Chicago Heather Bailey

I really enjoyed watching the film "Chicago", I loved it because it was a musical and I sing. So it was inevitable for me to like it. But it wasnt just a good movie because I like music, it was good because each number was fanatically done and the acting that went along with it was phenomenal. This movie is about a woman named Roxie living her dreams of being on broadway right under the limelight. Unfortunately her dream was short because she shot her husband because he was cheating. But even in jail she was still big because her case hit every newspaper around because she got the best lawyer around even though all he ever cared about was money and whoever would bring him the most publicity.

Bonnie and Clyde Heather Bailey

"Bonnie and Clyde" takes place during the Depression and opens up with Bonnie Parker meeting Clyde Barrow as he's about to steal her mothers car right in her very eyes. Even though he was about to do that, Bonnie seemed to like what Clyde was about and somehow became very fascinated by his way of life. Then right there on the spot they both decide to be partners in crime as they go around robbing banks and enlarge their team with C.W. Moss, Buck and his wife Blanche, and Clyde's brother. 

The way Bonnie and Clyde and their team of crime doers went around robbing banks, made it look like it wasn't such a bad thing. Im not saying, since I've watched this movie it makes me want to go and rob a couple banks, but it just felt like it was one of those fun but wrong things to do when you're young and you just don't care. It just made the film such much more interesting in the way they went in filming it because they could have turned it around making Bonnie and Clyde the bad guys and show how what they were doing was wrong. 

Everyone looks up to the relationship of Bonnie and Clyde as this "down to ride" couple thats like the all powerful couple and every couple wants to be like them. But in my opinion their relationship was awkward at first even though it did get better, their relationship just wasn't all that for me. 

Bad News Bears Heather Bailey

I absolutely love the movie "Bad News Bears", and I was excited that we were watching it in class. I've seen this movie so many times when I was younger. Basically "The Bad News Bears is a rough-edged kids baseball comedy with some profanity and really iffy behavior (kids smoke, gamble, and ride motorcycles). During the end celebration, the coach gives beer to the 11-year-olds. One character is an alcoholic. The parents push their kids to win at all costs, and the kids are often bratty and mean. But even though all that happens its puts a playful and funny twist on things and pushes the limit to some extent.  

Malcolm X Heather Bailey

Spike Lee's, "Malcolm X" is a great biography that celebrated the whole sweep of an american life that started out in sorrow and in the worst of the worst parts of the streets and in prison before its hero reinvented himself. While watching the film I began to realize that we all can change our lives and fate doesn't deal all of the cards out. Not only is this film inspirational and educational, its entertaining which every film should be, because entertainment is what draws the eyes of the viewers. Honestly Denzel Washington played the role of Malcolm X so well, I thought I was watching Malcolm X himself right in that movie. Ever since the movie started playing I couldn't keep my eyes off of it. It was awesome to see how Malcolm X's mindset and religion changed throughout the movie. In the movie it was as if he wanted to be white in the beginning, you know always perming his hair trying to make it straighter and straighter, until he stopped because in jail he met a muslim prisoner who began to teach him the great ways of the muslim religion and how to accept himself as an "Afro-American." The phrase "Afro- American" really became such a great value to Malcolm and he wanted every black person to recognize themselves as that.  After Malcolm leaves jail, he attends the temple and meets Elijah Muhammad, where he then becomes a muslim preacher and starts walking the streets trying to get more and more to convert. As Malcolm gets more recognized and starts getting looked up to his brothers start telling lies to Elijah Muhammad, which leads to them trying to kill him by burning his house down and bombing his car and sending death threats to the house phone. Which also leads Malcolm to start staying at hotels, leaving his wife and kids home to answer the threatening phone calls. When they actually do kill Malcolm X it really becomes an eye opener for all even MLK.

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Mean Girls: What It's Like To Be New ♥

In replacement of Badland's, I'll be writing a response on a movie that I happen to adore, which is Mean Girls. The story begins with Cady, who been home schooled her whole life, which makes her a new character to explore social reality with. What is normal to us is strange and foreign to her. She has no idea of how people behave or should behave in certain cliques and groups. She’s basically “fresh meat". 

We relate to her immediately– we all know what it's like to be put into an environment where we don't know the rules.

The first thing that happens when she shows up at school is… overwhelming chaos. She’s unable to make sense of the complexity that are high-school social relations. She's walking in seeing a bunch of students everywhere part taking in activities such as smoking, skating, etc. 

She then makes new friends from her first class, Janice and Damien - a seemingly lesbian and the fat gay boy. 

From there, they take Cady under their wing and teach them about the horrible and shady clique referred to as "The Plastics" and they teach her how to survive high school even by being back stabbed, and manipulated by the Plastics. Cady then tries to get even throughout the whole year, and even gets so caught up in sabotaging that she mistreats her own friends, and then later on realizes that it's not worth it, she shouldn't try to be something that she's not and lose herself within doing that. 

I feel like this is a lesson that most high school teens can relate to because once high school occurs, you will be in a whole new environment and will be exposed to bullies, cliques, shadiness, and so much more. So you have to stay humble and be yourself, because that's all that matters.

memoirs of a geisha

ive read the book and the movie really connected to the book. this ancient story on a young girl and her sister being taken from their  little on the cliff to be placed in a home. she was to either become a geisha one day or to be a house servant or even the house whore. her mother passing was the reason for being taken away, her father didn't understand how to take care of them alone. the apprentice geisha that lived in the home she was placed in already knew that one day shell be a good geisha. a geisha is an entertainer. performs in the best tea houses and shows. for important people, she must be a virgin in order for her to be the best she was to be a great enough to be bid on for that important person to pay for her innocence. along her journey people tried to ruin her. but she still mad it happen. this movie moved me because it told a story inside of a story. being sold isn't a good thing. it told to stories one about a poor life of a girl and her hunger for success.  maybe it was fate on why she was sent to become an apprentice geisha. but her sister became the whore. paying debts off by sleeping with men. while okyo went to school to be a geisha. i wanted to reread the story and watch the movie because it was good and made me want to understand geisha more. even though now geisha don't exist anymore.

Boxing with the best!

someone should get him a towel he's really sweaty

Just like Malcolm X, I feel like I left this movie learning a thing or two about Muhammad Ali, the famous African American boxer. One thing for sure is that, like Malcolm X, I never really knew Ali followed Muslim beliefs, and that his real name was "Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr." 

I also loved the fact that, unlike Malcolm X, this film used real clips of Muhammad Ali instead of having an actor portray his life story. This make it so that this really shows the life of Muhammad Ali, and I really liked that, especially with seeing him in the ring in some clips. 

I'd recommend seeing this film, especially if you'd love to learn any facts about Muhammad Ali!