My Featured Movie

I. About the movie: The Hobbit

The Hobbit is a live-action three-part film adaption of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

Guillermo del Toro had originally signed to direct the movies, but due to various delays and conflicts with schedules, announced that he would not be able to direct the films. The position was later taken over by Peter Jackson, the director of The Lord of the Rings films, who has also been confirmed as an Executive Producer. Certain cast (Ian Mckellen, Andy Serkis, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood, lan Holm, Christopher Lee, Cate Blanchehett) and crew (Wata Workshop, John Howe, Alan Lee, Mark Ordesky) have reprised their roles from the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. The three parts, entitled The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies were filmed back-to-back with the release dates December 2013 and December 2014 by MGM and New Line Cinema. The production was originally planned as a two-part adaptation, but ended up being produced as a trilogy.       

Works Cited （参考文献）

"The Hobbit (films)." The One Wiki to Rule Them All. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 July 2016. <http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/The_Hobbit_(films)>.

II. About the movie summary

[An Unexpected Journey] (2012)

Bilbo Baggins is swept into a quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever ... Gollum. Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities ... A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know.

[The Desolation of Smaug and The Hobbit] (2013)

After successfully crossing over (and under) the Misty Mountains, Thorin and Company must seek aid from a powerful stranger before taking on the dangers of Mirkwood Forest--without their Wizard. If they reach the human settlement of Lake-town it will be time for the hobbit Bilbo Baggins to fulfill his contract with the dwarves. The party must complete the journey to Lonely Mountain and burglar Baggins must seek out the Secret Door that will give them access to the hoard of the dragon Smaug. And, where has Gandalf got off to? And what is his secret business to the south?

[The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies] (2014)

Bilbo and the Company of King Thorin Oakenshield are forced into war by the Orcs of Gundabad and Moria lead by Azog and Bolg and chief leader Sauron. Its a remarkable battle with the Dwarves of Erebor and the Iron Hills, The Elves of the Woodland Realm, The people of Laketown, The eagles lead by Radagast and Beorn and the Orcs of Gundabad and Moria. How will this battle end?

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Plot Summary." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 26 July 2016. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2310332/plotsummary>.

III. My Reaction

　　

　　　　　　　　　　

   A. Reaction Point- Characters

• Characters are personsーor animals or natural forces represented as personsーin a work of literature.
• Many strange and hideous creatures appear in this movie series.　　　　　　　

Bilbo Baggins and his friends fight these hideous creatures. The fight is exciting! 

   B. Reaction Point- 3D

• 3D is the abbreviation of three-dimensional.
• This movie series was released as 3D movie.
•  In fact, I watched this movie series in 3D. 3D movie is very exciting and powerful.

C. Reaction Point - Setting

• Setting is the context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.
• This movie series　was shot in New Zealand.
• The village where the main character-Bilbo Baggins　lives in was shot in New Zealand, too. It is a famous tourist spot. People can visit there.

D. My General Opinion
The Hobbit is my most favorite movie series. I never got weary of watching this movie series.

My Featured Fashion Show

DESIGUAL Full Show Burberry Spring Summer 2016 by Fashion Channel

Desigual | Spring Summer 2016 Full Fashion Show | Exclusive

                              "DESIGUAL Full Show Barcelona Spring Summer 2016 by Fashion Channel."YouTube. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 July 2016. <https://youtu.be/cs-vscJnt64>.
                                     
"Desigual | Spring Summer 2016 Full Fashion Show | Exclusive." YouTube. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 July 2016. <https://youtu.be/jjmA_vQS5A4>.

I. About the Clothing Brand: Desigual

　
At the young age of 20 Thomas Meyer, originally from Switzerland, envisaged a future in which people dressed in a different way, in clothes that helped generate positive feelings, affordable to all. And out of this dream Desigual was first born in 1984.
Ever since, it has emanated positivism, commitment, tolerance, constant improvement, innovation and fun. Because Desigual is not the same.
Desigual respect difference. It listens to what others have to say. The brand is totally customers-oriented, offering them fun with parties and shows.
Desigual is built around the concept that fun and business are not only compatible and complementary, but necessary. Its teams are built around everyday work, shared learning and shared thrills, aware that work must go with pleasure.

Works Cited （参考文献）

                            N.p., n.d. Web. <https://fashionbi.com/brands/desigual/info>.                                                 

II. About the Designer: Christian Lacroix

Christian Lacroix was born in Arles in 1951. He has had a double bite of the fashion cake. The Eighties belonged to him and by 2008, he was back again. Originally he intended to become a museum curator - in fact, he is a fashion impresario, who is widely credited with single-handedly saving couture, wooing the media with his wildly photogenic designs. He designed for Pucci for three years, from 2002 until 2005. He diversified into jeans, perfume, childrenswear, lingerie, menswear couture, ready-to-wear and homeware.

Works Cited （参考文献）

              N.p., n.d. Web. <https://fashionbi.com/brands/desigual/info>.           

III. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - Fashion design

• 定義 - Fashion design is using fabrics of different colors, textures, and weights to create garments that people wear.
• 例 - In this fashion show, the design is tpopical. The fabric is thin. The texture is dry. The weight is light.                                      

• 略 - This is cool looking, and summerly fashion. 

B. Reaction Point - Accessory

• 定義 - Accessory is something such as a bag, belt or jewwllery that you wear.
• 例 - In this fashion show, some models are wearing pierced earrings in the shape of fruits, oranges.
• 略 - These pierced earrings are very charming, and summerly.

C. Reaction Point - Coiffure

• 定義 - Coiffure is the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair).
• 例 - Most of models have a long, and wavy hair.
• 略 - Their hairs are waving in the wind. It's beautiful, and cool looking.

D. My General Opinion
This fashion show is very summerly.
When I watched this fashion show's movie, I thought I cannnot wait for summer to come.

My Featured Film

Heidi (1937)

I. About the Film

　Eight-year-old Heidi is orphaned and her selfish maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with Adolph Kramer, her grumpy, old, outcast, survivalist paternal grandfather. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her angelic ways, sheer love, and adorable personality. When Aunt Dete steals Heidi away to be the companion of a rich man's invalid daughter, the grandfather is enraged and sets out to get her back. Back in Frankfurt, loved and adored by everyone she touches except the villainous housekeeper, Fraulein Rottenmeier, she thrives but is inwardly very sad and lonely. No matter what anyone tells her, Heidi, with faith, hope, and the stubbornness she inherited from her grandfather, knows that some day she will be reunited with the him and the beloved people of the mountain's little village.                Written by Terry Ann Smulen

Works Cited （参考文献）

IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 26 June 2016. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028988/>.                                                  

 

II. Versions of the Film

Heidi (1965）
Heidi (1993)Walt Disney-Part 01 von 02

Heidi (1993) Walt Disney-Part 02 von 02

Heidi (1965)

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Rudolf Prack Heidi 1965." YouTube. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 June 2016. <https://youtu.be/Q0QuN79My0c>.
N.p., n.d. Web. <https://youtu.be/aV4cml7cH6U>.
"Heidi Der Film 1993 Walt Disney- Part 02 Von 02." YouTube. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 June 2016. https://youtu.be/balMUvWCtbk.

III. About the Lead Actor - Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple was easily the most popular and famous child star of all time. She got her start in the movies at the age of three and soon progressed to super stardom. Shirley could do it all: act, sing and dance and all at the age of five! Fans loved her as she was bright, bouncy and cheerful in her films and they ultimately bought millions of dollars worth of products that had her likeness on them. Dolls, phonograph records, mugs, hats, dresses, whatever it was, if it had her picture on there they bought it. Shirley was box-office champion for the consecutive years 1935-36-37-38, beating out such great grown-up stars as Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford. By 1939, her popularity declined. Although she starred in some very good movies like Since You Went Away (1944) and the The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), her career was nearing its end. Later, she served as an ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. It was once guessed that she had more than 50 golden curls on her head.

She was born in Santa Monica, California, to George Temple, a bank employee, and his wife, Gertrude (nee Krieger), who saw nascent talent in her three-year-old daughter. In 1931, Shirley was enrolled in a dance school in Los Angeles, where she was spotted by a studio agent. With her blonde hair styled in ringlets in imitation of the silent film star Mary Pickford, she was signed by Educational Pictures to appear in a series of one-reelers called Baby Burlesks, imitating films by Marlene Dietrich and other stars. Thanks to her ambitious mother, after bits in a few features Temple was offered a contract with 20th Century-Fox before she was six years old.

She immediately made an impression, bordering on the freakish, singing Baby Take a Bow, in Stand Up and Cheer! (1934), among seven movies in which she appeared in the same year. After only her first year in movies, she received a Special Oscar "in grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934". She became a national institution: there were Shirley Temple dolls, toys and clothes (including a line in bathing suits). "I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six," she recalled. "Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked me for my autograph."

Their marriage ended in 1949, at the same time as she decided to retire from acting. The following year, she married the wealthy businessman Charles Black, who admitted to never having seen any of her films.

After bringing up her three children, she returned to the public eye in politics as Shirley Temple Black. A close friend of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan (with whom she co-starred in That Hagen Girl, 1947), she became active in the Republican party in California, where, in 1967, she ran unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives, voicing her support for the Vietnam war. She became US ambassador to Ghana (1974-76) and White House chief of protocol (1976-77), during Gerald Ford's presidency; foreign affairs officer with the state department under Reagan; and ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1989-92) under George HW Bush.

Works Cited （参考文献）

                       "Biography." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 25 June 2016. <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000073/bio>.    
       
              Bergan, Ronald. "Shirley Temple Black Obituary." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 11 Feb. 2014. Web. 25 June 2016. <https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/11/shirley-temple-black>.           

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - Characters

• 定義 - Characters are persons, or animals or natural forces represented as persons,   in a work of film or literature.
• 例 - In Heidi, the main characters are Heidi and Adolph Kramer.
• 略 - Adolph Kramer is Heidi's grandfather. Because Heidi's pearents died, Heidi's aunt who doesn't like Heidi takes Heidi to Adolph. Adolph is hard to please, and unsociable. However, Heidi changes her grandfather's personality through her angelic ways, sheer love, and adorable personality. 

         

B. Reaction Point - Acting

• 定義 - Acting is playing a character in a play or movie.
• 例 - Shirley Temple's acting is charming.
• 略 - She was very famous child actor. She could sing and dance. The way her smile is so cute. Heidi that Shirley Temple's perform is really charming. 

C. Reaction Point - Setting

• 定義 - Setting is setting a historical backdrop and a place of the story.
• 例 - The story is set in a small village in Switzerland at the foot of the Alps.
• 略 - However, in fact, this film was not shot in Switzerland but in California.

D. My General Opinion
There are some differences between this film and "Heidi, Girl of the Alps" in Japan.
In this film, Peter is not an inmportant person. He appears not so much.
Furthermore, Yuki and Josef: grandfathers pets doesn't appear.
But, this is a very moving film. The key points of this film are Heidi's innocence, and the connection between Heidi and her grandfather. I'm glad that I came across this film.