a blog on quotes.

Every movie go-ers haven: International Movie Data Base, IMDB. Here they list, all the characters, the actors, the summary and even movie quotes. This snow day, I saw the movie transformers twice. Once at dinner and the second time when my dad got home. However, this isn't the first time I watched it. The first time I saw the movie was the summer that it came out. But, this is my first time watching it ever since. The one thing I noticed this time was how important the dialog was in this action packed movie. Sure. the epic battles were exciting and the graphics were AMAZING, but, I believe that there was probably a lot of different underlying subtext messages in all of this action.

You can find the quotes at www.imdb.com/title/tt0418279/quotes

The first lines of the movie:
Optimus Prime: Before time began, there was the Cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds and fill them with life. That is how our race was born. For a time, we lived in harmony. But like all great power, some wanted it for good, others for evil. And so began the war. A war that ravaged our planet until it was consumed by death, and the Cube was lost to the far reaches of space. We scattered across the galaxy, hoping to find it and rebuild our home. Searching every star, every world. And just when all hope seemed lost, message of a new discovery drew us to an unknown planet called... Earth.
[later in the movie]
Optimus Prime: Our planet was once a powerful empire, peaceful and just, until we were betrayed by Megatron, leader of the Decepticons. All who defied them were destroyed. Our war finally consumed the planet, and the All Spark was lost to the stars.
I think that starting with these lines were very smart and needed. It gives background information and a foreshadow of things to come. I think that the script writer wanted to explain what the Cube means to the universe - it means power. This opening ultimately explains that with power, anything is possible. It can create war or it could be used to rebuild. Later in the movie, the leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime, again talks about the how power could affect something. In this case, Prime says that power caused a rebellion and destroyed a planet until all power was lost. I feel like this movie is so revel ant to the world today. There are so many countries fighting within itself and with other countries. From my perspective, this movie is saying how eventually, all this fighting will only cause more fighting and the whole world will become dead.


One theme in this movie is sacrifice.
Mikaela: "I have a juvi record because I didn't tell what my dad did. If you had to sacrifice anything in your perfect life, would you do it?"
Sam Whitwicky: "Fifty years from now, when you're looking back at your life, don't you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?"
Mikaela: No matter what happens, I'm really glad I got in that car with you.
Captain Witwicky: No sacrifice, no victory.
Optimus Prime: "You risked your life for the Cube" Sam: "It was sacrifice for victory" Optimus Prime: "Then I will risk mines also."
Optimus Prime: A necessary sacrifice to bring peace to this planet. We cannot let the humans pay for our mistakes
Optimus Prime: Oh, Jazz... We lost a great comrade, but gained new ones. Thank you, all of you. You honor us with your bravery.
In this movie, there was a lot of sacrifices. Most of this movie is about expecting the unexpected and along the way you need to make some sacrifices. One thing that was nice about this movie was that by the end of the movie, everything you heard tied back together. For example, how Mikaela (Megan Fox) saw what would have happened if she didn't get in the car. Another example would be when Sam (Shia Labeouf) repeated his grandfathers words. In this quote, the repetition shows how much you need to sacrifice if you want to achieve something. And tying in with the previous theme, Optimus Prime also states how when they had a mistake, they needed to sacrifice for the future generations. I really liked this quote because of how applicable it was to me. You need to sacrifice your time, energry and life for your family. However, Prime is saying that to prevent more mistakes happening he will sacrifice himself. These kind of geniune "people" arent really found these days - it would be nice to find someone like that.

Another theme is Good vs Evil.
Optimus Prime: Were we so different? They're a young species. They have much to learn. But I've seen goodness in them. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. You all know there's only one way to end this war: we must destroy the Cube.
Megatron: You still fight for the weak! That is why you lose!
[Closing Statement]
Optimus Prime: With the All Spark gone, we cannot return life to our planet. And fate has yielded its reward: a new world to call home. We live among its people now, hiding in plain sight, but watching over them in secret, waiting, protecting. I have witnessed their capacity for courage, and though we are worlds apart, like us, there's more to them than meets the eye.
Obviously, this theme is probably the most obvious theme out of all. Again, the wise one, Optimus Primse states how all of us were primiative and violent at a time, waging war on each other. And as However, because he saw the goodness of two kids, he thinks that Earth is worth fighting for. On the other side, to Megatron, to be defenseless and primative is to weak. Optimus Prime wants the world to be a better place because he can fix their mistakes. He believes how much man and the Autobots are alike. All of these themes can be tied to together with how you need to be brave and courageous to stand up for what you believe in. This movie was pretty good because I saw this movie for the action. But I got out of it so much more.

best movie pretty much.

Good Will Hunting. First of all, thank you Gus Van Sant for showing something worthy of my praise and my time. First of all, I'll start with the title. Clever, very clever. I first read it, as if someone is hunting for a good will. Which would make sense in this movie. Will is constantly looking for something for him to live for. And then i read it, Will ( a good person) is hunting. If the title were to mean this, it would imply that deep instead this hard exterior, is a good guy searching for something. And then of course you have Willing Hunting, his name, is good. Which is kinda of vague.

Second of all, at first I thought this story plot was crazy. I wonder why a janitor would be a genius. And as the movie progressed, this movie became so twisted and interesting. The whole movie I wondered why someone so smart would want to stay in a dump. Gus Van Sant explained why perfectly. Not only did he cast perfectly, but he the screen play was, dare I say, almost flawless. Although this movie has it's funny times, the actors really bring out emotion. When Will (Matt Damon) yells and hugs Sean (Robin Williams) as if he were his first real father, that scene was beautiful. I can't really say anything else. This movie was amazing and had every theme a good film needs.

the classic that started it all.

Really? This movie was that great to start all love stories? I don't think I can say that this movie is the number one movie. I thought this movie showed Ilsa, Ingrid Bergman, as more of a stronger woman compared to a women who would be portrayed by Hitchcock. In the beginning of this movie I thought Rick, Humphrey Borgart, was too weak to be a man. Why? He was childish and immature when he first met Ilsa. He drank to try to forget about her.

Ilsa, on the other hand, still wanted to explain herself. To me, this movie seemed so cliche. But thats probably because all other movies copied from it. Its about the girl who left and came back with "another man." However, finds herself to still be in love. And the "old" man must let her go. Bleh. On top of that, I didn't think the cinematopgraphy was that great either. I dont know what to say about the movie because it did not live up to my standards - or at least, what I was expecting.

The one part I did enjoy though was when in the bar, the french sang above the german anthem. I thought that part was clever and showed how Rick still had morals and beliefs to stand too. Rather than just be about buisness.

destruction of property? part II

So in the extras, Spike Lee talks about how all the 'white people' were more shocked on the fact of the destruction of property. Spike Lee thought that the strangling of Radio Rahiem was more powerful.

However, from my point of view. I think it's because the white people knew Radio Rahiem might have died. And although it was powerful, I think the 'white people' of this time could probably relate more to the Sal's business because he "built it with his own two hands. " I don't think they are being racist... well, that's a possiblity. But 'white people' could never relate to a person being killed in a riot, while he was trying to kill some one else. If anything, Radio Rahiem deserved it just as much.

Another thing I thought was interesting about the extra "interview" with Spike Lee was all the reviews that Do The Right Thing was getting. I found myself to be slightly offended too. These critics need to breathe and calm down. since Spike Lee is such a respected black director in a white industry, he took a big risk bringing this movie a large white audience. Because this interview was probably bias, a lot of these movie reviews sounded racist. Unless the movie critic is plain STUPID, in no way what so ever is this movie trying to provoke the audience to create riots in order to justify the ends. If anything the movie expresses what would happen if violence did occur - it creates more violence, and life goes back to normal.

This movie is supposed to awaken the US about what is happening in the ghettos; that lives are constantly being killed due to racism. I did think this movie was very good, but I'm still upset at how it ended. However it is strong characters like Mokie that make a movie. Mokie has the character to "fight" for what he believes in, he "set at limit" to how much he destroyed Sal's restaurant, and he was righteous in the amount he wanted to paid.. I still can not believe he had the guts to go back to Sal to get money. ... Where does Spike Lee come up with these ideas?......

piece by piece

Oh the rubix cube, how you have taken over the school. This short documentry has opened my eyes about the world and the rubix cube. I always knew that you can find out how to figure it out online, no matter what the size is. Which is probably how everybody in this movie learned, minus the Swedish guy.
But what I really learned was that there was actually a world of competitive "cubers." Who knew people actually did competitions? I was also surprised at how all these cubers eat, breath and sleep cubing. I don't this this is for me but i'm not amazed by how people can do it. But I am amazed when it comes to, how fast they can do it one handed and the "art" of doing it blind folded.
The Rubix Cube has become such a new media topic. It has been shown countless times on tv, such as Beauty and the Geek. Over all, I think the short did a good job showing what the Rubix cube is all about and how it is played today.

pick a side man.

I find the movie poster quote interesting. "It's the hottest day of the summer, You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can do the right thing." It makes me wonder about the movie even more. Because this movie leaves you questioning it, not with answers. This movie, Do the Right Thing, is based in Brooklyn in 1989.

The question the movie brings up since the first 5 minutes of the movie is the balence between the view points of Martin Luther King and Malcom X. Instead of the movie showing both sides of the arguement, I rather it be slightly bias. I'm not sure why, but I think I would enjoy the movie more either arguing with or agreeing with the movie.

The scene in this movie that made it unforgetable was starting when Sal (Danny Ailleo) told Mookie (Spike Lee) that he was part of their Italian family (business). Next thing you know, two boys who were just plain loud and obnoxious came in and disruppted the store. Sal ended up smashing Radio Rahiem's radio. Sal didnt need to go that far, but that was his raw emotions. Next thing you know, agressive anger vs agressive anger means fighting. But the first mind-blowing scene was when the police officers came, strangled and killed Radio Raheim. Right after that, Mookie, family, threw a trash can into the store and a riot started. That was just as shocking. But for me, it wasnt the fact that he was destroying property; it was the fact that he was destroying family.

However, my reaction is different from people in the 1990's because watching it now and knowing history, I knew that these events have happened, and I wasnt surprised. But at the same time I gasped and was shocked at the fact that he was strangled. On the other side of the argument, he was trying to kill someone else. He probably would have been tried for a death sentence anyway. But the fact that you would destroy your boss' store is shocking too. On top of that, he wasn't destroying Sal's place because of Sal but because he was mad at the police officers, which Sal had started the fight. I dont understand why Sal should get the blame for something the police did. Sal was defenseless against Radio Rahiem anyway. I'm not sure if either one could be justified. And when you see the riot happen, you realize that it shows what happens with violence (Malcom X). But it also leads the viewer to their own imagination about what could of happened if this was all nonviolence. (MLK)

I honestly think that if Mookie would have stop and thought, he would of realized how violence, in the end didnt solve anything. It didnt bring Radio Rahiem back. It didnt bring back Buggin Out. And it certainly did not change neither the police officers nor Sal's minds about what happened. I obviously support nonviolence because I think breaking a window will only create more violence, which it did.

Anastasia... because im not creative enough.

This weekend I saw the movie, Anastasia. My friends and I were bored, so we decided to hang out in my house and watch a movie. So we went to the library and spent 30 minutes trying to pick out a movie. Happy movies... yeah, we went into the children's library. Haha. As we saw Anastasia we all talked about how much we loved that movie when we were little.. but we all didn't remember it. So we watched it.

What I found funny was that when we started to watch it, my friends and I were talking about how historically inaccurate it was. No joke. We paused the movie and refreshed our minds about the real details of the movie. In the movie, the bad guy was Rasputin. As a 6 year old, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't even think of the names. And as his name came up saying about how he was banished from the house, I screamed, "HEY, THAT'S ACTUALLY TRUE." Oh boy. However, at first (since I didn't remember the movie) I was upset at how the movie was accurate for about 5 seconds... But then I realized it was a children's movie. And when I started yelling at a the TV for saying that it was historically inaccurate that the grandmother was alive in Paris, I remembered this movie wasn't real. But instead this movie a clever twist of what could of/should of happened. I find it funny how you can see how different you view movies over the years.

Oh and the fact that the movie wasn't a clique Disney movie was cool too. Instead, this movie actually bought real, HUMAN emotions of betrayal into it. Good job to whatever unknown company made this.

SINCE WHEN WAS MEG RYAN AND JOHN CUSACK AND KRISTIN DUNSK IN THIS?!

rushmore is awkward stuff.

This movie was the weirdest movie of my entire life. This movie defined the word: awkward. The plot of the movie revolves around the unrealistic characters. Max Fisher ( Jason Schwartzman) who goes to a private academy school because they found talent in him as a younger child. However, he becomes too involved in making different clubs and becomes a failure in his academics. First of all, I don't understand how you can take your time to research how to keep beehives, learn how to fence, make plays but can't study math. Honestly. Ok second, fantasy or realistic, a schoolshould not let a student BLOW UP a set because of a play.

Another thing I dont like about this movie is about how creepy it is. I dont understand how a student can simply fall in love with a teacher because of a quote.... are you dumb? I dont like how Max falls in love so quickly. You could see it by the giant aquarium he tries to make. Second, a teacher should not stop by to talk to a student in front of her house. Third, he tried to get her to kiss him in her house by faking an accident. Forth, the other teacher falls in love with her randomly....

I also dont like the fact that everything that is unreal in this movie, is possible in the movie. I feel like its a movie about someones weird imagination with everyone living in a world where teachers hanging out with students is cool. I guess I dont like this because in the beginning of the movie, they make the school seem so realistic.

some kids are dumb.

Elephant

Honestly, my ratings on elephant wasn't very high. I live through a long school day and I don't need my day to be any longer because of a movie with a kid whose day is just as long. Although the cinematography was interesting because it showed all different types of shots and angles, these shots can not make the day any more interesting.
I was not amused by watching 3 kids run down the same hallway, each one for 5 minutes. This movie based on Columbine was very predictable. Although I wasn't able to tell who was going to die, you could tell who was going to kill. I got impatient waiting for the action to happen. I was upset that it took so long and there was no follow up at the end.

However, this was a very realisitc movie. Many of the students were kids I could imagine in any school. For example, the jocks, the "popular skinny girls", the dorks, and all the nice guys. I could totally imagine all the conversations that were taking place. However, I can not relate to this movie because for me, Great Neck is nothing like this. Because I could not relate to this, I believe it was harder for me to like.

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVV.

Honestly, the mask kinda freaks me out. But so does 99% of all other masks. Anyway, Renee's movie choice was V for Vendetta. I've heard of this movie before, but, for some reason never saw it. I never knew what it was about either, but instantly in the first 5 minutes, I was hooked. I was hopelessly confused but I soon understood.

To me, this movie is about freedom and democracy - how far would you go to defend it? For V it is easy. It's his life. He spent many years plotting on his revenge towards the government. The government that killed its own people in order to gain control . This vengence is his way of showing and bringing back justice from a once great society. Besides all the chaos and killings in this movie, the plot thickens when the other protagonist, Evey (Natalie Portman) develops a particular relationship with V.
The most shocking part of the movie was when Evey was put into the same tortures as V was. Only the torture she was in was all done by V. While underground for some long period of time, the only thing that kept her going was a letter from a girl who happened to be a lesbian. The story, the only thing she had to leave behind, inspired Evey to keep going on. The most disturbing point of this was that V did this because she wanted to never fear again. A powerful statement that at the time, I don't think worked because she was too shocked. But in the long run, the only fear she had was not to become a democracy again.

Another thing I learned from this movie was that a mask creates chaos. Because of one mask, you are unknown and can do anything you want. For example on halloween, the people who have mask on, run around the school. With a mask on, you are irrational and do not think clearly, which in this movie, is a good thing.

eh. western... eh.

I never thought I would enjoy a western type film… and I didn’t. Honestly, this movie was boring. It was a typical western film. The main character, Marshall Will Kane (Gary Cooper), takes up the whole movie, minus 10 minutes, walking around his town, asking the towns people if they want to help him fight the bad guys. Obviously no one wanted to because who would be crazy enough? And stubbornly enough, all the people (people with no place in society) who wanted to fight, were turned down by Will. Will, stubbornly, fights the bad guys alone, almost gets killed, and then gets saved by his wife. The movie was predictable and boring.

But, again, Mr. Daszenski comes to the rescue to explain what this movie is about. Since I find new things interesting and amusing, this also applies to learning about movies. I think in order to fully enjoy this - or any other- movie you would have to know the time period it was filmed in. A lot of the sub text in this movie had to do with the time period; the 50's a time period where the US believed in pacifism. And after I found out that Will stands for America, everything made a lot more sense. And I started to actually... respect the film. hahaaaaa. But even with this new perspective... its still a boring movie, nonetheless. Sorry, no more movies about walking around a town please and thank you.

how to lose a guy in 10 days

I've heard a lot about this movie - all good things too. And for some reason, it’s everyone’s favorite movie. So it was on TV the other day and I finally decided to watch it. This actually exceeded my expectations. How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days is a classic chick flick. I feel like this is one of the model movies that started the modern chick flicks.

I think the one that made this movie different from any other typical chick flick was that this movie was actually laugh out loud funny – and not only at one part, MANY PARTS. I was laughing multiple times in this movie and that kind of surprised me. Why was it funny? It was clever and witty. The dialogue was surprising and all the plots are so out there it is impossible to not laugh. For example, the whole movie is about a girl, Andie (Kate Hudson), trying to get her “boyfriend”, Ben (Matthew McConaughey), to dump her because that is what her brilliant magazine article is about. So, throughout the whole movie she does what every girl shouldn’t do during a relationship. The plots she makes up in order to get the boyfriend to dump her are ridiculous. In the picture shown above, the girl pretends to have a complete meltdown over their dead love fern. Really – this movie was hilarious, intimate, and yet suspenseful – all in one.

you humans always make a mess of things

This is my second time watching this movie. Although the first time I watched this movie I really enjoyed it, watching it a second time in Art of Film really opened my eyes. The first time I watched this movie was a few years ago, I didnt think about the morals they were trying to teach, I was simply just watching the animation.

The one thing I noticed both times was the animation and imagination. The animation is so real and now that I learned that each frame was drawn, I am still mind boggled by that idea. The imagination of Miyazaki was also another thing I noticed both times. I still don't understand how Miyazaki can create such a world, with such great monsters and such an interesting plot just with his imagination.

This time, the two themes that stuck in my head - that I never realized before - was the theme of love and the environment. I dont know why but the first time I watched the movie I didnt realize that Chihiro and Haku were in love...even though Haku is a river....... [a person and a river in love?] But this love story was so inspiring because of how quickly they fell (not even fell, were destined) in love together.

The second theme I really admired about this movie was the environmental theme. I really thought it was so creative to incorporate it in an animation movie. The first point was Chihiro's parents turning into pigs. More points where we were able to see this theme was when Sen pulled out the thorn of the river god, how much no face consumed, and when Haku's river doesn't exist anymore because they built on top of it. I've never thought of a movie indirectly showing children what it is like to be gluttonous. I thought it was clever and I really think that more movies should show this concept to the world.

How To Do The Asian Squat

As an Asian... this really made me wonder about how true this was. I mean, I guess I subconsciously noticed that Asians squated differently. But... so differently that someone needs to make a short out of it? But, thats the point - to get people to notice these small cultural differences in a funny way.
Don't get me wrong - this was a pretty funny video. It was pretty ridiculous with the penny going under the shoe and the squat theory book. I'm not a fan of that kind of stuff.
But other then that... the whole short is true. "Western" squating does hurt after a while. And everyone in China, does squat like that if there are no seats available.
But this is going to make me very aware everytime I go into Flushing or Chinatown now - maybe even at home when my grandma chops chicken on the floor.
Asians have a whole different culture, so I guess this is why its so easy to make so many parodies of the culture. I had fun with this short and hope to see more.

If you liked this I recommend: Yellow Fever, by Wongfu Productions.
Its a short about how you always see a white guy with an asian girl, but never an asian guy with a white girl. It's video that a video group did for fun when they just started in college.

North by Northwest

Even though i watched North by Northwest backwards, (2nd half of the movie first, then the first half), I did enjoy it.

The movie started out great. It made me confused and wanted to know more. And by the time we find out that Kaplan is a CIA decoy, the whole movie starts to come together.

After the introduction to Eve and the scene of love, the action/thriller part of the movie starts. (Besides the plotted killing of Townsend and all the other ways of framing of Kaplan) R.O.T. gets chased down by a plane, goes to Mt. Rushmore, prentends to get shot, falls in love with Kendell, and almost falls off of Mt. Rushmore.

Besides all the heart attacks you almost get, this film, for 1959, has great special effects. This was a part of the movie that really amazed me. I was really suprised by the day for night effects and how it was used so much in this film; it seemed so realistic. The airplane blowing up was also a great effect.

I also liked all of the directors cuts. I had notice a lot that the cuts he makes in his movie are realistic and make the film better. A couple of the directors cuts that made the movie interesting was when Thornhill had bourbon poured in front of him and the next thing we see is was him driving drunk. Another example was when Thornhill and Kendell were in the room together, then Hitchcock cuts it and shows us the picture of the sunset and the darkness coming - we all know what was going to happen. All these cuts, make the watchers imagination be put to use and let us imagine things on our own.

All in all, the movie was pretty good. It felt cliched - but, I think I only say that because it resembles so much to the 007 movies. I recommend it to anyone who loves James Bond, aka people who love action, romance, thrillers and mysteries.

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