Like Old Days

So everyone keep on voting on the poll here on the right. Most of you so far think the new lay-out is quite alright, but you prefer the old one. Well, let's see what will happen in the upcoming days. I don't think I will change it though. Maybe I will start a new poll about what it might be you're not really like about the new lay-out. I had quite a busy afternoon yesterday. It started out like almost every morning, eating breakfast, writing on my blog like I'm doing right now, have a shower, brush my teeth etc. and then go off to class. It was Thursday which meant we had our lecture of British Cinema. It's already our ninth week, which means I'm already here for 10 weeks in total. You wouldn't think it's already that long, but it really is. But time goes pretty fast. The film we saw after our one hour lecture was Bhaji On The Beach. It wasn't that bad. It's from the same director who did Bend It Like Beckham, which was quite a hit. Bhaji was quite similar, even though both stories are different, but they touch upon same subjects. but the film was quite funny at times and I found it to be nice to for once see a film involving young adults and teenagers and their problems. But like with a lot of films, this one ended up being to long and becoming a bit over-dramatic. At the end things almost go awfully wrong just to have this big kind of climax to make it all just a little bit more exciting. But overall the film was quite entertaining, and much better than last week's Naked, which was one of the worst films I have ever seen. Because last night there was a free screening for members of the Gulbenkian cinema at 6.50, Alice, Clement and I, who were all going decided to stay on campus and not walk back to Park Wood. We had a drink together at the Gulbenkian, which was really cool, because it kind of reminded me of the 'old days' when i would go there almost every day with Clement during the first week, having lunch. It would have been great to keep going there, but I'm not sure if we would have had any money left right now, if we would have been goign there every day. But it was ncie to just have a drink together. Of course our conversation was about movies, not that that's the only thing we ever talk about, but I guess to us it's one of the most interesting things of course. At 6 me and Clement would have our own filmmeetign with Euan. Because both the free screening and the filmmeeting of the film society were goign to be around the same time, we decided to meet up an hour before the film, just so that we could both talk about our film and see Venus, which was the free screening. So around 6 Euan came in and we went on talking about our little project. Alice decided to take a walk so that us boys could discuss, which was very sweet of her, even though she could have stayed as well, it would have been no problem. I know you won't go and steal our idea. :) Maybe you don't even like the idea so there's no intention in stealing anyway. We're getting quite ready to really start off our project, meaning that we're goign to now have auditions and search for actors, we're really looking for the music to use and are about to make test shots. So we're really moving forward. Our film will probably be shot around February or March. It isn't quite possible to do it before our December break. There just isn't enough time and we don't wnat to rush things. So after having our little meeting and Alice had come back we all went to watch Venus, which was even better than i expected it to be. It was both funny and very sad as well. It really makes you realise about life and how we're all goign to die one day. It was also really nice to have these really old actors to be the central focus of the film, you really got some insight in their lives. Peter O'Toole was amazing. He can give every word so much more meaning then any other actor can and really gets through to you. Also amazingly good was Jodie Whittaker, who played Jessie, the girl Peter O'Toole's character shares a close bond with. She gave a very convincing and fresh performance, standing her own against the mighty O'Toole. Some scenes were filmed in Whitstable, here in canterbury, at the seaside where I went soem weeks ago. So it was very cool to recognize this place and we've all actually been there. Of all places they could have filmed they chose Whitstable, the place we happen to be really near to. So now when the film will maybe show up on TV one day we can all say to our firends, look, I've been there! And I'm sure not every Brit can say the same, so it's quite special that we've been at the location of where this film was shot. Well now, I'm goign to eat breakfast, cause I'm hungry. :) Toodles!