DAVID HAYE lost to Vladmir Klitschko on points after 12rounds in Hamburg. Haye (also known as Hayemaker) had filled columns of newsparer columns with pre-match bravaddo, sometimes shameful about how he was going to knowck out Vladmir. However, following his disgraceful loss, he blamed his toe...saying a toe on his right foot got broken 3weeks before the boxing match, hence he could not land his killer punch!
Obviously, this generated a lot of jokes from twitter followers and the following are some of them.....
1) From #hayemaker to #toemaker
2) David Haye: "Apologies to amm my fans, my toe couldn't land the killer punch."
3) Hey coach, I couldn't beat him with my mouth or my toe, maybe next time I try to punch him?
4) My ego is cashing cheques my toe can't cash..."
5) I am disappoin-toed with the outcome of the fight. #teamhaye
6) Sky box office have apologised for lack of phone staff earlier for David Haye fight....... all had a broken toe.
7) #teamhaye never mind chaps, toemorrow is a new day, dont be a heel, sock it toe 'em
8) That was a #toerrible match
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Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan"
I just watched Black Swan with a female friend a few hours ago. It is about a young girl Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) who works hard to perfection, in order to fulfil her dream as ballerina. I must say, the movie itself is both rubbish and brilliant!
Her mother Erica (Barbara Hershey) is a controlling mum, a somehow twisted character. She gave up her dream to care for Nina, and in a sense, while Erica doesn’t want her daughter to screw up; she is living her unfinished dream through Nina. After all she had been taking Nina for dance classes ever since she was a young child. . It is a tragedy that children sometimes have to live the unfulfilled dreams of their parents!!
When Nina tries to live her own life, Erica throws a tantrum, and almost wants to destroy the cake she has just made to celebrate her breakthrough. That breakthrough is that Nina has landed the coveted role of Queen Swan, in a musical Swan Lake directed by Thomas Leroy(Vincent Cassel). Her journey towards landing this role is a mind boggling cinematic experience that will make you either hate or love the movie.
Lily (Mila Kunis), an ambitious dancer is Nina’s rival to the coveted Queen dancer role. She befriends Nina, but seems to have ulterior motives of her own. Lily introduces her to the partying and drugs lifestyle, and they either up having full lesbianism sex, or maybe Nina is just imagining things. This scene is too graphic, and can leave you scarred for life. I had to look away several times. I go with the former. This is for a movie, only rated 15®. Shows the state of our society, and the world our children are growing up in! And the future itself could be even more worrying. Well, are we to be swept along in this dark and turbulent wave, or can we as individuals contribute in some small way in influencing it?!
The journey travelled by Nina to being the Swan Queen gives you the dark, horrific themes of the movie. As one person put it “An innocent girl is driven to the depths of hell in her pursuit of the world. It’s maddening, it’s horrifying, and it’s disturbing. Despite this, in a way, the story draws us in. We can relate to the obsession with the world in ways that should scare us.” The pursuit of perfection is one theme you continually come across.
The film gives you more than a glimpse into the state of Nina’s mind….and what she has to give up or go through to achieve her dream. While her performance of the white swan if masterful and excellent, Thomas, her music instructor, advises her to let go of herself, and throw away her inhibitions. He even seduces this young fragile innocent girl (probably a virgin) saying “That was me seducing you. It needs to be the other way around” Thomas advises her to get engaged in some sexual experiments! Only then, apparently can she seduce the audience and successfully play the role of the dark and sensual black swan! It is pretty much stepping beyond the boundaries!
Nina fights hard not to become like Beth MacIntyre (Winona Ryder), the now unstable, psychotic dancer and one time top start in the music company she has replaced. You are filled with hope, that maybe she will manage to do just that. It is this transformation of Nina into what Thomas Leroy calls “metamorphosis into her evil twin “that is both depressing, and make you wonder whether the price was worth the sacrifice!!
Nina is plagued by nightmares, fantasies, dreams and all of these horrific things. Her mother pleads with her not to go the long awaited performance. They have to
almost fight. You almost sense things will wrong. Is there a connection between this ballerina performance, Erica giving her dream and the music instructor Thomas? One thing is certain; Nina Sayers has sacrificed her very soul, her life and has been driven to the very depths of hell, in search of the perfect performance of “Swan Lake”. You ask yourself, when all is said and done, is it all worth it?
Yes, the film director Darren Aronofsky is a genius at work, a master craftsman, brilliant at using cinematic and visual artistry to great effect. He also sseems to blur the line between fantasy and reality. Just like his previous movies The Wrestler and Pi, Aronofsky’s theme are almost always the same….dark and visceral. It is only this time he has used the ballerina world to reflect this. While Tchaikovsky’s legendary music has been used, Aronofsky doesn’t do the ballerina performance justice.
Sme other reviewer did all the hard work and listed the following..."Heavy to extreme—Portman stripped naked to panties / Portman wears just a towel / two female masturbation scenes (Portman) / male gropes Portman / female gropes Portman / female gropes male dancer / prolonged lesbian sex scene (Portman and Kunis) / vulgar sexual conversations /partially undressed female dancers / etc.”
Her mother Erica (Barbara Hershey) is a controlling mum, a somehow twisted character. She gave up her dream to care for Nina, and in a sense, while Erica doesn’t want her daughter to screw up; she is living her unfinished dream through Nina. After all she had been taking Nina for dance classes ever since she was a young child. . It is a tragedy that children sometimes have to live the unfulfilled dreams of their parents!!
When Nina tries to live her own life, Erica throws a tantrum, and almost wants to destroy the cake she has just made to celebrate her breakthrough. That breakthrough is that Nina has landed the coveted role of Queen Swan, in a musical Swan Lake directed by Thomas Leroy(Vincent Cassel). Her journey towards landing this role is a mind boggling cinematic experience that will make you either hate or love the movie.
Lily (Mila Kunis), an ambitious dancer is Nina’s rival to the coveted Queen dancer role. She befriends Nina, but seems to have ulterior motives of her own. Lily introduces her to the partying and drugs lifestyle, and they either up having full lesbianism sex, or maybe Nina is just imagining things. This scene is too graphic, and can leave you scarred for life. I had to look away several times. I go with the former. This is for a movie, only rated 15®. Shows the state of our society, and the world our children are growing up in! And the future itself could be even more worrying. Well, are we to be swept along in this dark and turbulent wave, or can we as individuals contribute in some small way in influencing it?!
The journey travelled by Nina to being the Swan Queen gives you the dark, horrific themes of the movie. As one person put it “An innocent girl is driven to the depths of hell in her pursuit of the world. It’s maddening, it’s horrifying, and it’s disturbing. Despite this, in a way, the story draws us in. We can relate to the obsession with the world in ways that should scare us.” The pursuit of perfection is one theme you continually come across.
The film gives you more than a glimpse into the state of Nina’s mind….and what she has to give up or go through to achieve her dream. While her performance of the white swan if masterful and excellent, Thomas, her music instructor, advises her to let go of herself, and throw away her inhibitions. He even seduces this young fragile innocent girl (probably a virgin) saying “That was me seducing you. It needs to be the other way around” Thomas advises her to get engaged in some sexual experiments! Only then, apparently can she seduce the audience and successfully play the role of the dark and sensual black swan! It is pretty much stepping beyond the boundaries!
Nina fights hard not to become like Beth MacIntyre (Winona Ryder), the now unstable, psychotic dancer and one time top start in the music company she has replaced. You are filled with hope, that maybe she will manage to do just that. It is this transformation of Nina into what Thomas Leroy calls “metamorphosis into her evil twin “that is both depressing, and make you wonder whether the price was worth the sacrifice!!
Nina is plagued by nightmares, fantasies, dreams and all of these horrific things. Her mother pleads with her not to go the long awaited performance. They have to
almost fight. You almost sense things will wrong. Is there a connection between this ballerina performance, Erica giving her dream and the music instructor Thomas? One thing is certain; Nina Sayers has sacrificed her very soul, her life and has been driven to the very depths of hell, in search of the perfect performance of “Swan Lake”. You ask yourself, when all is said and done, is it all worth it?
Yes, the film director Darren Aronofsky is a genius at work, a master craftsman, brilliant at using cinematic and visual artistry to great effect. He also sseems to blur the line between fantasy and reality. Just like his previous movies The Wrestler and Pi, Aronofsky’s theme are almost always the same….dark and visceral. It is only this time he has used the ballerina world to reflect this. While Tchaikovsky’s legendary music has been used, Aronofsky doesn’t do the ballerina performance justice.
Sme other reviewer did all the hard work and listed the following..."Heavy to extreme—Portman stripped naked to panties / Portman wears just a towel / two female masturbation scenes (Portman) / male gropes Portman / female gropes Portman / female gropes male dancer / prolonged lesbian sex scene (Portman and Kunis) / vulgar sexual conversations /partially undressed female dancers / etc.”
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