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The day I stepped foot into journalism class I absolutely, positively didn’t know what to expect. I felt excited because I had my friends and already picked the topic for my blog. The class provided a chance for me to get to know another writing style, I was ready, until my teacher gave the synopsis of the course.
He basically said that there will be a different article to write every week, he doesn’t accept late work, and he understood if you wanted to drop the course. Not gonna lie, after the first day I second guessed myself whether I could pull this off or not. I knew there were going to be challenges, although hearing it made it a lot scarier. My first assignment proved to not be my best work, it wasn’t bad but it definitely didn’t show my full potential. To be honest I chose a topic that I wasn’t too familiar with and writing an article just confused me. The same thing happened with my second piece which made me feel like this was not going to work. There were way too many things to worry about for senior year, including having to write for this class. At times I waited till the last minute and ended up typing all night, not the smartest decision. Suddenly the day I saw the live action beauty and the beast everything changed. The topic of the week included the author’s opinion. I got so fired up about movie remakes that it made me eager to write. Once I started to get passionate about the subjects for my blog it became simple to use my new learned material. Then I began to read examples of other authors with their writing which helped me understand the structure of a specific article. Surprisingly I’m still staying up late to finish an assignment, but the process has gotten easier. Despite the ending of the year and therefore, my journalism class, I've decided to keep my blog and continue updating it. My website finally gave me a chance to talk about my favorite topic and share it with people who are willing to listen, or in this case read. I get very anxious to write more topics because it gives me an excuse to keep up with the theme of my blog and continue improving as a journalist. The story of my high school career is coming to an end, but the plot of my blog is just beginning.
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Remakes are destroying the story, fun, and creativity that original movies give to an audience5/15/2017 An American Wolf in London, Dirty Dancing, Scarface, Jumanji, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Nightmare on Elm Street, My Fair Lady, The Bodyguard, Weird Science, The Mummy, The Blob, Charlie's Angels, and the list goes on and on, I’m seriously out of breath just going through the titles. All of these well-known movies are in the process of being remade. I know that many are thinking “why”, some of them were only produced under ten years ago! Movie remakes are dreadful. For the past five years the film industry has been increasing the amount of movie sequels and remakes. Basically everything in cinemas right now is a copy of an original with a slight adjustment to make it seem divergent, they’re not fooling anyone, it's already been said and done. The worst part is that the big shot movie producers believe this is what the public wants, wrong! They all probably walked into work one day, had a meeting to discuss “new” ideas and came up with absolutely nothing. Then one person mentioned an old movie they like and everyone else thought it’s brilliant to do it all over again, they’re idiots. There's no attention to the storyline, the focus is on the special effects to show off technology, that’s not enough! They really can’t come up with recent scripts, movies have been around for about a hundred years, a five year old can create a box office hit. Productions use the public's awareness of original classics to market the remakes. When the remakes are released, people will pay more attention to the modern version than other films coming to theaters. The plot stays the same, so we know how it’s going to end. That’s the real problem, the remakes are exactly what they are based off of. The plot never changes, it’s simply a duplicate. The dialog doesn’t change, the crew pretty much copied the words from the first movie and pasted it onto their script. No arrangement is made for fresh designs, creativity has dissolved. Success comes from the box office because everyone is curious as to what the industry did that's different than the classics. Though just because the box office got high numbers, doesn't mean that the movie got good praises or high ratings and reviews. The only reason for the high number of tickets sold comes from people who want to judge the film for themselves. Take psycho for example, made in 1960 was a roaring success, due to the visions and manipulation of Alfred Hitchcock. Then a remake happened in 1998 that was so terrible it got a 37% on rotten tomatoes. How could they compare the brilliant Anthony Perkins with Vince Vaughn, newsflash it can’t be done. I guess they just wanted to make the shower scene more gory, but we don’t need that. Even Shakespeare plays keep being adapted into films again and again, especially Romeo and Juliet. We get it, they’re star-crossed lovers who commit suicide, what else is there to tell. It’s really annoying having to hear Shakespeare's lines endless amount of times. There is no need to make a new movie every decade just to improve quality. The play takes place in the 16 century, it’s not necessary to modernize it. The rich fancy motion picture people are sitting in their big office, drinking champagne due to all of the money that is coming in from the latest remade movie. They shouldn't be proud of their film if someone else thought of it years ago. The money comes from the high priced tickets sold, the attention from marketing, and selling merchandise. We go to the movies having to spend $11.00 on a ticket, $8.00 on a small portion of popcorn that doesn’t even last through the previews, and if you can afford it an extra $4.00 on candy. All of that along with disappointment. While the industry makes a profit, the rest of us lose our allowances in one night. The cost to see a movie is way too expensive, no wonder the amount of theater visits has decreased over the past decade. According to business insider, “Blockbuster sales were flat with last year's $4.49 billion, and attendance is expected to be at 513 million, a 3.5% fall.” It’s not worth it to spend money, unless a new revolutionary trend has hit theaters. This situation is going to continue unless we take action. We have to boycott in order to send a message to the movie industry, saying the people are fed up and want more. If there’s no tickets sold for the remakes, then the companies won’t make any money. It’s a way for us to save money while they go bankrupt. They’ll be forced to actually use their brains, sit down and come up with their own scripts with their own words. Or better yet, write letters to the production companies, giving them your ideas. I’ll bet anyone can write a plot, except for the ones who get paid to do it. Unless people want the future to consist of horrible, unbearable remakes then it’s time to take action in order to get a reaction. Singin in the Rain star Donald O’Connor was bedridden after filming the upbeat music number, Make em Laugh, for this musical in 1952. It wasn’t because of the stunts he did during the song but that he smoked four packs of cigarettes a day. After the entire song was over and done with he didn’t leave his room for several days feeling very ill. Who could blame him after all those twists, flips and turns in the song. It turns out he had to do the whole number over again due to a technical error that made the footage scrap. Below is the music number Make em Laugh There is a famous scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Indiana Jones is being chased by goons in the streets of Egypt. Then he comes face to face with a swordsman with a big weapon, preparing to fight. Instead Indiana Jones takes out a gun and shoots him. It turns out that the scene originally had an epic fight scene but Harrison Ford and the director, Steven Spielberg, decided to change it last minute. The decision was made because Ford was suffering from dysentery and wasn’t feeling up to shooting a fight that would’ve taken an extra three days. Below is the scene from the movie The Fast and the Furious franchise is all about the action that comes from high speed car chases, and fans of the movies got a chance to experience it for themselves. Fans were looking forward to seeing the plans for the new film, The Fate of the Furious, and had a big surprise coming their way. The set up consisted of the same car used in the new movie and a similar setup to one of the main car chases. The fans were expecting to enjoy a drive-in movie experience, but things took an unexpected turn. The Fate of the Furious is set to release April 14, 2017 The video of the events is below This article was written by Jen who is a writer for the blog Destination K-pop here is a link if you would like to read more of her work http://destinationk-pop.weebly.com/ T.O.P a member of the popular K-pop group Big Bang may have been an inspiration for Jared Leto’s Joker in Suicide Squad. At the Oscars Artists at the Hair and Makeup Synopsis for the hit film showed some of the inspiration for Harley Quinn, Joker, and other’s iconic looks. One of the images displayed for Joker looked like a picture of Big Bangs T.O.P. The hairstyle in the photo was from a time when T.O.P had a sleek mint colored hairstyle. His look must have looked as eye catching to the team in hollywood as it was for Kpop fans. This being said Suicide Squad won an oscar for ‘best Makeup and Hairstyling.’ |
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