"'We're on a boat.'
'Yes, I know'
'Do you think death could possibly be a boat?'
'Oh no... No. Death is not.... Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not being. You can't not be on a boat.'
'I've frequently not been on boats.'
'No. What you've been is not on boats.'"
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
T-minus two days until break. How ready to be done am I? So ready that I suggested to the younger teachers that we should do a midweek happy hour. How ready to be done are they? They took me up on the offer. $2 pints and half-price appetizers are a great way to end the day. Beer and nachos are a great way to avoid grocery shopping.
Since I discovered the library a couple days ago I've been trying to catch up on movies I've meant to see. So far this includes The Squid and The Whale, Charlie Wilson's War, I Am Legend, and Rozencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead. I've enjoyed all of them so far, except I Am Legend. I just didn't understand why that movie didn't go anywhere. Will Smith only kills like three zombie/vampire/ghouls, he never figures out that they are still sentient (one z/v/g not only comes into the sunlight to save his mate, but he traps Will Smith in a copycat snare and then pursues him to his house), and the dog, who upstages the fresh prince as only a domesticated animal can, dies. Double-U the F.
Today I checked out Walking Tall, because if there's one thing I love more than stock-plot action movies, it's stock-plot action movies starring professional wrestlers.
And now, your moment of Zen:
December 17, 2008
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4 comments:
You find movies in a library?
THE SKY IS FALLING!
What do you mean the movie didn't go anywhere? Why do you think he worked so hard and sacrificed so much to fix whatever caused the disease rather than saying 'hey, they're all on one island, let's just kill them all'? Is is perhaps because he recognized some still-human aspects in these zombies, something worth saving, worth fighting for? Not just for the protection of the remaining unaffected humans, but also for the redemption of those having fallen prey to zombie disease. Read the book; maybe Asimov expresses this more clearly than Hollywood can.
ugh the library here sucks as far as movies goes. I would like to see Charlie Wilson's War again. I took that Victor Davis Hansen class at HC on the War on Terror and it made the movie that much more interesting...
Anonymous,
A couple things:
1)I don't think Will Smith could have killed all the zombies, and obviously he knew that there was still human potential in them.
2)His desire to find a cure seemed to be fueled entirely by a desire to have human companionship and to redeem the fact that he couldn't stop this tragedy from happening in the first place. Also, the fact that they can be cured isn't really related to whether or not they are capable of human emotion and thought in z/v/g form.
3)He never acknowledges the fact that the same exact z/v/g is following him throughout the whole movie and, when he is talking to his audio diary, he says that the z/v/g pursued him into the sunlight "likely because they are running low on food." He had no thought that they have any trace of human emotion in z/v/g form. Also, he never makes any comment or seems to even grasp the fact that he was caught by the same exact sort of snare he used.
You are probably right about the book. From what I remember about the buzz before the movie was released, it was predicted that Smith's character would find that the z/v/gs were just as afraid of him as he was of them, and that the title was appropriate because the main character was actually a legendary monster in the world of the z/v/gs.
I can't really tell you why the title was appropriate to the story as it was.
I'll have to pick up the book sometime.
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