Video Monday 11
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わたしはいっしょうけんめいべんきょうする。
Watashi wa isshou kenmei benkyou suru.
I will study hard.
I have a feeling I won't have a lot of time to study before my JLPT 4 in December, but I will die trying (or, as close to dying, I suppose) so I won't have to spend an additional $100 or more if I fail and need to take the 2010 test syllabus (yes, am being cheap, shut up).
VIDEO MONDAY 11
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Much thanks to lovryu for sharing with me this epic moment of EPIC FAIL. Could NOT stop laughing XD
And because I haven't been posting video entries for a very long time (no thanks to uni assignments), here are two more~
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I love Disney animations. I practically grew up on them (and also Sesame Street, Lego, The Sound of Music, Discovery channel, lots of adapted Grimm's Fairy Tales, dinosaur books...).
Would I sound mad if I said I could remember 70% of that whole song, conversation lines and all, even though I've read the lyrics only once or twice my whole life, and I can hardly remember the last time I've watched Beauty and the Beast?
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I love The Little Mermaid because Ariel is pretty and has red hair and I am superficial XD
I don't really remember why Ariel and Belle are my favourite Disney princesses. I've never thought about it, but if it was because of their looks, isn't Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) pretty, too? Come to think of it, I suppose I just relate better to Ariel and Belle.
Belle, because I love to read too, but the whole 'getting teased/regarded as weird for having a love for books' never got to me until I got older, perhaps when I was 14? It was bloody annoying to be judged merely because I love reading and learning more in a wider spectrum of subjects, and for not being girly/feminine. And her sense of curiosity! Although it got her into trouble more often than not. But I guess I can relate to the fact that she wants more out of life and not wanting to settle for whatever finite-and-too-plain things she already had. As for Ariel... I've always thought I was like her on a more fundamental level, the way I feel trapped by life as compared to the way she felt trapped by what she is and the rules her father set. Maybe it was because of my family? Parents? Social environment? Singapore isn't exactly the most opened-minded country, even though we liked to think of ourselves as a semi-developed country. One other thing I like about the two characters is that they try to achieve and do things on their own, being true heroines, rather than just waiting for some prince to sweep them off to a better life *cough*TwiFail*cough*, something that the other older Disney movies had more of the latter of.
Story-wise, though, I felt that the 'romance' bit was better in those two movies than say, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or Cinderella. The progression of the relationship was better - developed properly between the main characters rather than just having them fall in love with each other and knowing it was destiny right from the start (although... that doesn't sound too bad, either).
Why aren't movies like that anymore? There are more than 200 Grimm's Fairy Tales to adapt from, so do more of them! I don't care for good CGI animations, it's the old-fashioned animations that show the skill of the animators and will receive more love from me. If there's one thing I hate about technological advancements (believe me, there are many things I hate about it), it's got to be the old way of animating movies. Even Japanese anime. I can't stand it when there is too much computer animation trying to compete with traditional animation in the same scene/frame. It's too jarring for my eyes =\
以上、Chii です。
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