Macbeth movie.... again.....

At first, I thought it will be the same Macbeth that I watched back in the foundation course, but it was not the same movie that I watched. It was a movie with the same title, but it was a different version that what I watched. The war and fighting scenes was an EPIC FAILURE. The scene was not alive, people are standing like statue at the background. What was in the head of the producer, cant he/she think better? A fighting/war scenes should have lots of movement, event on the background we should see people killing each other. For me, the character expression was not convincing, that just disappoint me even more. The witches….. Where the hell the beach comes from? It was not on the beach as I’m remembered, and yeah, I’m pretty sure the scene was not on the beach. What I can say about the Macbeth movie is, it was a ‘let down’ production, and it will disappoint the audience who watched the movie. Personally I think that it might be better read the text rather than watching the movie.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

The movie Elizabeth: The Golden Age is a movie plotted in the history of England. In my opinion the movie is constructed on the Brechtian based plot. I think Elizabeth do have similarity with Oedipus, that is “Pride before falls”. In the end of the story, Elizabeth recovers her strength and makes a ‘comeback’ against Spanish invaders. Her character is interesting because she seemed like have been protected by the pride, indirectly. Another trait of her that interest me is, although she had been very proud of her position, she treated everyone well, except when she lost her temper. She was a brave queen because joining the battle against the Spanish. I think she did that in order to raise the soldiers’ morale. The language of the movie was the old British spoken language and also Spanish (when the Spanish talks to one another). The language used was confusing because of the reversed structure, but it is still and interesting movie to watch.

Haunted by FATE

Oedipus Rex is a play in Teaching the Language of Drama course syllable. the text was written long time ago, so the way the language used in the text is different than how we use it nowadays. and for that same reason too, it is hard to actually understand what the writer wanted to tell us, so by only reading the text, it is impossible for me to understand the text. what i did was to find in depth summary/ analysis of the story and reading the newer version of the text that were written in modern english. in the story, oedipus heard about the prophecy of him marrying his own mother and being the person who murder his own father. he dont want the prophecy to come true, so he depart for a journey. during his journey, he had fought with a group of man and killed them, without knowing he murdered his owh biological father.(the royal family that raised him is not his real family). later in his journey, he has become the king of Thebes and married to Queen of Thebes; Jocaste (without knowing that she is her biological mother). later in the play, a plague breakout and to solve it, he have to find the previous king's murderer.Oedipus seeked Teiresias help in revealing the mystery but he do not want to listen to what Teiresias told him. when he accepted what Teiresias told him, he realizes that all the prophecy about him has come true and he cannot undone all the events that has happened.

what a misfortune Oedipus has

blind prophet; Teiresias

there are many myths related to teiresias. teiresias was a prophet of zeus, he was blind, and the cause of his blindness are differ from one version of myth to another.the most direct being is he was blinded because of revealing the secret of gods.

according to pherecydes teiresias was blinded by Athen after he stumbled onto her bathing naked. his mother begged Athena to undo the cursed, but unfortunately Athena can't do it. thus she granted Pherecydes ears to understand birdsongs.

these are only 2 of the variation of the myths. other version of the myth also have teiresias turn to a woman.

the myths of teiresias actually is interesting because the variation of myths regarding Teiresias will made us think, which one is the best/accurate myth about him

Scriptwriter; As a

In this course was the 1st time ever i wrote a script. i used to think that writing a script is a very easy task, i used to think that as long as u write, the task will be done, but when the 1st script was rejected, i was confused why it happened. i actually have to put effort on making a script. we have to consider the storyline, the flow of the story, the exposition and etc. when i was redo my script, i did tried to think and put the thoughts in the script. yes , IT IS DAMN HARD!. i now realized just how hard it is to produce a quality script.

Zapin

Zapin was the only traditional dance that i ever experienced in my whole life. For dummies, zapin is a popular traditional dance in johore, believed originated from Arab by muslim missionaries sometime around the 14th century. in the old days, zapin only being performed by male dancers but nowadays, even female dancers are allowed to perform it. back in mktb, it was the only traditional dance that i was involved in. it was for the state level independent day celebration. the dance somehow look easy, but frankly, IT IS NOT! the training is hard and troublesome because of the restrictions and routines that we MUST follow. it is way different than what we younger generations were exposed to. the musics that we listen and dances that we watch, thus becomng the art that we appreciate, is different than what older people appreciate. i believe that we younger people are appreciating high beat musics and less restricting routines dance.