seven pounds

The world is contradictory, human nature is contradictory. But the world needs to progress in the contradictions, human nature need to be sublimated in the contradictions. We are all spiritual emptiness body, constant to find a new point in life to prove that there is sense of being, Ben did, and did a magnificent repair for the framework of life. 7 individuals, 7 innocent souls passed, Ben standing on one side of the scale, with 7 " counters" balance his guilt and self ultimate salvation.
The current society need paid attention to what. Width and length of life, how to mix into the best combination? Now we are fully aware of the existence of the individual was suffering with the emptiness of life, lost soul, life abandoned to its own by the domination for desire, exist is let be. Nihilism rampant in the world, violence has been glorified, subjective and objective, personal and collective, detached, and suffering, secular, sacred, and are all been considered to be important to history. Perhaps one day human really defeated the death, but where are our souls going?
And we are filling the soul, there is a choice, everyone wants be the noble person, but unfolds dirty, or filthy or harm others to benefit oneself in a corner of the heart, they have forgotten how to adjust difference between dream and reality, indulge in the dark unable to extricate themselves, longing for hope, but forget the look of hope.

Dragonball Evolution

Asians work shoot by the Westerners, which is bound to exist the great cultural differences, and this cultural differences must have enormous impact to the original work.

The key of the success or failure of “Dragonball Evolution” is to make a breakthrough in the script and special effects, according to the original cartoon, video's position is a magical action movie, and perhaps it is because the financial deficiencies, from the final product can only be reduced to a low-cost action movie. The adaptation original of the background and the environment has actually fundamentally changed the whole story; it is no longer the "Dragon Ball" story which we are familiar with, but the story of a group of characters who have fight against green monster.

Screenwriter in the choice of stories is also chosen the earliest content in the original as the benchmark of the story, so the only point is the qigong. And the audience who familiar with the "Dragon Ball" all know that the most exciting fights of this story is begin from reveal the identity of Wukong and Messiah, and this is the plot of "Dragon Ball Z". But the “Dragonball Evolution” link into an impasse, as the movie of art dreams there is no way to reproduce the exaggerated expression of animation world; "Dream" has been smashing the real world.

Film and animation are two types artistic expression, but also two distinct described ways, the interception and adapt optionally will just cause the plot singleness.

Animation

Recently, Forbes magazine give out 10 Animated Movies Worth A Billion U.S. dollars. The reason why called that "value", it is because of the 10 films at the box office are not more than 1 billion U.S. dollars. In fact the total box office so far has not more than 1 billion U.S. dollars of animated films. Therefore, the "value" here, naturally contains derived products, intangible assets and so on. But the Forbes article did not say it clearly, do not have to make it clear that why the value of this 10 animated more than one billion.

look at here:

http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/07/animation-disney-pixar-technology-personal-tech-animation_slide_2.html?thisspeed=25000

Coverage – Superman Lives

READER: ZIYU ZHANG DATE: APRIL 3, 2009
TITLE: SUPERMAN LIVES GENRE: action/science fiction
AUTHOR: Kevin Smith LOCATION: Metropolis


LOG LINE: The infamous Brainiac who comes to earth on a spaceship in search of a technology called “the Eradicator” to help rebuild his body. Following superman death, the “Eradicator” (a robot) comes to life, grabs Superman’s body, and revives him.

EXCELLENT GOOD FAIR POOR
PREMISE X
CHARACTERIZATION X
STORYLINE X
DIALOGUE X


SYNOPSIS:The infamous Brainiac who comes to earth on a spaceship and he is with a malformed head. A small ROBOT works beside him and implanting a cable into the back of the malformed head. The other part of his “body” is in the same situation. After he comes to earth he is in search of a technology called “the Eradicator” and he wants to use this to help rebuild his body. He sees Superman fly around and thought he has the “Eradicator.” So he teams up with Lex Luthor, owner and C.E.O. of Lex Corp, blocks the power of the sun to weaken Superman and kill him and thus, steals his “Eradicator.” When the Man of Steel confronts Brainiac for the first time, he presents Doomsday, which kills Superman in the streets of Metropolis. As they mourn Superman’s death, Doomsday wakes, and then a great red laser from Brainiac’s ship blows him up. Superman actually had “Eradicator” inside his Fortress of Solitude which he never knew. Following his death, the “Eradicator” (a robot) comes to life, grabs Superman’s body, and revives him. While only half-recovered, Superman leaves to confront Brainiac, who in a desperate act of self-preservation, forces his consciousness to take over a “Thangarian Snare Beast” that “resembles something of a cross between a squid and a spider, but very bio-mechanical and sleek.” Finally, superman succeed and charge Luthor of espionage against the world government such as utilized Brainiac for his own selfish gain, and had further designs on governmental extortion. And at the time superman against with Brainiac and Luthor, the love between him and Lois are still keeping calefactive.

EVALUATION:
The point of plot
Kevin Smith is a big comic follower, the story and the characters set in superman lives is followed in the original comic, for the fans of the comic, they will be happy to see this, but for the other audience maybe it is too boring.

Superman lives focused on the use of the compact structure of the drama: the beginning of drama has been faced with very considerable conflict, the emergence of infamous Brainiac, the defects limb, Lex’s message, the dialogue between host, Lex and Lois in the television studio, the beginning and development of the plot has been step by step explanation when the plot boost to the climax.


The point of market
Superman lives typical propaganda of the American idea of personal heroism, which is inseparable from their culture. A lot of Heroism of the United States movies is the same circumstances, same idea, so the concept of superman lives is marketable. The target audience could be everybody and every career, from young people to old people all of them will be the audience. But such as this kind of film, the theme is same, so the selling point is characters and screen.


The point of characters
Each lines and actions are the language of the characters; they are express the idea and showing the character of the person in literature. This script based on the identity and character, select the language and action which is fit for their personality and psychological expression. Superman: justice, humorous, witty, gentle. Brainiac and Lex: cunning treacherous, arrogant. But need to say that the dialogue was the weakest element, some of the dialogues are ridiculous and unsuitable.

Superman's largest “deficiency" is too strong for this role, it is difficult to design a formidable challenge, it is difficult to mobilize the sentiments of the audience. And the so-called "super hero" movies, the most important role are villain. It is a pity that the weakest point is the villain in this script, the audience did not have enough opportunity to understand the role, it is also he did not have story and lack strength, he can not compare with Joker in "Batman", and not as green magic and Dr. Octopus in series of "Spider-Man". So if the Villain is too weak, it won’t show the power of Superman.


The point of screen
To create such films, special effects lens will not be less, but will be lack of freshness. In fact, the most important effect is shocking lens, the number of the special effects no one cares about it, and it is clear from the script, the shock lens hardly any. But for the short scenes are good, small details add reality, the subject matter has been thoroughly researched. But this script is too short, only 97 pages, it can not be a shooting script, it is just tell the story, not show the story.

Final opinion
If this script will be made into film, for the premise will be fine, superman is famous all over the world, it have a global market, films are about money, superman film will be support by the comic fans and the audience who like series of superman films. And for the plot is good too, it has a strong emotion, and the love between superman and Lois will advance the plot. But for the dialogue it really need improve, otherwise it could not make the characters have a strong personality and could not attract attention from audience. Basically, this script is a good project, the only problem is that, adapt from comic, it does not have novel element, less shock lends and awful dialogue, all of this become one question, how to get audiences attention?

The Wrestler

"The Wrestler" in a not fresh hero story enwrap an idealist martyrdom spirit, which allowed him have a tragic and profound taste in the mediocre story.

The failure life - middle age is still poor, helpless and alone, there is no love, there is no family no friends ... ... and all of this is only because you are a bastard, as simple as that. This life, you only can be a winner in the wrestling platform, only there you can have a pride of your. So, why should be compromise, just end everything in the cheers of audience ... ... to be the Randy 'The Ram' forever!

Film is not pursuit the dazzling skills, an honest presentation of old age wrestling star who is full of pain of a spiritual and physical. There are some camera can be seen as an acronym for the entire movie, Randy won the race, covered with wounds walk from the focus lamp to the dark, he hobbled, panting. Glory is too short, life is too long, refulgence shining in the memory, but the reality is bleak.

"The Wrestler" is every simple, whether the characters or the the style of film's images portray is very "blue collar", as the closing song, lonely, desolate and depth into bone marrow. Aronofsky almost gave up most of the fancy tricks, but with the most simple and direct way to shoot the film. Simple expressions, but the performance of the content is very rich. The use of a number of Sound Effects, for rendering emotion also plays a very significant role.

this 53 years of sony

Sony in the fifty-three years make a lot of amazing products for people, such as Betamax, Trinitron, sony walkman, changed the people’s traditional opinion on television and music. The U-Matic of professional photography field and the Beta series products is monopolize the video production field. PS is break the monopoly of Nintendo, and even their semiconductor are the vanguard

Today, Sony's products unremarkable, except for the technology of imitation by other manufacturers, do not have new break, as a giant follow the other leading brand (etc.Apple), this point from the chart it can be seen that Sony created many the Top of the World in early:
Many view the computer & videogames industry as the producer of the "ideal-type commodity" form of digital medium in contemporary consumer capitalism. Computer and videogames comprise of and embody very powerful economic, social, and cultural attributes within contemporary consumer culture. The commodification of computer & videogames stems from research and development by way of production all the way through to consumerism by way of a capital exchange. A capitalist movement or notion in its totalitarian sense, video game consoles are produced as cash cows living on a limited life cycle of approximately 5 years, yet their powerful stance as an art form through developed software cannot be ignored.

Valkyrie

As a thriller movie, it tells the story that everyone almost known. So, how to maintain a high degree of curiosity and a sense of tension when the audience already anticipating all the circumstances, that is the biggest difficulty problem which cast should faced for.

Even if you do not know Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, you would know the final outcome of Hitler. Therefore, in order to assassinate a Hitler themed movie, the grand finale has been self-evident. This will be test skill of the directed Bryan Singer, how to make us forget that we know, and focus on his. Here, we no longer need to find out is this action will succeed or not, but why does it fail.

Basically, the before 1 / 3 of the film is failure. Psychological performance of the protagonist is too straightforward; a lot of matting looks boring. However, when the action began after the assassination, this story is beginning to show charm of its own. Although the outcome is inevitable, the process is very attractive.

Valkyrie overall feeling is very strong, and there is nothing particularly surprising which makes the film great, but as a thriller movie, commercial films, it is still good. Compared to those wonderful films by Tom Cruise in 90's, this movie is not worse then that. Maybe Tom Cruise is no longer attractive, but this film allows you to think those moment which he let you infatuation.