New Moon wasn't my expectations.

I guess you could call me a Twihard, but not a massive one.

Twihard: An serious/obsessive reader of the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer.

I mean, I could tell you anything you want about Robert Thomas Pattinson/Edward Anthony Cullen. It's gross that I could, but totally true :)

Why didn't it fit all my expectations?

Well, it did. I read the book, so I knew what i was expecting.

But after seeing Kontroll and the incredible angles, etc. it had, New Moon was a bit disappointing.

The camera kept spinning around the characters for absolutely no reason. It's a dramatic movie. I think it's a bit more dramatic to keep the camera in one spot and showing the actors expression in the single shot, but instead... it had to show you a 360 of the actor. And in the fighting scene, it was slow motion to very fast, it was just annoying.

Kontroll kept the camera rolling without stoping quite a few times, but in New Moon, it was about every three seconds that the camera cut and moved. It would take a shot, cut and move it, go back to the origional position and switch back and fourth a couple of times. And if I thought about New Moon as if it was made for me, i would think they did the camera positioning to piss me off-that's all it did.

I would've never known all this stuff if it wasn't for STAC. It's weird how one class can make you see a glass not just half empty or full, but you can see the shape, color, depth and empty spaces. And if that glass was being recorded by the cameraman from New Moon, you'd see the lack of talent that Kontroll should lend over. It's annoying that I notice these things now, but it'll take getting used to. I don't think me noticing these little things that no one usually cares about will ever go away now.

i'm not telling you that you shouldn't see it, i definitely think you should, we can talk about it!

Oh, and I was very sick for 8 days, but I'm better now and will see all your wonderful faces on Monday, 7th period sharp!

-ashleycoppolino

I see it! It's all different now!

You're probably wondering what I see, well, I feel like I see everything.
I didn't notice that the tree in front of my house has a tint on green on the side and it has a strip of dark purple too. As my friend and I walked home, I ran a couple of steps ahead and jumped in front of the tree and asked, "What color is the tree?!" He relied with, "it's brown. Like the next twenty on the block. Can we walk, its cold." I said "No! It's not brown!" I pointed to the bottom of the bark and asked if he sees the green/blue on the trunk. He didn't. All he could say was "So, how was STAC today?" and we kept walking.
I think that STAC will teach you things that will be useful in the future. I think that theatre skils are very imortatnt, even though I'm not to good at mine. Even when we practiced shaking hands, you would think it didn't do much, but I'm at my parents office right now and I see how some people must've never learned how to shake a hand.
I can't express how happy I for choosing STAC. I was unsure in the beginning, but now I'm wondering how i could continue school without STAC! I didn't know if it was what I wanted to do, espicially because I was the only one in my group of friends to apply, but I'm glad I did. I was scared to step out and do something different, but I am different, and I can't fight that.
I love how Nina wrote her college applicaton on STAC. I want to be able to do that too in a couple of years.

Quote of the day: When the power of love is greater than the love of power, the world will know peace. -Jimi Hendrix

Sincerely Yours,
ashleycoppolino

Taking Kontroll.

The first time I watched Kontroll, i was hung up on the subtitles and had my hands in front of my face because i knew it was going to get gory. Bt watching Kontroll for the second time was a lot better. I knew the story, and i was familiar with the subtitles, so i was able to focus on the actual movie. For example, i noticed that the camera was like a follower to the actors. It wasn't very choppy. The camera followed the actor and picked up on the hands, feet, surroundings, etc. The first time I watched it, i was terrified about the gory images that were going to appear. But this movie didn't actually show any. Yeah, you heard the control guy cut the passengers throat, and you see people being pushed in front of the train but not watching them be killed, but you didn't actually see any gory scenes.

When I see movies, i just SEE them. But this was all new. I was interperting Kontroll. I had thousands of unanswered questions, which i kind of liked, but it's a bit annoying.

I think the movie was even better because it was in Hungarian. Hungarian sounds so cool. If it was in English, i don't think it'd be as good.

These were questions running through my head, but i later learned that that have a mythical answer or another answer you wold have to interperate to figure out.

why was she a bear?

why did Bulcsú's nose bleed?

why did the lights go out before the pusher pushed someone?

who was the pusher?

why did Bulcsú sleep on the platforms?

was it meant to feel like there was no sense of daylight?

why is there a party in the train station? (like, i can't imagine that in new york city..)

why did Bulcsú call Béla "uncle Béla"?

i could go on forever.

over all, it was an awesome movie.

Oh, Luke! I tried googling nasty pumpkins, and I had to try really hard to find one that looked worse than yours. IT was from some site that said "we buy ugly pumpkins".