My Funny Valentine

Valentine's Day but I'm still working my ass off. sadly I haven't met mr. right watever. still have to get going with the exam.

top ten romantic films that I'd recommend (my all time favourites)

1. Breakfast at Tiffany's
2. Love Actually
3. Serendipity
4. Atonement (it's kind of tragic but still really good)
5. La Parapluise de Cherbourg
6. Kate and Leopold
7. Moulin Rouge
8. Sabrina
9. The English Patient
10. Casablanca

some are tearjerkers, but hey it's doesn't matter they're still great love stories. : )

Serendipity is really my thing. I believe in fate more than hard work sometimes. and some people are just lucky all the time. lucky in all different ways. if there's really a guy like John Cusack's character, and I really get the chance to meet him like that, and even after 7 years, that's destiny, not conincidence really. I'd really marry him in a second.

Breakfast at Tiffany's is still in my top three list cuz it's just sooo good. light hearted and heartbreaking at the same time. it's about the fear of committment.
when Paul tells Holly that he loves and she belongs to him (that'll be problematic in the 21st century... feminists will be arguing that as sth against females) Holly thinks being in love with someone is locking herself in a cage. but those aren't equal i think. ownership and love are two separate things. when you love someone you technically own them, but literally you won't cuz that'll suffocate the relationship...

these 10 are ten different love stories from ten different points of view. different relationships and teach us a lot about love. "all you need is love" that's what they say in Moulin Rouge. : )

and here's the lyrics to the song that I love. really valentine-ish.

My funny valentine
Sweet comic valentine
You make me smile with my heart
Your looks are laughable
Unphotographable
Yet you're my favourite work of art

Is your figure less than greek?
Is your mouth a little weak?
When you open it to speakAre you smart?
But dont change a hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
Each day is valentines day

things I like

On the verge of brain suffocation due to immense and uncontrollable cramming of subjects into my brain, I'm constantly getting a vision of my future. hmmm...that scares me a bit actually. I'm getting serious because life is tough and serious now. have to be sophisticated for a while. and think straight.

read a post on imdb about women being crazy and acting nuts from 18-25 while men would continue with that period into their 30s... I think i'm quite insane these two years. and i still have some more years to get wasted, so I'll start getting serious for two more months and fall into the black pit of hope/confusion/dreariness... for another 2 months and get the results. and I'll be free. but growing up isn't that fun. I haven't thought about this for a long time. Actually being a grown up you have to cope with lots of things and that's not easy, at least not like those dreams i used to picture myself as a shopaholic living in paris looking at the eiffel every day.

maybe this time I'll type out the things or people that I like ... at least they motivate me to work and remind me of my good days. : )

• the 20s and 40s are still my favourite period of time. used to dream about living in that period. i'd rather face war than face school... trying to be honest really.


• psychological thrillers, and suspense genre


• Johnny Depp and Tim Burton collaboration.


• John Cusack just made the list. suddenly have a liking for his films. i used to like him when i first saw him in America's Sweethearts. and I saw it today. not really a great movie, but reminds of me those great romantic comedies in the 90s like Notting Hill. make me smile every time. and he actually did blog in the internet about war and america and hunter s. thompson.


• everything french or british


• F. Scott Fitzgerald


• Daphne du Maurier


• movies from the 40s


• vintage


• poetry, literature


• macarons (really want to try those from lauderee)


• aston martins, mini coopers (i'll learn how to drive one day!)
  
• joe wright he's really talented.


• writing (i actually want to be an illustrator for children's books or just an author. but I'm not going to major in lit... anyway if i hv earnt enough after my 30s i'll quit my job and start writing and writing. I want to be a screenwriter as well. I can't act and I always have a thing for movies, so maybe that's the job for me. who knows? that's the good thing of the film industry, different types of talents can find their way into the business as long as they have a passion for films)

I'm a child from another period, my mum used to say. She always says you like old stuff. yes, I guess I like old stuff, and they're nice and nostalgic. maybe I'm really from another time period.

Sweeney Todd (2008)

TIM BURTON IS BACK! with long time collaborator/frd Johnny Depp n' wife Helena Bonham Carter. : )

it's a homage to the old classic horror movies. a bit like sleepy hollow n' edward scissorhands, and that brings out the best of Burton as a director of the gothic genre.

the singing is amazing. and it's johnny depp's first time to sing on screen. as well as Alan Rickman. Jamie Campbell Bower is quite fascinating too. and Jayne Wisener recalls the Christina Ricci look in Sleepy Hollow.

it's a story about revenge eating up on itself. a love story, murder and horror added up together, quite comical too, all put into a musical. really i haven't seen a musical that can make your hair jump but all the while sends out lots of messages about humanity. There's no clear line between evil or good. Frankly, everyone in the film is quite nuts about one thing or another.

hope depp could get his oscar after the golden globes. he should have got that award after so many nominations... but oh well there are still lots of competitive actors like tommy lee jones, viggo mortensen and daniel day lewis... maybe johnny depp is the dark horse... we never know.

I'm still having this gothic craze. whenever tim burton's movie's out i got this craze. lol and i got myself a black and white stripe dress today. HAHA : ) it is quite a trend this summer. i'm going to stock up on this. saw one that i really want to buy already. a halter neck. hmmm : P

overall ratings:

cinematography - 4.5/5 (the cgi opening is a bit of a turn off)

music - 4/5

casting - 5/5
art direction - 4/5

costume - 4/5

Heath

RIP
Heath Ledger (1979-2008)

Rebecca

reading My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier. it's a bit like Rebecca. the femme fatale, the sinister adviser, but it's written from a male perspective. One of my aspirations is to write from a male point of view, it should be really interesting.

have done my portfolio. ALL DONE! quite happy about it now.

wanted to re-watch Rebecca, but couldn't find the dvd anywhere. so i just went to youtube. hehe youtube's the greatest invention ever!!!
i have also ordered the umbrellas of cherbourg from hmv. get to watch it next week! hooray!

but just one more month and it will be our mock exam. wth. 70 days till AL. a bigger wth!

C'est la vie

having many days of holidays right now, but after that it will be horrid study time day and night. oh gosh... I really have to fulfil my new year's resolutions. i need to get into the unis in the uk!!! have to get at least 2As n' 1B < that's what my teachers predicted... hv to put more effort in it n' there's not much time left actually... but life recently is a bit relaxing and carefree, maybe cuz I'm trying to live loose rather than choking myself. anyway it's mid jan and exam will start in mar 31... so shitty now... dun want to ruin my life (as they say if u dun get into uni ur ruining ur life)

still having dreams and aspirations
-though i'm getting into law ... i kind of want to be a screenwriter actually. but since u can't really survive in hollywood now as a screenwriter, u need to find other jobs to do.
-want to take up a part time job after the exams n' then spend all my salary on things i want to buy in a day! or a few days...
-want to travel around europe, esp greece, rome, italy, france (st tropez, monaco, paris, provence, monte carlo), london, cornwall, denmark, milan, actually i wanna try going to siberia too. : P

sometimes i do believe in karma though i'm an atheist. but sometimes i think life is dependent on luck. really. luck plays a huge part in our life. (match point is a bit too dramatic, but sometimes u can't deny luck plays a part in ur life... many things are inevitable n' when they come either they are fortunate things or unlucky ones, it's depending on ur luck) but karma it's another thing. but sometimes things wont get back at you u notice. so i'm still confused with this philosophy.

c'est la vie. bonne nuit.

Atonement (2007)

the best film adaption of novel in recent years!!! Ian McEwan's Atonement is quite a tough job for directors to transform into a film and Joe Wright did it again!!! he's soooo brilliant.


the story about the disillusioned Robbie Turner who was falsely accused and stripped of his social status just because Briony Tallis told a lie.
"You don't have to be 18 to own up a lie." heard something similar in the film. and actually it's really a shame for her not to own up that lie until she's 80! the ending is sooo devastating both in the book and the film. I cried when I read the book and watched the movie, and the book is the first book that i've ever cried about.

"Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame."

the music score is really nicely done. really want to buy a copy of it to fill up my emptiness before the DVD comes out. pls make it faster. i want to watch the movie again. apparently this kind of convoluted storyline is not welcome in hong kong because people don't have the brain to process everything. and what's more, there were more foreigners in the theatre than hongkongers. people simply don't have the patience or the depth to appreciate this type of film.

cinematography 10/10

acting/casting 9/10
music 9/10
ending 9.5/10
dunno who will win the oscars but surely since Joe Wright got so many nominations for this movie in the golden globe, he'll surely be among the oscars list!!!