Motherboard:Foxconn ELA LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard 170 Dollars
CPU:Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 2.83GHz 12MB L2 Cache LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor 283 Dollars
RAM:G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory 45 Dollars
Total:498 Dollars
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Terms
Hard Drive-storage that records data
CPU-Central Processing Unit
RAM-Random Access Memory
Optical Disc Drive-disk drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves for CDs and DVDs
Motherboard-The source of communications of components
Heat sink-absorbs and dissapates heat from another object using thermal contact
CPU-Central Processing Unit
RAM-Random Access Memory
Optical Disc Drive-disk drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves for CDs and DVDs
Motherboard-The source of communications of components
Heat sink-absorbs and dissapates heat from another object using thermal contact
Friday, January 16, 2009
Yes I know
Yes, I do know that wrestling is pre-determined, but I really don't care because I can't think of any other major sporting event to write here. I'd do Olympics, but research would take too long.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Frankenstein
In the 19th century, motion pictures came to its invention. By the end of the decade film making was in full force. Whereas nine films were made in 1892, a total of 1068 were made in 1898. Early films depicted random scenes such as a blacksmith working and people boxing. By the end of the decade though, many people sought to make “full movies” with more substance to them. So it was no surprise in 1910 when famed inventor Thomas Edison’s Film Company wanted to make an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.The result was a 16 minute film telling of young Frankenstein graduating from college with dreams of creating the perfect human being. He figures out the method of doing this and as a result, he creates the monster. However, the monster is far from perfect in Frankenstein’s eyes for it is a hideous beast. Upon seeing the monster, Frankenstein faints and is later found by one of his servants.
He returns home heartbroken after the events but recovers quickly and marries his love. One night, however, the Monster returns. Angered over lack of attention given to him by Frankenstein, he attacks everyone else. Upon seeing his reflection in the mirror, the monster is horrified at his own site and vanishes into the night.
The Monster’s leave is short-lived, however, as he returns searching for Frankenstein only to find Frankenstein’s wife-to-be. She screams and escapes only to faint at his feet. The two have a confrontation but the Monster is too strong for Frankenstein, defeats him and leaves again. Afterwards it is revealed that the monster is not real but something in the mind of Frankenstein, himself. The film, itself was immediately lost after its release never seen again until the late-1970’s.
Fans of the novel would have to wait another 21 years before the next version of the hit novel would be made. In 1931, Universal Studios released Frankenstein with Boris Karloff as The Monster. However, when comparing this to the novel, the differences are extraordinary. That is because this was based off the 1920’s play version of the story. Unlike the 1910 version, the Monster is very much real and this movie spawns a series.
The Universal Studios Frankenstein series featured 8 films with the monster. 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein was most famous for it depicts the Monster as sympathetic character who is misunderstood but he understands people’s feelings towards him. The Monster even speaks in the film. At the end, however, upon being rejected by The Bride created for him, he commits suicide killing him, his wife, and a professor that had created the bride.
In 1939, the Son of Frankenstein was released where the son of the scientist Henry Frankenstein, re-creates the monster. However, in 1943, Universal hit a new standard when they released Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man. In this film, the Monster is very much alive and gets into a confrontation with Larry Talbot; a werewolf from 1941’s The Wolf Man. This film would lead to 1944’s House of Frankenstein, where Count Dracula is introduced. The three wouldn’t actually battle until 1945’s House of Dracula, where The Wolf Man and Dracula both battle it out seeking a cure for their respective conditions.
By the end of that film, it was realized that the series was no longer profitable. So they called for one more film to end it. This film would be Abbott and Costello Meets Frankenstein. In this film, comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play baggage clerks who wind up reviving Dracula, who seeks to re-create The Monster and continue his feud with The Wolf Man. At the end of the film, Abbott and Costello escape and kill The Monster by lighting him on fire.
It wouldn’t be long before someone wanted another “Frankenstein Film”. In 1956, Hammer Productions began work on The Curse of Frankenstein, an attempt to tell a different version of the story, but just like the other films, it was not true to the original novel. This version is told in a flashback as Baron Victor Frankenstein awaits execution for murder. Frankenstein tells of his youth and an experiment where he brought a dead dog back to life. He becomes obsessed with creating “the perfect human being” and so he kills a science professor and uses his brain for the monster. However, the experiment goes wrong and the monster is psychotic and violent due to damage on the brain prior to the murder.
The monster escapes only to be murdered by a sidekick of Frankenstein’s and buried in the woods. It is later revealed that Frankenstein impregnated his maid and she wants to get married. When he refuses, she threatens to tell the police about his experiments. Fearing scandal, Frankenstein goes out and revives the monster and orders it to kill her. The Monster does this, escapes and is killed again by being shot into boiling acid. The film ends with Frankenstein pleading his innocence only to be executed.
The success of The Curse of Frankenstein would lead to a new series from Hammer Horror where in the next film, The Revenge of Frankenstein, the Baron escapes and attempts to re-create the monster. This film would be just as successful and lead to the films, The Evil of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Created Woman, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, The Horror of Frankenstein, and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell. However, with the failures of the latter two, the series would come to an end again. In 1992, Kenneth Braughn (Mr. I like to do adaptations and nothing else because I’m unoriginal) and TriStar Pictures began work on a new adaptation. This one, titled Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, follows the original story of the Baron Victor Frankenstein being found on in the arctic dying and recounting how he came to be in his current condition and telling on the Monster. Despite the all-star cast featuring Robert DeNiro, Kenneth Braughn, Helena Bonham Carter, and John Cleese, and praise for its close relationship to the novel, the film flopped not even making half it’s budget total of 45 million dollars.
A majority of adaptations of Frankenstein tells a bizarre variation of the story rather than the ones that are based on the novel. Frankenstein 1970 tells depicts Frankenstein as an ex-Nazi scientist who is hired by a Television crew to create a monster based off an atomic reactor only for it to go insane. Frankenstein Unbound depicts a scientist traveling back in time where he meets Mary Shelley, Baron Victor Frankenstein, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and finds himself in the grasp of the monster, himself. In 1999, Universal released Alvin and the Chipmunk’s Meet Frankenstein utilizes the famous singing brothers and portraying Frankenstein, himself as a mad scientist running a theme park. However, the most bizarre (and hilarious) would have to be Mel Brook’s 1974 classic, Young Frankenstein.
In this film, Frederick Frankenstein (or Fronk-en-steen as he prefers) is a lecturer who frowns on any mention of his grandfather Victor, who created the monster many years ago. He discovers that he has inherited his family estate in Transylvania and reports there immediately. He meets some bizarre people at the house and stumbles upon his grandfather’s journals saying “How he did it”. He and Igor, one of the people living there, decides to perfect his grandfather’s experiment and so digs up a body of a recently executed man and just as his grandfather did, put in a brain and use a lightning strike to revive it.
However, much to their misfortune, Igor uses the wrong brain taking the “abnormal” one and the monster lives. A knock at the door reveals an inspector and when he returns from seeing the inspector, Frankenstein finds the monster is gone. I will stop there because this is probably one of the funniest movies you’ll ever see and thus I do not want to spoil it. Here is one of the more classical scenes from the movie.
(Show Putting on the Ritz)
Young Frankenstein is widely known for being the most successful variation making up to 43 times its budget. Nowadays, however, many sees the Frankenstein as being non-profitable and thus no major studio has touched it. However, due to the legacy of the book and the adaptations of the book, the Monster and its maker will live on in the hearts and minds of many forever as a story telling of man, his dilemma, and the theory of life.
He returns home heartbroken after the events but recovers quickly and marries his love. One night, however, the Monster returns. Angered over lack of attention given to him by Frankenstein, he attacks everyone else. Upon seeing his reflection in the mirror, the monster is horrified at his own site and vanishes into the night.
The Monster’s leave is short-lived, however, as he returns searching for Frankenstein only to find Frankenstein’s wife-to-be. She screams and escapes only to faint at his feet. The two have a confrontation but the Monster is too strong for Frankenstein, defeats him and leaves again. Afterwards it is revealed that the monster is not real but something in the mind of Frankenstein, himself. The film, itself was immediately lost after its release never seen again until the late-1970’s.
Fans of the novel would have to wait another 21 years before the next version of the hit novel would be made. In 1931, Universal Studios released Frankenstein with Boris Karloff as The Monster. However, when comparing this to the novel, the differences are extraordinary. That is because this was based off the 1920’s play version of the story. Unlike the 1910 version, the Monster is very much real and this movie spawns a series.
The Universal Studios Frankenstein series featured 8 films with the monster. 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein was most famous for it depicts the Monster as sympathetic character who is misunderstood but he understands people’s feelings towards him. The Monster even speaks in the film. At the end, however, upon being rejected by The Bride created for him, he commits suicide killing him, his wife, and a professor that had created the bride.
In 1939, the Son of Frankenstein was released where the son of the scientist Henry Frankenstein, re-creates the monster. However, in 1943, Universal hit a new standard when they released Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man. In this film, the Monster is very much alive and gets into a confrontation with Larry Talbot; a werewolf from 1941’s The Wolf Man. This film would lead to 1944’s House of Frankenstein, where Count Dracula is introduced. The three wouldn’t actually battle until 1945’s House of Dracula, where The Wolf Man and Dracula both battle it out seeking a cure for their respective conditions.
By the end of that film, it was realized that the series was no longer profitable. So they called for one more film to end it. This film would be Abbott and Costello Meets Frankenstein. In this film, comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play baggage clerks who wind up reviving Dracula, who seeks to re-create The Monster and continue his feud with The Wolf Man. At the end of the film, Abbott and Costello escape and kill The Monster by lighting him on fire.
It wouldn’t be long before someone wanted another “Frankenstein Film”. In 1956, Hammer Productions began work on The Curse of Frankenstein, an attempt to tell a different version of the story, but just like the other films, it was not true to the original novel. This version is told in a flashback as Baron Victor Frankenstein awaits execution for murder. Frankenstein tells of his youth and an experiment where he brought a dead dog back to life. He becomes obsessed with creating “the perfect human being” and so he kills a science professor and uses his brain for the monster. However, the experiment goes wrong and the monster is psychotic and violent due to damage on the brain prior to the murder.
The monster escapes only to be murdered by a sidekick of Frankenstein’s and buried in the woods. It is later revealed that Frankenstein impregnated his maid and she wants to get married. When he refuses, she threatens to tell the police about his experiments. Fearing scandal, Frankenstein goes out and revives the monster and orders it to kill her. The Monster does this, escapes and is killed again by being shot into boiling acid. The film ends with Frankenstein pleading his innocence only to be executed.
The success of The Curse of Frankenstein would lead to a new series from Hammer Horror where in the next film, The Revenge of Frankenstein, the Baron escapes and attempts to re-create the monster. This film would be just as successful and lead to the films, The Evil of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Created Woman, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, The Horror of Frankenstein, and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell. However, with the failures of the latter two, the series would come to an end again. In 1992, Kenneth Braughn (Mr. I like to do adaptations and nothing else because I’m unoriginal) and TriStar Pictures began work on a new adaptation. This one, titled Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, follows the original story of the Baron Victor Frankenstein being found on in the arctic dying and recounting how he came to be in his current condition and telling on the Monster. Despite the all-star cast featuring Robert DeNiro, Kenneth Braughn, Helena Bonham Carter, and John Cleese, and praise for its close relationship to the novel, the film flopped not even making half it’s budget total of 45 million dollars.
A majority of adaptations of Frankenstein tells a bizarre variation of the story rather than the ones that are based on the novel. Frankenstein 1970 tells depicts Frankenstein as an ex-Nazi scientist who is hired by a Television crew to create a monster based off an atomic reactor only for it to go insane. Frankenstein Unbound depicts a scientist traveling back in time where he meets Mary Shelley, Baron Victor Frankenstein, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and finds himself in the grasp of the monster, himself. In 1999, Universal released Alvin and the Chipmunk’s Meet Frankenstein utilizes the famous singing brothers and portraying Frankenstein, himself as a mad scientist running a theme park. However, the most bizarre (and hilarious) would have to be Mel Brook’s 1974 classic, Young Frankenstein.
In this film, Frederick Frankenstein (or Fronk-en-steen as he prefers) is a lecturer who frowns on any mention of his grandfather Victor, who created the monster many years ago. He discovers that he has inherited his family estate in Transylvania and reports there immediately. He meets some bizarre people at the house and stumbles upon his grandfather’s journals saying “How he did it”. He and Igor, one of the people living there, decides to perfect his grandfather’s experiment and so digs up a body of a recently executed man and just as his grandfather did, put in a brain and use a lightning strike to revive it.
However, much to their misfortune, Igor uses the wrong brain taking the “abnormal” one and the monster lives. A knock at the door reveals an inspector and when he returns from seeing the inspector, Frankenstein finds the monster is gone. I will stop there because this is probably one of the funniest movies you’ll ever see and thus I do not want to spoil it. Here is one of the more classical scenes from the movie.
(Show Putting on the Ritz)
Young Frankenstein is widely known for being the most successful variation making up to 43 times its budget. Nowadays, however, many sees the Frankenstein as being non-profitable and thus no major studio has touched it. However, due to the legacy of the book and the adaptations of the book, the Monster and its maker will live on in the hearts and minds of many forever as a story telling of man, his dilemma, and the theory of life.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Story Revisions
Blue Denim:
- The first part of Scene 4 is posted twice
How could Ernie have told Lillian if Ernie had after school detention?
Since I’m erasing the Ernie part I might as well revise Arthur’s last line in Scene 4.
I never changed the original story, so basically change 37 years to 42. Initially it took place in 1963, however, I moved it back to 1958.
“when did IT hit you”
MAGGARDY NOT HAGGARDY(Ernie Scene 6)
You not we(Arthur Scene 6)
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