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the christophilm blog skip to main skip to sidebar monday april 2 2012 sfl 358 blog entry 16 the fellowship of the ring in my eager anticipation of the hobbit later this year i ve started reading the lord of the rings trilogy for the second time the first time i read the fellowship of the ring i had already seen the movie once this will be the first time however reading the second two books since seeing the movies now i ve actually just finished reading the first one so i m gonna watch the movie now i love it posted by chris at 12 56 am no comments sfl 358 blog entry 15 my letter to tom hanks concerning the pacific for an assignment in my media class we were asked to write a letter to someone in the media calling for some kind of change i wrote a letter to tom hanks one of the executive producers of the hbo miniseries band of brothers and the pacific i m posting the entire letter but it is a lot longer than i anticipated so don t worry about reading all of it what was meant to be just a page about how there shouldn t be any nudity in the war series turned into three pages about what i liked and didn t like about the pacific in general including the bit about the sexuality anyways here it is dear mr hanks let me first say that i am a huge fan of your work i am a college student and i absolutely love film today i write to you specifically about band of brothers and the pacific i absolutely love band of brothers i saw the episodes when they originally aired and i ve watched them several times since then i even recently bought the book and the series on blu ray it s such a masterpiece the efforts you steven spielberg and everyone else made to make it as true to real life as possible and to make it all about the real men of easy company make the miniseries one of my favorite works of film of all time bravo so naturally when i heard you guys were making another similar series about the conflicts in the pacific theater i got really excited to see it i watched the entire series as soon as i got a chance but unfortunately i was actually pretty disappointed i ll start with what i liked i love the measures you took to make it as realistic as possible the marines conditions were brutal i had no idea they had it so rough with such outdated equipment too their story doesn t get told as often as those in europe the war scenes were phenomenal they were very intense and at times quite unsettling but that s what it was like i think they were handled magnificently one of the things i did not like so much but i m not sure you could have executed better was character development and attachment unlike band of brothers the pacific didn t follow one group of soldiers throughout their campaign it followed a few different main characters often in different places as a result i didn t get to know much about these characters and i wasn t particularly attached as they made their way through the war this is really a shame because i wanted to really get to know these guys like i feel i did in band of brothers though i of course in real life didn t come even close i felt like i experience the war with them this just wasn t the case in the pacific it felt like a lot more time was taken showing the soldiers outside the battlefield in this series than in band of brothers i really don t know for sure if this is the case but that s how it felt during band of brothers i loved all of the quiet time spent with soldier getting to know them i wouldn t change a thing in the pacific however all i wanted was to get to the next battle i didn t really care so much what was happening with these characters because i constantly had to meet new ones before i got so attached to the old ones now admittedly i don t know the source material very well at all so i don t know how much you had to draw from to write the miniseries i know eugene sledge has a book but maybe it wasn t enough on which to base an entire series perhaps you had no choice but to break it up into a few different marines stories because i don t know i m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you didn t have much of a choice i didn t like that aspect of it but perhaps nothing could have been done better in that regard what i cannot excuse however is the excessive sex and nudity that was in this series the violence and gore needs to be there because that s how war was we weren t there so we can t imagine what it was like without the intense gritty realistic portrayal you so masterfully executed again though it was very intense at times i wouldn t change a thing about that but do you really need to have nudity my friends and i were so put off by that that s not why we watch these war movies and series i don t think anyone watches these things for the sexuality i don t think you would have sacrificed anything valuable to the story by excluding these scenes or at least being more subtle yes these men apparently had sex with women on their time off and yes it shows a lot about how valuable their time off the battlefield was but it did not need to be shown so much or at all for these scenes alone i can t recommend the pacific to any of my friends or family it s a real shame too because i think more people need to see these series to more fully appreciate what these brave men and women did for us mr hanks again i am a really big fan of your work and i have a tremendous amount of respect for you for putting so much effort into telling these stories right i would love for you to somehow make more similar miniseries because i know there are plenty of stories yet to be told from world war ii however what i ask is that you keep out the explicit sexuality so that more people can appreciate it for what it is please do this no one will complain about a lack of nudity i know you re a busy guy and so i understand if you can t write back to me but i d really appreciate it if you could i d love to hear what you think about all of this i hope i ve been respectful and i hope you take what i ve said seriously thank you posted by chris at 12 47 am 1 comment friday march 2 2012 sfl 358 blog entry 14 the artist so as many of you are aware the artist took best picture and best directing this year at the oscars i can t say it was a big surprise because it s a silent film it s certainly unique nowadays and i have to say it was very well done i m not so sure it was the best film made all year but i m sure it really hit home with the members of the academy so they loved it don t get me wrong i really did enjoy it but largely due to how different it is to what we re used to one thing i found quite interesting is how much they are able to convey without words some of the time they follow an utterance with a caption that tells you what they just said but much of the time it is left to the audience to surmise from the gestures and facial cues what they are saying i was surprised how much i was able to pick up without hearing them saying anything the story itself was nothing new really it was pretty easy to see where it was going and if i were the type of person who guesses every plot point along the way i probably could have gotten it pretty close put simply it s about a silent film actor who struggles as the film industry moves on to films with sound the acting on the other hand was really quite phenomenal jean dujardin earned his oscar for best acting as far as i m concerned he was very fun to watch throughout the whole thing i recommend this to anyone who hasn t seen it yet posted by chris at 6 04 pm 4 comments sfl 358 blog entry 13 the hobbit is coming i am sooooooo excited for this movie the first part doesn t even come out until december 14 2012 the second part comes out december 13 2013 aaaaghhhh i can t stand the long wait fortunately however peter jackson has been posting production videos online that show different aspects of making the movie as he s making it a new one 6 just came out yesterday found here so that explains my recently heightened excitement also i just finished reading the hobbit for the second time last week so now i remember what exactly to expect from these films for those of you familiar with the book you re probably wondering at that point in the book will the first movie end we don t know for sure yet because they haven t revealed that officially however if you watch video 6 peter jackson kind of gives it away he says they re currently filming part 2 and they re in laketown but they can t show us that yet because that movie doesn t come out until 2013 so from that we can deduce that the dwarves and bilbo do not make it to laketown yet by the end of the first film then later in the video they show the filming of the dwarves floating down the river in barrels so if they can show us the dwarves in barrels yet they can t show us laketown that most likely means that the first part will end as they escape in barrels more to follow later as more information comes out posted by chris at 1 33 pm 1 comment monday february 27 2012 sfl 358 blog entry 12 the oscars if you can t tell i love movies so naturally i m pretty interested in the oscars i haven t always been but this year i decided to see many of the films up for awards including all the films up for best picture it was neat to actually be interested in who won because i was familiar with all the nominees i ll write more about this later and give a better post about my oscars experience this year posted by chris at 1 56 am 1 comment thursday february 23 2012 sfl 358 blog entry 11 marriage counseling ad for my class my group and i had an assignment to produce an ad promoting something about the family chantel jarrett stephanie lyon jacqueline kiewra and i came up with the following commercial promoting marriage counseling at the byu comprehensive clinic i d also like to give credit to adrienne for her awesome acting skills enjoy posted by chris at 6 26 pm 1 comment tuesday february 7 2012 sfl 358 blog entry 10 the lord of the rings the books my current favorite book is the lord of the rings i know what you re thinking hey i thought that was three books well you re right but i love the trilogy as a whole and i can t pick only one of them that i like the most i actually hadn t heard of the lord of the rings before the first movie came out but after i saw it i instantly fell in love with the series and read each book as quickly as i could it is about a hobbit who after chancing upon an evil ring of great power must rely on new friends to journey into the heart of the evil land and destroy the ring not bad for one sentence eh the books are packed with so much detail concerning all the numerous cultures of the imaginary place called middle earth when one reads the trilogy he gets just a small glimpse of the entire world tolkien created that s one of the things i love about it he created entire cultures languages and histories for his books and though these three books make only references to this world the thoroughness of the author s work truly shines through the story itself is great too as the heroes rely on friends and undergo many personal sacrifices as they seek to do what is right i highly recommend it to anyone who hasn t read it yet for those of you who have read it i recommend the silmarillion it is basically the history of middle earth from very beginning up until the hobbit it s only for die hard tolkien fans but it s great posted by chris at 11 33 pm 5 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom blogs i follow dr coyne s blog billy elliot a dance for the senses 6 years ago the queen of kitsch tim jean mr chubbins turns one 13 years ago followers blog archive 2012 16 april 2 sfl 358 blog entry 16 the fellowship of the ring sfl 358 blog entry 15 my letter to tom hanks co march 2 february 6 january 6 2009 5 october 1 september 1 august 3 about me chris lansdale pennsylvania united states hey there i got back from serving a mission in hungary at the end of 2008 and i 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