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Showing posts with label Bryant Sinka. Show all posts
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Sunday, November 24, 2013
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Female Characters
I have to say I do not
have a biased view on strong female characters. I think there is an audience
for every character people could think of.
Strong female characters first and for most appeal to the female viewer.
It gives them power and ambition to pursue their dreams, empowering women to
chase positions of power. The first movie that comes to mind is Lara Croft:
Tomb Raider played by Angelina Jolie. She uses her athletic ability and
intellect along with technology to outsmart and overpower her opposition,
mainly men. When the two do confront each other throughout the movie, the
viewer wants to see the female character prevail. I have to agree, but I can’t
tell if it is solely because she is the main character, who mostly any viewer
supports and roots for. I will in this case relate to television series
Breaking Bad and the mother Skylar White. All throughout this series she stays
behind Walt the main character. She supports him even after they come to an understanding
of Walt’s illegal trade. She then uses her superior knowledge to outsmart men
in her background of financial situations, buying a company and laundering
money. Something that people may not expect from a female character. No matter
how out of control things got she protected her children before herself. Near
the end of the series, she finally loses it and overpowers the Walt in his
darkest hours. I would say a very strong female character. People may not have
supported her until the last few seasons but in the end she received respect
from the audience. So my overall basis is I stand behind them in their roles,
but at the same time I don’t want to see all men overplayed by women. In
general I guess this levels the playing field and constructs new and creative
stories turned into productions. Here is
a great way to look at it:
http://feministing.com/2013/08/20/the-skyler-white-problem-can-we-accept-complex-female-characters/
Game of Thrones
A new HBO series that
has come to spread through my friends is the Game of Thrones, a book series
transformed to television. I was first introduced to this series through my
brother who is constantly nose deep in some of the most recent reads. How well
do these book series translate to the screen though? Seeing how well the Lord
of the Rings and Harry Potter did, I can see the Game of Thrones falling into
this category, because it on HBO it can get into some more gritty material, and
trust me there is plenty. After just three seasons I have had my interest kept
every episode I come across, from the overload of medieval chaos to everything
they portray through the series. As per
usual it is nearly impossible to put everything in the book to film, it would
take forever. Although this is a television series and they have more minutes
to use it still doesn’t happen. If you think about it the Lord of the Rings and
Harry Potter were made into movies not a television series, making them cram
more information into a smaller space, but both successful. Now the series is catching up to the series to
quickly, some of his books haven’t even been written yet so it will be
interesting to see the direction the show takes. If you only watch the series
and haven’t read the books, then you find surprises around every corner. From a
production perspective, I find it well done. The way the characters dress along
with the actual dialogue makes viewers more attached to the series. Season 4
will premiere in spring 2014.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Gaming moving Forward
Now that some of the
most advanced gaming technology is finally being released, how do people see gaming
transitioning into the near future from here? The PS4 released on November 15th
and the Xbox One release on November 22nd, keeping the competition
between the two as close as the computer freaks that made them. Some of the
smartest people in the world put these machines together. I personally believe
in Bill Gates, Microsoft, and I had and Xbox before a PlayStation, I lied I
never had a PlayStation. So my fate was kind of set through my older brother,
however rarely did I play the original PlayStation at my friend’s house back in
the day. That being said I could never give into my opposition, a foreign built
machine out performing mine, unbelievable. And thus I have always backed Xbox
although there are some circumstances I can’t deny and will never admit to. So
I plan of laying out a simple comparison of the direction these machines are
headed. The Xbox One costs a staggering $499 compared to a PS4 $399, never before have I seen prices so high. The PS4
sold more than 1 million units within the first 24 hours, so the Xbox One has
quite the standard to meet. There is a difference in games between the two
because some games are only sold for one console, but some of these exclusively
sold games are beyond me. The Xbox One, Kinect equipped, can allow for game
playing simultaneously with television or a movie. The PS4 allows for streaming
from Hulu and Netflix. The true
comparison in gaming all comes from the conch (controller), without it there would be no
gaming. Xbox One run by AA and the PS4 still chargeable but only found to last
for 7-8 hours. I just know some of my friends more keen to gaming have all been
giddy this month in regards to releases.
Also it is obviously a brilliant and simple
strategy for anyone to see, great marketing of the release a few weeks before
black Friday. Get your release date sales, get a boost from black Friday, and
continue boosting through December for Christmas and I would say even to the
New Year. Some people overlook the simple things.
How skewed is Entourage?
Seeing as I’m a
production student I know I would love to move out to California and see my years
pan out as the HBO series Entourage. I find it interesting that the show is a
skewed version of Marky Mark’s life, who is also a producer on the show. Having
watched the show progress I believe these actors played their parts well, there
was good chemistry. Although I do have to say my favorite character Ari Gold (played
by Jeremy Piven) made me laugh the most, partially because I am a fan from the
movie Old School. Now back to Marky Mark, I am curious as to whether this is
accurate to the way it truly is in LA, and I can only imagine yes. However, Mark
Wahlberg is not your everyday actor. He has been through quite the career, it
you don’t believe me look up his filmography, wikipedia only helps me in this regard.
I can see that not
everyone in the business lives the same life; everyone has different pace
different views, but is this accurate to how Wahlberg’s life played out at some
point? I am sure there were parts thrown in for entertainment purposes I get
that, so I guess what I’m really asking is how skewed actually was the series? I
know the basis that they are from New York and move to Hollywood, but where did
the experiences in LA come from? Where they lived out or written for the show?
I would find it to be a crazy life style to say the least. Also I have been
following the attempt to create a movie, which was understandable after the series
finale. They want to see the series translate to the big screen like Sex and
the City did, but some people do not foresee this this movie making out very
well. The movie is supposed to undergo production on January 16th
and be released in the spring of 2014, now that the actors have come to an
agreement and the movie is to receive California’s Film and Television Tax
Credit, which is the only way Warner Bros would make the movie. And as much as I
want to just write out the plot to the movie, I care enough for those who like
the surprise. For those who have seen the finale, you already have an idea of
what is to come. If people have never seen the series finale should they watch
it before the movie? I personally do not think that matters enough to me
because I have seen sequels or such before the original. Some say otherwise,
but I think it you believe you should watch the finale then just manage some
time to watch the whole series. Here is a Wahlberg article regarding the plot
which is really just a pick up from where it left off detail, and according to
the article I am pretty positive he will make a cameo.
Twitterless
Well, as the title
speaks for itself and I find this a great blog to complete the day, I am twitter-
less. Yet all my roommates and friends that surround me still make the sense of
tagging me to "tweet" at me. It does not bother me so much except for
the fact that I cannot see what they provide for all of their "followers"
to read. They talk about tagging me in their beloved and precious twitter as if
I am not in the room. Then sometimes they continue to talk about tagging me and
then advance telling me to get one. They continue to tell me how
"cool" I would be if I got one now after the trend has sailed.
Honestly, I could care less about twitter and I will not succumb to yet another
unneeded social media platform. The only one I gave into was Facebook, and
twitter is far from calling my name. Is twitter really all that different from Facebook
anyway? Twitter is just another means of communication between people but in a
more unique form. As I have come to interpret twitter without one, you do not
accept friends to read your information and tweets, anyone who follows you can
simply do so. And just like unfriending
in Facebook, you can simply un-follow someone who is of no interest to you
however they can still follow you. To anyone who reads this if I am misunderstanding
twitter please correct my view. When it
comes to what people put on social media, some of these people incorporate no
thinking. I remember back to high school and as weird as it may be, the administration
would look up social media of students and reprimand for “bad behavior”, but it
was a Catholic school, does that matter? Anyway your future employer absolutely
looks into your life whether you like it or not, and some of these kids do not
consider that or refuse to believe it. I have seen some pretty debatably law
braking and indecent material cross my path. The things people brag about these
days, geez. But I do also notice the good. You are up to date and connected
with friends no matter where they are. I would most likely use it solely to get
information from people of power, the ESPN analysts. If anyone who reads this
cares about twitter enough to change my mind, good luck.
http://www.thewire.com/technology/2013/04/its-okay-hate-twitter-now/64131/
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