the Dreamcathcer Movie
Year: 2003
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Screenplay: William Goldman
Actors: Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, …
Runtime: 134 min
Summary of Dreamcatcher film plot
The four friends, Jonesy, Henry, Pete and Beaver meet for their annual hunting trip in the woods of Maine. 20 years ago they rescued a strange boy named Duddits and got in return a gift - telepathic powers.
On the trip they meet a strange man who suffers from terrible flatulences and red marks on his skin. A vicious snow storm starts and the four realize that there is something terrible out there - something not from this world - something Duddits had tried to prepare them for. Now it’s the time to save the world.
sumber:thedarkking.com
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Dewi Penyelamat Misterius
Judul buku: Marionette
Penulis: Morgan Martin
Penerbit: PT Grasindo
Tahun terbit: 2009
Tebal: 212 halaman
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Nestor Senior High School kedatangan murid baru yang "berbeda." Namanya Marionette Minnezko. Segala hal yang menyangkut Marionette memang penuh misteri. Dia selalu mengenakan pakaian serbahitam dan jarang berbicara. Si gadis berambut merah burgundi itu ternyata memang bukan gadis biasa.
Marionette dianugerahi semacam kemampuan melihat kapan datangnya ajal seseorang melalui cahaya kehidupan di atas kepala orang itu. Tugasnyalah untuk memperingatkan akan datangnya kematian. Meskipun, tak jarang dia diacuhkan dan dianggap gila karena kemampuannya itu. Selain kemampuan melihat kematian, Marionette juga punya indra keenam.
Tak jarang, nyawa seseorang terselamatkan berkat kemampuan khususnya tersebut. Satu hal yang menjadi ciri khasnya, Marionette selalu misterius dalam menyampaikan petunjuk-petunjuknya. Seperti saat dia menyelamatkan Lucia Yoshikawa yang ingin mengakhiri hidupnya. Marionette tidak melakukannya sendiri.
Marionette memperingatkan lewat Seth Romance, teman sekolahnya. Secara misterius, dia mengirimkan pesan kepada Seth. Hingga akhirnya, alasan yang membuat Lucia ingin bunuh diri terkuak dan nyawa Lucia bisa terselamatkan.
Marionette tak hanya membawa kabar duka tentang kematian. Secara ajaib, dia juga bisa mendatangkan kebahagiaan. Seperti dalam cerita Hujan di Musim Semi. Tanpa alasan yang jelas, Marionette bisa menyembuhkan adik-adik Bi. Kim yang semula tak berdaya tanpa kursi roda tiba-tiba bisa berlarian dengan bebas di halaman.
Ada juga cerita unik berjudul Boneka Pengantin, yang mirip dengan kisah si upik abu, Cinderella. Kisah ini berakhir bahagia dengan Lady, sang tokoh utama, yang akhirnya mendapatkan pendamping hidup. Berkat kedatangan sosok Marionette yang misterius di toko mainannya, pada suatu malam.
Marionette dikemas dengan tokoh utama yang berbeda-beda. Setiap cerita punya sudut pandang masing-masing. Satu yang menjadi benang merah adalah sosok Marionette yang selalu ada. Dia bertugas merperingatkan datangnya kematian. Marionette yang selalu datang meninggalkan misteri.
sumber:jawapos.co.id
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Mengalahkan Musuh dari Dunia Fiksi
Judul buku : Tintenherz : Inkheart
Pengarang: Cornelia Funke
Penerbit: PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Tahun terbit: 2009
Tebal: 536 halaman
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Dongeng adalah cerita fiksi yang nggak mungkin jadi kenyataan. Sayang, hal itu nggak berlaku dalam kisah Inkheart. Sembilan tahun lalu, ayah Meggie, yaitu Mo, membacakan sebuah buku dongeng berjudul Tintenherz untuk istrinya.
Rupanya, Mo tidak menyadari kekuatan istimewa yang dimilikinya. Setiap selesai menyebutkan satu nama, tokoh itu akan menjelma jadi nyata. Celakanya, yang menjadi nyata itu adalah tokoh-tokoh antagonis. Kecuali, seorang pemain sirkus bernama Staubfinger.
Ada satu lagi yang baru disadari Mo saat itu. Tokoh dongeng yang keluar dari buku harus ditukar makhluk hidup di sekitar buku. Salah seorang yang terperangkap di dalam buku adalah istri Mo.
Salah seorang tokoh jahat tersebut adalah Capricorn. Dia ingin menjadi penguasa dunia manusia. Sembilan tahun Capricorn dan para pengikutnya memburu Mo. Capricorn sangat yakin Mo bisa membantu untuk memenuhi ambisi-ambisinya. Yaitu, memunculkan harta dari buku-buku dongeng.
Rupanya, nggak hanya kemampuan Mo yang diinginkan Capricorn. Buku terakhir Tintenherz juga menjadi target buruannya. Benda itu sekarang berada di tangan ayah Meggie. Mo enggan memberikan buku itu. Sebab, benda itu satu-satunya yang tersisa dari ibu Meggie. Kejar-mengejar pun terjadi.
Sesuatu di luar dugaan terjadi. Staubfinger berkhianat. Meggie, Mo, dan bibi Meggie, Elinor, pun ikut ditawan. Untung beberapa orang tersebut bisa meloloskan diri. Setelah lolos, mereka mencari si pengarang buku Tintenherz. Pembuat buku itu ternyata bernama Fenoglio.
Awalnya Fenoglio tidak percaya dengan penjelasan Mo. Dia tidak bersedia membantu mereka mengalahkan Capricorn yang kejam. Namun setelah diyakinkan, Fenoglio berubah pikiran.
Ternyata, si kecil Meggie punya kemampuan seperti sang ayah. Tanpa sengaja, Meggie mengeluarkan tokoh Tinker Bell dari dalam buku cerita Peter Pan. Capricorn senang sekali mendengar hal itu. Dia segera memutuskan bahwa Meggie juga harus membantu menjalankan misi menguasai dunia.
Yup, kisah dalam buku tersebut sangat menarik diikuti. Kita akan diajak menjelajahi tiap bagian tanpa sedikit pun ingin melewatkannya. Cornelius Funke berhasil membuat pembaca enggan meletakkan buku itu. Inkheart merupakan buku pertama dari seri trilogi Inkworld.
sumber:jawapos.co.id
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The Story Behind Gone With The Wind
Margaret Mitchell had always been physically active but fragile. When she fell from a horse in 1920, it was the first of a series of mishaps which ultimately forced her in 1926 to resign from her job as a newspaper reporter at The Atlanta Journal.
She began a long convalescence in the cramped, one bedroom apartment on Crescent Avenue she had nicknamed “The Dump.” Laid up and restless, Margaret devoured the books brought to her from the Atlanta library by her husband John Marsh.
“John came home one day with an arm full of books and he said ‘I have brought you all of the books that I think you can handle from the library,’ “Augusta Dearborn, a family friend, recalled. “Then he said, ‘I wish you would write one yourself.’”
Marsh’s next delivery to Margaret was a Remington typewriter, accompanied by the salute: “Madam, I greet you on the beginning of a new career.” When Margaret asked her husband what she should write about, he responded, as editors have always responded, “Write what you know.”
Recalling the stories told her by her family and Confederate veterans, Margaret Mitchell set to work – in secret. Few people knew she was writing a book, and only John Marsh was allowed to read it as it progressed.
Margaret’s biographer, Darden Asbury Pyron, says that writing at “The Dump” could be a claustrophobic experience: “She had no place to work. It was a small apartment, and she had no study. So, she’d work in the bedroom. She’d work in the kitchen. She’d work in the hallway. She was all over the place.”
Because the Crescent Avenue apartment was the ceaselessly busy “hangout” for John and Margaret’s eclectic circle of friends, she had to take great pains to hide the manuscript – shoving manila folders full of manuscript under the bed, under the sofa, and even using pages of manuscript to wedge a wobbly table leg.
“I would go to the apartment and frequently she was at that little place that she worked,” Margaret’s friend, Harvey Smith, later recalled. “We all joked about it: ‘Well, you know she’s writing the world’s greatest novel.’…And by God, she was.”
It seemed unlikely the novel would ever be published since Margaret was adamant about not revealing its existence to anyone. But another friend, Lois Cole, discovered that a novel lay in disordered chunks throughout “the Dump.” Cole, who had left Atlanta and taken a job at Macmillan Publishing in New York City, told her boss, Harold Latham, that her witty Atlanta friend might be concealing a literary treasure. “If she writes as well as she talks, it would be a honey,” Cole told Latham.
On a scouting trip to Atlanta in search of new Southern authors, Latham grilled Margaret Mitchell about the book he knew she had written. She steadfastly denied any knowledge of a book.
On his last day in Atlanta, Latham again asked Margaret about the book – this time in a car full of her friends. Again, she shrugged off his inquiry. But when Latham left the car at his hotel, the girls picked up the inquisition.
“Are you writing a book, Peggy?” one demanded. “How strange you’ve never said anything about it. Why didn’t you give it to Mr. Latham?”
Almost casually, Margaret replied that she thought the novel was “lousy, I was ashamed of it.”
The friend said archly, “Well, I dare say. Really, I wouldn’t take you for the type to write a successful book. You don’t take your life seriously enough to be a novelist.”
Stung by the remark, Margaret Mitchell raced home, gathered the scattered piles of manuscript, packed them into a suitcase, and roared back to the Georgian Terrace Hotel, called Latham to the lobby and said, “Take it before I change my mind.”
What Latham read was a panoramic novel of the Civil War and Reconstruction centered on a willful young woman named Pansy O’Hara. It had no first chapter – Margaret had written the last chapter first – and Latham decided he did not like the central character’s name. Margaret agreed to change the name to Scarlett. It was the beginning of the most successful novel in history, published on June 30, 1936. It had almost as much impact on Atlanta as the events it described.
“All the girls were busy reading,” recalled Pulitzer Prize-winning author George Goodwin. “You can’t imagine how that thing swept Atlanta in the summer of 1936. There were just lots of stories of people who stayed up all night to read it. I finally got a copy of it and I can understand why. Damn hard to put down.”
The novel had similar success throughout the United States and around the world. It won for Margaret Mitchell a Pulitzer Prize in 1937. It has sold more copies worldwide than any other book except the Bible.
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