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sechan19All three presentations are now done.
The war paper is currently a draft of fifteen pages, the Japanese paper has to be corrected and resubmitted, and the paper for my advisor exists only as an outline at present.
The presentation for my advisor, K., went fairly well. I talked about my project, from a six-page outline, for over an hour and got good feedback from her - which included comments like, "have clearly done as much as you can in English, which is great" and "working on something that no one else is talking about" and "so happy to see this topic finally being examined in detail." I'm fairly pleased with what I've accomplished thus far and where I'm hoping to take the project in the upcoming year.
Also, I was selected for a 2008 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship! [does dance of joy]
The deadline for my final paper for K. has been extended slightly, which gives me more time to translate sources, check facts, and refine the present argument. It also enables me to take a nap - which I will be doing shortly - and maybe watch a movie.
Lately, I've been on a Kitano "Beat" Takeshi kick. So far, I've watched Kikujiro and Sonatine - both of which I loved. Additionally, I finally snagged a copy of Battle Royale and watched it. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lillith_knox, we'll watch it together another time because I would totally watch it again. I really dug it!) Anyway, Kitano didn't direct that film - he only starred in it - but it was still intriguing and - also - gross. It led me to another of Kitano's films, Kids Return, which stars one of the actors from Battle Royale - Ando Masanobu - who some of you may recall as the student who signed on for fun and who never said a single word. I was rather impressed with him, and thought I'd continue the Kitano kick with one of his offerings just to see if he's any good as an actor when he has dialog.
But first - the nap. The nap has been a long time in the making.
Pleasant dreams, yo.
The war paper is currently a draft of fifteen pages, the Japanese paper has to be corrected and resubmitted, and the paper for my advisor exists only as an outline at present.
The presentation for my advisor, K., went fairly well. I talked about my project, from a six-page outline, for over an hour and got good feedback from her - which included comments like, "have clearly done as much as you can in English, which is great" and "working on something that no one else is talking about" and "so happy to see this topic finally being examined in detail." I'm fairly pleased with what I've accomplished thus far and where I'm hoping to take the project in the upcoming year.
Also, I was selected for a 2008 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship! [does dance of joy]
The deadline for my final paper for K. has been extended slightly, which gives me more time to translate sources, check facts, and refine the present argument. It also enables me to take a nap - which I will be doing shortly - and maybe watch a movie.
Lately, I've been on a Kitano "Beat" Takeshi kick. So far, I've watched Kikujiro and Sonatine - both of which I loved. Additionally, I finally snagged a copy of Battle Royale and watched it. (
lillith_knox, we'll watch it together another time because I would totally watch it again. I really dug it!) Anyway, Kitano didn't direct that film - he only starred in it - but it was still intriguing and - also - gross. It led me to another of Kitano's films, Kids Return, which stars one of the actors from Battle Royale - Ando Masanobu - who some of you may recall as the student who signed on for fun and who never said a single word. I was rather impressed with him, and thought I'd continue the Kitano kick with one of his offerings just to see if he's any good as an actor when he has dialog.But first - the nap. The nap has been a long time in the making.
Pleasant dreams, yo.
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Date: 2008-04-17 01:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-17 03:30 am (UTC)I really like Kitano's stuff. Some is better than others, and it ranges greatly, but I really like both his (more or less) straightforward yakuza films and his far more abstract Kantoku Banzai and Takeshis... Have you seen these last two?
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Date: 2008-04-17 02:59 pm (UTC)I haven't seen the last two movies you mentioned. I have Kantoku Banzai saved in my Netflix queue - but it hasn't been released to dvd yet in America. So far as I know Takeshis is in the same boat. I have pretty much all of his other movies on my list and am getting them one by one. I really love his style of filmmaking, and particularly how he often brings in random (and often amusing) humane elements to even the most hard-boiled tale.