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Pure evil -or something else?

An oldish detective story lays in a bookshelf like any other book which has written almost hundred years ago. That prestigious book attracts as well younger as older readers all the more being a gloomy rescue of an autumn evenings and a sensitive breeze of a spring at the same time. Proficiency that both confuses and carries through a labyrinth of simple clues that are stashed very well. This British writer manage to entwine us with complicated but still so obvious plot –yes, of course I am talking about Agatha Christie`s writing, about Evil under the sun.

In the beginning of the book the main character, a colonist from Belgium Hercule Poirot, is typically having a holiday with a fistful of peculiar people until gloominess shows up. Characters personify persons of the real life in the sense that they have as many features and hence being careful with unreliability could be seen as the message of this book. On the other hand Christie gets an innocent person seeming like a quilty and therefore the point could be the phrase “Nothing is what it seems “. In spite of that similarity with our everyday life there is not a person to whose status a reader can easily fit oneself and that is how Christie gets a reader start to ponder the crime like he would be all-seeing and then attractiveness of the plot  abides. Without this Poirot`s explanation in the end could feel too confusing namely the story is not effortless to understand.

In the case that you have read many stories of Christie and because of similarity of the characters this story starts to feel too much worn out is the milieu compensatory. Who does not want to have breakfast in bed circled with blue water areas and green hills? The writer makes use of weather phenomena; When it is an ordinary day the sun is shining but when sunshine is over the murderer is behind unsuspecting visitor`s back and this is the way that turns readers into right frequency. This is a slightly flat way of writing but on account of this means the reader can catch the plot quickly.

Beautiful use of language confirms mysterious sensibility of the book. British English is even more than just an experience intrinsically. Sometimes you can notice how Christie has hidden into a one word a big clue. Actually it is not hidden but you did not think it could be remarkable and thus this book teaches also vigilance. Which comes to the name of the book it expresses very well Christie`s dramatic style although serenity of landscape moderates it and there is suitably drops of drama in the story. In the beginning the story does not  seem to flare up like sparkling wine but as rapidly as a child can fall asleep you can notice that there is drama like in a soap opera.

All in all Evil under the sun does not differ much from other Christie`s stories but nevertheless this writing belongs to a collection in which the main point is an equivalent clue which so easily deceives you time after another. I think Evil under the sun is much more than just evil. It shows how ornate a story could be without too many ways of influencing. Once in a while you can long for something new, providing that you have read other writings, so you have to focus on following clues like you were a real detective. Fortunately this may improve you as a reader. But why should this book be read? The way of spelling is above all ingenious and this kind of way have neither before nor after seen. In my opinion never have been written a book which does not teach anything.

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Alice in Wonderland (2010)

My film is Alice in Wonderland. I chose the new version because i like it more than the original, animation one. The film is produced in 2010 and the director is Tim Burton. It is a fantasy movie and it is based on Alice in wonderland by Lewis Carrol. Also one reason why I love this film is because my favorite actor, Johnny Depp (Mad Hatter) , is acting on it. Other actors are Mia Wasikowska (Alice), Anne Hathaway (White Queen) and Helena Bonham Carter (Queen of hearts)  and bunch of animated characters. Almost the whole film is shot in Wonderland. The animation is fantastic and unbelievably beautiful. Whole Wonderland seems so realistic although it is so unrealistic. It is hard to explain but if you had seen the film you will understand. Also special effects are wonderful and breathtaking. For example the fight against the Jabberwock seems so real and the effects are marvelous. The film won two Oscars for best art direction and best costume design, and was also nominated for best visual effects. It is also one of highest-grossing films and its revenue was over one billion dollar.

The film begin when Alice is small and she sees odd dreams about Wonderland and White rabbit and things like that. Then suddenly she is nineteen and goes to the parties where lord Hamish is intended to ask her marry him. Alice doesn’t know what to answer and she runs away. She sees the White rabbit and follows him. Then the story lasts like the original one. She falls in the rabbithole and finds her way into the Wonderland. Since then the story changes. No-one believes that she is the real Alice and she is the one who will slay the Jabberwock. The story go on and it has similar features as the original story but the whole thing is really different. In some parts only the characters are same. Alice is define to slay the Jabberwock so the Queen of hearts could be dethrone. The war begins and Alice encounter with the beast.

I love this film so much and it is one of my favorite films! One reason could be that i love fantasy movies and as I said before i just love Johnny Depp. The plot is really good and it isn’t predictable. There is many turns and things that you couldn’t even believe that can happen. The actors are fantastic great and i just think the whole film is one master piece. I really don’t have nothing bad to say about the film except the end. It’s kind of boring but on the other hand it is a good thing because the end shouldn’t be messy. And I’m glad that everything becomes clear and nothing bothers me. So really mesmerizing film and I suggest everyone to watch it. You are going to love it!

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Maleficent

Remaking of fairy tale feature films is currently in vogue in Hollywood. One example of this is ”Maleficent”, a film about a fictional character from Walt Disney’s film ”Sleeping Beauty”. The movie is told from Sleeping Beauty’s evil fairy’s point of view. The film premiere was on the 20th of May in 2014 and got a lot of attention on the media all over the world. The film was directed by Robert Stomberg, while Angelina Jolie played her leading role brilliantly as the evil mistress.
Maleficent has collected reviews from side to side, both positive and negative, which is not surprising. Critics have criticized the excessive use of special effects. I do not particularly like fantasy movies so I was skeptical about the film, however, I decided to watch it because my friends recommended it. Before I saw the movie I thought that it would be childish but I was wrong. I think it the film was held together by the special effects and wonderful music and the main actors’ great performance. Angelina Jolie’s diversity repaired the simplicity of the plot. While in the fairy tales the bad guys are often nothing but monsters, Jolie is everything else: exciting, nuanced, genuine, even warm and funny. I’m not the kind of person who gets excited about special effects such as 3D, but I think they really did fit well in the film. Some people think that the story itself was overshadowed by the effects, but I think that the film might have become lame without them. I liked the fact that the movie was high quality and every point had been carefully considered all the way to the end.
Maleficent showed me that prejudices are often incorrect and sometimes it is good to watch movies that are not so serious. Also, it told me the old familiar childhood fairy tale from a different point of view which was bracing and fresh. Maleficent is one of those family feature films that is suitable for every fairy tale fan. The film is a story about all kinds of true love, and teaches that a person rarely is only good or evil. We should remember that every fairy tale has a lot of different versions.

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Annabelle

Annabelle is a horror movie directed by John R. Leonetti and written by Gary Dauberman and the stars in this movie are Annebelle wallis as Mia and Ward Horton as John Gordon. Annabelle fills up the plot of the movie The Conjuring. Other important charecters in this movie are Father Perez (Tony Amendola) and Evelyn (Alfre Woodard). The film was released in 2014.

The movie is about a doll that got possessed by a demon when two members of a satanic cult invaded Johns and Mias house and tried to kill their unborn baby for some kind of satanic ritual. After that event Mia decides to get rid of her new doll because the other invaders blood got in to the doll. But when their old house burned down and they had to move to another apartment Mia decides to take the doll back. After a while Mia begins to notice weird and supernatural thing like the doll changes places by itself etc. When Mia gets her husband to believe what is really happening they decide to ask for help from the Father Perez.

Personally I watched this movie with my friends and I must say that this was not one of those horror movies which lack the horror. The plot in this movie is really good and clear especially if you have seen The Conjuring. In this movie there are a couple of expected jump scares and some moments when you know there will happen something soon but most of these really frightening parts took place at the end of the movie. Also the visual effects in this movie were really good and believable.

In conclusion I enjoyed this movie a lot and I recommend it for anyone who likes to watch horror movies and wants to watch a good horror movie.

Lähteet: Wikipedia, IMDb

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The Nanny

I choose television show The Nanny. It is American sitcome released in 1993 – 1999. The stars of this show is the nanny Fran Fine (Fran Drescher), a rich Broadway-producer Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaugnessy), his businesspartner C.C Babcock (Lauren Lane) and a butler Niles (Daniel Davis). This show has been written and produces by Fran Drescher and her husband. Every episode has its own story. Her (Fran Fine) job is to take care of Maxwells three children Margaret, Brighton nad Grace.

I like this kind of show because it is a sitcome, which make me laugh every time. It feels like I would be watching it by my self on live because the laughter of the live audience makes it feel so. Camera working is perfect and every single funny part has been filmed perfectly. Caracters are naturally funny. It doesn’t feel like acting more like naturally outcoming. There is no special effects at all. When funny part is coming caracters handle it with facial expressions and gestures. It works well! The voice of acter is also important. That how you say something effects on if you’re trying to say something stupid but also soud funny.

A little about plot. This all story begins when Frans ex-boyfriend fires and dumbs her. She is trying to sell cosmetics and comes to the door of Mr. Sheffield. Maxwells wife has died and he is alone with these three children. Fran Fine has not any experience of being nanny but Maxwell hires this impressive woman. And she totally changes everything. C.C, who is really in love with Maxwell becomes  envious toward Fran. The show includes a lot of sarcastic jokes between butler Niles and C.C Babcock. Frans mom Sylvia and grandmotrher Yetta gets more mishaps to the show. Every Episode is really succesfull and funny experience. I recommend!

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The Lucky One

The Lucky One (2012) is a romantic drama based on Nicolas Sparks novel directed by Scott Hicks. Logan Thibault (Zac Efron) is a U.S. Marine serving in Iraq. During the night raid he finds a photogaraph of a smiling woman which saves his life. He starts to carry the photograph around with him as a good luck charm. Later on he comes back to Colorado and starts to suffer from PTSD (posttraumatic stress desorder) and survivor guilt. Logan finds coming back home difficult to adjust to. He decides it is best to leave, and he departs to find some peace from his memories and go look for the woman (Taylor Schilling as Beth Green) in the picture to thank her for saving his life. And as you can guess, they eventually end up in a relationship.

The plot is a very common as a romantic drama and may have many clichés on it; one goes and it ends up in a relationship. But at the same time in ”The Lucky One” the plot is really different. This one is truly touching in its genre. The execution is real indeed and the actors does a very deacent job on screen, I would say it is the best Zac Efron has ever made on his career. If you are a lover of very melodramatic movies or if you are a fan of Nicolas Sparks novels you should really go for it. I promise you will love it. The Lucky One takes you out of reality and it is the best about it. You can easily emagine how many ways this story would probably go wrong in real life, but it is the meaning of the movie; sugared and enviable story of two people finding each other the way it maybe would ever happen in real life.

Facts chekd out from http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lucky_One_%28film%29

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Breaking bad

Breaking bad is an American television series created and produced by Vince Gillian. Series was orginally aired on USA for five seasons, from January 20, 2008, to September 29, 2013. It has 62 episodes. Series tells about high school chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) also known ass Heisenberg in drug business. In the beginning of first season Walter gets diagnosed with inoperable Lung cancer. Walter starts his criminal lifestyle together with his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) who is producer of crystallized methamphetamine. Walter exploits his knowlendge of chemistry to produce maybe the best crystal methamphetamine in the whole world. But why he does this all? He wants to secure his family’s financial future before he dies. Walter and Jesse are going to notice that drug business isn`t so easy, when they start doing it whit New Mexico`s ruthless drug cartell, and get in trouble whit New Mexico`s police.

Walter’s family consists of his wife Skyler (anna Gunn) and children, Walter ,J.R  a.k.a. Flynn (RJ Mitte) and Holly (Elanor Anne Wenrich). The show also features Skyler’s sister Marie Schrader (Betsy Brandt), and her husband Hank (Dean Norris), who is Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent. Walter hires lawyer Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), who connects him with private investigator and fixer Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) and in turn Mike’s employer, drug kingpin Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito). The final season introduces the characters of Todd Alquist (Jesse Plemons) and Lydia Rodarte-Quyale (Laura Fraser)(233).

Breaking Bad is widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time, and me, myself think, that its true. The series was the most-watched cable show on American television at the time. The series received numerous awards and nominations, including 16 Primetime Emmy Awards and 58 nominations, including winning for Outstanding Drama Series in 2013 and 2014(295).The show also received eight Satellite awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Peabody Awards and a People`s choise Award. For his leading performance, Cranston won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times. In 2013, Breaking Bad entered the Guinness World Records as the highest rated show of all time.

 

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Wayne’s World

”Schwing!”

Wayne’s World is a comedy movie released in 1992. The director of the movie was Penelope Spheeris and the writers were Bonnie and Terry Turner, a married couple who also wrote 3rd Rock from the Sun and That 70’s Show, and Mike Myers who also was the leading actor of the movie. Other main actors were Dana Carvey as Garth, Waynes sidekick and Tia Carrere as Cassandra, the basist of the band called Crucial Taunt and Waynes to-be-girlfriend. The movie was a big hit and it made profit of 100 million dollars just from the movie tickets in US. The movie got a sequel in 1993.

The events take place in Aurora, which is Chicagos suburb. The main characters, Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar are best friends and they both live in their parents houses.  They run a basic cable ”basement show” called Wayne’s World, which is filmed in Waynes basement. The show is a short review of current pop culture things and Wayne picking on Garth. Briefly, the rest of plot is about TV-boss Benjamin Kane buying the rights to the show and eventually failing when he tries to make the show better. Selling the shows rights tests Waynes and Garths friendship. Things don’t get any easier, when Wayne falls in love with Cassandra, who plays bass in a band which performs in bar called Comrades, where Wayne and Garth go celebrate after getting 10,000 dollars from the sold rights.  Garth and all the audience is angry to Wayne because he sold the rights but then he gets the rights back and everything is back to normal.

The amount of the laugh was too damn high when I watched Wayne’s World for the first time. The humor hit me very well and I’m frustrated by the fact that Wayne’s World has only two movies. The movie is written for teens and especially for American teens at the time. The kind of ”basement shows” as Wayne’s World were very popular by the time of the movie. All cities had 2-3 basement shows of their own. I don’t think that the movie has a message because Mike Myers’s comedy movies are usually just for laughs. I would recommend the movie for all those people who love so bad corny jokes that they became good and for those who love to laugh until they pee themselves. (Thank God didn’t happen to me.) It is easy to follow and the only thing I would done differently is the movie cameras, which quality was poor.

Lähteet: Wikipedia ja IMBd

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The Interview

The Interview is produced by Sony Pictures and Entertainment and is directed by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen. The Interview is action-comedy and movie that takes place in present USA and North-Korea. Sony had big problems publishing The Interview, because it strongly criticizes North-Korea as a country and it’s “loved” leader Kim Jong-un. Sony Pictures and Entertainment was threatened by Korean hackers and terrorists about publishing the movie. In the end Sony didn’t show The Interview in movie theaters or made a DVD version of it, but the movie was released to internet for all us to see.

Movie starts with two small scale journalists Dave Skylark (James Franco) and Aaron Rapaport (Seth Rogen) making a TV show about celeberities. Little by little Dave and Aaron want to get to the more serious news. After some hilarious moments Dave and Aaron end up in the CIA’s office and hear that CIA Want’s them to do interview about Kim Jong-un (Randall Park), and to assassinate him. Dave and Aaron agree to kill Kim and they are off to North-Korea, There they meet Kim who kisses their bums to make the interview go well and to get Dave and Aaron to like him. During the interview things escalate quickly and all goes wild. In the end music is playing, Dave and Aaron are driving a tank towards Kim’s chopper and shooting it down with a big explosion. Then Dave and Aaron get back to USA with help of Navy Seals. And the movie basically ends.

I think that The Interview is just great comedy with all crazy action in it. I don’t know if u guys understand anything I tried to say earlier but the story line is really good. I strongly recommend this movie for everyone who loves a good laugh. On the other hand The interview brings up the problems of North-Korea in a way that makes u think what’s really happening in that closed up country where huge amount of people are poor and hungry, When their supreme leader is having all the money he wants. Also actors have done good work making this film, and money haven’t been spared when all the special effects were made. If I would have to give a school grade to this movie it would be nine and a half. Not ten because some of the scenes were exaggerated so much. That’s all I have to say, enjoy the film.

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Slumdog Millionaire

”Slumdog Millionaire” is the film to see. It is one of the best films i’ve ever seen. ”Slumdog Millionaire” is a British drama film directed by Danny Boyle and it’s released in 2008. The movie takes place on Mumbai, India, where eighteen year old orphan boy Jamal Malik is a contestant on the Indian version of Who wants to be a millionaire?. Jamal is one question away from winning the top price of the show, but the host can’t understand how an uneducated boy from a slum knows all the answers in the show, so he arrested Jamal a night before the last question and interrogated him after being convinced that he is cheating. The rest of the movie includes flashbacks to narrate the story of Jamal, love of his life Latika and his brother Salim. Although Jamal’s life was not easy, his life experiences gave him the knowledge to answer the difficult questions on Who wants to be a millionaire?. The movie has a typical happy ending, Jamal wins his 20 million rupees and gets his girl.

”Slumdog Millionaire” shows the poverty that exists in India. My favourite part of the film is at the start where the children are being chased through the slums by the police officers and it really shows you what the slums are like. The film also shows that there is some hope for children in the slums. It makes the film so touching.

A film like ”Slumdog Millionaire” does not come along very often. But when it does we end up falling in love. The movie is one of the most heart-warming and inspirational stories in recent years. Excitement, tragedy, love and hate it’s all featured together. If I were to point to one movie that will move you and force you to think, it would be ”Slumdog Millionaire”. I promise that the movie doesn’t leave anybody cold.

 

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slumdog_Millionaire

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