In Class Blog: Read This In Class Response

My reaction to the story was pretty dull.  I brutally and honestly didn’t care for this story.  It seems to be a story about nothing trying to be something.  I can possibly see others seeing it the other way around.  This story to me almost sounds like the comedy movie 30 Minutes or Less.  Its about an ordinary pizza guy who happens to cross paths with two criminals.  With the dialog here and how wacky the film gets, the two sound similar.

The only connection I could make was with the dialog.  The character’s in my eyes don’t mix well and could have been better, especially the person telling the story.  The dialog seems real and natural that help move the story forward.  The dialog could fit in a TV sitcom or action like comedy.

After going back for the 3^rd time to read it, I’m starting to like it.  The story flows but just seems a little out of wacky.  I think it would work perfectly as a TV sitcom like The Bang Theory or Two and Half Men.  It has this wacky but edgy story about it.  I could see it as a short animation too.  The setting works because of the characters and how they enter the story.  I’d like to see more causality between the person telling the story, the pollster and pizza delivery guy.  I can see the story telling struggling to tell a story and intensifying his paranoia by introducing marijuana or other similar drugs to the story.  The silly cruel dialog and shenanigans they could get into would be hilarious.

Extra Credit: Annihilation

A few weeks ago Annihilation came out to theaters and the trailer was amazing enough to get me to buy a ticket.  A friend and I went, and I loved every moment of the film.  Loved it so much I had to look into the book serious I didn’t know about until my friend told me.

            Annihilation is the first part of a three book serious.  We follow the story though Lena, a biologist who volunteers in along with 4 other females with different career backgrounds.  The ladies journey into an area known as The Shimmer in the movie and Area X in the book, and go in to gather research and study.  Those who enter the Shimmer, never come back, but one solder who is the main character’s husband.

            One thing I kept asking myself, was why are these woman wanting to go in?  The message was very clear in the film to me, but some of my peers who also seen the movie ether didn’t like it or just didn’t understand it.  SPOILER ALRT!  In the film the story is about self-destruction and cancer.  However, in the book the story doesn’t give these women much reason for entering Area X.   In the ending of the film, it left me wanting more, the reason I went into looking to the book serious to find out what happens next.  But in book, the story is pretty blank and clear, everyone dies and Lena stays in Area X, not enough to get one to want to read the next book.

Week 13: Curate Yourself (The Last Book in the Universe)

I could never give you a book recommendation.   I was the weird kid who always liked math and was great at it.  The only reason I would go to the book fair was too look for anything that had a toy or science-y thing with it.  But if I could give one a book to look into, is the book called The Last Book in the Universe.

Instead people having the options to read books, in this distastes future, people turn to this thing called Mindprobes, this almost drug like method of injecting ‘moving images’ or movies in your head.  This allows sort of an escape for one.

I first read The Last Book in the Universe way back in middle and was now looking back to rereading it soon to possibly write a screenplay for it.   The story takes place in a futuristic world that is filled with chaos and anarchy.  We follow a young boy by the name of Spaz, a boy from poverty and nothing, who sets out on a dangerous journey to a great well living place called the Eden.

When I first read this book I instantly feel in love with the world and Spaz’s character. The story to me has a mixture of Star Wars (Anakin’s story arch) and Ready Player One.  The ending is a bit foggy in my mind since it’s been a while I read it, but it is a sad ending that still well settling.