Romeo. Romeo & Juliet.

Despite the fact I didn’t like most of the movie for a few reasons, I can distinguish one main and principal character of this tragedy, Romeo is the one I’m going to analize in both the book and the movie of 1996. Romeo’s character maintained his main characteristics in both mediums. Romeo is one of the main characters of this movie, a montesque, one of the opposite forces leading this history. He is my favorite character because he’s unstable and  impulsive with his feelings demonstrated on his acts and attitudes, his dignity and value to refuse violence when not necesary.

Both Romeo and Juliet lead the principal plot of the story from the book and from the movie. Romeo is still the reflexive and desperate man wanting to be loved by other woman. The moment when he and Juliet meet and the following incidents that continue the story keep the touch of romanticism all the time from the character of Romeo. His love seems to be unstopable and boundless when it comes to Juliet.

One of the similarities I liked but also disliked was that the character mantained most of the original dialogue in the movie from the book. One advantage is that the dialogue in the movie maintains the original feeling and intention. Audience can almost get back to the moment where their eyes read the book. It has to be considered also that the movie was made in the 90’s and the language of society had changed, and the original dialogue may not be understood by all people.

Unlike other characters that suffered one or two or more changes on their original profile, Romeo kept his attitudes and his personality. Although recognize him is not a difficult work to do, because of the new location of the movie, his clothing changes a little the original percepcion of Romeo. Despite that fact, his courage and braveness to promote peace and dignity when Juliet’s cousin was trying to kill him stands out. Romeo in both mediums is impulsive in his actions but he does them with complete honesty.

Romeo does not have many differences or changes from the adaptation of the book in the movie. He keeps his main characteristics that distinguish him and changes a little by fisical appearence. At the end the dialogues guide the feeling wanting to be told from the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet.

Freytag's pyramid of Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders

Exposition

The main characters are presented, Travis, his son, his brother and brother's wife. The story begins with the mystery of why Travis walked down the desert apparently with no destination, and the fact that he disappeared for four years and left his son to the care of his brother and wife.

Inciting incident

Happens when Travis reencounters with his son after four years and he wants to be his father again. Travis's brother took him to his house at Los Angeles, where he lived with his wife and where they were raising his son.

Rising Action

Travis and his son start to get along together little by little while his brother's wife starts to worry about giving up the kid. Memories of the one Travis loved, mother of his son who apparently left at the same time he did and never came back, keep returning, either from a family video or conversations at dinner table.
Travis founds out his wife deposit money every fifth of the month to a bank account opened for his son. He decides he wants to look for his wife Jane, picks up his son at school and begins the trip together far to Houston, Texas to find her.

Climax

Happens when Travis and his son find Jane in her car at the bank. They chase her to the place where Travis founds out what she did for a living.

 

Falling Action

Travis founds out the way to talk to her in a cabine where he could see her but she couldn't see him. He starts to talk but lose control and he got out of there. He wanders with his son from place to place wondering of the situation and what he should do.

 Turning Point

Happens when he accepts his fault and realizes of his mistakes in the past with his wife, which propitiate the family desintegration.  He decides he has to join together again Jane and his son. Travis leaves a recording to his son and goes to see Jane for the last time.

Resolution

When Travis starts to talk to Jane again, is the time where we get to know their background story; why both of them left their son and why their relationship didn't worked well. But he didn't went to reconcile with her, he realized their relationship was self-destructive; he just went to accept the mistakes he made in the past in front of her and to reunite her with their son. The story ends with a lonely man who's afraid of what will happen but satisfied for having united the two people he loved the most, and a mother and her son reencountering after a long time, what we can see in a beautiful image.

 

 

Who is James Dean?

James Dean was a 50's american actor who died on a car accident with only 24 years old on 1955. He was born in Indiana, his mother died when he was a child and his father took him to a farm where his uncles lived and they raised him.

He practiced theatre and he studied at the University of California located in Los Angeles. During 1950 he started working as an actor on films and tv. He didn't stand out on television, but he succeeded with two movies.

He obtained his first oscar nomination with East of Eden and later another oscar nomination for best actor on Giant.

Inglourious Basterds is a great movie!

Inglorious Basterds is a exquisite and intriguing movie located at the occupied France during the Third Reich. It may be cataloged not serious or respectful enough ,but it has to be considered the style and manner by Quentin Tarantino to interpret real facts and transform them to tell stories. A marvelous and original version of one time that changes the end of one of the most tense and remembered tragedies of history.

Victory for Germany but tragedy and pain to France. Inglourious Basterds shows a different end of this happening, based on revenge by two jewish forces. A woman whose family was killed, Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent); and the head of a group of eight american-jewish soldiers, First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt). The fictional unconceivable end is what makes the movie an unusual experience.

The determination and power of the characters to fight for their ends are exceptional. Their motifs are based of revenge, handled out with an audacity on deception, but always keeping on mind their dignity and courage. Constructing with secret meetings and elaborated arrangements in order to end Hitler’s domain, genious women and fearless men perform with elegance their conspiracy.

When it refers to a serious and polemic time as it does in the movie, there will be negative judges and commentaries. It is hard work handling a situation where many people were killed. Times where people were used to murders day by day; times where horror and fear surrounded all places. The movie succeeded on the challenge of portraying all kind of violence with black humour so that everyone can be delighted by the combination of unique dialogues and images.

A well written and directed movie carrying infinite expectations for and alternative end of a decisive historical time carried on by people who deserve their revenge. With black humour and sarcasm the movie stands out with strenght. It may not be the best movie of all times, but Inglourious Basterds won’t disappoint anyone, not for one minute of the two hours and a half.

Story of me

On a weekend me and my family went to a cousin’s wedding. I really don’t like that family events where you have to go almost chained to your parents and this situation happens because when you are a child you can’t decide what to do, I mean it’s not like you are a busy kid at 11. I had to wear the dress I hated the most and combed my hair just to look nice to all the family. Me, my brother and my mom got to the ballroom of the wedding where there were many lights crossing from left to right, from up to down and spinning all over the chairs, tables, people, walls, drinks, food, that entire room. I hate so hard to dance, moving my entire body according to a certain rhythm and melody of a song, I simply can’t feel the music, nobody taught me how to dance and I’m a introverted person with difficulties to relate to others. Sitting on a chair with no food in front of me while everybody was already dancing, I thought, I’m bored enough to dance, so what the hell; I stood up, walked down to the dance floor determinedly and started moving like people around me, I guess that were their dancing moves. I didn’t noticed when I started dancing on automatic, maybe I drank what I was not supposed to, or ate something that had disturbed my notion of the moment; one song kept playing after another and I kept dancing, I closed my eyes and moved my body freely underneath all those lights; I didn’t felt present at that place, I couldn’t notice that people were staring at me. I couldn’t stop dancing, I had overcome my fear and my insecurities.  From time to time my mom or other family member came to say to me “Hey you’ve danced a lot, come and have something to eat or drink, I could get you a glass of water.”, to what I answered “No thanks, I’m fine.”… or that was what I thought. My white dress glowed down the purple light and suddenly drops were staining my dress, but I kept dancing, I thought maybe they were effect of the lights. I felt dizzy and looked at my dress again, when the lights stopped I could see blood on me. I touched my face with my hand and then I noticed that my nose was bleeding. My mother came running to me and took me to the lady’s room to clean me up, she gave me a glass of water and took me outside to get fresh air. The supposed explanation of my bleeding nose was that I danced many time and that my body raised it’s highest temperature  to cause that reaction.  It scared me a few time later, I thought that If I did something I liked or enjoyed in excess, it would probably cause some bad reaction and that I had to establish boundaries. After that experience I really couldn’t be able to get on that state of almost omnipotence and unconsciousness.  Maybe If I got a few drinks and drugs I could feel something similar or totally different, or maybe It was just a childish experience of freedom, spontaneity and security.  I would never know when to take advantage of certain moments and live them at limit, I guess I’ll just do it all the time.