Thứ Năm, 31 tháng 1, 2019

Waching daily Feb 1 2019

지금 처음오는 회전초밥집인데, 스시로라는 곳입니다.

동료가 가격이 괜찮다고 해서 마음을 놓고 한번 와봤습니다.

그래서 조카를 여기에 데려왔습니다, 경험도 될겸 말이죠 헛헛

테이블을 잡고 앉았는데 옆에 주문 모니터에 영어, 한국어, 중국어가 있습니다.

(솔직히 그냥 옆에 지나가는 스시를 집어서 드시면 됩니다.)

(디저트를 시키실게 아니면 말이죠)

U-하나 더? N-넹

N-전 연어 먹고싶습니다. U-연어? N-넹

U-두 개? N-넹 삼촌도 드시고 싶으시면요.

Sushiiiiii

Tuna, Salmon and a bonito.

A waiter will serve your sushi if you order through the monitor.

A Salmon

Is it good?

Yes

참치!

하나는 삼촌꺼 하나는 제꺼

A Bonito

(idk the name)

same

yumyum

TASTY

:))))

We ate 17 plates

This restaurant is affordable but not extremely tasty.

But it was really fun!

So I recommend eating here for fun experience

And it's near downtown

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Bắt Ve Chó Như Vậy Mới Thích | TQMT Tập 374 - Duration: 11:06.

Hello friends

My aunt 5 is catching ticks

ticks are gone

I am very happy for this

I was overwhelmed today

Aunt 5 is very funny

Aunt 5 single

Aunt 5 has itchy feet

Thanks for watching the video

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Поздравление для Инны.Прикольное поздравление от ВОЛКА #Мирпоздравлений - Duration: 1:18.

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日本 ft. カタール ▪アジアカップ決勝 - Duration: 19:10.

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España en 360º | Viajeros Virtuales - Duration: 7:21.

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I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change!/你咪理, 我愛你! Movie Review - Duration: 5:25.

It doesn't matter that there's no story.

It's a Chinese New Year movie!

Hi! Welcome to The Silver Spleen. My name is Roger Hammerstein and this is my review of

I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE. That's the last time I'm saying that rather unwieldy title.

From here on out it's 'this movie.'

It's Chinese New Year season again in Hong Kong and I couldn't be happier I know I'm not Chinese. That's not my point.

my point is that Chinese New Year movies are generally

family friendly entertainment that are light silly and if we're honest

disposable I always enjoy Chinese New Year movies because no matter how

ridiculous they might get my mind simply says that's Chinese New Year and I don't

get anywhere near as bothered as I would otherwise so this movie gets the Chinese

New Year discount and well it needs it let's be honest up front

I don't like musicals I just don't so going into this movie I knew it wasn't

gonna be a pleasant experience for me it's also the directorial debut of Wang

Cho Lum a local actor who made a name for himself gender-bending on TVB which

sounds vaguely like some kind of weird drug experience but I digress I'm not a

fan of a lot of his work but on those occasions when he's not indulging in the

flaming metrosexual shtick that's not a euphemism I have enjoyed his work this

film is based on a film that's apparently based on an off-broadway play

of the same name I don't know because I don't do theatre I know you find that

shocking right but this play was actually performed in Hong Kong after

being translated into Cantonese a process Wong Coulomb apparently took

pardon so he was probably the best person to direct this film adaptation

that said I don't think he necessarily did a great job of it let me try and

explain why member this is just my opinion I don't

think Wang Cho LOM is a fan of loud music I say that because artists as

different as Nirvana and Metallica have both made it clear that you need quiet

parts in a song to make the loud parts seem louder and you need slow parts to

make the fast part seem faster you know variation well this movie is

with very few exceptions chronically loud it's exhausting of it's 88 minutes

of screen time at least 83 minutes of it is just jazz hands

there is one segment that brings it down several notches and it's a very good

segment it features Teresa Moe in a very serious and very impressive scene that

calls to mind her performance in tomorrow is another day

unfortunately this movie then resumes its scene chewing for the remainder of

the runtime and even I felt a little bad at how relieved I was when the first

end-credit came up I felt like I had survived an ordeal and I've seen

Motorhead life more than once but you know what a lot of other people in the

cinema seem to really enjoy it and hey it's Chinese New Year there are you know

a ton of cameos in the film and there's a lot of family-friendly kind of comedy

there's jokes that go down easy if only because you've heard them a million

times before or you can see them coming from a mile away but that's what people

want and that's what people like and that's what they get also Chinese New

Year movies tend to be loud unsubtle Affairs and on that level this movie is

a great Chinese New Year film so it's probably gonna work really well for its

intended audience which of course I'm not you might really like it I mean the

dance numbers are kind of impressive the cinematography is not bad the segment

with Sammy Cheng was kind of fun too and it was just you know nice to see her on

a big screen again go see it in a cinema you know with your family during Chinese

New Year on a big screen because do you would want to watch dance numbers on

their phone this is a movie that's designed for the Chinese New Year

holiday and that's how it should be seen I can't imagine

as I said watching this on your phone on the MTR in July it's not really that

kind of movie but if you like musicals if you like plays maybe it is I don't

know okay so I'm admitting my ignorance oh and as long as we're talking about

ignorant do me a favor and be dumb enough to give me some money click on my

patreon page and fill it out and send me a little money because I think I deserve

it you probably don't but I do so you know

which one of us is right it's up to you if you enjoyed this review please let me

know and if you didn't please let me know if you enjoy the channel please

subscribe and please have a wonderful Chinese New Year don't hate Holly

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Ramen Dengan kaldu udang enak ga ya??? 一幻蝦味拉麵與叉燒飯 - Duration: 5:51.

hallo guys my name is julius

so today i want review delicious ramen on taiwan

its called "ebisoba ramen"

its some people say its delicius so I want get a tey

lets get start

(fantastic music)

so the popular menu its the salty soup one

we can choose d soup stock

i choose the strong one

and i want order extra noodles and egg

i also want order the Chinese-style pork rice

and pork fried shrimp dumplings

i only order 3 menu so let get a try

so this is the rice pork

its looks so delicius

so there have a rice grill pork and the d crispy shrimp

its smell really good

lets get a try

there have special chill sauce

lets try it again

its really best rice i ever try

so this is the ramen

smell like a shrimp

and d soup broth its really strong

i want try the soup broth

woahh the soup broth its really diffrent with othen ramen

d shrimp its really strong

yeah its really good

lets get try the noodle

ts hot but the noodles and d soup its really good combination

because d noodle have shrimp taste

the egg its soft boiled

this is the recommend menu on here

this its really good i eat it really fast

only 5 minute

wow its so good

so this is the shrimp dumplings

dumplis looks really crispy

lets get a try

we take a look inside

the inside they use pork shrip and little onion

dumplis looks really crispy

lets get a try with soysauce

d dumpling its really different with other i eat before

so we already done eat

lets go out

the ramen its really good

its costs (21$) for that 3

but this palce really recommend the grill pork rice its really good

so thanks watching my video

dont forget to like commend and subscribe for more information taiwanese food

and dont forget to visit there near taipei 101

I m julius

see you next time bye~

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- Woo!

Malloy, don't be cocky.

Yes, sir.

Dumbing it down.

NARRATOR: In two weeks, the Orville returns

with all new adventures.

Scan the surface for human bio signs.

Oh my god.

This has to be the most insane thing that's

ever happened on this ship.

Um.

NARRATOR: "The Orville," all new in two weeks on Fox.

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Independence Day vs. War of the Worlds - Duration: 37:11.

The Franco-Prussian war was a conflict between the second French empire and the Northern

German confederation led by the kingdom of Prussia, which owing to the Germans' superior

strength and numbers, quickly led to the capitulation of the French Empire and the capture of the

Emperor, Napoleon III.

The conflict culminated with the Seige of Paris in the winter of 1871 in which the German

troops invading the french capital.

Months later the German states unified into a German Empire shifting the balance of power in Europe towards a now unified,

powerful Germany.

Britain, who mostly stayed out of it, of course kept a close eye on the conflict, and all

the major newspapers, journals, and magazines reported at length on the course of the War

of 1870 and on the prospects for the British in the changed Europe of 1871.

Out of this national obsession with the conflict in Europe emerged a short story written by

ex-soldier George Tomkyns Chesney - "Battle of Dorking"—in 1871.

The Battle of Dorking recounts the final days before and during a fictionalized devastating

invasion of Britain by a German-speaking enemy, retold 50 years after the fact by a nameless

narrator to his grandchildren, who have grown up in a contested Britain that is now a heavily-taxed

annex of The Enemy.

The German-speaking invaders are never named, and are instead referred to obliquely as The

Other Power, or The Enemy.

"Battle of Dorking" was not only an overnight national sensation and controversy - Most

readers saw the idea that the greatest imperial power in the world could be invaded, let alone

could cease to exist was ludicrous - but for many it was an indictment for nationalistic

hubris; for even more it was an outrage, unmerited judgment and a betrayal of Great Britain.

But "Battle of Dorking" would set off a trend of its own - one that literary historians

would eventually call "invasion literature" - fiction that spoke to the taboo and the

thrill of the obviously ludicrous idea that the sovereign empire of britain could ever

fall to a foreign power ahahaha - but what if?

Between 1871 and 1914, over 60 works of fiction for adult readers describing hypothetical

invasions of Great Britain were published.

During that time, British writer HG Wells combined the popularity of invasion literature

with the widespread interest in the idea of life on mars to pioneer a whole new genre,

one that has endured in popularity in some form ever since - the alien invasion.

A supposition:

Aliens in fiction are never just aliens

Just as monsters in fiction are never just monsters

So while I think it's not very interesting to reduce a text to a one to one allegory,

it is important to be open to textual metaphor, especially where aliens come in, be they sympathetic,

threatening, beyond comprehension, or total gibberish.

Aliens as a narrative device can reflect a historically colonized people, they can be

the innocence of childhood, they can be some sort of spiritual revelation, they can be

a class oppressed by poverty, or the ravages of poverty itself, or they can DUMB AS ROCKS

There is the literal function within the narrative, of course, but then there is that layer of

metaphor, of significance to the culture that the work is being presented to, a significance

that may not even be obvious to either the author or the audience until some time later.

With that in mind, let's go back to the OG, a Mr. HG Wells and his invading martians.

Author and professor of English Frank McConnell describes Wells' Martians as "what you fear

most , what your culture and environment have taught you is the worst thing that could happen

to you, the situation over which you would have the least degree of control (135)"

Wells was writing for an audience of Victorian Britons, whom he describes in the opening

of the novel, "secure in their Empire over this Earth."

Wells was writing for an audience for whom the very idea that intelligent beings from

another planet could be capable of launching an attack on the most powerful nation on Earth

was a most bizarre and outlandish notion.

But the invasion narrative is a manifest of different cultural anxieties in different

eras - Invasion of the Body Snatchers came at the height of the McCarthy era - and is

just one of a ton of invasion narratives that came out during the beginning of the Cold

War.

HOWEVER when I say an alien is never just an alien, I don't mean that an alien is

a one to one metaphor for something else - and that is a trap a lot of people fall into.

Interpreting Animal Farm as a metaphor for totalitarian communism is great for your 8th

grade English class, but we can apply a little more nuance than that, right?

I'm less interested in what invasion narratives MEAN so much as how invasion narratives capture

the ecosystem of the culture in which they were made.

And to do that we're going to compare the seminal alien invasion movie of the 90's,

and the seminal alien invasion movie of the 2000's

Title one

Independence Day is 1996 film directed by Roland Emmerich, starring Will Smith, Jeff

Goldblum and Bill Pullman, each playing characters experiencing different perspectives during

an alien invasion: that of a soldier, a scientist, and the president of the united states, respectively.

Over the course of the film, the invading alien horde wipes out most major cities on

the planet, and all hope seems lost until the scientist devises a computer virus, which,

with the help of the soldier, he is able to upload into the mothership, disabling all

subordinate ships.

This enables the American military not only to destroy the local ship threatening them,

but also to instruct the rest of the world on how to do the same.

The invasion is thwarted, and the remnants of humanity celebrate.

It is dumb as a bag of rocks and it is one of my favorite movies.

I love it.

War of the Worlds is a 2005 film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise.

The film follows dock worker and inadequate father Ray Ferrier on the rare weekend when

he has custody of his two children as he tries to protect them during an alien invasion.

As their circumstances become increasingly desperate, they narrowly escaped certain death

several times until Ray is eventually separated from his oldest child.

The film concludes when all family members are reunited, and the aliens die from their

lack of immunity to the planet's pathogens.

It is a stone cold bummer and I also kind of love it.

So at the outset I would like to suggest: War of the Worlds '05 is better than you

remember it.

Or at least, the first half

Despite taking place over a century after the novel takes place, the bones of Wells'

story remain in tact - the invasion is seen the perspective of one character, Tom Cruise's

Ray, it is more an episodic survival narrative than anything else, the tripods are fairly

faithful, the narrator is tested by another character driven to madness whom he must kill

in order to survive, and the invasion is stopped not by human ingenuity but by a lack

of immunity.

But War of the Worlds isn't like Les Miserables, where it's the same characters and basically

the same story each time.

War of the Worlds is not a classic STORY, per se--it's more of a classic premise,

and the characters themselves are totally different in each iteration.

Spielberg himself has pointed out that adaptations of War of the Worlds tend to come about in

times of cultural stress - with the two most well-known adaptations besides the '05 version

being Orson Welles' radio drama from 1938 and the film adaptation from 1953.

And of course there was the original - a twist on a trend in invasion literature, released

during a period of growing international tension in Europe where everyone kind of sensed that

a Great War was on the horizon.

So while the 1890's was technically a time of peace in the UK, it was peace squished

between recent violence and the massive sense of tension growing throughout Europe.

But War of the Worlds is also read as a biting critique of British imperialism, encouraging

the reader consider the world from the perspective of a people being invaded by colonizers.

Wells states this explicitly in the first chapter of the novel:

And before we judge them [the Martians] too harshly, we must remember what ruthless and

utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, ... but upon its own

inferior races.

The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a

war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years.

Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?

I bring this up because the context in which War of the Worlds the novel became a success,

and the context in which Independence Day became a success, are perhaps more analogous

than the 2005 adaptation.

Both Independence Day and Well's novel came about during times of relative peace and prosperity,

for and by people living in a dominating world power of the day.

And both preceded violent upheavals that would completely change those cultures forever.

Of course the huge difference between Independence Day and Wells' original novel is that Wells

encourages the reader to reflect on their own position as citizens of an imperial power

built on the exploitation of other people--Independence Day, not so much.

Dumb.

As.

Rocks.

In an invasion scenario, they represent an Other, just as in Chesney's Dorking the

invaders are literally called "The Other Power," and The Other must threaten something

the audience values.

In America's case, that thing tends to be… landmarks

In Independence Day - the aliens less reflect a broad cultural anxiety so much as arrogance

- yes, this incomprehensible technological force is impressive, but it cannot withstand

the might of american ingenuity and hegemony - a bizarre and outlandish notion

So what do the war of the worlds aliens reflect?

"is it the terrorists?"

well….

kyind of?

2.

1996 > 2005

The America of 1996 and the America of 2005 may as well exist in different dimensions.

Here is 90's batman

vs. 2000's batman

The 90's had a very different, shall we say, mouthfeel.

The white middle class filmgoing public of 1996 didn't have much to worry about!

Cold War's over, economy's booming, every middle school dance is getting jiggy with

a charming little ditty called the Macarena, and hollywood is spending a lot of time in

thought exercises of "what if x disaster?"

We got tornadoes, we got volcanoes, we got sharks, we got asteroids, we got more asteroids

- just destroy everything, it's fun!

Here was an ecosystem in which both a movie like Mars Attacks, released the same year

as Independence Day, can just blow up congress willy nilly and hey it's funny!

Americans were bored and disconnected from any kind of real social anxieties, and disaster

movies were an effective outlet to get some quick, easy thrills and enjoy some blameless

conflict.

It's a FUN-pocalypse!

So compare this to the genuine, visceral terror we see in War of the Worlds.

There isn't really any horror in seeing these symbols of American hegemony destroyed

in the most complete and terrible way.

Even now it's not framed to be an uncomfortable thing to watch.

Look at the marketing.

In fact it's… kind of awesome.

Here was a film where little children stare upon the smouldering ruins of the only home

they've ever known and say things like "What happened, Mommy?"

Here is a film in which tens of MILLIONS of people have died, and this man whose family

is missing, presumed dead responds with: "just want to whoop ET's ass"

Aliens show up

ominously and our dingbat president doesn't evacuate the cities, but it's okay because

he heroically plays a saxopho--I MEAN flies a plane and shoots the aliens and America

saves

the day.

So playing on this idea of movie monsters, and invading aliens in particular, embodying

cultural anxieties, why is the tone of the invasion narrative so different in 2005…

as it is from 1996?

This is yet another entry into my ongoing series called:

9/11 ruins everything!

Ignoring the seriousness of the massive loss of life and scar to the national psyche, Another

pop culture casualty of the most destructive act of terrorism in history, at least for

a time - the disaster movie.

Gone were the days of goofy action movies like Independence Day and Godzilla and Wild

Wild West.

No more disaster movies for these jaded masses--The few stragglers that were in production before

9/11 and crept in afterward were released, ignored and forgotten just as quickly.

According the Los Angeles Times in 2002, "the public appetite for plots involving disasters

and terrorism has vanished."

Obviously this did not stick, but for a while, filmmakers did not know how to approach mass

destruction in film so they just… didn't.

When Big, Destructive action movies DID eventually begin to edge their way back into the theaters…

things were different.

A movie like Independence Day no longer makes sense in a post-9/11 world in which audiences

have actually lived through watching the destruction of familiar landmarks and mass casualties

on live television.

So Spielberg wanted to create an invasion narrative that worked in a post 9/11 world.

But there's a problem - see, Independence Day is a harder act to follow than you might

think.

1.

War of the Worlds had a really hard act to follow … called Independence Day

War of the Worlds is, in many ways, a response to, if not refutation of, Independence Day.

This (lets light the fires big daddy) evolves into this (we gotta get back at them)

This (what happened mommy?) evolves into this (AAAHHHH)

This (need a lift) evolves into this (scene with car)

And this, my favorite subtle dig - (it's like the fourth of july)

Here's what MY aliens do to independence day!

One of the biggest differences is the focus on what is being destroyed, in independence

day, it's landmarks, buildings, cities.

In war of the worlds, there is much more focus on the loss of human life - the closest thing

we get to a landmark is the bayonne bridge -

the horror comes not from mass destruction, but from individuals - we see their faces

as they are zapped out of existence.

We see crowds as they are vaporized en masse.

Roland's extermination is one of symbols - spielbergs, of human life.

The most obvious refutation is the tone, which turns big optimistic 90's bombast into a

low-saturation death march.

Where, as with all of Roland's movies, the fall of civilization brings people together,

in War of the World's the fall of civilization turns people into self-serving animals.

Which becomes a problem with the film in and of itself - we'll get to that.

But at the same time, Independence Day established a lot of generic staples and shorthand, which

War of the Worlds certainly borrows

For instance there's this - shield Long scene introducing the alien crafts - sets

up a tone of awe, very inspired by ID4 Followed by the powering up sounds of the

primary weapon (revving up sound effect) The initial attack scene has no score

The military destroy the tripod in a way reminiscent of independence day - well now we know how

to destroy them, let's ue morse code to tell everyone else

And of course, there is the design of the invaders.

(design of the aliens being near identical to ones in ID)

Sigh.

This is not to imply that the independence day aliens are the most original desing ever.

Again, they're basically just Roswell aliens only a little slimey - in part because it's

implied in Independence Day that the Roswell aliens inspired our pop cultural ideas of

what aliens look like.

But in War of the Worlds, there's no in-universe reason for them to look the way they do.

Only the real world context of coming out after Independence Day, and of Independence

Day setting a standard.

So they look pretty identical, only these guys have mouths.

So they can go blaah

The aliens themselves also show up a little too late in the film to be anything really

unfamiliar-looking.

This is a balancing act in any visual medium when you have a non-human creature--the more

alien they look, the more time the audience has to spend getting used to them, for them

to feel tangible, believable.

District 9 is a good example of this done well - the design of these aliens are relatively

unfamiliar, but the audience is INUNDATED with images of them, so by the time we introduce

Christopher Johnson, the audience has already accepted the idea that these can be characters

we are meant to empathize with.

In War of the Worlds they don't show up until act 3, so they pretty much have to look

like our preconceived idea of alien, but after an hour of the sheer unadulterated awesome

that are the tripods (fucking love those guys(=), they were bound to be disappointing no matter

what they looked like.

I'd personally rather not have seen them, maybe a hand in

the end and that's it.

But we saw em in Independence Day so… guess we better do it here too.

So War of the Worlds already has the problem of existing in the shadow of Independence

Day - now it has to walk the tightrope of that… and also existing in a post-9/11 hellscape.

CAN HE DO IT?

THE ANSWER IS YES!

…. For the first half.

Updated ID4 for a post-9/11 world

In a time as complicated and confusing as the mid-Bush administration years, it's

not as simple as saying the War of the Worlds aliens are really embodiments of terrorism.

Spielberg's intent here is less to say that terrorists are literally invading aliens than

to tap into that sense of helplessness and impotent desire for retaliation americans

felt after 9/11.

"we get back of them!"

There's the misguided impulse to get back at any enemy you don't understand or even

know how to fight.

The rage and terror that something could threaten all the power and security that you never

really had to begin with.

And in terms of sheer imagery there is a LOT in here.

Even the very first shot of the film, we swoop in on the backdrop of the place where the

World Trade Center isn't any more.

Taking it a step further….

Well, this image of Cruise covered in gray dust … is um… loaded.

And this one.

It's Spielberg's ultimate statement on living in an America that no longer feels

secure.

We can't mindlessly enjoy the destruction of a major city or landmark as large movie

crowds gape up in wordless horror, because we had just gone through the same thing in

real life.

But none of these things are the deal breaker.

Obviously mass destruction of cities made their way back into movies eventually, and

a dark tone in a monster movie is a totally valid creative decision.

With War of the Worlds, I think most people agree that it sours in the second half.

People like to complain about the illogic of aliens burying tripods underground or wouldn't

they have known about the common cold, that sort of thing, but if a movie with so much

good in it I can forgive that in the same way I can forgive it in a movie like, well,

Independence day.

No, where War of the Worlds goes wrong is honestly a little simpler than that.

What went wrong

One clear example of the problem with the structure of the story is the inconsistent

theming - in direct contrast to Roland's optimism of disaster bringing humanity together,

here disaster turns humans into animals.

Throughout the film we keep seeing increasing intensity of this thing - Ray must protect

his children from other humans as much as he does the aliens.

Before the end, he must kill another man to protect his daughter.

But the more

Buhhhhht then we work together when the plot needs us to.

Suddenly at the end of the movie, with no change in circumstance, humans aren't barbarous

animals.

Suddenly it's teamwork!

So are humans monsters or aren't they?

So unlike Roland's trademark cast of thousands, War of the Worlds features a cast of… four.

Well, I take that back.

You had two A-listers, one … this kid, and Tim Robbins, whose introduction brings the

film's momentum to a screeching halt to which it never recovers.

So War of the Worlds is about this one guy's relationship to his children and how that

is tested by… apocalyptic alien invasion.

This is relevant because the aliens are, at the emotional core of the film, what tests

the strength of the family unit.

Ray, the inadequate father, is forced for the first time in his life to take responsibility

for his family.

Can he do it?

It's a solid conceit, and for the first half of the film, it executes this question

fairly well… but unfortunately, the screenplay didn't have an answer.

Look at that ending.

And no, I don't mean how the aliens went down.

Although I'm not a stickler for faithful adaptations, that's not the problem - the

resolution for the characters is the problem.

We didn't need humanity to save the day, we just needed a satisfactory arc for these

three characters we spend the entire movie with - and that, and not how the aliens are

defeated, is the core of the narrative.

And… it's kind of a hot mess.

For instance, with Rachel - mom clearly thinks she's incapable, dad says she can get it-

almost like we're setting up a character arc here.

Like Rachel's gonna realize that she could, indeed, get it even though mom and therapists

coddle her to the point of being a complete deer in the he-- nope.

Rachel can't get the bag.

A realistic kid and well rounded character in the first half, she's relegated to little

more than macguffin in act 2 and basically a doe-eye trauma figurine in what resembles

Act 3.

Kind of a problem for the second majorest character in your movie.

And here is the one spot where Independence Day is the superior film - despite having

the trademark roland cast of thousands, all of the character arcs are complete and…

work!

They're silly, don't get me wrong, but they are complete.

Unlike Roland's other movies, which always have one clear protagonist, Independence Day

has three.

Roland managed to give all of them a starting point and a culminating moment.

President Clintmore is faced with a country beginning to doubt his adequacy (i.e, "elected

a warrior and got a wimp") and through a series of trial and error, including the use

of nuclear weapons, whoopsie daisy, he literally gets to become the warrior the country needs.

Captain Hiller aspires to fly the space shuttle, despite political crap, and after a series

of conflicts arguably becomes the most qualified person on the planet to fly the alien shuttle.

And Jeff Goldblum starts with his father and his ex wife berating him for being a lazy

genius, but in the end not only does he rise above his inadequacy, but his genius saves

the world.

There are three separate and distinguishable arcs here, and they are all set up flawlessly

so the audience is very clear about who's accomplishing what based on whose skill set

by the time act 3 rolls around.

Hell, even the randy quaid subplot, which seems genuinely pointless for most of the

film, ends up being one of the most important elements in the movie.

His motivation by way of his kids, why he's drunk all the time, his skill as a pilot,

all of it--we see all of it for a reason, so when it culminates, we're like… oh,

yeah.

Wheeeeeeeeeee!!!

Sure.

War of the Worlds, for all its masterful tension-building, beautiful cinematography, genius sound design

and pretty good first half of a screenplay, does not have the same level of buildup and

payoff as independence day.

So compared to these plots, each cheesy but complete in its own little world, what is

Ray's culminating moment?

He is set up as an inadequate father, a blue collar kinda guy who doesn't know how to

take care of his children and only endures his custody weekends out of obligation.

And when the aliens invade, he is forced into a situation where he MUST care for his children,

all the while said children--a teenage boy on the verge of manhood and a confused neurotic

pre-teen---are actually acting their age.

Ray does not know how to take responsibility for them, but through this situation he is

forced to.

Annnd…. the screenwriters didn't seem to know where to go with that.

And this is where the movie falls apart.

Robbie is constantly wanting to get out and break free and … be a man, but break free

from what?

Ray's not an overbearing father--he doesn't even give Robbie a slap on the wrist when

he steals his car.

"I'll slap my hand at you"

Nor is Robbie is given any motivation to find some kind of greater calling in Act 1.

He doesn't lose anyone or see the initial carnage Ray saw--so this? "we get back at

them" is the idiotic macho blathering of a teenage boy who has no idea what he's

talking about.

Shortly thereafter, Ray lets him drive--which ends up being a mistake as Robbie driving

ultimately loses them the car.

So by the time the movie starts to fall apart, Robbie has shown no maturation.

Then this happens.

Robbie no, Robbie come back, Robbie you're going to ruin the movie.

What do you think you're going to do?

What are you going to be the randy quaid of this movie?

This isn't 1996 anymore, Robbie!

Don't be a hero, Robbie!

So then Robbie is basically out of the movie, and despite idiotically running into a fireball,

don't worry, everyone makes it to grandma's house.

Robbie's fine.

It's not even that Robbie needed to die after leaving his father and sister--it's

that he needed a different story arc altogether.

If they wanted it to be "Ray realizes Robbie's a man", they should have built to that - because

Robbie as writ IS A COMPLETE DIPSHIT.

Every action he takes is immature, spiteful and wrong-headed.

The movie begins with him stealing Ray's car, and he does not mature past that.

He never once earns the trust that Ray deigns to give him, there's never a moment where

Robbie and Ray learn to respect each other as men.

So this? "let me go" it's like… [freeze frame]

….where the hell did this come from?

Let go?

Did Ray need to let go all along?

Is that what Ray needed to do?

Is that what Robbie needed?

Let's draw a comparison to cinema's most famous "you need to let go" moment

When marlin and dory are trapped in a whale and marlin has to make a metaphorical leap

of faith.

"you have to let go"

This is a culminating moment for marlin's character.

Marlin is an overprotective father.

He's overbearing, he's overcompensating, he's neurotic, he's already endured the

horrible loss of his wife, which makes the loss of Nemo his greatest fear, and literally

the worst thing that could happen to him.

So Marlin letting go in the face of uncertainty is a signifier of character growth

Ray on the other hand is the polar opposite of that.

He's a bad father, he makes no room in his life for his children, he is a poor caretaker,

does not care for their health and wellness, and takes no interest in their lives.

So what sense does this make for it to be any kind of culminating moment? it's this

kid trying to break free from a dad who… never really was there for him in the first

place.

And eventually Ray's like… okay.

And more or less gives into his own inadequacy.

You can see the movie trying to push that it's Building Up that this is … robbie

crossing into manhood and ray learning to respect him as a man, but this doesn't work

given how obviously wrong headed his moves to be a man are.

NOPE

So here we trade in Robbie for Tim Robbins and spend the next forty minutes in a basement.

He slides into the role of Robbie in the narrative as the party who wants to fight back, against

the wishes of ray who is just trying to not die, and it is the worst thing.

Only we have no emotional attachment to this guy.

He is crazy and … just showed up.

His character reveals "cruel barbarous truths" about humanity in desperation, I guess, but

this theme gets totally undercut one scene later.

So rather than making it a story about how Robbie and Ray reconcile these two approaches

to, you know, alien invasion, all the while trying to keep the helpless girlchild safe

from the barbarousness of humanity, we got tim robbins

So pretty much no matter what happens after this, it's not going to be satisfying to

the audience as a story, even if it is tense, because the payoff does not work, either logically,

thematically or emotionally, with what was built up.

So this isn't the real problem - it's this.

I'm not saying it would have been better if Robbie never came back- well it would have,

shown Ray that his inadequacy actually has a consequence - but rather that Ray steps

up and is the goddamn dad,

like no, I've always been shitty and inadequate but not this time, you know, in order to survive

we have to stay together, and then maybe later when this happens Robbie plays some integral

role and helps Ray out, and then they all three realize that yeah, they did need each

other something something and father and son develop a sense of something something mutual

respect, you know, SOMETHING that pays off the setup.

And it's not a bad setup.

But it needs to find some sense of organic resolution or your audience is gonna be pissed

that they spent the last two hours with these people.

Which is more or less what happened.

The problem of invasion narratives in general - they're really difficult to resolve in

ways that aren't just transparently… unrealistic.

Especially when a movie like War of the Worlds does such a great job of creating such an

unfathomable horror of an invader like it does in the first act… in the end it creates

an undefeatable enemy.

An enemy we neither can nor want to understand.

And in 2005, that's not what we were here for.

But moreover, especially for American-made films, "revenge" is often a key element,

and helplessness is never good - we want revenge against the invaders, and War of the Worlds

'05 doesn't deliver, it just kind of peters out, as does the narrative about Ray and his

family.

Both the invasion narrative and the character narrative just kind of slops out at the end

like this alien out of a tripod.

But moreover, especially for American-made films, "revenge" is often a key element

- we want revenge against the invaders, and War of the Worlds '05 doesn't deliver,

it just kind of peters out, as does the narrative about Ray and his family.

Both the invasion narrative and the character narrative just kind of slops out at the end

like a dying alien out of a tripod.

American audiences in 2005, jacked up on war on terror propaganda and seeking narratives

that provide a sense of "revenge", were left cold by this film upon release.

In the fourteen years since, feelings have softened on it to the point of a sort of cultural

amnesia of how much people hated it at the time - but a more positive reevaluation is

deserved in my opinion - except, of course, the resolution.

Nowadays, invasion narratives tend to be secondary to the main conflicts, like Avengers, Transformers

or even Man of Steel - the "invasion" only happens in the third act, and ALL of

these involve superpowered beings or giant anthropomorphic robots protecting earth.

Moreover, the villains in these films are not like "locusts", they are not intellects

vast and cool and unsympathetic, they are, in effect, human - their motivations are clear

and completely understandable to the audience.

The more straightforward alien invasion, as seen in Edge of Tomorrow, tend to be commercial

failures - Edge of tomorrow flopped so hard its blu ray release saw a retitle into its

tagline.

It's not that the alien invasion motif is gone - but it's nothing like war of the

worlds or independence day.

Now audiences want a twist, and the ones you do see tend to be low budget suspense thrillers

that have more in common with the horror genre and character studies than action scifi, like

A Quiet Place and 10 Cloverfield Lane.

We are not interested in villains we can't understand anymore - we have culturally stared

down an event that we were unprepared and incapable of adequately resolving, in part

because comprehending it would mean facing our own societal evil.

So an incomprehensible villain - mass audiences just don't want it.

I can think of a number of reasons why that might be

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La Universidad/ University - Duration: 6:10.

Hello friends.

The video that I bring today is dedicated to all the people who is starting college for first time.

I'm not an expert talking about that...

Because

I started few time ago

Nevertheless, I think that it might be important to talk about how the first semester could be.

One of the most important of all.

All semesters are important.

But I think that first semester is the most important due to you get into another world.

Another reality.

New people.

Another surroundings.

Another surroundings.

Let's talk about what university is.

University is a place where your dreams are destroyed.

First day, you go with an expectation

Bye mom, bye dad...

Bye Firulais.

I will make come true my dreams, let's do it!

Then you go...

You get scared.

You get excited.

You look like:

You get into the classroom.

You leave.

You show up at your home.

And you say:

I will never be a president!

In that place your dreams are destroyed.

Because you meet with bad professors.

And nasty classmates.

It's the competition of life.

There are good professors as bad professors that provokes you to tell them:

Dude, if you will come with that attitude you must not come to teach.

They think that to be a professor means that they can have the attitude that they want no matter what.

It's my opinion.

What can I say about classmates? It's a total competition.

But don't worry about it.

It depends on you if you will let others destroy your dreams.

Don't be discouraged...

Because I will talk about things that you should and should not to do...Advices.

To have a good start of career, semester, school year...Studies?

Whatever!

So let's start!

University survival manual.

There's no more the name of "teacher"

You don't arrive and say "hi teacher!"

The way you refer to your superior depends on the career you study.

Engineering.

Engineer.

Any other career.

Professor.

But you should never call them teacher...

Less dad or mom.

It's the nerves.

It happens.

They will tell you that is a piece of cake to aprove...

Your professor will show you his qualification methods.

Don't trust!

It's too perfect to be real!

If you trust, you will be begging note at the end of the semester.

Don't trust anyone to make the homework.

Less at group works.

Sometimes a someone tells you:

Well, you will pass me some exercises and I'll do the same!

At the end you don't receive anything.

And the next day, that dude presents the homework.

And you look like:

I will bring this with me.

You say: "Well, at school I used to get fifteen different classes"

And I approved.

With seven classes I can do it.

Not!

With five classes you can live stressed.

There are no breaks.

If at school you loved free hours...At university you will hate that.

At classes don't stay with people who is the best at classes, because they are the most selfish people but try to stay with people who want to learn and have potential.

If you have to make groups of work, stay with that kind of people who are the best students.

Or with people like you.

There will be professors who will never think that your work is good

They will always criticize you.

They will not give you constructive criticism.

They will give you "constructive criticism"

So nasty.

But you have to know how to handle the professor and the class.

Try to follow their rules

The semester does not matter.

There will always a class that you will hate

No matter if you love your career.

There will always a hated class.

Well, that was the video of today.

I hope you liked it.

Don't forget to press "like"

To comment.

Do you have any expectations?

New students.

Also old students.

How do you feel?

Maybe someone still adapting to that change.

What do you want to know?

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From Ship to Showroom - Toyota Logistics at the Port of Long Beach Delivers - Duration: 2:32.

At the Port of Long Beach at Pier B,

you'll see a vast field of Toyotas.

Thousands of cars and trucks

that will be hauled to dealerships

all over the southwest.

But what may surprise you is that each one of these vehicles will be

customized right here before leaving the board from installing alloy wheels to

adding bumper protectors roof racks are special alarm systems it's all done here

in one of Toyota logistics production shops the process starts when a ship

first arrives and begins unloading the vehicles from the multi-level parking

lot that is inside the roll-on/roll-off vessel or RORO as its call first

introduced in the 1980s row rows have specially designed ramps that double as

a watertight door when closed divide it into sections once the vessel is

securely anchored the ramp is lowered creating a strong and safe roadway for

the cars to be unloaded the unloading process really starts with what we call

our lasher's it's a small group that actually goes onto the vessel before

larger team gets on and what they do is they are unlatching all the vehicles

from the boat so each vehicle when it's loaded is actually latched on the front

and the rear to make sure that it's no movement during transit once the last

rows go on and if unstrapped all of the vehicles then our unload crew will

actually go on to the vessel and then start discharging all the vehicles my

first time here I was very impressed by the operations it is a choreographed

chaos between the amount of people and vehicle movement within this yard as

those vessels come in and the vehicles are discharged it is a consistent flow

of vehicles throughout the yard this synchronized dance happens every week as

drivers quickly offload on average 3,000 vehicles in less than a day after an

initial inspection is done to make sure the vehicle isn't damaged it will be

taken to one of the various production shops where Toyota team members will

install largely by hand range of options each vehicle will spend

between two to six days on site depending on the work required by adding

these finishing touches here instead of at the factory local dealers and

customers get exactly what they want nearly every Toyota Lexus and Scion

built in Japan and destined for sale in the southwest passes through this

facility and with over 200,000 vehicles customized here each year Toyota

logistics is one busy place

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Sounds Our Body Makes 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️ English Vocabulary with JenniferESL - Duration: 18:08.

Have you ever been part of a large audience?

Have you noticed that even when everyone is trying to be quiet during a speech or a

performance, there's never really silence, right?

Why?

Because people make noises.

We can't always help it. Our body makes noises. And let's face it...

Some noises are more embarrassing than others.

Let's go over some of the sounds our body makes.

We cough when something gets stuck in our throat.

We cough when we're sick. We cough when there's something in the air.

When I was a girl, I was taught that you should cover your mouth whenever you cough.

Later the advice changed. Now we're told that you should use your arm. the crook of your arm.

This leaves your hands free of germs, so you can safely shake hands with others or touch things like doorknobs.

Cough is a verb and a noun. I can't stop coughing.

When you have a cold, you might have a stuffy nose and a bad cough.

Do you know how to get rid of a bad cough?

People also cover their mouths when they sneeze.

We can use achoo to represent the sound of a sneeze.

Sneeze is a verb and a noun.

Cold air makes me sneeze.

This is true.

I have a loud sneeze. I got it from my father.

So what do you do about a loud sneeze?

Well, you can say, "Excuse me" if your sneeze interrupts someone.

But it's actually good manners for those around you to say, Bless you" after you sneeze.

The full expression is "God bless you," but most people just say, "Bless you."

Whether you're religious or not, saying bless you is just a ritual expression.

It's a way of wishing someone good health.

Do you have a loud sneeze?

When you sneeze, do you sneeze only once or do you usually sneeze a few times?

I mentioned a stuffy nose before.

When you have a stuffy nose, it's hard to breathe freely through the nose. And so you might sniff a little

until you find a tissue.

Sniff is a verb and a noun.

If you have a runny nose, you definitely need a tissue.

That's when you need to wipe and blow your nose every two minutes.

It's awful.

If you have a runny nose,

you still sniff.

Lots of sniffs can become sniffling. Sniffle is a verb and a noun.

Sometimes people talk about having the sniffles...when they have a bad cold and their nose is runny.

You might sniffle during a sad movie.

You're trying to hold in your tears. You hold in everything, but you can't help but sniffle a little.

Do you sniffle and cry when you watch a sad movie?

One of the most annoying sounds made with the nose is snoring.

Snores a verb and a noun.

My husband snores.

His snoring disturbs my sleep.

A loud snore can wake me up out of a deep sleep.

Does anyone in your family snore?

There's one more sound we can make with our nose. It's a sound that could either be funny or rude.

Have you ever heard someone snort?

It's a loud kind of breathing through the nose.

We often associate snorting with animals, like pigs.

Some people snort when they laugh. I don't usually snort but let me try.

Sometimes people snort it in a rude way to show that they have a low opinion of something.

Snort can be a verb or a noun.

Besides pigs, what other animals snort?

Let's move back to sounds we make in our throat. What's this?

I'm clearing my throat.

Sometimes we clear our throat because there's something preventing us from talking clearly.

Other times we clear our throat to get someone's attention.

When or where might you signal someone by clearing your throat?

Here's a rather unpleasant sound.

That's a groan.

Groan can be a noun or a verb. A groan expresses frustration,

anger,

displeasure...something negative. It's a deep sound in our throat comes out of our mouth.

In what kind of situation might a child groan?

Okay. Here are two sounds that might be confused.

We might gulp out of fear. Gulping is a loud swallowing motion.

Burping can be loud or soft. It comes from the stomach.

Babies burp after eating.

We might burp after eating a large meal.

Gulp and burp are two more words that can be verbs or nouns.

When you burp you should say, "Excuse me."

Many people try to cover their mouths or keep their mouth closed when they burp to keep it quiet.

But there are other people and there are many children who think that burping is funny.

They think it's hilarious. In fact, they have burping contests.

I've known people who've tried to say the whole alphabet while burping. Can you imagine burping the alphabet?

Do you think burping loudly is funny or disgusting?

Somewhat similar noise is hiccuping, like this.

What do you do if you can't stop hiccuping?

Note that hiccup is both a verb and a noun.

We can also talk about the hiccups.

Having the hiccups. I have the hiccups.

Do you know a good way to get rid of the hiccups?

A list of bodily sounds would not be complete without farting.

This sound can be a source of embarrassment for many people, but again for children it can be quite hilarious.

There are plenty of kids who think it's funny to make fart sounds.

Farting is an everyday word for passing gas. Fart is both a verb and a noun.

In recent years, the expression "brain fart" has gained use in conversation.

If you can't think straight, if you can't recall information easily,

you're having a brain fart.

But don't use this expression in polite company, okay?

Have you ever had a brain fart at a really bad time?

Here are two sounds you should recognize.

Tsk tsk is how we represent this clicking sound.

A tsk tsk sound

expresses that we don't like something, we don't approve of something, or perhaps we feel sorry for someone.

As in...

That's too bad.

This clicking sound is made with our tongue against the roof of our mouth.

In contrast, if we use both of our lips,

we get a smacking sound. Se smack our lips.

We might smack our lips after eating something messy, like chocolate.

When else do people smack their lips? Here's a hint: think of ladies putting on makeup.

Now let's contrast two breathing sounds. First, a gasp.

It's a strong intake of breath.We gasp in surprise.

Second, a sigh.

It's the opposite. It's a long gentle exhale.

Sigh and gasp...again, we have two words that can be verbs or nouns.

I heard a gasp of surprise. I gasped in surprise.

I heard him sigh. He sighed in relief.

When might someone sigh in relief?

There's an action that we do when we're tired,. It produces a sound that could be very quiet or very loud.

What am I doing?

I'm yawning.

They say if you see someone yawn, it's hard not to yawn yourself.

Do you think yawning is contagious?

Yawn can be a verb or a noun.

Please cover your mouth when you yawn.

She let out a big yawn and stretched her arms.

Sometimes our stomach grumbles and the sounds can be quite loud.

If your stomach is grumbling and people around you hear, you can say, "Excuse me."

You can also joke and add something like, "I guess I'm hungry."

Or "I guess my stomach knows it's almost lunchtime."

People make some sounds on purpose. Do you know anyone who likes to crack their knuckles?

The sound of someone cracking their knuckles makes me wince in discomfort, but some people like doing this.

Some people even crack their necks.

Do you crack your knuckles?

Let's end with two fun sounds: hum and whistle. Do you know the difference?

We hum with our lips closed. We usually hum when we're happy or bored.

We whistle with our lips in a tight circle.

Some people can whistle a whole song.

We whistle when we're happy, or we can also whistle to get someone's attention.

Some people know how to whistle through their fingers.

Can you whistle very well? Do you know how to whistle through your fingers?

It's time to wrap up.

If you have a study partner,

you can practice by asking each other my questions. If you're studying alone,

choose three of the questions and post your ideas in the comments.

We'll end here. Please remember to like this video and subscribe. If you know others who are trying to build their

vocabulary skills in English,

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Engaging Your Audience - The Power of Empathy - Duration: 9:13.

Hi! What I want to talk to you about today is empathy and we all know that

when we stand up, we want our audience to empathise with us. We want them to engage

with us, be open to hearing and understanding what we have to say or

sing. We want them to be open to engaging with our excitement about our material.

Or if we're acting and being a character we want them to engage and feel the

emotion of the character so that they are truly swept up in our performance

and engaged with it to a higher level. So, empathy is vital for a good performance

and I would say, and people who know me will understand this, empathy is also

vital on another level. It's vital for our ability to truly impact our audience

because it's only when they start to empathise with us that we have them in

the palm of our hands. That's when we're really connecting and engaging their

emotions and we've got them hooked in. Then they can go away feeling like

they've really experienced something impressive and something memorable.

Today I want to talk to you in more depth about empathy and how it can be

our secret weapon. Because not only can it help us engage our audience and hook

them, in it can also help us be freer as performers and have more versatility as

performers because it can help us lower our defenses. We all know the

importance of getting our audience to believe us and trust us and be moved by

what we are saying or singing. It's obvious and there are a whole range and

variety of techniques and methods for helping performers to achieve this. I

would say that the vast majority of all those techniques have one thing in

common. They all require you to commit wholeheartedly to your

performance, to let go of thoughts about who you are and what people might be

thinking about you and how they might be judging you and lean in to the

performance. And to do that, you have to drop your defensiveness,

take off your armor and allow yourself to be vulnerable. Now I have met people

and I've had clients who find it really easy to do that on stage for some reason.

But they find it actually harder to do that in real life. The arena in which

they struggle to be vulnerable is in real life.

And my theory behind this is that when they're inhabiting another character on

stage, it gives them permission to feel those emotions.

It gives them permission to be vulnerable because it's not them that's

being vulnerable, it's their character. So when they're judged it's not them that's

being judged for those vulnerabilities, it's their character and that makes them

feel safe. But in real life they feel like they will be judged for their

weaknesses and vulnerabilities so that makes them feel more defensive. For most

of us though, being on stage actually highlights those vulnerabilities. And we

feel more defensive and more vulnerable on stage than we do in real life.

As I say for most of us it highlights vulnerabilities that we feel in real

life. Although those vulnerabilities are there in real life they're

exacerbated by being on stage in front of an audience. So, what can we do about this?

What can we do about this? What is the solution? For me, empathy is

very much a part of the solution. Whichever side of the coin you are

whether you feel more comfortable on stage or more comfortable in real life.

Wherever you feel less comfortable empathy is the solution and actually

applying it in the other areas of your life where you feel more comfortable

will also work. Why is that? When we feel vulnerable we tend to be defensive

and we tend to cut off and pull back from our audience, from engaging with our audience

Because we're trying to keep ourselves safe from their judgement. So

then we put something up between us and our audience. This is highlighted by

something I'm often asked. I'm often asked where should I look when I'm

performing? The answer is simple. It depends. It depends on the nature of the

performance, the nature of the audience, and the nature of the arena you are

performing in. Why are you there, what are you doing and who are you doing it for?

But the key is to be able to have a choice. Now if you're not looking at your

audience or you're looking at a fixed point on wall or you're looking about their

heads in order to keep yourself safe, if you're doing it as a defense then your

audience will see that. They will see that you are not connecting with them.

You may even be not connecting and looking at them in sheer

terror. They will see that defense and it is

a blockage to them actually empathising with you. It gets in the way.

When we're doing that we're shutting a piece of art selves off and we

actually then start to focus on us and cease to connect with our audience and

commit to our performance. Now it's really obvious why we do this because

looking at an audience can make us feel vulnerable. We fear that it will heighten

our nerves. We fear that it will distract us from what we're

doing and that we'll forget our words and mess up. We'll fear that we'll see

exactly how harshly they're judging us. If you've ever been, I mean I'm an

introvert so, I've struggled all my life with eye contact. And looking

someone dead in the eye can make you feel very vulnerable because it makes you feel

like they can see you warts and all. As someone who has

spent 15 years as a barrister and life coach looking people dead in the eye,

I can tell you there is nothing more powerful in achieving humanising the

person you are looking at than looking them dead in the eye. You start to see

who they really are. You can see their feelings, their thoughts, their dreams,

their hopes and you start to see them as human beings which means they feel less

of a threat. The audience are there for their needs. They're there to listen,

to feel, to think, to learn. But they're there for their needs. Their purpose is not

not to be there to judge you, their purpose is their purpose and has

almost very little to do with who you are. And if they do actually judge you

then again how they judge you says more about who they are and their wants and

needs, than it does say about who you are and what you're doing. And if you look at

them dead in the eye, you can start to see that they are the center of their

world not you. So, empathising with an audience not only helps them listen and

get hooked into what you're doing and to hear and not only just hear but also

feel your message whether you're singing or speaking. It also helps you to

truly see your audience. And it's when you truly see

your audience that you start to see them for who they are. Not a threatening bunch

of judgmental people but just a bunch of humans who are there to listen bringing

their own beliefs, their own hopes, and often their own fears and hangups

with them. They're tied up in their own worlds and when you start to empathise

with them and pull them in, you start to have the power to influence those worlds.

To influence those worlds for the better. Thank you very much for listening.

I'm Hattie Voelcker. Bye-bye!!

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영화 속 망원역은 망원역이 아니다? / 영화 추격자 (2008, 한국) 촬영지 여행 - Duration: 2:26.

This is the place to go to the movie "The Chaser" where Ji Young-min (Ha Jung-woo) came to Mangwon station to meet the assistant.

This place was actually shot not in Mangwon-dong but near Gwangmyeong Sageory Station on subway line 7.

As I found out, I was able to shoot more scenes near Gwangmyeong Sageory Station than I thought.

When Ji Young-min(Ha Jeong-Woo) meets his helper at the beginning of the movie,

Where Uhm Joong Ho(Kim Yoon_Seok) dropped his helper,

The scene where Ji Young-min(Ha Jeong-Woo) gets on the bus after being briefed.

And this is where I filmed some insert scenes in the movie.

Before I visited here, I stopped by Mangwon Station and looked for similar angles, but I was curious about the location of the movie because it was so different from the angle in the movie.

I was looking for a scene from one of the insert cuts, and I started to look around the Gwangmyeongsa Sageory Station

because I was wondering if the road in Mangwon-dong was taken near the Gwangmyeong Sageory Station.

When I went there and saw the spot with the camera, I realized that there were more places to shoot than I thought.

And what was actually filmed in Mangwon-dong was that Mi-jin (Seo Young-hee) waited for Ji Young-min in front of the post office,

but after the movie was released, director Na Hong-jin made an apology to the residents of Mangwon-dong.

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For more infomation >> 영화 속 망원역은 망원역이 아니다? / 영화 추격자 (2008, 한국) 촬영지 여행 - Duration: 2:26.

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Instagram helping businesses share stories - Weekly Roundup #2 - Duration: 4:28.

LinkedIn Set to Gain More Business to Business Advertising Dollars.

Google Enhances Their Voice Capabilities For Mobile Web Search.

Instagram Is Helping Businesses Make Their Stories Go Further.

Google Text Ads Can Now Show On YouTube.

It's Friday, the 1st of February and welcome to issue #2 of the Cool Promo Video Weekly

Roundup...

Each week we will give you a quick summary of the biggest and most important news that

impacts your business in the fast paced worlds of video marketing, SEO and social media.

Alright, let's get started...

LinkedIn Set to Gain More B2B Advertising Dollars.

LinkedIn is enhancing its advertising platform, making it more attractive to ad buyers who

are using it as an alternative to Facebook and Twitter.

During January, 2019 LinkedIn announced interest targeting, enabling their advertisers to target

users based on their professional interests.

Anyone familiar with Facebook's ad platform will be familiar with their lookalike audiences

and what an excellent tool they are in targeting ideal customers.

According to sources, LinkedIn's version of lookalike audiences is also currently in development,

so watch this space!

A benefit of LinkedIn advertising is that its audience is made up of business-minded

professionals, making it ideal for business-to-business advertising.

So if you're looking to target business people by job title or where they work then LinkedIn

could be an excellent vehicle for any advertising.

Google Enhances Their Voice Capabilities For Mobile Web Search.

Google appears to be working towards conditioning searchers to use voice across all platforms

with some recent changes.

A new microphone icon has been added to Android phones, allowing voice driven searches to

be initiated more easily.

Previously this could only be done using the Android keyboard microphone.

The major difference with the recent change, is that users will hear a spoken response

now with Android mobile web searches, rather than just displaying them on the screen.

This may encourage people to do more searches whilst doing activities with their eyes such

as driving or cooking.

Instagram Helping Businesses Make Their Stories Go Further.

Instagram is rolling out a new feature which enables users to share links to their entire

stories.

The addition of a new "Share Link to Entire Story..." option was spotted last week.

This will assist people in bringing more awareness and engagement to their Instagram Stories.

Business accounts are also able to promote their stories through another menu option

and this will help drive website traffic, increase engagement and increase their Instagram

reach beyond their current followers.

Google Text Ads Can Now Show On You Tube.

In news just in, YouTube has announced that Search text ads can now extend onto YouTube

as well.

This means that your text ads may appear on YouTube search results pages when users search

for keywords relevant to campaigns.

This currently only applies to the mobile search feed on YouTube and for Search text

ad campaigns which include the Search Partners option.

YouTube testing has shown that, on average, text ads in YouTube mobile search results

perform well on a cost-per-conversion basis.

This illustrates that text ads shown, even in a video environment, at the right time

can be good at driving conversions.

OK, so that's what been happening this week in the world of video marketing...

SEO... and social media...

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to the Cool Promo Video Weekly Roundup right now, so that next week you'll get the inside

scoop on the latest developments to keep you and your business on the leading edge of digital

marketing.

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