Another movie in review - Anchorman 2 - The Legend continues (Sophie)

And they live happily ever after ... ? Well don’t get ahead of yourselves!

In Anchorman 2 – The Legend continues truly. In this sequel to Anchorman – The legend of Ron Burgundy the main story line is pretty much the same as in the first movie. Ron is still confused by females (including his now wife Veronica Corningstone), however this time he gets even more confused when he encounters an African-American female member of the media, who happens to be his boss. Ron and his gang are taking on New York and are taking over the 24 hours news channel by storm. Again in the story line Ron hits rock bottom and hits all the highs and lows. All of the men in the movie are behaving like little boys in cowboy suits.

The take on the sequel comes across as even more sarcastic than then the first one, but from my perspective makes for better memorable punch lines. Movie director Mckay, has managed to keep the core jokes at the expense of male privileges and not reuse the jokes from the first movie but rather build on them. It might be one of the most inspired cinema capable non-sense out there, but also one of the funniest.

Anchorman 2 is also full of celebrity cameo appearance (SPOILER ALERT!!), with the likes of Harrison Ford, Vince Vaughn, Liam Neeson, Jim Carrey and Will Smith. One of the best parts of the movie is the portrayal of Rupert Murdoch as the media mogul, the boss of all bosses, who speaks in this incredibly thick Australian accent, which in return makes Ron put the out there that he “thought Australian speaks the same as us”.

Brick, who is played by Steve Carrell, is also back in the movie as part of Ron’s gong. At the very start of the movie Brick re-enters the scene by attending his own funeral. Brick makes the best lines for this and I would like to share some of those with you.

Brick: Ron, why is it called the Big apple?

Ron: Because every street has an apple tree on it.

Ron: 2am to 5am news shift? That’s the graveyard shift.

Brick: I’m afraid of no ghost!

All up I think this sequel, out of the many sequels to first out there, is one of the better one. They have tried to reinvent themselves, the humour, the laughs and the cast are the same.

Source: http://wednesdaysheroes.com/brus-reviews-frozen-anchorman2/

Movie Review - Anchorman - The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Sophie)

What a legend!

Anchorman – the legend of Ron Burgundy is a cult comedy testosterone loaded 1970s USA. It is about San Diego’s top-rated news anchorman Ron Burgundy. The movie comes with an at times overload of sarcastic humour, which could at times be viewed as humourless examples of gender inequality and ideal example of the double standards in the then male dominated world of media.

At the start of the movie Ron and his ‘gang’ are introduced to the audience and portray themselves as cocky, ignorant, sexist and even vein bunch of overly hetero sexual males. The plot of the movie starts when their whole world is being turned upside down by the arrival of an aspiring female journalist on the scene, of course no other than Veronica Corningstone. It becomes apparent form the arrival of Veronica that she has ultimately has her eyes not only on Ron himself but on his seat behind the new desk. This female presence unsettles the deeply and they are in every possible roundabout way to get rid of Veronica. The battle of the sexes ends with Veronica turning the tables on Ron and the gang and Ron hitting rock bottom in his career (which appears to be over) and on a personal level losing everything including his ego. Veronica takes over Ron’s job as ‘anchorman’, however in a time of need, when accidentally ends up in a bear cage, Ron returns to the scene and saves not just the day and the news, but also Veronica.

The 2004 movie was directed by Adam McKay, the former head writer of Saturday Night Live. It stares Will Ferrel, who has also co-written the movie and David Koechner, Steve Carrell and the never aging Paul Rudd as the members of his gang. Veronica Corningstone is being played by no other than ‘Married with Children’ star Christina Applegate.

Whilst this whole movie explores in a great satirical manner those outdated thoughts of male versus female dominance in the workplace, it also ridicules them. In the end I think nothing has changed in Ron, he might have become a bit tolerant at last. But then again, this is what makes this movie a good and provided for many laughs throughout.

Ron is truly a legend on the screen and this portrayal of this part of his life, so let me finish by saying

Stay Classy San Diego (Ron Burgundy)

And thanks for stopping by (Veronica Corningstone)

SEE interesting life from Facebook (Angela)

The technology is developing faster and faster, there are more and more comunication platforms appear in todays society, such as Facebook. wechat, tumblr etc.

We all know that it is really popular about FB nowadays. so many kinds of people and more and more people use that and sharing different ideas through that communicate platform.
Going through the FB, we can easily feel that the different life of different people.The life is just like a box of chocolate,  when we put the chocolate in our mouth at the begining , it tasted bitter, but during the chocolate melting, we can feel the sweet through our mouth, also we will never know what kind of flavor of chocolate we will catch from the whole box of chocolates, it is LIFE, it is showing that the different taste will be in our life, and the different thoughts of our life as well as the mysterious of life.

Hundreds of people posted their photos and thoughs on FB, sometimes they will also posted vedios. they posted where did they go, what did they do as well as what their thoughs at that time, when we go through that we just like go through their life.we will experience different life of ours when we go through their pictures, and see how colorful of life.

They shared their life by using FB, when they travled to somewhere or some beautiful places, we may see the beautiful through the picture they posted, if they had some sad things, we may also know and feel that and help them go out from sadness by disscussion.we can know different ideas and different places as well as different funny vedios we do not know  before through the FB.

Anyway, FB is the strongest communicate platform and good life showing!! People may feel life more colorful than before and feel the other magical world by throughing FB!!


By Angela Chong

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Big bad news of NBA (Terry)

Donald Sterling---the owner of Los Angeles Clippers has been investigated by NBA due to his inappropriate and racial comments about African-American to his girlfriend. This is pretty serious and embarresed because what he targeted is a huge  group in his country as well as his own team

There are lots of African-American superstars in LAC like Chris Paul, DeAndre Jordan, Jamal Crawford and even the coach – Doc Rivers, and also countless ones in the league. So what Sterling did really infuriates all the athletes in the league and their fans as well as all the African-Americans in the US. It’s hard to image for all the stars in the league that after gained so much applause, respect, success and fame, they still have to take all the racial insult because their color. So Sterling will definitely have to take the responsibilities for his remarks.

As an Asian, it is still terrifying and disturbing to receive the bad and discriminated treats from racists. They might not notice that what they say or do could easily cause a person’s emotional trauma. It is not only about colors, everybody must have been insulted by different kinds of discriminations. The thing is you cannot get depressed after attacked, but grow stronger to prove that you cannot easily be judged. Thus no matter what, we should not judge somebody simply by his color even the looks or figures.

It is still a challenge for the racial discrimination to be eliminated no matter where in the world, but we still need to be grateful for all the kind and passionate people we could meet in our lives. And also the best wished to all the athletes who work in NBA to maintain a healthy mood and body.

Reference:

Donald Sterling and his girlfriend picture, Meghan Keneally, 26 Apr 14. Daily Mail, <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2613900/LA-Clippers-owner-tells-girlfriend-Do-not-bring-black-people-games.html>, viewed 27 Apr 14.