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MOVIE : [He Can Balance a Checkbook, but Not His Imagination] ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ Stars Ben Stiller

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/25/movies/the-secret-life-of-walter-mitty-stars-ben-stiller.html?_r=0

Summary : The article is about introduction of the movie ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’. In the movie, the man named Walter, is a film director of the LIFE magazine. He is in forties and a daydreamer because he lost his dream and became introverted since his father died when he was 17. Since then, as a head of a household, he has done many works and has worked for the LIFE magazine for 16 years, suppressing his desire of freedom and skateboarding. One day, the LIFE magazine decided to be discontinued because of the development of the internet and wanted to cover the magazine’s cover picture with the masterpiece of a photographer, Sean O’connell, which he said ‘the quintessence of life’. However, Walter couldn’t find the picture, so he decided to finde the picture by himself by chasing O’connell.

Opinion : I picked the article because the movie is the best movie in my life so far. I think Walter Mitty is a reflection of all of us. Before reaching the dream, he had nothing to do but to get a job since he was young because of his father’s death. He lost confidence and resolved his desire by imagination. Many of us lost or forgot our dreams as we grow old and just ‘dream’ about what we used to dream. Life makes us adapt ourselves to the reality such as money and family rather than ideal dream. However, the movie tells us that we still have to chase our dream by showing Walter pulling out his adventerous spirit which he originally had.  In the process of chasing O’connell, Walter faces many adventures because Sean always moves around a lot of countries and dangerous places. In Greenland, he fought with drunken guy and got on his hellicopter to find Sean. In the middle of the sea, he fought with shark. When he arrived in Iceland, he rode his skateboard on the road, feeling freedom. Paradoxically, Walter’s imagination has made him more be introverted and zone out, but it is the imagination that made Walter actualize his purpose, which is, finding Sean. I think it is a matter of taking chances. Anyone can imagine and dream about what he or she wants, but not everyone can chase his or her dream. In the movie, lost picture gave a chance to Walter. I believe chances are everywhere, around us. What we need to do is just taking it.

Vocabulary & Expressions

 Though we might be tempted, at first, to suppose that his highly developed sense of responsibility is the result of a compulsive personality, we soon learn that it arises from personal tragedy.

Compulsive[ADJ] : You use compulsive to describe people or their behaviour when they cannot stop doing something wrong, harmful, or unnecessary.

Korean Equivalent : 강박적인, 조절이 힘든

Synonyms : obsessive, persistent, confirmed

Antonyms : linient, indulgent

Personal Sentence : She is very compulsive with health control

A relic of the analog world, Walter is in danger of being downsized out of a job as the magazine prepares its final print edition.

Downsize[VERB] : To downsize something such as a business or industry means to make it smaller.

Korean Equivalent : 줄이다, 축소하다

Synonyms : reduce, cut, downscale

Antonyms : expand, enlarge, extend

Personal Sentence : The company decided to downsize its workforce because of a recession

FASHION : ‘The Satorialist’ Scott Schuman on all things street fashion

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/fashion/the-sartorialist-scott-schuman-on-all-things-street-fashion/article1-1285269.aspx

Summary : The link is an interview with Scott Schuman, a street fashion photographer and a blogger. He started his fashion blog ten years ago, and at that time, he says he did it just for fun. However, his blog, Satorialist has become more and more popular and photos were published in a book. He thinks the reason why the fame of his street style photography is loved by a lot of people in the world is that he takes photos from ‘real’ people. Before the street fashion became important source in fashion industry, the public depended on fashion magazines and model images and they make the public feel a gap between reality and ideal of fashion. By taking pictures not only people related to fashion but also ordinary people who are fashionable, Schuman showed diverse fashion styles to the public and let them be fashionable with their own clothes, not with prestigious fashion brand.

Opinion : I have admired Scott Schuman’s work before I selected this link because his perspective on fashion and his works really impressed me. I knew him from his book Satorialist at first. From the book, he said he felt the gap between fashion in fashion shows and real fashion. The gap made him to go out and take pictures of people’s fashion in a real world. After I read the book, I was shocked and happy for I used to feel the same with Schuman that clothes in fashion world are difficult, hard to understand the purpose, and hard to wear by the public. I believe his photos of street fashion will decrease the gap and let street fashion itself develop. His works inspire me all the time that I will launch a fashion brand with unique but not difficult design which will meet the niche between ideal and real fashion with moderate price so that the public likes to wear.

Vocabulary & Expressions

I don’t try to intellectualise it.

Intellectualise(Intellectualize)[VERB] : If someone intellectualizes a subject or issue, they consider it in an intellectual way, often when this is not appropriate.

Korean Equivalent : ~의 합리성을 추구하다, 이지적으로 말하다(쓰다)

Synonyms : justify, rationalize

Antonyms : illogical[adj], irrational[adj]

Personal Sentence : If you intellectualize this movie, the message is one of love.

 In nine years, the photo blog — which started at a time when blogs depicting street style were still a rarity — has not only earned a mammoth following of the fashion flock, but has also opened a medium of style coverage that is more real in its approach.

Depict[VERB] : To depict someone or something means to show or represent them in a work of art such as a drawing or painting.

Korean Equivalent : 그리다, 묘사하다

Synonyms : illustrate, portray, delineate

Antonyms : .

Personal Sentence : She depicted his boyfriend so well that her friends could recognize him at first sight when they coincidentally in the department store.