Down with Oscar fever

I am done with watching most of the Oscar line up for good movies this year..
my half a penny worth of thoughts on the movies goes this way :::

The reader - good movie , great acting. Kate Winslet proved again she knows her craft inside out .I liked the kid too who played the Kid, Micheal .

Benjamin Button - worth "a" watch is a safe bet. I guess the movies intention was to make you feel sorry for the male protagonist , but ended up making u feel bad about Blanchett's character.

Slumdog M - did not deserve the Oscar . all the kids were terrific, very slummy( just coined it) with their demeanor, especially younger Jamaal although Dev Patel did not look the slightest of a slum boy.

Milk - adored Sean Penn. should have won the Oscar hands down.

Juno

Past weekend was a lousy one..despite the beautiful Bangalore weather and the festive moods, I have turned into a couch potato..but Hey! I m not complaining..seeing movies after movies , exploring the emo music scene ( getting somber eventually) , some heavy duty downloading and devouring plum Xmas cakes..What a nice way to wind up a rather grim year :) :)

JUNO..that's the movie I loved the most out of the few I saw last weekend..Well, finally I saw Lawrence of Arabia too...but this blog is for JUNO and the songs of the movie..

Its a comedy drama , won the Academy award for the best original screenplay in 2007 . Its like no American comedy ever made, atleast not the ones I saw hitherto.. considering the plethora of crap I force mself to see ( :P), hence giving it a fresh youthful feel probably because of the teen protagonist and the plot .. The thread of the movie is about a teenager, Juno,name as in the Greek goddess , who has to confront an unplanned pregnancy thereby forced to deal with things beyond her maturity level as the character itself claims in one of the scenes. Shes every bit the global teenager..cool, intelligent , witty with an interest in punk rock and horror movies.She gets pregnant by her friend Paulie Bleeker and decides to go ahead with delivering the baby and putting the baby for adoption after contemplating abortion.What follows is a chain of events where she is to handle the pressure of pregnancy , the complications of adoption , her feelings for Bleeker etc.In the final part of the movie, she admits to Bleeker that she is in love with him and before the final credit rolls they are shown jamming in front of Bleeker's house followed by a kiss..

The dialogues of the movie are hilariously funny , without being funny on your face , but more like Oh! I was caught unaware on camera when I said this kinda style. As an Indian audience I was also surprised by the ease by which they managed such a sensitive topic which would have raised quite a few eyebrows in here, there where no yelling/screaming/judgment of any sort in the whole movie even in the scene where the girl explains the situation to her parents.This might have been a conscious take by the makers where they did not want it to be a preaching kinda movie but about how a cool intelligent girl handles the situation.Any Indian director would have thrown in quite a few scenes of melodrama making people cringe in their seats.But yeah..the oh so cultural differences .... Who am I to complain!!

The music of Juno is a cherry on top of a delightful cheese cake, cheese cake being the movie ofcourse..( Dun know what it is with me giving unwanted emphasis on the cake here...maybe bcus of the whole Xmas season :D ). The album features several songs performed by Kimya Dawson and her bands Antsy Pants and The Moldy Peaches . Out of all the cute songs my favorite is All I want is U by Barry Louis Polisar . This is the official track of the movie and it is played during the opening credits of the movie while an animated Juno walk thru the streets ..

You can get the lyrics of All I want is U here... and the song can be downloaded frm here ...

I recommend the movie to all drama lovers ;) ...Happy Xmas !

Orange sky by Alexi Murdoch

This is about one of my favorite songs..

I heard thins song quite accidentally.....a delightful accident i wud say... lost the count of times i heard this song once i got hold of it... never heard of the singer before, never heard any of his songs, but what a heavenly song it is,atleast to me.

Orange sky, sung and written by Alexi Murdoch and song is from his first album Time Without Consequence released in June 2006.its a soft song in the rock/folk-rock genre , played with acoustic guitar coupled with Murdoch's gentle soothing voice.This song was featured in o.c , prison break etc..one of his other song "home " is also featured in prison break series .what drew me is the profound sadness in the song .. every time i hear it all i can picture is a scenic countryside with sloppy green hills ,a grandfather tree with an abandoned swing under an orange sky..

just thot i will share it with ya people..

heres how the lyrics of the song goes :

Well I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
Yes I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
With my brother standing by
With my brother standing by
I said Brother, you know you know
It’s a long road we’ve been walking on
Brother you know it is you know it is
Such a long road we’ve been walking on

And I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
With my sister standing by
With my sister standing by
I said Sister, here is what I know now
Here is what I know now
Goes like this..
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, in your love, in your love

But sister you know I’m so weary
And you know sister
My hearts been broken
Sometimes, sometimes
My mind is too strong to carry on
Too strong to carry on

When I am alone
When I’ve thrown off the weight of this crazy stone
When I’ve lost all care for the things I own
That’s when I miss you, that’s when I miss you, that’s when I miss you
You who are my home
You who are my home
And here is what I know now
Here is what I know now
Goes like this..
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, my salvation lies
In your love, in your love, in your love

Well I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
Yes I had a dream
I stood beneath an orange sky
With my brother and my sister standing by
With my brother and my sister standing by
With my brother and my sister standing by

U can download it free from beemp3.com .Try out his other songs too
Listen to it and lemme know if u liked it :)

Prison Break

Lately i have been catching up on the prison break series.Its currently running in StarWorld in India but do not know which season it is playing right now.Anyways I could get my hands on the DVD.. season 1 -3,thanks to one of m friend. Now that i am so hooked to it, i do not have time for anything else.my routine has become like this : I get home from office and within half an hour i am infront of m laptop , somehow very reluctantly manages to get to bed by midnight and weekends completely dedicated to the same .My ears and eyes are taking a toll on dis routine though, but thats how much so i am hooked to it..and no resting till i finish all seasons..hehehe.



So talking about Prison break, for those who do not know the storyline ..it is about two brothers and how the younger brother Micheal (played by WentWorth Miller)gets in to prison so that he can save his elder brother Linc ( played by Dominic Purcell ) from the death sentence he is facing. Wat i liked about the series is its not at all dragging, the meticulous details that has gone in to Miller's character is amazing,how it manages to keep you on the edge of the seats on every episode ,the characters seems almost real not fully though but.. yeah.. pretty appreciable work except this timing of how everyone has a good enough reason to break out at the same time..everything looks fine.Linc being the brute and Micheal being the brains theres scope for both action and some brainy stuff. And they managed to squeeze in a romantic track too .. The fun season starts after their escape from prison although how they get lucky eachtime is pretty indigestible..but since i do not want to get them caught..dats fine with me :D


Two people I enjoy most on the series is Micheal and Agent Mahone . Both are very shrewd , prudent , intense people. I have become a die hard fan of WentWorth, the guy has such powerful eyes, and its rarely that a smile crosses his face and I go wild when that happens.:P .Willaim Fichtner , the guy who plays Mahone is a better version of Clint Eastwood , hes probably in his 40's .Both are a pleasure to watch on screen and i just ogle at these two.. :P


All the whole, prison break shouldnt be missed if u have the stomach for a powerpacked(violent)series..


Ciao ..
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