Journal 7: Argo

Argo

 

 

            In Argo, one important scene from the film is the part when Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) got the call starting from Jack O’Donnell (Bryan Cranston) telling Tony that the operation is not going to happen, the plan has changed. The 6 Americans are not going to be authorized. From hearing from Jack, Tony starts to be upset. Jack can’t do anything because the position that they’re in is to follow orders from state. The deal was Tony has to go to Tehran, Iran. Tony is the person to lead the rescue of 6 diplomats to America during the 1979 (Iran hostage crisis).    

            I think the scene is important because it’s the beginning for me to give the specific points of Tony Mendez’s mission next step action. Before, Tony had already made the deal with the Canadian Caper that he agrees to do the mission. Now hearing that the plan has change had made him upset, stress, and struggle.       

           On the screen mark 1:22:20 when Tony Mendez had taken his action to a serious step. He made the decision to let Jack know that he’s going to take the 6 diplomats through. After Tony hung up the phone Jack quickly ran talk with Alan to confirm the 7 tickets. Then Jack talks with another person, to talk to the white house to operate the paper work again, so the 7 of them won’t be stuck at the Iran airport. Jack knows that if machine at Iran’s airport doesn’t operate the information it’s not going to be good news. Jack really needs everything to go smoothly to Tony and the rest of the 6 diplomats.    

Journal 6: Jumanji

          

 

           One of my favorite movies is Jumanji; it first came out in 1995. It was the year when I could smell and feel the world’s circumstance. I had grown up with this movie ever since first grade, so I think it’s why Jumanji is one of my favorite movies. I call this a really good movie because this fits all different ages that families would enjoy the adventure Alan has.

First let me introduce the main characters in Jumanji. Alan Parrish (Robin Williams), Sarah Whittle (Bonnie Hunt), Judy Shepherd (Kristen Dunst), and Peter Shepherd (Bradley Pierce). One of my favorite scenes in the movie is when Alan Parrish got back to the present time world wearing jungle leaves, when Peter rolled doubles. During Peter’s double roll, there was a visitor; a lion came out from the broad game going to attack Judy and Peter. In the meantime Alan was there to protect the kids from the lion. After Alan keep the lion out from attacking. Alan found them both hiding in the closet, horizontal along the shelf.      

In this movie I would respond more to the acting, narrative, and editing from the director Joe Johnston. The acting, narrative, and editing matter to me because, without these things in the movie, it won’t turn out to be one of my fantasy family favorite movie. The part to point this is when bunch of herd came out from the broad game running through the house and the scream of fear in the faces of four main characters. This is a have to see movie if you haven’t seen already.    

Journal 5: What is Joy Harjo like to me?

            In my opinion of Joy Harjo as a person in Crazy Brave, I think she is a person who is brave and strong. To prove that she is brave and strong is when she went off to live with her boyfriend’s mother, sister, and daughter. Joy’s “mother-in-law-to-be’s tiny one-bedroom house” (pg. 120) She’s pragmatic and Joy had no choice what to do, she stayed, that shows that she’s strong whatever happens in the house. The brave part of her is she’s not afraid of her boyfriend’s mother or so call mother-in-law of how bad who she is.  

Joy’s weakness is the time when she’s four pregnant and going to move to live with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend, “the baby’s father promised he’d send a bus ticket for me to Tahlequah, in Cherokee land, where he was living with his mother and daughter.” (pg. 116) She has been waiting for the ticket for two weeks. The ticket is not arriving then she asks her brother Allen for money to get to Tahlequah. Her weakness was she can’t afford to get the bus ticket to get to Tahlequah. But, I could see that her strength in this situation was she “was no yet eighteen years old.” (pg. 116) She could travel by herself couple miles away from home to live with her boyfriend.

          What I think she cares about more is likely her mother. Her mother who gets violent from Joy’s father when he’s drunk, also there are periods when her mother works all the time while the stepfather does pretty much nothing in the house. I think Joy is objective and trustworthy because she does make her own decisions in a positive way. She could take care of herself and be responsible without her mother next to her when she’s not even eighteen years old. In the book Joy doesn’t fully and persuasively explain why she made certain decisions in her life, but while I was reading I kind of understand why she made her decision. I don’t think that there are aspects of her personality that she underplays or misrepresents in my opinion.

Journal 4: Problem of Domestic Abuse in Joy Harjo

 

 

           From the book Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo, there are several men in Joy’s life that are abusive. Especially, from a men to a women that are getting the treatment. I think it’s because of the decision that the men choose to do what they wanted to be. Example someone like Joy’s father who does it to her mother. He chooses to be a crazy drunk then become violent. I think it’s one of the main points that Joy’s mother choose to divorce with him. If I was Joy’s mother I would do the same. For me it doesn’t matter how much I love him, but because of his domestic abuse to the point I can’t stand no more, I’ll have to divorce with him just to protect myself. If it was like arguments between us both, I could still accept because it’s only the words that are out. It could be hurtful inside, but I could forgive most of the time.

            Some woman that I think the man had abuse them accept that behavior because the things that the man did well for her overcome the bad part of him. From the book in pg. 145 showed Joy’s Cherokee boyfriend apologizing and promising to her. Then she continued to stay with him after the apology and saw her son and her boyfriend planting behind the apartment. The situation right there showed her that she can still trust him but not fully. It simply that those people is weak. They had to be weak to get the woman’s trust to them again.