Eu Sou o Número Quatro.

Já há alguns meses eu estava vendo esse tal de I Am Number Four na newsletter da Barnes and Noble, mas não tinha sequer me dado o trabalho de ver de que tipo de livro se tratava. Quando comecei a ver as propagandas do filme... bom, elas também não pareceram particularmente atraentes, mas eu devo admitir que vi muito poucas.

Sábado passado namorado me chamou pra irmos comer alguma coisa e ir assistir EU Sou o Número Quatro no cinema. OBS: EU tenho tido muito problema com filmes de pancadaria e gente se matando na tela. Mas topei.

É, eu gostei do filme. Ajuda o fato de o mocinho ser bonito, e tal. Mas o que eu acho que me fez gostar mais ainda foi a personagem da Diana Agron (não lembro o nome dela agora). Adorei o estilo dela. As roupas, o cabelo, os chapéus, e, principalmente, as câmeras fotográficas! APAIXONEI PELAS CÂMERAS!!!! Que lindo...



E mais: adorei o quarto dela. A quantidade de fotos, aquela mesa maravilhosa com mais de uma dúzia de câmeras... *.*

Ai, desejo muito aquilo tudo...

Friday movie.

Então, volta do carnaval, ainda totalmente fora do ritmo, hoje foi dia de dar atenção à vó. Passei o dia com ela, segurei no tombo, lanchei lá com o namorado, tudo como tem direito.

Então, como namorado foi encontrar um amigo, lá vou eu fazer alguma das coisas que eu estava enrolando há algum tempo...

Com a tv ligada, não tive como não trocar de canal de vez em quando, assistir um episódio de Glee por acaso e esbarrar em Sixteen Candles ainda no início. E, bom, isso é tããão feliz!!! Tá, esse filme é bobo, mas dá pra não gostar da Sam? Jake é O garoto perfeito do high school, o Geek é o mais divertido ever e o pai dela é bem fofo...



O filme tem a perfeita história adolescente. A garota bonitinha mas transparente gosta do cara mais popular e bonito da escola, que, é claro, além de mais velho namora a garota mais perfeita da escola. No dia do seu aniversário, véspera do casamento da sua irmã, a família inteira esquece o seu aniversário. Pode ser pior??



Samantha: Thanks for getting my undies back.
Jake: Thanks for coming over.
Samantha: Thanks for coming to get me.
Jake: Happy Birthday, Samantha. Make a wish.
Samantha: It already came true.
[Ponha um beijo aqui...]

Book of the day. 05/02/2011

I finished reading Pride and Prejudice on my new (and amazing) Nook this saturday, and I have to say it's one of those books I kind of don't want to end. Ever.

Anyway, I have to say, I love Mr. Darcy. And I love that in the book we actually get to know more about him. Or really know him at all. It portrays his thoughts, feelings, and sometimes it explains the reason he does some things. It actually shows him change, learn to respect and love the ones he once despised. I love it!!

On the other hand, Mrs. Bennet and Kitty couldn't be more annoying...

But still, I love the book even a little bit more than I love the movie. (The new version, which is the only one I've ever watched. Though I'm thinking about watching the other ones as well. Might be fun...).

It took me about a week to get through the whole book, which is quite a nice time, considering I started it on the plane coming back from Orlando and only on the middle of the week actually started reading it for real. Which means I'm trying to make it a bit of a reading goal to read about 50 or 60 pages a day. Preferably before bed. We'll see if I'll make it through the month. March won't be so easy...

List #2.

Last week I started watching a long list of movies I want to watch. Some I've wanted to watch for years, some for only a few days, but I'm trying to catch up. Slowly, but I'll get there...

List #2: Movies I want to watch.
*O Pai da Noiva (antigo)
*A Dama e o Vagabundo
*Cinderella
*Godzilla (antigo)
*Mary Poppins
*Menino Maluquinho
*A Pequena Sereia
*Shopgirl
*Budapeste
*Paris when it sizzles
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Courage is not the absence of fear...

This was the movie I felt like watching this week. The Princess Diaries is one of the books I used to read over and over (until I got too old to even stand Mia's many worries and complaints about life. Sorry. But I really loved it before!!). So the movie had a similar response here at home. I have to say I've watched it quite a lot since I bought it. And thankfully I'm still not done with it.
I mean, it really is quite silly and there are some scenes I'd rather not watched but it's still fun and a good way to spend a couple of hours.

And, well, it has the best cast!! Anne Hathaway is gorgeous, Mandy Moore is totally obnoxious as Lana, Hector Elizondo is great and Julie Andrews is... well, a queen. Absolutely born for the part.


Joe: This is between a waltz and a tango.
Mia: It's a wango?

Michael: Why me?
Mia: Because you saw me when I was invisible.

[running to catch up Mia and Michael]
Lilly: [screaming] WAIT FOR ME WAIT FOR ME!
[Two others teenagers stop, and look at her]
Lilly: Wait. Wait. No, not you - I don't even know you!

Mia: You'll never guess what Josh Bryant just asked me!
Michael: "Can I borrow a comb"?

Queen Clarisse Renaldi: Helen, if Amelia refuses to accept the throne, then Genovia will cease to exist as we know it.
Helen Thermopolis: So the future of your country is in the hands my 15-year-old?

Mia: Hey Joe? Can we park a block away from school? I really don't want to cause a riot with this hearse.
Joe: This is a non-riot hearse. And if it were a hearse there would be silence in the backseat.

Eduard Christoff Philippe GÈrard Renaldi, Prince of Genovia: Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.

Joe: [speaking to Mia] Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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Queen Clarisse Renaldi: So, where are you taking me?
Mia: Well, uh, do you have any change?
Queen Clarisse Renaldi: No. It's not appropriate for royalty to jingle.
Mia: Okay, I'll get the change.
[cuts to a game arcade]


Yep, that's why I loove to watch it...

Masquerade, Paper Faces on Parade. Masquerade, Hide your Face so the World will Never Find You...

Boyfriend happens to be pretty fond of The Phantom of the Opera, so it was really no surprised when he asked me to rent this one last friday after his qualify. The truth is we both like the movie very much, but we're not so excited about the story. What makes us really interested in it is the gorgeous songs.

Which means we didn't remember the story at all. No one remembered how it ended, no pne could tell if any of the characters died, it was kind of ridiculous, since boyfriend has watched it quite a few times (I admit I realized I'd never watched the entire movie).


The Phantom: [singing as he descends the staircase at the Masquerade Ball] Why so silent, good monsieurs? Did you think that I had left you for good? Have you missed me, good monsieurs? I have written you an opera! Here I bring the finished score - Don Juan Triumphant! Fondest greetings to you all. A few instructions now before rehearsals start: Carlotta must be taught to act, not her normal trick of strutting 'round the stage. Our Don Juan must lose some weight; it's not healthy in a man of Piangi's age. And my managers must learn that their place is in an office! not the arts. As for our star, Miss Christine Daae... no doubt she'll do her best. It's true her voice is good; she knows, though, should she wish to excel, she has much still to learn, if pride will let her return to me, her teacher... her teacher.

Firmin: What a way to run a business. Spare me these unending trials. Half your cast disappears but the crowd still cheers. Opera, to hell with Gluck and Handel; have a scandal and you're sure to have a hit.

The Phantom: [singing to himself] Masquerade / Paper faces on parade / Masquerade/ Hide your face, so the world will never find you

Lefevre: Gentlemen, good luck. If you need me, I shall be in Australia.

Andre: [trying to convince Carlotta to come back and sing] Your public needs you!
Firmin: We need you, too!
Carlotta: Would you not rather have your precious little ingenue?
Andre, Firmin: Signora, no! The world wants you! Prima donna, first lady of the stage! Your devotees are on their knees to implore you!
Andre: Can you bow out when they're shouting your name?
Firmin: Think of how they all adore you!
Andre, Firmin: Prima donna, enchant us once again!
Andre: Think of your muse...
Firmin: And of the queues round the theatre!
Andre, Firmin: Can you deny us the triumph in store? Sing, prima donna, once more!

Madame Giry: [about the Phantom] He's a genius, monsieur. He's an architect and designer; he's a composer and magician. He's a genius!
Raoul: Yes, but it seems genius has turned to madness.

Andre: [as Carlotta storms out] What do we do now?
Lefevre: Grovel. Grovel, grovel, grovel.

Raoul: [to himself] A collector's piece indeed... every detail, exactly as she said... will you still play when all the rest of us are dead?

PS: I didn't know it was Gerard Butler who played the Ghost. But it wasn't hard at all to recognize him. He was gorgeous!!

Movie of the day 02/010: How to Steal a Million.

I've been trying to diversify my knowledge when it comes to movies. I mean, I've watched lots of them, but there are still so many I never bothered about and so many I've wanted to watch and never did.
So this week I decided to check one more off my long list: How to Steal a Million.



Plot summary:
Nicole's father, a legendary art collector, lends his prized Cellini Venus to a prestigious Paris museum. Unfortunately, the Venus was *not* sculpted by Cellini but by Nicole's grandfather. (Her father is a forger as well, but his specialty is paintings.) Before tests can be done which would prove the Venus a fake, Nicole enlists the services of "society burglar" Simon Demott to steal the million dollar statue.



[Evaluating Nicole's cleaning-woman costume]
Simon Dermott: Yes, that's fine. That does it.
Nicole Bonnet: Does what?
Simon Dermott: Well, for one thing, it gives Givenchy a night off.
(Her wardrobe in the movie is actually credited to Givenchy)

Simon Dermott: There's the bathroom, take off your clothes.
Nicole Bonnet: Are we planning the same sort of crime?

Charles Bonnet: This tall, good-looking ruffian with blue eyes, he didn't, er, molest you in any way, did he?
[Nicole is staring off dreamily]
Charles Bonnet: Well, did he?
Nicole Bonnet: Not much.

Nicole Bonnet: I can't drive a stolen car!
Simon Dermott: Same principle, four gears forward, one reverse.

Charles Bonnet: I doubt very much if Van Gogh himself would have gone through so much trouble.
Nicole Bonnet: He didn't have to. He was Van Gogh!

Simon Dermott: [about to see Nicole to a taxi] Just one more tiny favour: like an idiot I forgot to wear gloves on the job. I may have left some fingerprints. Be an angel. Before you go to bed, just give the frame of the painting a little wipe with a clean cloth, ok?
Nicole Bonnet: Certainly. Anything else? You wouldn't like a forged passport or some counterfeit money or...

Simon Dermott: Why must it be this particular work of art?
Nicole Bonnet: You don't think I'd steal something that didn't belong to me, do you?
Simon Dermott: Excuse me, I spoke without thinking.

Simon Dermott: Where precisely were you in the early part of the sixteenth century?
Nicole Bonnet: I don't know but that's not how I was dressed.

Simon Dermott: [being introduced to the museum head] Miss Bonnet and I are old friends. We used to shoot together.

Charles Bonnet: [describing Nicole's grandmother who posed for the Venus] Naturally that was before she started eating those enormous lunches.

Simon Dermott: It's National Crime Prevention Week. Take a burglar to dinner.

Simon Dermott: [bumping into Nicole at the museum] Good morning! We meet under the most artistic circumstances.

Simon Dermott: Look, it's early, why don't I show you the real Paris?
Nicole Bonnet: That's very kind of you, but I live here; I was born in Paris.
Simon Dermott: Oh, that's right, I forgot. Well why don't you show me the real Paris.

Simon Dermott: Why don't you wait till you get it home and steal it then? No muss, no fuss, just a nice clean inside job? I'd be happy to offer my services.

Nicole Bonnet: [stuck in the closet with Simon] I didn't think there'd be this much togetherness.
Simon Dermott: Well, it's the height of the tourist season. Everything was book up. It was the best I could do.
Nicole Bonnet: [Simon has opened the door] Marvelous!
Simon Dermott: No applause, please.

Simon Dermott: [crazy Senor Paravideo comes as Nicole and Simon are leaving] Who's that?
Nicole Bonnet: [obviously lying] Papa's cousin... from South America!
Simon Dermott: You know for someone who started lying recently, you're showing a real flare!
Nicole Bonnet: Oh thank you!
[she hugs him]

Simon Dermott: [after leaving a book with some coins inside] Watch for normal human reactions!

Discipline. Week 4. + Movie of the day 21/08: Breakfast at Tiffany's. + Online classes.

I like it. Very much. After watching both Roman Holiday and Sabrina (twice) I realized I might be postponing Breakfast at Tiffany's, 'cause I was not sure I would like it, and I very much wanted to.

So yesterday I just took it out of the box and watched. And I loved it. I loved Paul V-A-R-J-A-K, and the Doc. Ooh, the Doc is so cute. And it made me want to have a pet even more. A cat named Cat.

Oh, my...

So, that goal of going to all my classes. It almost worked. I skipped only one, on wednesday morning. And I'm quite sorry for it. I'm going this week. And I'm also gonna buy one of those books to study for that exam I applied to. I'll buy it tomorrow so I can have the rest of the week to study. Every day.

And after taking that first online class with Shimelle, I decided to try another one, with a different focus.I'm taking this year's Learn Something New Every Day. And since the class doesn't start until the first of Septenber, I've been trying my luck with last year's prompts, which are posted on the forum. I don't intend to follow the class strictly, making a page every single day only in September, but I've already started using a sketchbook I bought on Barnes & Noble last January. That way, I can use the book's kraft pages and don't have to worry about picking matching papers every time I make a page. (And by the way I don't make my pages every day. I just try to have a lesson every day, or as many days as possible, and then when I feel like it I assemble a page.)

Oh, and I sooo very much want my boyfriend to get better. I hate it when he gets ill.

Discipline. Week 3. + Movie of the day 16/08: Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back.

First of all, I have to say I intended to go to class today. But for the first time my boyfriend actually asked me not to go. Weird huh???
Then, going back to business, my goal this week (after a few weeks doing almost nothing) is to go to every single class I have. At college, at my course and back to the italian course too. Rain or shine, tired or not, I'm going.
I even bought a cutecutecute notebook for this semester. Let's hope it gives me some motivation.

So, why did he ask me to come home?? Because today is the 16th! 2years, 5months.
And what did we do? Continue the saga, duh!! Star Wars!!
Yeah, I may not like my college and this might make it quite challenging for me to keep with my love of studying, but I'm still quite a NERD!! And proud of it!


PS: I can't get the idea of getting bangs out of my head. Again. And red hair too. I want it soooooooo much. *sigh* Check out this blog: http://www.doedeereblogazine.com/

Movie of the day 15/08: Star Wars - A New Hope.

As I didn't know what to ask for as a birthday gift, I told my boyfriend he could give me any of the DVDs of the movies I like. Preferably one he liked too.

So, yesterday, due to a very late delivery, I got the old Star Wars trilogy. And, as we were already at his fathe's house for lunch, we got a little movie session.

I'm not a huge fan of the new trilogy, but I looove the old one. And for me, the "fourth" episode will always be the first. As weird as it is...

Movie of the day 13/08: Sabrina.

I really prefer the 1995 version. Not that I don't love Audrey's Sabrina, but when I look at Humphrey Bogart as Linus Larabee, all I can think about is my grandpa...

Linus Larabee can never be anyone but Harrison Ford. Sorry Mister Bogart.

Movie of the day 13/08: Inception.

Oh, well. I guess all I can really say is that the movie is quite like I had imagined it. And that's not much of a compliment...

Gonna watch Sabrina again.

Movie of the day: Roman Holiday.

Last January, in Orlando I pretty much freaked out at the Best Buy store. All of my favorite and adored movies and series in one place, and for much less money then they usually cost in Brazil!! I managed to hold up really well until on the last time we went there I had to get a box of Audrey Hepburn movies...

Today I finally watched Roman Holiday. I love it! So cute and so very much makes me want to buy my ticket today!!

(I actually wanted to watch the 1995 version of Sabrina, but I haven't bought that one yet... too bad.)


By the way, yesterday was great. I don't think I ever had such a nice and pleasant birthday...

1001 movies to see before you die.

Last year, on my birthday I went with my mother and sister to the Fnac store on Barra Shopping. Since I had, as usual, no idea as to what she could give me as a birthday present, I chose a book I had been meaning to get for a while: 1001 Filmes Para Ver Antes de Morrer.




Obviously, due to my complete lack of capacity to reach a goal, I haven't really sat to watch the movies, but since i had already watched a bunch of them by the time I bought it, and I never really stopped watching movies, eventually I end up getting to watch some of them.
So, today I was reading "Age of Extremes" and I got to a chapter Hobsbawn dedicates to the arts from 1914 to 1945. And he obviously mentions a few of the movies I meant to watch from the 1001 list. So, I picked up the book from the shelf and realized I never checked the boxes for the movies I've already watched. (I'm thinking of putting a new goal on my long list. I'd like to have all these movies I've really liked to watch on DVD. Not only downloaded from the internet, but the real thing, you know?)

Well, let's get to work!!
(I'm going from the newest movies to the old ones, ok?? I think it's a bit easier this way)

#1:
Atonement (2007).



I really liked this movie, but on the very moment the credits started rolling I knew it would take a looong time for me to watch it again. The movie really is great, the story is perfectly led, the acting is wonderful, but the meaning of the final twist in the plot is completely overwhelming. I felt like there were a million pounds of weight over me when I finished it. But I would still highly recommend it to anyone.

One a.m.

It's 1 am and I'm totally thrilled watching a silly movie I've been meaning to watch for a long time.

Four years ago I went to England for my winter holidays (which in Brazil happen in July) to study english in a real british school. The building is a real school during the school year and during their holidays the place is rented and they have summer courses for teenage students for all around the world. I pretty much fell in love with the place. It is really old, big, like the traditional british country manor. I loved the rooms, beautiful stairs, the whole place was absolutely wonderful. It breathed of history, beauty and magnificence. I miss the place really much, and a while ago I found out there was a movie, called "Wildchild", that took place in that same building. The movie is quite girly and so teenagelike, but I really enjoyed it. I'm still watching, but I feel so good to see the whole place again...

Do you think Cobham Hall would accept a possible college drop out??
'Cause I really think a boarding school must rock!!


By the way, I really feel like reading "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Lord of the Rings". In English. Gosh, I think I'm really excited about this whole New Year energy. Could anyone imagine that??

The Lord of the RIngs

First of all, I have to say I'm REALLY looking forwrad to buying my own laptop, because this whole "sharing the computer" thing doesn't really work for me. Especially since the computer is in the living room and everything I want to do I'll do in my bedroom.

Well, back to the title of the post, boyfriend and I spent the whole day (and I really mean the whole day, 'cause we started, like, at 10:30 am and it finished at 11:30 pm) watching the extended edition of the Lord of the Rings. I loved it! Although I think Frodo and Sam are the dullest criatures ever created.
To be honest, the movies could be just about Aragorn and maybe Gandalf. I love the battles and the entire first movie. But I just can't stand Frodo, Sam and Gollum. Aff. They just keep going in circles and get nowhere. What's the point in watching it?
But I have to admit I like Merry, Pippin, Arwen... Well, let's just say it's enough to make me stand all that F&S boredom









Isn't it beautiful???