School's out for the summer!

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"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
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> Aaron wrote:
>
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>>>>>> I assume that for your class they provided the movies to watch, but
>>>>>> did they provide the popcorn???
>>>>>
>>>>> Ooooo... popcorn...
>>>>
>>>> With extra butter. Smile

>>>
>>> sigh. And I truly ought not to enjoy the butter so very much. So yummy,
>>> so fatty...
>>
>> Then you might like the cheese (flavored) stuff we put on with the
>> butter. Home made cheesy popcorn...you can even use the grated parmesan
>> or romano frequently put on Italian dishes (lots of umami).
>
> You can put cheese on popcorn? Real chease?

Yes, you can. {Smile}

> ...
>
> That's not a bad idea...

The ones that work best are the ones that have been grated to a powder.
At least that's what we've found. {Smile}

Anne Elizabeth Baldwin

>> I *should* leave it as an exercise for the class, but...
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami Smile

>
> Thank you. Heard of the concept, never remember the word. :>
>
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"Marian Griffith" <gryphon.DeleteThis@iae.nl> wrote in message
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> Tristaan wrote:
>
>> That's one of the things that we talked about in the class. You
>> just presented a theme that is common in almost ALL Hollywood
>> movies since day 1. In fact, waaaaaaay back, there was a set of
>> "rules" published to which all movie makers had to comply that
>> said, essentially, no bad deed should go unpunished and that the
>> good guys should always succeed in some way. But essentially,
>> this is what sells movies, with a few minor exceptions. Movies
>> are made for primary, overpoweringly simple reason: to entertain.
>> And ultimately, we are entertained when the reality presented is
>> "more real" than the reality in which we live.
>
>> So, when we see Darth Vader turn good at the end of Return of the
>> Jedi, that's what we always KNEW should happen. It's what we
>> expect. Would Return of the Jedi have done so well if Luke had
>> turned to the Dark Side? Probably not because that wouldn't have
>> been "right".
>
>> So, our American "story" dictates to the movies how they should
>> represent reality.
>
> Which makes it much more interesting to see movies from a culture with a
> different outlook and pattern of expectations than the American.
>
> Even more so when you can put the original and American remake next to
> each other. Interesting examples would be e.g. The original Dutch movie
> 'Spoorloos' and the American remake 'The vanishing' (I think I got the
> names right) or out of the many French movies that got remade by Hollywood
> 'Un elephant ca trompe enormemant' and 'The woman in Red'.
>
> The remake of the Dutch movie especially got told to change the original
> ending or the movie would not be released in the USA (due to the extreme
> departure of what the American audience would find acceptable in a movie).
> The French movies often show entirely different concepts of story telling
> (and humour) compared to the American remakes.
>
> And if you want to broaden your subject you could take a look at comic
> books written for adults (not necessarily in the meaning that the word has
> gotten in the USA, but in the original meaning of not being intended for
> children and teenagers due to the story subject, theme and treatment as
> well as painting a more realistic image of reality).
> There are some very good American, French and Japanese artists that draw
> and write stories that are on par with modern literature (though of
> necessity comics tend to go for abbreviation and externalisation because
> the medium does not encourage monologues and internalisation of the
> protagonist's motivations and character development. As such it is closer
> to movies than literature. It needs to literally -show- what happens
> emotionally as it does not have the room to describe it).
> Finding good American comic writers should not be too difficult. For
> French I would recommend starting to look at Moebius (He is responsible
> for some of the story and much of the art direction in the movie Fifth
> Element. The original comic is less American and more French). There are
> several other French artists who are as good or you might even find
> better, but his work is most likely easily found in the USA.
> For Japanese it is going to be difficult to find good. Mostly what gets
> imported are mangas based on or inspiring children's cartoons. It is a
> genre that has very strict 'rules' and that does not typically lend itself
> to quality writing. (Not to mention that reading Japanese is unlikely to
> happen and that the translations almost invariably do a horrible butcher
> job on the original story in an attempt to americanise it).

They also tend to add bad language to try to make the shows "more
suitable for older audiences." There's usually something else that makes
Americans uncomfortable with showing the kids' and teens' anime to children
as young as the original was meant for. {smile} I've heard that from folks
who know Japanese; they insist that a lot of swear words just aren't there
in the original with anime. {smile}

> It is almost cliched, but Akira is at its heart a futuristic story that
> adresses a number of social, scientific and cultural developments that are
> quite damaging if not somehow kept in check. The animated movie you may
> have seen does attempt to keep some of the original comic intact but is
> subject of course to the same forces as any movie adaptation. It is still
> a very Japanese story and not one that would have been possible from any
> Hollywood studio.

{lost in thought} I think "Samurai Champloo" is the main adult anime
series I'm aware of being shown in the U.S. {pause} I cannot speak for the
translation. I saw the first episode at a Hawai'i Library Association
conference, and it definitely had too many "adult themes" to be a kids' or
even teens' show. {Smile}

Anne Elizabeth Baldwin

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> my heart! You are mine and I am yours - and never again
> will there be loneliness ...
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