Beginning, Middle, and End

From movie:
The beginning of Frozen starts with two sisters. They were once close, but Elsa's powers became too strong and they needed to be concealed for Anna's sake. Then the parents died. Tragic. In the middle of the movie, the castle is open for all to come and see Elsa be crowned Queen of Arendale. Anna gets all happy and goes crazy over any guy that looks her way. Then she finds her prince and thinks she's in love. She's not. You don't fall in love with somebody and not know their last name. Dammit, Anna. Then Elsa gets mad at her sister and her powers are revealed. She goes off to a mountain and uses her powers after having them forever concealed. Anna goes to look for Elsa. She finds her. Turns out Anna was struck in the heart by Elsa's powers and now only an act of true love can save her. In the end, Elsa learns about true love and hugs her sister and she is unfrozen. The kingdom lives on and the sisters live happily ever after. 
From life:
Something beginning in my life is a new year. 2015. Exciting because I'll be going off to college. Something that I'm in the middle of is high school. I still have about 6 months to go. And I can't even believe it. Where did the time go?! Something ending in my life is 2014. It was such a great great great year. Definitely one of my favorite years. Loved every second of it.
Idea for film:
For the beginning, it could start with two drug dealers that live in Brazil and are both madly in love with the same person. In the middle, their one true love could be taken hostage by other drug dealers. They must sacrifice their wealth for the girl. In the end, they could all die together. I'm serious. They will all get shot when they are exchanging the money and the girl.

Undeserved Misfortune

From movie:
In 500 Days Of Summer, Tom is looking for love. He finds Summer. They seem to be happy and everything is right in the world. But then Summer says all she wants is to be friends. Tom fakes a smile and moves on with his fantasy of them being together. The misfortune occurs when Summer ends up falling in love with somebody else and marrying them. EVEN after she says that she didn't believe in love and that it was all fairy tale talk. Like who does that? Shame really. Poor Tom. He didn't deserve that.

From life:

Something I believe will always be an undeserved misfortune is a death in the family. I don't think anybody should go through the pain of losing somebody so close to them. No one should suffer from losing part of themselves, whether it be because they are sick or because of old age.

Idea for Film:
A cliche undeserved misfortune in a romantic movie IN MY OPINION is when one of the person's gets cheated on. It always always always happens somehow, at least in the most basic romantic comedy movies. And the worst part is that they find out and then the person that cheated says something dumb like "its not you, its me" or some gibberish like that.

My Film Job

I believe I'd do my best at being an editor or an actor.

Editor because I'm experienced with editing software and really enjoy the editing process. Like if you only knew.. yeah but I really like editing. Its probably my favorite part. Putting all the pieces together, with the music and everything.

An actor because I've done a bunch of school productions that involve acting and I think I'm great at expressing emotion. I do have a lot of experience with acting and I enjoy doing it. Quite a bit, I might add.

In order, I'd probably want to be editor the most and then an actor.

Just make me editor and life will be wonderful. Or an actor and life will be wonderful too.

Conflict

From a movie:
The conflict in 50 First Dates is that the main character falls in love with a woman that can't remember anything after 24 hours. He needs to make her remember him and fall in love with him every single day of her life. She has this condition because she was in a car crash that affected her short term memory loss and she can no longer obtain any new information since that day of the crash.

From life:
In middle school, I had a problem with my best friend. She didn't like the people that I was hanging out with and she was calling me names. She wouldn't stop and just confront me herself and it was bugging the crap out of me. It was a small problem now that I think about it, but it was still a problem. I had to let go of that "best friend."

Idea for film:
A mother is sick and doesn't listen to her family. She keeps insisting that she is sick but when she goes to the doctor, they say she has nothing. She says she wants to go to Mexico and she does go. When she goes, she stays for 3 months. She doesn't want to come back anymore to her daughters. She is skinny, pale, and won't leave her mother's house. She needs her daughters and husband to make her realize how strong she really is.

My Review of The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man was a beautiful movie and I enjoyed it very much. The main character John Merrick made me feel sorrow and joy because of how noble he is to the world even as they think he's an ugly monster. One of my favorite scenes was when John finds out he has a permanent home at the hospital and they give him his dressing case. It was one of those scenes that brought the biggest smiles to my face and I loved the acting of the character John Merrick. The movie made me realize that it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, but what's on the inside that counts. John was unattractive physically but his personality was gold and he was kind to everybody that he met. He never aimed at doing wrong to anybody that wronged him and remained grateful for the good that Dr. Treves did for him. I enjoyed the scene where John goes to the theater very much. It was such a cute and sweet scene; when Ms. Kendal dedicated the show to John, it made me "awww!" And when a scene makes me do that, you know its a good scene. As far as the resolution or ending of The Elephant Man, it left me feeling bittersweet. On one hand, I'm happy that John is finally done with his church and feels complete  however I can't help but feel sad that he choses to kill himself by sleeping like a normal person. The movie doesn't exactly say that he knew that would cause his death but I think John Merrick knew better than to sleep like a normal person. Overall, I feel sorry for John and if I was in the movie, I think I would just hug him and tell him everything's going to be okay. IT WAS A GOOD MOVIE.

My Name is John Merrick

I have never been this happy. I finally have a home; Dr. Treves has officially let me stay in the hospital. They are going to care for me. They even got me a dressing case, I can't believe how kind he's being. I am in absolute disbelief. The care I'm being shown here has truly made up for some of the time that I spent in the Freak Show with Mr. Bytes. I am beginning to feel like a human being and enjoying being treated like a person and not an animal. While they said they will not cure me, I appreciate all the time they are taking to care for me. I am in bad shape and I wish I could apologize for the tears that I caused on that nurse. But she scared me as well; I just want to be normal and experience the love I've never had. I haven't told this to anybody, but as soon as I finish building my church, I plan to finally sleep like a normal human being. I am so happy and I think this will work. Maybe I can be reunited with my mother in Heaven. . . .

I hope Night Porter doesn't return. Yet I have a feeling that he will and I don't want to worry Dr. Treves with this since I fear it will only make the situation worse. 

Hoping for things to get better and grateful for the beautiful things in life.

-John Merrick

Welcome to My Nightmare :(

When I was a little girl, I was deathly afraid of the darkness. I couldn't stand being in the dark at all and my sisters knew about my fear. They would use my fear as an advantage to themselves so that they could scare me away and get me to start crying. Cruel, right? WELL, one day we were watching Alien VS Predator. I guess I shouldn't have agreed to watch it with them, but I wanted to feel cool watching a scary movie. That was one of the worst decisions of my childhood. I would have nightmares so frequently that the Alien was coming after me. To add to that horror, sometimes Freddy Creuger would make appearances and join forces with the Alien to try to kill me. It was HORRIBLE. I was so afraid to sleep for the simple fact that they might come after me and I spent about two weeks with only 5 solid hours of sleeping. I say solid because I could usually only last 30 minutes sleeping before I realized I was sleeping so I would wake myself up. Then I started having lucid dreams; in those type of dreams, you can control what happens in the dream. You are conscious that you are dreaming and you do whatever the hell you want. I wish I still dreamed like that. Anyways, with those lucid dreams, I started controlling my nightmares and was only left with the horror of my sisters locking me in the bathroom with the lights off and yelling that Bloody Mary was going to come after me. The theory was that if you turned off all the lights in a room and stood in front of a mirror and said "Bloody Mary" three times, then she would appear in front of you. My 6-year-old self would never dare to do those things, I was deathly afraid of the consequences that came with facing Bloody Mary. I always hoped that I would be brave and able to confront her but yeah, never called her name. That's my nightmare. What's yours?

Compassionate Science

I am not a very compassionate person. I care, however as far as compassionate science and doing something good for somebody, its rare for me to actually do something. I'm a big believer in loving what you do and I think that compassionate scientists are not only smart but love to create evolution and help others. For me, I really have to love something to actually attempt to make an impact or drastically change something bad for the better; if I don't extremely care about it, I won't change it. I think I'm this way because my dad is big on getting a job that matters instead of something that matters to me. He still however encourages me to follow my dreams and aspirations. A bit confusing, right?

As of right now, with what I've learned in school, I think I can start to make a change in the computer science fields. I still have so much more to learn but I think I can start by exploring into the issues that need attention around the world. I'm still quite young and can impact the world with my actions. Science is definitely not my favorite subject, but I do love computers and will give it a shot if it means doing something I love and something that I can grow with.

The Future!

1,000 years from now humans will have become rare. Due to too much fast food, trash, and bad breathing conditions, humans will be forced to leave to space. The humans that stay in Earth will be working on the Earth to make it chrome. Everything will be chrome. Shiny and fake. There will be filters set up around to world to monitor the air and purify it instead of trees. Along with those filters, we will find that the oceans are being used as pools for the rich and we must all share the Pacific ocean because all the rich people own the other oceans around the world. The food will be all liquid and solid foods will have become extinct because of safety/choking hazards. Disneyland will be expanded to Northern California and holograms of Walt Disney will greet guests and the parades and shows will be more spectacular than ever. Everybody will live their choice of a one-story or two-story house and have a family limit of 5 kids. You will be able to genetically engineer your dream baby and create your perfect family, or not. All up to you.

One Time I Laughed Really, Really Hard

For New Years Eve, my parents left to Mexico. All my siblings went their own way; Rocio went with her long-time boyfriend Geo and Kimberly went with her boyfriend Ernie. I went with my best friend because I figured what better way to bring in the new year than with one of my favorite persons of all time. They had a mechanical bull. I swear that was the funnest New Years Eve I've had, it is definitely in the top 10 best New Years Eve for me. I know most of my best friend's family and while I was familiar with them, I was kind of shy to ride the mechanical bull. Finally after some convincing, I agreed to go on the bull. It was the FUNNIEST thing ever; if you haven't ridden a mechanical bull with your best friend, you need to add that on your bucket list because oh my god it is so funny. We were both wearing cowboy hats and her uncle Victor was controlling the speed that the bull moved. It only took a few spins until we fell off, but we were still holding on to dear life. She fell on top of me and thankfully someone captured a picture of it because our faces look priceless. It doesn't sound funny when you read it, but it was something that you had to be there to understand why it was funny. We then proceeded to go on the bull 3 more times and I even went on by myself. It was such a fun night and I'm glad I got to experience that with my best friend. I slept over at her house too and it was just a night full of joy and will be one of my favorite memories with her.

My Review on Modern Times

I enjoyed Modern Times; Chaplin put on a wonderful performance. His acting was phenomenal and he made a good point about how workers don't really have a voice and its only the boss that has a say in what you can and cannot do. I thought the character was funny and the movie had a lot of messages embedded into it. One message that Chaplin gave was to keep smiling, even during the hard times. I personally really liked that message because it gives positivity to the audience and reminds one that everybody has their own struggles and its important not to let those struggles take up all your happiness because you will overcome them. As a comedy, I think the movie was great; it touched base with different kinds of humor and made sure that everybody laughed at something. Would I watch it again? Yes, more than likely. I will probably watch it on a rainy day when I want to get in a good mood. Honestly, it was the first silent film by Chaplin that I had ever seen and I loved it.

My Thoughts On Bullying

Bullying has happened for as long as I can remember. Since elementary, it was nature to pick on somebody else if they were different or acted a funny way. Of course it wasn't severe back in the days. I mean, its only a bunch of 4-year-olds to 10-year-olds that are being a little mean to one another. The sad part is that it starts at such a young age; one day, one kid decided that they didn't like somebody because they had a different hair color or weird shoes or even because of the way they talked. And because they didn't like that specific thing about them, they decided to humiliate that kid. I usually tend to believe that if you were bullied, eventually you become the bully because you're tired of being picked on. The cycle keeps going because its seen as a joke or it doesn't seem to matter enough to address that situation. In high school, I can honestly say that I hardly see bullying happen. The only major bullying that I have seen is people harassing homosexuals, bisexuals, lesbians, or gays. That's a touchy topic, but it seems to be the one people get most offended talking about. To accuse or assume that one person is gay in high school can often turn into a fight. It seems like such a horrible thing to say about somebody; when a rumor like that turns out false, perhaps others that are actually gay become offended. It's honestly too big of a problem because everybody has different beliefs so its hard to solve it. As far as ending bullying in high school, I don't think it ever will end. It's not something you can turn off like a switch. To end it, you have to change everybody's beliefs so that everybody agrees. The morals of every single person are different and just because anti-bullying posters are posted around school doesn't mean its going to stop. Now the problem isn't critical to the point where the authorities need to come into the picture, but all the school can really do is be positive and promote good behavior. To end bullying means that a kid will never learn to hate. While hate is an ugly emotion, everybody eventually feels that towards somebody; it is inevitable. Kids learn that sharing toys is good but they are greedy and turn to bullying each other for the most or better toys. It's a cruel thing that bullying is however it is also something that can't be fully stopped. It can be monitored and controlled; I believe it can be kept to a minimum. For that to happen, there needs to be more interaction among students instead of everybody sticking with their cliques. We are afraid to be with others because we are afraid of differences, but if we talked more to each other, I think we could improve that problem.

My Favorite Movie

My favorite movie is (500) Days of Summer. Besides the exquisite soundtrack that the movie offers, the story happens to switch the roles of the guy breaking a girl's heart and instead the girl is the heartbreaker. The protagonist, Tom Hansen, is very into the idea of finding your soulmate and falling in love. His love interest, Summer Finn, does not share this belief and I actually end up hating and loving her character at the end. Hating because she literally rips apart Tom's heart; loving her because she is honest about why it didn't work out with Tom. This film was released in 2009 and I currently own two copies of the movie. I never get tired of watching this movie because I can relate to the expectations and reality that Tom experiences in the movie. My favorite scene is when Summer and Tom stop seeing each other and Tom is going through the pain of a broken heart; in the scene, he's lying face down on his bed and playing with a tennis ball. He keeps attempting to bounce it and fails every time until finally he gets the rythym going and this symbolizes how he's getting his life back together. He then starts to focus on his dream of being an architect and reads a ton of books. The soundtrack is also one of the biggest parts of why this movie stands out so much to me. Apart from having French and alternative artists, the movie introduced me to one of my favorite artists Regina Spektor. Her sweet voice and the piano in her music is both the best and saddest music I've ever heard. She has a song in the movie called "Hero" and it plays in the background when Tom goes to see Summer after a long time of not seeing her. He has all these expectations in his head of the perfect evening; everything falls into place in his imagination. However, reality can hurt when it doesn't go your way. Tom sees Summer showing off an engagement ring to her friend; Tom doesn't even get angry. He storms out of the rooftop where the party is held and into the dark streets of Downtown LA. The music goes extremely well with that scene and I can't even begin to say how much I LOVE the cast. While it is an independent film, it is one of the best I've ever seen.