what do they mean by "apocalyptic undertones" in Toy Story 3?

Posted by admin on June 30th, 2010 and filed under story critics | 6 Comments »

I don’t get it, some critic said ""Toy Story 3" four out of four stars. While "the movie segues into a prison escape thriller with apocalyptic undertones."

How? Can someone explain please

I agree with this critic! Definitely 4 out of 4 stars! This is a great movie! I do understand as well about the "movie segues into a prison escape thriller with apocalyptic undertones." Though to explain this will involve spoilers, so

****SPOILER ALERT****

Andy’s toys are dropped off at a local day care center. This day care center seems to be an innocent and fun place to the toys at first, especially when they are brought to the butterfly room. Losto Huggin Bear is the leader of the toys at this day care center and also seems to be a sweet, innocent toy. He and his friends stay in the butterfly room. Andy’s toys soon learn though that the day care is not as nice a place as they thought. They are assigned to the caterpillar room, which is a classroom for children younger than the children in the butterfly room. The children in the caterpillar room harm the toys when they play with them. When the toys decide to leave, Lotso has other plans and shows his sinister motives. He locks the toys up and has Buzz guard them so that they do not escape (He has reset Buzz, so Buzz follows his orders). The toys have to now escape this day care from behind bars (tote trays on shelves), make it past (and save) Buzz, through surveillance cameras, past toy patrol vehicles, into the yard, and beyond a 6 foot wall around the yard (Hence the prison escape thriller). The apocalyptic undertones simply refer to the end times as spoken about in the Bible. The book of Revelation speaks of a false person (the antichrist) who seems to be a well spoken, kind person but actually has sinister motives. The movie critic is simply drawing a parallel between Lotso and the antichrist’s persecution of the Christians, with the Christians representing Andy’s toys. Hope this helps!!!!!

What is the story about a dad and a son escaping a king by making wings?

Posted by admin on June 30th, 2010 and filed under story | 7 Comments »

There’s a story about a father and his son that get locked in the dungeon of a king’s castle and they have to escape by making wings out of feathers and wax. The father warns his son about where he needs to fly (like in between the water and the sun) but the son doesn’t listen and ends up melting his wings and falls into the ocean. (Or something like that…) What is this story called?

Icarus’ father, Daedalus, a talented and remarkable Athenian craftsman, attempted to escape from his exile in the place of Crete, where he and his son were imprisoned at the hands of King Minos, the king for whom he had built the Labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur (half man, half bull). Daedalus, the superior craftsman, was exiled because he gave Minos’ daughter, Ariadne, a clew in order to help Theseus, the enemy of Minos, survive the Labyrinth and defeat the Minotaur.
Daedalus fashioned two pairs of wings out of wax and feathers for himself and his son. Before they took off from the island, Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, nor too close to the sea. Overcome by the giddiness that flying lent him, Icarus soared through the sky curiously, but in the process he came too close to the sun, which melted the wax. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms. And so, Icarus fell into the sea in the area which bears his name, the Icarian Sea near Icaria, an island southwest of Samos.
Hellenistic writers who gave philosophical knowledge underpinnings to the myth also preferred more realistic variants, in which the escape from Crete was actually by boat, provided by PasiphaĆ«, for which Daedalus invented the first sails, to outstrip Minos’ pursuing galleys, and that Icarus fell overboard en route to Sicily and drowned. Heracles erected a tomb for him.

calling creativity for a fiction story plot?

Posted by admin on June 30th, 2010 and filed under story plot | 2 Comments »

I need a good plot for a fiction story I am planning to write. I would want it to be fantasy, but not like dragons and stuff. I like the idea of a dictator, but i am open for anything! Please help… thank you!!!

I’ll tell you what I tell everyone, and please read this before you thumb it down as many people get good ideas from this. Look at pictures and listen to music.

The only authors that will give you ideas on here are bad ones. Keep in mind that good authors will keep their ideas to themselves.

The Carpetbagger: NY Film Critics Awards – NYTimes.com/Video

Posted by admin on June 27th, 2010 and filed under story critics | 3 Comments »

David Carr reports from the New York Film Critic’s Circle Awards.

Duration : 0:3:55

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[ MMV CONTEST AND SHORT STORIES] (OPEN) :D NO DUE DATE!!!

Posted by admin on June 27th, 2010 and filed under short stories | 25 Comments »

THERE IS NO DUE DATE FOR NOW!!! MORE PEOPLE JOIN!!! (:
Hey Youtube!! :D
Its iiAngelCakee (Malalay) And MeowSkyPro ( Mimi )..
And we will be hosting a MMV CONTEST!
YAY!! – CLAPS – LOL
Okay so Anyway..
PLEASE WATCH VIDEO BEFORE YOU READ!
OKAY SO ANYWAY..
PLEASE NO STEALING! OR CHEATING PLEASE.
Me and Mimi will be the judges and this is how we will be Judging you on..
Its out of 45..

Score:

Creativity /10
Song /5
Is it rushed? /5
Effort /10
Effects /5
Transitions /5
Timing /5

BONUS POINTS!!!
- If you put in your description box DUCKS GO MOO OR COWS GO QUACK = 3 POINTS
- If you say Malalay and Mimi are AWESOME :D (NAH.. BUT IF YOU WANT ) = 2 POINTS
- If we are in it = 3 POINTS
NOTE :
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO THIS ONLY IF YOU WANT BUT THIS WILL HELP YOUR POINTS :D

Duration : 0:1:0

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Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone: interview

Posted by admin on June 27th, 2010 and filed under short stories online | 13 Comments »

Solo journalist Kevin Sites spent a year travelling to conflict regions around the world, reporting for his own video/multimedia blog “Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone” on Yahoo. From Iraq to Lebannon to the Congo, he went straight to the heart of conflict and used online video to tell the stories he found there.

This is a short interview with him after a recent visit to Berkeley’s journalism school. He talks about online video, the future of journalism, and his year in the ‘hot zone.’

See the “Hot Zone” online at http://hotzone.yahoo.com/

Duration : 0:6:32

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Carol Burnett Show outtakes – Tim Conway’s Elephant Story

Posted by admin on June 27th, 2010 and filed under story | 25 Comments »

Tim Conway destroys his castmates during a “Mama’s Family” sketch on the “Carol Burnett Show” by refusing to let the scene continue until he can finish a story about a circus elephant. Unedited!

Duration : 0:4:56

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Bedtime Story

Posted by admin on June 27th, 2010 and filed under stories | 25 Comments »

Written by Jeff Whitmore. Short from film school, directed by Bryan Amburgey.

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Breathe Me Trailer (lolena story) //plot in db

Posted by admin on June 27th, 2010 and filed under story plot | 4 Comments »

Here is the trailer for my lolena MOVIE trailer!! okay so i havent decided if this movie will be in the downbar or in video. But maybe if some lolena lovers out there would comment that would be nice.Like really nice if you guys could comment.Please!!!!!If you comment thank you if none does then ill just choose myself i guess.= )
Okay so if you dont understand the video here’s the plot::

Sloan(Selena) is a 19 year old girl with a lot of family issues. Her mother is a Drug attic. Her father is an alchoholic and beats her,her brother is always out partying with his bestfriend who happens to really want to have Sloan(If you know what i mean).And her sister(Vanessa) hates her for sleeping with her boyfriend.One day Sloan attempts Suicide by slitting her wrist.She goes to Wuthering Hospital and Meets her MALE Nurse Lucas haha(Logan). So the romance story goes from there.
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NO COPYRIGHT INFRIDGMENT INTENDED.ALL RIGHTS GO TO RIGHTFUL OWNERS.EVERYTHING IN THIS VIDEO WAS USED FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.

Duration : 0:2:11

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a Kids Video-Story Time-Mama Sharon!

Posted by admin on June 27th, 2010 and filed under kids story | No Comments »

Music Video! Kids Song! Story time with MamaSharen and baby sue sue. The Title of the story is Monie and Neekaboo’s first day of school. Baby sue sue is pretending to be Neeka Boo and MamaSharen is telling the story and reading the part of Monie.

Duration : 0:5:3

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