Monday, November 21, 2011

Film Analysis

Remember the Titans (2000)
Ow: The T.C. Williams highschool football team have a new crew coming into town. The blacks are here to stay and want to play some football.
Call: The Titans have to share the field, not only with another team, but with the blacks of their team. Also coach Yoats gets replaced by a black, coach Boone. The Titans need to learn to win with blacks and whites.
Refusal: "I wont play for anybody but you coach." The team is not happy with the new coach or players, a lot refuse to play.
Mentor: Yoats tells them they have to, they could mess up their career if they don't play. Coach Yoats picks up an assistant coaching job to stay with the team.
Threshold: "You look at your wall and I'll look at mine." Julius says to Gary. Both captains of their own races. They cant become team mates due to their color.
Tests, allies and enemies: "Left side! Strong side, Left side, Strong side." Gary and Julius realize whats really important for the team is how they play, not what color plays.
At camp coach Boone has everyone room with a member of a different race. By that almost all become immune to the racism of the world.
Approach: Titans go undefeated with their amazing team work and team bond and make it to the playoffs.
Ordeal: Gary gets in a car crash and lost the feeling in his legs going paralyzed.
Resurrection: "Superman!" the titans take the win to go undefeated in their entire football year. Winning the championship for their lost team captain Gary.

Archetypes
Hero: Julius, He put aside everything. All of the heard heartedness and became family with Gary even when he became paralyzed he was always by his side.
Mentor: Coach Boone, With all the racism, he puts blacks and whites together and creates an unstoppable team.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Ordinary World

I'm Single, 17 years of age, 3 brothers, no sports at the moment, I play basketball, rugby, run track and football. I've never really had to do anything for myself, never payed for anything over 200 dollars of my own money. Not proud.
My worst fear, never finding success. I wake up, go to work, usual day nothing very serious or exciting. Walk home, counting my steps.
Take my key out unlock and open the door. Looking around searching, nothing there, nobody there.
Eat, put my dishes away in the wash. Get ready for bed, pajamas on and hop in bed. As I start to daze off I hear a noise, a cracking, like it was my front doors creaking. But I locked it, right? I swear I did. But all I do is grab the blanket from my bedside and throw it over myself and hurdle myself into the fetal position.
Bump, bump, click, clack. I hear the footsteps of that somebody that broke in. But it was a lot of stuttering. kind of like there were more than one. I felt myself cradling myself more and more I couldn't get out of myself. To scared, I whispered; "take whatever you want." Than my blankets tore off.
As my eyes creep open all I see is the shame and failure from my life, I see myself breaking up with that one perfect girl, myself thriving, but not for good. Those footsteps I heard were not of one, nor two or even three. Hundreds, thousands. Where did I go wrong? When did I go wrong? When did I go right? have I gone right?
I ask myself these questions as I stare myself in the face. The face not of success, but failure. Clack! My eyes creep open, it was all a dream. Was it? where is my life..

Will I ever find love?
Will I every find myself?
What is life, will I find success?

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Blurb

A Whole New World (Disney Characters)
So somehow Disney characters have found a way to travel from one world to the next. How? Nobody knows, but it has been done. How do I know this you ask? well there was clearly a song written about it if your reading this right now.

Guilty Conscience (Eminem and Dr. Dre)
When your thinking about doing something bad, something wrong, something that you know your parents don't you to do or something that makes you feel cRaZy! Or you think I could do the right thing and say no. I could go do something different, well according to this song you should just shoot the angel and devil on your shoulders and not do anything.

Strange Clouds (B.O.B and Lil Wayne)
Isn't it the weirdest thing when you are out on a great summer day, at the pool, on your tramp or just looking out the window and see the strangest looking clouds? Elephants, Tigers, Lions, and even Raspberries. Oh gets me so pumped every single time I see those.

Young Wild and Free (Wiz Kalifa and Snoop Dogg)
So what we do things maybe we shouldn't? Why do we have good and bad things anyways? Why do we even put them into categories like that? Nothing is going to matter in 50 or 60 years anyways! Our planet is either going to be completely destroyed from the Apocalypse, alien invasion, or nuclear warfare so we will all be dead and than we will be in that place after this life looking up saying wow.. why didn't I be a better kid, or wow.. I would have ended up in this place anyways so why didn't I cause more ruckus?

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

My Story

First thing that I can remember in my life was, my first car crash. I heard stories about it but never really remember it. My mom says it was late and slick and when we hit black ice we rolled right off the road and down the hill. To bad my dad was driving or I could have made a joke about women drivers.
Ever since I was little I can't sit inside and play video games, or watch tv for more than a few hours. It's the weirdest thing to see people laze around and not do anything all day, I love to be out and doing things, sports, running, or anything.

I've broken 9 bones. I'm proud to be able to say that. 2 bones in 3 weeks, 4 bones in 1 year and 17 dislocations, 9 sprains, 3 concussions, 6 surgeries. My mom tries to make me feel good by saying I do alot of cool stuff. yeah its just because I don't think about what I'm doing.