My Favorite Movie

Maleficent

I. About the Film

　

Maleficent is a 2014 American epic dark fantasy film directed by Robert Stromberg from a screenplay by Linda Woolverton and starring Angelina Jolie, Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, and Lesley Manville. Loosely based on Charles Perrault's original fairy tale and inspired by Walt Disney's 1959 animated film, Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent portrays the story from the perspective of the eponymous antagonist, depicting her conflicted relationship with the princess and king of a corrupt kingdom.

Walt Disney Pictures announced the film's development in 2010, with Joe Roth as producer, and Jolie, Don Hahn and Michael Vieira as executive producers. Principal photography took place between June and October 2012. Maleficentpremiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on May 28, 2014, and was released in the United Kingdom that same day.

The film was released in the U.S. on May 30, 2014 in the Disney Digital 3D, RealD 3D, and IMAX 3D formats, as well as in conventional theaters. It was met with mixed reviews from critics, but was a commercial success, having grossed over $758 million worldwide, becoming the fourth highest-grossing film of 2014 and the highest-grossing film starring Jolie. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design at the 87th Academy Awards.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maleficent_(film)

II. Versions of the Film

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty

III. About the Lead Actor

Angelina Jolie Pitt is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and has been cited as Hollywood's highest-paid actress. Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father, Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get Out (1982). Her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993), followed by her first leading role in a major film, Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical cable films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999).
Jolie's starring role as the video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) established her as a leading Hollywood actress. She continued her successful action-star career with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), and Salt (2010), and received critical acclaim for her performances in the dramas A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Beginning in the 2010s, she expanded her career into directing, screenwriting, and producing, starting with the wartime dramas In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) and Unbroken (2014). Her biggest commercial success came with the fantasy picture Maleficent (2014).
In addition to her film career, Jolie is noted for her humanitarian efforts, for which she has received a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and an honorary damehood of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG), among other honors. She promotes various causes, including conservation, education, and women's rights, and is most noted for her advocacy on behalf of refugees as a Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). As a public figure, Jolie has been cited as one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry, as well as the world's most beautiful woman, by various media outlets. Her personal life is the subject of wide publicity. Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, she has been married to actor Brad Pitt since 2014. They have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina_Jolie

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - soundtrack

• 定義 voice, music and sound effects 音声、音楽や効果音
• 例　Once Upon A Dream
• 略 The same song as an original work is　used. But gives a different impression, because it is different character's side.

B. Reaction Point - film director

• 定義 the person who directs the making of a film 映画の製作を指示者、英語監督
• 例 Robert Stromberg
• 略 Robert Stromberg (born in 1965) is an American special effects artist, designer and filmmaker. Stromberg's extensive credits include major blockbuster films such as James Cameron's Avatar, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, and Sam Raimi's Oz the Great and Powerful, the first two earning him Academy Award wins for Best Art Direction. He made his directorial debut with the 2014 Disney film Maleficent, a re-imagining of the iconic Disney villain.

C. Reaction Point - characters

• 定義 persons — or animals or natural forces represented as persons — in a work of literature 人物 - や動物や人として表さ自然の力 - 文学作品に
• 例 Maleficent
  
• 略 She is known villain’s part, but It is a fairy actually gentle at heart.

D. My General Opinion
I like this movie because it can feel true love and is a story to be impressed by very much.

My Featured Fashion

BURBERRY PRORSUM

I. About the Clothing Brand

Burberry Group Inc is a British luxury fashion house, headquartered in London, England. Its main fashion house focuses on and distributes ready-to-wear outerwear, fashion accessories, fragrances, sunglasses, and cosmetics.

Established in 1856 by Thomas Burberry, originally focusing on the development of outdoors attire, the fashion house as moved on to the high fashion market developing pattern-based scarves, trench coats, and other fashion accessories. The first shop opened up in the Haymarket, London, in 1891. Burberry was an independent family controlled company until 1955, when it was reincorporated. The fashion house has dressed notable actors, world leaders, musicians, and athletes such as Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, Peter Sellers, and Ronald Reagan.

Its distinctive check pattern has become one of its most widely copied trademarks. Burberry is most famous for its trench coat. Burberry has branded stores and franchises around the world and sells through concessions in third-party stores. Queen Elizabeth II and the Prince of Wales have granted the company Royal Warrants, which have been maintained despite Burberry's closure of its factory in Wales.

Christopher Bailey has been the CEO and Chief Creative Officer since 2014. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. In 2015, Burberry ranked 73rd in Interbrand's Best Global Brands report, ahead of Ralph Lauren and Hugo Boss. Burberry has more than 500 stores in over 50 countries.

　

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burberry

II. About the Designer

Christopher Bailey

Christopher Paul Bailey MBE (born 11 May 1971) is the Chief Creative and chief executive officer of Burberry, and is responsible for creating and delivering the company's global vision and business strategy, including overseeing collections, brand imagery, product design, creative marketing, architecture, consumer technology and digital innovation.He took up the role of Chief Creative and chief executive officer on 1 May 2014, following the departure of former CEO Angela Ahrendts.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Bailey_(fashion_designer)

III. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - footwear (靴)

• 定義 shoes
• 例 flat shoes
• 略 Model are wearing flat shoes like sneakers or sandals without high heels. It makes contract to material of the closing.

B. Reaction Point - bottoms (腰の下に着用する衣類 )

• 定義 clothing worn below the waist
• 例 skirt
• 略 Most of closing are skirt, its length are middle about knees or longer. It has the effect which shows a leg beautifully.

C. Reaction Point - fabric texture (生地の雰囲気、感触 )

• 定義 how a fabric feels or looks
• 例 fur, feather, tulle, race
• 略 The refreshing air of spring and summer are represented of lacy and light fabrics.

D. My General Opinion
At first, i think that this bland is uncommon and fascinating because of the naturalcolor. But after a while, this close is very comfortable and pragmatic. I want to try this fashion.
Apart from that, a theme of  this show is an insects. An acounstic guitar is producing the a tomosphere in a field.

My Featured Film

Alice in Wonderland

I. About the Film

　

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre.Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.

Works Cited

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 21 June 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland>.

II. Versions of the Film

• Alice in Wonderland (1903), a British silent film directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, with May Clark as Alice
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1910), a silent film directed by Edwin Stanton Porter
• Alice in Wonderland (1915), a silent film directed by W. W. Young
• Alice in Wonderland (1931), the first talkie adaptation, directed by Bud Pollard
• Alice in Wonderland (1933), a film version directed by Norman Z. McLeod, US
• Alice in Wonderland (1951), a film version in traditional animation from Walt Disney Animation Studios. Arguably the most well known of the Alice film adaptations, and today considered one of Disney's great classics.
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972), a musical film version starring Fiona Fullerton as Alice

Works Cited

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 21 June 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland>.

III. About the Author

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (/ˈtʃɑːrlz ˈlʌtwɪdʒ ˈdɒdsən/; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll (/ˈkærəl/), was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem Jabberwocky, and the poem The Hunting of the Snark, all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life.

 Works Cited

"Lewis Carroll." Wikipedia. Wikipedia, n.d. Web. 21 June 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll>.

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - character

⇒ persons — or animals or natural forces represented as persons — in a work of literature

This story has a lot of unique characters. 

For example:
Alice, Bill the Lizard, Pat, The Caterpillar, The Cheshire Cat, The Dodo ,The Dormouse, The Duchess, The Duck, The Eagle, The Gryphon, The Hatter, The King of Hearts, The Knave of Hearts,The Lory, The March Hare, The Mock Turtle, The Mouse, The Puppy, The Queen of Hearts, The White Rabbit

B. Reaction Point -  Personification
⇒giving human characteristics to something non human

This story's character is two-footed walking and speaking human language.

C. Reaction Point - scene
⇒A segment in a narrative film that takes place in one time and space

I felt nature at the place such as the forest.

D. My General Opinion

I think that this story is interesting because has many unique characters and is impossible reality.

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My Featured Novel

I. About the Novel: The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames valley.
In 1908, Grahame retired from his position as secretary of the Bank of England. He moved back to Berkshire, where he had lived as a child and spent his time by the River Thames doing much as the animal characters in his book do—namely, as one of the phrases from the book says, "simply messing about in boats"— and expanding the bedtime stories he had earlier told his son Alistair into a manuscript for the book.
The novel was in its thirty-first printing when playwright A. A. Milne adapted a part of it for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall in 1929. In 2003, The Wind in the Willows was listed at number 16 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.

 Works Cited （参考文献）
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_in_the_Willows

II. Versions of the Novel in the Mass Media

A. Stage Versions

Toad of Toad Hall by A. A. Milne, produced in 1929

Wind in the Willows, a 1985 Tony-nominated Broadway musical with book by Jane Iredale, lyrics by Roger McGough and music by William P. Perry, starring Nathan Lane

The Wind in the Willows by Alan Bennett (who also appeared as Mole) in 1991

Mr. Toad's Mad Adventures by Vera Morris

Wind in the Willows (UK National Tour) by Ian Billings

The Wind in the Willows,^[11] two stage adaptations—a full musical adaptation and a small-scale, shorter, stage play version—by David Gooderson.

The Wind in the Willows^[12] by George Stiles, Anthony Drewe and Julian Fellowes which will open at Theatre Royal Plymouth in October 2016 before playing at The Lowry, Salford and then the West End.

B. Film and television Versions

 

 https://youtu.be/mhK50Lg8hFM

Toad of Toad Hall the first live action film of the novel. Adapted by Michael Barry for BBC Television and transmitted live in 1946. The film featured (in alphabetical order) Julia Braddock as Marigold, Kenneth More as Mr. Badger, Jack Newmark as Mole, Andrew Osborn as Water Rat, Jon Pertwee as the Judge, Alan Reid as Mr. Toad, John Thomas and Victor Woolf as Alfred the Horse, Madoline Thomas as Mother, and an uncredited Pat Pleasanse as various Rats, Weasels and Mice.

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, a 1949 animated adaptation produced by Walt Disney, narrated by Basil Rathbone. One half of the animated feature was based on the unrelated short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

The Wind in the Willows, a 1969 adaptation of the story produced by Anglia Television, told by still illustrations by artist John Worsley. The story was adapted, produced and narrated by Paul Honeyman and directed by John Salway.

The Reluctant Dragon and Mr. Toad Show, a 1970 TV animated series produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, based on both The Reluctant Dragon and The Wind in the Willows.

The Wind in the Willows, a 1983 animated film version with stop-motion puppets by Cosgrove Hall.

The Wind in the Willows, a TV series (1984–1990) following the 1983 film, using the same sets and characters in mostly original stories but also including some chapters from the book that were omitted in the film, notably "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn". The cast included David Jason, Sir Michael Hordern, Peter Sallis and Ian Carmichael.

The Wind in the Willows, a 1985 animated musical film version for television, produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. This version was very faithful to the book and featured a number of original songs, including the title, "Wind in the Willows", performed by folk singer Judy Collins. Voice actors included Eddie Bracken as Mole, Jose Ferrer as Badger, Roddy McDowell as Ratty, and Charles Nelson Reilly as Toad.^[13]

Wind in the Willows, a 1988 animated made for TV film by Burbank Films Australia and adapted by Leonard Lee.

The Adventures of Mole, a 1995 animated made for TV film with a cast including Hugh Laurie as Toad, Richard Briers and Peter Davison as Ratty and Mole respectively and Paul Eddington as Badger. Was followed by The Adventures of Toad.

The Wind in the Willows, a 1995 animated film adaptation with a cast led by Michael Palin and Alan Bennett as Ratty and Mole, Rik Mayall as Toad and Michael Gambon as Badger; followed by an adaptation of The Willows in Winter produced by the now defunct TVC (Television Cartoons) in London.^[14]

The Wind in the Willows, a 1996 live-action film written and directed by Terry Jones starring Steve Coogan as Mole, Eric Idle as Rat, and Terry Jones as Mr. Toad.

The Wind in the Willows, another live-action film in 2006 with Lee Ingleby as Mole, Mark Gatiss as Ratty, Matt Lucas as Toad, Bob Hoskins as Badger, and also featuring Imelda Staunton, Anna Maxwell Martin, Mary Walsh and Michael Murphy

In 2003, Guillermo del Toro was working on an adaptation for Disney. It was to mix live action with CG animation, and the director explained why he had to leave the helm. "It was a beautiful book, and then I went to meet with the executives and they said, 'Could you give Toad a skateboard and make him say, 'radical dude' things,' and that's when I said, 'It's been a pleasure...'"^[15]

In 2014, Classic Alice took the titular character on a 6 episode reimagining of The Wind in the Willows. Reid Cox played Toad, Kate Hackett and Tony Noto served as loose Badger/Ratty/Mole characters.

 

 

 

 

 

III. About the Author:Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame (/ˈɡreɪ.əm/ GRAY-əm; 8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon; both books were later adapted into Disney films

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Grahame

IV. My Reaction to The Wind in the Willows

A. Summary

This is the story of friends-Toad,Rat,Mole,Badger.Rat loves the river.Mole is often afraid.Badger likes to stay at home.But Toad is always looking for new adventures-and some of his ideas are dangerous.

 A. Reaction Point - character

• The four animals have a different character.
• Badger doesn't like visitors.

Rat is strong and brave and loves the river.

Mole is afraid of things.
Toad is always looking for exciting new adventure.

B. Reaction Point - scene

• A lot of scenes of nature come out.
• example...river.snow.ground.bank

C. Reaction Point - Personification

• An　animal is a cast by this story.And, the animals wearing clothes, are talking the language.

D. My General Opinion

I like this story.Because,cast is animal and the character is various and fascinating.