Summary and Movie review

By: Caterina Tjuang

"Through our gizzards, the voices of the ages whisper to us, and tell us what's right," intones a
dignified owl early on "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole," in the sepulchral
inflections of Hugo Weaving. How you responded to this bit of feathery hokum will determine how
you'll feel about "Legend of the Guardians," which combines very old-fashioned storytelling with
an of-the-moment 3-D ticket price. Does its majesty send a shiver up your spine? Or does the very
idea of an animated owl delivering this line induce -- pardon me -- hoots of laughter?
Directed by Zack Snyder, the animated "Legend of the Guardians" tells a familiar story of two
owlet brothers whose destinies come into conflict. Owl napped by a clan of evil owls called the
Pure Ones, the brothers are pulled into a plot to enslave all of owlkind. Kludd (voice by Ryan
Kwanten) eagerly signed on as a soldier in the Pure Ones' army, while Soren (Jim Sturgess) escapes
to seek out the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, a legendary flock of warrior owls who protect owlkind from
owl evil.
In summary: talking owls. And the owls does look quite pretty, downy feathers, wide eyes and all.
(Don't look too closely at their beaks while they talk, though, or you may be consumed with
curiosity about how an animal with no lips can speak.) There's a lot more hoo-hah about owl
eugenics and owl pellets and owl navigation and "trusting your gizzard." The first three books of
Kathryn Lasky's series had be crammed onto this film's screenplay, which might explain why major
plot elements are glossed over, such as the mysterious "flecks" of some unknown metal whose very
existence imperils all owldom. On the film's climactic battle sequence, the big bad owl declares,
"The Guardians are helpled against the power of the flecks." As villainous catchphrases go, it's no
"Kneel before Zod."
The bad owl's name is Metal Beak. He had a metal beak, you saw. His actual beak was ripped off in
battle by one of the Guardians years ago. (But how can he talk? Shouldn't he at least make clanking
sounds when he speaks, with his metal beak? Reader, I don't know.) Metal Beak is voiced with great
relish by Australian actor Joel Edgerton, so good earlier this year in "The Square"; in fact, the
supporting cast is a who's who of excellent Aussie acting talent, all of them having a merry old time
pretending to be owls. In addition to Weaved, there's Geoffrey Rush as a storytelling owl, Anthony
LaPaglia as a singing owl, Sam Neill as a warrior owl and Abbie Cornish as a love-interest-whose-
role-seems-to-have-been-drastically-cut-for-space owl. Helen Mirren, though not Australian, plays
Metal Beak's consort, who is an owl.
Children with a particular affection for epic tales, no matter how derivative or cacophonous, will
probably enjoy "Legend of the Guardians." The grown-ups who accompany them, though, unable to
rotate their heads 180 degrees, will yawn through John Orloff and Emil Stern's dull dialogue and
occasionally find their interest sparked by the film's lovely 3-D vistas.
And the action? It's especially hard to determine who's fighting whom in "Legends," because, well,
because they are a bunch of owls. Snyder doesn't help, intercutting moments of balletic slow-
motion with messy, incoherent action choreography. It's a technique filmgoers will recognize from
Snyder's previous movies, "Watchmen" and "300" -- the only difference being that, thanks to
"Ga'Hoole's" PG rating, the bone-crunching battles result in artful sprays of feathers, not blood.
 Vocabulary
fledgling = a new member of a group.

Gizzard = Also called ventriculus. a thick-walled, muscular pouch in the lower stomach of
many birds and reptiles that grinds food, often with the aid of ingested stones or grit.

owlets = little owl

Pellets = he solid waste of particular animals

Vanquish = to defeat somebody completely to finish the war

Sworn = bound by or stated on oath

Siege = A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.

Soaring = the activity of flying a glider

Shattered = cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow

Collier = a coal miner

Hoole = a suburb in the east of Chester, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and
Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
HISTORY

Jelaskan dan uraikan secara analisis dalam bentuk karangan

pertanyaan dibawah ini.

● Kapan agama dan kebudayaan Hindu-Buddha muncul di Indonesia ?

● Uraikan beberapa Hipotesis dan Teori Arus Balik mengenai masuknya
kebudayaan Hindu-Buddha di Indonesia.
● Apa yang dihaasilkan oleh percampuran agama Hindu-Buddha dengan
Islam ?.
● Sebutkan empat pokok ajaran Buddha.
● Buat profil berupa tulisan pendek ( maksimal satu halaman lembar
jawaban ) tentang hubungan antara Gajah Mada dengan
penyatuan Nusantara.
● Pada abad ke berapa Islam masuk ke Indonesia ?
● Meliputi daerah mana Penyebaran Islam yang terjadi antara tahun
1512-1515 M ?
● Pertanda apa berdirinya Kerajaan Samudra Pasai ?
● Pedagang Asing yang beragama Islam menikah dengan bangsa pribumi
merupakan usaha dari apa ?
● Sebutkan peranan Wali dalam upaya perluasan penyebaran Islam.
● Buat profil bandingan berupa tulisan pendek ( maksimal satu halaman
lembar jawaban ) tentang konsep negara dan pemerintahan
Tradisional Hindu-Buddha dan Islam di Indonesia.
● Buat profil berupa tulisan pendek ( maksimal satu halaman lembar
jawaban ) tentang Proses Interaksi antara Tradisi Lokal, Hindu-
Buddha dan Islam di Indonesia
● Uraikan mengenai proses pertemuan awal bangsa Indonesia dengan
bangsa Asing ( Barat ).
● Apa yang dimaksud dengan kolonialisme ?
● Jelaskan latar belakang terbentuknya Pemerintahan Kolonial Belanda di
 Indonesia.
● Buat profil berupa tulisan pendek ( maksimal satu halaman lembar
jawaban ) tentang pendidikan dijadikan sebagai sarana untuk
mencapai posisi kekuasaan dan prestise serta dengan adanya
pendidikan yang cukup; bagaimanakah dengan kehidupan rakyat
Indonesia akan terangkatkah pada masa Pemerintahan Kolonial.

Albert Yapiter

MOVIE SUMMARY

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone

Young Harry Potter has to lead a hard life: His parents have died in a car crash when
he was still a baby, and he is being brought up by his Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia. For
some reason unbeknownst to the bespectacled ten-year-old, the Dursleys let him live in the
small cupboard under the stairs, and treat him more like vermin than like a family member.
His fat cousin Dudley, the Dursley's real son, keeps bothering Harry all the time. On his
eleventh birthday, Harry Potter finally receives a mysterious letter from a certain Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, telling him that he is chosen as one of the future
students of that supposedly renowned school. Hagrid, the gigantic man who brought the
letter, finally introduces Harry into the real circumstances of his life: His parents were a
wizard and a witch, they were killed by the evil wizard Voldemort protecting him. Harry
still has a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead from that event. Since he survived the
attack as a baby, and also somehow deprived Voldemort from his powers, he has been
famous in the wizarding world ever since. The Dursleys, strong disbelievers in that magical
crap, never told Harry anything about his true self. So, Harry is strongly surprised, yet
absolutely happy to start his school. At Hogwarts, Harry meets his teachers, and becomes
friends with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. The three of them accidentally find out
that the potions master, Severus Snape, seems to plot on stealing something that is guarded
by a three-headed dog. Since nobody would believe some first years to have found out such
important things that even would incriminate a Hogwarts teacher, they take it on themselves
to find out what Snape is up to. Their quest for the truth leads across many obstacles, from
keeping up the everyday school life, a bewitched Quidditch match (Quidditch is a popular
wizard sport), Fluffy, the three-headed monster dog and quite some tasks one has to
overcome to get to the guarded object ( the sorcerer stone).

Finally they overcome all obstacles to figure that it was actually Prof Quirrel who
was trying to steal the stone - he was sharing his body with the battered soul of Lord
Voldemort. Harry defeats Voldemort in the end.

Albert Yapiter

MOVIE SUMMARY

Romeo and Juliet

The opening scene shows three Montague thugs driving their car to a gas station while
singing Pretty Piece of Flesh by One-Inch Punch. At the gas station, a limo pulls up and three
Capulets get out. One of the Montagues pulls his .71 Desert Eagle (named Sword) and begins to fire
upon the Capulets. After a stunning display of gunmanship, the fight is interrupted by the police and
the perps flee the scene. Now, the movie proper begins.

Romeo is hangin' with his crew, Mercucio and Benvolio. They receive an invitation from a
transvestite inviting them to a party thrown by the Capulets. This all happens during a horrible
ecstasy trip where Mercucio dresses up like a woman and attempts to have sex with Romeo.

They arrive at the party completely wrecked and drugged out of their minds (except Romeo,
because he prefers to play it straight (and not gay)). Romeo sees the most beautiful 13-year-old he
has ever laid eyes upon: Juliet. He chats dat ho up and tries to make out with her in the Women's
bathroom, but she refuses. Her cousin, Tybalt, grows jealous and flips out, banishing Romeo from
ever setting foot on Capulet land again. Of course, Romeo doesn't listen at all and comes back to
see Juliet every night.

Tybalt is a pretty sick dude and wants to get with his cousin, Juliet. When he hears the news
that Romeo has been seeing her for some time, he completely wigs out and runs off with a .71
Desert Eagle "Sword" edition and tries to kill Romeo. Mercucio gets in the path of Tybalt's bullet
and dies, so Tybalt bolts like it's 1985. The prince of the city (who is Mercucio's cousin) hears of
this and, though he plans to execute Tybalt for his crimes, forbids Romeo to engage Tybalt. Romeo
doesn't listen, however, and shoots Tybalt the next day. The prince is angered and exiles Romeo.

Romeo, now banished, goes to see Juliet for the last time. They have sex. She suggests that
they run away together, but Romeo adamantly declines. "Nay," he says. "Your family would hunt
me to the ends of the Earth." He does, however, marry her in secret before his Hawaiian-shirt-
wearing priest friend.

Juliet devises a plan with said priest to cut off all ties with her family: she will pretend that
she is dead. The priest makes her a special potion that will allow her to feign death for a week
straight, and sends a letter to Romeo detailing the plan. It doesn't arrive, however, and when Romeo
hears news of Juliet's death a week later, he storms the city. Romeo evades police force after police
force, SWAT team after SWAT team, and eventually makes it to the church where Juliet's body is
being kept.

Romeo reaches the altar upon which Juliet's body has been placed (curiously not in a coffin
or sarcophagus) and chugs down a vial of poison, killing him instantly. Moments later, Juliet
awakens. Upon seeing his corpse, she kisses him, draws his .71 Desert Eagle "Sword" edition, and
offs herself.