moments, but this book is like…holy God. There’s so much drama, it kinda makes me sick at times. It’s very well written and very good, I Just don’t really like the fact that it’s so dramatic and everything in her life is “terrible” and she is “hated” by her family.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

~*~::{Kurt Vonnegut Bibliography}::~*~



"Kurt Vonnegut." Www.kirjasto.sci.fi. 20 Apr. 2009 <http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vonnegut.htm >.(source 2)

Rollyson, Carl, ed. "Kurt Vonnegut." Notable American Novelists. 2nd ed. 3 vols. Pasadena: Salem P, Inc., 2008. 1349-359. (source 3)
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