Today is the last day of my eng102 class but I missed it because I was late. When I saw the post from my class website “ supernatural” and I start to rethink about my all semester in this english class. The first thing that came to my mind is the word “blog” and I can say that I had learned so many new things from this class then also I had so much fun with my blog too.
There are so many things that I have learned from this class.first of all, I have proved my english than before now. such as, I learned what is symbol and undersatding the deeper meaning of the word. Forexample, the first entry blog that I did for this class is called “ HERO”. The blog is about a pop song and word is written by a pop singer. During the time I was working on some symbols from this song and I realized that there are many different meaning of one word or some words that came with a deeper meaning. I began to studying the meaing of behind that word. Now whenever I heard a song or read a poem, I can have a different feeling that I never had before or I can began to understaing more about the author’s feeling.
The second thing that I learned from this class is the archetype. The reason why I say that because before I took this class I don’t even know what is archetype all about. Now I understanding the meaning about the archetype and I can also find other people’ archetype from the fictions, film, poem, song, anything that has a personality. Forexample,after I studied about archetype, I also did a blog entry for my own archetype. During the time I was working on my blog, I lealized my own archetype and it is helping to find myself more or undersanding more about myself.
The third thing that I learned is how to analysis a film. For my final project I was working on a film call “ princess mononoke”. That is the hardest blog that I did in this class and I used everything that I learned from this class. Such as I talked about all the characters’s archetype, some interesting symblos, summary, even the whole background from this film.
For my classmate’ work I would like to talk about the group call “ lost boys”. The reason why I choose this group to talk about because I love their ideas and passion for this class. Forexanple, their final project is very interesting for me. They made a short film for their project and they also acts in the film too. It is can shows that they are really working as agroup. There is another thing that I want to say about them is they did all their blogs on time and they wrote a lot for eachblog because it can shows many details from what they learned from the class.
Inconclusion, there are so many new things that I learned from my ‘supernatural” call and the way our professor teach us is very fresh and interesting. The class can make me feel have more passion about learning english and I felt I proved a lot on reading poem too.
PS: HAPPY HOLIDAY TO EVERYONE FROM MY CLASS.
During the time i was working on my final project for eng102 class. I spend around two days to do alot reasearch for my final project. Finally, i have decided to write about a japanese cartoon movie.The movie is call “princess Mononoke” and in japanese version is call “ Mononoke-hime”. This movie is a 1997 japanese animated historical fantasy feature film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli.The “Princess Mononoke” was extremely successful in japan and other countries withc both anime fans and who love to watch art film in different speaking countries. So that means “Princess Mononoke” is an very popular film in the whole world. In those countries, it was widely onterpreted as a film about the environment told in the form of japanese mythology. As the time when people were wathcing the film then they will have a overview of the old japanese culture. The famous american film critic Roger Ebert placed the movie sixth on his top movies of 1999. During the time, “Prinecss Mononoke” also becam the highest grossing movie in japan.Overall, “Princess Mononoke” is the third highest grossing anime movie in japan. The whole story of this film is amazing because the whole film is all supernatural type film. The setting of “Princess Mononoke” is aperiod drama set specifically in the late Muromachi period which mean around thousands years ago from now of japan but with numerous fantastic elements. Which is also a medieval transformantion into the modem period, the power of great general “yi zheng” substantially weakened. In the scene the place is said to be located off the coast of kyushu, and the yakushima island is located in the ancient forests and the northern state of shirakami mountains.In this film, the story concentrates on involvement of the outsider Ashitaka in the struggle betweent the supernatural guardians of a forest and the humans of the Irontown who consume its resources. One of the main character the outsider ashitaka came from Ezo tribes, they are primitive peoples in northern, and they against the japanese imperial family for along period of time.But they lost at the end and some of them are still living in the northern of a small village and the outsider ashitaka is one of them from the story.The main theme of the whole film is there are no good things and evil things in this struggle adn the sympathies of the film makers keep switching.There can be no clear victory, and the hope is that relationship between humans and the nature is cyclic.Also the film director Miyazaki want to show his audians how the film “ Princess Mononoke” can work for us, if humans are in the destruction of the enviroment, and whether humansare really peaceful with nature and other issues. For me, There are many reasons that why i decided to talked about “Princess Mononoke”, first of all, i really love Hayao Miyazaki’s all cartoon movies and the “Princess Mononoke” is the one attrac me the most because the whole film is all about supernaural and comes witch alot fantastic things and interesting characters in the film.Also there is an other reason is which i think “Prinecess Mononoke” can related the class about “ supernatural” the most and also i think this movie have many similar ideas like what i have learned from this class before.
At the begaining of the film, the story was started with one of the main character and named Ashitaka. Who was the last Emishi prince in his village. In one day morining, when people were working on their farm then there was a big monster named Nago came to the village and try to kill all the human in this village. The character Ashitaka was the person who was battling this monster Nago at the began. During the fight, Ashitaka is wounded on his arm by Nago.After the boar is killed, the village wisewoman told him that the wound si cursed and will spread to the rest of his body, eventually killing him. That was the key how the whole story began and it is also the reason why Ashitaka have to all the way travel to the west. After that he prepared to go to th west and find out what happened on his arm, so he cuts his hair, signifying his permanent departure from his village, and leaves on Yakul, which is his red elk. Some time later, Ashitaka passes by a village being attacked by samurai. During the time he was traveling, he stand by at another farm and he saw there was many soldiers were killing famers and he trired to help them. But there is something wrong witch his arm again because when some of the men attack him, forcing Ashitaka to defend himself. His cursed arm displays supernatural powers, primarily superstrength, causing his arrows to remove limbs and even the head of one man. That’s means he can’t conctrol his own arm. Later after the fight, Ashitaka went to a nearby town and he meets Jigo there. a wandering monk who aids him in buying rice. That evening, the monk tells Ashitaka that the he might find help in the Deer God forest in the mountains of the west populated by giant animal gods. The monk also adds that the forest is a no go zone for humans. After that night, Ashitaka decided to keep traveling. Later on, he stoped by A nearby town in the mountains of the west, called Iron Town,continually clears the nearby forests to make charcoal to smelt irosand, leading to battles with the giant forest beasts attempting to protect their diminishing forest. In one such battle, three giant wolves which are all supernatural wolves, led by the wolf god Moro, attack villagers transporting rice. They are accompanied by San, a human girl adopted by the wolves whom the people of Iron Town call "the Wolf Girl" and she is also the most important person in the whole film.who also named “princess mononoke” in the story. In the attack Moro and several villagers are injured. The day following the battle, Ashitaka finds two injured villagers near a river. While rescuing them, he sees San treating Moro's wounds, when ashitake tried to say something to her and she disappears quickly. He returns the villagers to Iron Town passing through a forest full of bestial gods, including diminutive tree spirits called kodama. Also in the forest is the Forest Spirit (Shishigami in the original Japanese), described as a "god of life and death", who takes the form of a deer-like kirin during the day and a large shadowy “night walker” at night.
Ashitaka is given a warm welcome when he reaches Iron Town because he saved their people and he is also a good lookin guy so all the women in the iron town are likes him. During the time he was staying there, He learned from the leader of Iron Town, Lady Eboshi who is another important person in the film, that the giant boar which cursed him was once a forest god called Nago and that Eboshi had shot the boar, driving it to madness. On hearing this,he realized that why there are many madness on his arm. Ashitaka is filled with rage and must restrain his right arm from killing Eboshi. He is dissuaded from doing so by lepers whom Eboshi has taken under her care and employed as gunmakers. She also employs former prostitutes in her famous ironworks in order to free them from brothels. At the same night, Iron Town is then infiltrated by San, who attacks Eboshi. Ashitaka intervenes using his curses power to stop the two sides' fighting and takes San back to the forest, but is severely wounded when he is shot through the chest. With his curse's power, he manages to open the gate and leave the town, but collapses soon afterward. San presents Ashitaka to the Forest Spirit, who heals his wounds but does not remove the curse. San soon learns that the boars, under the leadership of the boar god Okkoto, are planning another attack on Iron Town. Eboshi prepares for the assault and sets out to destroy the Forest Spirit. The head of the Forest Spirit is believed to grant immortality. Jigo, who is now revealed to be a mercenary-hunter, plans to give the head to the emperor; in return the emperor promises to give Iron Town legal protection against the envious daimyos. coveting the town's prosperity. Eboshi, however, suspects (correctly) that the emperor's agents are also assigned to take control of Irontown at the most opportune moment. Meanwhile, Ashitaka recovers and falls in love with San. However, Moro, who is poisoned by the bullet Eboshi shot into her, warns him that he cannot save San.
During the battle, Iron Town and the Imperial agents set a trap for the boars, devastating their army, as the sametime while Jigo's hunters corrupt Okkoto with a poisoned iron ball, the same as Nago.then became a monster and Badly wounded, Moro attacks Okkoto to save San, who was trapped on his snout while trying to stop him from turning into a demon.when all of them arrived to the rive then the Forest Spirit appears and kills both Moro and Okkoto because they were transformed to a monster and the Forestspirit though San is saved. While Ashitaka cleans the demon worms from San, by the sametime,Eboshi wasn’t give up about her plan and she thought she could hill the Froest spirit. So she shoots off the Forest Spirit's head while it is transforming into the night-walker and in turn loses her arm to Moro, who revives long enough for one last strike against her sworn enemy. Jigo collects the head as the Forest Spirit's body turns into a "mindless god of death" that begins covering the land in a lethal black that kills everything it touches. The hunters scatter and the population of Iron Town is forced to flee to the surrounding lake as the god destroys the town in search of its head.During the time when the forest spirit was searching his head,Ashitaka and San chase down and take the head from Jigo and return it to the Forest Spirit.when the Forest spirit get his head back then everything became changed. Such as, it collapses into the lake, and the land becomes green again and all the lepers and accursed,that means everything became look like natural or like how the real forest looks like before.including Ashitaka, are healed. Unable to give up the life each of them is used to, Ashitaka and San were helping each other as much as possible. At the end of the film, Ashitaka decides to live at Iron Town, which a reformed Eboshi vows to remake as "a better", much simpler village. The film ends with a Kodama appearing in the rejuvenated forest, signifying that a new life has finally started again.
There are also many interesting archetypes in this film too.The film is not a kind long but there are many different types of characters in the film and all of them have some different archetypes too. Now i am going to talk about two main characters in this film and also explain their archetypes as much as i can. For example, in the story the first main character that came out is Ashitaka and after i watched the film i findout that his archetype is wanderer.According to the Wikipedia,the meaning of wanderer is Itinerant people, who wander from place to place with no permanent home, or are vagrant. Which just a perfect archetype to the main character Ashitaka. The reason why i say that because in the film Ashitaka is a young Ezo.in order during the fight he want to protect his tribe and to be cursed, currse with time due to weak , leading to death. So he decided to go to the west , looking for ways to lift the cure. That is how the film began and also can shows that the character Ashitaka have to go all the way to the west to find out the reason why he was cursed. During his travling, he went to many different places and meet many different kind of people too. Such as, he went to the village and killed some soldiers then he meets Jigo. After Ahsitaka met Jigo, he was keep on travling to the west. Then he meets Mononoke and all her family memebers from the forest. He saved people from Iron town and he also moved there and meet many people in that twon. From those details in the film, it is very clear to see that Ashitaka is a kind person that who always move to different places to another and i can tell that Ashitaka’s archetype is wanderer from those details. There is another important character’ arhcetype that i want to talk about is Princess Mononoke. During the research and i find out that her archetype is orphan. According to the Wikipedia, An orphan ( is a child permanently bereaved of his or her parents. In common usage, only a child (or the young of an animal) who has lost both parents is called an orphan. However, adults can also be referred to as orphans, or "adult orphans". The reason why i think Mononoke’s archetype is wanderer because from the film the character Mononoke’s background and her personality i can say that her archetype is orphan. For example, according to the film, sang’s parents were all died because the destruction small forest was attacked by the wolf god, to save your life so be abandoned.Mona the small san wolf as God is his daughter, but also as the Mona small Sang for his mother.Little concern is to defend mulberry forests and animals live together, she even refused to acknowledge that they are human, that she is a wolf. She has repeatedly tried to assassinate the leader of urban black hat lady, because the small black hat Sang believe that once killed and the town people would end the destruction of forests. Ashitaka then let her slowly realize their human side. From those details and her background it is very clear to see that the Princess Mononoke’s archetype is orphan. There is also another archetype that i fond from the film is the Magician and the character is the Forest spirit. According to the wikipeida, the word Magician means Magician (paranormal), a person who performs feats using supernatural means or a character in a fictional fantasy context who performs supernatural feats. The reason why i think Magican can be the Forest spirit’ archetype because the Forest spirit is the beast in th mountains of the ancient gods of forest and also has the supernatural power. Sometimes in order to have a lot of great deer antlers the image to show up, and have feet like birds and baboons face. He has the ablility to provide biological vitcality, but also allows them to death. He also has the ability to heal huaman wounds. From those infromation in the film, it is easy to see that the Magician is the Forest spirit’ archetype.
There are also many interesting symblos that i found from the film. The film is all about supernatural, so there are many symblos that have the supernatural meaning in this film. For example, there are many “pigs” that are appeared in the film and those pigs are comes with some supernatural meaning in the film. Such as the oldest pig this this film is call kyushu, rule of town almost over 500 year lod giant boar. Eyes are blind.with the family holding the black hat against the forest after being turned into demons, led the family to come to crusade against mankind. Although the protoss have hostile relations with the wolfs, for violations of human hate this forest are both the same. it is also can be akind of emotion that those supenatural animals have now because at the same time more and more small family of mental deterioration of the situation was extremely anxious. Another symblos is the word “ wolf”. In this film, the meaning of the word “ wolf ” it is not only can be animal, it is also comes with another supernatural meaning. In this film, the word “wolf” is akind wolf who has three hundred years old knowledges in the forest. Who can also speak human languages and the wolf who saved san’s life. It shows many emotions that animals have and some different types of love that they shows to eachother. The third symblos that i think is very important in this film, is the word “ Forest”. The reason why i say that because according to the wikepida, the word “forest” means a forest (also called a wood, woodland, wold, weald, holt, frith, or firth) is an area with a high density of trees. But in this film the word “ Forest” in this film it is not only about natural enviroment. It has many others meaning, such as, wealty, power, greed, and family. The reason why i say that because huamn are destruction the forest because they want to build their weapons and fight to others or earned more money from the forest. During the time they were attracking the animals we can see their greed on their face and mind. But to those animals, the forest is the only place that they can live and to them the forest is their home.so they can do anything to protect their forest even their life.
In conclusion, during the time i was working on my final project on “Princess Mononoke”. I realized that i learned many new things that i didn’t know befoe. After i watched the film over and over again, i never felt boring about this film and everytime i wathced the film i always had a different feeling that came out about this film. The more times and the more research that i did for this film then some deep or different concept that might come out from my mind. But the most feeling about this film is sadness. The reason why i say that because during the time i was watching the film, there are some parts of the film can make people think more about the relationship between human and the whole natural. At the end of the film, the most sences are all about killing eachother and death. They are also many deep concepts in this film, such as human’ greed, warm, how to protect natural evrionment in the earth etc. In my own opinion, i think the director the film Miyazaki wants to use his film “ Princess Mononoke” in the destruction of the environmentm, and whether peopke really peaceful coexistence with nature and other issues. That is also can be alesson what i l learned from “ Princes Mononoke”.
After I finished the fiction call “ coraline” by British author Neil Gaiman, then the first thing that came to my mind is this book can reminds me the movie that we saw in class call “spirited away” by Haoyao Miyazaki. Both of these two stories are produced by cartoon movie now and became very popular. Also both authors are trying to tell people a lesson from the story that they mad. But the interesting thing is each of these two stories can speaking to one another. The reason why I say that because during the reading, as the time when I was reading “Coralline” and I find out that both of these stories have so many similarities and also some differences between them. Like in the book “Coraline” there are many symbols, Motifs, and Themes in the story and these items can helps the reader easy to understanding the story and also that is the way how we can find the similarities and differences from them. First of all, there are two symbols that I found from both stories are the word “Cat” from “Coraline” and another one is the “ Dragon” from “ Spirited away”. The reason why I choose these two symbols to compare two stories because both of these two words are play a very important part in both stories and there are also can be the name of two main character’s in both stories. For example, the meaning of the word “cat” in “Coraline” it is not only to be animal because the “cat” can also be the key character in the story. When coraline came to another word the “cat” is her only friend who always talked to her and helped her. In the story “cat” moves freely from one world to the next, although he can talk in the other mother's world. So he has some abilities that can helps coraline. Like in the story as the other mother opens the door, coraline grabs the snow globe and throws the “cat” at the other mother’s head, and escapes to the real world with the key. That can shows how the “cat” helped coraline at the end and also the way that “cat” helped coraline is very similar like what the “dragon” did in “spirited away”. In the story, the word “dragon” is also a young boy who also played a very important character in the story which very similar to the book “coraline”. The reason why I say that because the “dragon” is also a young boy who is a dragon in the guise of a human in the film, which mean he has some supernatural power in the story and also who is the only person helps the main character chihiro after her parents have transformed into pigs. That was how these symbols works in these two stories, and they both though helpful towards two characters in the stories. Second of all, the themes are very similar in both of the stories too. In both of the stories, they are all talking about how a little girl faced to their challenges when they moved to another world and how they saved their parents at the end. For example, in the book “Coraline” the main character coraline is the little girl who moved to an old big house with her parents. The house is big and old so they were sharing with some neighborhood like Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, two elderly women retired from the stage, and the Crazy Old Man Upstairs who is training a jumping mouse circus. Since when she find out there is another door can goes to other world everything became wired and she also had to faced all her challenged from inside that door such as, her other parents wants her stay with her and tired to let her forget about her real parents. if she don’t then her other mother willsew buttons into her eyes and push her into the darkroom forever. Like what she did to other kids. It is very similar like what chihiro’s problem in “spirited away” because after her parents transformed into pig the only way she can do to helped them back is to work hard in the other world. So, it is very clear to see that, the themes are very similar in both of the stories. They all shows how a little girl are facing to their problem.
Third of all, there are some differences between these two stories too. In both of the stories, there is one symbol that I can use to find the difference between the two stories is the word “door”. The reason why I say that because in “coraline” the “door” can be one of the key word in the whole story and it is also the main way how she goes into another world from her own family too. The “door” also appeared in the stories many times, even every chapter the author talked about the “door” because it is comes with the key or the word “ door” can be a bridge between the other world to the real world. It is very clear to see that it is plays an very important part in the whole story. But in “spirited away”, the author didn’t mentioned too much about the door and it is only appeared twice in the film , in the began and the end. So which meaning the “door” in “spirited away” didn’t play a very deep meaning in the whole story. That was one different thing that I found from these two stories.
In conclusion, in my own opinion both of the stories are shows amazing play about supernatural and there are so many similarities things are in the stories.After i rethink about these two stories, i though the two authors are trying use these two little girls to tells the readers a lesson. Both of them are trying to let us learn something from these two little girls and also think everyone can find their archetype or something that similar when we were young. For me,what I learned from these two stories is never give up about your life. No matter how hard it is, the only thing that we need to do is keep working on it.
From my last blog entry 3.3, like what i said before i want to write a research paper about a movie that can relates to the course which means " supernatural". The movie that i decided to write about is call " Princess Mononoke" and the director is Hayap Miyazaki. The first thing that i did is i watch the movie two times, and replayed some important parts from the film which i can able to write about. The film was great and i find out alots of interesting things about supernatural too. i might find out some interesting symblos that can relate to my project. After i watched the film i began to do some research about " princess mononoke".During those two days, i spend afew hours for eachday and i was working on the back ground research about this film on different types of websit. such as, when is this film product, the way the produced, some different concepts from people, the author's concept, and the whole history back ground about this story.That was also what i worte already. what i am thinking about now is i want to write about five pages for my final project and i already wrote one page. The next thing i am trying to do is i will keep workin on my writting and also replay some parts of the film too. The reason why i am doing this way because i want to find out some deep concepts from this film. My plan is during the thanksgiving day want to finish half of my work and rewrite some parts if my ideas are change.There is another thing that i will be working on is i will start to cut some parts of the film because i want to do my own music video or a short trailer for this film. If i do not have engough time to do this i will try to find a perfect video from "youtube.com" and post it on my blog. Another media part i want to do is , i might downloads some pictures about this film and photoshop them looks related to this course. That was what i have already done for my final project and some new plans for the future. leaves some ideas if you want to please.Thank you.
What i am trying to do with my final project for this class is i want to write about a movie that i am interesting in and also relate with " supernatural". The reason why i choose that because i saw a movie in class call " sprited away" which attracked me alot. First of all, i love Hayao Miyazaki's cartoon very much and i am going looking for an different cartoon that he made is relate to " supernatural ". second of all, i will watch the whole movie and find out the main idea and talke about it. similar like what we did in class. i might trying to talking about what this movie makes me feel and all characters' archetype , symblo, setting. Third of all, i will try to make a movie trailer for this final project by myself and upload it on my final blog or some pictures that is about the movie. There is another important reason why i choose Hayap Miyazaki's work because we did some his works in class before and i think if i do his movie is more relate with the course. That was my basic idea about what i am trying to do in the next few weeks. please leave me some comments if you can because that might be can help me.
Hayao Miyazaki
This trailer can shows most of his movies which can relate to "supernatural".
The video i picked from the internet is call the "The Tragedy of Macbeth" (1971 film) directed by Roman Polans. There are many reasons why i choose this video and put it on my blog. first of all, the video is a move trailer and it is not a official. But after i wathced some videos about "macbeth" including this one and i realized that this trailer can shows the most detail about the story. Forexample, at the beganing of the trailer, there are two main characters are appears at the beganing and the way they are kissing eachother can shows their close relationship. Then at the 47 second of the trailer, the video plays the king was killing his friend who was his partner before.The reason he killed him because he doesn't want anyone who might effect him to become the king and also his wife was in the plan too. Another part that attract my eyes the most is how the king died at the end because he was listening to what these three witches told him about no one will kill him except who wasn't bron in an normal way. However he was by killed at the end, and the video shows the reason why he has been killed because the person who killed him was bron by Abdominal production planing. In my opinion , this is the most special part of the whole video because that other videos doesn't show this part. However, this movie trailer show the most important sence for me and this video can helps me to understanding the whole story very clearly. so i hope every who watched my blog can also take a look of this video and i also want this video can helpe you to understand more about the " macbeth" too.
After i read the introduction and plot about macbeth, i would like to choose this image to represent the whole background of macbeth. In this image, there are two main characters in this images and their names are macbeth and macduff. From this image we can easy to see that the way they dress can shows their personal background for the whole story. Also from their eyes, the way they are looking at eachother and their hands are holding on the same sword,these details from the image can shows that they are trying to do something secrect. There are many reasons that why i choose this image. First of all, in my opinion, i think the background of this image can tells what these two people are trying to do with the sword.The background is all red blood which can be symbol and it can represents what they did with this sword. In the story they killed many people who they think will stop them to become the king so they killed them then because their greedy then becomes the king and queen. Another reason why i choose this image because from their eyes and the way they acts in this image can shows that they are afraid about what they did and they looks like they feel guilty about what they did to people they killed because in the story people they killed were all their friends or partners.Also this image can shows their dirty secrect that they are planing to do with their friends because in this image, their faces don't looks like human anymore they looks like evils because their mind are control by three evil withces which relates with the key point of the whole story. However, there are many characters in this story but i think these two people are the main characters and this image can shows their personality , background and their secrect. The main summary macbeth is about how regicide and its aftermath and i think this image can proves more about their superstition, greedy and how they sold out their friends which relates the key point of the whole story.
