Hello.
It's been a while since my last post. I said I would write again when something significant happened or I had watched Ben Hur, as part of my watching AFI's top 100, but to tell the truth neither of these things has happened.
I'm still on the long and lonely, and seemingly near deserted, path to finding my way into some sort of semblence of a career. I'm having no luck getting any response from any potential employers, but am having much better luck with volunteer work, where I work for free, for no payment, yay! One of my voluntary exploits is to take me down the road of photography, but actual, proper to-be-published photography, so the pictures really have to be of some good quality. And there's release forms and design briefs and everything!! Which is exciting but also scares the crap out of me! Especially as the best camera I have to hand is a six mega pixel which is very fussy and at any moment will decide it doesn't want you to take any more pictures and will retreat it's turtle-like lens head into itself and take a long sleep. So this should be interesting. I also have to have models as well, which should be exciting but challenging, especially as I'm the type of photographer who likes to have things play out naturally and try to "capture the moment" rather than have them posed for me. But every experience helps I suppose.
I'm doing all this volunteer work to build up my CV (which I recommend to other people to do) as the only nibbles I've had recently on my fishing rod in the pool of the job market were, once again, from The Cobra Group...dum dum DUM!!!! Yes, the powers of evil had found me where I lived and struck me down, by ringing my mobile several times and saying they want to interview me, I'm a promising candidate crapcrapcrap..... Do these people have nothing better to do!!! But when this sucker of souls, this wrecker of graduate dreams, this EVIL takes hold, they stop at nothing till they have you and then they take your life!!!
Sounds dramatic but follow this link and you'll se what I mean:
http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?p=299367#
Anyway, As I am still waiting for Ben (Hur) I shall give you a review of the latest version, reamke, re-imagining of Fame. Or as I'd like to call it (Quite) Lame. Now, you may think, oh no, someone who doesn't like musicals, but I actually friggin' love them. I love listening to them on my iPod, I love watching them on stage and screen and I LOVE being in them. But this film was not for me. I have not seen the original, I do want to, but this film I found, well, boring. For the hour and 40/50 odd minutes it is on it skims through the whole of the four years the kids are at the school, and with sevearl characters as the focus, all with their own stories, I found it hard to get interested in any of them or even care that much. One boy, who we see very breifly, a couple of times in some dance classes only gets a couple of scenes near the very end of the film...and that's his story!! One angry, Black kid from the rougher part of New York basically gets in gets angry at a few people, drops in and out of school, without clear reason, and..well that's it. Why bother having these underdeveloped and unexplored characters at all! Methinks, the filmmakers were just trying to tick all the boxes. And most of the characters had the same old, been-ther-done-that type of recycled stories. The dancing and singing within the film was very good, but these scenes were few and far between, not what you'd expext for this type of film. Most of the musical scenes were very short, and only three scenes in the film really stood out. The end of the film had one of the best sequences but then just seemed to peeter out, which was bizarre. It was nice to see Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth and Meagn Mullally in the film, but only Megan actually showing her talent and abilities, in a short and slightly drunken song. The other teachers, seemingly in the film for their big star names and personalities, seemed appropriately cast but underused. Overall the film was disappointing and failed to amaze.
Well, with that I shall bid adieu, and hope to write again soon, keeping my fingers crossed that it will be a more positive post and that 007 and the MI5 will have brought down the evil Cobra Group. T.T.F.N.
