Movie Review: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

What's up guys!!!!! For today I'm gonna make a review about the film that I'd just watched today. Do you know the movie that I'd just watched? Mmmmmm ...... yes you already know it based on the title of the post. Hahahaha what a silly question to be asked. Ok lame.

Ok we go to the real part. Basically, this movie is about the life of Walter Mitty who is a negative assets manager at LIFE magazine. Negative assets? The one who take care the bad property of the magazine? Mmmmm negative assets manager is the one who take care the biggest treasure of the magazine which is the negative picture for the front page of the magazine. So it is a very risky job. Without them keep the negative in safe it might be there will be no cover for a magazine.

FUN FACT: This movie was directed by the main actor itself, Ben Stiller

Based on what I'd told you just now you might know what are the plot of the story. Right???

The story starts when LIFE magazine publish it last issue in a hard copy version before the magazine change to online version. So, Sean O'Connell -photojournalist who worked with Mitty- had sent a roll of negative film to LIFE magazine and a leather wallet as a token of appreciation for Mitty's hard work while working with LIFE. He suggested that the picture #25 is the most suitable cover of LIFE magazine for its last issue. It also will be the quintessence of  LIFE magazine and the news had captured the attention of Ted Hendricks, corporate transition manager of LIFE magazine.

Unfortunately, the negative film was missing and to make things worst it is the only negative film that was unfounded. So, Walter decided to locate Sean to get the negative film that will be the quintessence for LIFE magazine. Let the rest of the story remain mystery for you to find out for yourself.

THREE INTERESTING WORDS
1. QUINTESSENCE- the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class
Leonardo Da Vinci is the quintessence of Renaissance man due to the fact that he had made a lot of contributions during that era such as inventing scissors, painting of Mona Lisa and studying human anatomy.

2. RECONCILE- restore friendly relation between
His divorced parents have reconciled after having a long conversation together with the wedding consultant because they wanted to give a better live for their children future.

3. ESTRANGE- cause someone to be no longer close or affectionate to someone
Raniri's actions that had fired Vardy from the company had made all of the employees of Raniri Holding estranged towards Raniri because his decision had made the company lost the most valuable employee.

The minor character who is my favorite would be Ted Hendricks, the new LIFE transition manager. Even though he is a little bit annoying, his action has changed the story line which led Walter to find the missing negative film. This is showed when Ted had forced Walter to have the negative film when they met again. His action had made Walter go to Iceland to find Sean O'Connor. Then, Ted sent a text message to Walter to come to the LIFE office before he fired all the LIFE negative assets workers. So, Walter has to go to New York to save his job and Ted's action had give Walter chance to get another significant clue - at his home- about the location of Sean to get the negative film #25.

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VOTD #6 (The Simpsons)

What's up guys!!!!! So for today all of the MADPP students had joined a run under a program organized by Ministry of Youth and Sports. It is an annual program and for this year Kuala Kangsar was chosen to be the host for Perak. It is a tiring day but fun and a lot of activities were organized by them such as 5 km and 10 km run, 30 km cycling, zumba dancing, and sports exhibition.

In Malaysia, we have such a sporting minister, YB Khairy Jamaluddin 

Enough with that Fit Malaysia and Fit Perak. Let's proceed with the vocab of the day and the characters for today are from *drum rolls* The Simpsons.

1. Cajole- to persuade somebody to do something by talking to them and being very nice

Due to Homer's health condition he was not allowed to consume fast food and this situation had made him to cajole Marge into giving permission for him to go to the burger shop.

2. Canvass- to try to persuade people to vote for a particular person or party in an election

Mayor Quimby is trying very hard to canvass the residents of Springfield and he was almost caught by the police because of bribery for his position to be the president of United States of America.

3. Capitulate- to stop fighting and accept that you have lost; to give in to somebody

Bart is matured enough to differentiate between good and bad and made him to capitulate even though he still have a chance to win the fighting competition if he continued for the rematch.

4. Capricious- changing behavior suddenly in a way that is difficult to predict

A series of failure and frustrations faced by Lisa made her to become capricious, lonely, secluded and this situation somehow has produce a large gap between her family and herself.

5. Ceaseless- continuing for a long time without stopping 

Ned Flander were detained in hospital for another one week because he was not fully recovered after working ceaselessly at the farm because he want to earn extra money for his children's education.

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VOTD #5 (The Fairly Oddparents)

What's up guys !!!!! Let us give a round of applause to the characters from The Fairly Oddparents. So let get started with our agenda today.

1. Abashed- feeling guilty and embarrassed because of something that you have done 

The news that reported Jorgen committed suicide had made Timmy Turner abashed because he had made fun of  Jorgen that made him depressed the night before and now he regretted his action.

2. Abdicate- to give something up, especially power or a position

Due to the economical factor that becoming worst day by day had forced Mr. Chester to abdicate his position as a president of his country to be given to his deputy president which he seem more qualified rather than him.

3. Abhorrence- strong feeling of hate ; disgust

Queen Vicky had made an unreasonable rule whereby all of the citizens of her country been banned from using internet and the action had caused her protesters to express their abhorrence towards her.

4. Accolade- a comment, prize, that you receive which shows people's high opinion of something you have done

Wanda had received ultimate official accolade from the President of the United States of America based on her achievement in finding the new planet that is suitable for living which had surprised the world especially NASA

5. Abstinence- stopping yourself from having or doing something that you enjoy

A.J  financial crisis made him to abstinence from buying new clothes every week and his decision finally give some benefit to him when he can save a lot of money for his education.

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VOTD #4 (The Adventure of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius)

 What's up guys !!!!! How your day? I hope that you are doing well. So, for today special character will be the cast from The Adventure of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

1. Connive- to work secretly with somebody to do something that is wrong

Sheen had connived together with Carl Wheezer to get rid of Jimmy Neutron in order for them to become the next successful scientists and this is undone without the creative strategy given by Sheen.

2. Shoddy- made carelessly or with poor quality material

Cindy had told all of her friends to ban Luxim Salt, handbag store that sell almost all of the handbags which are shoddy and her action had caused the handbag store in a state of bankruptcy.

3. Tumultuous- very noisy, because people are excited

Libby had been missing from Ms Fowl at the Justin concert and the tumultuous situation at there had made some trouble for Ms Fowl to find Libby and made her to wait until the concert over before continuing her search.

4. Anguish- great mental pain or suffering

Hugh Neutron has amazed the world when he finally succeed to build a business empire even though he had an anguish fighting for live yet this does not make him to give up, giving his motivation to improve himself.

5. Mystify- to make somebody confused because they cannot understand

Judy was mystified by the riddle left by the kidnapper that made her to hire professional investigator to solve it so it will show the location of Nick if she succeed to solve the riddle and she had to move quick.

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VOTD #3 (Family Guy)

What's up guys!!!!! The characters that were chosen by me for today VOTD is Family Guy; give a round of applause to them. So let's get started.

1. Meagre- to show lacking in quantity of quality
Peter and Stewie have to make sure they made an enough preparation to survive in the Gobi Desert expedition because they only have meagre supply of water resources for another fortnight at there.

2. Mete- to give somebody a punishment; to make somebody suffer bad treatment
Several penalties: imprisoned for 10 days and fined for $100 were meted out by the court to Joe because he was caught stealing a brand new television at the mall.

3. Purge- to remove people you do not want from a political party or other organization
Cleveland carried out a purge to Chris from his Science Project Group because Chris did not show any interest towards the project that had been carried out by their group members.

4. Mediocre- not very high quality
Lois had been fired from her previous job because she always shown a mediocre achievement in her task compared when she was accepted to work there.

5. Conceivable- possible to imagine or believe
Herbert had made a conceivable idea about the future planning for the company to produce a greater income in order to amaze his supervisor and on the same time not really ridiculous.

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VOTD #2 (Phineas and Ferb)

What's up guys!!!!! For today edition the characters are from Phineas and Ferb

1. STARTLE- to surprise somebody in a way that slightly shocks or frighten them

Candace startled her mother when she decided to learn culinary arts even though all of her siblings are doctors and this did not made her to give up  to become a pastry chef.

2. RELISH- to enjoy something very much

Phineas relish to be as a volunteer for the Belgian red cross that helps the refugee around the world because he has the empathy towards those who are in need especially children who had lost their parents.

3. DREAD- to be very afraid of something

Isabella canceled to join the survival trip with her friends when she knew that they had to live in the cave because she suffers from claustrophobia which is dread to be in a confined space.

4. FRANTIC-  very busy or done in a hurry way

Ferb that returned home late last night cause him overslept and late for the annual general meeting at his office had forced him to get ready frantically for work.

5. AMBIVALENCE- showing a mixture of opinions about something

Jeremy felt an ambivalence about whom to invite to his birthday party because he was scolded by his mother when some of his friends cause a fire at his home during his birthday party last year.

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VOTD #1 (Spongebob Squarepants)

What's up, guys!!!!! For those who do not know, VOTD is just an acronym for Vocab Of The Day.
For today edition, the characters will be from Spongebob Squarepants

1. RECEPTIVE- ready to receive new ideas or suggestion 

As a group leader, we should be more tolerate and receptive with our group members in order to make sure all affairs went smoothly.

2. POUNDED- to hit something hard many times making a lot of noise

Plankton who just saw a burglar try to rob his neighbor house pounded the church bell to awake all of his neighbors and warn the burglar.

3. SCUTTLE- to run quickly with a short step

The mouse who just ate the cheese at the kitchen scuttled around the house to save his life when the cat tried to chase him.

4. RELUCTANT- not wanting to do something because you are not sure it is the right thing to do

Mr.Krab was reluctant to follow his friends to the club because he has an economic class on that day but he did not want to hurt their feelings.

5. CONSENT- to allow something to happen  

Spongebob, Patrick, and Squidward need their parent's consent for them to attend a survival camp because it will cause troubled for them if they did not get their parent's approval.

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