The Dark Knight (2008)

Cool picture, isn't ? Well, that's the cover of a 2008 movie that's called "The Dark Knight". It is a superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan, the same man who had produced and directed "Inception".


To begin with, this is a sequel to another Batman movie, Batman Begins, which was released in 2005. In that film, we can clearly see the birth of the Batman; when Bruce Wayne was young, he fell in cavern and had been attacked by bats, this experience traumatised him because he was really afraid of them. On a night, Bruce was going home from the theater with his parents, and they encountered a beggar with a gun who asked them money. The beggar killed his father. The mother has known the same fate. After the murder, the young Bruce Wayne was filled by anger and thirst for vengeance. He was taken home and raised by the family butler, Alfred Pennyworth.


When he grew older, Bruce joined the League of Shadows, commanded by Ras' Al Ghul, and became a very strong warrior. With all his skills, he wanted to serve justice in Gotham City. With the help of Lucius Fox, a former board member of Wayne Enterprises, Bruce Wayne obtained all his weapons, and his Batman armored suit (he has chosen a bat-costume, because it inspires fear, like the fear he has felt some years ago in the cave).


At the end of the movie, the Lieutnant Jim Gordon, who is faithfull to Batman, mentions a strange criminal who leaves Joker playing cards at crime scenes. Batman promises to investigate and that's how "Batman Begins" ends and how "The Dark Knight" begins.


You guessed it, the Joker is the main vilain in this movie. I won't spoil you all the film, because it deserves to be watched, and I already wrote a lot of stuff so I'm feeling a little bit tired right now. Also, there will be another sequel to this movie (Batman 3), still with Christopher Nolan as director, and Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne !


To end this article, I want to pay tribute to Heath Ledger (also known as the Joker, in The Dark Knight) who died just before his movie came out, and who had received the price for the Best Performance by an Actor In a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture.



R.I.P. Heath Ledger



                                                                                                                                   By Luca Dias Venezia

The Mentalist

When I have free time, I am not like such these guys who read books or who go to walk with their dog ,  i prefer  to watch television , especially series. I can’t tell all the series what i watched because i don’t  want that my article fills 40 pages. I will just tell you that i appreciate the police procédural and  the comedy- drama format of series.

Well, here i want to talk about  an American televison series, The Mentalist. If i have  to describe this series : Extraordinary, awesome, meticulous. For the (uncultivated) people who  don’t know this series, i will  tell you some informations.

The main Character is Patrick Jane (played by Simon Baker) ,  a smart and clever guy , who can  understand the people’s feeling, their thought looking their behavior. He often manipulates or uses the technic of hypnose to try to find an answer.   He works with the CBI, as an independent consultant, he helps the police to resolve a murder, but his methods are unorthodox. The other characters are the beautiful agent Theresa lisbon ( robin tunney), Wayne Rigsby (Owain Yeoman), Kimball Cho (Tim Kang) and Grace Van Pelt ( Amanda Righetti).

What i liked in Jane’s character is that he is always smiling, often childish despite his wife’s and child’s murder. In our days all the people look like serious or sad. In this f***** world, i want to become like him, i want  to know people’s  thrue personality or to find their hypocrisy.

I recommend this series for the people who waste time  watching gossip girl or desperate housewives, it’s a kind of Dr House’s (peculiar methods of dealing )and Monk’s (the profession and the paintful past) mixture.

For the attention of inconditional fans (like me) , i have a good news : the season will come out soon J.

If you have any bad comment, please send me it by email and not on the blog.

K.Gopinath

 

“Just a film an afternoon“

During the holidays, with a friend, we wanted to meet to spend time together because we can’t see us often like he isn’t in the same high school.

So, we were going to go to swimming pool, but the weather was not really good. We could not say “What a glorious day”, because it was raining cats and dogs! Therefore we decided to go to watch Inception to the cinema.

As this film is very long, we approached a little you know. But finally, we went down us on the film and adored it! Why? Cause the unknown.

Anyone know the concept, (normal, it’s unrealistic) and all the things who past are reflect. There aren’t accident scenes for example who aren’t in the chance, all is calculate. That’s why it was very interesting and wonderful to watch.

In the end, same if the end of the film is strange, because we don’t know if it’s the reality or not, - cause in the film, there is a passage between real life and the dream (where, in the story, they go search information in the brain of people) - that's cool to can imagine the end we would have.

So, I think it’s a very nice film and merit the big success it is having (was having).

Alan

ZuiQuan

Everyone knows about martial arts, like karate, kung-fu, judo etc. But there is a martial art that less people know about, it's the ZuiQuan [pronounced Juikuenn] or, in english, the Drunken Fist.

It's a high leveled kung fu, the chinese martial art, and considered as one of the most rare and difficult to do. It's because there is eight arts in one, each of them are inspired by one of the eight immortals, Ba Xian. In chinese legends, there are eight immortals, they are like that only if they drink alcohol, so they are drunken everytime. I won't write the whole story, it would too long but I'm going to tell you a summary.

The eight immortals are six men, one woman and one another that change by the story-teller, sometimes it's a man and sometimes it's a woman. The eight were human before, but become immortal by gaining wisdom and magic power. They all have one or two items to identify them, like gourds, staffs or musical instrument.


The art is inspired by those eight, with their own abilities and problems. Someone that doing the ZuiQuan faints a drunken man to disturb the opponent, for people it could be funny to watch because there is some strange moves and sounds.

Nowadays, we can't find any clubs without an extreme luck in Europe. There is some Shaolin Temple, in China, where you could learn it but you won't be able to learn it like that, you'll need to be in the temple, and so become a buddhist monk.

Well, you can find some videos on youtube or dailymotion. By watching some videos and read about ZuiQuan, I wanted to do it, so now I train at home or outside like the masters teach it.

David F.