Sunday 26 December 2010
Wednesday 22 December 2010
State of the Union
Word of the Day: Cuh-omfy
Cuh-omfy (cuh-yute + comfy) describes something that’s ah-dorable and comfortable all at once. As the PC knows, looking fabulous doesn’t mean you need to suffer – and Dylan’s got a closet full of cuh-omfy clothes to prove it.
Flats and jeggings are cuh-omfy x 10. What are your favorite cuh-omfy items?
Thursday 16 December 2010
Mini Shopaholic
Becky Brandon (dahulu Bloomwood) berpikir mudah saja menjadi ibu, dan putrinya akan menjadi teman belanja seumur hidup!
Tapi Minnie yang baru dua tahun ternyata memiliki pendekatan yang berbeda dalam berbelanja. Dia sering menjerit "Mauuuu!" tanpa pandang bulu, menciptakan kekacauan dari Harrods sampai Harvey Nichols, suka memanggil taksi untuk pergi ke toko, bahkan memesan baju di eBay tanpa bilang-bilang.
Sementara itu, negara mereka dilanda krisis keuangan. Semua orang melakukan pengetatan ikat pinggang--padahal Becky dan Luke masih tinggal di rumah orangtua Becky. Rencana untuk membeli rumah pun gagal. Untuk membangkitkan semangat, Becky memutuskan membuat pesta kejutan-- dengan biaya hemat. Tapi bukan Becky namanya kalau tidak terlibat dalam masalah yang lebih rumit.
Sanggupkah Becky mengatasinya? Apakah harapan rahasianya dapat menjadi nyata?
Tapi Minnie yang baru dua tahun ternyata memiliki pendekatan yang berbeda dalam berbelanja. Dia sering menjerit "Mauuuu!" tanpa pandang bulu, menciptakan kekacauan dari Harrods sampai Harvey Nichols, suka memanggil taksi untuk pergi ke toko, bahkan memesan baju di eBay tanpa bilang-bilang.
Sementara itu, negara mereka dilanda krisis keuangan. Semua orang melakukan pengetatan ikat pinggang--padahal Becky dan Luke masih tinggal di rumah orangtua Becky. Rencana untuk membeli rumah pun gagal. Untuk membangkitkan semangat, Becky memutuskan membuat pesta kejutan-- dengan biaya hemat. Tapi bukan Becky namanya kalau tidak terlibat dalam masalah yang lebih rumit.
Sanggupkah Becky mengatasinya? Apakah harapan rahasianya dapat menjadi nyata?
Sunday 12 December 2010
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The two youngest Pevensie children, Lucy and Edmund, are staying with their odious cousin Eustace Scrubb during the final days of the second World War, while their older brother Peter is studying for his university entrance exams and their older sister Susan is traveling through America with their parents. Edmund, feeling upset with his status as a child when he was once a king, attempts to join the military, though he is turned away. After returning to their Aunt and Uncle's home, Edmund notices a wondrous painting hanging on the wall in Lucy's bedroom. As the Pevensie children speak of how very Narnian the ship is, Eustace begins teasing them about their secret country. After a brief argument between Edmund and Eustace, Lucy notices water coming out of the painting. Eustace pulls the painting from the wall, while the room floods. They swim towards the light, and find themselves in the middle of an ocean, with a large ship coming at them. Lucy recognizes her rescuer as Caspian, the King of Narnia. Eustace, Edmund, and Lucy are taken aboard the Dawn Treader.
The Dawn Treader is the first ship Narnia has seen in centuries as King Caspian's Telmarine ancestors had never built ships as they had always feared the sea. Three years have passed since peace has been established in Narnia, and Caspian has undertaken an oath to find the seven lost Lords of Narnia. Lucy and Edmund are delighted to be back in Narnia, but Eustace is less enthusiastic and at odds with the talking Mouse Reepicheep, who has joined the crew in hopes to see Aslan's Country beyond the seas of the "utter East".
They first make landfall at the Lone Islands, Narnian territory which has become a heaven for slave trade . Caspian, Lucy, Edmund and Eustace are captured as slaves. While imprisoned, Caspian meets one of the lost lords, Lord Bern, who reveals that those not sold are sacrificed to a mysterious green mist he and the others were investigating. When the Dawn Treader crew arrives during an auction, Caspian and Edmund manage to escape and free Eustace and Lucy, taking the Lone Island back from the traders. Caspian names Bern duke of the Lone Islands while given one of the seven swords the lords possess. Before leaving, a man whose wife was captured and sacrificed to the green mist, pleads to go with Caspian to find his wife. Though left in Narrowhaven with her aunt, Gael, the man's daughter, stows away to find her mother and is accepted by the crew.
At the second island they visit, Lucy is abducted by the invisible Duffers who force her to enter their oppressor's manor to recite a spell of visibility. While doing this, Lucy rips out a page from the spell book that details an enchantment to make her like her sister. Later Lucy and the others learn the oppressor actually cast the spell to protect the Duffers from the evil green mist that comes from Dark Island and is becoming stronger. To defeat the Dark Island before its evil can grow and consume Narnia, the crew must locate the other Swords of the Seven Lords and lay them in Aslan's Table on Ramandu's island. During a storm after leaving the Duffers' island, Lucy decides to read the torn page from the Book of Incantations that contains the spell to make her beautiful. She suddenly find herself as Susan, and back on Earth at a party, together with Edmund and Peter. Realizing that Lucy is not around, she's bothered by her conscience and decides to be herself. Lucy becomes herself again, and sees Aslan through a mirror who tells her that she mustn't lack self-value for she is beautiful just the way she is. Lucy wakes up, goes to Caspian and Edmund, who have also plagued by the green mist playing on their personal demons: Edmund's self-doubt assuming the form of Jadis, the White Witch and Caspian with his fear of not living up to his father's expectations.
The group then makes a stop at a volcanic island, with Eustace leaving the group to avoid participating in the work and finding a massive treasure that arouses his greed. He fills his pockets with gold and jewels and puts on a large golden bracelet from a corpse. Elsewhere, Caspian and the Pevensies find a pool of water which turns everything immersed in it into gold, including Lord Restimar. As they obtain his sword they are almost tempted by the gold and Edmund and Caspian almost killed each other over it. Lucy manages to calm them both, and they return to the ship. Realizing that Eustace is missing Caspian and Edmund volunteer to find him. Soon after as they are about to leave, the group encounters a dragon which destroys some parts of the ship. Reepicheep injures the dragon, which then flees back to the island. Caspian and Edmund, who think that Eustace is dead (as they found his burnt shirt together with the corpse who was revealed as Lord Octesian and his sword), encounter the dragon, which abducts Edmund. The dragon takes Edmund to a place where words made of the dragon's fiery breath indicates that the dragon is Eustace.
They continue their journey, until a merperson warns Lucy about going to Ramandu's Island. After hours of struggle (caused when the crew finds it hard to move the ship towards the water), Eustace helps them out by pulling the ship. He and Reepicheep built a special bond. Eventually they reach the Island of the Star, where they find the three remaining lost lords in enchanted sleep. They also saw the three swords belonging to the three lords. They realized that this is Aslan's Table. Caspian guesses that what made them sleep is the food, which is served in front of them. Lucy sees the star, Ramandu's daughter Lilliandil, who tells them that the only way to awaken the three lords is by setting things right and reveals the last lord, Lord Rhoop, is on Dark Island itself. Lilliandil also tells them that the three lords' slumber was not caused by the food, but by their argument, which was forbidden in front of Aslan's Table.
At Dark Island, Caspian warned his crew about their temptations as they venture to the island. There they found Lord Rhoop, rendered half mad and desperate from his long solitude as Eustace had to carry him on the ship before. However, Edmund's fear-ridden thoughts manifest as a sea serpent. Though Eustace helps in fighting the sea-serpent, Rhoop fearfully throws his sword and it sticks in Eustace's back. Eustace flies back to Ramandu's Island, where he lands in a snowfield as Aslan appear and turns him back into a boy so he can place Rhoop's sword with the other six. That completes the magic to defeat the Dark Island as Edmund overcomes his inner demons and slays the sea serpent. The darkness and the Dark Island disappeared, leaving all the boats and boatfuls of people who had been sacrificed to the Darkness by the slave merchants and elsewhere.
Soon after, Caspian heads to the world's end with Reepicheep, Lucy, Edmund, and Eustace, venturing in a small boat through a sea of lilies until they reach a wall of water that extends into the sky. There they meet Aslan, telling them that beyond them is his country. Caspian asks Aslan whether his father is there, but Aslan said that the only way to know is to go there by himself though he may never return from there. Caspian decides not to go, as he cannot leave his kingdom which his father fought for until his death. Reepicheep gains Aslan's blessing to see his country, paddling a coracle up the waterfall to be never again seen in Narnia. Aslan then sends the children home, telling them that Edmund and Lucy will not return to Narnia and that they should learn to know him by another name in their own world. However, Eustace, now a much nicer person from his time in Narnia, can return someday. Back in his world with his cousins, Eustace's mother calls him for he has a visitor, Jill Pole.
The Dawn Treader is the first ship Narnia has seen in centuries as King Caspian's Telmarine ancestors had never built ships as they had always feared the sea. Three years have passed since peace has been established in Narnia, and Caspian has undertaken an oath to find the seven lost Lords of Narnia. Lucy and Edmund are delighted to be back in Narnia, but Eustace is less enthusiastic and at odds with the talking Mouse Reepicheep, who has joined the crew in hopes to see Aslan's Country beyond the seas of the "utter East".
They first make landfall at the Lone Islands, Narnian territory which has become a heaven for slave trade . Caspian, Lucy, Edmund and Eustace are captured as slaves. While imprisoned, Caspian meets one of the lost lords, Lord Bern, who reveals that those not sold are sacrificed to a mysterious green mist he and the others were investigating. When the Dawn Treader crew arrives during an auction, Caspian and Edmund manage to escape and free Eustace and Lucy, taking the Lone Island back from the traders. Caspian names Bern duke of the Lone Islands while given one of the seven swords the lords possess. Before leaving, a man whose wife was captured and sacrificed to the green mist, pleads to go with Caspian to find his wife. Though left in Narrowhaven with her aunt, Gael, the man's daughter, stows away to find her mother and is accepted by the crew.
At the second island they visit, Lucy is abducted by the invisible Duffers who force her to enter their oppressor's manor to recite a spell of visibility. While doing this, Lucy rips out a page from the spell book that details an enchantment to make her like her sister. Later Lucy and the others learn the oppressor actually cast the spell to protect the Duffers from the evil green mist that comes from Dark Island and is becoming stronger. To defeat the Dark Island before its evil can grow and consume Narnia, the crew must locate the other Swords of the Seven Lords and lay them in Aslan's Table on Ramandu's island. During a storm after leaving the Duffers' island, Lucy decides to read the torn page from the Book of Incantations that contains the spell to make her beautiful. She suddenly find herself as Susan, and back on Earth at a party, together with Edmund and Peter. Realizing that Lucy is not around, she's bothered by her conscience and decides to be herself. Lucy becomes herself again, and sees Aslan through a mirror who tells her that she mustn't lack self-value for she is beautiful just the way she is. Lucy wakes up, goes to Caspian and Edmund, who have also plagued by the green mist playing on their personal demons: Edmund's self-doubt assuming the form of Jadis, the White Witch and Caspian with his fear of not living up to his father's expectations.
The group then makes a stop at a volcanic island, with Eustace leaving the group to avoid participating in the work and finding a massive treasure that arouses his greed. He fills his pockets with gold and jewels and puts on a large golden bracelet from a corpse. Elsewhere, Caspian and the Pevensies find a pool of water which turns everything immersed in it into gold, including Lord Restimar. As they obtain his sword they are almost tempted by the gold and Edmund and Caspian almost killed each other over it. Lucy manages to calm them both, and they return to the ship. Realizing that Eustace is missing Caspian and Edmund volunteer to find him. Soon after as they are about to leave, the group encounters a dragon which destroys some parts of the ship. Reepicheep injures the dragon, which then flees back to the island. Caspian and Edmund, who think that Eustace is dead (as they found his burnt shirt together with the corpse who was revealed as Lord Octesian and his sword), encounter the dragon, which abducts Edmund. The dragon takes Edmund to a place where words made of the dragon's fiery breath indicates that the dragon is Eustace.
They continue their journey, until a merperson warns Lucy about going to Ramandu's Island. After hours of struggle (caused when the crew finds it hard to move the ship towards the water), Eustace helps them out by pulling the ship. He and Reepicheep built a special bond. Eventually they reach the Island of the Star, where they find the three remaining lost lords in enchanted sleep. They also saw the three swords belonging to the three lords. They realized that this is Aslan's Table. Caspian guesses that what made them sleep is the food, which is served in front of them. Lucy sees the star, Ramandu's daughter Lilliandil, who tells them that the only way to awaken the three lords is by setting things right and reveals the last lord, Lord Rhoop, is on Dark Island itself. Lilliandil also tells them that the three lords' slumber was not caused by the food, but by their argument, which was forbidden in front of Aslan's Table.
At Dark Island, Caspian warned his crew about their temptations as they venture to the island. There they found Lord Rhoop, rendered half mad and desperate from his long solitude as Eustace had to carry him on the ship before. However, Edmund's fear-ridden thoughts manifest as a sea serpent. Though Eustace helps in fighting the sea-serpent, Rhoop fearfully throws his sword and it sticks in Eustace's back. Eustace flies back to Ramandu's Island, where he lands in a snowfield as Aslan appear and turns him back into a boy so he can place Rhoop's sword with the other six. That completes the magic to defeat the Dark Island as Edmund overcomes his inner demons and slays the sea serpent. The darkness and the Dark Island disappeared, leaving all the boats and boatfuls of people who had been sacrificed to the Darkness by the slave merchants and elsewhere.
Soon after, Caspian heads to the world's end with Reepicheep, Lucy, Edmund, and Eustace, venturing in a small boat through a sea of lilies until they reach a wall of water that extends into the sky. There they meet Aslan, telling them that beyond them is his country. Caspian asks Aslan whether his father is there, but Aslan said that the only way to know is to go there by himself though he may never return from there. Caspian decides not to go, as he cannot leave his kingdom which his father fought for until his death. Reepicheep gains Aslan's blessing to see his country, paddling a coracle up the waterfall to be never again seen in Narnia. Aslan then sends the children home, telling them that Edmund and Lucy will not return to Narnia and that they should learn to know him by another name in their own world. However, Eustace, now a much nicer person from his time in Narnia, can return someday. Back in his world with his cousins, Eustace's mother calls him for he has a visitor, Jill Pole.
***
The two youngest Pevensie children, Lucy and Edmund, are staying with their odious cousin Eustace Scrubb while their older brother Peter is studying for his university entrance exams with Professor Kirke, and their older sister Susan is traveling through America with their parents. Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace are drawn into the Narnian world through a picture of a ship at sea. (The painting, hanging neglected in the guest bedroom that the Pevensie children were using, had been an unwanted present to Eustace's parents.) The three children land in the ocean near the pictured vessel, the titular Dawn Treader, and are taken aboard.
The Dawn Treader is the ship of Caspian X, King of Narnia, who was the key character in the previous book (Prince Caspian). Edmund and Lucy (along with Peter and Susan) helped him gain the throne from his evil uncle Miraz.
Three years have passed since then, peace has been established in Narnia, and Caspian has undertaken his oath to find the seven lost Lords of Narnia. Lucy and Edmund are delighted to be back in Narnia, but Eustace is less enthusiastic, as he has never been there before and had taunted his cousins with his belief that the country never existed. The Talking Mouse Reepicheep is also on board, as he hopes to find Aslan's country beyond the seas of the "utter East".
They first make landfall in the Lone Islands, nominally Narnian territory but fallen away from Narnian ways: in particular the slave trade flourishes here, despite Narnian law stating that it is forbidden. Caspian, Lucy, Edmund, Eustace and Reepicheep are captured as merchandise by a slave trader, and a man "buys" Caspian before they even reach the slave market. He turns out to be the first lost lord, Lord Bern, who moved to the islands and married a woman there after being banished from Narnia by Miraz. When Caspian reveals his identity, Bern acknowledges him as King. Caspian reclaims the islands for Narnia, and replaces Gumpas, the greedy governor, with Lord Bern, whom he names Duke of the Lone Islands.
At the second island they visit, Eustace leaves the group to avoid participating in the work needed to render the ship seaworthy after a storm has damaged it, and hides in a dead dragon's cave to escape a sudden downpour. The dragon's treasure arouses his greed: he fills his pockets with gold and jewels and puts on a large golden bracelet; but as he sleeps, he is transformed into a dragon. As a dragon, he becomes aware of how bad his previous behaviour was, and uses his strength to help make amends. Aslan turns Eustace back into a boy, now a much nicer person. Caspian recognizes the bracelet when Eustace is finally able to get it off: it belonged to Lord Octesian, another of the lost lords. They speculate that the dragon killed Octesian — or even that the dragon was Octesian.
They make stops at Burnt Island; at Deathwater Island (so named for a pool of water which turns everything immersed in it into gold, including one of the missing lords who turns out to have been Lord Restimar); at the Duffers' Island, where Lucy herself encounters Aslan; and at the Island Where Dreams Come True — called the Dark Island since it is permanently hidden in darkness. They rescue a desperate Lord Rhoop from this last. Eventually they reach the Island of the Star, where they find the three remaining lost lords in enchanted sleep. Ramandu, the fallen star who lives on the island, tells them that the only way to awaken them is to sail to the edge of the world and there to leave one member of the crew behind.
The Dawn Treader continues sailing into an area where merpeople dwell and the water turns sweet rather than salty. At last the water becomes so shallow that the ship can go no farther. Caspian orders a boat lowered and announces that he will go to the world's end with Reepicheep. The crew object, saying that as King of Narnia he has no right to abandon them. Caspian goes to his cabin in a temper, but returns to say that Aslan appeared in his cabin and told him that only Lucy, Edmund, Eustace, and Reepicheep will go on.
These four named venture in a small boat through a sea of lilies until they reach a wall of water that extends into the sky. Fulfilling Ramandu's condition, Reepicheep paddles his coracle up the waterfall and is never again seen in Narnia (Lewis hints that he reaches Aslan's Country). Edmund, Eustace, and Lucy find a lamb, who transforms into Aslan and tells them that Edmund and Lucy will not return to Narnia – that they should learn to know him by another name in their own world. He then sends the children home.
In their own world, everyone remarks on how Eustace has changed and "you'd never know him for the same boy" - although his mother believes that Edmund and Lucy have been a bad influence on him.
The Dawn Treader is the ship of Caspian X, King of Narnia, who was the key character in the previous book (Prince Caspian). Edmund and Lucy (along with Peter and Susan) helped him gain the throne from his evil uncle Miraz.
Three years have passed since then, peace has been established in Narnia, and Caspian has undertaken his oath to find the seven lost Lords of Narnia. Lucy and Edmund are delighted to be back in Narnia, but Eustace is less enthusiastic, as he has never been there before and had taunted his cousins with his belief that the country never existed. The Talking Mouse Reepicheep is also on board, as he hopes to find Aslan's country beyond the seas of the "utter East".
They first make landfall in the Lone Islands, nominally Narnian territory but fallen away from Narnian ways: in particular the slave trade flourishes here, despite Narnian law stating that it is forbidden. Caspian, Lucy, Edmund, Eustace and Reepicheep are captured as merchandise by a slave trader, and a man "buys" Caspian before they even reach the slave market. He turns out to be the first lost lord, Lord Bern, who moved to the islands and married a woman there after being banished from Narnia by Miraz. When Caspian reveals his identity, Bern acknowledges him as King. Caspian reclaims the islands for Narnia, and replaces Gumpas, the greedy governor, with Lord Bern, whom he names Duke of the Lone Islands.
At the second island they visit, Eustace leaves the group to avoid participating in the work needed to render the ship seaworthy after a storm has damaged it, and hides in a dead dragon's cave to escape a sudden downpour. The dragon's treasure arouses his greed: he fills his pockets with gold and jewels and puts on a large golden bracelet; but as he sleeps, he is transformed into a dragon. As a dragon, he becomes aware of how bad his previous behaviour was, and uses his strength to help make amends. Aslan turns Eustace back into a boy, now a much nicer person. Caspian recognizes the bracelet when Eustace is finally able to get it off: it belonged to Lord Octesian, another of the lost lords. They speculate that the dragon killed Octesian — or even that the dragon was Octesian.
They make stops at Burnt Island; at Deathwater Island (so named for a pool of water which turns everything immersed in it into gold, including one of the missing lords who turns out to have been Lord Restimar); at the Duffers' Island, where Lucy herself encounters Aslan; and at the Island Where Dreams Come True — called the Dark Island since it is permanently hidden in darkness. They rescue a desperate Lord Rhoop from this last. Eventually they reach the Island of the Star, where they find the three remaining lost lords in enchanted sleep. Ramandu, the fallen star who lives on the island, tells them that the only way to awaken them is to sail to the edge of the world and there to leave one member of the crew behind.
The Dawn Treader continues sailing into an area where merpeople dwell and the water turns sweet rather than salty. At last the water becomes so shallow that the ship can go no farther. Caspian orders a boat lowered and announces that he will go to the world's end with Reepicheep. The crew object, saying that as King of Narnia he has no right to abandon them. Caspian goes to his cabin in a temper, but returns to say that Aslan appeared in his cabin and told him that only Lucy, Edmund, Eustace, and Reepicheep will go on.
These four named venture in a small boat through a sea of lilies until they reach a wall of water that extends into the sky. Fulfilling Ramandu's condition, Reepicheep paddles his coracle up the waterfall and is never again seen in Narnia (Lewis hints that he reaches Aslan's Country). Edmund, Eustace, and Lucy find a lamb, who transforms into Aslan and tells them that Edmund and Lucy will not return to Narnia – that they should learn to know him by another name in their own world. He then sends the children home.
In their own world, everyone remarks on how Eustace has changed and "you'd never know him for the same boy" - although his mother believes that Edmund and Lucy have been a bad influence on him.
Tuesday 7 December 2010
State of the Union
Word of the Day: Tuh-weet
A tuh-weet is a 140 character post on Twitter – and Massie and the rest of the PC are total tuh-weeting fanatics. Twitter is the best way to get all the latest updates on your favorite celebs, designers, and books (including The Clique) ay-sap – and the Pretty Committee’s ah-bviously obsessed!
So, if you’re not already following @TheClique on Twitter, make sure to do so you can tuh-weet with us and join our weekly Twitter parties.
So, if you’re not already following @TheClique on Twitter, make sure to do so you can tuh-weet with us and join our weekly Twitter parties.
Tangled
An elderly woman named Gothel witnesses a single ray of sun hit the ground, creating a magical flower with the ability to keep herself young when she sings to it. Centuries later, the queen of a nearby kingdom falls ill while expecting a child. Her guards located the mysterious flower, hidden by Gothel, and bring it to the queen. The flower heals the queen and she gives birth to a girl named Rapunzel, who comes to inherit the flower's magic through her long golden hair. One night, Gothel kidnaps Rapunzel and isolates her in a tower as her own daughter. However, every year on her birthday, the kingdom sends floating lanterns into the sky longing for their lost princess to return.
Eighteen years later, Rapunzel tells Gothel that she wishes to see these annual floating lights that appear on her birthday, but Gothel rejects her by telling Rapunzel that the world is a dangerous place. Meanwhile, the thief Flynn Rider and his twin thugs heist the tiara of the missing princess from the castle. As they flee, Flynn abandons the twins, allowing the pursuing castle guards to capture them. The lead guard's horse, Maximus, is separated from his rider and continues the search for Flynn on his own.
Flynn happens upon Rapunzel's tower to hide in, only to be held captive by Rapunzel and her pet chameleon, Pascal. Rapunzel bargains with Flynn that if he escorts her to the lights and back, she will return the tiara. Flynn agrees as Rapunzel is excited to be free, but is soon conflicted between the elation from the new experience and the guilt of disobedience. Later, Gothel returns to find Rapunzel gone, but finds the tiara hidden in a bag under the stairs.
The pair arrive at the Snuggly Duckling, a seedy pub filled with thugs. However, the thugs recognize Flynn from the poster and plan to turn him in, but Rapunzel confronts the men stating that she needs Flynn to complete her dream of seeing the lights. The thugs decide to help her as they too have unfinished dreams. Gothel watches through a window, but before she can do anything, the royal guards enter and pursue Flynn and Rapunzel to a wooden dam where the two hide in a closed-off cave. Maximus causes the dam to break and the surrounding area and the cave begin to flood. Thinking that they will die, Flynn reveals to Rapunzel that his real name is actually Eugene Fitzherbert, and she explains that her hair glows when she sings. Realizing that it would light the cave, she sings and the cave is illuminated as they swim to a loosened clump of rocks and escape the cave. Meanwhile, Gothel finds the thieving twins and offers them something worth much more than the tiara.
That night, Rapunzel heals Flynn's hand, which was injured in their escape, with her hair and explains that if her hair is cut, it loses its power and turns brown. As Flynn goes to collect firewood, Gothel appears and pleads with Rapunzel to return to the tower, but Rapunzel refuses as she now has a liking for Flynn. Gothel gives Rapunzel the tiara in the bag and says that Flynn is only interested in it and will leave Rapunzel after he gets it. The next morning, Rapunzel forces Maximus to strike a truce with Flynn as the group arrives at the castle for the princess' birthday festival. That evening, Flynn rows Rapunzel out in a small dingy to the middle of an adjacent lake to gain a good view of the lantern release. Rapunzel gives Flynn the tiara saying that she now trusts him. Rapunzel and Flynn almost kissed but, Flynn sees the twins on a different shore and tells Rapunzel that he will be right back. Flynn apologizes to the twins and returns the tiara, but the twins want Rapunzel instead. Moments later, the twins tell Rapunzel that Flynn has abandoned her for the tiara, when in reality the twins have tied Flynn to a boat after knocking him unconscious. However, Gothel betrays them to look like she's rescuing Rapunzel.
Rapunzel returns to her tower room and notices that a flag she collected at the festival looks exactly like the paintings she made all over the tower's interior. The sunburst design is an early memory from her life in the kingdom. Rapunzel realizes that she is the lost princess and confronts Gothel. Meanwhile, Flynn is arrested and is sentenced to be hanged, but is instead rescued by Maximus and the thugs from the Snuggly Duckling. Flynn and Maximus rush to Rapunzel's tower and find Rapunzel held captive by Gothel. Gothel stabs Flynn, but Rapunzel tells Gothel that as long as she lets her heal Flynn, she will go away with Gothel willingly. Since Flynn would rather die than have Rapunzel stay trapped with Gothel, Flynn cuts Rapunzel's hair, causing all of it to lose its power and turn brown. As a result, Gothel quickly ages and falls from the tower, but disintegrates before reaching the ground. Dying, Flynn tells Rapunzel that his dream was her and as Rapunzel cries, her tears suddenly heal Flynn to return to life, overjoying Rapunzel, and leading her to kiss him. Later, Flynn returns Rapunzel to meet her parents and they eventually get married.
Eighteen years later, Rapunzel tells Gothel that she wishes to see these annual floating lights that appear on her birthday, but Gothel rejects her by telling Rapunzel that the world is a dangerous place. Meanwhile, the thief Flynn Rider and his twin thugs heist the tiara of the missing princess from the castle. As they flee, Flynn abandons the twins, allowing the pursuing castle guards to capture them. The lead guard's horse, Maximus, is separated from his rider and continues the search for Flynn on his own.
Flynn happens upon Rapunzel's tower to hide in, only to be held captive by Rapunzel and her pet chameleon, Pascal. Rapunzel bargains with Flynn that if he escorts her to the lights and back, she will return the tiara. Flynn agrees as Rapunzel is excited to be free, but is soon conflicted between the elation from the new experience and the guilt of disobedience. Later, Gothel returns to find Rapunzel gone, but finds the tiara hidden in a bag under the stairs.
The pair arrive at the Snuggly Duckling, a seedy pub filled with thugs. However, the thugs recognize Flynn from the poster and plan to turn him in, but Rapunzel confronts the men stating that she needs Flynn to complete her dream of seeing the lights. The thugs decide to help her as they too have unfinished dreams. Gothel watches through a window, but before she can do anything, the royal guards enter and pursue Flynn and Rapunzel to a wooden dam where the two hide in a closed-off cave. Maximus causes the dam to break and the surrounding area and the cave begin to flood. Thinking that they will die, Flynn reveals to Rapunzel that his real name is actually Eugene Fitzherbert, and she explains that her hair glows when she sings. Realizing that it would light the cave, she sings and the cave is illuminated as they swim to a loosened clump of rocks and escape the cave. Meanwhile, Gothel finds the thieving twins and offers them something worth much more than the tiara.
That night, Rapunzel heals Flynn's hand, which was injured in their escape, with her hair and explains that if her hair is cut, it loses its power and turns brown. As Flynn goes to collect firewood, Gothel appears and pleads with Rapunzel to return to the tower, but Rapunzel refuses as she now has a liking for Flynn. Gothel gives Rapunzel the tiara in the bag and says that Flynn is only interested in it and will leave Rapunzel after he gets it. The next morning, Rapunzel forces Maximus to strike a truce with Flynn as the group arrives at the castle for the princess' birthday festival. That evening, Flynn rows Rapunzel out in a small dingy to the middle of an adjacent lake to gain a good view of the lantern release. Rapunzel gives Flynn the tiara saying that she now trusts him. Rapunzel and Flynn almost kissed but, Flynn sees the twins on a different shore and tells Rapunzel that he will be right back. Flynn apologizes to the twins and returns the tiara, but the twins want Rapunzel instead. Moments later, the twins tell Rapunzel that Flynn has abandoned her for the tiara, when in reality the twins have tied Flynn to a boat after knocking him unconscious. However, Gothel betrays them to look like she's rescuing Rapunzel.
Rapunzel returns to her tower room and notices that a flag she collected at the festival looks exactly like the paintings she made all over the tower's interior. The sunburst design is an early memory from her life in the kingdom. Rapunzel realizes that she is the lost princess and confronts Gothel. Meanwhile, Flynn is arrested and is sentenced to be hanged, but is instead rescued by Maximus and the thugs from the Snuggly Duckling. Flynn and Maximus rush to Rapunzel's tower and find Rapunzel held captive by Gothel. Gothel stabs Flynn, but Rapunzel tells Gothel that as long as she lets her heal Flynn, she will go away with Gothel willingly. Since Flynn would rather die than have Rapunzel stay trapped with Gothel, Flynn cuts Rapunzel's hair, causing all of it to lose its power and turn brown. As a result, Gothel quickly ages and falls from the tower, but disintegrates before reaching the ground. Dying, Flynn tells Rapunzel that his dream was her and as Rapunzel cries, her tears suddenly heal Flynn to return to life, overjoying Rapunzel, and leading her to kiss him. Later, Flynn returns Rapunzel to meet her parents and they eventually get married.
Monday 6 December 2010
Confessions of A Teenage Bookaholic Boy: It Was About the Last Three Days
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Saturday 4 December 2010
Beauty and the Beast
In the film's prologue, an enchantress disguised as an old beggar woman offers a young prince a rose in exchange for a night's shelter. When he turns her away, she punishes him by transforming him into an ugly Beast and turning his servants into furniture and other household items. She gives him a magic mirror that will enable him to view faraway events, and she gives him the rose, which will bloom until his twenty-first birthday. He must love and be loved in return before all the rose's petals have fallen off, or he will remain a Beast forever.
Years later, a beautiful but unusual young woman named Belle lives in a nearby French village with her father Maurice, who is an inventor. Belle loves reading and yearns for a life beyond the village. She is courted by the arrogant local hero, Gaston, but has no interest in him.
Maurice's latest invention is a wood-chopping machine. When he rides through the woods to display the machine at a fair, he loses his way and stumbles upon the Beast's castle, where he meets the transformed servants Cogsworth, Lumiere, and Mrs. Potts and her son Chip. The Beast imprisons Maurice, but Belle is led back to the castle by Maurice's horse and offers to take her father's place. When the Beast agrees to this and sends him home, Maurice tells Gaston and the other villagers what happened, but they think he has lost his mind, so he goes to rescue Belle alone.
Meanwhile, the Beast orders Belle to dine with him, but she refuses, and Lumiere disobeys his order not to let her eat. After Cogsworth gives her a tour of the castle, she finds the rose in a forbidden area and the Beast angrily chases her away. Frightened, she tries to escape, but she and her horse are attacked by wolves. After the Beast rescues her, she nurses his wounds, he gives her the castle library as a gift, and they become friends. Later, they have an elegant dinner and a romantic ballroom dance. When he lets her use the magic mirror, she sees her father dying in the woods, and, with only hours left before the rose wilts, the Beast allows her to leave, giving her the mirror to remember him by. This horrifies the servants, who fear they will never be human again. As he watches her leave, the Beast admits to Cogsworth that he loves Belle.
Belle finds Maurice and takes him home, but Gaston arrives with a lynch mob. Unless she agrees to marry Gaston, the manager of the local madhouse will lock her father up. Belle proves Maurice sane by showing them the Beast with the magic mirror, but when she says the Beast is her friend and calls Gaston a "monster", he becomes murderously jealous, arouses the mob's anger against the Beast, and leads them to the castle to kill him. He locks Belle and Maurice in a basement, but Chip, who hid himself in Belle's baggage, chops the basement door apart with Maurice's machine.
While the servants drive the mob out of the castle, Gaston finds the Beast and attacks him. The Beast is initially too depressed to fight back, but he regains his will when he sees Belle arriving at the castle. After winning a heated battle, the Beast spares Gaston's life and climbs up to a balcony where Belle is waiting. Gaston follows the Beast and stabs him from behind, but loses his footing and falls to his death.
As the Beast dies from his injuries, Belle whispers that she loves him, breaking the spell just before the last petal drops from the rose. The Beast comes back to life, and he and the servants become human again. The film ends as Belle and the prince dance in the ballroom with her father and the servants happily watching.
Years later, a beautiful but unusual young woman named Belle lives in a nearby French village with her father Maurice, who is an inventor. Belle loves reading and yearns for a life beyond the village. She is courted by the arrogant local hero, Gaston, but has no interest in him.
Maurice's latest invention is a wood-chopping machine. When he rides through the woods to display the machine at a fair, he loses his way and stumbles upon the Beast's castle, where he meets the transformed servants Cogsworth, Lumiere, and Mrs. Potts and her son Chip. The Beast imprisons Maurice, but Belle is led back to the castle by Maurice's horse and offers to take her father's place. When the Beast agrees to this and sends him home, Maurice tells Gaston and the other villagers what happened, but they think he has lost his mind, so he goes to rescue Belle alone.
Meanwhile, the Beast orders Belle to dine with him, but she refuses, and Lumiere disobeys his order not to let her eat. After Cogsworth gives her a tour of the castle, she finds the rose in a forbidden area and the Beast angrily chases her away. Frightened, she tries to escape, but she and her horse are attacked by wolves. After the Beast rescues her, she nurses his wounds, he gives her the castle library as a gift, and they become friends. Later, they have an elegant dinner and a romantic ballroom dance. When he lets her use the magic mirror, she sees her father dying in the woods, and, with only hours left before the rose wilts, the Beast allows her to leave, giving her the mirror to remember him by. This horrifies the servants, who fear they will never be human again. As he watches her leave, the Beast admits to Cogsworth that he loves Belle.
Belle finds Maurice and takes him home, but Gaston arrives with a lynch mob. Unless she agrees to marry Gaston, the manager of the local madhouse will lock her father up. Belle proves Maurice sane by showing them the Beast with the magic mirror, but when she says the Beast is her friend and calls Gaston a "monster", he becomes murderously jealous, arouses the mob's anger against the Beast, and leads them to the castle to kill him. He locks Belle and Maurice in a basement, but Chip, who hid himself in Belle's baggage, chops the basement door apart with Maurice's machine.
While the servants drive the mob out of the castle, Gaston finds the Beast and attacks him. The Beast is initially too depressed to fight back, but he regains his will when he sees Belle arriving at the castle. After winning a heated battle, the Beast spares Gaston's life and climbs up to a balcony where Belle is waiting. Gaston follows the Beast and stabs him from behind, but loses his footing and falls to his death.
As the Beast dies from his injuries, Belle whispers that she loves him, breaking the spell just before the last petal drops from the rose. The Beast comes back to life, and he and the servants become human again. The film ends as Belle and the prince dance in the ballroom with her father and the servants happily watching.
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