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The last spin ENA 5.2

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COMPREHENSION

Danny and Tigo are members of street gangs, based in different clubs. Danny’s gang had been shooting at a store in Tigo’s turf the day before. They were to settle this privately, without anyone else getting hurt by taking a shot at Russian roulette.

Tigo goes first. He just wants it over with. Danny starts chatting. The first click. They both think that Russians are crazy. They talk more and find out they both have families. Neither of them really want to be in the gang. Danny knows Tigo’s girlfriend. They start to hesitate.

Both of them are immigrants. Likely from the south. They decide to add more rounds to make their inevitable, untimely deaths more likely. They discover that they’ve lived fairly far away from each other and don’t know each other. A friendship forms between them and they decide to go to a lake on Sunday. Danny pulls the trigger for the last time.

ANALYSIS

8. Either Tigo wasn’t going to be able to tell about it or he wouldn’t have any more worries.

9. At the beginning the text seems to tackle the case of gangs in the US. Soon the two men, however unlikely, develop a kind of friendship. The text talks more about the stupidity of people and their hate rather than gang wars.

10. There were a lot of words that were colloquial. E.g. the words like the excessively used ’piece’ or the humorous sounding ’diddlebop’.

11. They trusted one another. Even liked each other. Minutes earlier he’d seen him as an enemy, a threat to his personal safety.

INTERPRETATION

They’d joined their gangs because they thought they had no choice at the time. They found the thought of somebody looking after them appealing.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail ENA5.2

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail. What a name. What a movie.

 

Monty Python, despite the singular name, is actually a comedy group consisting of six comedians and/or actors. The Holy Grail is by no means the first (or last) project of the group: by the time they had already produced a TV series and a movie. The film was released in 1975 and is still known to people in our current generation. Making a humorous movie that upholds it’s charm through decades is truly an achievement to be proud of. The latest re-release is from 2012, when the movie was updated to Blu-Ray. The movie has also often been ranked to be one the best comedies ever.

The genre is easy to identify. Even the preface of the movie is humorous and it’s not exactly hard to giggle within the first few minutes. As a matter of fact, if you can actually find most of the jokes in the movie you’ll be laughing half the time, guaranteed. Dark humor is littered all over the movie and it’s not all obviously visible and thus understanding some of the jokes makes it all the more fulfilling. The forementioned multilayered humor that works across generations makes it all the more interesting.

The soundtrack is interesting. The actual voices of the actors are lacking in many places due to the technology available at the time. The soundtrack, however is not very astonishing. The songs used in the movie are not all up to par but none exactly lack any certain qualities. They’re just borderline average, just as many soundtrack after the Holy Grail.

The special effects are quite impressive considering the time of it’s production. The animations inbetween the scenes are better than the average animation at the time and the actual effects, e.g. Explosions are used both in exactly the right places and in some scenes overused to emphasize the ridiculousness. Overall the SFX are very well done, although not quite up to modern standards for quite obvious reasons. The movie also breaks the fourth wall on a few occasions, ridiculing itself as well as the audience.

The cast is not really anything to look at besides the members of Monty Python. The whole movie was performed and voiced by about 15 people which isn’t that many.

All in all the movie is brilliant. The charm doesn’t seem to wither even with time and the Holy Grail is always entertaining to watch. If you haven’t had the chance to see it I strongly advice you to pick it up from anywhere you can. This is a movie you don’t want to miss, even after 38 years.