Saturday, 3 April 2010

Malcolm X

Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. In 1946, Malcolm X was sentenced to eight to ten years in prison. While in prison, Malcolm X became a member of the Nation of Islam. After his parole in 1952, he became one of the Nation's leaders and chief spokesmen. He was the public face of the Nation of Islam. Tension between Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad, head of the Nation of Islam, led to Malcolm X's departure from the organization in March 1964. After leaving the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became a Sunni Muslim and made a pilgrimage to Mecca, after which he disavowed racism. He traveled extensively throughout Africa and the Middle East. He founded Muslim Mosque, Inc., a religious organization. Less than a year after he left the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X was assassinated while giving a speech in New York.

On the left is a famous image of Malcolm X holding a rifle looking outside his window. This picture was taken after Malcolm had received numerous amount of death threats. During this time some people even attacked Malcolm's home where they threw burning rocks into his house. The burning rocks hit the room where his three daughters were sleeping. Malcolm X was furious and had been reported to have said that if had seen the suspects he would have got his riffle and shot them on sight. Know the previous events this image has significant power. The image shows Malcolm X looking out his window holding a riffle, as to indicate that he is watching and is ready to take action. The image has more of an effect because his finger is on the trigger. The expression on his face is very serious as to indicate that this is not a joke and he is not just doing it to take the photograph.

Ra's al Ghul

Ra's al Ghul is a DC Comics supervillain and is one of Batman's greatest enemies. His name is Arabic for "The Demon's Head," and references the name of the star Algol. Created by writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Neal Adams, he was introduced in Batman #232's "Daughter of the Demon" (June 1971). Given his high status as a supervillain, he has also come into conflict with Superman and other superheroes in the DC Universe.
Ra's al Ghul is an international terrorist and assassin whose ultimate goal is a world in perfect environmental balance. He believes that the best way to achieve this balance is to eliminate most of humanity. Ra's usually tries to assault the world's human populace with a biological weapon, such as a genetically-engineered virus. He is aided in this quest by the Lazarus Pits, reservoirs of rejuvenating chemicals that restore the dying to life; these pits have granted him a lifespan of several centuries.

Thursday, 1 April 2010

Good Vs Evil

Idea for a Television series. This is about general people who are faced with moral question decisions. When they get in a situation a little cartoon angel pops up on the right should and a little cartoon devil pops up on the left shoulder. They tell the person whether to do the right thing or the opposite. During arguing the right or wrong thing, the cartoon devil gets heated while the cartoon angel stay cool and tries to outsmart the devil using wit and common sense.

Each episode has different dilemmas , but i doesn't just focus on the person making a decision, It also develops a story between the devil and angle

The fact that the angel and devil are cartoon figures gives the whole concept a light hearted feel.

The Incident

This is a movie idea. The story is about two homeless heroin addicts who are best friends. They have been through a lot together and practically share everything. The two friend have a routine which they both follow, this allows them to complete the week in which the are able to survive on food, shelter and their weekly fix of heroin. As weeks go on the couple start to find it hard to comply with the routine and start to struggle with surviving. one week the friends haven't ate much in order to have enough money for their weekly fix. the time come to see how much money their have and their relies they only have enough for one fix. The friend start to fight as who should get the heroin. the fight gets out of hand and one of the friend kills the other and runs off to get his fix. As the adrenaline is pumping through him he quickly injects himself with heroin as he think his friend is right on his tail. later, as he has come 'down ' from his high, he relies what he has done and breaks down. The Movie ends.

I had various approaching in which this could be show. the first was as a documentary, in which the character are telling the audience what they do and how. Another way in which it could be show is in segment, the first introducing the character, the second telling about the routine and finally shows the incident. Yet another approach could be showing it as what happened on the day of the incident, in which we see the character talking about the past and then the incident takes place and audience follows it as it happens.

Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Scary Movie


Scary Movie is a 2000 Comedy/Spoof film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. It is an American dark comedy which parodies the horror genres. Several mid-and late-1990s films are spoofed, including 'The Sixth Sense', 'The Usual Suspects', 'The Matrix', and 'The Blair Witch Project', with a significant portion of the film's plot being dedicated to the more subtle horror film parody series 'Scream' and 'I Know What You Did Last Summer'.

Film Parodies

Film Parodies are comedies that satirises other genres or films. The concept used in these is sarcasm, an example of this is 1980 movie Airplane!, which consistes of many random jokes. Another element key element is mocking other films, an example of this is the 1996 movie 'Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood'. The film spoof a number of 'coming to age "hood" movies' such as 'Juice', 'South Central', 'Menace II Society', 'New Jack City' and mainly 'Boyz N The Hood'.

Sunday, 28 March 2010

Pai Mei

Pai Mei (translated to White Eyebrows) is said to have been one of the legendary Five Elders — survivors of the destruction of the Shaolin Temple by the Qing Dynasty imperial regime (1644–1912) — who, according to some accounts, betrayed Shaolin to the imperial government.

Pak Mei has been fictionalized in Hong Kong films such as Executioners from Shaolin (1977), Abbot of Shaolin (1979), and Clan of the White Lotus (1980). In these movies, Pak Mei was played by Lo Lieh, in 2004 Gordon Liu played Pak Mei in the film Kill Bill: Volume 2.