среда, 13 мая 2015 г.
вторник, 12 мая 2015 г.
пятница, 8 мая 2015 г.
среда, 29 апреля 2015 г.
Film review))) Of course it is about... ALICE IN WONDRELAND
Disney presents a film directed by Tim Burton. Written by Linda Woolverton, based on the books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Running time: 108 minutes. Tim Burton's new 3-D version of "Alice in Wonderland" answers my questions. This has never been a children's story. It's a new point of view!
Burton is above
all a brilliant visual artist, he created wonderfull reality, full of strange
characters.
He brings to
Carroll's characters an appearance as distinctive and original as Tenniel's
classic illustrations. These are not retreads of familiar cartoon images.
They're grotesques, as they should be, from the hydrocephalic forehead of the
Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) to Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Matt Lucas), who
seem to have been stepped on. Wonderland itself is not limited to necessary
props, such as a tree limb for the Cheshire Cat and a hookah for the
Caterpillar, but extends indefinitely as an alarming undergrowth beneath a
lowering sky.
How it
begins...
Troubled by a
strange recurring dream and mourning the loss of her beloved father, nineteen-year-old Alice Kingsleigh attends a garden party at Lord Ascot's
estate, where she is confronted by an unwanted marriage proposal, to Hamish
Ascot, and the stifling expectations of the society in which she lives. Unsure
of how to reply, and increasingly confused, she runs away to chase after a
rabbit in a blue waistcoat, and accidentally falls into a large rabbit hole.
She is transported to a world called Underland, where she is greeted by the White Rabbit, the Dormouse, the Dodo, the Talking Flowers, and Tweedledee and Tweedledum. I
don't want to tell you about all the plot and ending, because I want to
keep tension)
The film is
enchanting with the spectacular ending. I must mark a perfect work of actors,
beutiful costumes, an elaborated plot and very realistic 3D effects. I
like this film because when I watch it, I feel magic. And the story of the
young girl, who solved her own problems and challenged all
the society deserves attention.
четверг, 26 марта 2015 г.
My screenplay. Alice in Wonderland
Int. Dark forest. Night.
Alice in her blue dress walks
watchfulness. She hears unclear and mystery sounds. Cheshire cat appears
suddenly, only his head is visible.
Alice
Oh, finally I have met someone!
Where I am? Can you explain me? I know that I have got in a very strange place.
Alice looks in Cheshire’s big green eyes. She is a little
nervous.
Cheshire
What do you mean by that?
Cheshire smiles, his body
appears.
Alice
I want to know where I am!
Alice raises her voice. It
sounds persistently.
Cheshire
Is it so important?
Cheshire smiles wider.
Alice
Of course! How can I feel safe
when I don’t know where I am!
She shook her blonde curls.
Cheshire
More important than place is
you… Who are you?
Cheshire flips in the air.
Alice
What do you mean? I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, because
I'm not myself, you see.
Alice becomes confused.
Cheshire
Keep your temper…
Cheshire begins slowly disappear.
Alice
Wait! Is that all?
Cheshire disappears. Alice
hears his voice and looks up. He is on the tree.
Cheshire
One more… It is Wonderland,
silly. And… we are all mad here.
A query letter for the film
Dear mister L.
I have recently
completed my screenplay. I talk about Alice in Wonderland. The new screenplay is
much better, because I completed professional courses of screenwriting, and I traveled a lot. So… I have much inspiration and many ideas about
landscapes and general views of locations.
I would like to ask if
you would consider reading my latest work. It is an interesting story of a
nineteen-year-old Alice. The girl from the tale became mature and she faces
many obstacles of an adult life. There are many great scenes, moreover I included the battle scene and the spectacular
ending. I also accurately worked with all the characters.
If you are interested
in reading my screenplay, please contact me at the address at the top of the
page.
Yours sincerely,
Aliona Ch
вторник, 17 марта 2015 г.
понедельник, 16 марта 2015 г.
It is a true
story about a dog. Hachiko was an Akita dog born on a farm near the city
of Ōdate, Akita Prefecture who is remembered for his remarkable loyalty to his
owner which continued for many years after his owner's death. 1924, Hidesaburō
Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo,
took in Hachikō, a golden brown Akita, as a pet. During his owner's life,
Hachikō greeted him at the end of each day at the nearby Shibuya Station. The
pair continued their daily routine until May 1925, when Professor Ueno did not
return. The professor had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died, never
returning to the train station where Hachikō was waiting. Each day for the next
nine years, nine months and fifteen days, Hachikō awaited Ueno's return,
appearing precisely when the train was due at the station.
Hachikō
attracted the attention of other commuters. Many of the people who frequented
the Shibuya train station had seen Hachikō and Professor Ueno together each day.
Initial reactions from the people, especially from those working at the
station, were not necessarily friendly. However, after the first appearance of
the article about him on October 4, 1932 in Asahi Shimbun, people started to
bring Hachikō treats and food to nourish him during his wait. Hachikō died on March 8, 1935, and was found
on a street in Shibuya. In March 2011, scientists settled the cause of death of
Hachikō: the dog had terminal cancer and a filaria infection.
April 1934, a
bronze statue in his likeness was erected at Shibuya, and Hachikō himself was
present at its unveiling. The statue was recycled for the war effort during
World War II. In 1948 The Society for Recreating the Hachikō Statue
commissioned Takeshi Ando, son of the original artist, to make a second statue.
When the new statue appeared, a dedication ceremony occurred. The new statue,
which was erected in August 1948, still stands and is a popular meeting spot.
The station entrance near this statue is named "Hachikō-guchi", meaning
"The Hachikō Entrance/Exit", and is one of Shibuya Station's five
exits. Hachikō was the subject of the 1987 movie Hachi-kō (Hachikō Monogatari) -(literally "The Tale of Hachiko"),directed
by Seijirō Kōyama, which told the story of his life from his birth up until his
death and imagined spiritual reunion with his master. Considered a blockbuster
success, the film was the last big hit for Japanese film studio Shochiku Kinema
Kenkyû-jo.
Hachi: A Dog's
Tale, released in August 2009, is an American movie starring actor Richard
Gere, directed by Lasse Hallström, about Hachikō and his relationship with an
American professor & his family following the same basic story. The movie
was filmed in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, primarily in and around the Woonsocket
Depot Square area and also featured Joan Allen and Jason Alexander.
It is a true-
life story about the legendary loyal dog, Hachiko, forever reunited with
his human.
понедельник, 9 марта 2015 г.
воскресенье, 15 февраля 2015 г.
My media inspiration
Let's talk about... OPRAH
As a future journalist I must have an example... a person, that will give me an aspiration to be better. And I decided Oprah. Why? Because she is a wonderful, interesting and smart woman! She is full of life, kindness and positive energy, and she shares it with millions of people.
Biography
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her multi-award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011.Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is currently North America's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and an honorary doctorate degree from Harvard. ///WoW... So many achievements OO)
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated. /// Do you know that... Winfrey was named "Orpah" after the biblical character in the Book of Ruth on her birth certificate, but people mispronounced it regularly and "Oprah" stuck.
Way to success
In 1983, Winfrey relocated to Chicago to host WLS-TV's low-rated half-hour morning talk show, AM Chicago. The first episode aired on January 2, 1984. Within months after Winfrey took over, the show went from last place in the ratings to overtaking Donahue as the highest rated talk show in Chicago. In 1993, Winfrey hosted a rare prime-time interview with Michael Jackson, which became the fourth most watched event in American television history as well as the most watched interview ever, with an audience of 36.5 million. In 1985, Winfrey co-starred in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple as distraught housewife, Sofia. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. Winfrey has co-authored five books. At the announcement of a weight loss book in 2005, co-authored with her personal trainer Bob Greene, it was said that her undisclosed advance fee had broken the record for the world's highest book advance fee, previously held by the autobiography of former U.S. President Bill Clinton. ///Winfrey's company created the Oprah.com website to provide resources and interactive content relating to her shows, magazines, book club, and public charity. Oprah.com averages more than 70 million page views and more than six million users per month, and receives approximately 20,000 e-mails each week!!! You can visit it here: http://www.oprah.com/index.html
On February 9, 2006, it was announced that Winfrey had signed a three-year, $55 million contract with XM Satellite Radio to establish a new radio channel. The channel, Oprah Radio, features popular contributors to The Oprah Winfrey Show and O, The Oprah Magazine including Nate Berkus, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Bob Greene, Dr. Robin Smith and Marianne Williamson. Oprah & Friends began broadcasting at 11:00 am ET, September 25, 2006, from a new studio at Winfrey's Chicago headquarters.
Personal life
Winfrey currently lives on "The Promised Land", her 42-acre (170,000 m2) estate with ocean and mountain views in Montecito, California. Winfrey's high school sweetheart Anthony Otey recalled an innocent courtship that began in Winfrey's senior year of high school, from which he saved hundreds of love notes; Winfrey conducted herself with dignity and as a model student. In 1971, several months after breaking up with Otey, Winfrey met William "Bubba" Taylor at Tennessee State University. According to CBS journalist George Mair, Taylor was Winfrey's "first intense, to die for love affair". In the 1970s, Winfrey had a romantic relationship with John Tesh. Winfrey's best friend since their early twenties is Gayle King. King was formerly the host of The Gayle King Show and is currently an editor of O, the Oprah Magazine.
Her influence
Winfrey was called "arguably the world's most powerful woman" by CNN and Time.com,"arguably the most influential woman in the world" by The American Spectator, "one of the people who most influenced the 20th Century" and "one of the most influential people" from 2004 to 2011 by TIME. Winfrey is the only person in the world to have appeared in the latter list on ten occasions.
At the end of the 20th century Life listed Winfrey as both the most influential woman and the most influential black person of her generation, and in a cover-story profile the magazine called her "America's most powerful woman".In 2007, USA Today ranked Winfrey as the most influential woman and most influential black person of the previous quarter-century. Ladies Home Journal also ranked Winfrey number one in their list of the most powerful women in America and senator Barack Obama has said she "may be the most influential woman in the country". In 1998 Winfrey became the first woman and first African American to top Entertainment Weekly's list of the 101 most powerful people in the entertainment industry. Forbes named her the world's most powerful celebrity in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2013. As chairman of Harpo Inc., she was named the most powerful woman in entertainment by The Hollywood Reporter in 2008. She has also been listed as one of the most powerful 100 women in the world by Forbes, ranking fourteenth in 2014. In 2010, Life magazine named Winfrey one of the 100 people who changed the world, alongside such luminaries as Jesus Christ, Elvis Presley and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Winfrey was the only living woman to make the list.
Let's talk about... OPRAH
Biography
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her multi-award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011.Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is currently North America's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and an honorary doctorate degree from Harvard. ///WoW... So many achievements OO)
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated. /// Do you know that... Winfrey was named "Orpah" after the biblical character in the Book of Ruth on her birth certificate, but people mispronounced it regularly and "Oprah" stuck.
Way to success
In 1983, Winfrey relocated to Chicago to host WLS-TV's low-rated half-hour morning talk show, AM Chicago. The first episode aired on January 2, 1984. Within months after Winfrey took over, the show went from last place in the ratings to overtaking Donahue as the highest rated talk show in Chicago. In 1993, Winfrey hosted a rare prime-time interview with Michael Jackson, which became the fourth most watched event in American television history as well as the most watched interview ever, with an audience of 36.5 million. In 1985, Winfrey co-starred in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple as distraught housewife, Sofia. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. Winfrey has co-authored five books. At the announcement of a weight loss book in 2005, co-authored with her personal trainer Bob Greene, it was said that her undisclosed advance fee had broken the record for the world's highest book advance fee, previously held by the autobiography of former U.S. President Bill Clinton. ///Winfrey's company created the Oprah.com website to provide resources and interactive content relating to her shows, magazines, book club, and public charity. Oprah.com averages more than 70 million page views and more than six million users per month, and receives approximately 20,000 e-mails each week!!! You can visit it here: http://www.oprah.com/index.html
On February 9, 2006, it was announced that Winfrey had signed a three-year, $55 million contract with XM Satellite Radio to establish a new radio channel. The channel, Oprah Radio, features popular contributors to The Oprah Winfrey Show and O, The Oprah Magazine including Nate Berkus, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Bob Greene, Dr. Robin Smith and Marianne Williamson. Oprah & Friends began broadcasting at 11:00 am ET, September 25, 2006, from a new studio at Winfrey's Chicago headquarters.
Personal life
Winfrey currently lives on "The Promised Land", her 42-acre (170,000 m2) estate with ocean and mountain views in Montecito, California. Winfrey's high school sweetheart Anthony Otey recalled an innocent courtship that began in Winfrey's senior year of high school, from which he saved hundreds of love notes; Winfrey conducted herself with dignity and as a model student. In 1971, several months after breaking up with Otey, Winfrey met William "Bubba" Taylor at Tennessee State University. According to CBS journalist George Mair, Taylor was Winfrey's "first intense, to die for love affair". In the 1970s, Winfrey had a romantic relationship with John Tesh. Winfrey's best friend since their early twenties is Gayle King. King was formerly the host of The Gayle King Show and is currently an editor of O, the Oprah Magazine.
Her influence
Winfrey was called "arguably the world's most powerful woman" by CNN and Time.com,"arguably the most influential woman in the world" by The American Spectator, "one of the people who most influenced the 20th Century" and "one of the most influential people" from 2004 to 2011 by TIME. Winfrey is the only person in the world to have appeared in the latter list on ten occasions.
At the end of the 20th century Life listed Winfrey as both the most influential woman and the most influential black person of her generation, and in a cover-story profile the magazine called her "America's most powerful woman".In 2007, USA Today ranked Winfrey as the most influential woman and most influential black person of the previous quarter-century. Ladies Home Journal also ranked Winfrey number one in their list of the most powerful women in America and senator Barack Obama has said she "may be the most influential woman in the country". In 1998 Winfrey became the first woman and first African American to top Entertainment Weekly's list of the 101 most powerful people in the entertainment industry. Forbes named her the world's most powerful celebrity in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2013. As chairman of Harpo Inc., she was named the most powerful woman in entertainment by The Hollywood Reporter in 2008. She has also been listed as one of the most powerful 100 women in the world by Forbes, ranking fourteenth in 2014. In 2010, Life magazine named Winfrey one of the 100 people who changed the world, alongside such luminaries as Jesus Christ, Elvis Presley and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Winfrey was the only living woman to make the list.
/// It's interesting! "Oprahfication" :
The Wall Street Journal coined the term "Oprahfication", meaning public confession as a form of therapy.
The power of Winfrey's opinions and endorsement to influence public opinion, especially consumer purchasing choices, has been dubbed "The Oprah Effect".
You can also watch a film about OPRAH!!!
Oprah Winfrey on Career, Life and Leadership
What's about me
Hi) My name is Aliona. I am a nice, kind-hearted and creative girl. I love pets and bright flowers. My small weaknesses are sweets, especially cupcakes and chocolate. In spare time I draw, read books and listen to the music, also like to play computer games. So... I hope, you can make your own impression about me. ^ ^
Hi) My name is Aliona. I am a nice, kind-hearted and creative girl. I love pets and bright flowers. My small weaknesses are sweets, especially cupcakes and chocolate. In spare time I draw, read books and listen to the music, also like to play computer games. So... I hope, you can make your own impression about me. ^ ^
воскресенье, 8 февраля 2015 г.
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