What about me? I want one too!

"This is Sparta!"
                                                                                                              (300, 2007)

Well, well, another week has started (yeah, monday, so this is a "true" new week) so it's time for a new subject, topic, feeling: this week the topic will be:

                                                Admiration

Leonidas, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Kennedy, Lope de Vega, Moliére, Shakespeare, Cyrano de Bergerac, King Arthur, Henry VIII, Genghis Khan, Hitler, Atila, Mozart, Julio Cesar, Elizabeth II, Beethoven, Cortés, Alexander the Great, Christopher Colombus, Cleoptara, Dalai Lama, Mery Theresa, Santa Claus, Vlad Tepes (aka, Dracula)...

Many many charaters that count not only with a worldwide-known name in history books (and TV adverts) but also with a great number of movies that show to the world how great (or not so great) they were and what did they do during their lives, no matter if they fought with 300 men againt a million, if they died during a theatre play wearing yellow clothes, if they discovered a new continent, if they killed thousand of thousands of people or if they just ride a slide with reeinder over the skies only during one night all over the year.

Sometimes it doesn't need to be centered in them, but their characters have a notable relevance in the movie, maybe because they are the power, maybe because their decision were crucial for the main character's life, maybe because they just said "yes" instead of "no" and viceversa...

But sometimes these movies talk enterely about their lifes, about what they did, how they did it, why, with who and when.
                                   

Admiration, yes, but not always conected with good stuff. Why movies about Hitler, about Atila...? I really don't think that these type of movies are conected with that kind of admiration but with admiration for a character that was a CHARACTER, a person who changed life (for good or bad), that made the world shake and stop for a while just to know he or she was there, that theyre were notorius, that they weren't ordinary and that they were going to shine (unluckily, some of them shine with a very dark light).

Personally, I don't like this type of movies but I understand that they are needed in society. Nowadays, people want to see how things were and, some of them, just can't imagine how was it just by reeding it on a book.

In the future, I want Spielberg to make a movie about myself!

Here you have a small video I made a couple of months ago about a character I admire, it's not a real one, it's ficticious, but it's one of my favorite characters ever: Aragorn, from the Lord of the Rings

See you next week

Nora Huarte

35 ways of silent scream

aka: how to express onself through...

cinema

Sources: pictures picked from google images