Texas Renaissance Festival 2009

Psycho (1960)

Hey yall it’s Big Boi. A couple of days back we watched a movie called Psycho. Yeah sounds Crazy but any who it IST. Well in this movie, In need of money to marry her boyfriend Sam Loomis, Marion Crane steals $40,000 from her employer and flees Phoenix, Arizona by car. While en route to Sam's California home, she parks along the road to sleep. A highway patrol officer awakens her. Marion's agitation arouses his suspicions and he decides to follow her. When she trades her car for another at a dealership, he notes the new vehicle's details. Marion returns to the road but rather than drive in a heavy storm, decides to spend the night at the Bates Motel. She checks in under an Assumed name, although she unwittingly gives Norman her real name later. Then later on in the story when Marion Crane was found in her house by herself. Then she was stabbed to death and she was trying to stick through it but oh well. So once she was dead for a few weeks and then her boyfriend found her dead in her home. Her boyfriend panicked and cleaned up the blood and wrapped her up and then pushed her car in the swap. Man she was a good woman.

TJ: Psycho is about Marion Crane who steals $40,000 from her employee and leaves to go to Phoenix, Arizona in her car. While she is driving she eventually stops in the middle of the road to go to sleep because she is tired and she is worried about getting into an accident. A highway patrol officer wakes her up and she starts to get annoyed by the cop making him suspicious about Marion and decides to follow her. While Marion is back on the road driving she trades in her car for a different car. A storm erupts and she decides to go to the Norman Bates Motel. When she checks in she gives Norman Bates a different name. Norman Bates talks to her about not having that much customers because of the location disconnecting at a interstate or something like that and since it is raining he offers Marion to stay at his house and then that is when things start to get worse. This movie was very good even though it was kind of quiet. It's very famous for the stabbing in the shower scene which was the most crazy part for me. I also liked the part when Norman Bates had disguised himself as his mom and was murdering people. I like old horror movies because most of todays horror aren't really that good they usually try to do a remake and make a lot of money on it just because the original version was a classic. To me the movie wasn't really that scary but if I was living in the 60's I would probably be standing on my feet screaming at the screen.

Beat Sheet

Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates

Janet Leigh as Marion Crane

Martin Balsam as Detective Milton Arbogast

John Gavin as Sam Loomis

Vera Miles as Lila Crane

Simon Oakland as Dr. Fred Richmond

John McIntire as Sheriff Al Chambers

Frank Albertson as Tom Cassidy

Patricia Hitchcock as Caroline

John Anderson as California Charlie

Mort Mills as the highway patrolman

Virginia Gregg, Jeanette Nolan, and Paul Jasmin (all uncredited) as the voice of Norma Bates

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_(1960_film)#Cast

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Hush Episode)

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TJ: This episode was the most creative when it comes to directing and producing. It was about people losing their voices & they aren't able to say anything. Then these monsters come to town and they try to cut peoples hearts out of their body. Nobody can really kill them unless they have a human voice and they scream really loud. It all starts when Buffy has a vision of this little girl singing this nursery rhyme:

"Can't even shout, can't even cry

The Gentlemen are coming by.

Looking in windows, knocking on doors,

They need to take seven and they might take yours.

Can't call to mom, can't say a word,

You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard."

The nursery rhyme is the whole metaphor because that is what exactly happened to a lot of people and since people cannot talk they have to really express themselves through emotions and actions and it really makes them communicate in an emotional way, a way that people aren't really used to. It is so easy to talk with words but when you are in a very dangerous situation and you can't talk you really express and show what you mean by your emotions. (It is very ironic because Buffy and Willow were recently both talking about how they couldn't express themselves to each others' mate.) It continued when this curse came out of a book and while everybody was sleep their voices would come out their body and when everybody woke up they were scared and shocked. Xander had blamed Spike for why nobody could talk. Buffy and Willow walk through the town, with dry-erase boards to write down their words so Sunnydale is closed down, except for bars and liquor stores an open-air, silent church service suggests this is the end of the world. A television news report states that everyone in Sunnydale has come down with a case of laryngitis and the town has been quarantined. Professor Walsh has Buffy, Riley, and other people to patrol the streets. The monsters in the nursery rhyme (the people in the picture above) would come from this dimension thing at night and literally glide through the neighborhood dressed in formal suits with silver teeth. They also had these hunchback looking monsters with big arms that worked for those monsters they were like the henchmen doing the dirty work by chasing people, grabbing them, and holding them down while the formal looking monsters would pull out a scalpel and cut their heart out. I think it was one of the best episodes of the show. So Buffy and her friends had to figure out a way to reverse the curse A lot of this stuff can relate to a lot of people who have nightmares of not being able to talk and not be heard and monster(s) come and try to put you in harms way Anybody that likes horror mixed in with nursery rhymes to make it more interesting will love this episode.

Big Boi's Blog:

Hey yall it’s big boi. Today I watched this movie that was kind of all right. I normally don’t watch scary movies but this one was all right. On a number scale 1-5 this one would receive a 3. I enjoyed it but it was to predictable. I think that the girls that was the main character (Buffy) was a little to weird. She always was the one to be left by her and or with a boy that has to deal with the evil. In this episode Buffy was in a college class and the teacher asks her come up for a quick demonstration. As Buffy was preparing to do the demonstration the teacher asks for Riley to come down and help her with the demonstration. When they had began to do the action Riley says that if he kisses Buffy then the sun would go down Weird right? Yeah I know well on we go, so as they are kissing the sun goes down and then it happens. Everyone had disappeared and she was questioning him asking where is everyone, then this little noise was picking through the air. “What is that Buffy asked.” So as she was following the voice she starts to have a type of fear in her face. Just kind of funny I could say. Well so on, so on at the end of the movie Buffy finds out that her and Riley were dating. Some more things that were pretty weird were that everyone in the town (Sunnydale) no one could talk. Ha very funny then Xander was trying to call someone to see if anyone has the disease. Come to find out none of them can communicate through mouth. Yeah laugh away…………..

The following is our beat sheet… Enjoy:

Cast

• Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
• Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
• Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg
• James Marsters as Spike
• Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
• Marc Blucas as Riley Finn
• Emma Caulfield as Anya
• Leonard Roberts as Forrest Gates
• Phina Oruche as Olivia
• Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
• Brooke Bloom as Nicole
• Jessica Townsend as Cheryl
• Lindsay Crouse as Maggie Walsh
• Camden Toy as Gentleman
• Charlie Brumbly as Gentleman
• Doug Jones as Lead Gentleman
• Don W. Lewis as Gentleman
• Carlos Amezcua as Newscaster
• Elizabeth Truax as Little Girl
• Wayne Sable as Freshman

Cast Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)#Acting

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Halloween Episode)

This episode was very interesting because it was about people getting dressed up for Halloween dressing up in their costumes and when they put their costumes on they would turn into whoever they dressed up as. I guess the Metaphor is "Don't be something that you are not". Ha ha Yeah very unique. I guess I need to be careful. Ha ha I have a lot of things that I wish for. So anyways back to the review: it was very good in terms of screenwriting and acting.

Nosferatu

Nosferatu is a silent movie made in 1922. It is an adaptation of Dracula & it was made without permission making this the only movie made by this company who made Nosferatu. Nosferatu is about an real estate agent named Thomas Hutter who sells a house and stays at a hotel. While he is in the hotel he finds a book called "The Book of Vampires" and he reads it. When he meets up with his friend named Orlok for dinner. Hutter accidentally cuts his finger & Orlok tries to suck his blood making Hutter think that Orlok is Nosferatu (a vampire).

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Night of The Living Dead (1968) was the first movie to establish the survival horror genre. It's about people coming from the dead killing and regular people have to defend themselves from them. Even though was a horror movie this movie was more funny than scary (like when the woman is getting chased at the beginning she gets inside of a car drives it for like 5 seconds and then she crashes and just sits in there like an idiot) I don't know how many were in the movie but I found 1 blooper in the movie where it was supposed to be dark outside but you could see the daylight outside. It had hidden morals in the story making you understand what is going on. It also makes references to stuff that is happening during that time like the race wars in Watts and other stuff. Since this is one of the most influential horror films of all time you should at least watch this movie it is considered a classic.

Great Tasting Americano

Great Tasting Americano is a stop motion animation spoof of one of the most popular video game series of all time Grand Theft Auto. Everything was so perfect in this video. It showed him waking up this morning putting his clothes on, walking outside his house, stealing somebody's car, then shooting to kill him. While he is driving the radio turns on playing Michael Jackson-Beat It. After that the cops chase him just like the video game. If you like video games being made fun of then you should watch this.

Zombies in Plain English

This video wasn't really funny to me it just talks about how to kill zombies with strategies and survival tips on how to handle zombies.

Food Fight

This video is very interesting and funny in a educational way. It is so creative. It makes a lot of references to all the major wars and tragedies in U.S. History by having food portray people, vehicles, tanks, guns etc. for example: it had one scene that was making a reference to the 9/11 attacks. It had these tall stacked burgers imitate the twin towers and these small burgers launched these small pieces of meat (i believe they were meatballs) that imitated the airplanes and they crashed into the tall burgers and food was coming out the burgers and the civilians outside were french fries and they were running away from the collapsing burger buildings. This is a creative way to teach people about history instead of reading books. This is a must watch for anybody that wants to see the ultimate food fight and learn about history.

Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-yldqNkGfo