Entry 1. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
Since I completely forgot about keeping the journal in pace with the reading, it seems to me decidedly inconvenient that I finished reading the book. So I must start from the last impression I felt as I closed the book and work my way up from there.
So, first things first (or last things first, actually). I felt like crying when I closed the book. Or actually the pdf file. And that was in the middle of the Vector Calculus class, which was also a bit inconvenient, because looking slightly down at your screen is nothing to attract attention, but holding your head up so that you don't accidentally burst into tears or anything can be pretty conspicuous. And conspicuous it was.
Anyway, I am not a very emotional person. It takes a pretty impressive story to put water in my eyes. And the book did it. I'm not saying that this is any big deal, numerous movies and books have done it in the whole eighteen years of my life. But the real thing is, the book made me realize what crying about a story is all about.
What that means has a long history. I have never liked the fact that I am not a very emotional person, and I've tried my tears more than a dozen times by watching credibly sad movies. But all that were reflected in my eyes were just a bunch of tearful actors on screen and not a drop of tear. That happened with If Only, Leon: the Professional, and Story Sadder than Sad. And a pile of others of which I cannot recall the titles.
Naturally, I admired all the women in the world. They were always sobbing over movies and books. Sometimes even over poems. Man, I wanted to sob, too, but did not know how. So, to console myself, I made a hypothesis with a little information I read in a magazine. Maybe I were biologically impervious to sobbing. Maybe I did have the emotional and the intellectual nerve to feel the emotional factor that happened to make girls weep, but just did not have enough tear drops in my eyeballs.
And, as I read this book, I constantly thought of my hypothesis to see if I could feel anything at all if I could not cry. And I did. In every one of those moments of inconsolable institutionalization or vivacious victory of Andy and Red, I did feel it. A little windy feeling buzzing beside my ears. That was probably it.
So that is why I liked the book.
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Hero's Journey Analysis on Kung Fu Panda
Group: 3
Our Film
Kung Fu Panda
Why We Chose It
The fact that the protagonist does not have the hero's ordinary characters at first, but changes into a hero would make an interesting analysis of the movie. The almost incredible voice casting of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoff, and Jackie Chan was also interesting.
ACT I
1. Ordinary World
Working under the noodle restaurant chef, Mr. Ping (a goose), Po, the panda protagonist, admires the "Furious Five" and yearns to become a kung fu master.
2. Call to Adventure
Po, wanting to watch the kung fu tournament match, straps himself to a set of fireworks and rockets into the sky, crashing into the middle of the arena. This is when Oogway the Grand Master points at the space where he has fallen to announce the Dragon Warrior who could defeat Tai Lung, so Po becomes the chosen one.
3. Refusal of the Call
Shifu dislikes Po because of his out-of-nowhere origin, and the Furious Five make fun of him. Po is frustrated, and has second thoughts about his training.
4. Meeting the Mentor
Oogway is right beside Po when he says that he will quit, and assures him that he is the chosen one.
5. Crossing the Threshold
The next day, Shifu finds Po stretching. He reluctantly accepts him, and begins his training.
ACT II
6. Tests, Allies, Enemies
Despite Po's willingness, the Furious Five and Shifu will still not truly accept him.
7. Approach to the Innermost Cave
As Shifu finds out that, if motivated by food, Po could be trained, soon Po becomes an adequate kung fu fighter.
8. Ordeal
When Po opens the Dragon Scroll, thought to contain ultimate way to defeat Tai Lung, he finds that the scroll is empty.
9. Reward
He is frustrated at first, but when his father says that the gossipped "secret ingredient" of his noodles do not actually exist, Po decides to confront Tai Lung.
ACT III
10. The Road Back
Po goes back to the Jade Palace to face Tai Lung. Meanwhile, Tai Lung has defeated all of the Furious Five and is fighting with Shifu.
11. Resurrection
Just when Shifu is defeated, Po fights Tai Lung and wins.
12. Return with the Elixir
With Tai Lung back in prison, Po has brought back peace, or metaphorically the elixir, in the world.
Ponts of contention
As simple as the plot is, there was a controversy in what parts belong to numbers four through eleven. As "resurrection" is the part where a protagonist defeats his enemy, Tai Lung in this case, and it was not clear who the "enemies" would be. It was a difficult decision to make the "good guys" Po's enemies. Also, "reward" was another problem upon which we stumbled, as it could be interpreted as "meeting the mentor." Nonetheless, a good talk brought a point of consent.
Our Film
Kung Fu Panda
Why We Chose It
The fact that the protagonist does not have the hero's ordinary characters at first, but changes into a hero would make an interesting analysis of the movie. The almost incredible voice casting of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoff, and Jackie Chan was also interesting.
ACT I
1. Ordinary World
Working under the noodle restaurant chef, Mr. Ping (a goose), Po, the panda protagonist, admires the "Furious Five" and yearns to become a kung fu master.
2. Call to Adventure
Po, wanting to watch the kung fu tournament match, straps himself to a set of fireworks and rockets into the sky, crashing into the middle of the arena. This is when Oogway the Grand Master points at the space where he has fallen to announce the Dragon Warrior who could defeat Tai Lung, so Po becomes the chosen one.
3. Refusal of the Call
Shifu dislikes Po because of his out-of-nowhere origin, and the Furious Five make fun of him. Po is frustrated, and has second thoughts about his training.
4. Meeting the Mentor
Oogway is right beside Po when he says that he will quit, and assures him that he is the chosen one.
5. Crossing the Threshold
The next day, Shifu finds Po stretching. He reluctantly accepts him, and begins his training.
ACT II
6. Tests, Allies, Enemies
Despite Po's willingness, the Furious Five and Shifu will still not truly accept him.
7. Approach to the Innermost Cave
As Shifu finds out that, if motivated by food, Po could be trained, soon Po becomes an adequate kung fu fighter.
8. Ordeal
When Po opens the Dragon Scroll, thought to contain ultimate way to defeat Tai Lung, he finds that the scroll is empty.
9. Reward
He is frustrated at first, but when his father says that the gossipped "secret ingredient" of his noodles do not actually exist, Po decides to confront Tai Lung.
ACT III
10. The Road Back
Po goes back to the Jade Palace to face Tai Lung. Meanwhile, Tai Lung has defeated all of the Furious Five and is fighting with Shifu.
11. Resurrection
Just when Shifu is defeated, Po fights Tai Lung and wins.
12. Return with the Elixir
With Tai Lung back in prison, Po has brought back peace, or metaphorically the elixir, in the world.
Ponts of contention
As simple as the plot is, there was a controversy in what parts belong to numbers four through eleven. As "resurrection" is the part where a protagonist defeats his enemy, Tai Lung in this case, and it was not clear who the "enemies" would be. It was a difficult decision to make the "good guys" Po's enemies. Also, "reward" was another problem upon which we stumbled, as it could be interpreted as "meeting the mentor." Nonetheless, a good talk brought a point of consent.
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