Everybody Knows is a slow burn. The film opens with a carefully shot study of a rundown clocktower and its mechanisms. It's a very tactile opening with great sound design that lingers on each movement of the different parts that make up this whole. It's also a simple but very effective metaphor for the film itself.
The film's opening act is leisurely. Which is good, because there are a lot of characters to meet. Laura (Penélope Cruz) and her two children are returning to her hometown near Madrid for her sister's wedding. We are introduced to her sisters, her father, her cousins and family friends in quick succession. Amongst them is Paco (Javier Bardem), a local vineyard owner and Laura's childhood sweetheart. He's a likeable and lively character who steals a lot of scenes early on as the wedding progresses from ceremony to drunken revelry at the hotel they've rented out for the event.
With all the players in place, the first act does a great job of building up tension. The director (Asghar Farhadi) dangles multiple possibilities for disaster before us amidst scenes of this loving family celebrating together. Unfortunately, this is the obvious high point of the film. It reaches a crescendo following the inciting incident with palpable tension and some genuinely affecting emotion (from Cruz especially). But then it descends into scene after scene of the family mourning and bickering amongst themselves without any real sense of escalation for almost two hours.
It is perplexing that Everybody Knows brands itself a 'psychological thriller'. It feels more like a domestic drama that focuses on the relationship between Laura and Paco. And that version of the film could have worked - Cruz gives a believable turn as a distraught person unsure where to turn in the face of tragedy and I totally bought into Bardem's commitment to this family despite not truly being a part of it. Their history (and the broader family history) are uncovered through a series of well-acted interactions which feel real. The problem is that they're almost too real: the dramas that bloom amidst these characters simply seem too mundane or unsurprising for the silver screen.
Yes, the performances are good. The cinematography too, although the camera is often so focused on the characters' interactions that there isn't much of a sense of place throughout. I just wish the film wasn't so boring. Its press claims that Laura's trip is 'upset by unexpected events that bring secrets out into the open.' But it's more like 'event.' Singular. And 'secret'. Singular. And it never really feels as if the stakes are raised after that solid first act.
In fact, by the time the film meandered towards its abrupt climax after so many recursive scenes spent with a family I hardly knew or cared about (most of whom have little bearing on the plot), I found myself struggling to pay attention. If anything, I was annoyed that it had failed to deliver on the promise of that tense opening act. Everybody Knows is, indeed, a slow burn. But no one wants to watch a fuse for two hours. Especially when there are no fireworks at the end of it.
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Samuelson's first job in New York was as executive chef of Aquavit. The Scandinavian restaurant had first opened in 1987 but it was with the arrival of Samuelson that Aquavit garnered culinary recognition and a three-star restaurant review from The New York Times. In 1999, Samuelsson opened a second Aquavit restaurant in Minneapolis, where it helped revive and build the city's reputation as a food town.
Despite the lack of support, he opened Red Rooster Harlem in 2010 on Lenox Avenue. That's a stone's throw from legendary 125th Street, three blocks from the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, a few streets down from Barack Obama's campaign office and two blocks from President Bill Clinton's post-presidential office. The restaurant is already as much of a Harlem landmark as the legendary Apollo club.
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These days, Samuelsson has very little time for riding his bike between his home and the two Harlem restaurants. He has two dozen other restaurants to think about. Many of them have found homes in up-and-coming neighborhoods, such as the London Red Rooster in Shoreditch and Norda, housed in a former post office built in the 1920s in Gothenburg.
His belief in change is in part informed by his belief in the exchange of ideas, something that comes naturally to him perhaps due to his background and current global reach.


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Q: how do I create records using mvc ef with json? I know how to get data in json format from my MVC application (see below)
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    {
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What would the create method look like?  Edit?
I'm guessing it would look something like the following
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    {
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If that is the case, what would my JSON call look like?
(Assuming the Publication class looks like the following)
public class Publication
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public String Title { get; set; }
}

Any help is appreciated.

A: For the Index, you will probably get some exceptions since the EF objects have a lot of properties that you won't need in the client side and will throw circular references exceptions.
You will have to either create a new POCO class to "wrap" the entities returned by the repository or simply use an anonymous object as suggested here:
Serialize Entity Framework objects into JSON
i.e.:
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Then, the call using Json from the client will have to look like this (assuming you are using JQuery):
$.post('/controller/create', {id:$('#idField').val(), name:$('#nameField').val()}, function(){alert('Publication created');});

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Florida Legislators Recognize Need for Flexibility, Choice in Special Education
By Heather Kays
Brandon Berman is 17 years old and is one of the approximately 1,700 students participating in Florida's Personal Learning Scholarship Account (PLSA) program. Brandon is autistic and has muscular dystrophy, seizures, spastic paraplegia, and a feeding tube, and he is most likely going to die from a brain tumor. He also has an unwavering desire to learn, and his parents have fought to make sure he gets that opportunity.
"He has a fatal diagnosis," his mother, Donna Berman, recently told me by phone. "As long as he wants to learn and as long as I can give an education to him, I will."
Florida's PLSA program provides an education savings account for special-needs students and has proven to be a perfect solution for students like Brandon. Parents initially pay for approved educational services and then are reimbursed. Funding provided through the program can pay for everything from instructional materials to curriculum to approved specialized services and therapies.
This year Florida legislators have tripled the amount of money allocated for the program, raising funding from $18.4 million to $53.4 million. That's enough money to help more than 5,000 students during the next school year. This year, the first year of the program, about 1,700 students received accounts.
Eligibility now includes three- and four-year-olds with diagnoses covered by the program. Students with muscular dystrophy and anywhere on the autism disorder spectrum will also be eligible. Previously, the state used a nonmedical definition of autism that excluded some autistic students. Part-time tutoring will now be an approved expense for children enrolled fulltime as private school or homeschool students.
These changes show Florida legislators have recognized the need for flexibility and choice when designing special-education funding. The rest of country should consider enacting similar legislation, because a program such as this makes an enormous difference to each family it serves.
The Berman family of Port Orange has tried almost every educational option available to special-needs students in Florida.
"We've tried all the routes of the school," said Berman, a licensed practical nurse who has taught and cared for her son since his health began to decline. "We did the McKay Scholarship. We tried homebound options more than once. But four hours a week—four hours total of direct instruction with a teacher—it's just not enough."
The PLSA program allows Berman to tailor Brandon's education. She can teach him while they wait in doctors' offices. Berman says she has been successful in stretching the funding and making it cost-effective by carefully determining how to spend it.
"We learned all about fabric and then learned math and science through the sewing machine," said Berman. "We've grown gardens. All the schools said he would never learn to read. They kept asking me why I continued to request a reading specialist and said he would never learn to read. Little did I know he knew how to read; he was just intimidated by the number of words on a page."
Through a process of trial and error, Berman enlarged the size of the text on Brandon's e-reader so the words visible on the screen were what would normally appear on a quarter of a page.
"It's unfortunate that the public school system doesn't see that not every child can be supported in a classroom," said Berman. She says she knows there are good, hardworking teachers in many public schools but the education system prejudges some students and gives them less attention than they need.
"The PLSA has been an incredible gift," said Berman. "It's got great potential for children like mine who don't fit into a specific program designed for special-needs students."
Brandon recently insisted on reading a mystery book on his own without his mother's help. The Boxcar Children books are now his favorites.
"I've seen him stand up taller," said Berman. "I've seen him take pride again. It's almost as if he didn't feel he could succeed. He's much more comfortable being included in things."
Berman says there are misconceptions about the PLSA program.
"It's not taking jobs away from people," said Berman. "It's not. It's helping children. My son cannot be stuck in a caveman system when he has Space Age problems. We're not making the schools go broke. It's the same funding that would have been used for my son anyway, and now I have the funding to help him."
Florida legislators deserve recognition for seeing the need to expand the PLSA program to help more families like the Bermans.
"No, he won't be able to walk across a stage like other students," Berman told me. "He won't be able to collect a diploma with his peers, but his peers never really knew him because of the way the system is set up. He can just become the best him. And he does matter."
[Originally published at Townhall]
Heather Kays
Heather Kays is a policy advisor to The Heartland Institute and former managing editor of School Reform News, a national monthly publication.
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La maldición del faraón es la creencia que se basa en que cualquier persona que moleste a la tumba de un faraón del Antiguo Egipto cae en una maldición por la que morirá en poco tiempo. Existía la creencia de que las tumbas de los faraones tenían maldiciones escritas en ellas o en sus alrededores, advirtiendo a aquellos que las tuvieran para que no entrasen. La maldición asociada al descubrimiento de la tumba del faraón de la XVIII dinastía Tutankamón es la más famosa en la cultura occidental. Muchos autores (incluido el propio descubridor de la tumba, Howard Carter) niegan que hubiese una maldición escrita, pero algunos investigadores del caso aseguran que Howard Carter encontró en la antecámara un ostracon de arcilla o un sello en la pared, cuya inscripción decía: «La muerte golpeará con su miedo a aquel que turbe el reposo del faraón».

La maldición de Tutankamón
A principios del siglo XIX la mayor parte de la historia del antiguo Egipto era desconocida para la mayoría de la población. Poco se sabía de aquella época, y menos aún de la mayor parte de los faraones egipcios.

Aunque se asocien las Pirámides de Egipto con los enterramientos de los faraones, lo cierto es que solo se usaron en el Antiguo Egipto entre las dinastías III (2650 a. C.) y XIII (1750 a. C.), pero ya en la dinastía XVIII (1300 a. C.) se prefería excavar grandes tumbas con varias salas en el interior de parajes escarpados (Valle de los Reyes). Estas salas se decoraban y llenaban de valiosos objetos y en ellas se depositaba el cuerpo embalsamado de los faraones, dentro de un sarcófago.

La tumba de Tutankamón de la dinastía XVIII permaneció oculta e intacta durante más de tres mil años. Existen evidencias de que fue saqueada y luego restaurada en los meses posteriores a su enterramiento, pero el cambio de dinastía, y la tierra desplazada de los desescombros de otras tumbas próximas provocó que un siglo después del enterramiento de Tutankamón, el emplazamiento de su tumba o incluso la misma existencia del faraón hubieran sido olvidados. Los ladrones de tumbas de las dinastías XIX y XX incluso llegaron a construir algunas cabañas encima de la tumba sin sospechar de su existencia.

Hallazgo de la Tumba

En la década de los años 1920, el egiptólogo Howard Carter descubrió la existencia de un faraón de la XVIII dinastía hasta entonces desconocido, y convenció a Lord Carnarvon para que financiase la búsqueda de la tumba que se suponía intacta en el Valle de los Reyes. El 4 de noviembre de 1922 se descubrieron los escalones que descendían hasta una puerta que aún mantenía los sellos originales. El 26 de noviembre, en presencia de la familia de Lord Carnarvon, se hizo el famoso agujero en la parte superior de la puerta por la que Carter introdujo una vela y vio según sus palabras «cosas maravillosas». La tumba, luego catalogada como KV62, resultó ser la del faraón Tutankamón y es la mejor conservada de todas las tumbas faraónicas encontradas hasta la fecha. Permaneció prácticamente intacta hasta nuestros días hasta el punto que cuando Carter entró por primera vez en la tumba pudo fotografiar unas flores secas de dos mil años atrás que se desintegraron en seguida. Después de catalogar todos los tesoros de las cámaras anteriores, Carter llegó a la cámara real donde descansaba el sarcófago del faraón desde hacía tres mil años. Y entonces empezaron a morir personas que habían visitado la tumba, lo cual es conocido popularmente como la Maldición del faraón.

Primeras muertes

Hay que recordar que Lord Carnarvon había sufrido un grave accidente de coche unos años antes, que le había afectado entre otras cosas a los pulmones, y vivía en Egipto porque el clima más seco era mejor para su salud.

En marzo de 1923, cuatro meses después de abrir la tumba, Lord Carnarvon fue picado por un mosquito y poco después se cortó la picadura mientras se afeitaba, causándole una septicemia que se extendió por todo el cuerpo. Una neumonía (infección pulmonar) atacó mortalmente a Lord Carnarvon (en un tiempo en que no existía la penicilina ni otros antibióticos, solo le aplicaron suero a un hombre que ya padecía problemas pulmonares), que murió la noche del 5 de abril. Se cuenta (y no hay confirmación ninguna de estos hechos) que a la misma hora de su muerte la perra de Lord Carnarvon, Susie, aulló y cayó fulminada en Londres. También dijeron que cuando Lord Carnarvon murió, en El Cairo hubo un gran apagón que dejó a oscuras la ciudad, pero momentos después regresó, en ese momento los familiares en el hotel se comunicaron con la empresa de electricidad sin recibir explicación del extraño fenómeno (nuevamente no hay constancia documental de este apagón).

Poco más necesitó la prensa inglesa para airear las leyendas de la maldición de los faraones. Incluso algunos afirmaron que en un muro de las antecámaras estaba escrito: «la muerte vendrá sobre alas ligeras al que estorbe la paz del faraón», aunque en realidad esta frase nunca apareciese en las detalladas notas de Carter (hay que recordar que le costó 10 años vaciar la tumba por la gran meticulosidad que aplicaba en todo) y el muro fue derribado para entrar en la tumba. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle se declaró creyente en la maldición (su esposa era médium y él gran defensor del espiritismo, ver su pugna con Houdini), la escritora Marie Corelli (conocida por sus ideas místicas) afirmó tener un manuscrito árabe que hablaba de la maldición (del que no se tenía constancia entonces ni se tiene actualmente) y el arqueólogo Arthur Wiegall publicó oportunamente un libro sobre la maldición de los faraones.

A la muerte de Lord Carnarvon siguieron varias más. Su hermano Audrey Herbert, que estuvo presente en la apertura de la cámara real, murió inexplicablemente en cuanto volvió a Londres. Arthur Mace, el hombre que dio el último golpe al muro para entrar en la cámara real, murió en El Cairo poco después, sin ninguna explicación médica. Sir Douglas Reid, que radiografió la momia de Tutankamon, enfermó y volvió a Suiza donde murió dos meses después. La secretaria de Carter murió de un ataque al corazón, y su padre se suicidó al enterarse de la noticia (lo incluyeron en la maldición a pesar de no estar relacionado con la tumba ni haberla visitado). Un profesor canadiense que estudió la tumba con Carter murió de un ataque cerebral al volver a El Cairo.

Al proceder a la autopsia de la momia se encontró que justo donde el mosquito había picado a Lord Carnarvon, Tutankamón tenía una herida (otra cuestión muy dudosa ya que no hay referencias conocidas). Este hecho disparó aún más la imaginación de los periodistas, que incluso dieron por muertos a los participantes en la autopsia. En realidad, excepto el radiólogo, los demás miembros del equipo vivieron durante años sin problemas, incluido el médico principal. El mismo descubridor de la tumba, Howard Carter, murió por causas naturales muchos años después.

A principio de la década de los 30, los periódicos atribuían hasta treinta muertes a la maldición del faraón, se llegó a decir que Carter había muerto, ya que encontraron una esquela de alguien con su nombre en un periódico, cosa que el mismo demostró no era cierta pues seguía vivo. Aunque muchas de ellas eran exageraciones, la casualidad parecía insuficiente para explicar las demás (aunque muchas veces olvidamos que la ciencia médica actual ha avanzado infinitamente sobre la de esa época, la penicilina comenzó a usarse en hospitales en los años 40). La falta de más escándalos y muertes extrañas disipó poco a poco el interés de los periodistas los siguientes treinta años.

La maldición regresa
En las décadas de 1960 y 1970 las piezas del Museo Egipcio de El Cairo se trasladaron a varias exposiciones temporales organizadas en museos europeos. Los directores del museo de entonces murieron poco después de aprobar los traslados, y los periódicos ingleses también extendieron la maldición sobre algunos accidentes menores que sufrieron los tripulantes del avión que llevó las piezas a Londres.

La última víctima atribuida a la maldición fue Ian McShane, ya que poco antes de comenzar la filmación de la película de 1980 La maldición de Tutankamon protagonizada por Raimond Burr en donde participaba en un papel secundario, su coche se salió de la carretera y se rompió gravemente una de las piernas debiendo ser reemplazado en la película.

Explicaciones de la maldición

La explicación más común a la maldición de los faraones es que fue una creación de la prensa sensacionalista de la época. Un estudio mostró que, de las 58 personas que estuvieron presentes cuando la tumba y el sarcófago de Tutankamón fueron abiertos, sólo ocho murieron en los siguientes doce años. Todos los demás vivieron más tiempo, incluyendo al propio Howard Carter que murió en 1939. El médico que hizo la autopsia a la momia de Tutankamon vivió hasta los 75 años.

Algunos han especulado con que un hongo mortal podría haber crecido en las tumbas cerradas y haber sido liberado cuando se abrieron al aire. Arthur Conan Doyle, autor de las novelas detectivescas de Sherlock Holmes, fomentó esta idea y especuló con que el moho tóxico había sido puesto deliberadamente en las tumbas para castigar a los ladrones de tumbas.

Aunque no hay pruebas de que tales patógenos fuesen responsables de la muerte de Lord Carnarvon, y recordemos que en esa época se moría de cualquier infección al no existir los antibióticos, tampoco hay duda de que sustancias peligrosas pueden acumularse en tumbas antiguas. Estudios recientes de antiguas tumbas egipcias abiertas en la actualidad que no han estado expuestas a los contaminantes modernos hallaron bacterias patógenas de los géneros Staphylococcus y Pseudomonas, así como los mohos Aspergillus niger y Aspergillus flavus. Además, las tumbas recién abiertas se convierten a menudo en refugio para los murciélagos, cuyo guano puede transmitir la histoplasmosis. Sin embargo, a las concentraciones halladas típicamente, estos patógenos sólo suelen ser peligrosos para personas con sistemas inmunológicos debilitados. Las muestras de aire tomadas del interior de un sarcófago sellado mediante un agujero perforado, tenían altos niveles de amoníaco, formaldehído y ácido sulfhídrico que, si bien son gases tóxicos, también resultan fáciles de detectar en concentraciones peligrosas por su fuerte olor.

Howard Carter, el principal «implicado», murió el 2 de marzo de 1939 a los 64 años, de muerte natural, 17 años después. Su frase preferida cuando le hablaban de la «maldición», era: «Todo espíritu de comprensión inteligente se halla ausente de esas estúpidas ideas.» Y añadía:

Notas

Enlaces externos

Tutankamon
Maldiciones
Mitología egipcia
Leyendas urbanas
Faraones

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package gwt.material.design.incubator.client.google.addresslookup;

import com.google.gwt.event.shared.HandlerRegistration;
import gwt.material.design.client.constants.Autocomplete;
import gwt.material.design.client.ui.MaterialTextBox;
import gwt.material.design.incubator.client.dark.IncubatorDarkThemeReloader;
import gwt.material.design.incubator.client.google.addresslookup.constants.AddressComponentType;
import gwt.material.design.incubator.client.google.addresslookup.constants.AddressType;
import gwt.material.design.incubator.client.google.addresslookup.events.AddressLookupEvents;
import gwt.material.design.incubator.client.google.addresslookup.events.HasAddressLookupHandlers;
import gwt.material.design.incubator.client.google.addresslookup.events.PlaceChangedEvent;
import gwt.material.design.incubator.client.google.addresslookup.js.JsAddressLookup;
import gwt.material.design.incubator.client.google.addresslookup.js.options.AddressLookupOptions;
import gwt.material.design.incubator.client.google.addresslookup.js.options.ComponentRestrictions;
import gwt.material.design.incubator.client.google.addresslookup.js.options.LatLngBounds;
import gwt.material.design.incubator.client.google.addresslookup.js.options.PlaceResult;
import gwt.material.design.incubator.client.google.addresslookup.js.options.result.GeocoderAddressComponent;

/**
 * A service to provide Place predictions based on a user's text input. It attaches to an input element of type text,
 * and listens for text entry in that field. The list of predictions is presented as a drop-down list, and is updated
 * as text is entered.
 *

 *
UiBinder

 *

 * {@code
 *      <google:addresslookup.AddressLookup grid="s12"  ui:field="addressLookup" fieldType="OUTLINED" label="Address" placeholder="Enter any location..."/>
 * }
 *

 *
Java - Loading the API

 *

 * {@code
 *  @literal @UiField
 *      AddressLookup addressLookup;
 *
 *      // Loading API
 *      ApiRegistry.register(new AddressLookupApi("AIzaSyCcFsjlqr-DR6acrZ8xZKhXNGxeS3nDmIE"), new Callback<Void, Exception>() {
 *         @literal @Override
 *          public void onFailure(Exception exception) {
 *              MaterialToast.fireToast(exception.getMessage());
 *          }
 *
 *         @literal @Override
 *          public void onSuccess(Void aVoid) {
 *              addressLookup.load();
 *          }
 *      });
 * }
 *

 *

 *

 * Note: This component is under the incubation process and subject to change.
 *

 *
 * @author kevzlou7979
 * @see AddressLookup
 */
public class AddressLookup extends MaterialTextBox
        implements HasAddressLookupHandlers {

    private JsAddressLookup addressLookup;
    private AddressLookupOptions options;

    public AddressLookup() {
        setPlaceholder("");
        setAutocomplete(Autocomplete.OFF);
    }

    /**
     * Creates a new instance of AddressLookup that attaches to the specified input text field with the given options.
     */
    public AddressLookup(AddressLookupOptions options) {
        this();

        setOptions(options);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onLoad() {
        super.onLoad();

        IncubatorDarkThemeReloader.get().reload(AddressLookupDarkTheme.class);
    }

    public void load() {
        addressLookup = new JsAddressLookup(valueBoxBase.getElement(), options);
        addressLookup.addListener(AddressLookupEvents.PLACE_CHANGED, () -> PlaceChangedEvent.fire(AddressLookup.this));
    }

    /**
     * Gets the option for look up widget
     */
    public AddressLookupOptions getOptions() {
        return options;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the option for look up widget
     */
    public void setOptions(AddressLookupOptions options) {
        this.options = options;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the bounds to which predictions are biased.
     */
    public LatLngBounds getBounds() {
        return addressLookup.getBounds();
    }

    /**
     * Returns the details of the Place selected by user if the details were successfully retrieved. Otherwise returns
     * a stub Place object, with the name property set to the current value of the input field.
     */
    public PlaceResult getPlace() {
        return addressLookup.getPlace();
    }

    /**
     * Sets the preferred area within which to return Place results. Results are biased towards, but not restricted to,
     * this area.
     */
    public void setBounds(LatLngBounds bounds) {
        addressLookup.setBounds(bounds);
    }

    /**
     * Sets the component restrictions. Component restrictions are used to restrict predictions to only those within
     * the parent component. E.g., the country.
     */
    public void setComponentRestrictions(ComponentRestrictions restrictions) {
        addressLookup.setComponentRestrictions(restrictions);
    }

    /**
     * Sets the types of predictions to be returned. For a list of supported types, see the
     * developer's guide. If no
     * type is specified, all types will be returned. The setTypes method accepts a single element array.
     */
    public void setTypes(AddressType... types) {
        addressLookup.setTypes(types);
    }

    /**
     * Will identify the {@link GeocoderAddressComponent} and will return it's value based on {@link AddressComponentType}
     */
    public GeocoderAddressComponent getAddressComponent(AddressComponentType addressComponentType) {
        for (GeocoderAddressComponent component : getPlace().getAddressComponents()) {
            for (String type : component.getTypes()) {
                if (addressComponentType.getName().equals(type)) {
                    return component;
                }
            }
        }
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public HandlerRegistration addPlaceChangedHandler(PlaceChangedEvent.PlaceChangedHandler handler) {
        return addHandler(handler, PlaceChangedEvent.getType());
    }
}

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Toy Story 4 is A Charming Character-Driven Story That's Small in Stakes But Big At Heart (Review)
Kevin Allen reviews June 20, 2019 June 20, 2019 Annie Potts, Christina Hendricks, Jordan Peele, keanu reeves, Tim Allen, tom hanks, Tony Hale, Toy Story 4 0 Comment
This weekend marks the release of Toy Story 4, the latest computer animated film from Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios. The announcement of the project in 2015 was met with heavy skepticism after the initial trilogy was capped by a perfect ending to Toy Story 3, but thankfully, the fourth entry to the franchise keeps the Toy Story train going full speed ahead thanks to the addition of new characters, new ideas, and layered character arcs, along with the gorgeous animation and strong sense of humor that are Pixar staples.
Woody and Buzz Lightyear have a new friend named Forky that leads them into a thrilling adventure inside a carnival and antique shop in Pixar's new sequel.
2019 marks twenty-four years since the release of Toy Story, which would not only be the first feature film from the prolific animation studio Pixar, but also the first film to ever be made entirely from computer animation, introducing a new technology to the medium of film and changing the industry forever. From the lighthearted Finding Nemo and Ratatouille to the imaginative Monsters, Inc. and Inside Out, Pixar has continued to produce crowd-pleasing hit after crowd-pleasing hit, with their few but only speed bumps being their prequels (Monsters University) and sequels (Cars 2). However, the only sequels to retain or debatably exceed their predecessor have been those in the Toy Story franchise. But after the emotional gutpunch that ended Toy Story 3, it was easy to call a third sequel unnecessary, and easier to call the quality of one into question after the controversial exit of longtime Pixar executive John Lasseter.
But regardless of who is sitting in their executive office or the director's chair, creativity at Pixar trickles down from the administrative level to the production interns, and it shows over the course of all 100 minutes of Toy Story 4. The ending of the third film saw Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Jessie and friends leave the confines of their first owner Andy and enter the home of toddler Bonnie after staring down their impermanence in an incinerator, but after such a dramatic moment, the fourth entry to Pixar's first franchise serves as a solid epilogue in the series, electing to lower the stakes in a way that creates a strong character-driven piece within an entertaining adventure that introduces new characters, reunites our heroes with old friends, and takes the franchise to a new setting.
Taking place two years after the third film, Toy Story 4 begins with Bonnie just a week away from her first day of kindergarten, on a morning where she plays with all her favorite toys including those that Andy lent her. But there's one toy she doesn't regularly play with, that being Woody (Tom Hanks), who stows away in her backpack, with the intent to help her feel comfortable through the nerve-wracking ordeal of kindergarten orientation. When Bonnie is assigned by her teacher to make a pencil holder in arts-and-crafts, Woody runs into the trash and gathers what he can to help Bonnie, and he succeeds in a way he didn't expect: she uses a spork, a broken popsicle stick, and googly eyes, among other things, to create a new toy of her own in Forky (Tony Hale). Bonnie's comfort in Forky relieves Woody, but only until her love brings Forky to life, upon which, he screams to be thrown back into the garbage, convinced he is just trash rather than a toy.
This extends to when he is introduced to Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) and the gang, and again when Bonnie and her family go on vacation, to which Bonnie is allowed to bring all her toys. But when Forky escapes the RV in which Bonnie's family travels, Woody's insistence to rescue him puts him and Forky on an adventure to a traveling carnival and a nearby antique store, where they encounter a pull-string doll named Gabby Gabby (Christina Hendricks) that wants Woody's voice box in order to fix hers, and even reunite with long-lost friend Bo Peep (Annie Potts), who travels the carnival with allies of her own.
A plethora of Pixar's output is full of subtext rife with thought-provoking themes, and their latest film is no exception. Toy Story 4 has its characters asking existential questions about how and why they are a toy, and what it is about them that makes them one. This takes shape with franchise newcomer Forky, whose childlike questions about his place in the world, constant excitement to bathe in the bin he came from, and general panic are consistently funny and endearing, thanks in part to Hale's infectious turn as a voice actor. Meanwhile, despite Bonnie's lack of interest in playing with him, Woody remains steadfast in leading the group, taking it upon himself to find Forky while pondering his role in life outside of Andy's ownership. In reuniting with Bo Peep and learning how she became self-sufficient and free-spirited on her own as a lost toy, Woody has a compelling character arc that positions him to make decisions over the course of the film that have seismic implications for himself, his friends, and even Bonnie herself.
As this is going on, Buzz Lightyear leads the C-story in a thread of his own where he learns how to talk to his conscience, which hysterically manifests itself as the catchphrases from his voice box. Buzz's arc factors nicely into the film's comic relief as he ventures off into an RV park himself to find Woody only to end up a prize in a carnival game, where he meets stuffed animals and fellow prizes Ducky and Bunny (Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele), who assist him on his journey with ideas hilarious in their absurdity.
Other aspects that set Pixar apart from other animation studios in Hollywood are its unique character models and breathtaking animation, and those remain a constant positive throughout Toy Story 4, especially when the sun hits the glass chandelier of the antique store just right to display a barrage of multi-colored light streaks around the shop, and again, when the vibrant lights of all the carnival attractions illuminate the scene underneath the night sky.
The antique store itself has the tone and feel of a location from the roaring twenties, and the camera follows Woody and Bo Peep sleuthing behind bookshelves as it would a detective down a foggy street. It's also worth noting that the film is consistently funny, from a running joke about Bonnie's father going to jail and a clever use of Randy Newman's new song, "I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away", to a moment where Canadian daredevil action figure Duke Caboom (Keanu Reeves) recalls his trauma of disappointing his owner in hammy, hilarious dramatics.
However, while the subtle ideas about existentialism and sentience do take shape in Forky's arc through the first half of the film, there remains some potential to explore them a little bit more left on the proverbial table. It also needs to be mentioned that while the ending has been described as something "intense" and "startling" to the point that it will "change cinema", the film it belongs to doesn't have the high stakes of the original trilogy to live up to such hyperbole. But the film's low stakes serve Toy Story 4 well in shaping it as the epilogue in a tremendous series, and the ending packs an emotional punch, albeit one on a different level than audiences expect. Children will be entertained by the endearing new characters and old favorites, while adults will laugh at the clever sense of humor, and be moved by the film's emotional center about listening to your inner voice and doing what's right for you. It's as charming and heartfelt as the series has ever been, and that's why Toy Story 4 is a story worth seeing.
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SLIPSTREAM (1989)
SCIENTIFIC FACT LEARNED: There is life after Star Wars. An afterlife.
Luke Badmoviestarrer, Cheech Ghandi, Jeeves-Bot, the little putt-putt plane that could, a World-Ending Wind that isn't Rush Limbaugh, Sorry-eri, Hagrid the Pimp, and Game Over, Man!
After an unknown apocalyptic event, the Earth has been blow-dried to a crispy brown by a cruel wind known as the Slipstream (hence the title). In these desert wastelands, prop-plane pilot/cop Trasker (Mark Hamill) and his partner Belitski (Kitty Aldridge) hunt down a murder suspect (Bob Peck) down a rocky canyon. After capturing their prey, they take in a nice lunch of cat gut salad down at the local post-apoc diner where they meet fast-talking crook Matt (Bill Paxton). Matt learns of the high bounty for the man and tricks Trasker into handing him over. Matt and the poetry-spouting man take off in his plane with Trasker and Belitski hot on their trail. When Matt tries to unravel the man's backstory, the man, who Matt names Byron, admits guilt, seems unremorseful and detached, and has creepy eyes.
The fugitives make their way to Matt's pad, a cave where rotten pimp Montclaire (Robbie Coltrane) tries to muscle his way in to Matt's newfound profit opportunity. But Matt and Byron make their escape and come across a tribe of native people called the Wind Cult led by wild-haired Avatar (Ben Kingsley). Byron then begins to display amazing healing powers and cures the sick and blind members of the tribe. Despite the miracles, he is branded as evil and is sent away on a giant kite. Trasker and Belitski catch up with them, but Trasker is seemingly killed while trying to bring down Byron, who is revealed as a renegade robot who killed his master. A robot with Jesus powers. OK, the future's not looking so bad after all. Belitski befriends Matt and Byron and the three make their way to a museum transformed into an oasis where the exceedingly rich, including a fatuous Cornelius (F. Murray Abraham), live in luxury while the rest of the world sucks sand. Both Byron and Matt find love/one-night-stands, and the post-coital robo-butler Byron contemplate his newfound humanity and compassion. But Belitski double-crosses them and all of a sudden Trasker is back from the dead, blonder then ever.
In the end, it will boil down to the characters making a crucial decision. Byron must make a choice between answering for his crimes and true happiness. Trasker and Belitski must choose between taking Byron by force or collecting a paycheck and getting the hell out of this movie. And Matt must choose between a shower or calling Jim Cameron back.
Slipstream is a post-apocalyptic chase movie that attempts to be something more by injecting philosophical message about the nature of good and evil. It's a nice ambition, but the movie doesn't have a clue as how to pull it off. Despite a good beginning, the movie becomes just a collection of segments where the main characters drift from place to place, encounter additional quirky characters, and bicker endlessly. But the movie can boast a hell of a cast:
Hamill and Peck are the standouts in the film. Hamill is unbridled cheese, perhaps preparing himself for the Guyver series that would soon follow, but he's also intense and genuinely interested in the role of tough guy cop. Peck as the robotic Byron is also solid, bringing an intensity, seriousness, and erudite air to the role of sensitive robot with a dark past. Everyone else is pretty much phoning it, including a cringing Kingsley, a lost Abraham, and a totally baked Paxton. Another peculiarity in the movie is a rousing score. It's way too loud, epic, and boisterous for such a slight movie. The only time it quiets down is a flying scene where the Paxton character peeps on a woman doing nude yoga in a cave to the tune of some 80 sheet metal ballad. Slipstream is hysterical for all the wrong reasons, and the best reasons to see this movie is to laugh at the ham-fisted performances, witness the beauty of Turkish cave-dwellings, drop your jaw at the numbing dialogue, and blow dry your hair.
P.S. Take a look at the DVD case at the top left corner. None of the actors appear in this movie as they do on the box. Hilarious. If you can name the movies where those pictures were Photoshopped from, send me an email by February 1st, 2009 and you will be rewarded!
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