We Will Rock You

Well, I am in a very odd mood today, as what has been a very large part of my life for the last few months is now over and I have been somewhat of an emotional wreck this morning with tears triggered by nearly every Facebook post I read. Pathetic! Last night was the last performance of We Will Rock You and the last that I, as a year 13, will be in ever. Yesterday’s performance was the best it has ever been and the energy was incredible. I would like to thank everyone involved and say how much of a pleasure it was to work with all of you and I am going to miss you all so much!

The BAFTA's

Overall, I thought that this year’s BAFTA’s were very enjoyable, perhaps the best they’ve been in a long while. However, I did get very annoyed by Jonathon Ross’s very unfunny jokes and was quite bewildered by the choice of opening with some rather random dancers!

The winner’s themselves though I mostly agreed with – that sounds like quite an arrogant thing to say I suppose but I can’t help but get very angry when the people I want to win don’t! So here is a kind of run-down of the winners for anyone who has been living in cave, with my opinions for the few of you who care!

Valentine's Day

I know shock horror two posts in one week! To be honest it is done in an attempt to make up for lost time but also because I am almost positive I will not be posting next week due to loads of rehearsals and then three performances, probably won’t have time to breathe let alone post!

With Valentine’s Day coming up and yet again another year for me of no Valentines I thought it best to watch the film, with the same name, a little before the day itself so not to add to my depression!! Although, I am not a fan of Valentine’s Day itself in general, I think it is just a total money making scheme. Call me cynical and maybe I am, but the ridiculous amount of marketing that surrounds the event renders anything remotely romantic about it pointless.

Singing, Spaced and Skins

I have already broken my resolution of once a week blogging partly because of a disaster cinema trip a couple of weeks ago, but also partly because of a massive amount of drinking last Friday and Saturday night. However, I did have an amazing weekend! My time has unfortunately been taken up with a huge amount of work too and the ridiculous pressure of We Will Rock You which the first performance of is next week. I am absolutely terrified and have a horrible feeling that the role of the Killer Queen will not be played worse after my performance!

As I, unlike usual, have very little to say about films this week, I will try to fill this post with whatever pops into my head,
  so I apologise in advance for any rambling or jumpiness! I bought Adele’s new album 21 which is absolutely beautiful. Not only is the first single Rolling In The Deep amazing there are loads of other songs which are incredible. I love Rumour Has It and One and Only but my favourite song has to be the beautiful Someone Like You. I must have listened to it about 30 times at least and I only bought it on Saturday! It makes me almost cry every time I hear it and I am now singing it at our sixth form show, hopefully I might be able to do it some small amount of justice. I also listened to her set at Radio One’s Live Lounge and her cover of Promise This was the first time I’ve heard a Cheryl Cole song and not been irritated!

Black Swan

Yesterday was the first time in a long time that I have been to see a film on the day of its release and I have to say that Black Swan was one of the best films I have seen in ages. A, what can by no means be described as small, group of sixteen went to see Black Swan for a friend’s birthday. I had been perhaps a little obsessively following everything about the film after having first heard about it late last year. I read review after review and was assured of its quality with Natalie Portman’s Golden Globe win for her role as Nina Sayers and its twelve BAFTA nominations. This borderline obsession is now continuing after I have seen it and I can’t stop thinking and talking about the film, so I am convinced that it is amazing and I definitely want to see it again as so as possible!

The story itself, detailing the mental stability of young ballet hopeful Nina Sayers, a babied girl with obvious problems, and her taking on of the role of the Swan Queen and struggle to dance the role of the Black Swan, has already by many been described as over the top. The psychological thriller has also been renamed a horror with its sometimes excessive gore, but I think that whichever it is it is extremely successful. Nina’s mental breakdown is paralleled with her on stage improvements and her determination to be perfect is what eventually leads to her collapse. This take on the ballet world’s stance on perfection is something which has also been criticised with Nina’s self-harming and eating disorder which, although not life threatening have arguably shown ballet in a bad light. This along with her need to impress her morally questionable director, Vincent Cassel and new, exciting and mysterious dancer, Mila Kunis, both of whom give excellent performances, finally breaks her. There is also tension between her and her mother who gave up her career to look after her and therefore can’t let go of her, which creates a very sinister atmosphere especially in scenes of cutting nails and Nina’s creepy childlike pink bedroom.

Burlesque

So the tradition of my friends and I going to the cinema once a week (unless it is something really rubbish showing) has truly begun and I can see myself becoming steadily more broke this year as a result. This week we went to see Burlesque with the amazing and brilliant Christina Aguilera and Cher. Once again I was surprised by how good this film was and I can’t wait for it to come out on DVD!

The Tourist

After a exhausting first week back at college, jam packed with exam revision and musical rehearsals, I decided that it was a good idea for the first cinema outing of 2011. At the local cinema in my town students can get cinema tickets for just £4 so my friends and I decided that we could easily scrape that together. Following the second two hour rehearsal of the week we headed to the train station to get the train to the cinema. However, the train was cancelled and if we waited for the next one we would have missed the film but luckily we found a lift and made it in time.