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Wow, that is my response to the film. It was a very very good movie. Undoubtedly one of the best movies I've seen. It is almost the Odyssey, of course it's based on the Odyssey, but still it's in the 1900 and very much like the Odyssey. Well I don't think I did a very good job comparing characters from the film to the Odyssey, but I did notice the obvious ones (for me).
Of course the very first character everyone noticed was Ulysses, just like Odysseus. Also at the beginning the guy that tell them the prophesy he says "I have no name", just like when Odysseus tells the cyclops, and the prophesy that he tells them comes true. I think that the people who were wearing white that were baptizing might have been the lotus eaters. I doubt that I can be right on this one but when Ulysses picks up the black guy, some crossroads are shown, that might symbolize the decision that Odysseus made to take Scylla's or Charybdis path.
It was very funny to see when George Nelson says his name while robbing a bank, that definitely represented when Odysseus tells the cyclops his name. The blind guy who recorded the guys' song could be compared to Homer. It's actually strange because Odysseus was famous because of the Trojan War and heroism, but theses guys were known for their song, Similar but cool.
There is absolutely no doubt that the three girls who were singing in the river were the sirens, because they lured the men towards them just like the sirens did.
The guy who kept appearing by fire all the time could probably be Poseidon. When Ulysses friend is turned in to the police and Ulysses's doesn't know that he is gone and thinks that he is a toad, that could probably be compared to the situation when the guy in Odysseus's crew dies and no one knows it until Odysseus encouters him in the land of the dead, just when Ulysses encouters him in the theater. Names seem to almost be the same first Ulysseus and later Peny, which compare to Odysseus and Penelope. K.K.K. Trying to kill Telemachus seems to symbolize when the suitors are trying to kill Telemachus. Finally when Ulysseus shows arrogance to the gods is just like when Odysseus did the same.
As I said it was a very good book and movie, and both compare very well. I believe that the movie had practically the same motifs, symbols, and themes as the book did, so I don't think I have to mention them. Good movie though.

A little kid walks to and from school each day. One morning the weather was bad, with threatining clouds forming as he made his daily trek to primary school.
In the afternoon, a gale was brewing as was the coming thunder and lightning.
The kid's Mother was very concerned that her son would be fearful as he walked home, and god forbid anything should happen to him on the way home with such an electrical storm...
Following the roar of thunder, lightning would cut through the sky like a flaming sword.
Full of concern, the Mother quickly decided to drive along the route her kid goes to school from.
As she did so, she saw her little boy walking along, but at each flash of lightning, he would stop, look up and smile.
With each crash of thunder and then lightning, the little boy would look at the streak of light and smile.
When the mother's car drew up beside the child, she lowered the window and called to him, "What are you doing? Why do you keep stopping?"
The child answered, "I am trying to look nice. God keeps taking my picture."

Wow it seems that I'm taking more time to blogg than what it used to take me. I seem to blogg every so often now. I think I need to change that especially coming playoff time when you ppl who read my blogg need to stay updated, but then again I doubt that anyone reads my blogg. But here are some updates on the Mavs.

The Mavericks took advantage of the Philadelphia 76'ers. Well lets see the Mavericks got DAMPIER BACK FROM INJURY!!!! While the Sixers were a bit underhanded, they did have A.I., but were without Chris Webber. The Sixers felt the wrath of the healthy Mavs, as it seemed like the first time this season, or was it, well in that department I am not completely sure but I think that they have played together healthy. Anyways moving on, if you have been seeing sport news, when they talk about the Mavericks, they talk about them winning it all, so if they do win it all, it will be really awesome and no surprise. Nowitzki with another outstanding performance with 29 points, 7 rebounds, and 4 assists. Van Horn again with 15 points, a good story is Dampier's though he had 10 rebounds, 2 blocks, and 5 points in just 17 minutes. So already in Damp's return you can see how crucial his return was to the Mavericks. They will now head Cleveland as the visiting Mavs will take on the Cavs.

Of course everybody knows who Larry Bird is right? Everybody also knows what he did in Boston right? Well Nowitzki gave the Boston fans some flashbacks, as Nowitzki lighted up the building with a Larry Bird like performance. Nowitzki had 36 points, 9 rebounds, and 5 assists, talk about Larry Bird performance. Van Horn keeps contributing as he had 21 points and 4 rebounds. I know everybody has been waiting to hear this, but STACKHOUSE IS BACK!!!!!! He had 11 points, 2 rebounds, and 1 assist in 17 minutes of playing time. The Mavericks will head to Philadelphia to take on the leagues leading scorer, Allen Iverson.