Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon Dynamite was an american film that showed many different aspects of a teenage life. This film was about a boy named Napoleon Dynamite who is in high school and lives with is grandmother and brother. Napoleon's grandmother leaves for a while out of town. So she called Napoleon's Uncle to watch him and his brother. Napoleon's uncle is stuck in the 80's where he thinks and lives his life as if he was still in high school. He wants to go back in time to change this play that would let him get a full ride to college with a football scholarship. His uncle owns a weird selling items company. Where he goes to houses and tries to sell items that are already owned.

Napoleon is sorta a socially awkward kinda kid. He doesn't have many friends and is in the sign language club. Napoleon befriends a boy named pedro who just moved to town from Mexico. Pedro teaches Napoleon the ways of getting ladies in mexico. So they can get dates to the school dance. So pedro bakes a cake saying will you go to the dance with me and gives it to the most popular girl in school. But Pedro is denied. So he told Pedro to draw a picture for one of the girls he thinks is pretty out of the yearbook. So he gives it to her mother and her mother forces her to go with him. Reason being is that her mother is one of his uncles clients and he told her mother this sympathetic story making her go to the dance with Napoleon.

Napoleon then goes to the dance but takes him awhile to get there because he asked his uncle to give him a ride to his dates house but takes a while with a client. So Napoleon decides to walk to her house. On the way to her house, he runs in to Pedro's gangster cousins. They ended up giving Napoleon and his date a ride to the dance. Napoleon and his date get to the dance and his date ditches him. So he ends up dancing with Pedro's date.

Pedro soon after decides to run for president. Napoleon and this girl help him. They came up with a campaign and made posters and such. The day of the speeches and the election Napoleon dances in front of the whole entire school to motivate the school to vote for pedro.

This was a very interesting movie. It showed a different aspect of a high school student and

Cinema Paradiso

This film took place in Italy. A country in Europe. The main characters consist of a boy named Salvatore Di Vita, and Father Adelfio, Maria Di Vita. The film started out in Salvatore Di Vita's childhood. He was a young boy who enjoyed causing trouble such as take the money his mother gave him to buy milk with and instead spends the money on a movie ticket. The boy enjoyed watching movies and seeing the production of movies. His mother then catches his walk out of the theater and he gets spanked by his mother. The owner of the movie theater sees whats going on and helps the boy out. He gives the boys mother money and makes up an excuse of how he lost it.

The boy works at a church with father Adelfio. The boy does a poor job managing the bell ringing at certain moment of the sermen. The boy is always spacing off and sleeping. He does a very poor job of it. The boys dream is to become a film producer or a film maker. He bothers the man that owns and works at the cinema in Italy. He takes the blocked scenes of the films and brings the home the film strips and makes up a story about the scenes.

The film shows the different stages of the little boys life. The film shows the boy's childhood, the adolescent year of him going into the army and fighting in the war. It also shows Salvatore in love. Then his years after. The boy is now a grown man who owns his own cinema and shows films. His love is off at a university and visits occasionally.

Salvatore goes back to his hometown after Alfredo passes away. He sees that the cinema that he grew up with had passed away also. He is very sad about this matter. So he decides to take after.

This was a very interesting film. It showed many different aspects of the movie. And how people in italy live their lives. It is very similar to people in the United States. I learned how people in the 40's watched movies. They would have to wound the film by hand. But as time went the technology progressed, so people didn't have to do everything by hand accept entering it. I would give this film a couple stars out of 10.

The Host

This was a film that took place in Korea. It was a film about a monster that lives in the sewers of the city. The monster is huge, it can swim and climb. It can live on land and in water. A family that lives in a little food shack near the river where the monster lives. The monster comes ashore and terrorizes the town of Korea and kills, eat and holds captive people in a ditch tunnel. The monster takes the life of a little Korean girl and the family goes on the mission to save her. But the family is accused of having a disease that they might have caught from the monster. So their taken to a facility to get cured. But the family finds away to escape because they know she's still alive.

The family then teams up and tries to rescue the little girl. They get guns and bow and arrows. and get suited up. They buy a van and go back to their food shack. The family eats and reminisce about the little girl. Soon after the father spots the monster and tries to shoot it. He shot it but it didn't do much damage. The monster come charging and rams over the shack. The family climbs out of the shack and tries to kill the monster. The monster ends up taking the life of the father. The rest of the family is now being chased by the Japanese doctor and army people and start heading to the van. One of the family members gets caught and ends up taken back to the research facility.

The little girl is still alive she trys to escape the sewer tunnel ditch. She soons befriends another person that was taken by the monster. He's a little boy and they both try to escape. But unable to because while the monster was gone they made a rope made out of cloths of the victims. They get caught and try to escape again while the monster was sleeping but gets caught and the monster eats them.

The Family and the monster unite at the middle of the city were the monster is poisoned by the air fumes that are shot at it. They all soon find out that the precious daughter, niece or girl died and the little boy that accompanied her is still alive. The family try to kill the monster but fail. The monster ends up going back to the river sewers. The little boy ends up living with the family.

This was a very unique movie that scared me at times. It was a very interesting comedy and horror movie. The movie gave me a good sense of how japanese consider scary. From the background information that i know. it that the Japanese, Chinese and all asian cultures are very well known for their technique for making horror movies. i would give this movie six stars out of ten.

Triplets Belleville

This is an animated film that takes place in France. A boy named Champion is trained, night and day for the tour de France. His grandmother trains in non stop. Champion lives with his grandmother and overweight dog named Bruno. When the big race comes, Champion and a few of his fellow racers are kidnapped by some box-shouldered thugs who spirit them off to Belleville where they are forced to pedal as part of a gambling operation. Bruno and Grandma set out across the sea in a paddle boat to rescue him. When they come to ashore their automatically lost.

They are hungry and have no money. So one night by the shore they meet the Triplets of Belleville. The three were former scat singing jazz performers. The one thing that brings them all together is how that can use anomonious objects and make music. The Triplets take Burno and the grandmother to their apartment and feed them frogs and show them the way they live. The Grandmother, Burno the dog and the triplets work together to make music and perform and to rescue champion.

This was a very interesting movie. It taught me differnt cultural things about the French. It had many stereotypical examples of the french such as eating frog legs, crazy and what not. The film would earn five stars out of ten because of the humor, animation and structure.

Fargo

A man named Jerry lives in Minnesota with his wife and son. He works at his father in laws car dealership. Jerry is struggling with financial issues. He tries many different schemes to come up with money. Jerry urgently needs the money. So Jerry makes up this elaborate plan, so he hires two criminals to kidnap his wife because her father owns a lot of money. The two criminals then take his wife to an abandon house up north near Brainard Minnesota and hold her captive till the plan falls through. So the two culprits write a ransom letter saying they wanted $40,000 for the return of his daughter.

So Jerry agrees to keep this kidnapping scheme on the down low. Just between him, his wifes father and some friend. The two crminals commit a few crimes on the way to the abandon house. They shot and killed an officer that pulls them over for tabs, a couple that drove by and saw the scene, Jerry's wifes father and one of the crminals killed his partner and took his body and through it in a wood chipper machine.

A pregnant officer is called in to investigate the crime of all the murders.She then figured out that all the murders have a connection to Jerry and his missing wife. She then finds one of criminals and figures out the whole scheme.

The connections I have with the movie is that I do live in Minnesota and i can relate to the movie without all murders, killings and kidnaps and such.

Noi Albinoi

Nói Kristmundsson is a 17 year old living in a small unnamed remote fishing village in Iceland with his grandmother Lína. His father Kiddi, an alcoholic taxi driver, also lives in town. Since Noi is Albino he appears different from the other teenagers in Iceland. He spends most of his time wondering the town, at the towns bookstore, or in a hidden cellar at his grandmother's house. The town is a sort of purgatory for Nói, surrounded by mountains and attainable only by boat. But when the seasons turn to winter the living aspects of life are a lot more difficult then its supposed to. Noi is a very smart kid but he has no interest in school. Noi and his math teacher have problems with each other. Noi is then expelled from school. Noi cuts class to go to the local gas station, where he frequently breaks into the slot machine and rigs it for an assured jackpot.
Noi doesn't really fit in with the people at his school, the town or at home. He's kind of an outcast or the black sheep of everything. Noi is in a relationship with the girl that works at a diner. Towards the end of th movie there's a huge avalanche and everyone dies.
This movie helped me understand the differences between the different cultures of Iceland people and people here in America. This was a very interesting movie.