29 Kasım 2009 Pazar

7- V for Vendetta

IMPORTANT !!! We will make a presentation about this film and i am going to write general things of V for Vendetta here, if i write a detailed post, this would be an injustice to my teammates.
thanks for your understanding

http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/index2.html
this is the link where you can find everything about this film




The Main Idea of This Film Is :


PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE AFRAID OF THEIR GOVERNMENTS,
GOVERNMENTS SHOULD BE AFRAID OF THEIR PEOPLE ...






V is a complicated person, meanwhile he is also educated,smart,kind hearted,intellectual and rude,vengeful,lonely,violent, VENDETTA(like a blood revenge)



"Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot..."





5.11.1605- Guy Fawkes Day(In 1605, thirteen young men planned to blow up
the Houses of Parliament. Among them was Guy Fawkes, Britain's most notorious traitor. After Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, English Catholics who had been persecuted under her rule had hoped that her successor, James I, would be more tolerant of their religion. James I had, after all, had a Catholic mother. Unfortunately, James did not turn out to be more tolerant than Elizabeth and a number of young men, 13 to be exact, decided that violent action was the answer.)

So it is seen that the V mask is based on the face of Guy Fawkes






According to McTeigue, he was influenced by four films before he filmed V for Vendetta. These films are “The Battle of Algiers”; Stanley Kubrick(1965),A Clockwork Orange";George Orwel(1984),“Fahrenheit 451";Ray Bradbury and “If....”;Lindsay Anderson.



PS: I mentioned a sentence which starts with "remember, remember, the Fifth of November" in this post and this sentence is very similar for Sabanci students, especially the ones stay at dorm because this sentence is concerted for "Sabancı Çıldırması"








6- Killing Us Softly








Actually, killing us softly 3 is the real name of our video because it has already published twice before the last one that we watched. Killing us softly was published in 1979 at first then Jean Kilbourne made two presentations about this movie, his first presentation was published in 1987 and the second one was published in 1999. Although the real reason is not known, it is estimated that because of the first two of killing us softly's unsuccess, nobody remember these videos and when killing us softly is called the third one always comes to people's mind.











This video is about women's role in patriarchy and these role is related with the media. Producing or selling something with advertising gets more important day by day and in these advertisement women are used as objects which can help to sell these products easier.These objects have lots of kind; for example, women can be used as a figure of mother or a sex object.Their role is just depend on the product that is sold.




5- Tough Guise

Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity examines the relationship between pop culture's construction of masculinity and the reality of being a man in late 20th century American societyThe media offers men certain "manly" roles to play, but these roles often play out violent and selfish attitudes, traits harmful to women.





Godfather,Rocky,Rambo and Scarface are the most well-known examples for tough guise. One of the male charachter of each film represented as the best man or hero, these guys are the most powerful people in the world and these films have also a common thing, women have no value and they are not treated as equal as men. Women often seen as a source of problems and conflicts, they do not do anything except making difficulties for men. Preferrig profane language to speak, treating like men are better than women,behaviouring unkindly are the main features of these "real men".



4- News Photography

Photography is such a kind of art if your aim is just to take pictures of something but when you decide to earn money from photographs, artistic side of picture becomes less important. News photography can be an example of earning money from taking pictures which does not have any artistic purpose. There are two kinds of news photographer;

1- Sometimes being a news photographer is very enjoyable,





2- But this kind of photos are generally used in magazines and if you are not a photographer for a magazine, you have to face with the real world which is not as enjoyable as seen in magazines


3- And of Clay Are We Created

things that i remember about this short-story:

For RolfCarlé, the most important thing that happens during his days with Azucena is his confrontation with his long-buried memories. For years he has refused to think about the horrors of his own past: having to bury concentration camp prisoners, and living with an abusive father who sometimes locked young Rolf in a cabinet. Throughout his professional life as a journalist, he has taken extraordinary risks, choosing to cover wars and natural disasters and placing himself in danger. Talking with Azucena, he comes to realize that these risks have been attempts to build up his courage so that one day he might face his memories and his fears.

The process of remembering is a painful one, bringing this brave, rugged man to tears. Azucena thinks he is crying because of her suffering, but he tells her, “I’m crying for myself. I hurt all over.” The pain continues long after the girl’s death. WhenCarlé returns home, he has no interest in working, or writing, or singing. He distances himself from everything he loves, including the narrator, and spends hours staring at the mountains and remembering. The narrator understands the process. She knows it will take time “for the old wounds to heal,” but knows also that when the process is completeCarlé will return to her.



Isabel Allende (the writer)






this writing might be useful for people who want a detailed summary of the and of clay are we created

And of Clay Are We Created Summary | Detailed Summary

Her name was Azucena, which meant Lilly. Only her head was showing from the mudpit. Her eyes were open and she called out, mouthing the words silently. She was a victim in a great volcanic tragedy, a tragedy that scientists had predicted but had been ignored by the local populations. Owing to the courage and pugnacity of distinguished reporter, Rolf Carle, Azucena's image was viewed by millions. The author of the short story is Rolf's companion and lover who watches him share the young girl's tragedy. She tries to intervene to help them both.

The geologists knew that the volcano would awaken. They set up their seismological equipment to record the impending eruption. They warned that the ice on the slopes of the volcano could be dislodged and the results could be disastrous for the populations below. However, these people who had lived below the volcano for so long, did not believe them and did not want to change their lives. The villages that scorned their predictions heard a great roar one day from somewhere beneath their cotton fields and were buried in the avalanche of stones and clay that fell on top of them along with the endless flood of molten lava. Twenty thousand human beings were said to have perished along with an infinity of animals. Forests, river disappeared. All that was left was hardened clay soup- mud and the endless bodies floating in it, some dead and some alive.

During the early morning of the tragedy, Rolf Carle is awakened with the author and begins his rapid helicopter flight to the scene of the tragedy. His assistant pans the enormous devastation on the ride there along with his ultimate destiny to wade knee high in the muck and debris with the cries of the lost and wounded. He reported all this in his calm news voice. He is a media professional seldom shaken by the events around him, armored against all tragedy by some strength of mind or heart within him. Rolf Carle was a man noted to report from dangerous places. He was a man who seemed oblivious to difficult surroundings.

He got to Azucena at the beginning and filmed those who found her. He took close-ups of her mud-smeared face and large eyes. Later, others would join in, but at the beginning, it was only Rolf. In his first attempt to rescue her, he threw a rope but she sank when she raised her hand to get it. He tried other things. Finally, he walked into the mud to save her, commenting on the smell of the corpses in the endless mud. He got her to tell him her name. He got them to throw a rope around her, but it didn't work. Was she trapped by the rubble? No, it was partially due to the corpses of the children holding on to her legs. He promised her he would save her.

No matter what Rolf did, he could not pull her out. She had problems breathing. She could not move but Rolf kept trying. Everything he tried caused her excruciating pain. Whatever was holding her had a firm grip on her body. He even tried to dive in the horrible muck but came up coughing gravel. He finally concluded that he needed a pump. They would have to pump the debris away. A doctor said she might live until the morning if she didn't get too cold at night. There were no antibiotics to give to her. She was not really that badly wounded like many others. She was afraid to be alone that evening so he fed her coffee and talked to her throughout the night. He thought of what he could give her if she recovered. He thought of her afterlife beyond the mud.

Meanwhile, Rolf's lover pulled every stop to help the little girl. She called all the great and important people in the country- legislators and army officers, ambassadors; the head of an oil company- anyone, anywhere- just go get a pump. She felt for her and she felt for him. She was drained by her helplessness. No one seemed to care despite her national exposure. Still, while her life was fading away, thousands of volunteers combed through the mud searching for others; families offered help to orphans; doctors begged for anesthesia to lighten their grisly chores freeing the trapped. The clay did its deadly work, contaminating those who were living with the poison of decomposing bodies.

Azucena kept alive during this period. She wasn't trying to be any trouble as she waited. Rolf's beard thickened and the bags below his eyes darkened as he waited. She was simple and humble. Rolf began to forget his assignment and concentrated on comforting her, on saving her- rather than reporting on her. Besides, there were so many others to take up the task. He tried to feed her corn mush but she vomited.

It began to rain. Other reporters came. Thousands of dollars of equipment and dozens of movie and television personnel came to visit her to ask her questions, to televise her now silent lips as Rolf Carle begged for a water pump. As the pictures grew sharper, the author found herself somehow nearer to those two, who now suffered together.

Rolf began to sing her some of the songs he remembered from Austria. They talked to each other. For Rolf, the exhaustion and futility and suffering broke open his past. He told her some of it. He could not tell her when he was led by the Russians to bury the starving dead from a concentration camp. He could not tell her about the ovens where the turned people to ashes or the gallows where they hung them. Nor could he tell how they dressed his mother in a prostitute's shoes and stripped her naked and watched her sob in shame. All that he forgot, all that he repressed came alive again.

He remembered the pain of punishment by his brutal father, the belt that endlessly whipped him. He remembered his sister, Katherena, who he had abandoned and the powerful web of guilt that had engulfed him and prodded him to a courage that somehow buried it all in a tiny flame of danger. For so many years, he stood in a commanding moment of presence that made him forget his past. He began to cry. Not for sweet Azucena but for himself.

When the President of the Republic came to see her, he promised Rolf he would get it for him. Rolf beside the girl for hours but the pump never came. Finally, he knew there was nothing left. He heard her stories of how she had never been loved and told her how much he loved her. He kissed her tenderly on the forehead. He experienced a primal love for her. He told her that he loved her more than he loved his mother, his sister or the author herself. He sees her pain and knows she will die. He prays for her death- that it will be swift, like lightening.

Although the author finally found a pump, it did not arrive in time. Rolf stayed with Azucena to the end. When she had passed out of this world, he let her slip into the mud.

The author watches him now. He is alive. He breathes. He functions as a normal man in many ways. However, inside of him, Rolf is not the same. His experience in the mudpit has changed him. He and the author often go to the station and watch the footage of Azucena again and again looking for the magic road to salvation that he had missed. He stares through windows at mountains that cannot answer him. He cannot use his camera any more. He cannot write or sing. Things have changed. His past has now crushed him. The death of the little lily of the clay field has broken him into pieces.

The author is patient. She believes he will heal and they will be together again.

2- The Enormous Radio

The Enormous Radio is a short story written by John Cheever in 1947. It first appeared in the May 17, 1947 issue of The New Yorker and was later collected in The Enormous Radio and Other Stories. The story deals with a family who purchases a new radio that allows them to listen in on conversations and arguments of other tenants living in their apartment building.



The story focuses on Jim and Irene Westcott, an average couple in all but one respect, and that is in their fondness for music, which is to say, their fondness for harmony. When their radio breaks down beyond repair, Jim buys another as a gift for his wife. The machine’s complexity, ugly gumwood cabinet, and “malevolent green light” trouble Irene. More disturbing is the radio’s tendency to pick up interference. Wanting to hear music, Irene instead hears ringing telephones and the conversations and quarrels of her neighbors.

Soon, Irene begins to take pleasure in eavesdropping on her neighbors, but this perverse fascination soon gives way to an apprehensiveness and even defensiveness on the part of Irene, who too insistently maintains that she and Jim are innocent of the hypocrisy, fearfulness, and financial troubles that afflict their neighbors. Ironically, her knowledge of their lives and misfortunes eventually causes friction in her own marriage. Jim, it turns out, worries about growing old and wonders why he has not been as successful as he hoped to be. In a sudden outburst, he cracks Irene’s “Christly” shell, exposing the lies, thefts, and even the abortion she has sought to conceal, indeed seems to have forgotten.






Although the story begins as a work of conventional realism, Cheever’s plot and theme can be interpreted allegorically. “The Enormous Radio” can be seen as a retelling of the biblical story of man’s fall from innocence and expulsion from the Garden of Eden, in this case, the American garden of middle-class respectability. In exposing Irene Westcott, Cheever in effect exposes the underside of the American life that she and her husband represent. The comforts of their middle-class life, Cheever suggests, cannot protect the individual against either the evil in the world or the evil in oneself. Tempted by the satanic radio, Irene falls into knowledge, out of love, and perhaps beyond the possibility of redemption as well.

3 Kasım 2009 Salı

1-Reality TV







A new kind of television programme which is also called is reality show started to take place in our life in last decade and day by day these shows became indispensable for the people who watch these programmes everyday.





The Real World,Big Brother, Tempatation Island, Robinson Island and The Osbournes are the most popular reality show programmes which have lots of fans all over the world.




reality programme needs a good plan and also a perfect scenario to get a high rating;
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REALITY TV IS MORE REAL THAN THE REALITY :)



if you want to know more about the reality tv, you can just look at this website,
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_television