ROMEO AND JULIET : BOOK vs. MOVIE

This will be like a review and a conparison between the movie and the book of Romeo and Juliet. At the begining I didn't like neither but after seeing the film I can confirm that the adaption of the book that we read is much better than the film ... Anyway, for doing this task we will focus in some sections and talk a bit about them.

The first one is the setting, where and when does the story take place? 

In the book it is located in Verona, a town of Italy meanwhile in the movie it is in the United States of America. The town is also called Verona but isn't just Verona, now it is called "Verona Beach". Of course the two don't elapse at the same time ... The original story pass in the 14 th century and the new 6 centuries after, at the 20 th.

Then we can compare too the imagery, the symbols, metaphores ...

I'm gonna talk about the movie symbolysm because in the book we read there is nothing to stand out ... One of the symbols I want to highlight is the night, it represents that the love between Romeo and Juliet must not be seen by anyone and they need to keep that in secret. Two other important symbols are the water and the fire, obiously they are opisites. The water means the pure love between the two main characters, there is water in all the romantic scenes : in the aquarium when they meet each other, in the swimming pool where Romeo goes to speak with Juliet ... It means the freedom to, that's why Tybalt fall in a  fountain when Romeo shoots him, it's like this scene wants to show us that the couple of lovers will be free of threats, but we all know that's not true ... On the contrary of the water, the fire means the violency, the shoots of the guns ...

You can see some more symbols in the fancy dress party, for example: Juliet wear's an angel dress, because she is Romeo's angel. His cousin Tybalt is dressed as a devil, because he is evil and loves fighting. Romeo wears an armor like a knight, and with that armor he will defeat all the problems that push him away from Juliet. Paris's dress is important too, he is dressed as an astronaut, that represents he is in the moon and knows nothing of the current situation.

There is is diferent language : 

The book is writed in prose, with modern english, but the only character that speaks in prose in the film is the news reporter who tell us what's the story about. All the other characters speak in verse and it's a bit problematic because sometime you can't understand the dialogues.

Another diferences between the movie and the book are the objects and some elements that changed with time.

The most noticeable are the swords, in the movie they are guns, there is obious too that in the 20th century the people drives by car, while in the book they rode a horse to move theyself. Insted of two important families as in the book, in the movie the Montagues and the Capulets are two important corporations. The same happens with some characters that are not too important, they're "updated" in the movie for a better fit. Lady Montague dies of a depression in the book, but in the book she stills alive. Of corse there are lots of diferences, so I lend these ones here and I let you the find the reaming.

MY WORLD

LEAGUE OF LEGENDS

This post is for everyone who got curiosity for this game and is too lazy to try it for knowing about it. League of Legends mostly known by LoL is the most played computer online game in the world. Every day there are more than 27 millions of persons playing it, and yes, there is an study that proves it. It was made in 2014, now the number has grown. But why is this game so popular? What is the fact that attract all this players?

League of Legends is a MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) game, that means there are two teams formed by some persons, in case of League of Legends there are 5 players in each team, and they got a different role. For understand the roles must know how is the field where you play, it's called the Summoner's Rift and it is like this:

As you can see I've marked some sites with red, yellow and blue lines, these are the three lanes: The red one is called the top lane, the yellow one the mid lane, and the blue one the bot lane. If you pay attention you can see some pictures that have some monsters in it, this set of monsters is called the "jungle". There are too some structures in color red and blue ( There are a few unable to see because the lines cover them, that was a big mistake when I was editing the photo ... ). These are the towers, the inhibitors and the nexus. This last is the most important because if you destroy the enemy's one you win the game, that's the objective in this game. After have seen the map, now we can explain the play stile, and after that, finally I'll can explain the roles.

In League Of Legends there are exactly 131 characters called "Champions", and all them have different characteristics. In every game you select one of these champions and play with it, you'll start at level 1 as everybody and as much you will reach the level 18. During the game you should buy some items in the game shop with the gold earned in the match and upgrade you champions stats to deal more damage to enemy champions or just for resisting better they attacks. You can get gold from killing enemies or destroying their towers. The most important characteristics are the AD ( Attack Damage), the AP ( Ability Power or Magic Damage), the HP ( Health Points ), the Armor and the Magic Resistance. There are some more but they're not same important. All the characters have 4 different active abilities and a passive one that are stronger or not depending what you're upgrading. Every lane have one or more players in it with a different function :

The Top: The player who goes top must have a powerful character specialized in endure enemy's hits and survive after team battles. For make that possible he must upgrade the Health Points, the Armor, and the Magic Resistance. Some Top champions can also have Attack Damage, because it is good to kill the enemy or destroying the enemy buildings.

The Mid: Mid characters are specialized in inflict tons of Magical Damage to the other team, so, if you want a good mid champion it must have Ability Power skills and you must buy items that give you some Ability Power. It is dangerous to play mid because your character will be very fragile, the good part is that the enemy will be similar to you and have the same problems and advantages. There are some exceptions that can work in mid with Attack Damage, but they are just four or five about 131 characters ...

The ADC and the Support : This player is called the Attack Damage Carry, because it is the champion in the game that have more Attack Damage points and it carries the match with it. It have such characteristics than the mid but  is  in the bot lane with the "Support " a player who has the mission of protecting and helping him to kill the enemy and getting gold. The support it's like the top but without Attack Damage or any aggressive characteristic, his skills are in the most of the cases trapping the enemy, generating a shields or healing abilities. Depending the enemy the support must upgrade Health Points, Armor, Magic Resistance and sometimes Ability Power.

The Jungler : Maybe it is the most rare role in the game. This character assignment is to help all the lanes. It is always trough the jungle killing monsters to get experience points and level up. When the jungle sees a good opportunity, he goes to a lane and tries to attack the enemy form the back with an ambush. Their characters have some more Attack Damage than the tops but less than the ADCs. This role is just for experienced players who know about the game.

As I said before, the objective in this game is to destroy the nexus, but for get in there you must destroy all your towers of your lane, one of the inhibitors at lest and the two towers that are protecting the nexus. And that's it, see how much simple is the most played game in the world. I've forgot talking about some facts but you must played LoL once or twice to understand it so now i'm done. I'll leave a video down here where you can see a commercial of the 2016 season in Lol. In the video there are some moments where the people says GG, that means Good Game but is also used as "good job" or "nice".

LOVE FILM

50 FIRST DATES

First of all, I got to say I'm not a fan of the cinema or the movies in general, I don't like all the genres and I know just a few about good actors, so doing this job has been difficult to me ... One of the performers I like the most (and the only one who I have seen more than five films) is Adam Sandler. He has been in a lot of movies with different topics, so maybe if this task wasn't about a love film I could choose another of his movies...

The movie is about a man called Henry Roth, a veterinarian at Sea Life Park on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. He isn't a liable guy, he is always trying to get sex with the female tourists and seems he is not interested in being in a serious relationship. One day he meets in a café a nice girl called Lucy Whitmore,  and ask about be with her again the next morning, and of course she say yes. So the next morning Henry goes to the same café, searching for same girl, but it's like she doesn't know him. Then the restaurant owner explain him that Lucy had a serious car accident one year ago and left her with anterograde amnesia, and every day she wakes up thinking it is the October 13's Sunday, the day of the car accident. When she wakes up ever morning, she remember absolutely nothing what she did the day before. Surprisingly  Henry doesn't cares and goes every day to see Lucy, and slowly he starts falling in love. Of course he know there are a lot of problems with that, for example when he spend a night in Lucy's house, at the morning, she doesn't got idea about who is the man that was sleeping with her. That's why Henry decides to record a video called Good Morning Lucy with the finality to give a Lucy a way to recognize him, and eventually they add some more scenes to the video of the current days. The movie ends when one day Lucy decide to get married with Henry and go in a trip trough the Antartic sea.

I liked this movie a lot because I think the argument is really well found, and the problems they got with Lucy's disease are very realistic. It is really funny too because Henry and some more characters are funny, so there are a lot of jokes, wordplay ...  

MY WORLD

NANATSU NO TAIZAI

Hi everyone! Today I'm gonna talk about Nanatsu no Taizai! I'll don't judge if you are asking to yourselves   " What the hell is this dude?" This is the name of my favorite anime series, and translated to English it means "The Seven Deadly Sins". The most anime series aren't known around the world if they're not really famous like Dragon Ball or Doraemon... This series have the important advantage to be in TV since the 90s and everybody have heard about them, but what about the new anime series? OK, before continue explaining I want to make clear  not all anime series are kid's cartoons with funny and weird characters. There are plenty of anime series and a lot of generes too of course : scary, funny, someones that include a lot of action ... They are in different eras too, not all are in a "technological" future like everybody thinks. Nanatsu no Taizai for example is set in the medieval age, and there are kings and lords in every country. There is a complicated society where some people called "Holly Knights" got like supernatural powers and instead of use them to help the people and do kind things they are always killing, stealing and humiliating the citizens. Because of that, the princes of the kingdom started searching a group called "The seven deadly sins" who are enough powerful to destroy the whole kingdom if it's necessary. But they're not grouped as before, and the task of finding them is so difficult and dangerous. The main character of the story is Meliodas, and he is the leader of this brigade, looks like a kid but can destroy a town with a single sword slash. He seems interested in group everybody and put an end to this tyranny, so he and his pet ( a talking pig called Hawk ) start a long trip with the princess Elizabeth to save the kingdom. As I said before this is my favourite anime series, it have just everything a series need : action, adventure, a lot of funny scenes, suspense, and a bit of love of course.

"Georgia On My Mind" - Ray Charles

Georgia, Georgia
The whole day through (the whole day through)
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind (Georgia on my mind)

I'm say Georgia, Georgia
A song of you (a song of you)
Comes as sweet and clear
As moonlight through the pines

Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you

I said Georgia, oh Georgia
No peace I find (peace I find)
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind (Georgia on my mind)

Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you

Woah, Georgia, Georgia
No peace, no peace I find
Just an old, sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind (Georgia on my mind)

I said just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind

TRADUCCIÓ AL CATALÀ

Georgia, Georgia

Durant tot el dia (durant tot el dia)

Nomé una vella i dolça cançó

Manté a Georgia al meu cap (al meu cap)

Una cançó per tú (una cançó per tú)

Arriba dolça i clara
Com la llum de la lluna entre els pins

Altres braços arriben cap a mi
Altres ulls somriuen tendrament
En els meus pacífics somnis segueixo veient
La carretera que em torna cap a tú

He dit Georgia, Oh Georgia
No hi trobo pau (no hi trobo pau)

Nomé una vella i dolça cançó

Manté a Georgia al meu cap (al meu cap)

Altres braços arriben cap a mi
Altres ulls somriuen tendrament
En els meus pacífics somnis segueixo veient
La carretera que em torna cap a tú

Woah, Georgia, Georgia
No hi trobo pau, no hi trobo pau

Nomé una vella i dolça cançó

Manté a Georgia al meu cap (al meu cap)

He dit que només una vella i dolça cançó
Manté a Georgia al meu cap

Love isn't just for a people, you can love for example one thing, one conutry ... I've choose this song because the feeling Ray Charles have about his country. He maybe is far away from Georgia, but he is allways thinking in it, even in dreams he see a road to back there. The expressions he uses to tell us how in love he is are just beautiful, and show us a true expression of love that we didn't think in yet.

#shakespeare400

William shakespeare was born in 1564, he has been one of the most important dramaturgs ever thanks to his popular plays: Romeo and Juliet, Hamelet ... Today we are celebrating his 400 death aniversary, that's why the 23rd April will be an important day, and that's why we are studing his life and his plays right now. 

#stratford-upon-avon

This was the place where he was born and he spent his childhood. We can ubicate it in the center of England, it is a paceful village at the north of London. Now it's famous just because Shakespeare lived there, people go there to visit his house and his properties.

#annehathway

Anne Hathway was the wife of Shakespeare, they were married when he was 18 and she was 26. They had 3 kids : 2 girls and 1 boy. Susanna was the oldest, and Hamnet and Judith, the youngers, were twins. Hamnet however died when he was only 11.

#theglobe

The Globe Teatre was a teathre in London built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company. It was destroyed once on 29 June 1613, and the same teather was built one year later and closed on 1642. The modern reconstruction of the Globe is named "Shakespeare's Globe", opened in 1997.

#plays

William Shakespeare wrote more than 35 plays in his life. Maybe not all are famous, because they are not like Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet but the thing is he wrote them. Most of his works are comedies, but he wrote some tragedies and histories too. Actually Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet are tragedies.

#plague

Since 1592 to 1594 London's theaters had to close because it was dangerous for many people to be together in a small place. In this time Shakespeare wrote poetry, and began his sonnets.  

#queeneliazbeth

During Queen's Elizabeth reign there was a lot of activity in all the arts: architecture, painting, music and poetry. In drama the activity was extraordinary, there were many good playwrights writing nice plays, but Shakespeare was the best, he was known everywhere in the world.

#thearmada

This was the name of the army Philip II of Spain sent to England in 1588. It failed because of the bad weather and the tactics of the smaller English ships, more than 11.000 Spanish soldiers were killed.

#shakespearequotes

"To be, or not to be: that is the question." This is probably the most famous quote of Shakespeare, it is from Hamlet, but isn't the only one he wrote. There are a lot of his quotes in Internet, here is a link where you can find some of them: http://www.buzzfeed.com/sarahgalo/happy-451st-birthday-to-the-bard#.pw5qn4lLg

EXPERIENCES IN LA VALL D'ARAN

When we arrived it was dark and cloudy. It was night, we traveled a lot with car. The trip took 4 boring hours spent in the car playing with the mobile phone or just telling bad jokes that made us want to go back home. I was with my little cousin, and he was like 8 years old and hated long trips like that. My sister was also there but she was sleeping, without making noise. Finally we arrived to La Vall d'Aran, and the fist thing we did was get off the car and walk for a few minutes. We park the car in a Mercadona's parking of Vielha and we started doing sightseeing trough the capital's streets. After some calls we meet a girl who let us her flat for some days. When we finished we look for a cheap restaurant to dinner, because we bought nothing for cooking that night. There were some good restaurants but we end in a pizzeria basically because the other places didn't like to my cousin and sister. Anyway, the pizzas were good. After spending maybe hours searching the apartment we found it near my uncles hollyday home. It was comfortable and welcoming, really clean and tidy. The first thing I noticed was the TV, and then an Internet router, and quickly I started laugh like a possessed. I was thinking everything was too much perfect for being real when it started to rain. It was a heavy storm with lightings and thunders, but we were calmed, we were in the flat, without need of going outside until the next morning, so we sit into the sofa and started watching an old movie in the TV. Suddenly stroked a powerful lighting next to the house, so we went to the window to watch the show. There was mistake, the mistake of this perfect apartment was in the windows ... It passed a lot of water trough them and carefully start wetting all the floor while we were thinking a solution desperately. The best one was to cover the windows with a towel so that was what we finally did. But it still raining during all the night and the towel was insufficient to stop all the water ... I couldn't understand how can it rain like this in summer ... Finally we went to sleep, we didn't care about what happen to the floor or to the flat ...

When we got up the next day, it was sunny, hot, and I was like "Really? You must be kidding me... ". There was less water than we thought. Everybody was alive, there weren't any serial damages, and the most important, the Internet router and the TV were absolutely dry. Fortunately it just rained twice when we were there and the other time it rain we were prepared. My first impression of La Vall d'Aran wasn't so good but I knew the weather will change and my opinion too. And that was it, but ... We were going to France about every day, AND IT RAINED IN FRANCE EVERY DAY WE WENT THERE !