JUMANJI VS ZATHURA (Movie Review)

      Have you ever seen ‘Jumanji’ movie? Or does anyone of you have ever seen ‘Zathura’ movie? If you have ever seen both of them, you will know and realize that they have the same basis story since they are reflected on the same book which was written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg. However, they also have many differences since they are created in the different years.
      Jumanji movie is the movie which was created in 1995. Since it was made in the early years before Zathura was made, the setting and the atmosphere scenes of the movie were created with simple effects like “an old” movie. Most of the scenes were set in the wild jungle which mean stampedes, monsoon, poisonous flower and hungry foliage. This makes the movie a bit more logical in setting aspects than Zathura. Also, the content of the story in Jumanji was tighter than the one in Zathura movie. The plot of this movie can make us like riding roller coaster. Most scenes make us feel shocked and even scary. However, in the story, the effect of Jumanji game cannot bother much to their players. It is just capable to make the player “wait in the jungle” until there is another player that can roll a five or an eight to reveal the previous player. Furthermore, the touching part of Jumanji in the family theme is also different with Zathura. In Jumanji, the family theme is about bad relationship between the son, Alan, and his father. Alan, in the story, at that time was so callousness to his father and before he could apologize to him, Alan released to find out that his father was died. 

Being Unconfident to Speak English (Small Research in My Class)

          When I was in my 3rd semester, I was asked to write my essay assignment about one of the skill in English. That's why I conducted a small research at that time by interviewing my friends and my lecturers. I also gave my friends some questionnaires related to my small research. So, here's the result of my small research in the form of short essay.. :P

         Nowadays, English language is become an important language to be learned by everyone. They, who lived in a country where English still become a foreign language, are trying to master all the skills required in English which are writing, listening, reading, and speaking skill. However, although many of them have learned those skills for many years, there are still some them who are shy to practice their ability in English, especially in speaking, even for the students who are taking an English language as their major. After asking the opinions from some students, at least I have discovered that they are unconfident to speak English under some particular reasons.

         When I tried to ask the reason to the students of why they are still unconfident or shy to speak English, they have their own reasons that is different from others. One of students that I had been asked is Lilla. She is one of the student of English Department in my Reading class. She said that pronunciation is the most difficult thing to deal in speaking. The lack of pronunciation can lead the students into the feeling of being unconfident and shy to speak English. She also said in her statement that we will be so shy when we know that the way we pronounce the word is wrong and changing the meaning. The second student that I had been interviewed at that time is Fia. She seems to have the similar idea with Lilla. She said, “The wrong or lack of pronunciation can make the people misunderstanding with what I said.” I think what they said all are true, moreover the effect of being shy because of wrong pronunciation can come to us, if we talk with foreigners directly.

Hotel Transylvania Movie (Short Phonological Analysis)

A. I dentity of The Movie

Directed by                : Genndy Tartakovsky[1]

Produced by              : Michelle Murdocca

Screenplay by            : Peter Baynham, Robert Smigel[2]

Story by                     : Todd Durham, Daniel Hageman, Kevin Hageman

Starring                     : Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Fran Drescher,   Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade, Cee Lo Green

Music by                    : Mark Mothersbaugh[3]

Editing by                  : Catherine Apple

Studio                         : Sony Pictures Animation

Distributed by            : Columbia Pictures

Release date(s)           : September 8, 2012 (Toronto International Film Festival) and September 28,   2012 (United States)

Running time             : 92 minutes[4]

Country                      : United States

Language                   : English

B. The Reason I choose “Hotel Transylvania” Movie

            Hotel Transylvania is the movie I choose to be analyzed because this is kind of funny and cute movie. The animation is so good. That is why I am so attracted to watch and analyze this movie. I also can learn many things from this movie that being a parents is a litle bit difficult thing. Sometimes, we think that we should protect our children, but when they have grown up, we should let them free to choose their own future. It is also told that not every dark thing is a bad one. There might be a good thing in a dark side of something. In addition, besides watching and enjoying the movie, I also can find a lot of variations in English here. There is an Italian accent used by Dracula here that seems a litle bit different with the British accent.

C. Summary of Hotel Transylvania Movie

            After the death of his wife, Martha who died because of incendiarism by humans doing, Count Dracula built a hotel named Hotel Transylvania. This hotel is actually built to take care and grow up his only daughter, Mavis far away from human civilization. Every monsters around the world are usually come to this hotel to go on vacation with their family because this is human-free and the safest place for monsters.

            On the Mavis 118th birthday, Dracula had planned a great party for his lovely daughter. However, unexpectedly a 21-year-old Jonathan came to that hotel. Dracula wanted to drive away Jonathan, yet, some of the monster had suspected Jonathan as a human, so Dracula improvised a story that Jonathan is a Johnnystein, a distant cousin of Frank's right arm. Soon after that, Jonathan met Mavis. They got along each other. As the time pass by, Mavis seemed falling in love with Jonathan. On the other side, Dracula who was always afraid with human because of his memories in the past, find out that his daughter is very attracted to this man. He tried to erase the memory of Jonathan, but failed because he is wearing contact lens in his eyes. Because of this failure, Dracula tried to frighten Jonathan that if he did not want to go, Dracula would suck his blood.