celebrities, drugs, passion, hard times, good times...that is what you can find in this movie...

Walk the line is a chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins

Because i watched Ray Charles, i kinda compared Walk the line with Ray

Celebrity and Fame

Well, after gettin a record with Sun Records, Johnny is getting famous, going on tour, meeting other celebrities...having fun with his fame, forgetting his family...
What else can you expect from fame? Money, Honey, Fun, yeah? You can also see this attitude from the movies like Ray, Cinderella Man, Ali and many other movies that showed celebrity's life.
When people become famous, they tend to forget (or at least that's what the movies shows) their life, or they actually live two lives...They belong in 2 worlds...

Drugs

It is soooooo fustrating when you see that people see their life disappearing in front of them with drugs...they see it, know it...YET they can not stop! Just like Ray Charles, you can see from this movie that Johnny Cash had almost the same problems, DRUGS! He lost almost EVERYTHING because of it, i was soooooo ANGRY at him (though i dun know him heheh) when i saw how bad his situation was...because of these stupid pills!!!!!!!

Passion

Not only talkin about "Love" when i say Passion, but the passion about music that the characters shows in the movie...Because that Johnny Cash was passioned with his music, he could make it this far...RAy Charles, and many other talented artists made it because of their passion...their passion to music, and their passion to one they loved...Because they stick around for what they want, they succeed!

in my opinion, Joaquin Phoenix is a bad actor, camparing to Jamie foxx, in Ray...But i guess that he suited this movie the most...i couldn't imagine anybody takin this role!

He was born in rural, south-central Arkansas, on February 26, 1932.His birth place is almost directly across the Mississippi from Lake County .

Signed to Sun as Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two, their first single, "Cry, Cry, Cry," became a moderate country hit.

At first, i really thought that Johnny cash had a "boring" voice, in the movie Walk The Line, i was FALLING ASLEEP, seriously!!!:)

But, when you listen to his words and you feel what he's saying, then you realise that he takes you into his world...espacially "Get rythm!!!"

And when i listened to Cry Cry Cry for couples of time i smiled, and my feeds started to go right and left without me controlling them eheheh

Everybody knows where you go when the sun goes down.
I think you only live to see the lights of town.
I wasted my time when I would try, try, try.
When the lights have lost their glow, you're gonna cry, cry, cry.
I lie awake at night and wait 'til you come in.
You stay a little while and then you're gone again.
Every question that I ask, I get a lie, lie, lie.
For every lie you tell, you're gonna cry, cry, cry.
You're gonna cry, cry, cry and you'll cry alone,
When everyone's forgotten and you're left on your own.
You're gonna cry, cry, cry.
Soon your sugar-daddies will all be gone.
You'll wake up some cold day and find you're alone.
You'll call to me but I'm gonna tell you: "Bye, bye, bye,"
When I turn around and walk away, you'll cry, cry, cry,
...etc

DEDICATING TO ALL THE YOUNG MEN THAT HURT ME....YOU'RE GONNA CRY CRY CRY WHEN THAT GIRL WOULD HAVE FORGOTTEN YOU AND YOU"RE LEFT ON YOUR OWN!!!!!!!! :) :) :)

"I walk the line", what did he really mean by that???After listening to his song, i finally realised that this song could be one of my wedding song!!!hahahah
Seriously,wouldn't you want your lover to sing you this words??

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep my eyes wide open all the time
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds
Because you're mine, I walk the line

I find it very, very easy to be true
I find myself alone when each day is through
Yes, I'll admit that I'm a fool for you
Because you're mine, I walk the line

As sure as night is dark and day is light
I keep you on my mind both day and night
And happiness I've known proves that it's right
Because you're mine, I walk the line

(my favorite part)
You've got a way to keep me on your side
You give me cause for love that I can't hide
For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide
Because you're mine, I walk the line

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep my eyes wide open all the time
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds
Because you're mine, I walk the line

Wish that someone out there would walk the line for me!!!heheheh

Bobby jones is a movie about a famous golfer, Robert Tyre Jones Jr who happened to be the greatest player of all time...

Who was him?

For some athletes, the ultimate win comes through a stroke of luck, but for Robert Tyre Jones, Jr., "Bobby Jones," it was truly a stroke of genius.

His natural skill and uncanny passion for the game of golf earned him the title of "The Best Golfer in the World." For a brief moment in time, this incredible man became an American hero.

Overcoming a sickly early childhood, Bobby Jones' earned recognition as a sports phenomenon by the age of 14.

Of the 13 titles that he collected during his short career, four of them - the U.S. Amateur, U.S. Open, the British Amateur and the coveted British Open - were won within four months of the same year, earning him the title of Grand Slam Champion, a record that has never been broken.



Unlike, The Greatest Game Ever Played, except for the part where his grand father gets angry at his father, who's letting him playing this "stupid game called "golf", this movie focused more on his life, what did he do, who did he encountered, nothing really outstanding.

Imagine, you, the one that brought the family together, a wealthy business man, seeing your grand son playing golf, the world's economy needs you and you are playing golf...how would you feel??

In the movie, Bobby jones encounter stress and pressure from almost every body, he needs to win, to, and to win, not only for him, but also for the other people who are supporting him. Competition becomes more and more frequent, since his earlier ages, Bobby has to WIN!!!!!!!!

his wife who is a very sweet, innocent, young catholic lady, has never wanted a life like this, she wanted to have kids, washing machines, a beutiful yard, with her husband, instead all she gets is seeing her husband suffering from the game...

doesn't she looks lite and pretty???

I was expecting more from the ladies in this movie, except for the part where she gets to meet his friends, who happened to be the REAL roaring twenties girls, who smokes, who goes out, cuts her hair shorts, etc. , we don't get to see too much of the roaring 20's characteritics

I was more expecting "The Great Gatsby "characteristics!!

Cinderella man is a movie during great depression...It's about a famous boxer in the 30's whos facing health problems, jos loss, went down...like so many other millions of Americans, lost everything.

I guess that success is the aim of all Americans. Just like most of the capitalist society, people are proud of what they have, what they have acheived, though it can be not much!

Our hero, James, wants more and more, he's is a very good boxer and he wants the world to know...As he become famous for what he likes, his right arm is hurting him...it feels like it was the end of the world!!!!

This movie is a a good example of showing how the American society is a very competitive one. Mixed with Sport, you can observe that people are even more competitive!!!!

...May the best one wins....

This sentence just freaks me out, don't you?? If you're not the best, you're just not going to succeed...how sadf is that...
Maybe that explains the HUGE gap between the high and the low social classes in the United States!

Huh...i almost cry when James and his family was facing the great depression...
Seriously, what can be more important than your family???
James showed the audience that he knew that his family was everything to him, no matter how hard was the time...he needed his family to be unite.

The movie made you feel how the people suffered in that time, and how family was the only muse and motivation for them.

Without electricity, water, heat, money, without nothing....James and his family tried to stay together, and tried hard to survived.

From a professionl boxer, James became a hard woker for a cent. In the great deprssion period, jobs were hard to find...it was barely possible to be hire anywhere...

Great depression was a very very very, and very, bad period for ALL AMERICANS, the richer was getting poorer, and the poorer getting even more poorer...You would felt from a star, and become Mr NOBODY, NOTHING

It's just a very sad period for everybody...

After having seen some presentations, and learn some basics about native americans indians, watching this movie was much easier for me to understand what the characters would think, would say, or how they would react to some actions.

This movie is about a Union Army Civil War officer who is eager to experience the "last frontier" before it vanishes, but will soon find himself trapped between two worlds.

i laughed a lot watching this movie, not because i was making fun of the indians, or Kevin costner, but because i found out that the only thing that was wrong between the indians and the whites at that time was "COMMUNICATION"....and it's a shame!

Like the time where the Lieutnant tries to communicate the word buffalo..."TA-TAN-KA", or the time he shows coffee to the natives american, and for the first time they are tasting sugar.

The Sioux tribe was the tribe that keep the Lieutenant company along his journey at the emptied post.

In this movie, the traits of a "good" indian were well showned. In fact, i just really understood the state of mind of the people at that time. A good indian is to listen to what the elders say. you have to think before you act and not act before thinking! you 'll jsut be ignore, and not respected by the others of your tribe anymore...

Also, you can not take anything from one another without giving back something, giving gifts is like a barter. you must give something in return in order to take something from someone, and vice versa. In the movie, the scene where the "leu-tan-tan" reclamed his hat, i understood clearly that,it is something inevitable.

*~...Kicking bird, Standwith a fist, Wind in his hair, SMiles a lot...~*

The names was also something that intrigued me. Names have meanings and stories behind them...wish i had one too ;)
The lieutenantknew himself for the first time when the members of the tribe started to call him by the name "dances with the wolves". never before he had understood himself, and knew where he belonged until he's met them.

The Pawnee, the ennemies of the Sioux, were great warriors. But because of them, the Lieutenant, or dances with the wolves was not reported to the authority, and Stand with a fist's family was killed.

At the end you can see that they helped the white to capture the Sioux, and make them part of American past history.

When Dances with the wolves falls in love with Stands with a fist, she was still in mourn of her husband, yet chemical was in the air!
She was the one that made the Lieutnant enter in contact with the tribe, and was the only one that could communicate in English with him.
Stands with a fist was found by kicking birds, the holy man of the movie, when she was escaping by the Pawnee, when she was a very litlle girl.
"Of course, they are both whites"

they felt in love and got married pretty soon after, the people of the tribe beleived that it was destiny and they were made for each other as they both were white!

i really like this movie, the characters, the sounds, the story, are very well shown and you can almost sense the tension of the scenes! a very well peformed movie, i really recommend it

Did you enjoy our presentation? hope that it wasn't too boring...was it?? oh well, you know that all tribe has similar culture, beleif, clothing, housing, etc...When i first research the tribe on the internet...all I found were diet program!!!My computer is set in french, and my navigator also...So when i typed GROS VENTRE, which means BIG BELLY in french, all that came out was ways to lose weight!!!!hahaha

Here are some of the short characteristics that we talked about in class while doing the presentation:

The Gros Ventre Tribe of Montana is a tribe of the Northern Plains Indigenous group, located in Northcentral Montana. They live on the Fort Belknap Reservation, which is shared with the Assiniboine tribe. The Gros Ventre live primarily in the south end of the reservation, near the Little Rocky Mountains.

CLOTHING

Both genders wore moccasins on their feet and buffalo-hide robes decorated with fancy quillwork.
Later, Gros Ventre people adapted Sioux styles such as fringed warshirts and feather warbonnets

Today, some Gros Ventre people still wear moccasins or a fringed shirt, but they wear modern clothes like jeans instead of breechcloths... and they only wear feathers in their hair on special occasions like a dance.

Gros Ventre hunters and warriors used bows and arrows, spears, and hide shields.

The Gros Ventre were originally farming people, with the women harvesting corn, squash, and beans and the men hunting deer and, when it was possible, buffalo.

Gros Ventre artists are known for their clothing and leatherwork, which they decorate with quillwork, beadwork, and colorful paint.

HOME

The Gros Ventre people lived in conical buffalo-hide houses called teepees.

Today, Native Americans only put up a tepee for fun or to connect with their heritage. Most Gros Ventres live in modern houses and apartment buildings, just like you.

LANGUAGE

Gros Ventre’s language is an Algokian language spoken today by only a handful of elders in Montana.

Gros Ventre had the unusual trait of being pronounced differently by male and female speakers--women used the sound "k" where men used "tj" or "ch."

were you there the day that we present? we also have some samples, if you are interested!

Sooooooooo sorry haven't post anything yet since the midterms!!!!! i started my movie though :) (at least some things done!!!)


Now i have three or four movies to blogs....so let's begin...

Really thought that i blogged this one!!!hehehehe,

Jesse and frank were brothers, outlaws, as you may already know....this movie talks about them, after the civil war, and how they became more and more famous...

Anyway here are the traits:

The first thing i saw in this movie was how people always do what they beleive it's right(and it's not always....) I mean, the more you tell them to stop, the more they continue to do..just like kids, and from my experiences, my american friends ARE stubborn! they really think that they are right! gosh!!!!
You can see that in the movie, Frank, the older, tries to talk to Jesse to make him see that he is not prepare,he is not, in the right directions...yet Jesse doesn't listen, he kills, he says, as he wants to....
Then, of course, here comes coorporations...Though they argue, like most bothers do i suppose, they always coorporate, ones always have each other back! you can see along the movie that, not once, Frank wasn't backing his brother, and vice versa...Even the ther outlaws that were with the two brothers, always there to back one another!

Yet, having ones back isn't enough...fame, wealth, staying alive, all of that has to pass first, has to come first! So you see later on in the movie that they tell one another behind, they betray one another! COWARD! people wanted to stay alive no matter how, what, when, where...That's how Jesse died...because of his own people...did they had choices???i'll say yes! of course they are always other solutions...DUH!!!! heheheh

The people in this movie are divided into three, the outlaws, the inlaws, and the normal people...what this movie made me thought of was how the bad people are good...and how the good people are bad... And the people, which usually,in movies, are always right...eventhough, sometime, they beleive in mouth to mouth words too much...Confusing huh?
anyway, as i was saying, the "good" people in this movie turns out to look bad...Guess hollywood just know how to put you in the mood of the movie, they manipulate your mind to actually like them!

Frank and Jesse (plus the other outlaws) are having fun, robbering, killing, hiding...i mean they look like they ARE having fun, don't they? And ewhen i watched the movie, enjoying and trying to feel the same way as them, I HAVE fun too hahahahah YEEEEEHAA!!!

Then, the sheriff, the generals, in this movie just look stupid (though they act smart!)...they can't even catch the brothers by themself!!!! they used coward techniques to catch them...i mean if you are really smart as you say, do it properly, with your own hands...no? what do you think?!?!

Also the people, how sweet and naive!!!hehehehe they made me think of robbin hood...

The part i like most is coming...the women! In this movie, i just think that they are stepping up, you see women carrying guns, having paroles, wearing other things than their beautiful ball dresses!!! ;)

Leadbelly

Leadbelly was born by the name Huddie William Ledbetter on January 20, 1889 in Mooringsport, Louisiana. The source of the name Leadbelly is still argued upon, but the most popular theories attribute it to a simple play on his name, his strength, sexual prowess, or a reported buckshot wound to his stomach.

From all the reviews and articles post on him, Leadbelly was a really stubborn person, which made him jailed for a couple of times, and twice, he sung himself out of it.

Please, Governor Neff,

Be good 'n' kindHave mercy on my great long time...

I don't see to save my soulIf I don't get a pardon, try me on a parole...

If I had you, Governor Neff, like you got me

I'd wake up in the mornin' and I'd set you free

"King of The Twelve-String Guitar"...If you listen carefully, Leadbelly is playing his music in his very own way. He was influenced by many music, including black spirituals from his mother.

He was one of the most powerful figures in the early years of the American folkmusic movement.

Stop your rambling,

stop your gambling

Stop staying out late at night

Go home to your wife and your family

Stay home by the fireside brightI love Irene,

God knows I do,

I'll love her till the seas run dry

But if Irene should turn me down,

I'd take the morphine and die

The Blue and the Gray

The American Civil War is sometimes called the War Between the States, the War of Rebellion, or the War for Southern Independence, but here puts as war between colours Blue and Grey.

The main cause of the war was slavery. Southern states, including the 11 states that formed the Confederacy, depended on slavery to support their economy. Southerners used slave labor to produce crops, especially cotton. The main debate between the North and the South was whether slavery should be permitted in the Western territories recently acquired during the Mexican War.

Because “The Blue and the Gray” is a movie mostly based on military side, I did not like it very much. No motions were showed, or say very few.However, the movie had come to give the audience pictures of that period.

It focused on the trials and conflicts of the Civil War as seen through the eyes and sketches of artist John Geyser, whose own family is torn apart by conflicting political sentiments.

All of the main characters show the sense of duty in their ways. Either right or wrong, the people at the time knew that they had to defend their ideas, their land, and their family. Either women or men, duty was put above all else. From the beginning to the end of the mini series movie, the main core of the movie turns around dilemmas. Between duty or loves, duty or believes. Though it showed fear and sometimes cowardice, somehow, the movie put bravery in front of all the characters.

The family spirit also took a big part of the story, although most all of the families lost one of their relatives. Family became united, over the war, or divided.

In the movie, not many slaves were showed nor colored troops. The movie spoke about the soldiers, both northern and southern, out loud. Though The Blue and The Gray movie was not as good as it should have been, the movie introduces us to the civil war enough to understand what was going on at the time.

Bob Dylan

Born in Duluth, Minnesota, Bob Dylan was raised in Hibbing, Minnesota from the age of six.
As a child he learned how to play guitar and harmonica, forming a rock & roll band called the Golden Chords when he was in high school. Following his graduation in 1959, he began studying art at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. While at college, he began performing folk songs at coffeehouses under the name Bob Dylan, taking his last name from the poet Dylan Thomas. Already inspired by Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie, Dylan began listening to blues while at college, and the genre weaved its way into his music.

So long, honey baby
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
But goodbye's too good a word, babe
So I'll just say fare thee well
I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right

Dylan made his way to New York City in January of 1961, he began performing in coffeehouses, and his rough charisma won him a significant following. Bob dylan opened the concert for John Lee Hooker, and not long after, Dylan performed another concert. In the fall of 1961, Bob dylan gets his record with Columbia A&R, a collection of folk and blues standards.

Come, you masters of war

You that build the big guns

You that build the death planes

You that build all the bombs

You that hide behind walls

You that hide behind desks

I just want you know

I can see through your masks

Dylan began to write a large amount of original songs, which many of them were political protest songs in the vein of his Greenwich contemporaries. Some of the songs were not presented to the audience as his manager wanted to show Dylan as an acoustic folk singer.

"Master poet, caustic social critic and intrepid, guiding spirit of the counterculture generation"

By the end of 1965, the singer changed his own music to folk-rock. He couldn't wait for the music to change. He couldn't be only part of the change. He was the change itself.

Dylan got booed when he showed up with rock musicians behind him, and the booing didn't stop until his great songs like Desolation Row and Like a Rolling Stone, making everyone realize that rock music could be as personal as a poem.

You got a lotta nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinning
You got a lotta nerve
To say you got a helping hand to lend
You just want to be on
The side that's winning

After his accident in the mid of 1966, for several months, Dylan stayed at home with his family. A while after, Bob Dylan and the Band recorded an enormous amount of material, ranging from old folk, country and blues songs to newly-written originals.