Saturday, October 20, 2007 @11:56 PM
I never thought I'd say this, but I miss options now. XD Ok fine, just deconstructing media forms. And that's not cos of the option itself. :D Ok basically, it was the last lesson on thursday, so nice ms tan decided to let us watch a movie.
YAMAKASI ZOMG SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I have decided that all french movies are NICE. Like les choristes!
Yamakasi sounds jap, and that's what I thought when the title first appeared on the screen, and I was all confused cos she said it was a french movie. Apparently it's some other language which I can't remember. And I'm so sad that no one else has watched it. :( I guess I'm alone in this again. Awww. Sob. Only my dmf classmates I guess, and it's so sad that no one else from our class has watched it. I have half a mind to buy it from ms tan if she's willing to sell it to me. :D
Anyway the movie's about parkour, or free running. Anyone heard of that? Basically it's something like those chase sequences you see in spy movies *coughbondcough* where they run and jump and climb stuff and beat obstacles. Yep. So there're these 7 guys from paris who form this gang thing and who call themselves the yamakasi, and their favourite past-time is to scale buildings every morning and 6 am, thus waking up and traumatizing residents who open their eyes in the morning to see hulking figures outside their window. How cool is that! And there's this guy called Oliver Chen, who's nicknamed Baseball, and who winks at girls through the window every time they stare at him in horror with their mouths hanging open. So the residents call the police on them every morning, but they always escape just in time.
Chief police: China has the 7 *can't remember*, India has the 7 *can't remember either*, and in France, we have the 7 pains in the ass!
I can't remember the complicated frenchy names they have, but I remember 6 of the nicknames: Mr Music, Tango (cute!), Still bull, Baseball (even cuter!), SPIDER (cutest!), and Rocket.
Chief police: Rocket, as in speed, not science!
Spider is cuteeeeeeeeeee. There's this scene when he's in his girlfriend's house, and she goes into the toilet. He's outside the toilet, and suddenly takes this rope and ties it around the staircase railing, and throws it down about, what, seven storeys? Then he goes down the rope upside-down, spiderman style, and arrives at the bottom floor, snatches a rose from the flower pot downstairs, and scales the rope again just in time to present the rose to his girlfriend who's just come out of the toilet. That whole thing was really cool. :)
The rest of the movie's about how they break into the houses of 7 very rich medical officers to steal $60 000 to pay for the heart transplant of a little boy who fell from a tree while trying to imitate the yamakasi. The boy's family is really poor, and these 7 medical officers had refused to let them use Medicare to pay for the transplant, or something to that effect. So the yamakasi are actually stealing from the very same people who refused the boy's family the money, a la robin hood. Steal from rich, give poor. They manage to pass the money to the boy's family in time, before they get arrested. And it's seriously amusing the way the police go about arresting them. They send over twenty policemen into the house, barricade the whole area, and clutch machine guns and stuff. Right. To arrest 7 teens who aren't even armed?
The interrogation scene's the funniest. I'll try and reproduce exactly what they said.
Mr music: Well, today, we just thought we'd go somewhere different...
Tango: ...change of scenery, you know...
...
...
...
Person whose name I can't remember: ...and then we saw these two gangsters...
Spider: five animals!
Baseball: six skinheads!
Rocket: with swastikas!
Mr music:...beating up this old lady...
Tango:...punching...
Person:kicing!
Spider: almost killing her!
Baseball: luckily we were there...
Rocket: we really gave it to them!
Tango: we jumped them!
Person: knocked them!
Spider: we really gave it to them!
(a lot of other funny stuff which I can't remember, basically the story gets more and more ridiculous and exaggerated)
Baseball: then suddenly we see a lot of police cars...
Tango: machine guns...
Person: they started chasing us...
Mr music: that's the police...
Baseball: ...arrest first...
Spider: ask questions later!
etc, etc, etc.
Chief police: That. Is. A whole lot of crap.
Mr music: No! I swear!
Still bull: on my life!
Person: my mother!
Rocket: my uncle, my aunt, my brothers, my sisters...
Tango: my whole family!
Baseball: my friends!
Rocket: my dad, but he's dead...
Spider: *serious expression* I'd spit, but you'd probably object.
Chief police: *hands in head* Lock them up.
Later they're freed, cos this inspector vincent backs up their story. He's a good friend of mr music, that's why. So it's a happy ending, boy recovers, etc, vincent gets together with the boy's older sister, alila or something like that. She was really angry with them at first, saying it was their fault that her brother got hurt imitating them, and she was all, "Who's going to save him now?! You and your pirouettes?!" (points at Tango)
Ending scene:
Spider's gf: you're amazing!
Spider: *smirking* of course I am, but don't crease the jacket. *tugs his jacket sleeve out of her grip*
Gf: *slaps his arm*
Spider: *kisses her*
Awww.
That was in reference to an earlier scene when he's, uh, not exactly keeping his hands to himself, and she goes, "stop it! you're creasing my shirt!"
More spider scenes:
(before he sets off robbing houses)
Girl wakes up to see his figure outside her window, and she jumps out of bed to open the curtains and sees him.
Gf: you're crazy! do you know what time it is! my dad'll kill you!
Spider: I'm going somewhere, I have to do something, and if I...never see you again, I mean, I know I'm going to see you again, but...Shit. I'm no good at this love stuff.
Gf: *grabs him and kisses him*
Spider: *smiles and spidermans down the rope off the building*
(WARNING: EMO STUFF AHEAD)
Ok, on a much sadder note, I'm freaking worried about Rafa. He's still injured, knees still bandaged. I know people say it's a seasonal thing for him (he always gets injured around this time of the year), but still. :( :( :( I want that winner back. :( And, really, as much as I am looking forward to seeing him in the exhibition match in KL, I'd prefer it if he didn't play, if he's still injured. Exhibition matches don't give them any points for their rankings, so it's really not worth it. If he's injured, won't the match just be an extra strain on him? And it's not like it would give him any points. Money, yes, but who cares? He should rest himself for the china open. I know this might be the only chance I ever get to see him in real life, not on tv, but for his sake, I wish he'd call it off. And please don't insult him now, k. He's pitiful enough as it is. I'd rather you insult me. Except don't say I'm dumb. You can say I'm ugly or evil though. Or if it must be an obsession of mine, insult silas and his whipping, adrien and his nose, or something. Just leave poor rafa alone for now. Oh, and you can insult spider too.