Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Watched "Braveheart" for the third time....... I suddenly had this urge to rent the movie and watch it....... I always feel very emotional whenever I watched it........ The children of Scotland hur hur........

William Wallace......... I still remembered when I was doing my very own "Leader I Have Known", I suggested William Wallace as one of the options....... But we chose to do the Emperor of Qin instead......... William Wallace should be a very good topic to do......... I simply love his war rallies........ In fact, Im a sucker for war rallies on epic and military shows........ The lousiest one still belong to Orlando Bloom in "Kingdom Of Heavens".........

So heres one from Braveheart which I liked at the battle of Stirling...... An exchange between William Wallace and the army.......

William Wallace: Sons of Scotland! I am William Wallace.

Second Soldier: William Wallace is seven feet tall!

William Wallace: Yes, I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds. And if HE were here, he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse.
[Scottish army laughs]

William Wallace: I AM William Wallace! And I see a whole army of my country men, here, in defiance of tyranny. You've come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?

Soldier: Against that? No, we'll run, and we'll live.

William Wallace: Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you'll live... at least for a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!
[crowd cheers]

Brilliant....... There are also some hilarious moments in the show....... Lol....... Usually from Hamish...... That brute........ :P

Hamish: Personal escort of the princess.
William Wallace: Aye.
Hamish: Musta made an impression.
William Wallace: Aye.
Hamish: I didn't think you were in the tent that long

The ending quote which I love....... "Warrior Poets"....... I love this term.......

In the Year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland - starving and outnumbered - charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets; they fought like Scotsmen, and won their freedom.

The second show Ive just watched; "I Not Stupid Too"....... I must say that Im very impressed with this show........ Im always skeptic about mandarin movies....... They are usually lame and meaningless....... But this show proves me wrong....... Very wrong indeed........

It accurately depicts what might be the teaching models of typical mums and dads in Singapore....... Busy earning big bucks for what they thought was best for the kids but trading off valuable time that might be spent with the children........

Its hilarious as well....... Especially the Hokkien lines........ The Kopi Tiam exchange between the Kopi Soh and Cheng Cai's dad cracks me up........ LMAO....... Thinking of the short putt thingy got me laughing again........ Anyway, Its really a good show........

I rented "Hotel Rwanda" as well....... One that I missed and yearn to watch.........

Completed "Lincoln Lawyer"........ Kinda nice....... I like how Haller trapped that devil shit.......
Worth a read.......

7.5/10........

Im currently on "Sophie's World"......... Mind boggling read........ Mentally taxing....... Aristotle, Socrates, Plato........ It takes quite a while to register after a certain lesson........ Slow moving but I learn alot......... Will update again once im done with it.........

"The Only Thing I Know, And That Is I Know Nothing"

- Socrates -
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