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| Beagle147 (profile) wrote, on 2-29-2004 at 5:39pm | |
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| Not sure what to say today. I don't think it really matters, since no one is apparently reading it, but that's ok.. I went last night to see Passion of the Christ. The first thing that I'd like to say about it is that it is not antisemitic in the least. I don't know where people got that from. The only person that was directly called a Jew was Simon of Cyrene. And the only way you could take that as antisemitism is if you knew absolutely nothing about the Bible. I guess people could blame Simon of Cyrene for his death since he carried the cross? There was a part where either Pilate or Herod said "I am not a jew" but that wouldn't be antisemitic either. So the only other references that I remembered of jews was in reference to Jesus himself, calling him king of the jews. But I will say that the media making a huge deal with the violence in the movie was pretty acurate. Mind you, there was nothing there that I didn't know about from seventh and eighth grade bible class, but still, I do not want to watch the beating for a half hour. I'm not going to go into it here, just in case the non-existant people reading this have weak stomachs, but it was graphic. I had absolutely no trouble with Saving Private Ryan, and I had to close my eyes during this one. There were some weird things too. The portrayal of Satan at one point holding a child I just didn't get, but I'm gonna ask Dan about that. Other than that, it was a very powerful movie. Lots of amazing cinematography. Loved how they ended it. It was, however, entirely in Aramaic and Latin. Subtitles the whole time. Kind of annoying to read the subtitles the whole movie, but they did it in such a way that you could read the subtitles and still see who was saying what, and everything that was going on in the scene. Well done. I have to email UPenn about visiting today. That is, I have to email them today, not visit today. I have no idea what I'm asking them, but I may be able to come up with something. I also got a letter from uf about an open house at the college of agriculture and life sciences april 10. Will has agreed to take me to that, because I hate going to those things with my parents, so that's good. I think that we're going to bring the dogs up with us too. Very exciting. It's easter weekend, so I have that friday off, so I can go up kinda early and not miss school. It'll be cool. I was considering whether a campus tour of uf would be advantageous or not. I think it would be pretty redundant though. I already know where everything is and what the campus is like and all that crap. I'll see if I feel like doing one while I'm up there. Yesterday was foreign language fair. I didn't go, but my projet got a superior. I really was not expecting that at all. I thought maybe a good. But apparently a lot of people did really well. I know angie's declamation and gabe and jennifer's pièce got superiors. Dude, friday madame youngman was being so nice to me. It was so weird. I gave her the rules to the game in english, and she typed them up in french for me. I just sat there and stared at the paper in astonishment for a minute. It was crazy. And when I gave her the projet she was giving me all these tips for how to improve it before states. She was like you could come after school one day and I will help you work on it. We can do all this blah blah blah, etc. Crazy. She apparently likes me now. Don't know if that will be enough to raise my grade in her class though. After those two horrible quizzes. I did better than a lot of people too, and I still failed. It's insane. But no complaining about french for a while. I don't have the class till tuesday. That means that tomorrow I have all the classes I hate. I was going to read Scarlet letter this weekend, honestly, but I just...didn't. I didn't do anything this weekend except go to the movie. That means that it'll be a late night, but still. I'm so watching the Academy Awards anyway. Let's go Johnny Depp for best actor! Best acting job ever. And no, I do not find Johnny Depp attractive, but yes, he is my favorite actor. I know that's hard for some 17 year old girls to comprehend, that I can like an actor for his acting, but Captain Jack Sparrow is my favorite character ever brought to the screen. Freaking amazing. That's all for today folks. See you all tomorrow. |
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| Anonymous | 03-01-04 8:46pm *poke*
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Beagle147 | Re:, 03-01-04 10:57pm Poke, eh? Hmm... I have two guesses as to who this one us... o.~ |
SeraphimRhapsody | 03-06-04 12:23am Actually.. I read this the day you posted it. Just couldn't post a message.
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