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Helping a friend plug this.

The Butter Factory is producing a short film titled The Bouncer and we need extras for club scenes.

Filming will be at The Butter Factory itself from 6pm to 11pm on:

• Sun, 15 Jan 2012,
• Mon, 16 Jan 2012, and
• Tue, 17 Jan 2012.

If you’re interested, please e-mail Lynn at pinkstarfishey@laremy.sg or text her at 9683 5120 with:

• Your name,
• Your contact number, and
• The date(s) you can make it for filming.

PLEASE:

• Like partying (all ages welcome)!
• Come dressed to party like it’s NYE!
• Be trustworthy – we’re on a tight schedule; we can’t afford no-shows so we need those who RSVP to turn up.
• Bring an extra set of party clothes as we’ll be doing multiple shots.
• Bring an extra pair of shoes – comfortable ones so you can wear them in between takes
• Have dinner before you come (there’ll be a bar on set).

PLEASE DO NOT:

• DO NOT wear white (all other colours are fine).

Some perks to thank you for your time:

• Each extra will get a ticket for one free entry into Butter Factory at a later date.
• We’re trying our best to provide some free drinks/snacks! This will be confirmed.
• We promise an absolutely fabulously fun time with the cast and crew!

Well, the title says it all.

I got the quote off a post off Huffington Post and the picture from this site which has a pretty cute review.

First things first, or, how you know the movie’s really good – I’m writing a sort of review on it, something I rarely do unless I am immensely moved or immensely pissed off by something.

However, I’m not providing any specific examples from the film so that I don’t spoil the film for you.

Why I like Toy Story 3 so much is because it’s packed with so much goodness in it that it has something valuable for everyone.

For example,

• Entertaining and humorous storyline for the kids: Check.
• Tearjerker/romance/comedy/action elements for the various segments of the adult population: Check.
• Concepts like existentialism for the literary geeks: Ch – WTF?

Yes, I’m serious. You can even see some Freudian psychology (yeah I know it’s passe but still) at work in terms of the life drive/Eros/self-preservation instinct that some characters portray.

Some other literary aspects of the film that appeal to me:

• The plot has been crafted very well and fits together very tightly, such that there is adequate closure to each conflict that arises, which allow the round characters to progress in a convincing fashion,
• The conflicts are both plausible and palpable – what each character goes through is at no times trite or contrived, and last but not least,
• What really had me in awe was the film’s employment of a literal deus ex machina that leverages on a series of motifs from the fim/within the Toy Story trilogy. It’s cheesy and a tad predictable if you’ve been following the clues in the film – but it’s done very well.

So please go and watch Toy Story 3 if you can. Even if you can’t appreciate the literary aspects of it, I think you’ll appreciate the truths about life that the film depicts.

P.S. No, I haven’t been paid to plug the film, but I wouldn’t mind a free t-shirt if anyone could get me one of these babies.

…are we now, Mr Stark?

(For the more illiterate among us, this is a scene from Ian McKellen’s Richard III where Robert Downey Jr plays Lord Rivers.)

Favourite re-worded lyric: “You better shape up/’Cos you need a man”. (有。。。！)

In other news, I have a sudden obsession with songs from Grease. Other videos you might want to watch:

Summer Nights

• The Original.
• The Lego stop motion version.

You’re The One That I Want

• With er… subtitles.

That’s what you are if you haven’t read The Time Traveller’s Wife:

or caught the film yet:

I watched it last weekend and actually managed to finish reading the book in camp during periods of lull – while waiting for my turn at the firing range or for CAT 1s (inclement weather for the civilians) to clear.

I can’t stop thinking about the action and the plot during the small moments I have to myself. It’s a beautiful book and it’s a beautiful story, and I’m glad to have had the chance of experiencing both because I’ve learnt a bit more about love and life.