Sunday 27 October 2013

Ice Age 1 'MOVIE DISCUSSION SESSION' (WEEK 4&5)

DURING THE MOVIE



 1.Who are the 5 most important characters in the film? List out the names of the actors playing them.






               ·         Manfred "Manny", a woolly mammoth, is voiced by Ray Romano




                                  ·    Diego, a Smilodon, is voiced by Denis Leary



                          ·     Sid, a giant ground sloth, is voiced by John Leguizamo




       
                            ·  Soto, a Smilodon, is voiced by Goran Višnjić


                  ·         Roshan, the baby voiced by a random actor




2.What is the story about?


              ·  The film is about a survival which begins with a saber-toothed squirrel (known as Scrat) who is trying to find somewhere to store his prized acorn. Eventually, as he tries to stomp it into the ground, he causes a large crack in the ground that extends for miles and miles and sets off a large avalanche. He barely escapes, but finds himself stepped on by a herd of prehistoric animals. The animals are trying to avoid the ice age by migrating south, except for Manfred, an agitated mammoth who is heading north. Sid, a clumsy Megalonyx sloth left behind by his family, decides to go on by himself and angers Carl and Frank, two Brontops by ruining their salad and is attacked. Sid is soon saved by Manfred, who fights them off. Not wanting to be alone and unprotected, Sid follows Manfred.
            Meanwhile, Soto, the leader of a Smilodon pride wants revenge on a group of humans by eating the chief's baby son, Roshan, alive. Soto leads a raid on the human camp, during which Roshan's mother is separated from the rest and jumps down a waterfall when cornered by Soto's lieutenant, Diego. For his failure, Diego is sent to find and retrieve the baby. Sid and Manfred spot Roshan and his mother near the lake, having survived her plunge. The mother only has enough strength to trust her baby to Manfred before she disappears. After much persuasion by Sid, they decide to return Roshan but when they reach the human settlement, they find it deserted. They meet up with Diego, who convinces the pair to let him help by tracking the humans. The four travel on, with Diego secretly leading them to his pack for an ambush.
             While having small adventures on their way, they reach a cave with several drawings, drawn by humans where Sid and Diego learn about Manfred's past and his previous interactions with the humans, in which his wife and son were killed, leaving Manfred a cynical loner. Later Manfred, Sid, Diego and Roshan were almost to Half-Peak, but encounter a river of lava Manfred and Sid, along with Roshan, make it safely but Diego struggles, about to fall into the lava. Manfred rescues him narrowly missing a fall into the lava himself. The herd takes a break for the night and Roshan takes his first walking steps to Diego.
              The next day the herd approach the ambush, causing Diego to confess to Manfred and Sid about the ambush, and tells them to trust him. The herd battles Soto's pack and a short fight ensues. As Soto closes in for the kill on Manfred, Diego leaps and stops Soto, who wounds Diego in the process. Manfred knocks Soto into a rock wall, causing several sharp icicles to fall on Soto, killing him. Manfred and Sid leave Diego on his insistence and take Roshan back to his tribe. So Manfred and Sid manage to return Roshan to his father, and Diego rejoins them. The group begins to head off to warmer climates.
               20,000 years later Scrat is frozen in an ice cube that washes up on the shore of a tropical island. The sun slowly melts the cube, bringing Scrat back to life but the acorn, which is just out of his reach, ends up being washed away by the tide. Scrat then explodes out of the ice cube in anger and hits his head repetitively on a tree, which drops a coconut. Believing it to be a giant acorn, Scrat's anger immediately turns to glee at this new find. He tries to pack it into the ground as he did previously with his other acorns, but in the process causes a large crack in the ground that makes its way up the side of a volcano and causes it to erupt.


3.What group of people would like to watch this film?

            ·   I think this movie is suitable for all ages because it was very funny and delightful especially for the younger generation. It is suitable for younger children to watch it together with their parents. It also features cute and nice looking characters adding on with highly graphichal camera effect that attracts this young generation to watch.


AFTER THE MOVIE


1.Do you like this movie? Why or why not?

          ·   I really like this  movie because it had an interesting plot with a funny introduction, suspending climax and a touching ending. The characters are very cute like Manfred, sid and the baby Roshan. Lastly, it has many moral values that affected us a lot.


2.What rating would you give for this movie? (out of 10)  

                
                    



3.What spoilers would ruin this movie if you told your readers about it?

         ·   The spoiler would be: if the viewers were told that Diego changed his mind not to hunt the baby in the end.


4.All movies teach a lesson (theme or moral). What did you learn from this movie?

           ·   Do what it takes for your friends and family. For instance Roshan’s father give everything he had to find his baby. You can lose friends along the way, and it is okay to remember them. For example Diego decided to choose Sid, Manny and the baby instead of Soto, his leader and friends.
                
               ·   Never give up. Life has its own challenges and often they can be scary but you can get through and come out with even better ending. Example three of them have trough many hardship and adventure in order to save the baby.
   

                ·   It is easier to do the right thing from the beginning than waiting around for it to be forced upon you. For instance Diego. It is easier for him to straightforward with Manny and Sid at the beginning. He does not have to lied them.




5.What title would you give for your review?


              ·    Friendship. Manfred, Sid and Diego became bestfriends. They stick together and became a new unusual herd.





Ice Age 1 'MOVIE SESSION' (WEEK 4&5)

 

Saturday 26 October 2013

Karate Kid 'MOVIE DISCUSSION SESSION' (WEEK 3)

DURING MOVIES

1.Who are the 5 most important charaacters in the film? List out the names of the actors playing them.



                                             ·         Jaden Smith as Dre Parker


                                                ·         Jackie Chan as Mr. Han




                                            ·         Taraji P. Henson as Sherry Parker



                                               ·         Wenwen Han as Meiying 



                                            ·         Zhenwei Wang as Cheng



2.What is the story about?

          · This movie was about a 12-year-old Dre Parker and his mother Sherry move from Detroit to Beijing,China after getting a job transfer. Dre develops a crush on this young and charming violinist, Mei Ying, who attracts Dre and his attention, but Cheng, a rebellious kung fu prodigy whose family is close to Mei Ying's, attempts to keep them apart by beating Dre, and later bullies him at school. During the attack, Mr. Han comes to Dre's aid, revealing himself as a kung fu master.
After Han mends Dre's injuries using fire cupping which we all believed that this is one of the technique used by the ancestors of chinese believeing to treat and recovers serious pain.Dre asks if Mr. Han could teach him kung fu. Han refuses, but meets Cheng's teacher, Master Li, to make peace. Li, who teaches his students to show no mercy to their enemies, challenges Dre to a fight with Cheng. Li tells Han that if Dre does not show up during the tournament he will personally bring pain to Han and ask his students to keep bulliying Dre everywhere around.
               Dre is shocked when Han tells him that he will fight in a kung fu tournament. Han promises to teach Dre "real" kung fu. Han begins training Dre from start. Han emphasizes that the movements Dre is learning apply to life in general, and that serenity and power are not punches and power, are the true keys to mastering the martial arts.
               One day, Han says that Dre will take a day off from training. Dre goes to Han's place at night and finds a drunk Han, smashing a car he was and always working on. Han tells Dre that he crashed the same car years ago. His wife and ten-year old son was with him and died in the car crash. Han fixes the car every year but smashes it to remind himself of what happened.That night, Dre shows Han the kung fu techniques he learned while his mother arrives and watches him.
                As Dre's friendship with Mei Ying continues, Dre persuades Mei Ying to cut off school for a day of fun, but when she is nearly late for her violin audition which was brought forward a day without their knowledge, her parents deem him a bad influence and forbid her from spending more time with him. Han assists Dre in reading a note of apology to Mei Ying's father in Chinese as you know, Mei Ying was a chinese and he accepts and promises that Mei Ying will attend the tournament to support Dre and they wish Dre goodluck for the tournament ahead.
                 At the tournament, the under-confident and less-experienced Dre is slow to achieve parity with his opponents, but soon begins beating them and advances to the semifinals, as does Cheng, who violently finishes off his opponents. Dre comes up against Liang and he was badly injured.
                  Despite Han's insistence that he has earned respect for his performance, Dre convinces Han to treat his leg by using fire cupping in order to continue. Dre returns to the arena, facing Cheng. Dre delivers impressive blows, but Cheng counters with a strike to Dre's injured leg. Dre struggles to get up, and attempts the reflection technique to manipulate Cheng into changing his attack stance. Cheng charges Dre, but Dre flips and catches Cheng with a kick to his head, winning the tournament along with the respect of Cheng and his classmates. Cheng instead of the presenter awards Dre the trophy, and the Fighting Dragon students bow to Mr. Han.


3.What group of people would like to watch this fim?

              In my opinion,I think that mostly, kids and teenagers would like to watch this sort of movie as this movie is a family movie. This group of people might like this movie because most of the characters were teenagers and not to forget there were many cool stunt moves that is interesting to watch.

AFTER THE MOVIE.

1.Do you like this movie? Why or why not?

            ·   I like this movie because it was very interesting to watch as there were many parts that I would like to watch again and again like the parts when they were fighting with all that cool moves, to me, it was very interesting action moves and not to mention about the sweet love between Dre and Mei Ying as both of them were really cute together although it was a little bit cheesy there.


2.What rating would you give for this movie?



3.What spoilers would ruin this movie if you told your readers about it?

          ·  The spoiler would be if in the early plot, we get the idea that Dre is a fast learner and he can grab all Mr. Han's technique easily for example his cobra skill when he defeat his rival,Cheng at the grand final and win the competition.



4.All movies teach a lesson(theme or moral). What did you learn for this movie? 

       ·     ·Never give up. Go for the goal and always try your best to make it. Do not stop believing ang you can achieve it. Never give up on everything you really believe in, as the song Never Say Never. For example Dre Parker. He tries to make friends with the Beijing kids since he just moved from Detroit, including a cute girl named Meiying but he was bullied by a gang of jealous kung fu kids.
   

               · Treating others with kindness and respect. Never be rude and hurt others’ feeling. The power is only good in the hands of those who is unwilling to use it.

5.What tittle would you give for your review?

        ·  KungFu Smackdown!

Karate Kid 'MOVIE SESSION' (WEEK 3)


Friday 25 October 2013

WEEKLY VIDEOS


                         

The weekly videos from week 1 until week 5 were compiled in a video

Wednesday 2 October 2013

WEEKLY JOURNAL


Date
Activities
Week 1
27/9/2013

1.       The first meeting was held on September 27th 2013. In a huge lecture hall that can fit 300 students.
2.       At first, there were only 7 of us. Nuraina Syahira, Fatimah Abdul Rahman, Aswari Basri, Nurul Dalila, Ikhsannuddin, Izzat Firdaus and Eunice Chong.  We were all in such a mess. We couldn’t find the rest of our group members because most of us are from different faculties and were like strangers.
3.       Anyway, we decided to pick Nuraina as our group leader.
4.       For our future meetings, we decided to have them at the café nearby the Faculty of modern language and communications (FBMK).
5.       The two movies chosen was Ice Age 1 and Karate Kid (2010).

Week 2
2/10/2013

1.       We met for the second time.
2.       We watched the two movies together, laughed and understood the plot.
3.       We jotted down notes about the movie.
4.       We also shared M&M’s chocolate while enjoying the movie.
5.       After all of that was done. We planned for our next meeting.
6.       The five of us made it for the second meeting. The five of us were Nuraina Syahira, Nurul Dalila, Mohd Ikhsannuddin, Aswari Basri, and Siti Farihah Razali.
7.   The video was taken by Fatimah and Aswari.

Week 3
16/10/2013

1.       We all watched the movies so this week we decided to discuss the Karate Kid movie based on the guided questions provided.
2.       Nuraina Syahira, Nurul Dalila
3.       This time we met Farihah Razali from the seventh college (KOSAS).
4.       The video was taken by Aswari.


Week 4 and 5
25/10/2013

1.       This week we decided to discuss Ice Age 1 movie.
2.       We were discussing it outside the Main Library which was Perpustakaan Sultan Abdul  Samad.
3.       This time we met Aisyah Ahmad from  the College of Tun Dr Ismail.
4.       All of us made it for the 4th meeting. The rest of us were Nuraina Syahira, Nurul Dalila, Fatimah, Aswari Basri, Eunice Chong, Siti Farihah Razali, Aisyah Ahmad, Muhammad Asyraf, Mohd Ikhsannuddin and Izzat Firdaus.

1.       Since we were a lack of time before the deadline and it was quite difficult for us to reschedule another meeting, we did the 5th meeting on the same day.
2.       Nuraina as our group leader divided our tasks that must be completed before 28/10/2013.
3.       Our group blog was created by Fatimah Abd Rahman.
4.       Muhammad Asyraf Tuah agreed to edit the blog.
5.   The video was taken by Fatimah.