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Well, after a couple weeks hiatus while setting up the new computer and importing bookmarks (all my VVW ones, especially), Viral Video Wednesday is back on. And this week’s topic, per Maggie’s request, is: Mash-ups. A mash-up is when you take scenes from one move and add scenes or the audio from another movie to and make it one video as if they’d been from the same show.
So, here are my vids:
First up, in honor of his opening today, I thought a Harry Potter mash-up would be perfect. It might not entirely qualify as a mash-up… it’s more of a parody, actually… but it takes characters from 3 movies and puts them together.
And here’s another Harry Potter mash-up, this time with Pride and Prejudice. Does this count toward my Everything Austen Challenge?
What if Harry knew that he was just a fictional character? That he was merely a figment of J. K. Rowling’s imagination and that all his suffering was merely a device to propel a story along? Harry Potter, Stranger that Fiction…
Now, I hadn’t realized until I watched the following mash-up that Alan Rickman and Helena Bonham Carter were in both Sweeny Todd and Harry Potter, which of course makes this next vid worth sitting through someone camming their TV.
And finally, this is similar to one of the first mash-up type video I saw (the one I wanted had been removed, poo!), and has yummy Ioan Gruffudd in it. It tells the story of the Founding Four of Hogwarts 🙂
There are thousands of mash-ups out there, if you search a movie title (usually a more popular one) and the word “mashup,” you’ll find plenty to choose from.
Now it’s your turn… What are some of your favorite mash-ups?
“Fine,” said Harry, who was concentrating on handing Ron a glass of pumpkin juice. “There you go, Ron. Drink up.”
Ron had just raised the glass to his lips when Hermione spoke sharply.
“Don’t drink that, Ron!”
Both Harry and Ron looked up at her.
“Why not?” said Ron.
Hermione was now staring at Harry as though she could not believe her eyes.
“You just put something in that drink.”
“Excuse me?” said Harry.
“You heard me. I saw you. You just tipped something into Ron’s drink. You’ve got the bottle in your hand right now!”
“I don’t know what you’r talking about,” said Harry, stowing the little bottle hastily in his pocket.
“Ron, I warn you, don’t drink it!” Hermione said again, alarmed, but Ron picked up the glass, drained it in one gulp, and said, “Stop bossing me around, Hermione.”
She looked scandalized. Bending low so that only Harry could hear her, she hissed, “You should be expelled for that. I’d never have believed it of you, Harry!”
–Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling, page 293
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling is the sixth of the seven book series chronicling the lives and exploits of the orphaned title character and his friends and classmates as they discover they are witches and wizards, go to Hogwarts school to learn to hone their skills, and learn to bond with friends and co-exist with enemies under the genially paternal headmaster, Professor Dumbledore. In this particularly darkest book yet (I’m told book seven is even worse), Harry struggles with coming to terms (still and again) with the deaths of those close to him, while desiring to get revenge on Lord Voldermort, aka Tom Marvolo Riddle, for the deaths.
Yeah…. I remember when the first book was taking the American bookworld by storm, causing some Christian groups to suffer apoplectic fits at the thought of their sweet angelic prodgeny being infected by evil should so much as the book’s binding touch their innocent hands, and children clamoring to snatch the books off their shelves. However, six books in and it just seems to be a repeat of each of the last five books’ plotline. The children return to school, Harry suspects evil is afoot right away, no one believes him, everyone turns against him and treats him like a nutter, then evil pops out from behind the painting of the tutu-wearing trolls and says “Bwa-ha-ha!” Harry saves the day, Hogwarts and the entire wizarding world, everyone apologizes for doubting him, then they all say good-bye for the summer and look forward to returning in the fall where they can go through the whole cycle all over again. HP and the HBP has all that plus pimples, crushes and love potions.
It’s an okay book, but nothing I’ll remember next year… I doubt I’ll remember it next month, even. I found myself trying to remember when whatever event being referenced occured, and I realized that I’ve forgotten a lot of the content of the previous books already. What’s more, I think up to a third of this book could have been dropped. Some of it was a repeat of what had happened in a previous book, but some of it just seemed superfluous.
I’m glad I read it since I’ve read the other books of the series, and I definitely wanted to get it done before the movie comes out this coming July. Some people have said the last book, Deathly Hollows, is the best book of the series.
From the way this book has ended, Deathly Hollowsat least seems like it will break the endless cycle. Harry tells Ron and Hermione that he doesn’t plan to return to Hogwarts for his final year because he plans to hunt down and kill Voldemort, and his friends inform him they’ll be right beside him wherever he goes. But… it’ll be a while before that movie comes out so I needn’t get into too much of a hurry reading the book.
Yay!!! Spring Break is here and two of my three lovelies have flown away to daddy’s for the week. I still have Gwen, but without Maggie to fight with she’s rather tame. She’s made plans to have sleep-over parties with her friends this week, too, so it’s going to quiet this week.
Our library will be having several movie events this week, including Twilight, which never did show at our theater. I’ll have to take Gwen to it and do some other special things with her since she so rarely has me to herself. She’s the middle child, so she’s often waiting on the side for her turn. She always enjoys vacation times when the other two are gone.
I finished reading The Book Thief on Tuesday, but my brain has yet to put it down. My mind wanders back to it often, even while reading one of the five books I’m currently working on. It’s now my favorite book, and I highly recommend anyone who hasn’t read it yet to do so. It’s a beautifully written and haunting tale. 🙂
I’ve finally gotten around to picking up the sixth Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and am almost halfway through it. It’s fun and okay, but somewhere along the way I’ve lost the wonder for the series I once had. It’s the same book over and over again. Harry knows some deep dark truth and no one believes him. Even his best friends think he’s off his nuttter. Then a horrible thing happens that proves Harry was right all along. Sorries are said, forgiveness given, and everyone leaves Hogwarts with smiles and looking forward to next year…. when they’ll repeat the cycle all over again. Add to all that pimples and crushes and love potions, and you get the gist of HP and the HBP. Meh. The Goblet of Fire has been my favorite so far.
I stopped into the Catholic thrift store here in town to check out their books and left with Christopher Marlowe’s play Doctor Faustus. It’s okay, and the thought occurred to me while reading it, “Would Marlowe have been more widely known if Shakespeare’s plays were never wrote down?” It’s an interesting thought, and makes me wonder about authors today.
What modern authors would be read more but for the mega-star writers like Patterson, Clancy, Grisham, King, and more?
Tainted by Brooke Morgan
The Triumph of Deborah by Eva Etzioni-Halevy
Strange But True America: Weird Tales from All 50 States by John Hafnor
Red Letters by Tom Davis
Dragon House by John Shors
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Well, after a couple weeks hiatus while setting up the new computer and importing bookmarks (all my VVW ones, especially), Viral Video Wednesday is back on. And this week’s topic, per Maggie’s request, is: Mash-ups. A mash-up is when you take scenes from one move and add scenes or the audio from another movie to and make it one video as if they’d been from the same show.
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