Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Film Appreciation

The Sound of Music


Once upon a time in Salzburg, Austria, just before World War II, Maria Rainer, One of the nuns of Nonnberg Abbey, is on the nearby mountainside regretting to beautiful hills where she was raised. She returns late. The Mother Abbess and the other nuns consider what to do about her. The Mother Abbess tells her that she should spend some time outside the abbey to decide whether she is ready for the monastic life. She will act as the governess to the seven children of widower Captain Geoge Von Trapp.

Maria arrives at the villa of Captain von Trapp, a decorated World War I Captain of the Navy. He explains her duties and summons the children with a whistle. They march in, clad in uniforms.


He teaches her their individual signals on the whistle, but she openly disapproves of this militaristic approach. Alone with them, she breaks through their wariness and teaches them the basics of music

Captain von Trapp arrives a month later with Baroness Elsa Schräder and Max Detweiler. Elsa tells Max that something is preventing the Captain from marrying her. He opines that only poor people have the time for great romances. Rolf the messenger enters, looking for Liesl, but the Captain orders him away, saying that he is Austrian, not German. Maria and the children playing, wearing playclothes that she made from old drapes. Infuriated, the Captain sends them off to change. She tells him that they need him to love them, and he angrily orders her back to the abbey. As she apologizes, they hear the children singing, which she had taught them, to welcome Baroness Schräder. He joins in, and he then embraces them. Alone with Maria, he asks her to stay, thanking her for bringing music back into his house. Elsa is suspicious of her until she explains that she will be returning to the abbey in September.

The Captain gives a party to introduce Elsa. Kurt asks Maria to teach him to dance. When he is unable to negotiate a complicated figure, the Captain steps in to demonstrate. He and Maria dance until they come face-to-face, and she breaks away, embarrassed and confused. Discussing the expected marriage between Elsa and the Captain, Brigitta tells her that she and the Captain are really in love with each other. Elsa asks him to let the children say goodnight to the guests with a song. Max is amazed at their talent and wants them for the Kaltzberg Festival, which he is organizing. The guests leave for the dining room, and Maria slips out the front door with her luggage.

At the abbey, Maria says that she is ready to take her monastic vows, but the Mother Abbess realizes that she is running away from her feelings. She tells her to face the Captain and discover if they love each other, and that, by searching for it, she must find the life she was meant to live

Critical Reading of Characters


Who is Rose DeWitt Bukater and Jack Dawson? 

Rose DeWitt Bukater and Jack Dawson was a fictional character in  James Cameron  film "Titanic" direct by James Cameron in 1997.

 - Rose DeWitt Bukater was born in Philadelphia in 1895. It is unspecified what her actual date of birth is, but it is known that she was born before April 10, as she is seventeen when the Titanic sets out on her maiden voyage. She is the daughter of Ruth DeWitt Bukater and an unnamed Mr. DeWitt Bukater. After finally arriving in New York City aboard the RMS Carpathia, Rose adopts the surname "Dawson," after her deceased lover Jack Dawson. She becomes known as Rose Dawson Calvert upon her marriage to an unnamed Mr. Calvert. It is known that in 1996 she has a granddaughter by the name of Elizabeth "Lizzy" Calvert, who is presumable unmarried due to her surname.

 

DeWitt Bukater potrayed by Kate Winslate

- Jack was born in Chippewa Falls in Wisconsin, USA around 1892. His parent died while he was still young. A talented artist he travelled extensively and appears to have had a fondness for drawing nudes. His love was with Rose DeWitt Bukater, a first class rich person. Jack was third class. Jack got on the boat by winning a poker game with his two buddies. While Jack was on the Titanic, he was arrested as the boat began to sink, but Rose came to save him. Jack died on April 15, 1912, after the Titanic sank because of hypothermia. He was 16 years old.

Jack Dawson potrayed by Leonardo Dicaprio

What stereotypes does he/she represent? 

 - Rose DeWitt Bukater : Rose is a 17-year-old girl, originally from Philadelphia, who is forced into an engagement to 30-year-old Cal Hockley so she and her mother, Ruth, can maintain their high-class status after her father's death had left the family debt-ridden. Rose boards the RMS Titanic with Cal and Ruth, as a first-class passenger, and meets Jack. Rose also represent of the glamorous and rich people but she is a humble women after she meet jack at the deck.

- Jack Dawson : Jack is portrayed as a penniless man from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin who has toured various parts of the world, primarily Paris. He represent as ordinary people from ordinary class, not rich but also not to poor. He wins two tickets onto the RMS Titanic in a poker game and travels as a third-class passenger with his friend Fabrizio. He is attracted to Rose at first sight and meets her when she attempts to throw herself off the stern of the ship. This enables him to mix with the first-class passengers for a night.

Is he/she good or bad?

Both characters are good. Good from the attitude, behaviour, also from the speech. but in the fact they are from different the bacgkround. From ordinary people (Jack Dawson) and from rich and glamorous people (Rose Dewitt Bukater). Altough both of them are from different class ,they also have a good behavior and manner when they are interact with the otherss, no one of them represent as the bad character. they both have good maner, have good intercation, have good behavior and good attitude too.