Sherlock Holmes

Finally! World’s most known detective is back. The second movie about the intelligent man and his close friend Dr. Watson, is about to be released. Yes, my dear friends, I’m talking about Sherlock Holmes. The man who could solve any murder or crime.

Off course Sherlock wasn’t a real man. He was the head-player in fictional stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Arthur was born in Scotland on the 22^nd of May in 1859. He wasn’t only a writer, but also a physician. The man was raised very well and was a good studier. When he got into a fight with his co-doctor in the practice, Doyle started his own practise. Unfortunately it wasn’t successful at all. While he kept waiting for the patients, he writhed. His first published work was ‘A study of Scarlet’. Together with the book, Sherlock Holmes was born. He was the character that got Sir Doyle popular. Even these days, when we say the word detective, we automatically think about Sherlock Holmes.

The books Arthur wrote, mostly existed out of multiple short stories. These books got so known, that they even made movies out of them.  

Before the movie, that got released in 2009, there were more movies made. These movies didn’t have that much success. The movie in 2009 was about a man named Blackwood. He got executed and a few days after his death, his tomb was open. In his coffin, they found the body of somebody else. Holmes believes it is his job to find out, what happened. And who those three other people were Blackwood was talking about, before his execution. Together with Dr. Watson, they go out on a search.

The movie was nominated for the ‘Golden Globe’.

To my opinion the movie has a good concept. The script is well written. It makes you very curious. I think it’s a movie, which keeps your attention all the time. I believe it’s a real recommend. 

Happy Halloween!

October…  The most scary month of the year. In the United Kingdom, inhabitants pay a lot of attention to Halloween. Every 31^st of October, people get on the street to celebrate Halloween. Some people organize a costume party, children go from house to house to collect candy and other things. This is called ‘Trick or treat’. The night of the 31^st October, is the only night in the year that ghosts, witches and wizards are able to come and sneak around. Some people believe in it, other think it’s superstition. 

In our country, people aren’t as motivated as the inhabitants of the UK. We go on organized strolls, where people, hidden in scary costumes, can frighten us. The fact that children in our society aren’t going trick or treating is due to the parents, who believe that children aren’t safe anymore. During the night, criminals and bad people, walk on the streets, and they could hurt their little babies.

All this started during the period the Celts were alive. It’s a habit created by them, they celebrated the dead with a pre-Christian festival. Their calendar was different from ours, our year starts on January the first, theirs on November the first. For them , the first marked the beginning of the winter.

The festival was called Samhain, the Celts believed that during the festival the ghosts and spirits of the dead were able to come in our world and could join our life.

These days, people don't believe anymore in the stories of ghosts who come and get you. They all believe that it's superstition. Only few of them still think that ghosts do exist. 

Hasta la vista, baby!

Hasta la vista is zeker een film met succes. De film over drie gehandicapte jongens die maar al te graag van hun maagdelijkheid verlost willen worden, is opnieuw in de prijzen gevallen. Ditmaal in Spanje, waar het de Golden Spike kreeg voor Beste Speelfilm op het Internationaal Filmfestival van Valladolid.

De drie hoofdrolspelers zijn Lars, Jozef en Philippe. Lars wordt gespeeld door Gilles De Schrijver. Hij werd bekend door zijn rol als computer – nerd in de populaire tv-reeks ‘Code 37”.

Robrecht Vanden Thoren (à Philippe) speelde de hoofdrol in de film ‘De laatste zomer’ en had ook een kleine rol in de overbekende Vlaamse film ‘Aanrijding in Moscou’.

Tom Oudenaert (à Jozef) is nog niet zo bekend, hij maakte zijn debuut met deze film.

De film is goed in elkaar gestoken. Als we naar de cinema gaan om een filmpje mee te pikken vragen we ons af: ”De film met Brad Pitt, of toch maar die met Cameron Diaz?”

Dit verfilmde verhaal is het bewijs dat er mooie en goede films bestaan, zonder dat er een of andere ‘hottie’ in meespeelt. Het concept is echt en realistisch, niet fake en computergestuurd zoals de laatste actiefilms van vandaag de dag. 

De film werd geregisseerd door Geoffrey Enthoven. Hij stond ook in voor de regie bij andere reeksen en films zoals: Dag en Nacht, Meisjes, Happy Together, Vidange Perdue, Sara, …

Met Hasta la Vista heeft hij toch zeker het meeste succes bereikt. De film werd verkocht aan maar liefst 9 andere landen. Het won ook belangrijke prijzen en lokte ongeveer 150.000 filmliefhebbers naar de zalen.

De film gaat over 3 beste vrienden die graag een reis willen maken, zonder hun ouders weliswaar. Dit zou wel eens voor problemen kunnen zorgen, zeker als je weet dat ze alle drie een fysieke handicap hebben. Wil jij weten hoe zij hun reis ervaren? En op welke manier ze kennis maken met Claude, de verzorgster? Of misschien ben je wel nieuwsgierig naar de jongen, wiens gezondheid zwaar achteruit gaat en zorgt voor een dramatisch einde van de film? Ga dan zeker een kijkje nemen in de filmzalen!