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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
"INCEPTION"
A sci-fi action film directed by Christopher Nolan that swept the viewers out of the their feet and into the internet to search for its mysterious ending scene. The movie was so outstanding we wanted to test it out in real life. Then this is what happened....
Alright, I have to admit, Inception is one of the coolest films I've encountered this year. But enough with the easily-impressed comments, time for the readers to know what I'm really talking about.
Here's a picture of the cover of "Inception". The cover is not yet giving the people any idea of the characters and the seriously disturbed environment they're in.
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| If the picture is not appearing, try opening the image at a new tab. The movie is all about this guy named, "Dom Cobb" (Leo DiCaprio) and his team doing a "not-so-legal" information extraction. Now, when they say extraction, based on my understanding it means that they are going to steal information from the subconscious part of a human being for commercial and business purposes. Basically, when the target is sleeping, they will enter the target's dream with some sort of sedative and machines to go with it and sort through the target's thoughts. For example, if I hid a jar with the most delicious cookies known throughout the galaxy in it, of course, I am the only one who knows where it's hidden. But Cobb knew a way to extract this information without using real life violence. He doesn't have to enter my house for a search because the cookies are well hidden, instead, he will enter a place when my guard is completely off: My mind. Through your dreams, he explained how the human brain stores the information on several corners of the mind. It became more exciting when the story described the brain storage rooms to be like a maze; A maze inside a dream. By that way, I know that I stored the cookies under my bed. If Cobb finds that thought (in my dreams, he could see me hiding the cookies under the bed), he can easily steal the best cookies in the galaxy in real life without even talking to me or looking at me. Okay, this is the dangerous part. The dream rules: 1.) Normally, in dreams when you die inside of it, you automatically wake up in the real world. In the movie, it is a fast way to end the dream and wake up. 2.) An hour or two in the dream world is like 5 minutes in the real world. In the main mission, Cobb made a layer of 3 dreams. A dream within a dream within a dream, causing time to be a lot longer for every layer. 3.) A dream is constructed by a person in Cobb's team called the "Architect" who deceives the target making it look like it is the real world. He or she creates the labyrinth dream world. 4.) For a target to fall asleep and have dreams, Cobb injects some kind of sedative into the target and to his team for them to enter each other's dreams. 5.) THE TOTEM. A totem is a small material each extractor (like Cobb) keeps. It's purpose is to determine if they are in another person's dreams and are being deceived or if they are in the real world. How the hell do they know that? Okay, in this specific material, only the owner knows how it is going to move. It's actions are very unpredictable. For example, I have a lighter. I would put water in it and click it. Of course it will not fire. But if I tried to open it again some time later and it made fire, then I am not in the real world, an architect made this lighter for me and he or she failed to deceive me because he/she thought my lighter has gas in it, but just water. This means I am in someone's dream or i am asleep. Just like Cobb's totem: A spinning top. Only he knows the balance of the spinning top. It reveals that if the spinning top just kept spinning, he's being deceived. But if it looses its balance, he is in the real world. Those are the things an extractor is aware of. But this time, Cobb was assigned with an another dream mission that is not "extraction" of information, but is to plant information into the target's mind (which is triple the difficulty of extraction) . Here's a scene where Cobb deceives Robert Fischer (The main target) of thinking that Cobb is his personal security agent of subconscious protection even though he is the enemy who tries to sabotage his decisions.  But as the story progresses, Cobb found out that the new chemist he hired to make a sedative powerful enough to make a dream within a dream within a dream (3 layers of dreams) increases the risk of going to "Limbo". What the heck is a Limbo? Limbo- a place in the subconscious where your ass would be stuck for 50 years in dream-time until your brain would be scrambled eggs. It is a place of infinite loop. Even if it's 50 years, it would be like a couple of hours in the real world. Now that we know Limbo, the consequence of a 3 layered dream state is..YOU CANNOT DIE. If you die, you will be stuck in Limbo. Again, if you die you will not wake up to the real world. Since one of them got shot and is slowly getting unconscious, they had to be faster and enter another dream. How the hell are they supposed to wake up or to escape the dream since killing yourself is not an option anymore? Alright, this is the cool part. They call it, a "Kick". What is a kick? A Kick - a kick is an act of falling. If a person felt the sensation of falling, any type of falling, he or she would be alert enough to repel that falling sensation and gets up instead, thus, waking up. In the movie, there was a scene where Cobb explain a kick. Arthur, his right-hand man, was sitting and balancing himself in a chair with only the two back legs touching the floor, making a diagonal pose. Eames secretly slightly pulls the chair back and Arthur (oblivious of the action) surprised, pushes himself forward because the sensation of falling made him more alert. That is another way to wake up. In other words, if they start another layer of dream, someone has to be left behind to organize a "kick" that will wake them all up. I'm sure you've dreamed of something like that. Like falling into a tall building or being kicked by Leonidas on a deep pit with human guts?  <--This is a scene where Arthur is the one who was left behind in the dream to organize a kick with his team who all entered another layer of a dream. When you watch the movie, you will be more impressed with the character's struggle to wake up, to plant the idea in the target's mind, and the "unexpected objects" in the target's subconscious. The act of knowing which one is reality and which one is not would blow you off your seats. Especially when Cobb finally spins his totem in the end, finishes the mission and finds his long lost kids running to his arms in their humble home. The scene will show how the totem will react. Off balanced or still spinning?! Welp, the whole thought came out and I hope you have the same reaction with this mind blowing labyrinth film. If dreams were only that cool I wouldn't mind sleeping in front of my boss. Or If inception was real, I would've made live ninjas to protect the best cookies in the galaxy. Tell me what you think of the movie and what would you do if you're in this kind of situation? As the critic of the hour, I will rate this film 4.72/5. Good job, Christoper Nolan! |
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Critic of the hour: Fatal Frame III: Brave enough to play?
0 comments Posted by KzTheMonsterCupcake at 1:43:00 AMCritic of the hour: Fatal Frame III: Brave enough to play?: "Now that we've come to this, I had to say, Resident evil and Silent hill deals with monsters and man monsters. But this one, you gotta look..."
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
If you think you want to write a story just like how the script writers did it in your favorite movie you'd be thingking like, "Oh yeah. I could do it. I have a lot of ideas."
I tried this at first, then I started opening microsoft word or notepad for starters. I blinked twice. Scratched my chin. Gettin' into the comfortable zone. After a few hours, my story was so great it went like this:
JOHNNY FETCH A PAIL OF WATER.
There were blood stains in my computer. Blood stains of pure failure. I was like "what the hell..". I wasted typing nonsense for two hours. It was even better to shave my grandpa's back all day than to think of words that'll look golden on a crappy piece of paper. My dog's poop looks even better than it.There goes inspiration.
Not only writers get to write you know. Well, most of the time they do. But the interesting part here is that you don't write because you just wanted to tell an all girl-yakuza with violent boobs action(So much for sucker punch.) but you write because you wanted to tell a story. A really great story. The only problem is that sometimes, we just don't know how to put it in words. I don't have control over my senses. I get distracted too much.
At one scene I imagine the story like a real Hollywood film would look like, there were batallions, assassins, samurai, and then there were flying cars and wooden puppies. It's pretty unique though looking at Gerard Butler on his "300" Leonidas costume riding on a flying car petting his wooden puppy on the front seat. Xerxes would've been jealous. He would've made a puppy out of gold.
Like I say, I don't have full control over my senses. Have you ever experienced someone warning you not to think about it and you actually think about it. Like the last time my friend told me not to think about that new vocaloid "Hatsune Miku" soundtrack (I think it was Ievan Polka) because the song pisses her off (Sorry Yamaha corporation.), then after three days, I was like " Ara tsa tsa ya biridabbiriri" singing that gibberish synthesized song from a synthesized singer-robot-bimbo. It was so addicting.
Authors from books aren't the only supernatural creatures who can make a good sentence and earn millions of dollars from it. There are also the cartoonists, magazine chicks, scriptwriters, mangakas(anime comic writers), commercial dudes and bloggers.
Maybe the only way I could earn a million dollars is if I...
A.) become a drug lord,
B.) rob three banks
C.) Kidnap a rich kid
D.) Invent a microwavable estrogen-packed silicon butt scratchers
So they're not entirely realistic. The things I can do that's close to these three things is...nothing.
So my imagination has more capacity in the subconscious part of my well-being...it's a good start for writing right?
Study. That's the last thing that would've crossed my mind but if you really want to get that story out of your dream world and into the real world, no matter how crazy it's gonna be, STUDY first how to get it out in an organized manner. Do research and read the works of others and learn from it. Try not to copy their exact work but instead, allocate them in to one of your inspiration boxes unless you're already a supernatural creature who makes a hundred bucks an hour for one freakin' sentence.
But always always put in mind that writing is no funny hobby, writing is serious and you need a lot of passion to get it all the way through or else you'd just find yourself sitting in a couch writing one sentence about a boy named Johnny and what he does with a pail. Or you'd make a habit of not finishing your works. Face the challenge! Make your day more interesting by sharpening your observation skills, and if you're not good in English or Spanish or Atlantish or whatever language you want your story to be told that is not your native tongue then try thinking in your desired language until you get that habit to easily write what you think.(What the hell.)
Do your best and have an emblem of motivation to keep that writing experience blooming. Have faith in yourself and remember, good writers gained good writing from experience, and experience is gained through bad writing. Don't lose hope and enjoy the world of writing!
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