THE END...

This is me, Ebru.

I want to thank you for visiting my blog, -and if you read- for reading my articles, not articles in fact, article-like things:)

I published my last writing, as it is the end of the term.

The movies I talked about here are my favourite movies now because they are chosen:)

I watched some of them for the second time.

How I chose the movies to be wathced? I make research on the internet, learn good movies and download them from my college's sharing program. If you notice every week's film are mostly related to each other. Some of them are the continuance of each other, sometimes the actors or the directors are the same, or sometimes the topic is similar.

Maybe I go on writing sth to this blog, as long as I watch new movies, who knows..

And Betil hocam, I know you'll read this:) If you hadn't given such an assignment, I wouldn't have found spare time for myself to watch movies. I believe it was very beneficial. I decided to watch at least one movie every week from now on. I have learned that I can spare time for this.

So, Thank you;)

Elizabeth: the golden age!!

Elizabeth is a 2007 movie directed by Shekhar Kapur.
Cate Blanchett acts The queen Elizabeth l of England, who forgets that she is a woman, but just fights for her kingdom and tries to be a good leader.
She is a protestant and defender of Protestantism, and because of this her country s attacked by a big&crowded armada under the leadership of Spain king, as they want england be a Catholic country under the reign of a Catholic leader who has a son to give the kingdom: Elizabeth's cousin Mary, who helps The spanish king.
while these happens, Elizabeth falls in love with a good captain, Walter Raleigh, but he and Elizabeth's best helper love each other, and they run away, which drives the queen crazy. but she cannot deal with this problem as she was attacked by the Spanish armada. As the enemy is too crowded, she hadn't have so many things to do, so she wears her armor and fights with her army, which is very encouraging for the soldiers. In the end, by the help of the weather and the geopolitical location of the country, the British wins!

What the movie tells is the real history, but just in a "filmy" way, there is a context, love in the movie.
The thing i liked most about the film was the dressess that the woman of that century wear, especially those of the Queen's.

Please click here for the trailer.

Face Off!!

" In order to trap him, he must become him!"

This is the Tagline of the movie, Face off, produced in 1997 and directed by John Woo.

Sean Archer (John Travolta) is a successful government agent. While he was with his son in the park, he is shot by the big criminal Castor Troy (Nicholas Cage), but this ends up with his 6-year-old son's death. For years, Archer seeks for revenge and one day he catches Castor, injures him so bad that Castor goes into the coma, just like a plant. But it is found that Archer designed a big bomb before his death, and it's gonna destroy a big area if it is not destroyed. the only person who knows about the place of the bomb is Castor's brother Pollux who is also arrested and knows nothing about Castor's death.As he won't speak to anybody but Castor, FBI presents an idea to Archer: they will make an operation and put the skin of Castor on Archer's face, they will make some other operations and Archer will become Castor just till they learn about the bomb. Being his son's murderer is very bad for Archer, but eventually he accepts to save hundreds of people's lives. This is a secret operation and just a few people know about it. anyways, the operations are done, Archer becomes Castor and he is sent into the jail to learn sth form Pollux. while he was inside, because of the operations he had, Castor returns to life, understands what has happened, calls his men, cathes the doctors and he becomes Archer!!! and after the operation, he burns the clinic with everybody knows about the change inside. so Archer cannot claim anything, he is permanently Castor now! He tries to tell somebody but of course nobody believes him. Outside, Castor acts as if he is archer, he catches bad criminals as he knows where they are, and makes everybody to trust him. In the end, Archer cannot put up with this and escapes from the prison.

Can he persuade people to the fact that he is the real Archer although he is physically Castor? Can he be himself again??

Watch and see:)

I really advise you to watch the movie. you can ask me for the DVD guys.

And you can click here to be directed to youtube to see the trailer. It is as good as the film.

Lion King ll: Simba's Pride!!!

This movie was produced in 1998.

Do you remember that I wrote about the first movie of the Lion King series before? now i'll go on from the place we left the story..

Simba and Nala have a baby lioness now: Kiara. she is brave and likes advanture like her father, and likes going outside of her lands. one day, when she is out of the boundaries her father let her to go, she comes accross with a young lion boy :Kovu. He is offspring of Scar, and they are all exiled from the Pride rocks.

Zira, the leader of the exiled pride, decides to train Kovu to kill simba and become the king. When kovu grows up, Zira sends him to Simba's pride, but things don't go as she has planned, and Kovu and Kiara fall in love. Kovu doesn't kill Simba, and Zira attacks with her own army. In the end, Kiara and Kovu persuade both parties and set the peace.

This was a good animation movie. There characters start to sing songs throughout the movie, as this is an animation and the major population it addresses is the children. The language is clear, you don't need any subtitles guys!

Click here to see the trailer of the Lion King ll: Simba's Pride.

Here is some quotes:

Simba :"Stay out of this! "

Kiara: "A wise king once told me, we are one. I didn't understand him then. Now I do. "

Simba: "But they... "

Kiara: "Them? Us. Look at them, they are us. What differences do you see?"

Zira: What is your destiny?

Kovu: I will avenge Scar. Take his place in the Pride Lands.

Zira: Yes! What have I taught you?

Kovu: Simba is the enemy.

Zira: And WHAT... MUST... YOU DO?

Kovu: I must KILL him!

Lion King!!

The Lion King!! When I saw it, it was the first time I have been to the cinema! It is a 1994 movie, and was released in Turkey in 1995, I was just 9 years old.

Everything began when I was given the book "Lion King" as a present on my 7th birthday. I finished reading the book the next day, and was impressed. Two years later, I saw the posters around, I went to see the movie with my parents.

This time I'm 21, and watched it alone in my room. It's still fascinating!

Let me tell the movie. We have a pride of lions, and the Lion King: Mufasa.. He and his queen Sarabi has a boy, Simba. Simba is presented to the public of the forest as the next king. This makes the evil uncle Scar very angry because he wants to become the king. So he makes a plan together with the evil Hyenas, and ambushes Simba. While trying to save his son, Mufasa gets into trouble, wants Scar's help, but he pushes his own brother and kills him. then he talks to simba, makes him feel gulty and leave those lands. So, Scar becomes the king, and Simba starts a new life outside with his new friends while everybody thinks he is dead.

As a king, Scar is very cruel and unsuccessful, everything goes bad in the Pride rocks. And Nala, a lioness and Simba's best friend while they were babies, goes out of their land to find help, and finds Simba. Together with other forces, she persuades Simba to return home. Simba returns, learns that he wasn't guilty in his father's death, by overcoming Scar he becomes the King, and Nala becomes the Queen.

Click here to watch the trailer of the movie.

P.S. Hakuna Matata!! this is the motto of Simba's friends, and it means a life free of any problems and stress.. so, maybe we should make this our motto too...

Hakuna Matata guys!

Requiem for a Dream!!

A 2000 movie by Darren Aronofsky.

This is the second time I watch this movie. When I first watched it, I was in high school, and I found it disgusting. Everybody was using drugs, the environment of the youth was very bad. I was just a pure girl:), and I thought that alcohol, drugs etc. were things that are very far away from my life.

I decided to watch the movie again, because I was reading very good comments about it for some time, and I thought maybe I could watch it from another perspective, by the eyes of a girl who is in the university and has seen many things since high school. Now I see it was a good decision, because the movie can teach something when you know that drugs can become a part of your life now very easily if you allow to.

Yes, Requiem for a dream is about drug addicts.

Harry (Jared Leto), his girlfriend Marion (Jennifer connely) and thier friend Tyrone are drug addicts, who are trying to become drug dealers in order to get more money. Harry doesn't live with his mother Sara (Ellen Burstyn), but visits her sometimes. He wants to save money and go far away with Marion. But things get complicated and they get into trouble.

Sara learns that she will be on the tv for a contest, ans she tries to lose weight to seem fit in her red dress. She begins to take pills, but she becomes addicted to them like her son, and she goes mad.

The film focuses on 4 people, and at the very end of the film, we see them all in fetus position, which means in psycohology that they want to turn bask to their mother's womb, they are regretful, they want to take the time back.

It is a good exmaple for the youth to understand how bad the drugs are. There is nothing like "I will try just once". Once you're hooked, you're hooked. Then you have to bear the consequences. I advise you to see the movie.

Here is the trailer.. and by clicking here you can listen to the soundtrack, which is really very famous and used as the background music for every dramatic scene in the news. It is really good and impressive.

Here are some quotes:

Sara: "[on her pills] Purple in the morning, blue in the afternoon, and orange in the evening. Just like that, one, two, three, four. "

Marian:"I love you, Harry. You make me feel like a person. Like I'm me... and I'm beautiful."

Harry:"You are beautiful. You're the most beautiful girl in the world. You are my dream."

Sara:(after dying her hair to red)"Well then... what's orange? If this is red, I wanna know, What's orange?"

Trainspotting!!

Trainspotting is a 1996 movie by Danny Boyle. It is a film about gangs, drugs, crime, and a boy fed up with all these things.
Renton is a drug addicts, so his friends Spud and Begbie, but one of the group members doesn't use drugs and they call him "sick boy".
After Renton meets a girl and he learns she is just 14, and when one of their friend's baby dies while they were taking drugs, Renton decides to give it up and start a new life. He is cured, and goes another city, finds a job, hires a room and starts it all over. but his past doesn't let him go. one da, as he comes from work, he finds Spud, Begbie and Sick boy in his room. Begbie is a dangereous person, he is a psycho, and he wants to buy drugs to sell, but he needs someone to try the drug first: Renton. Renton tries it for once. Does everything start all over? just watch and see.. See also what happens to poor Sick boy, and why?

The movie maybe a heavy one for you, by 'heavy' I mean that there are obscene scenes, and violence sometimes. So you should first watch the trailer and then decide whether you'll watch it or not.

Click here for the trailer.

Some quotes:

Renton: We would have injected vitamin C if only they had made it illegal!

Renton: Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f***ing big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of f***ing fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, f***ed up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?