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Bring Your Boomers Intergenerational Dialogue Series
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Go to Project: Intergenerational Dialogue Series.
We bring generations together to explore the social,cultural and economic realities and opportunities presented by looming, massive demographic shifts.
About You
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Gen Why Media
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Canada, BC, Vancouver
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Growth (your pilot is up and running, and starting to expand)
How long have you been in operation?
Operating for 1‐5 years
The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging
Increases in longevity and continuing low birth rates are causing a shift in the ratio of old and young, and as a result the proportion of older people is rising. As public spending for pensions, health care and long-term elderly care rise significantly, young people face a shaky labor market, large-scale environmental challenges and costs of living that have risen more quickly than their income levels. Of the many societal "divides" the divide between generational equity is rarely acknowledged explicitly.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Convening positive and intentional conversations between generations help us work through difficult issues together, generate understanding and ultimately build stronger, more resilient communities.
Bring Your Boomers is an intergenerational dialogue series that explores our rapidly changing social realities while showcasing local music, film, visual art, theatre and dance in order to create community experiences that deepen our sense of connection. By convening high-profile speakers of different generations in on-stages dialogues, we address society's most complex problems and ask: how do generations create innovative solutions together?
Vancouverites have shown an ea- gerness for this type of conversation, demonstrated by having sold out both of our previous Bring Your Boomers events, the first at 120 people, the second at 350 people.
See highlight video here: http://ow.ly/bZXo7
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.
Bring Your Boomers is a project of Gen Why Media, a community-based social enterprise focused on civic engagement. Bring Your Boomers is designed both as a revenue model and outreach strategy for Gen Why Media. Ticket sales and exposure through large-scale events like Bring Your Boomers create a model for growth that can generate a sustainable revenue stream for future projects initiated by Gen Why Media. We will also use the series to attract other community development organizations and partners such as Vancity, the City of Vancouver, the Vancouver Foundation and various corporate sponsors.
Furthermore, feedback from our past intergenerational dialogue events has demonstrated that there is an appetite for this type of conversation. We sold out both of our previous Bring Your Boomers events, the first at 120 people, the second at 350 people.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.
There is an array of interesting events happening in Vancouver. The amount of qualified groups hosting great events presents a lot of competition for interest. This will challenge us to continually innovate our offering and attract high-profile speakers, performers, audience and media attention.
What sets us apart is that we bring Vancouverites together at the crossroads of the technology revolution and the values revolution. We offer our reputation as a youth-run cultural organization and our expertise in social media production, providing a relevancy and legitimacy among Generation Y that is both authentic and powerful.
Through our multi-layered, interdisciplinary events we are supporting our all ages community we express our vision for a better society.
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Social Impact
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
When we began hosting events as Gen Why Media we threw an event called "Why We Do It Party", which was a stylish gathering of young activists, students, entrepreneurs, opinion leaders and creatives who came together to talk about why they are engaged in social change work. The event was great with a series of engaging speakers, music, artisans lining the room, food, drinks, dancing, media and good times.
After the event we were debriefing with our friend and his dad (who came to the event) and his dad said, "Great party but I was the only Boomer. You've tapped a good crowd but you need more that just Gen Yers talking to other Gen Yers. You should get these young people to bring their Boomer parents, who probably also have a lot to say."
He was right. Bring Your Boomers was born.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
Goal 1: Provide a platform for intergenerational understanding and knowledge transfer.
Objectives: Use concentrated conversation between generations to explore critical issues and create new insights and understanding;
Goal 2: Expand active citizenship and provide a fresh outlet for civic engagement.
Objectives: Appeal to a wide audience by using dialogue, cultural performance and a celebratory approach to convene civic conversations.
Goal 3: Nurture innovation and community collaboration.
Objectives: Engage ethically diverse communities and interdisciplinary perspectives through solutions-based conversations that explore intergenerational equity through culture, business, politics, the environment, community, and social change.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
- Sold out both of our previous Bring Your Boomers events, the first at 120 people, the second at 350 people.
- Generated greater consciousness for inter-generational equity issues (based on online feedback and mainstream media coverage);
- Provided a unique and entertaining platform for civic engagement;
- Produced a publication documenting what was learned and how intergenerational dialogue can be used as a form of civic engagement;
- Created a video documenting the process, participants and dialogues;
- Continuing to build an intergenerational community by facilitating meaningful discussions, both online and offline.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
Long Term Outcomes:
- A stronger intergenerational community built around civic engagement;
- A willingness to change or adapt new behaviors based on what was learned;
- A on-going intergenerational dialogue program including more events and workshops
- Networked collaboration across groups and organizations that can translate the outcomes into practical contexts
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Be ready to host our largest Bring Your Boomers event to date, with 1000+ attendees and nationally recognized participants.
Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone
Task 1
Meet with potential event sponsors and pitch the series to them
Task 2
Establish a partnership with a mentoring organization (potentially SFU Centre for Dialogue)
Task 3
Find media and promotions partners to help get the word out about the event
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Gain national attention for our events and sell out our first two events with 1000+ attendees.
Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone
Task 1
Source high profile participants (Thomas Mulcair, Arcade Fire, Michaelle Jean, Margret Atwood)
Task 2
Secure sponsorship from Vancity (or Coast Capital) for the series
Task 3
Partner with the City of Vancouver to put on the series
Tell us about your partnerships
Below is a list of our current and future community partnerships:
• SFU Centre for Dialogue will help with program design, venue logistics & reporting.
• SFU Woodward's Cultural Unit will help with performance programming, venue & community engagement.
• Lead Now will help with live polling at the event, online promotion & will help make the connection between the local and national context.
• Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will help with supporting policy research for the program design.
• Truthfool Communications will help with facilitation of the events and media promotion.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?
Our core audience is connected generation Yers who care about social issues. From there we intentionally seek out diversity. The title "Bring Your Boomers" implies that young people take the initiative to bring their parents, offering a sense of empowerment and diversity of ages older generation. We are also try to engage the unengaged by offer a diverse slate of program, we've had young people tell us "I came for band, but ended up learning a lot". This is our ideal outcome. Going forward we intend to engage minority populations by designing content that speaks to their experiences.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Since the beginning, we have worked across generations making our internal operating environment truly collaborative and intergenerational. To us, successful innovation requires the following:
Collaboration: Bringing diverse disciplines together to help us think outside the box.
Creativity: Constantly engaging with musicians, artists, designers and other creatives to find engaging ways to present issues.
Grassroots sensibility: Locally-minded and community-driven.
Flexibility: The allowance to scale up or down depending on the project.
Diversity: Target different groups in order to give voice to under-represented perspectives.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
Because we need to keep our events financially accessible (tickets under $12), we don't have the financial capacity to cover the upfront costs of putting on large-scale, high caliber events. With some seed money, we would be able to grow and execute four large-scale events over two years - each with 500+ attendees, high caliber cultural performances and nationally recognized speakers.
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254 of 267 people found the following review helpful
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A strangely lyrical young girl's coming of age tale, set in Nazi Germany and narrated by Death,
By Whitt Patrick Pond "Whitt" (Cambridge, MA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Book Thief (DVD)
All too often a movie turns out to be less than what the trailers lead you to expect, but every now and then there's a movie that surprises you by being more. The Book Thief is one of those movies. Directed by Brian Percival (Downton Abbey, North & South) from a screenplay by Michael Petroni (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys) adapted from the novel of the same name by Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief does not lend itself to easy categorization. On the surface, you'd think from the trailers that it's an Anne Frank sort of film, a young girl's POV about life under the Nazis and about a family hiding a young Jewish man in their house. But it's more than that, a lot more.
You know you're in for something different when the film begins with the narrated line "Here's a small fact: you're going to die." You know you're in for something really different when you realize that the narrator is Death. And it is Death who introduces us to Liesel (marvelously played by Sophie Nélisse) a young German girl riding on a train with her very ill younger brother, being taken to a place she does not know to live with people she's never met. Her brother does not make it, dying before they reach their destination, resulting in the train stopping for an impromptu burial service. As they are departing the grave, Sophie notices a book that fell out of the makeshift shroud her brother had been buried in and on an impulse she steals it, wanting to have something to remember him by. Her first stolen book, but as it turns out, far from her last. When Liesel reaches her destination, she is taken to meet the couple who are to become her foster parents, Hans (Geoffrey Rush) and Rosa (Emily Watson) Hubermann. Hans, who makes his living as a house painter and sometime accordionist, is genial and welcoming. Rosa, who takes in laundry for some of the town's more prosperous citizens, is stern and no nonsense. Witnessing Liesel's arrival is a neighbor boy, Rudy Steiner (Nico Liersch) whose curiosity about her quickly evolves into a hopelessly sweet crush, prompting him to ask to walk her to school on her first day. Things however get off to a rocky start when the teacher directs Liesel to write her name on the blackboard and, after awkward hesitation, she can only write a couple of X's, revealing that she can neither read nor write. The other children taunt her, particularly one boy, a bully named Franz (Levin Liam) who follows her into the schoolyard, daring her to read a single word. Liesel finally retaliates by attacking Franz and beating him up in front of the other kids, which earns her definite points in Rudy's estimation. When he hears of the incident, Hans gently sits down with Liesel and informs her that he's not such a good reader himself and suggests that perhaps they can learn to read together, which prompts Liesel to bring out the book she took from her brother's grave, saying this is what she wants to learn to read, and so the book thief learns to read from the first book she stole. To help her, Hans turns the basement into a kind of makeshift schoolroom, painting the letters of the alphabet on various walls and columns and giving Liesel chalk to write each new word she learns under the letter it starts with. The cast are excellent, particularly Sophie Nélisse (Monsieur Lazhar) as Liesel, a young girl coming of age under circumstances few children should ever have to experience but all too many did. Veteran actor Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech, Shakespeare in Love) is perfect as Hans Hubermann, the amiably gentle man who becomes Liesel's adoptive father, as is Emily Watson (Anna Karenina, Angela's Ashes) as Rosa, Hans' brusque, hard-nosed wife who becomes Liesel's adoptive mother and who later surprises Liesel by showing that you truly cannot judge a book by its cover. Nico Liersch does an excellent job as Rudy, the boy who becomes Liesel's best friend and who has a sweet but seemingly hopeless crush on her, forever begging her for a kiss. Ben Schnetzer (Happy Town) is quietly effective as Max, the young Jewish man who prompts Liesel's initial forays into story-telling by having her describe to him what goes on in the world outside the Hubermann basement, the world where he does not dare venture. And Roger Allam (V for Vendetta, Inkheart) is outstanding as the unseen but ever felt narrating Death, adding a subtle dimension to events as viewed from his unique perspective. I have not read the book, but from what I gather the film had to reduce the number of characters somewhat in order to give more focus to the main characters in the more limited amount of time available to a film version. But from what other reviewers who have read the book have said, this does not seem to get in the way in their enjoyment of the film. In addition to all of the things that make The Book Thief work is John Williams' sweetly haunting score that enhances the lyrical quality of the film, giving it the feel of almost being a fairy tale in spite of the stressful time and circumstances, which is in a way fitting when you think about the nature of many fairy tales that deal with the darker elements of childhood. I personally think this score is the best work Williams has done in years and may end up getting a nod at Oscar time. Highly recommended.
161 of 171 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
"I am haunted by humans",
This review is from: The Book Thief (DVD)
Those who love Markus Zusak's The Book Thief as I do will know that it is an incredibly complex novel - the way the main characters intersect each other's lives and the themes that are developed throughout the novel are deep and layered and would make for a daunting on-screen translation. Yet director Brian Percival manages to make the movie accessible to viewers whilst staying true to the source material. This may not be a blow-by-blow, faithful to each and every word adaptation, but to me at least, it is a true adaptation in portraying the essence of the story. I love the book but I also loved the movie, for similar and different reasons.
The story of The Book Thief begins with the narrator, Death (Roger Allam), providing a sort of overview/introduction. Fortunately, the narrator's voice is not dominant throughout the story as it would (to me) have been a rather distracting voice, but the narrator's presence is felt nevertheless. The protagonist in this film is Liesel (Sophie Nelisse in a ground-breaking performance), a young teenager who comes to live with her foster parents, Hans Hubermann (Geoffrey Rush) and his wife, the acid- tongued Rosa (Emily Watson). The setting at the beginning of the story is Germany in 1938 and the story goes on till the end of WW II. Liesel's mother is a Communist and has been packed off somewhere, presumably a camp, for this is after all Nazi Germany. The story focuses on Liesel's relationship with her foster parents, her best friend, Rudy (Nico Liersch), and her life-defining friendship with Max (Ben Schnetzer), the young Jewish man hiding in her parents' basement. At the beginning of the story Liesl is unable to read but this slowly changes as first her foster father Hans and later Max help her see beyond the words to the very notions underlying those words. Soon Liesel is reading voraciously and also developing a keen sense of what it means to live in such troubled times, and who by the end of the story, has come to truly understand the power of words and what defines moral courage. The themes in the book are manifold and I felt these themes were beautifully portrayed in the film. The ideas of friendship, paternal and maternal love, loyalty, and courage, not to mention of course, Death, are credibly-woven together in such a way that these themes flow throughout the film as a whole instead of distinct parts. The cast, especially Nelisse as Liesel, delivers a finely-nuanced performance, every emotion captured by those beautiful, wide, expressive eyes, and Rush as her foster father Hans portrays the very symbol of paternal love and moral courage (especially in the scene where he stands up to a Gestapo officer in defense of a friend). The film is rated PG-13, but I watched this with my husband and 9-year-old (who has read The Diary of Anne Frank and is somewhat familiar with the history of the Holocaust), and she was absolutely captivated by this film. There are no scenes of extreme or prolonged violence - some scenes of kids fighting, Nazis dragging people off, Nazis burning books, children chanting pro-Nazi slogans (which is disturbing to me but of course given the context of the film, it cannot be helped), Nazis and collaborators destroying Jewish property during Kristallnacht, but nothing like the scenes one sees in movies like Schindler's List. It made for an interesting family discussion after we finished viewing it. The film's ultimate message is positive and there are certainly many interesting issues that come up for discussion - moral courage being one that I felt was significant. Do we stand by and watch atrocities and injustice perpetrated without voicing against it, and if we do, are we prepared for the repercussions? These and more are satisfactorily addressed in this film, and I count this as one of the more memorable films of 2013.
185 of 203 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
One Of The Best Movies I've Ever Seen,
This review is from: The Book Thief (DVD)
Note: I saw an advanced screening of The Book Thief.
The Book Thief is a book that has stuck with me for so many years, there is just something so powerful and raw about Zusak's novel. The Book Thief has to be one of the trickiest books to adapt because it's far from a simple story. The novel is nearly 600 pages and it's main narrator is Death himself commenting on the events of World War II. How could Brian Percival (Downton Abbey) direct such a movie without doing the novel injustice? The Book Thief is true to it's source material, even though it doesn't maintain all of the major plot events in the novel. The filmmakers rarely utilized Death's narration, so the few times they did use it, it felt a bit awkward and out of place. I didn't get quite the chills from hearing his narration like I did when I had read the book. Despite the unevenness of the narration, The Book Thief really captures the essence of Liesel's story. All of the characters were truly perfectly cast, the dialogue is well done and the film truly captures all of the emotion from Zusak's novel. Sophie Nelisse is essentially a newcomer to Hollywood and this is her first major role in a movie. I really hope Nelisse wins an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance because it's absolutely unbelieveable. Nelisse's performance is absolutely unbelievable and it's clear to me that Nelisse is an extremely talented actress. Even though Nelisse shares screentime with veterans like Watson and Rush, Nelisse truly steals the show and easily makes viewers fall in love with Liesel. Both Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson did wonders in The Book Thief, they truly translated the characters from the book into their performances in a flawless manner. Rush and Watson became Rosa and Hans as if it was natural to them, like these parts were made for them. Rush and Nelisse are a duo that demands the viewers' attention and they truly make this a poignant movie. Their performances carry the film and bring The Book Thief to the next level. If neither Rush nor Nelisse receive Academy Award nominations for their performances, I'll truly be disappointed because their performances are something brilliant. I don't want to discredit Nico Liersch (Rudy) and Ben Schnetzer (Max) because their performances were also unbelieveable. I was just completely caught off guard by Rush, Nelisse, and Watson's extremely memorable acting. I'm not an extremely emotional movie viewer by any standard, I rarely am moved by movies. The Book Thief really captured me emotionally despite the fact that I knew what would happen next because I had read the book. Despite my knowledge of the plot, the actors fooled me into thinking that maybe it would end differently, maybe my heart wouldn't be stomped on. I was wrong, by the end of The Book Thief I was driven to tears by the movie's incredibly heartbreaking conclusion. I can't remember the last time I had cried this much during a movie, my head ached from crying so much over Zusak's characters. The Book Thief may not live up to Zusak's novel, but it is one of the best movies I have seen in years. The Book Thief provides an incredible, unique perspective of World War II from a whole new angle. This is the type of movie that will truly stay with viewers long after the credits roll, absolutely unforgettable. I truly hope that The Book Thief will find an audience because it's an extremely well-done film that deserves widespread acclaim. The Book Thief is an absolute must-see and I hope it will continue to strike a chord with audiences everywhere.
72 of 87 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Lacks the Power of the Book,
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I wanted to like this film so very much. I'm a literature teacher at an international high school, and I have been teaching The Book Thief to my English II students for two years. So much of the magic and power of the book is in the way it is told. The narrator, Death, sees the world in colors--it's a method of distraction from the horrors of unnecessary deaths of thousands of war victims. Death is haunted by the senselessness all around him. However, when he continues to run into Liesel, he falls in love with the beauty that is also present in humans. This is the dichotomy of Death's experience--how can so much good and so much evil come from the same source? What is powerful enough to survive the devastation of evil?
I know that book to film transfers are rarely satisfactory, but I was really looking forward to seeing the artistic nature of the book interpreted visually in film...sadly, the color imagery did not transfer to the silver screen. I was also looking forward to seeing the dynamic character development of the very human characters...plus in the book, Liesel is quite a daring, spunky little girl with very human traits. She doesn't always do things for the right reasons, but she always follows her heart. I suppose people who have not read the book might enjoy the film. But unfortunately the film only takes the framework of about 1/3 of the story, changing details for no apparent reason, leaves out key characters, and fails to develop the complex elements of any of the characters, including the narrator. As a result, the film lacks so much of the magic that made the book so special.
31 of 36 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hard to find clean movies with substance like this one!,
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No need to describe the movie as others have already done that thoroughly. However, I do want to give this film the five stars it deserves. It is so rare to find a well made movie that is clean and yet has some substance to it. Nowadays if you want a clean movie all you got is Disney, but their movies simply repeat the same silly formulas. The Book Thief is clean, but has a point to it. I wish they made more movies like this! I haven't read the book, but this is one of the best movies I've seen so maybe I should go ahead and read the book too.
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
What the critics missed: the poignant beauty of innocence,
By Bert D. Dulong (Redding, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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Director Brian Percival brilliantly presents a film centered in a child's heart, fully complimented by John Williams' achingly beautiful score. This is quite an achievement. Percival has had to render devastating themes and moments, and yet an exquisite sweetness pervades the movie, more so on second and subsequent viewings, as the adults in a foster girl's life care for the innocence of her spirit. Critics took this to be a cheapening of the backdrop time period. But that misses the very point of its setting: beauty endures amidst the ashes. "We were just being people"--how powerfully vulnerable this movie is. Percival's handling has not just made the story's intense suffering bearable; he has kept it meaningful.
This is a movie rich in faces, in unspoken visual connections between characters suited to the guardedness of the time. Anyone who is touched by the rich expressiveness of children's faces will delight in Sophie Nelisse as Leisl. Equally inspiring is the connection that Hans Hubermann shares with his foster daughter--Geoffrey Rush's childlike playfulness trancends what otherwise could have been a morose role. Hans' is an ordinary life, well-lived in desperate times. The tone of the relationship between Hans and Leisl carries over to all her subsequent relationships. By gently eliciting her trust at her moment of devastation, Hans gifts Leisl with the ability to discover humanity throughout her world. I found this aspect of the story very inspiring. This personal gifting opens the door to the other giftings the bereft girl will receive in the written word, which, of course, is the "title theme" of the story. The intensely personal dimension of words... written and read...as well as unspoken and repressed... undergirds the entire movie. Which leads me to Emily Watson's complex and deeply satisfying performance as Leisl's foster mother. I've seen criticism of the book based on the profane name Watson's character uses for Leisl (untranslated in the movie), but it is an authentic emblem of her character... the heart that disguises itself with harshness. So many of the characterizations in this movie could have fallen flat, but Rush, Watson, and the entire crew bring an authenticity to the story that silences the people talking in the back row of the theater. This movie simply overwhelms you in a way that expands your own humanity. Instead of just chastening our spirits with what humanity can be in its awfulness, the narrator guides us into the intriguing and hauntingly inspiring possibilities of the human spirit. And that makes a movie well worth seeing again and again. Speaking of "again and again", read Jon Broxton's view of the "Book Thief" soundtrack and then get the CD. His insights into the film and score are worth reading.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
(BLU RAY REVIEW) 4 1/2 stars for an excellent adaptation and a star-making performance,
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Director Brian Percival brings Markus Zusak's novel to the big screen in a delicate and artful way. The film is seen from the eyes of young Liesel (Sophie Neilsse in big blue-eyed performance) although "Death" (Roger Allam) is the occasional narrator. That fact alone suggests that there will be an ominous tone to the story. That and the setting is 1938 Nazi Germany.
In a beautiful opening shot we see a speeding train negotiating the winter snowy countryside. "Death" is guiding us to Liesel, her brother and her mother. But on this day he is coming for the little boy. After a hastily dug grave is dug alongside the tracks, a small book drops from the grave digger's pocket. Liesel quickly scoops it up. We learn later that Liesel's mother (Heike Makatsch) was taking the children to live with foster parents (and strangers) in a small village near Munich. The mother is a Communist sympathizer and is therefore protecting her children by giving them away. Hans Hubermann (Jeffrey Rush) and his wife Rosa (Emily Watson) are the childless couple that adopt the young girl, essentially to collect a stipend from the government. Both are self-employed. Hans, a painter and Rosa does laundry. Hans quickly warms up to the girl, grumpy Rosa not so much at first. She's upset in that she was expecting 2 children. Hans's retorts something to the effect that it's not Liesel's fault her brother died. Liesel catches the eye of another 12 year old, a boy named Rudy (Nico Liersch) who lives next door. At school on her first day, we learn Liesel is illiterate. Rudy and Liesel become best friends and defend each other throughout the movie, both verbally and physically. With the Nazi purge underway, the Hubermann's reluctantly take in a young man of about 19 or 20. He's Max Vandenburg, the son of a Jewish soldier who saved Hans's life in World War I. Hans had promised him as he died, he would look after his son if and when the time came. It did and he did. Hans, recognizing Liesel's reading shortcomings teaches her and she quickly learns. Her hunger to read is so profound, she "borrows" books from the burgermeister's wife. Max creates a dictionary of sorts on the walls of the basement. She adds new words in chalk as she learns them. Max, being hidden in the basement, becomes a great friend and inspiration of Liesel's, teaching her how to describe in detail what she sees. These are some great scenes. I've seen some criticisms of the film that it doesn't graphically depict the horrors of the Nazi's. I would argue that it is indeed shown, but that every movie about this period doesn't have to be "Schindler's List." And not every German agreed with Hitler. I would agree that the "Death" narration gives the film a sense of fantasy and perhaps a less serious tone. But "Death" does show up in full catch-up mode in the film's final act. I found it to be a poignant, touching ending that at first will have you pushing away a tear but ultimately is one of profound joy. When a few years pass and Liesel reunites with Max, we're are left to guess what happens to him, but I've written my own ending which is what I expect the writers wanted. This is an excellent film, perhaps a bit slow at times and a little long. But it is beautifully shot, well directed and includes some superior acting from Watson, Rush and young Sophie Nelisse. You'll be hearing more from her. John Williams provides a gorgeous score. Highly recommended. The Blu ray transfer comes with a 1080p resolution and a 2.40:1 aspect ratio. It is just about as good as it gets. There is a wide range of dimensions in the film that going from the opening snowy scene to the drab and dingy Hubermann basement. It comes across perfectly with excellent contrast and detail. The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track is equally excellent. Like the video, the audio components range from relative quiet village streets to massive bombing attacks by the Allies. It is all properly rendered throughout the soundfield as is the excellent Williams score. Subtitles are numerous including English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish, Ukrainian. Extras include: Deleted Scenes (1080p; 6:34) and A Hidden Truth: Bringing The Book Thief to Life (1080p; 31:05) and a trailer.
18 of 22 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best films,
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I agree with reviewers who consider this film one of the best film they ever saw. The acting is excellent; in fact, I think Geoffrey Rush should win an academy award. People who do not like to see the horrors of the holocaust can still view this film. It does not depict what occurred in the concentration camps but what happened to a single family and the families around them. Its message is love; humans need to care for one another, save them if at all possible, as is done several times in this film.
20 of 26 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Careful/faithful adaptation of the beloved novel,
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"The Book Thief" (2013 release; 132 min.) is the film adaptation of the beloved novel by Markus Zusak. As the movie opens, Death (in a voice over) cautions the audience "one small fact: you are going to die", and with that we are filled with a pending doom and gloom about what is to happen. The stage is Nazi-Germany, February 1938, and we are introduced to Liesel, a young girl (9 or 10 yrs. old) who has just lost her younger brother to (unspecified) sickness as they are being transported to their new foster family. Liesel's foster mom Rosa is as tough a cookie as her foster dad Hans is as sweet a man you'll ever meet (he calls Liesel "your majesty" to make her feel welcome). Liesel befriends Rudi, a boy on her street, and soon they become best friends. Foster dad Hans teaches Liesel to read, which opens a new world for Liesel and she eagerly snaps up the opportunity to explore new books. Then Kristallnacht ("night of the broker glass") takes place and Max, a Jewish young man whose dad once saved Hans' life, takes refuge in the home of Hans, Rosa and Liesel. At this point we are about 40 min. into the movie. Will Liesel ever see her real mom again? Will Max survive the years of hiding? What becomes of Liesel and Rudi? To tell you more would ruin your viewing experience, you'll just have to see for yourself how it all plays out.
Couple of comments: first, this is a very careful/faithful adaptation of the novel, as directed by pretty much unknown UK director Brian Percival. If there is one complaint that I may have about the movie, it is that pretty much every scene feels very much staged (which of course they are), almost like we're watching a theatre production and not a movie. Second, the acting performances are top-notch, with Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson as the loving foster parents, but the real revelation is the young Canadian actress Sophie Nélisse, in the role of Liesel. Nélisse had previously appeared in last year's excellent (and Oscar-nominated) Canadian film "Monsieur Lazhar". In this movie she radiates such presence on the big screen that she almost blows everyone else away. Third, the movie features an excellent soundtrack, by none other than the legendary John Williams, in one of his rare non-Steven Spielberg movie efforts (I couldn't help but think that in fact "The Book Thief" feels like it could've been made by Spielberg). Last, be sure to bring a Kleenex tissue with you, as chances are that you will need it. I had seen the trailer of this a few times in recent weeks and was looking forward to seeing this. The movie opened this weekend at my local art-house theatre here in Cincinnati. When I went to see it last night (a weekday night), I was pleasantly surprised how well attended it was. If you loved the novel, you will certainly love this movie adaptation. Even if you didn't read the novel, and are in the mood for something that is not quite your standard Hollywood fare, I suggest you seek out "The Book Thief", be it in the theatre or on DVD/Bly-ray. You won't be disappointed.
14 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
An AMAZING Movie--Just as Good and the Book,
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I saw this in theaters and just had to have the DVD! I teach the novel to my 10th graders and we all love the book. Zusak is an amazing writer, and the director of this movie got it right, from the actors and actresses to the scenery, it's epic and will have you feeling like you are right there--a part of Liesel's world. Be ready to laugh and cry (definitely have the issues handy) as you experience this touching story.
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A British politician's personal assistant, 25-year-old beauty Katia Zutuliveter, has been accused of acting as a spy for the Russian government.
The assistant to Liberal Democrat and UK Government MP Mike Hancock, Katia Zutuliveter faces deportation after a lenghty investigation by UK spy outfit MI5.
UK media report today that Ms Katia Zatuliveter has been detained by the UK government.
MP Hancock is on a powerful UK defence committee member in the House of Parliament and has strong links to the UK Navy.
The Sun newspaper quoted an unnamed UK intelligence source on Katia Zutuliveter: "Her presence here is not considered to be conducive to national security. There was unhappiness about what she could have access to. The intention is to show her the door."
The news comes months after the US detained several Russian spies, including the story of beauty Anna Chapman that grabbed tabloid front pages across the world.
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I have this in Swoop which is a bright orange that has a slight tinge of coral in the shade. It's a beautiful colour but i expected so much more from revlon. I don't know if i just got a dodgey bottle or something, but this is definitely not super top speed. In fact it takes a ridiculously long time to dry, around 10 mins, if a touch it at all, it smudges. The staying quality is average at best but at least the application is nice. I'm hoping that this is just a one time experience and hopefully when i buy another bottle of revlon in future, it will turn out differently..
I have no complaints about this polish at all. The colors are good, the application is easy, it dries fast, and lasts about as long as any other polish. I can't count the number of bottles I've bought, but I'll continue to use it!
got this in sunny. it's a satin light yellow color. i like it very much as the shade is so pretty and the polish dries fast. to me the most important thing about nail polish is the drying speed so this one's a great bargain. will definitely repurchase.
I got my first bottle in Fawn at HK$38 (~US$5), a very wearable medium brownish-rose matte color, and got hooked. Didn't time how long it takes to dry, but if I am applying a single coat & do my right hand first I can apply makeup right after doing the polish.
The polish goes on smooth & dries into a glossy finish even on my coarse toe nails. I don't have any major staining or chipping problem. And the stuff is still working fine after about a year. I am impressed!
I was dancing when I knew the some stores got shades not being sold here - all on a 50% off discount! So I stocked up on Fawn & bought Sheer Honey, Sheer Sugarplum, Baby, Port & Garnet.
The sheers are also very nice. They are clear polish with a hint of color shimmers. Quality is great & the shimmers aren't streaky.
I have problem w/ Garnet & my sis is the same w/ her dark shimmery colors. The color is to the sheer side so a 2nd coat is a must or you get uneven color. The finish is not as glossy, and worst still they stain the nails like dyes. They are difficult to remove too. Bad, and glad that they weren't my first try in the collection!
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This polish TORE UP my nails! I used it for about a week and a half. It left my nails stained, peeling, brittle and just plain ugly. I like lots of other Revlon products, so I was surprised that this one was just so bad, but I used it in two different shades and ugh! Definetely will not buy again, no matter how tempting the color! Might be okay to wear for just one day, but I won't risk it. Gave it a two because the colors are cute.
I bought "Port" on sale and it's like the best color ever! Wouldn't ya know it. I assume it's being discontinued. It's a semi sheeer reddish berryish color. Not to blue, not too much rust. It's juuuust right. Man. I better go stock up on this!
i have this in sheer honey--and i love it! looks very natural and goes on super smooth! no streaks. i think all the sheers are great.
The colors are terrific and it dries pretty fast, but it chips pretty fast too -- also, the color changes a lot after UV exposure. Too bad, because the colors are really nice and the price is good too.
It definitely dries fast - no doubt about it. But, it chips rather easily. I purchased the color 'Baby' which is a very pretty pink, but the tips of the nail began to chip off the very next day. A clear top coat helps to extend the color somewhat. Probably would not buy again due to the chipping. The consistency is also kind of strange - thick & gloppy.
I got a dark blue colour in this line and the texture is terrible to work with. It clumps more than any polish I've ever used. Brush control is almost nil, as though you'd need a fundamentally different brush in order to apply it. It does dry quickly IF you can get it to not clump. However, it overwhelmingly clumps, and once it has, it dries SLOWER than other polishes when they've globbed. End result, 45 minutes later, I still had two out of ten sticky nails. If you like the "applied by a preschooler" look, get this! It will facilitate immensely.


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DULUTH, Minn. — Even though summer is over, Minnesota road construction and maintenance continues through the fall months. The Minnesota Department of Transportation reminds motorists to obey work zone flaggers and watch out for workers in work zones.
In 2011 there were eight fatalities and approximately 1,613 crashes in Minnesota work zones.
MnDOT flagger Dustin Peterson holds a damaged sign after a near-miss that occurred in a Highway 61 work zone near Little Marais. Peterson tried to alert a motorist, who didn't see him at the entrance to a work zone. He had to drop his stop sign and run into the ditch to avoid getting hit. The motorist slammed on his brakes and slid to a stop on top of the sign. |
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If you want further proof of the intellectual decline of the American Empire, look no further than this flyer we received Friday advertizing a community charity event for the St. Jude's Research Hospital.
Please let me say immediately, however, that this post is not criticizing the advertised event, nor the philanthropic activities of the local chapter of the Tri Delta Sorority. Neither of these things are the issue. The issue is how a flyer for such an important event could have been sent out with errors in everything from the grammar to the formatting. You can see it for yourself just below, though you shouldn't have to read more than the first paragraph.
Perhaps the saddest part is that we can not only assume that the sorority had their finest writer prepare the flyer text, but that the result was considered not only adequate, but quite possibly exceptional. If this is the best one student can do, what does that say about the rest of the university?
More generally, how can we expect our young graduates to become productive members of society if they don't even know how to format a letter properly, let alone how to write one? Leaving aside the myriad of grammatical errors, the writing style is awkward ("The ladies of Delta Delta Delta proudly benefit St. Jude every year with full efforts."), bizarrely pretentious ("The Texas A&M chapter is truly passionate about their philanthropy, and works year round perfecting each event in order to increase their earnings each year."), and just bad ("Texas A&M Tri Delta takes pride in game day for St. Jude."). Could this lack of writing skills be a factor in the difficulties so many of them have in finding jobs after they graduate?
Here at the Kanuk household, we are truly passionate about our son's writing, and "work year round perfecting his skills to increase each of his grades each year." I can't even write that with a straight face.
Actually, we plan to make certain that our son grows up with excellent writing skills. Or that at least he'll know how to use apostrophes and avoid unintentional alliteration. Understanding the difference between an object and a subject in a sentence probably isn't setting the bar too high, either.
Here's the front of the flyer for those interested:
"Each chapter admires the Texas A&M chapter nationally."
It seems the Texas A&M chapter is begging for more Aggie jokes.
Perhaps the writer's day job is composing spam for Open Salon -- "We have shoes, you will beautiful, and our price is very." etc.
In my observation, it takes years to be able to learn how to write well. The training starts in grade school and must continue through high school. If a student comes to college unable to write well, I don't think there's much that can be done. Perhaps the student can learn the correct usage of apostrophes and so on, but his presentation of ideas will probably never be what it should be.
I'm not a very good writer, but I did get a couple of backhanded compliments from one of my college professors. He said that I wrote so clearly that he could instantly tell where I had gone wrong. And on one of my papers he remarked "I can see that you know how to shoot the arrow; now please try to hit the target."
As I told my wife, this seems to have been written by a robot using Google to search for key words, such as the word "philanthropy" for example.
Yeah, I understand your viewpoint. I would not be surprised to see this kind of text in a term paper, but as an official money raising activity, this is inexcusable. Me too, I have seen botched English with product labels (see Newsbreak: SFC discovers a third gender!) or other official documents, although I see it more often with the French translation than with the English version. Ouch… the person or family must have been quite upset to see the name misspelled like that.
The ability to write well may not set one free, but it will help to free one's thoughts. Good post, on bad grammar what is written for a good cause.
(Now, are there any typos here??)
We can assume no such thing, tho we can probably assume this was written by someone who thinks she's the finest writer among the Tri-Delts. Her future no doubt depends on her facile charms, and not on any endeavor that will put her education and intellect to the test. In other words her future is in politics.
Swami Tom sees her married-off soon to a future knuckle-dragging Texas Congressman, perhaps the son of Louie Gomert. You know, former Judge Louie. Only in Texas, where Bush the Lesser wasn't dumb enough to truly represent the citizens, so they had to elect Rick Perry.
I'm reminded of an old story told on the Aggies, a story that most likely originated in Austin. It seems the A&M campus was suffering from a severe rat infestation. Male students armed themselves with baseball bats and marched off to battle the enemy. Several thousand rats were dispatched, and several hundred Aggies returned home with war brides.
Tom: Even if this was not written by their best writer, this person should have passed it around in order to get feedback. I don't think this was done. Don't get me started with Rick Perry... ;-) He's not as well liked as people outside outside Texas think. Thanks for sharing your old story. Never heard of this one.


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December 24th, 2011, 08:16 AM #586
Yeah, we can forget about working for a few days yet.
January 7th, 2012, 05:12 PM #587
I went to Hungary, which was awful (grandparent problems and our return flight was cancelled, leaving us in Frankfurt for a night.)
BUT NOW IT'S A NEW YEAR (AND A NEW SHERLOCK.) So, very late happy new year to everyone!
January 8th, 2012, 05:32 AM #588
Sorry you didn't have a great holiday!
I've decided to start watching Sherlock now (I know, what a virtuous New Year's resolution ... ) and I thought the first episode was fun, even though it showed Moffat's weaknesses as a writer and played to fans a bit. What did you think?
January 10th, 2012, 01:56 PM #589
Wait, did you watch A Study in Pink (S1E1) or A Scandal in Belgravia (S2E1)? Sorry, you probably meant Scandal, but just to make sure! Well, I enjoyed it hugely, especially on rewatching (I saw the premiere in December). I initially had problems with Irene's characterisation, but I worked through those and I honestly don't think she's a sexist character, even though I know Moffat has made a lot of sexist remarks in the past and has been criticised for sexist characterisation. It was really beautifully filmed and I had a deep sense of both content and melancholy at the end...it was satisfying emotionally. To some extent, though, I think series 1 was about building Sherlock up as an amazing, untouchable, perfectly emotionless character, and series 2 is about breaking him in every way possible. Have you watched series 1?
"The Hounds of Baskerville" - I have mixed feelings. I loved the character development there (like, woah, tears...did not expect that, but it WORKS), but the plot can be taken two ways: either a) really implausible, or b) very very fannish, a conscious tribute to scifi and horror tropes which doesn't really attempt to be of either genre itself but nods to them hugely.
January 15th, 2012, 01:50 PM #590
I meant the first episode, and I didn't really get over the issues with Irene's characterisation - it wouldn't be so bad if she were Moffat's only female character who is absurdly hyper-sexual and feminine, but he doesn't seem to know how to create interesting female characters who aren't. River Song, if you watch Doctor Who, is very similar. Characters like that are immense fun to watch but it seems annoying and sexist if it recurs like this.
I also thought episode one jumped a little too much from case to case - I preferred episode two, where it was just the hound, from that perspective. Still, my immediate reaction when I read you were at the premiere was jealousy, so I guess that shows that episode one was actually still very enjoyable.
Episode two was implausible, but I'm willing to assume it was nodding to tropes. I, too, loved the character development and there was some really great acting. It's interesting how you describe the characterisation arc from series one to series two - it makes a lot of sense, and makes me want to see series one even more.
January 16th, 2012, 03:23 PM #591
I know what you mean - I think Moffat's ridiculously talented and clever, but I can't get over some of the things he's said in the past - and yes, although I don't regularly watch Doctor Who I do know about the controversy over River and also over the Christmas episode. The thing is that I thought Irene was genuinely powerful. Okay, her power does come from sex, but she is also obviously intelligent and her sexuality, in and of itself, is never the object of patronising criticism, which I appreciated. It's never implied by any of the character that her sexuality makes her weak or womanly, and her "feelings" for Sherlock...well, that did initially annoy me, but in the end she still *wins*. She retains a huge hold over him, so despite his role as rescuer his very need to rescue her is an admission that he feels just as strongly towards her as she does towards him, even if that's not sexual. To be honest, I doubt her sexual attraction to him was due to him physically. She says she's gay, and I want to believe that she is and I want to respect her own declaration that she is, so I read her arousal as being a response to him intellectually. Which is perhaps slightly too much to believe of Moffat, but it's how I chose to read that scene.
The Reichenbach Fall broke me. I have never sobbed so hard at any film or TV show in my life. It was just so perfectly beautiful. Martin Freeman was brilliant, and they never took the "easy" route to an emotional response. It all felt so real and true to the characters. Oh God. I watched it with friends and was pretty much shaking from the phone call onwards.
January 18th, 2012, 01:07 PM #592
With regard to A Scandal In Belgravia, I understand what you're saying, but I found it annoying that in the end she was, despite her intelligence, still reduced to the status of your typical damsel-in-distress, and that she was shown to be ultimately reliant on emotion rather than reason. From what I've read, though I can't speak for this myself really, this is in direct contrast to the original story, A Scandal in Bohemia, where Adler actually outwits Holmes - this seems a bit regressive!
The other thing that really really bothered me was the portrayal of her homosexuality - she says that she's gay, but then is attracted to Sherlock? I want to believe that that's a response to him intellectually too, but it actually seems to go along with the constant portrayal of lesbianism in the media as hyper-sexualised (by which we inevitably mean, in our society, conventionally attractive to heterosexual men) and actually only really a performance which hides real heterosexuality.
This idea that women are only gay to look hot to men and then will turn straight if a sufficiently alluring man turns up is pervasive and really damaging, I think (another example of a similar thing is Katy Perry's I Kissed A Girl). I wish I thought episode one subverted that in some way, but I really don't think it did.
You probably were aware of those arguments anyway, but hey, I get het up about stuff... Good episode otherwise though.
The Reichenbach Fall, though. Wow. Easily the best episode in the series - it came close to breaking me, too, and I've only seen three episodes of the show, can't imagine what it'd have been like if I'd seen series one. There was some absolutely fantastic acting and I loved the way some bits were filmed. Sherlock's fall from grace was done perfectly, so it seemed inevitable. I don't mean it was predictable, though just enough of it was to make it horribly gripping, but that everything followed reasonably on from the last in what became a horrible avalanche.
Can't believe we're not getting any more of this until next year - I need to procure series one somehow...
January 18th, 2012, 01:39 PM #593
I initially thought that too, but in A Scandal in Bohemia, Irene only escapes because she had a tip-off about Holmes being likely to pursue her, and about what he looked like, so she could actually then piece it together and flee. And there, too, she is motivated by emotion - she wants to escape Holmes and the incriminating photographs because she wants to marry her lawyer fiance, Geoffrey Norton, in peace. So while parts of the story are subversive (at the end, Watson notes that Holmes never mocked the intellectual capabilities of women again), her actual actions in the story are not as amazing and self-sufficient as they are often made out to be. Also, many attacked BBC's Irene's awareness of her sexuality with the point that it's un-canonical - but the original Irene Adler was an opera singer who sometimes cross-dressed and who had obviously had several affairs before being married, which would have been regarded, by Victorian eyes, as being deeply "sexually immoral"! I'm not saying that there aren't issues with BBC!Irene, but sexing-up-the-original is not one of them.
That very definitely did anger me too; one of my major hang-ups is the portrayal of lesbians and bisexual women in mainstream media. And in a part of my mind, I do acknowledge that Moffat isn't really subtle enough to have made her an example of someone with fluid sexuality. (Which is annoying, because the warehouse scene: "Just in case anyone out there is still listening, I'm not actually gay!" "And I am. Look at us both." could be a truly wonderful, enlightened demonstration of how sexuality is rarely concrete or objective.) So really, I do pretty much agree with you on that one on one level. What is interesting, though, is that Sherlock's asexuality (though I must say that I saw him as gay in series 1) is handled pretty well and very sympathetically. While I'd hesitate to comment on its accuracy, the series has a lot of asexual fans who say it rings true. So perhaps it IS possible that Irene's "oh-wait-she's-not-ACTUALLY-lesbian" moment was an illustration of sexual fluidity - or, well, it's even possible that she was lying at the time, for some reason, or that she's bisexual but greatly prefers women. While I admit that the general message was a bit off-putting, I can think of reasons why it shouldn't be.
No, I definitely appreciate you bringing this up, because I had many of the same issues myself after watching it. The media firestorm after it only brought that back up and caused me a great deal of internal turmoil, and while I interpret the episode in a slightly different way to most commentators, I'm somewhat aware that that might partially, subconsciously, be because I'm a huge fan who is also a gay feminist, and I don't want to have to dislike my beloved show. That's would be pretty weak of me, I know, so I hope I can actually justify my general positivity over Irene's character. I do have major problems with Moffat, of course, but the fact that Gatiss is co-creator tempers my It-must-have-been-Moffat reflex.
Fall. kxueuyrk. Everyone's favoured theory seems to be that "Sherlock fell into the rubbish truck, John's view was obscured because of his standing spot and by the cyclist, the spectators were the homeless network, and his body was swapped with that of one of Molly's corpses. She then faked the DNA records." That just seems FAR too simple to me, because it occurred to me about 5 minutes after it ended, and so we were probably meant to reach that conclusion when it was actually something else entirely.
YES YES YES WATCH SERIES ONE NOW. One thing: Many people dislike aspects of the second episode, The Blind Banker, because it can be seen as a bit culturally insensitive. I personally had a little less difficulty with it than I did with Scandal. I don't think it's malicious, but some of its implications are a bit unfortunate.Last edited by Eyes of Wolf; January 18th, 2012 at 04:11 PM.
January 18th, 2012, 05:23 PM #594
That's really interesting additional information about A Scandal in Bohemia - when reading commentaries that have a clear bias, sometimes such details can be (ahem) obscured... Good to know.
Yes, that warehouse scene could have been great and subversive and then wasn't - disappointing, really, though hardly surprising... I know it could be construed as a positive message, but with Moffat's track record and the way most people will interpret it, I'm not optimistic. I understand where you're coming from with being a gay feminist and not wanting to find fault with the show, as a feminist myself (let's talk about media portrayal of women!) and with a lot of (some gay) feminist friends who adore Sherlock and Doctor Who.
The point about Sherlock's asexuality is interesting too; I can see how it could be good for raising awareness but on the other hand I guess it might be seen to typify asexual people as reason-obsessed and not liking (as opposed to being attracted to) people in general - I don't really know.
Some people I've been speaking to seem to think that Sherlock's corpse's face was actually that of Moriarty's latex mask of his face, but I genuinely have no idea, myself (sorry, I'm very boring!) I'm going to try and find series one and will bear what you say about episode two in mind.
January 19th, 2012, 02:01 PM #595
The issue of whether to be true to the canon is an interesting one, because even before Scandal, many fans felt that women in Sherlock series 1 were a) under-represented and b) weak. To some extent that makes sense, considering the source material, but given that the show has gone to the trouble of creating three original female recurring characters (Sally Donovan, Molly Hooper, and Sarah Sawyer in series 1) it would be nice if they were slightly more well-rounded. I could write long essays on the character of, say, Lestrade, who appears rather less than Molly. I suppose my feelings on Molly's character might change based on whatever it is she did last episode that we didn't see on screen.
And that's exactly it - the way the casual viewer will interpret it is rather more damaging than the way I do, having agonized over every scene exhaustively. Discussing female representation in media = my idea of a perfect day.
Mm, that's true - I hadn't actually thought of that. I mean, the fact that his asexuality is there in the first place is lovely, and pretty interesting, but it's true that in some ways it could be seen as negative. Also, Holmes has been construed as asexual for as long as the stories have been the topic of study at all - he's just about the "safest" character possible to define as asexual.
I've seen that theory, too! There's some variants on that one, like the body being that of one of Moriarty's agents who had been hired to kidnap the children due to his resemblance to Sherlock...after a while, though, all my theorizing becomes a bit far-fetched. Also, while I see Sherlock as having had a plan to survive, I prefer to believe for the time being that he thought there was genuinely a chance he would die, simply because it makes the rooftop scene that much more emotional.
January 19th, 2012, 05:19 PM #596
Yes, there is a difficult issue of how to approach adapting a nineteenth century series in any respect, and I appreciate that they've added female characters, though you're right some are less three-dimensional than they might be.
It's going to be interesting to find out what Sherlock asked Molly to do - I have a feeling it might have been to do with faking his death, though I, also, would like to think he thought he could really die (a bit of a trope, but still!). I reckon it'd be a bit of a cop-out if the corpse was just somebody who resembled Sherlock; I'm expecting something a little more, well, implausible.
I suppose, with the asexuality thing, any awareness is good, really. It's true he's been seen as the literary blueprint for asexual characters.
The thing that really gets me about the representation of women in the media (very briefly) is the way so many people seem to think that it's OK that women should be defined solely on feminine traits and only cast if they're absurdly conventionally attractive, because, well, feminism happened and it's all sunshine now! Women should be allowed to be feminine, they say, and (by inevitable implication) anyone who's not, to the last societally-dictated degree, can sod off. And that's not just the media, either... *mutters about double standards*
I recently came across this really excellent blog post about the poses women on fantasy cover art make and how ridiculously sexualised and impractical they are; amusing and (horribly) illuminating.
January 23rd, 2012, 02:00 PM #597
I can't see him crying - even just the minimal amount that he did on the rooftop - if he wasn't genuinely in pretty big danger. It just takes away a lot of the poignancy of that phone call if he thought he was 90% likely to survive. A good theory I've seen recently is that he took the bug camera from the flat with him (and that was the "Something of yours you might want back" he referred to in the text). The whole connecting-it-to-the-laptop scene is kind of superfluous if the camera isn't mentioned again - so, of course, it must be important. On the roof, he asked Moriarty to explain himself, which is quite OOC for him, so it's possible he was recording the whole thing on the camera for later proof and needed the explanation. This doesn't actually explain how he survived, but I'm pretty sure it's correct.
A lot of people don't even really know that asexuality exists, so for a show as popular as Sherlock to openly address it is amazing. (Although Moffat gave an interview with the Guardian at the weekend in which he appears to have said that Sherlock is straight but represses his sexual feelings. I'm sorry, is he writing the show I'm watching?! I thought the ENTIRE POINT of Scandal was that Sherlock has no sexual feelings towards Irene at all, despite being fascinated by her, and perhaps even romantically attached to her?! Her nakedness shocks him, yes, but there's no indication that he's at all aroused by it!)
Personally, I felt that season 1 portrays him as openly gay - I'd be interested in what you think of that. So, at the moment, my own take is that he's asexual but homoromantic (or biromantic). I doubt they'll ever clear it up decisively, so at the moment I'm happy with my interpretation!
Grurghhh, yes. There are so few female characters in any kind of visual media who aren't absurdly beautiful in an idealized, male-orientated way. Of course some women are - and some women are aggressively sexual - but when every so-called "confident" female character in film is wholly constructed around sex, her characterization looks less like a manifestation of confidence and more like a male fantasy.
That's a brilliant post - I read a similar one recently on the positioning of women on classical music CD covers (on which they are, if sharing a picture with a man, invariably in a "supporting" position in the composition).
January 24th, 2012, 01:22 PM #598
That's an interesting theory and seems pretty likely. Another one I heard today was about the fall itself. Sherlock (or whoever it was) fell face-down, but we see the corpse's face and it's not badly injured - in fact, the blood was coming from the back of the head, which certainly suggests forcefully that all is not as it seems...
I agree that any publicity for asexuality is good and would say that asexual homoromantic seems by far the best way to characterise Sherlock's (a)sexuality so far. And they won't clear it up, they'll want to keep us guessing! I also think it's pretty absurd to suggest Sherlock was attracted to Irene, but I suppose any excuse to imagine sexual tension...
You put the point about media representation of women very well. Classical music CD covers are frankly ridiculously sexist - people go on about how the classical music world is much less image-focused than the pop music world, but actually it's nearly as bad. I'd be interested to read the post, if you can still find it.
January 24th, 2012, 02:23 PM #599
The Mail on Sunday did a double page spread on the theories last Sunday. It's hilarious that they can't seem to decide whether they love Sherlock or hate it. They kicked up a fuss about Scandal being shown pre-watershed at the time it was aired.
Sometimes I think that Moffat doesn't actually believe half of the things he says in interviews, or that he tailors his answers to the audience to the extent that they seem like things he doesn't believe. At fan Q&As, he and Gatiss are pretty happy with suggesting that there's sexual tension between Sherlock and John, and then he turns around and says "Oh, no, how on earth could you get the idea? They're both 100% straight."
I feel that they're basically in a committed romantic relationship already and just haven't noticed yet.
Unfortunately I've completely forgotten where I read it...sorry! Exactly, a lot of the more elitist classical music fans can go on for ages about how pop singers "aren't talented and just exploit their sex appeal," (not like ours, the implication goes.)Which is just...pretty short-sighted. At the moment you have to be ridiculously beautiful to be a successful operatic soprano. I don't think it's a coincidence.
January 24th, 2012, 04:40 PM #600
The Mail is a funny thing - I hear that they accompanied their shock! horror! piece on Scandal with a large photo of Irene... the hypocrisy in that, as in so much they do, is astounding.
Yeah, I think it's pretty much Moffat and Gatiss's business to outrage us as far as possible without actually alienating us. They know they can get away with it and I guess they think any publicity is good publicity. And it's certainly working, after all!
Ha. No. A lot of things aren't coincidences, and that's certainly one of them. At least opera singers have the excuse of having skill as well as looks. Don't worry about the blog, though, it's fine.


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