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2012年12月17日月曜日

"Much Ado About Nothing"

Hi there how have you been? Today I am going to talk about "Much Ado About
Nothing." It was written by Shakespeare. He has a different kind of style for each kind
of story. One is Shakespeare's historical plays (about British royal, but not always
historical) Shakespeare's tragedy plays (routinely end with the main character dying),
and t his film is a Shakespeare's comic play(has the same theme which is there is bad
guy who is standing in the way of someone getting married and people have something
to do like a breakup.) This film is very similar.
I could not understand point of Don Pedoro's plan. He in the disguise as Cloudio and
tells Hero how he feels. I do not know what he really wants to do.
There is an interesting point for me. It is before the climax. Don John had an experience
which is heading off to Claudio and Hero's marriage but it was an abortion. He really
wanted to do so he and Borachio made the next plan which is, use Borachio's girlfriend
as a scapegoat for Hero and delude Claudio into thinking that Hero had an extramarital
affair. He has been tricked upon in an artful way and their marriage is over. And what
is more Hero was taken down by Claudio so she was actually very depressed. Cenobite
who shapes, made a plan. It is to fake her death. I watched "Romeo and Juliet" so I
thought that Shakespeare likes this pattern? But an interesting point is, Those have a
different ending for both of them. One is a bad ending (tragedy play). On the other hand,
Cloudio and Hero could marriage in climax but also Don John was arrested. This film is
happy end(comic play). I did not see this film till now so during watch it, I thought pretty
sure Hero and Cloudia dead in last.
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2012年12月11日火曜日

Japanese humor

Hi there, how have you been? Today, I am going to talking about "Japanese Manzai" Everyone know it and alot of people who like it. I did a search about it so I will introduce.
There are various styles of Japanese comedy, but it can be said that rakugo, which is performed by only one person, is the most traditionally characteristic among them. Rakugo is one of the Japanese traditional performing arts and is best described as Japanese comic storytelling or sit down comedy. The performer kneels in the seiza position on a zabuton cushion and tells a long story as a single sketch. The story consists of almost only dialogue and the performer acts out the different characters as they appear in the story. The performer uses facial expressions, gestures, different tones of voice, style changes and the speed of speech to distinguish the characters. Each story is from fifteen to fifty minutes long and usually the stories have a twisted or funny ending with a punch line at the end.
Recently, manzai, where a pair of comedians engages in quick and witty dialogue, seems to be gaining popularity. The second comedy pattern is called Manzai in Japanese. Boke and tukkomi are roles of Manzai. It dates back to the Heian period (794~). It was originally a kind of dance, in Japanese called Mai.
Next,In Japan the comedy boom just keeps on going because almost every day you can see and listen to comedy programs on the TV and radio. In Manzai, there are two characters boke and tsukkomi. There is not a comedy pattern like boke and tsukkomi in English. The boke creates funny gestures, and weaves misconceptions into themselves as well as their story, in order to get a lot of laughs. Relative to the boke, the tukkomi points out the mistakes the boke has made and refocuses the conversation. Boke means “someone who acts as if they didn't know” in English. The boke is the funny man, and the tukkomi is straight man. Tukkomi is in the person of gather the threads of them story and pursue the subject in reaction to Boke, but It is not necessarily so. But not negligible Boke become facilitator and also take a less rigid view of division of roles sometime. Some group employ that is switch positions with Boke and Tukkomi to spontaneously insomuch as hearty group.  As a result, Boke and Tukkomi discard any fixed notions of role allotment in a narrow sense and Iit is a good guess that conceptualize the pattern of communicate.
According to “Manzai Nyuumon”(the book title), In Japanese Manzai, there are rules that dictate the point at which the laughter is supposed to come. There is a progression of three actions that is signal, punch line and follows.  For example, there is a man. He walks down the street where is on the banana peel and then he trips over it, but he gets up and goes on as if nothing had happened. In this instance, signal is “The man walking down the street”. The punch line is “He trips over a banana peel” and follow is “he gets up and goes on, attempting not to recognize it.” This pattern of “introduction, development, turn, conclusion” 起承転結is very important in Japanese culture, not only in Manzai.  It is the basic pattern of stories, drama and essays. Introduction is when the balloon goes up. Development builds on thing from introduction. Turn is right about turn and conclusion is the end.
And also said the next important thing in manzai is about pace and time. During Manzai, a person should give to the audience time to imagine about the matter of Manzai. If the conversation moves forward too fast, the audience are thrown by the swing of the conversation, so manzai comedians need to focus on timing breathing.  The bottom line is, they should make sure whether they have conveyed their message and been understood or not with good tempo of conversation. Then, they need to take time to tempo in between speaking and speaking. A split second in timing can create a big difference in comedic timing and quantity of laughter.
Besides manzai there is a kind of comedy in which only one person performs a sketch. These comedians are called "pin geinin" and they make people laugh with original performances that includes singing, joke telling and visual humor, as well as appearing in female dress, SM costumes or even naked. Some of these performers become popular with children because of the unusual way they act. However, people soon get tired of them and their fame is short lived. They are known as "One shot performers."
Tukkomi with proper timing is boast an array of bring someone to laughter. And it can make a pause during talking. It mean is brisk rhythm and produce a synergistic effect on for get a laugh.  Tukkmi has some kind of style. The basic type is “denial”. Like Wrong, and it is absurd etc. Just “open a can of whopp ass” is one of style. If it is in case, while talking is ok and also not speak, just do it and we can see.  Some “slash Boke’s word into two with his sword”, others, ignore someone’s word like it never happened. Deep style are, first of all, There is another style of tsukkomi called 'nori tsukkomi' in which a tsukkomi person does not butt in the boke's joke immediately, but develops the joke further before butting in. It is like, boke say something false, nonetheless tukkomi keep up a pretense of doing his saying is right and after, tukkomi correct to something false. I am going to use a simple example to illustrate 'nori tsukkomi' that “Is this a chair?” “No, this is a desk.” If this example sentence change to it, “Is this a chair?” “Oh, yes, now I am going to sit down…No, it is desk!” I wish you sort of understand what someone is trying to say.  “Tatoe tukkomi” is easy to understand.  Boke’s word or action reduce to something other mean. For example, there is a man who get tremble from being nervous. Other people say to man that “you look like a baby animal”. If someone say, “you too much shaky.” It is basic type.
Abe(who is college professor and he turned up about The Japanese socitey for laughter and humor studies.) said, on the other hand in America, tukkomi joke is somewhat different in Japan. They have kind of an ironic sense of humor but it is not offensive. I will take an example sentence. In the store, store manager said to worker “Make sure you do not break anything”. Worker answered “Sure” but he did. Maneger said “Way to go!” Japanese rarely use this phrase.
that's it. On study, This have a deep history and different mentalities. It is interesting
for funny me.
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2012年12月10日月曜日

McFly

Hi there, how have you been? Today I am going to talk about "McFly" which is a band name from England. They set up in 2003 on August. They are amazing. I like the best band in active at the present time.
I will give a little bit of background to form a band called "McFly", While Tom (who is play a guitar piano and vocal in this band) tring to become a pro, he found a advertisement for subscription in "Busted"(This is a band group too.) on a "NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS" magazine(This is a famous music journal in The country and NME for short.) He applied for the position of it and went to an audition. He failed an audition but It was open up for a strike hands on the bargain production label of management. After, Daniel(Who is play guitar and vocal in band) came in and they had a active period two of them. During that time, Tom attended a production of "Basted"'s album, "Present For Everyone" and the single song "Thunder birds Are Go". In turn, Tom placed an advertisement in the NME to try and sell and as a result audition, Dougie(play bass and vocal) and Harry(play drum) joined to them, it is McFly.
Next, I am going to introduce the member of it.
First of all, Tom Michael Fletcher. He applied for the position of advertisement for subscription in "Busted" and survived an audition and he colud become last two but lost a seat. He was just one a step away from winning. It mean, He would be member of "Busted". All I can say is that it is all for the best. He lost a seat but he remain in communication with James Bourne(who is in a Busted) and they made "Present For Everyone" and "Thunder birds Are Go"(a theme song of film that name is "Thunder birds Are Go") . It is blockbuster album. He made 7 music for McFly and 3 music for Busted in the way of songwriter. Surprisingly, these all song carried off British number one. This has exceeded to other famous songwriter's song(For example, QUEEN, Robbie Williams, Noel Gallagher, U2 etc.) He got marries in 2011 to his girlfriend who had a romantic relationship with him before debut.
Next, Daniel Alan David Jones. When Tom and James writing a song, Daniel is connected to them. In order to be musician, he pound the pavement from company to company with a acoustic guitar, and he signed with Universal music company. He really likes football, he has played it with pro footballer in charity game. His favorite footballer is Iván Campo Ramos who from Spain. Before debut, he had relaxed hair but now he has parma hair. He said that I felt it is too much of a bother for straight perm done. He and Tom taking the central role in tune crafting in them band. He favorites band is The Who, Bruce Springsteen, E Street Band and he affected to them, he started play a guitar since when he was 5 years old. It is famous that he have good taste in music and musician, likenoted in the foregoing.
Dougie Lee Poynter found a advertisement for subscription in McFly on a NME, and he entered. According to other band member, he is a bit strange. He really likes crawler, actual he has a some it for pet. Almost them song is sung by Tom and Daniel but recently he had a chance for sing. He fan of Blink 182.
Harry Mark Christopher Judd. He is one of parson that entered this band same reason to Dougie. He often changing hiss hairstyle like he did clean shaven head abruptly but basic is short hair. His hobby is malathon so he run a marathon under 4 hours. But unfortunately, he had inveteracy compartment syndrome about In August at 2008. He tallest in his band member, he is 5 feet 11 inch. If he were woman, he wants to get marries with Dougie but Dougie does not want to it to him definitely.
There a lot of good info. Band name's derivation is "Marty Mcfly" who was main character in Film name is "Buck to the future". All member is young end handsome so they has many fan of girl and woman in other country but in England, also has many fan of middle age group. They endear oneself to famous band group like The who, QUEEN, Green Day, Oasis etc. They have recording with The who and they were gave advise to them.
They really does not like being treated as idol so they gave message like it in their single "One for the radio".(Incidentally, this song's music video was made by Steve Jocz who is a member of Sum41 and play drum.) Furthermore, they had cold feet to them record company because, that company would bring out them for idol. So they dropped out to it and made them record company(name is Super Records) in 2008. And their fourth album "Motion In The Ocean" made for they wants people to understand to them, they gave away for free reserve only in their country. They said that We wants people to know about me and also wants them to listen our music.
They enjoying each other's friendship so they lived in the same apartment when made this band in days and another thing, when they living each other, first Tom decided his house and brought member in to there. A few days later, other member came and moved same street and they living now.
The Beatles was in the Guinness Book of World Records that album debut at the top in youngest. But surprisingly, McFly set a new record of it!(incidentally they did it when Dougie was 16 years old.)
All of the members has tattoo of star. They have appeared on film that title is "Lucky Girl" with Lindsay Lohan, and them part is "McFly".
How was it? I hope you guys have interest even though little bit. At the end, I am going to introduce them new single.
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2012年12月3日月曜日

MONSTERS, INC.

Hi there, today I am going to talk about "MONSTERS,INC." which is a movie from
America Pixar Animation Studios. The monster business corporation is the biggest
company in monster city and it used children's fearful cries to make energy for monster
city, and supply the town with it. Sulley and Mike are number one worker pair. Their
practice really pays off and they put fear in children's heart every night. But monsters
have a weak point which is children, because it is widely believed that all children are
harmful to monsters. One day Sully and Mike brought a child up to the monster's world.
They try to take her back.
The monster world has three irreversible rules. You must not take something from the
human world back. You must not bring a child to the monster world. You must not love
a child. In case of me, it is interesting points in this film because, they broke rules for
the last time even though they are understood. At first, they did not but a child whose
name is Boo came to the monster world. They tried to take her back but they created a
loving relationship between Sully, Mike and Boo little by little.
Also, the point I like is the last scene. On the surface, this film has a classic happy
ending but I do not think so. The last scene shows going a full circle except eliminating
an opponent and averting a crisis is the royal road to a happy end. But this is not true. I
mean, usually all work got accomplished so they never meet Boo again. This is royal
road that I said. But later they realized that children's laughter is better energy than
fearful cry. As a result, more happy endings came. This happy end is very interesting for
me. I did not cry but I am touched. I knew why this film is popular in the world.
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2012年12月2日日曜日

Futsal

Hi there, today I am going to talk about futsal. Do you guys know it? There was a World Cup in Thailand lately and become a popular topic of conversation because Japanese player "Kazuyoshi Miura" who is a former national team player in football so maybe you know. According to Wikipedia, The sport is a mixture of salon football, invented in Uruguay in 1930, and indoor soccer, started in England around the same time. But do you know the game's rule? It is kind of similar to football, so I am going to introduce difference and similarity between of both of them. Similarity points is, Kick the ball back and forth and points are scored by kicking the ball through in the opponent team's goal. Must not use themselves hands. That's it. As you can see, basic rules is almost same. But There a lot of difference points. Basically in football, Important to speed, technique and physical tough competition but in futsal, lean space and so many time to touch and keep the ball so make much account of technique.
Fist of all, Futsal combines two Spanish words, futbol, meaning soccer, and sala, meaning the inside of a room Football is play eleven a side including keeper but futsal is play five a side including keeper. So this game is played by two five player teams in an area that is about ninth part of one the size of a regular soccer pitch.
Next, football can use hands sometime, I mean football has take the throw in one of rule. Futsal has not, If ball cross the line, must start to kick in. So in futsal, only goalkeeper can use hands in the true sense of the term. Such being the case, when goal kick, keeper must throw in.
And then futsal player can not sliding for intercept the ball. But can sliding only by block a shot with his legs.
At last, football match consists of two 45 minute periods, with three substitution of players. On the other hand, futsal match consists of two 20-minute periods, with unlimited substitution of players.
I talked about it at length but according to futsal player, moderately futsal is similar to basketball. If said such a thing, I will get absolutely nothing out of it. oh my gosh anyway, I hope you guys came across as much as possible. bye!
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