Pretty Little Liars (fan fiction)

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Pretty Little Liars is an American teen drama television series. It is loosely based on the popular novel series, whose writer is Sara Shepard. Series tells a story about four pretty girls who are American highschoolers, and whose life change when fifht member of their team disappeared after their wild ”girls night out”.

Exactly one year after the disappearing, this girl, Alison, is found dead from a nearby forest. Right after her funeral rest of the girls, Aria, Spencer, Hanna and Emily, start to have messages that are all signed ”-A”. This ”A” keep sending messages by email, paper-notes and text messages. All of the messages include secrets about the girls that only Alison knew. How is it possible when Alison is supposed to be dead?

It is the last day before the summer vacation starts, and also Mr. Fitz’s last work day as high school English-teacher. Weather is nice and people are happy. Now they, he and his girlfriend Aria, can finally be together in public.

Ezra’s (Mr. Fitz) and Aria’s relationship had already started before Ezra became Aria’s English-teacher. However the relationship with the student would not be accepted. Even though he is young to be a high school teacher, he is significantly older than Aria.

Now Aria is the happiest person in the world. She can finally be with the man she loves without the fear that someone will see and they get into the trouble. If Mr. Fitz had been found with his student, he would certainly be fired from his work. He can also get accused of interfering with a student.

They can not publish their relationship immediately: they must present that they have met accidentally during the vacation and that they started dating just now. Of course Aria’s closest friends, Emily, Spencer and Hanna, know the truth but otherwise the relationship still must be kept as a secret.

Now it is the middle of the summer holidays, and Aria and Ezra are finally together in public. Also their parents know about the relationship. First Aria’s mum was a little shocked, because she is also working as a teacher in that high school, so therefore Ezra is her ex-workmate.

One evening when Aria and Ezra are out for dinner, Ezra asks Aria to marry him. Aria is a little confused for a start, but despite that she is responding positively. Ezra tells that he wants everyone to know that Aria is his. Now when it’s finally possible.

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Tribute by Nora Roberts

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This film tells about a young lady who has left her world of movies behind. Years ago she was a child filmstar  and everybody knows her. Now she is studying a builduing champion and she is going to renovate the manor of her grandmother. Grandmother was mysteriously died more than thirty years ago. Strangers terrorize Cilla’s working with the manor. The unknowns do not want that Cilla examines issues like the letters of her grandmother. However, Cilla regardless founds out that her grandmother was pregnant when she died. Cilla finds a comforter living the next door, Jason the comic book artist, who  helps her to explain the weird mystery.

The movie is naturally carried out and the characters are plesants to watch. The director Martha Coolidge has done his best, compared to some of her other movies. She carries the story smoothly from scene to scene, creating a whole. The end of this movie was not foreseeable, like usually love film’s are. There are not any special effects, because this movie does not need them. The only special effects is the flashbacks that Cilla sees at times. Furthermore, the soundtrack is not very special. Camera men are normally placed.

All in all, Tribute is a syrupy lovestory like the other movies or books by Nora Roberts. This movie was supposed to contain the excitement, but it had not it that so much. The film was a hit when it was released in year 2009 and it is still popular.

 

 

Gangsters Become Humans

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Evan Hunter’s short story The Last Spin is a cold summary about gang wars. The plot begins when two men from different gangs meet each other. The two men Danny and Tigo are told to settle the gangs´ relations because of last night’s shootings. The cruel fact is that Danny and Tigo need to play Russian roulette until the end.

First they both are very tough guys and they see each other only as enemies. The Russian roulette starts with only one cartridge in the revolver’s cylinder. Odds are five-to-one. Gangsters are lucky, again and again they target the weapon towards their own heads and pull the trigger coldbloodedly. Without noticing it themselves Danny and Tigo begin talking. The men realize how much they have in common. They speak about their girlfriends, families, and dream about joining the army one day. Gangsters from different gangs decide to be friends. They even notice that the real conflict between the two gangs concerns the gang leaders’ greed of power, it’s not between them. But the game goes on and they must add another cartridge inside the cylinder. Quitting is not an option.

Both of the men are young because they can’t join the army without their parents permission. They are also newcomers in their gangs. In my opinion they are insecure and vulnerable young men trying to find approval and social cohesion from their gangs. As the story goes forward Danny and Tigo slowly take off their masks of tough guys and the real humanity increases in these two ordinary fellows.

Though The Last Spin is only a short story it ties its reader firmly in his or hers seat. Evan Hunter uses colloquial language in the men’s dialogue. It has its own influence on building the atmosphere. Actually without slang language the feeling would be far from what it should be. The story forces the reader to think about chains set up by the surrounding community. Can you be what you want to be or are you just playing a role? Or how hard is it to take off the mask?

 

Black hawk down

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Black hawk down were made in 2001 in United States of America. The film won Oscars from best editing, best sound and were nominated for best director and cinematography. Black hawk down is a story of American elite strike teams mission to release small city from withering warlords grip. Sounds Like a basic American super soldier movie right? However it´s different from others because it´s based on actual event.

The battle of Mogadishu happened between October 3, 1993 and October 4, 1993. The battle of Mogadishu were joint ops mission witch goal were to capture Somali warlord  Mohamed Farrah Aid-id and the movie focuses on rescuing party for crew of two shot down Black Hawk helicopter. A lot director didn’t  change the code film is still a triumph for American ”saviors”.

Storyline is still old same first 30 minutes is spend to watch bald people speaking meaningless fuzz and showing how evil hostile is. When the battle begins, it´s same old story: American propaganda: hundreds of Somali militia are shooting group of American soldiers on a ground without any effect. However after couple minutes Americans are forced on defence still they seem to get over whit it without a scratch. The rest of the film is just meaningless stuffing when rescuing party is trying to get to crash side. however in that stuffing the secret of success is hidden, because that’s where the tide changes and Americans are starting to drop down, which brings the movie more realistic. of course Americans are not going to lose but in this movie they don’t get any miracle power but air support which is much more acceptable. Another funny fact is that everything else than American things seem to blow up Movie doesn’t show much about the citizen’s view or even the city it’s purely about soldiers.

Personally I think that movie were made to defence USA:s massacres and to get more soldiers to world. During the raid more than 1000 Somali got killed by ALL forces and 19 American were killed.

The movie is not to be recommended for those who require a deeper meaning or something stimulating. but those who enjoy action and all that other stuff its very enjoyable.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a American drama film directed by Richard Brooks. The movie was released in 1958 and it’s starred by Elizabeth Taylor (as Margaret ”Maggie”), Paul Newman (as Brick) and Burl Ives (as Harvey ”Big Daddy”).

The film starts when a drunken Brick Pollit brakes his leg by leaping hurdles on a trackfield, dreaming of his glory days in high school sports. He is an ex-football player, who had later switched the ball to alcohol and who’s marriage with gorgeous Maggie is cold and indifferent from his case. Big Daddy is dying for cancer, although he doesn’t know that yet himself. He arrives home from the hospital just in time for his 65th birthday and his both sons, Brick and Garson, with their families had gathered together to celebrate this big day. Everybody knows about Big Daddy’s dying but they wants him to remain happy, so nobody tells the truth to him. But in the evening of his birthday he finds out the real side of his illness. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a great story of self-loathing, growing, falsehood and living in it and ofcourse love.

Characters are all very professional. Margaret’s ”The Cat” loneliness and Brick’s refusal to make her his desire, has made her hard, nervous, and bitchy. Brick is the favorite son and mourned lover. Brick embodies an almost archetypal masculinity. At the same time, the Brick before us is also an obviously broken man because of his repressed homosexual desire for his dead friend Skipper. Big Daddy is Brick’s father a large, brash, and vulgar plantation millionaire who believes he has returned from the grave, though he is very ill. Deep in his heart, he’s still a loving old man despite the brash appearance.

I have watched this film about five times and I never get bored to it. Film represent old-fashioned but wealthy life of a big family, with it’s sorrow, hate and love. I recommend this film to all who has an interest in old classic dramafilms.

 

 

Die Hard 4.0

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Die Hard 4.0

 

The movie I chose was Die Hard 4.0, also known as “Live Free or Die Hard”. It was released in 2007 and it still remains as the latest and the most profit made movie of the Die Hard film franchise. USA premier was at 22nd of June and Finland’s premier 5 days later, 27th . Genre of the movie is action. The stars of the movie are Bruce Willis as John McClane, the ‘hero’ of the movie, Timothy Olyphant as Thomas Gabriel, the villain of the movie. Other important actors are; Justin Long and Maggie Q. Len Wiseman was in charge of directing the movie.

For the 4th time Bruce Willis makes a incredible role as John McClane, ruthless detective of NYPD who does not show any mercy to bad guys. Bruce Willis fits well to his role. He gives the role the touch which makes John McClane charismatic and outstanding. And the proof of Willis’s amazing performance; Bruce Willis won the ‘National Movie Awards for the best performance by a Male’ for his magnificent role in Die Hard 4.0. Timothy Olyphant instead doesn’t fit to his role as well as Willis does. He just doesn’t seem to be unrefined and ruthless as terrorists are used to be seen in movies.

The plot of the movie is similar to all of the Die Hard movies – terrorists do something that they shouldn’t do and John McClane is always there for some odd reason to save the day. Yet again, NYPD cop is in wrong place at the wrong time. This time the incidents happen in Washington, DC, on 4th of the July, when group of terrorists hack in to USA´s government servers and gain access all of the services and  shut down the security and transport systems of the city and its neighbors. Chaos rules in the whole Eastern-Coast of the USA and when nothing is working McClane has to drag his friend, Matthew Farrell (Justin Long) who knows everything about computers and partners try to get the systems back online.

Overall I think the movie is successful. Still after 12 years Len Wiseman and Bruce Willis have managed to modernize the character very well and the story as well is astonishing itself. I myself really enjoyed the movie and I would recommend it to everyone who fancies the movies like this.

Bridget Jones – Elämä jatkuu

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Bridget Jones:The Edge of Reason (2004) is a romantic comedy film of the life of Bridget Jones. It is a sequel to Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), based on a novel written by Helen Fielding and directed by Beeban Kidron. Starring is Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones, Hugh Grant as Daliel Cleaver and Colin Firth as Mark Darcy.

Bridget Jones is a chubby, awkward but very funny english tv-journal whose lovelife is a mess. In the first movie Bridget Jones’s choose polite and civilized Mark Darcy over cheating and arrogant Daniel Cleaver. Now Bridget is happily with Mark but not for long. Mark and Bridget break up because of a misunderstanding and Bridget ends up in Thailand to business trip.Of course Bridget’s ex-boyfriend Daniel is on board and as Bridgets work partner. Bridget isn’t far from falling for Daniel again until it turns out that he hasn’t changed a bit. The real problems start when Bridget is about to get back to UK. In the airport a sniffer dog finds cocaine from Bridgets suitcase. Bridget has unwittingly tried to smuggle drugs.
Bridget stays in Thailand in prison, but luckily Mark comes and saves her. Traditionaly, Mark and Daniel get into a fight for Bridget. In the end Bridget and Mark get back together and Mark proposes to Bridget.

Bridget Jones movies differ much from other romantic comedies. Bridgets charachter is easy to identify with. She hasn’t got the most amazing bodyshape nor is she rich. She cant stop smoking and she rarely acts the way that’s supposed to. She embarreses herself often but she always gets back on her feet and she also doesn’t care about what other people think of her. That is something to admire.

The most fun part is Marks and Daniels fight. It wasn’t ”cool” fighting like in most films. There was two men slapping, kicking and trying to hit each other, thats what fighting really looks like between men. The seem made the movie even more plausible. The atmosphere is very casual and comical. The film is very light to watch, it is no Schindlers list. The movie is suitable for young and older women.

written by: Anniina Laino

 

Christmas story

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Now you can believe in Santa Claus!

Joulutarina (Christmas Story) is a finnish film, which tells the orugin and life of Santa Claus. A film is directed by Juha Wuolijoki and written by Marko Leino. The film is released in 2007.

The story begins when Santa’s (whose name is Nikolas) parents and his sister died in an accident. Nikolas (Otto Gustavsson) started an orphan child’s life. Every family taking him for a one year and then moving him on to the next family. Nikolas starts whittiling toys out of wood as a gift for the children, whose home he has lived. The last year none of the families can not take him to home the next year. The villages hermit Iisakki (Kari Väänänen) take him to his home. Iisakki doesn’t like Nikolas. After many years Iisakki grows to love Nikolas as his own son. Nikolas makes toys out of wood every year more and more. He grows old and he becomes the figure know as Santa Claus (Hannu-Pekka Björkman).

The film is touching and wonderful. Especially the
film is suitable for children. If you do not need action, that film is right for you!

Written by Krista

Water For Elephants

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Water for Elephants is a romantic drama movie based on Sara Gruen’s historic novel. The film is directed by Francis Lawrence and it was released on April 21, 2011. It stars well known actors like Reese Witherspoon and Twilight saga star Robert Pattinson.

PLOT

The movie starts with old retired Jacob Jankowski who wants to see circus performance. Staff tells him that the show is over and offers to call retirement home to pick him up. Suddenly Jacob shares his own story about Benzini Brothers Circus.

The flashback takes us all the way to Jakob’s college time. First his parents die in a car accident and Jacob leaves home and all behind – he jumps on Benzini Brothers Circus train. Right then and there the real adventure begins.

The beginning in circus is not easy, Jacob tells he have studied veterinary science and he become circus’ vet. First thing he kills circus’ star attraction Silver(horse), because the horse is in huge pain. The owner August is not too happy about it and makes it clear to Jacob that his words are the law. For Silver’s replacement August buys an elephant, Rosie and names Jacob to train the elephant.

Marlena, August’s wife, performed with Silver, so now she had to also learn to perform with Rosie. This only brings Jacob and Marlena closer to each other. August gets frustrated with Rosie and beats her. After that Jacob notices that Rosie can understand only Polish. With that remark he becomes a hero.

Circus succeeds and August is happy. Suddenly he notices that his wife and young polish boy have fell in love. He gets angry and hits Marlena and then Jacob. Jacob and Marlena try to run away but they fail and August’s men find them. Jacob doesn’t give up – he returns to circus. That day, Benzini Brothers Circus’ last day, is full of action.

Rosie, the clever elephant kills awful August and the hole circus dies. Jacob and Marlena live happily ever after with Rosie.

The story ends and old Jacob asks for job in a circus.

 

CHARACTERS

Robert Pattinson as Jacob Jankowski – Sweet Polish boy who falls in love with Marlena – owner’s wife.

Reese Witherspoon as Marlene Rosenbluth – Beautiful performer, owner’s wife who falls in love with Jacob.

Christoph Waltz as August Rosenbluth – Circus’ owner, ruthless man who kills people and animals to keep the circus going.

There was plenty other people – circus’ staff, who became important to Jacob but they didn’t affect significantly on the plot.

 

CAMERAWORK

The filming is by Rogrigo Prieto. I liked the way the movie was shooted and I think it’s excellent.  It brought the needed feeling to otherside of the screen. Editing is by Alan Edward Bell. I think that also Bell done it well, none of the deleted scenes wouldn’t made the movie any better.

 

SOUNDTRACK

Film’s music is by James Newton Howard. As I said before the feeling came across the movie in filming but also in music. All of the film’s music was composed strictly for the film.

Atonement

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Atonement is a Drama Mystery film made in 2007 based on a bestseller novel of the same name written by Ian McEwan. The director of the film Joe Wright has done some very successful films during the last eight years. One of his most critically acclaimed films is Pride & Prejudice in which Keira Knightley plays the main character Elizabeth Bennet.

Keira Knightley reunites with director Joe Wright in Atonement in which she plays Cecilia Tallis, the elder one of the Tallis sisters. Cecilia is very protective of her little sister Briony, although she finds her very condescending. Younger Briony Tallis is played by Saoirse Ronan and later on by Romola Garai. James McAvoy was cast as Robbie Turner after Joe Wright had tried to work with him in the past. Robbie is the son of the Tallis charlady and he used to be very good friends with the Tallis children before noticing the class difference between them. Basically Atonement is a story about how an innocent young girl tells a lie which changes the lives of her beloved ones and how she desires for atonement. The young girl, Briony, lies about her sister being raped by Robbie whom she thinks has also raped her family friend Lola. Although she is unsure about what actually happened she still carries on with her lie. After this the two lovers Robbie and Cecilia are divided by this lie and also by the II World War, which is an important theme throughout the film.

The beautiful film score is composed by Italian composer Dario Marianelli, who has worked with Joe Wright in four of his films. Dario has composed different themes for the movie, but the most important one has to be little Briony’s theme which consists mostly of sounds from an old typewriter. It fits beautifully with the tension between all of the main characters.

The Setting of the film is magnificent. A certain scene in the film caught my eye: the beautiful but at the same time destructive shot of the Dunkirk evacuation during the II World War. Also the cast of the film was full of great British actors. I fell in love especially with James McAvoy’s performance because of his pure, relatable and touching interpretation as Robbie Turner. I got interested in the film because of Keira Knightley who is an old favorite of mine, but I also found new talent like Saoirse Ronan. She is very young in the film but her age didn’t prevent her from giving an amazing performance.

All and all this film made a great impression on me. The story, the beautiful score, the acting and the beautiful cinematography make it an enjoyable but also a devastating film to watch. The story will stay with you for a long time after watching it.

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