BR 2-02: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This picture book was made based on a very famous novel. The novel is "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". I watched the movie before, so I know the story. The main character is Huckleberry Finn and Jim. Huck is a mischievous child, and he has a quick witted. He escapes from his father who is an alcohol addiction. He meets Jim who is his friend on the way. He is a black and slave.  He has escaped from an employer too. They aim at the Mississippi. They're involved in various troubles. Huck helps Jim with an escape, but he confuse, because, at that time, the slaves is someone's possession. It's same as a steal to help an escape. How does he do? Please read continuation.

Reference

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain (2006) Black Cat Publishing

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BR 2-01： The clumsy crocodile (Felicity Everett, 2002)

Cassy is a crocodile. She goes to the new workplace for the first time. She is going to work in the Everglades where is the biggest in the town. She works eagerly, but she always fails. For example, she smashed many cups, and she accidentally broke some toys, and she dropped a bowl of salad.
Finally, she was told "You're fired!" by her boss. However, she begged him." Just give me one more chance.” As a result, she can work in the Luxury Goods Depertment.
She keeps guard over the Everglades Emerald there, but theieves were hiding in the floor.
They broke the glass that was protecting the Emerald. Cassy rushed to the direction which the noise carried out. At that time, she fell down and toppled the big pot. The pot fitted into their heads entirely. Cassy's boss come, and he thinks that she catch the theieves. Cassy was prised having caught the thieves, and she was given a medal. She become a hero. After that, she become Everglades's Chief!

reference

Everett, Felcity. (2002) The Clumsy Crocodile. London,England : Usborne Publishing Ltd

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East Asia citizen coexistence film festival

I went to the film festival performed at KGU. It is "East Asia citizen coexistence film festival." I watched the "Hafu" in there. This is a documentary film about the people of the half. Their distress and pleasure, the social change around them in Japan is given by this movie. And the movie director is half too.

I watched the movie, I thought that the half have suffering very much. I knew that there are various kinds for the half. For example, David is half Japanese and half Ghana. He raised in Japan, but he doesn't know about Ghana at all. And Fusae is half Japanese and half Korea. She didn't know that oneself was a person of mixed parentage.  There would be people who have had trouble with themselves appearance. I'm not a half. So I don't know their pains, but can imagine it. If you're half, you may be able to sympathize with the movie.

I think that the half increase. There are a lot of halves in the entertainment world. When I was a junior high school student, there was a half. I'm envious of the half, because they are cool or beautiful. I judged them from an appearance until now, but I understood that it is wrong. If I'm a half, I don't like what is judged from appearance. I think that we are in the grip of a preconceived notion.

They have the distress of languages. In the movie, there is a boy who is a half Mexico and half Japan. He can speak English, Spanish, and Japanese, but he speak Japanese awkwardly. He always speak in Spanish. His mother wants him to maintain 3 languages. So he is confused. As mentioned above, I'm a Japanese, and I speak Japanese. So I live in Japan, I'm not in trouble about a language.

However, I think that there is a problem in the movie. The movie take up for half with Japanese. For example, He has an American culture, but has not the Japanese culture. In other words, Japanese culture is missing. The movie is made based on Japan. There is only half with Japanese in this movie. There is a half person in America and Korea, it's no problem in the movie. I thought that the directors should take up half besides the Japanese.

I think that we don't judge a people from appearance and should see the contents of the person.

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Review 2 Cool hand Luke

 I watched the "Cool hand Luke". When I watched this movie, I admired the rebellious spirit mind that Luke is a main character had. Especially, it is the scene where he breaks out of prison many times. He didn't lose the authority of prison guards and society.

A web site says, "the parking meter of the beginning of the movie was a symbol of absurd authority." If you park on the road, it is the parking violation. However, If you pay money, it isn't violation. I think so too.

 After checking this movie, I knew that there is very famous word. The word is "What we've got here is a failure to communicate." This is the word that the chief of the prison says to Luke. When it's translated literally, this means "I tormented him severely, but he escaped from the prison again." However, true meaning is "There are people who doesn't understood my feelings." I think that the word is a profound meaning.

There are several highlight in this movie. That's a scene of a boxing and the scene where Luke eats 50 boiled eggs in one hour. Luke is beaten up by Dragline who is a boss of the prisoners, but still Luke who stands up is cool. In the scene where he eats the boiled eggs, It isn't that anyone can do it. I can't it too.  And please pay attention to Paul's smiling face. He acts the part of Luke. Even before he die, it was a smiling face. His act is excellent.

Also I thought about the title of this movie. I wonder why the title in Japanese called "Bouryoku datugoku" was named. The original title is better than the Japanese title, because the original title has a proper meaning. "Luke" is a nickname of Lucas who is a main character. "Cool Hand" means, "I don't know what kind of intentions it is." In short, "poker face." The word come out in the scene playing poker.

I think that Luke taught us that he didn't lose authority.

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My favorite radio

My favorite radio program is "School Of Lock". This is a radio program for junior high school student or high school student. I'm a university student, but I often hear it. At that time, I didn't hear it, because I wasn't interested in radio program. My mother listens to the radio every day. It was through my mother's influence that I came to hear it. 

We can hear the talk of the popular artists and they answer the worry from the listeners by "School Of Lock". The listeners have the worry only by the student. For example, studying for an exam, club activities, love, and so on. I think that this radio is very interesting, but I would feel I was more interesting when I heard it at that time. I thought that I should hear this radio program at the age of a high school student at least, because it can feel it only in those days. I can sympathize with their worry and feeling, because I was a junior high school student and high school student before.

This radio is broadcast from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. every week. Probably students will study while hearing to this radio. I look forward to hearing it. I will listen to this radio tonight.

This is a homepage of this radio program.        

Please see!                                               

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Child's play (1988)

Review

I watched the "Child's play". This is the Horror movie, but I didn't feel scary. Charlie's soul of a bloodthirsty killer is transferred to a doll, and the doll is going to kill Andy who is an owner of the doll. The doll talks, walks, and runs. Of course, this is fiction. If a doll talks, I will be surprised very much, and I'd feel scary. It is the scene where Andy's mother was about to be murdered to the doll that I was terrified most. She tried to help Andy. 

I seldom watch the horror movies, but I thought that this movie is not scary. I think that the Japanese horror movies are scarier than the foreign horror movies. 

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Back to the future (1985)

Review
This is the story by which Marty, who lives in California in 1985 time-travels to 1955.
This is one of famous movies, but I had not seen this movie so far. I felt that movie was very enjoyable. When Marty has time-travelled, Marty's mother loves him. This is the scene which I thought to be particularly enjoyable. Also, my favorite character is Doc. He is very funny, and his invention is wonderful. It's very excellent to make a time machine. I want to the De Lorean. If I time-travel, I'd like to go in the future. I want to know what kind of occupation I get, and I want to see what I'm doing. I can't imagine about my future. So I want to know it. I wish that I have a happy future.

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The game of "split-the -watermelon"

Sunday, August 16, 2015
I tried to split a watermelon with a stick while blindfolded          

 with my friends, Misaki and Satoko.
We did that at a parking lot of Misaki's house. I blindfolded,
 so I don't know where a watermelon was. They told me the
 location of the watermelon, so I could split it. We ate it. The taste was sweet. After that, we strolled in the neighborhood. I rarely went to this place, so it was very fresh.
We came home from the stroll, and we saw the movie. I was not able to saw the movie till the last. When I visited her house, I want to see it again. It was very happy day!

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