"'What' and ‘if’ two words as nonthreatening as words come. But put them together side-by-side and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life: ‘What if?'..."
"I don't know how your story ended. But I know that if what you felt then was love - true love - then it's never too late. If it was true then it why wouldn't it be true now? You need only the courage to follow your heart..."
"I don't know what a love like that feels like... a love to leave loved ones for, a love to cross oceans for... but I'd like to believe if I ever felt it. I'd have the courage to seize it. I hope you had the courage to seize it, Claire. And if you didn't, I hope one day that you will." - Juliet
i so heart it! :)
i also love the line..
Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt thou the sun doth move /Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love,"
I believe I'm excited to watch this movie by September 24, 2010. I saw the trailer before the movie Clash of the Titans. The song Kings and Queens caught me because it was familiar, but beforehand I really didn't like the song not until I saw this trailer. The soundtrack fits the trailer and it fits the flight of the Owls of Ga'Hoole! Woah I can't believe I'm actually excited once more for a movie. This is a must see in 3D. I loved Happy Feet, I'm sure this will be as great as the stomping of the feet of the penguins as much as the flight of the owls. Oh not to mention, the owls are so cute!
I have never watched any movie adapted films from the works of Shakespeare other than Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet. At around past 9 this evening, I was browsing through the different channels in the television, hoping to watch something for the sake of watching with no other thoughts in mind. As I reached HBO, a soft narration captured my attention. At first, I thought it was Memoirs of Geisha because of the Japanese background, but then I was wrong. After the narration was a few lines full of meaning. Darn it I wasn't able to get them. I guess I have to wait for the movie to be played again. So there, I saw the title, As You Like It, which is from William Shakespeare. At first I thought it would be somehow boring, but the lines of the actors really bedazzled me. It felt so real and the poetry was so alive.
After the movie, I searched over the www for the synopsis of the literary piece. http://www.bardweb.net/plays/asyoulikeit.html The adaptation made by HBO Films was good enough to exhilarate the watchers as it did to me. Oh, it's kind of Romantic and Comedy in nature according to Mr. Wiki. Correct me if I'm wrong but I seldom read those old literary pieces unless it is a school requirement. haha. Maybe it would be boring for others, but I like it much. Their version was not that far from the real version of Shakespeare. (according to my judgment). Although there was a touch of modernization, just like no racial discrimination, Rosalind (American/European), Orlando (African/American), still, the essence and meat of the piece was still there. Some of the sources spell the main character as Rosalynde and some would spell it Rosalind. Try to watch it in HBO, I'm sure it'll still be aired sooner or later.
Here are some of the few lines from the different characters that I like so much. Btw these lines are from different scenes.
Orlando: I do desire we may be better strangers.
Orlando: Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.
Rosalind: I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.
Rosalind: I warrant him heart-whole.
Rosalind: Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Touchstone:So-so is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not; it is but so-so.
Rosalind: No sooner met, but they looked; no sooner looked, but they loved; no sooner loved, but they sighed; no sooner sighed, but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.
Touchstone: We quarrel in print, by the book, as you have books for good manners: I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.
For me those lines profoundly hides the true meaning of each words from the different characters. It gives readers a touch of inquisitiveness that makes them read between the lines. It's not that hard to understand because once you get the clue on how Shakespeare writes, you'll easily blend with the literary piece. It's as if you are included in the plot.
The story is about 16 year old girl named Juno McGuff (Ellen Page) who ended up pregnant after having sex with her friend Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera).Juno’s first thought was abortion but then she decides on giving up her baby for adoption. Juno found the supposedly perfect couple Vanessa and Mark (Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman) to be the parents of her child also ended up the not so perfect couple after all.
The first thing that caught my attention to watch this movie was its soundtrack. Cool songs by the way until the end of the movie. I am a viewer who listens intently and enthusiastically to soundtracks because they make me even appreciate the movie itself. The archetypal tunes and the strings of the guitar told me: hey watch me! The intro of the movie sort of struck me already, my first impression was.. because of the very “cartoonic” or comic icons I said that this would be something to make me laugh but then Juno didn’t only make me laugh, it made me become more open minded.
Juno McGuff played by Ellen Page is an extremely awesome actress at her age of 20. She did her role so well that her facial expressions and gestures will tell you that she’s really into her profession. Bleeker, played by Michael Cera was also so good that his expressions would fit his face. The not-so-innocent look but the look of admitting that he got Juno pregnant made him a good actor as well. As for Vanessa played by Jennifer Garner, it’s a head turner to see her act in a dramatic role. I was used to watching her kicking butts like in Alias and Elektra, and the euphoric and bubbly Jennifer in 13 going on 30.
It’s seldom to see teen movies with a different twist. The usual teen movies would only do so much about having fun, kids being bullied and the bullies, a new girl or boy in school who would turn out to be someone famous in the end and all the other usual teenage stuff. Juno is not that kind of teen movie. Although Juno is also the usual teenager, but then her situation is somewhat still sensitive to a lot of people. Juno is more than reality itself but the truth that teenagers face these days.
The writer (Cody) together with the director (Reitman) surely knows how to make the audience appreciate all the facets of life. All the possibilities and all the imperfections of human relationships can be seen in this movie. Clearly, decision making and the will the stand for what a person believes in is very evident in this movie.
Teenagers would either risk themselves for abortion or live up with what they got into. It’s a different issue if you’re a closed door catholic. I’d like to quote what A.O. Scott of the New York Times said:
{{“Juno” also shares with “Knocked Up” an underlying theme, a message that is not anti-abortion but rather pro-adulthood. It follows its heroine — and by the end she has earned that title — on a twisty path toward responsibility and greater self-understanding.}}
All of us if not everyone have our own movies to play to, we have a twisty and winding road ahead of us which eventually will lead us to a greater self-understanding just like what Scott said. Abortion has long been an issue in our society. For sure there will be reviews that will say that abortion is not a choice but a sin. This movie will not force you or opt you to be pro or anti abortion but rather Juno is something or someone that makes one realize of all the possibilities in life that there are a lot of imperfections in relationships that we ourselves can make it perfect if we have the good disposition and courage to stand for what we do. In this way we are on the process of not only understanding ourselves but a BEING and DOING in the making.
Generally speaking, the actors and actresses were great and this movie can be given high recognitions for its quality sense.
After all, we viewers are just watchers of the creative minds of these movie makers whom they also based them on the realities in life. We all do get entertained the good way or the worst way.
Happy watching!
~ by babytanya16 on January 21, 2008.
One Response to “Something to say about JUNO (movie)”
i assumed Juno was directed by the same guy that directed Knocked Up because it’s about an unexpected pregnancy, and Michael Cera stars as Juno’s boyfriend (he was one of the goofy kids from Superbad, a close relative of Knocked Up), but it turns out this is not the case
im plain with clear outlook to who i am. im not much of a talker because i am much of a listener, i like to scribble anything that comes out of my mind. sometimes i say it, sometimes i don’t, because there are things that should be left unsaid for others to realize that the absence of word will be enough for an asnwer. no matter how complex life is, i’d still like to live life plain and simple, because too much pre-occupation on the complex can make a person dull and stupid.
i live in stripes..vertical or horizontal.. there are a lot of ways to survive this life called reality. we may have the same coping mechanisms, but we differ on how we feel and react towards all those stressors in life. i live by my words by hit or miss, i stand for what i say.. sometimes life can be misleading because of mouths around us that can make or break us. be affected with what others say or be the effect of what you say to others. it’s a matter of how you strip in the stripes that crosses over your pathway.
i need some prints in my consciousness. i need your reactions to teach me how to live life well and to use my words in the utmost good way. we all need someone beyond ourselves who can pop our heads out to be awakened by reality. we all leave prints in the heart of all those we meet, as you leave prints in my heart, i’ll try to leave something in your heart as well. don’t forget that prints can be also be scars, so let us stay away from that.
Anything visible is powerful, what is Plainly seen, Stripes that crosses over, and Prints that leave marks. But the unseen in a person is something that we should learn, explore and understand. PSP and the unknown is what is within ME that makes me human enough to co-exist with you.
I am the me who can’t be you, but I can share my life with you.
i assumed Juno was directed by the same guy that directed Knocked Up because it’s about an unexpected pregnancy, and Michael Cera stars as Juno’s boyfriend (he was one of the goofy kids from Superbad, a close relative of Knocked Up), but it turns out this is not the case