Globalisation

Hey guys, what's up?

So, today we are not going to write another film review! We are here writing you about Globalisation, and, because of that we will focus on two different points of view: one of them is the impact of globalisation on cinema, the other one is the impact of cinema on globalisation! I know they look just the same, but trust us, they aren't. And even if you don't trust us, they still aren't the same, so, you should believe us! ;)

On the one hand, this phenomenon of getting into a global culture has a lot of impact on movies, if each country had it own culture without sharing it with other countries, this would definitely change the movie business. Firstly, we wouldn't be able to see the mixing of cultures on movies and on TV series, such as Modern Family (we would probably be watching Regular Family and it wouldn't have the success that Modern Family has nowadays), instead of having a movie with a lot of cultures and ideas, we would have a lot of movies about a lot of cultures, individually... BORING!

On the other hand, movies have been contributing to the process of globalisation, for instance with the American movies, since these are the ones with the highest audiences and with that, the message they want to pass on is reaching the entire world. Due to that, many cultures have been influenced by the American lifestyle, making the different countries getting closer to each other in terms of culture, Americanising the world! And instead of having the United States culture, it would be the UCW (United Countries of the World) [if somebody picks up this idea, let us know... we have dangerous connects, (we believe that the guy working on the pizzeria belongs to La Mafia, so be careful!)]

So, vote UCW! Oh wait, this is not a campaign promoting peace in the world, so, let's try again:

So... see you later, hater! :D

Our opinnion on "Romeo + Juliet" (1996)

   Hey guys, what's going on?

   We have some good news for you... WE ARE BACK!!! :D (even if you think that these are not good news, please don't break our hearts...)

   Ok, like we said on the first post this blog is focused on cinema and our english teacher suggested two themes for this week: the Elizabethan era, and the contemporaneity of Shakespeare. So, limited to that two options, we looked at one another and our eyes just said "We are not going to write about 'ellaborated' (=horrible) hairstyles". So, here we are, writing about Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

   Our teacher showed us a part of the movie "Romeo + Juliet" (1996), but even without knowing if we liked that "parts" (we were confused...), we were curious about the rest of it, and after a romantic lunch, we went to Rodrigo's house (we're not going to tell you the address!!!!), and we just watched the whole movie.

   The first thing we want to tell you about this movie, is that: DON'T WATCH IT!!!!

   We are kidding, actually, although we didn't like the effects, the "Movie Maker transitions" and the excess of stupidity in some scenes, we really enjoyed the movie, and, from 0 to 10, we would give it a 7,49999999(9).

   Actually, we forgot how to write a film review, so we decided to write our opinion and express it the best way we could.

   The first good thing about this movie, is Claire Danes, a great, an amazing and wonderful... actress! 

   The second positive aspect about the movie was the fact they challenged themselves to use the original script, and even if it sometimes got to ridiculous (gangsters speaking on such a "polite" english...), it made the whole movie much more interesting! And we liked the way they used the "chorus" from the original script, as a newscast...

   The third positive aspect we will mention, before we start highlighting more negative aspects, is the fact that even using the original script, Baz Luhrmann managed to bring this story to a different time... Instead of having a plot situated on a far (far, far.....) away time, like in the original script, this plot is situated on modern times, and the rivalry between the House of Montague, and the House of Capulet, is represented as gangs quarrel, with everything related to Mafia, the guns (as a metaphor for the "swords"), the cars, etc.

   On the bad side, we noticed that sometimes, as it happens in our blog, the humour gets too excessive (look at the image above...), and this takes the credibility away... And don't forget everything we said before starting to highlight the positive aspects...

   But, in spite of that, we enjoyed the movie and there was never a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

   

   See you later, you hater! :D

(P.S: The only purpose of this picture is showing that we did watch the movie, even if this text couldn't prove it...)

Hey Guys, welcome to the Popcorner! This super awesome blog is owned by 2 cinema masters: Rodrigo Pinheiro and António Valente. Ok, we are not cinema masters, but this blog is our unexpected journey through the movies and TV shows world. We have been challenged by our english teacher to create this blog, and, therefore, we will publish here many posts about everything related to cinema, from film reviews, to the technical parts of a specific movie (maybe Hobbit, once António is just Hobbit's #1 Fan!)... Our posts may be in the form of texts written by us, or vlogs starring your 2 favourite guys (us), maybe if we want to do that one day, you may will see short animations or other stuff! The design of this blog (the background) is 100% ours as you can see in the 2 circles with ours blog name on it!

We hope you enjoyed our first post, and that you will keep on following us!

Readers, we think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship!

Rodrigo Pinheiro

António Valente