Over tHe Eoce

March 28, 2007

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On the
Movie 300

MITCHELL GRANT
Psoro Epirer

Sold Out. The signs on every
ticket booth last Friday to attempt
to get into Frank Miller’s(the writ-
er of Sin City) 300, even -hours
before the show started. Luckily
this correspondent got his ticket
long in advance and after waiting
outside in a line up down the side
walk for and hour, I finally took
my seat in one of the two packed
theaters for the late show. It was
evident in minutes why this was
an 18A movie, and while the main
character’s major conflict was re-
solved within the first 20 minutes
of the movie, this did not stop the
movie from being-a most amazing
show.

The story of 300 is based

loosely around the Battle of
Thermopylae, where 300 Spar-
tan soldiers as well as a few
other Greek conscripts all under
the command of King Leonidas
held the Persian army of Xerxes,
numbering one inillion, at bay.
After the Spartan’s were finally
defeated, Xerxes’ army had no
taste for war and was beaten when
they met the full Spartan army as
well as the other free Greeks, even
though the Persians outnumbered
the Greeks four-to-one.

While 300 rings true to many of
the films in it’s genre -Troy, Alex-
ander, or even Braveheart in some
ways, come to mind - its graphic
novel based script and historical
twists made this an appealing
movie for a wider audience. ‘The
directing style of Frank Miller is
most defiantly prominent through-
out the movie, while the story still
retains some of it’s original epic
feel. Throughout the story of King
Leonidas is told through one of his
soldiers. DO NOT see this movie
if you are looking for depth. This
movie is very straight forward
and while it contains depth-full
undertones ranging from puns to
story/character conflicts, this is no
What Dreams May Come or even
Braveheart. Especially when it
comes to searching for hidden or
inspirational meaning besides that
a freeman can have more inspira-
tion to fight or work harder then
a slave.

Do not let my rants and vague
descriptions turn you from an
amazing film however. I’ve given
hints to it but do not describe the
storyline in detail because I wish
not to ruin what I thought was a
great movie, that not only will I
attempt to wateh it again on my
meager university budget, but will
buy it, first thing, on the release
date of it’s DVD.

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AMBER RICHARDS

STAFF WRITER

All I have to say about this
CD is “wow”. I listened to half of
one song and I had to turn it off. I
really like listening to music and
trying new genres of music. Kim
Barlow is a dark folk-pop artist
and boy, I have listened to folk-
pop before and it sounds nothing
like it. I really like how Nelly
Furtado when she did folk-pop it
sounded like she knew what she
was doing, she knew what rhythm
was and a how to write a song. Her
songs lyrics go “My mother sent
me and Fanny to camp, will all
the rich girls who live by the sea,

Fanny was bad and we didn’t fit
in, She wouldn’t jump, wouldn’t
listen to me....I packed our tack
and left pony camp....” I just find
nothing really exciting in those
lyrics. I am sure that if this is your
fourth CD that you came out with,
it should be better than the others
or even worse. Her other CDs,
“Humminah”, “Gingerbread” and
“Luckyburden” were released on
another recording company so
that could be it why her forth CD
is coming out now. Her new label
is a Vancouver based label and ac-
cording to sources, “the coming
year promises to bring her music
to even wider audience. I am so
sorry Kim that I had to turn your
CD off by the end of the first song.
I give this CD a 1/2 out of 5.

Just Bust a Move

PICTURE COURTESY OF BRENT SHELEST.

Steve Moravec showing photographer Brent
Shelest a few moves.

Brent SHELEST

CONTRIBUTOR |

Have you ever wanted to learn
how to breakdance? Actually, the
proper term is breaking, b-girling
or b-boying. Or are you just get-
ting frustrated from trying to learn

the moves off of
YouTube?

There is an
- instructor at
UNBC, and his
-. sessions help
* people create
their own break-
ing routines.
The instructor is
Steve Moravec,
and the break-
ing sessions are
held from 5:30
to 6:30 on Thurs-
_ day in the gym
studio. There is
a $5 drop-in fee,
but the sessions
end March 19,
There. is always
next year though,
currently Steve
is trying to find
a teacher for next
year.

“Right now Toronto is really
hot and Vancouver is picking up.”
Steve says, “There are competi-
tions once a month all throughout

the lower mainland at clubs and

schools (UBC and SFU)”.
When asked about the best

PUB

place to practice Steve affirms
that UBC is a top spot and a crew
practices there at least once a
week. To find out more about the
crew check out “www.bboyworld.
com”.

Steve suggests the best one
on one competition is the Red
Bull BC One. Last year the Red
Bull competition was in Sao Pa-
ulo, Brazil, and Hong 10 of South
Korea won. This year it will be
held somewhere in South Africa.
Steve adds that “Battle of the
Year” (BOTY) is an important
crew competition. For 2007 the
BOTY will be on October 20 in

- Braunschweig, Germany.

For developing breakers Steve
asserts, “don’t steal other peoples
moves...be creative”. Competi-
tion is critical for breaking, and
he believes that you got to “show
what you got”.

Hal, a student of Steve’s class,
stated, “Make sure you’re fit and

‘flexible before coming here...be-

cause if you try some of this stuff
you’ re just going to hurt yourself.”
That is-good advice for all of us,
and best of luck breaking because
you might be the next hot b-girl
or b-boy.

&

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