My roommate had to read Ghost World for your lit. and media class and from what she described i knew i would not like it. but then she also said she had to watch clips in class and said the movie was more bearable than the book so i decided to give it a try.
These girls are such assholes? people like this don't really exist? They don't even look like high schooler i hate when people who cast try and pass off people in their mid 20s as teenagers even if they are teenagers they dont look like it. and the movie is full of ableist and racist language.
The movie is just really slow and boring? Like they're just really pathetic and mean for no reason?
It kind of reminds me of Daria except i can stand Daria even if its similarly slow slice of life type stuff and meanish high school girls. I do prefer Daria to this.
This girl with the black hair is the worst, and the other girl and people around her should stop enabling her to do these thing. its just creepy and slow.
It was really hard to get through a i wouldnt have watched this on my own. its just kinda really fucked up you know?
The acting is not really good either. the characters just arent my thing i guess? nothing in this movie is honestly redeemable? its just boring and gross, its trying to be edgy but its just boring and kind of abusive, defiantly ableist.
if my roommate said this movie was more bearable than the book im glad we didnt have to read the book for class i probably wouldnt have made it through the book. and she said that the movie didnt even follow the book so???
Was there even a plot? stuff just happened and the ending was bad?
and there was no ghost? the most disappointing thing was no ghosts in ghost world.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Week 11
This week i read the reccomended David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp.
It was alright, the story was a little confusing at times with the second brother and then him being "alive" and them meeting but not really. I hated the main character he was a super jerk and really didnt deserve anything good to come to him. i thought it was kind of racist to draw the Japanese girl with anime-ish eyes. overall i thought the art style was interesting i liked how often it changed and why it changed sometimes to fit the dialog like when the marriage was falling apart everything would come apart in the drawing and i though that was a good way to reflect the overall tone.
I also liked how the fonts changed with each character and their personality, i couldnt read his moms good though because i cant read cursive so it was difficult for me to read her parts. but overall i think the font choices were nice, fitting, and helped establish characters.
my favourite character i think was Ursala, she said the best stuff and was just nice compaired to the main guy who i didnt like.
Overall i thought the book was really pretentious, i loved the colors especially the purples and yellows, and i liked how the art style would change and the fonts and i guess the story was interesting, i cared about the parts where he was at the mechanics place the most but i guess how it was like a past/present story that meets back up at the end type thing. I dont think they should get back together but whatever.
I wouldnt have read this book on my own like most books in my class but i dont regret having to read it like other in this class so i guess thats good in its own right.
It was alright, the story was a little confusing at times with the second brother and then him being "alive" and them meeting but not really. I hated the main character he was a super jerk and really didnt deserve anything good to come to him. i thought it was kind of racist to draw the Japanese girl with anime-ish eyes. overall i thought the art style was interesting i liked how often it changed and why it changed sometimes to fit the dialog like when the marriage was falling apart everything would come apart in the drawing and i though that was a good way to reflect the overall tone.
I also liked how the fonts changed with each character and their personality, i couldnt read his moms good though because i cant read cursive so it was difficult for me to read her parts. but overall i think the font choices were nice, fitting, and helped establish characters.
my favourite character i think was Ursala, she said the best stuff and was just nice compaired to the main guy who i didnt like.
Overall i thought the book was really pretentious, i loved the colors especially the purples and yellows, and i liked how the art style would change and the fonts and i guess the story was interesting, i cared about the parts where he was at the mechanics place the most but i guess how it was like a past/present story that meets back up at the end type thing. I dont think they should get back together but whatever.
I wouldnt have read this book on my own like most books in my class but i dont regret having to read it like other in this class so i guess thats good in its own right.
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Week 10
Foe this week i read phoenix volume 4 by Osamu Tezuk.
I will never understand how a baby lost an eye and an arm falling down a mountain. I hated the first part of this book a lot, i really didnt want to keep reading it. It was really gross and disgusting. The good parts were the sculptor even if he was probably a pedophile because he had to be over 14. i didnt like that Gao became a sculptor or even that he got to live and the other guy died. overall i didnt think Gao deserved the arc he got, he wasnt someone who i though deserved the good things he got even if they ended up bad later, people shouldnt take pity on him and even if he was good at sculpting what he did in his past should have mattered and im glad his other arm gt cut off.
I liked the sculptors arc better, overcoming a disability without anger and murder is something Gao could have learned from. I really liked when he was looking for the pheonix and when he had his reincarnation dream.
Overall i liked the amount of buddhist imagry in the book but overall i didnt like the book. i didnt like 90% of the charcters and could only get into certain parts with the other sculpter.
i guess i like that it was two stories coming together as one later. but i probably wouldnt read any other books in the series if theyre all like this. its just not the type of stories i read or characters i like.
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Week 9 movie Fantastic Planet
Ive seen parts of this movie before but never the whole thing. its very surrealist and experimental i think film wise. I was very excited to get to watch the whole thing through for once. the concept is neat and i think easy to grasp. the art style is not really my taste but i appreciate it. I really liked the concept of lessons i think it would be neat to have information available like that. I think the environment and landscape is interesting and i liked the gem scene.
I like the costume design for the Oms they remind me of clown costumes, the colors and shapes of them. the creatures in this world are interesting and scary in a way. the imagery is really fantastical.
The animation is also interesting and its stop motion-ness and jerky action goes well with the art style and level of surrealist that it is. i think all the technical choices fit very well. The concepts of different Oms societies i think was nice to add too.
Overall my favorite part was definitely the different creatures and animals on the planet, they were very imaginative and surrealist and just interesting to look at and see how they work, what they do, and how they interact with each other and everyone else. the story arc was interesting and very other worldly apocalyptic type thing. its a good foreign film worth reading the subtitles for.
I like the costume design for the Oms they remind me of clown costumes, the colors and shapes of them. the creatures in this world are interesting and scary in a way. the imagery is really fantastical.
The animation is also interesting and its stop motion-ness and jerky action goes well with the art style and level of surrealist that it is. i think all the technical choices fit very well. The concepts of different Oms societies i think was nice to add too.
Overall my favorite part was definitely the different creatures and animals on the planet, they were very imaginative and surrealist and just interesting to look at and see how they work, what they do, and how they interact with each other and everyone else. the story arc was interesting and very other worldly apocalyptic type thing. its a good foreign film worth reading the subtitles for.
Monday, October 13, 2014
Week 8 movie Persepolis
The week 8 movie recommendation was Persepolis, but because i hadent read it yet and planned to read it for week 9 i wanted to wait until after i read the book to watch the movie.
I love how the art style of the comic translated to animation, it just looks really really good. the voices arent the same as i imagined them to be but it doesnt affect it that much.
In the animation i think it helped me understand the history a little better, having things pronounced properly and said to me verbally helps me learn.
The book definitely gives more information but thats true with most book to movie adaptation. but it in ways gives more information because you can hear the feelings and inflections in their voices and see the subtle face changes.
I cannot express how well i think this art style translates to animation.
I think the transitions where they tried to fit a lot of what was happening in the comic into one part transition also worked but i cannot tell if it worked because i read the book and knew what was happening anyways.
the pacing feels a little fast and rushed but i understand fitting a whole book into a small amount of time, but it still kind of bothers me like we dont get as much time to see and get ti know the characters.
I think the animation was more emotional for me then the book because of the added movements, sounds, and inflections. music always adds feelings to situations.
overall i thought it was a good interpretation of the book and while i haven't read the second book thats also part of the movie it probably did an equally as good job though i cant speak for the pacing but overall good.
I love how the art style of the comic translated to animation, it just looks really really good. the voices arent the same as i imagined them to be but it doesnt affect it that much.
In the animation i think it helped me understand the history a little better, having things pronounced properly and said to me verbally helps me learn.
The book definitely gives more information but thats true with most book to movie adaptation. but it in ways gives more information because you can hear the feelings and inflections in their voices and see the subtle face changes.
I cannot express how well i think this art style translates to animation.
I think the transitions where they tried to fit a lot of what was happening in the comic into one part transition also worked but i cannot tell if it worked because i read the book and knew what was happening anyways.
the pacing feels a little fast and rushed but i understand fitting a whole book into a small amount of time, but it still kind of bothers me like we dont get as much time to see and get ti know the characters.
I think the animation was more emotional for me then the book because of the added movements, sounds, and inflections. music always adds feelings to situations.
overall i thought it was a good interpretation of the book and while i haven't read the second book thats also part of the movie it probably did an equally as good job though i cant speak for the pacing but overall good.
Week 9 Persepolis
This Week i read Persepolis, i had heard about it before but never had a chance to read it so im glad i finally got too. we've been reading a lot of autobiographical comics in this class and i think it helps us relate a lot more. even though i grew up in America and we are not a war-zone i related to the girl in the book as a child and also as a girl and growing up. I really liked all the historical background the book gives and the different opinions and outcomes. its scary to think these things happened and theres a little disconnected because its a comic but i think its a good way to help convey to people that might not normally learn about this stuff. It makes me really want to read the second book to find out what happens which is not something i felt with the other comics we read like Maus, i felt more obligated to read both but i didnt really want to and i think that makes this a good book when someone actually want to keep reading not just because it was assigned to them.
I really enjoyed the art style, its probably not only my favorite thing ive read so far but my favorite thing i got to look at. The way the people were drawn and the contrast of dark and light lent itself well to the story. and they type font was very easy to read, a lot of times i have trouble reading fonts so im happy when something i actually like is easy for me to visually read. overall again i really enjoyed the story and that it was through a child's eyes and worked through her feeling of what the time was like, i really like historical things and her relationships with people added well to the story and made it real, because it was real. It was very interesting to see her grow up in the book and how things changed and how she changed. It was definitely interesting to read something about another country from the perspective of someone from that country, i think its important to read books like this from places you dont live and situations those people face.
I really enjoyed the art style, its probably not only my favorite thing ive read so far but my favorite thing i got to look at. The way the people were drawn and the contrast of dark and light lent itself well to the story. and they type font was very easy to read, a lot of times i have trouble reading fonts so im happy when something i actually like is easy for me to visually read. overall again i really enjoyed the story and that it was through a child's eyes and worked through her feeling of what the time was like, i really like historical things and her relationships with people added well to the story and made it real, because it was real. It was very interesting to see her grow up in the book and how things changed and how she changed. It was definitely interesting to read something about another country from the perspective of someone from that country, i think its important to read books like this from places you dont live and situations those people face.
Monday, October 6, 2014
Week 8
Ethics and Representation
This week i read American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang. I liked the story and i liked how it was three different stories that at the end all tied in together. as separate stories they were all good and had meaning in their own right but putting them all together and making them all one i think elevated it a lot. The type was easy to read and the art style was pleasant to look at. I liked the layout of the book very much. overall i thought it was very interesting how it was done and speaks volumes about stereotypes and how they make people feel.
I think that stereotypes in comics can be useful but should be done tastefully and done so in a way that thats not the only thing about the character. using just stereotypes makes the character not real, everyone is a combination of things. The majority of stereotypes are harmful especially racial stereotypes. In American Born Chinese stereotypes were used to show how harmful they can be to people, one character was a personification of every Chinese stereotype. I think the way they used stereotypes was a good way to show how harmful they can be from their own experience of being Chinese in America. I don think stereotypes especially racial stereotypes should be heavily used unless to show how harmful they can be. I do not think stereotypes are a necessity when creating a character to a degree. I think when you create a character you should do lots of research to make a real character without making it a walking stereotype, but not strip away the entire culture of your character. Representation is very important and should not be used to hurt people.
This week i read American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang. I liked the story and i liked how it was three different stories that at the end all tied in together. as separate stories they were all good and had meaning in their own right but putting them all together and making them all one i think elevated it a lot. The type was easy to read and the art style was pleasant to look at. I liked the layout of the book very much. overall i thought it was very interesting how it was done and speaks volumes about stereotypes and how they make people feel.
I think that stereotypes in comics can be useful but should be done tastefully and done so in a way that thats not the only thing about the character. using just stereotypes makes the character not real, everyone is a combination of things. The majority of stereotypes are harmful especially racial stereotypes. In American Born Chinese stereotypes were used to show how harmful they can be to people, one character was a personification of every Chinese stereotype. I think the way they used stereotypes was a good way to show how harmful they can be from their own experience of being Chinese in America. I don think stereotypes especially racial stereotypes should be heavily used unless to show how harmful they can be. I do not think stereotypes are a necessity when creating a character to a degree. I think when you create a character you should do lots of research to make a real character without making it a walking stereotype, but not strip away the entire culture of your character. Representation is very important and should not be used to hurt people.
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