THE MAZE RUNNER

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Introduction:

         When the lift cranks open, the only thing Thomas remembers is his first name only. But he’s not alone. An army of boys welcome him to glade, an encampment at the centre of a terrible maze. The Gladers have no idea why they are there or what is happened to the world outside. In glade they are many guys and suddenly one day Teresa came to the glade and she is the only girl in the glade. And following the arrival of the girl with a massage, they must find a way out or die.

                                                   

Review of the books: 

On the chapter one Thomas can only remember is name on entering the glades but on the movie He can't even remember that when he first gets there. And Thomas is afraid and just stands there in the Glade if in the movie He attempts to run and falls down and realizes he is in the maze. The Gladers create maps of the maze that they study.Theresa is unconcious for several days after arriving but on the movie she wakes up shortly after arriving. Theresa ignores the others besides Thomas initially. She interacts with the others and tells them to leave her alone.Thomas and Theresa can communicate via telepathy in the books but in the movie they do not. Ben was banished to the maze while wearing a collar attached to a one long metal pole,Ben was banished to the maze by the Gladers holding many spears and other wooden devices on hand for such occurrences in movie.The serum exists before Thomas and Teresa arrive in the Glade but in the movie Teresa brings vials of serum with her to the Glade.Thomas and Minho kill the Grievers by sending them off the Cliff to survive the night in the maze. 

Thomas and Minho kill a Griever by getting it smashed in a moving wall to survive the night in the maze.Thomas spends a day in the Slammer for entering the maze and Thomas spends a night in the Pit for entering the maze in the movie.There is no difference in weather in the Glade it is always sunny during the day but in the movie the weather changes in the Glade it's cloudy and rains.Teresa comes up in the box and says everything will change in the books but in the movie Teresa comes up in the box and say Thomas Gally runs away goes into hiding and is gone for most of the book only to come back and get taken by a griever and then once again when the creators make him attack Thomas but in the movie Gally doesn't run away go into hiding and is in the whole movie. He also isn't taken by a griever. Runners run with their left hand brushing the side of the wall in the maze. Runners just run in the movie.Gally is portrayed to be a boy with longish black hair but Gally is portrayed to be a boy with short ginger hair in the movie. Newt is second in command as in he watches the other gladers and make sure they are doing there job he's like alby but in the movie Newt is keeper of the gardeners.

Review of movie

Thomas wakes up in an elevator, remembering nothing but his own name. He emerges into a world of about 60 teen boys who have learned to survive in a completely enclosed environment, subsisting on their own agriculture and supplies. A new boy arrives every 30 days. The original group has been in "The Glade" for three years, trying to find a way to escape through the Maze that surrounds their living space. They have begun to give up hope. Then a comatose girl arrives with a strange note, and their world begins to change. There are some great, fast-paced action scenes, particularly those involving the nightmarish Grievers who plague the boys.

- Written by KelseyJ

The Maze Runner film released on 2014 is a YA-novel formula that’s reliably produced so many hugely successful film adaptations in recent years. And indeed director Wes Ball’s film is based on the best seller by James Dashner. It features a similar structure, hits some recognizable beats and includes some character types that will seem pretty familiar to anyone who’s seen the “Hunger Games” films, or “Divergent,” or “The Giver.THE MAZE RUNNER is a dystopian thriller based on James Dashner's best-selling YA book trilogy. The action starts immediately, with an elevator taking a scared teenage guy, Thomas as Dylan O'Brien, up into the unknown. When the doors open, he is introduced to the Glade, a mysterious all boy commune surrounded by an even more mysterious Maze that changes every day and is home to killer mechanized bugs called "Grievers." Every month, the elevator delivers supplies and a new amnesiac resident. None of the imprisoned boys can remember anything but their names, with the newest guy being Thomas.

Actually, he doesn’t even know his name is Thomas at first. Dylan O’Brien (MTV’s “Teen Wolf”), who resembles a young Rob Lowe, plays the confused young man. At the film’s start, he finds himself rising quickly in a big, rickety freight elevator that’s also loaded with supplies. The film’s sound design is quite startling and effective it puts you on edge from the earliest moments. Thomas is the main character of this movie.Played by Dylan O’ Brien. First of all, He is immune amongst many others. He was one of the creators of The Maze. In my opinion, people are attracted to watch this movie because of his good looks.

Main character Thomas by O’Brien is a great role model, helping his friends and standing up to authority when necessary.Thomas has no memory of who he is and no idea how he got there, people also attracted to O’Briens because he proves to be brave, loyal, and clever, with isolated telepathic powers and a very limited memory of previous knowledge of the Maze film. Soon after arriving in the Glade, Thomas makes both friends and enemies and proves a leader among the boys.But as the newest arrival to the Glade, he is dubbed a “greenie” and duly hazed until he can prove his worth to the key figures he meets.O'Brien has always been a standout actor he routinely steals the show on Teen Wolf.He is good at the connections with the other guys, all of whom are played well by the cast of young actors particularly head runner Minho by Ki Hong Lee, leader Alby by Aml Ameen, second in command Newt by Thomas Brodie-Sangster, and the youngest of the Gladers, chubby and charming Chuck by Blake Cooper.

The charismatic Alby played by Aml Ameen who was the first to arrive, is the factor leader. The leader of the Gladers, Alby is a dark skinner, very tall and tough man.Alby has authority over much of what goes on in the Glade. He is hot-headed but experienced after being stung by a Griever, Alby undergoes the changing and becomes convinced that they should not return to the outside world. He wishes to stay in the Glade and even tries to sabotage an escape plan by burning the maps drawn by the Runners.The scenes when Alby dies during the escape attempt by throwing himself onto a Griever was so touched and sadness.

Another character is a Minho played by Ki Hong Lee is the head of the runners boys who dare to enter an opening in the giant walls and explore the maze that lies behind them.Ki Hong Lee was a good actor and people like he on the film because of he is the runner and the tough one and the runner that can be save the gladers. He is an Asian mix.

Review of the press

‘Story didn't develop enough for you to feel part of it all and for some reason we didn't really even like the main character’.  (Hotpapy, 2014 US)

According to hotpappy ,I disagree with the above review,it’s is amazing and my opinion is when The Scorch Trials and The Death cure are out, we will see a lot more of the story and the main character and for me The Maze runner is a good movie and Daylan O’Brien doing a great job for the main character.

 ‘This movie, like the monster-mad maze it pulls us into, is full of lots of twists, turns and surprises (some of them stomach-churning, others heart-enriching)’. (Plugged in, 2014 US)

According to plugged in I agree of their statement about maze runner because in my opinion there is a scene when griever slug a gladers and the scenes really surprised me.

Conclusion

From my personal point of view, the book and the film itself shared same mistake, they are both rushed to get to the ending.The story line for the novel was full of gaping plots that creates confussion.The beginning of this film is imaginative and incorporates the viewer right into the 

mystery of it all. Apart from all the weakness, the movie itself beautiful .

Some people said the movie of The Maze Runner is better than the novel but some people say the novel is better than movie. But for me movie is much more better than novel and I am willing to pay twice the ticket to watch the movie in cinemas because the movie was too interesting for me. This movie suitable for teenager and adult.

The story centers on a group of teenagers who find themselves mysteriously transported to a maze known as the Glade.This movie and the storyline is full of adventure, mysteriously and I also like the hero Thomas by Dylan O’ Brien he being doing a good job played the main character as a hero in this movie. And I like the scene when chuck as Blake Chopper die and Thomas promise to save chuck and bring him to his family.The scene was  so touched and can make me cry in the cinemas I also like the scene when Thomas became a runner.

As the film progresses, Thomas takes a chance and decides to run through the maze with hopes of escaping. It is at this point that the cinematography and special effects are at its best. The movie itself paints a world of hostility and courage, allowing its audience a suspenseful adventure through a maze they may never get out of alive. The first half of this film is creative, suspenseful and overall exciting to watch. However, it becomes obvious that the first half of the film largely makes up for the lack of creativity in the second half of the film.

I personally think The Maze Runner movie  should have received high reviews for its excellent quality of acting, its good pacing, appropriate suspense and plot twists and it deserves four stars because of the special effects, imaginative cinematography and dystopian sense of mystery is something not to be missed. The movie leaves its viewers with gnawing questions that are unshakable

For me the most things I like about this story is when the teenager united to save their life and back to the normal life. But I think the novel and the movie both are good and interesting.

Furious 7 almost certainly won’t be the last Fast & Furious movie. But at times it feels like the series’ farewell. There are numerous callbacks and homages to the franchise’s entire 15-year history. The setpieces are bigger and crazier than ever, and it’s hard to imagine anyone topping them. And before the chases really get rolling, the mood is often downright mournful. Two different scenes are set in graveyards. Characters talk ominously about taking “one last ride” together.

It’s impossible to watch these moments and not think about Paul Walker, who tragically died in a car crash in November 2013 before production had wrapped. Even though Furious 7 delivers the franchise’s requisite thrills, Walker’s real-life fate is never too far from the surface. It's on the audience’s mind when his character, Brian O’Conner, dangles off the edge of a cliff from a mangled bus, or when the camera begins to cut carefully around the actor’s face in scenes that were clearly completed after his death. Even though Walker is still present, his absence is already felt. It is strange to watch a movie that is this much fun and this sad all at the same time.

For years now — ever since the original cast returned in 2009’s Fast & Furious — the series has been building one of the densest and most complex mythologies in all of modern Hollywood, a trend that continues here as the characters deal with the fallout of their actions in Fast & Furious 6 (which was, in turn, a response to the aftermath of Fast Five, which dealt with the blowback from Fast & Furious). In the last film, street racer and master thief Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his team defeated a British criminal named Owen Shaw (Luke Evans); in Furious 7, Shaw’s older brother Deckard (Jason Statham) vows revenge. Newcomers won’t notice, but hardcore Fast vets will be delighted, particularly when this Fast & Furious concludes a scene that originally began way back in The Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift almost ten years ago.

Deckard murders one of Dom’s buddies, blows up Dom’s house, and nearly kills his amnesiac lover Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), Brian’s wife (and Dom’s sister) Mia (Jordana Brewster) and Brian and Mia’s young son. He also attacks Dom’s secret agent pal Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson), who’s no pushover. So Dom vows revenge on Deckard for vowing revenge on him. This is a lot of revenge for one movie to contain, and that’s before Dom and the rest of his crew (which also includes computer expert Chris “Ludacris” Bridges and comic relief Tyrese Gibson) hook up with a shadowy government operative named Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell) and then start skydiving out of planes behind the wheel of their custom cars, a sport I guess we have to call “skydriving.”

Though Fast & Furious began in 2001 as a movie about an undercover cop in the world of Los Angeles street racing, it has long since abandoned that milieu — along with the laws of physics — for globe-trotting espionage and heists involving wildly over-the-top action sequences.Director James Wan, a man previously known for horror movies like The Conjuring and Insidious, replaced longtime franchise steward Justin Lin on Furious 7, but the visuals don’t miss a beat. By the big finale, Wan’s juggling three or four interconnected lines of parallel action, and doing so with a deftness and precision that a lot of veteran genre filmmakers still lack. Even with the tough choices he made out of necessity in order to keep Paul Walker in the film, this might be the best-looking and best-edited Fast & Furious so far. (I’d still rate Fast Five as the best overall movie in the franchise for sheer brio and entertainment value, and a plot that holds together a bit better than this one.)

Fast & Furious 6 made something of a catchphrase of the line “Ride or die.” It’s repeated by Michelle Rodriguez at the start of Furious 7, but this time Diesel suggests she try just the ride part and skip the rest. In the wake of Walker’s death, the creators of Furious 7 could have chosen to rein in some of the outrageous car chases and crashes. Instead, they went in the opposite direction; this Fast & Furious seems to contain a record number of brutal collisions that characters walk away from like they’re invincible. It’s a choice that could have backfired, but it feels right, and it makes Furious 7, which is already a fitting and moving send-off for Walker, even more poignant, because the characters in the film can do what people in the real world cannot: Defy death.

See You Again..

FORREST GUMP MOVIE

The film begins with a feather falling to the feet of Forrest Gump who is sitting at a bus stop in Savannah, Georgia. Forrest picks up the feather and puts it in the book Curious George, then tells the story of his life to a woman seated next to him. The listener at the bus stop changes regularly throughout his narration, each one of the shows different attitude ranging from disbelief and indifference to rapt veneration.

On his first day at school, he meets a girl named Jenny, whose life is followed in parallel to Forrest's at times. Having discarded his leg braces, his ability to run at lightning speed gets him into college on a football scholarship. After his college graduation, he joined the army and he been sent to Vietnam, where he makes fast friends with a black man named Benjamin Buford Blue “Bubba”. Bubba convinces Forrest to go into the shrimping business with him when the war is over. Later while on patrol, Forrest's platoon has been attacked. Though Forrest rescues many of the men, Bubba was killed in action. Forrest is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honour for his heroism. 

While Forrest is in recovery for a bullet shot to his "buttock", he discovers his uncanny ability for table tennis. Eventually he gaining popularity and rising to celebrity status. Forrest played table tennis competitively against Chinese teams. At an anti-war rally in Washington, D.C. Forrest reunites with Jenny, who has been living a hippie lifestyle. When he returned home, Forrest endorses a company that makes table tennis paddles. The company offered Forrest $25,000, which he uses to buy a shrimping, boat to fulfilling his promise to Bubba. 

His commanding officer from Vietnam, Lieutenant Dan joined him, Initially Forrest has little success. After finding his boat the only surviving boat in the area after Hurricane Carmen, he begins to pull in huge amounts of shrimp and uses it to buy an entire fleet of shrimp boats. He got a call that telling that his mother is sick. He returned home to see his mother’s last days. Lt. Dan invests the money in Apple Computer and Forrest is financially secure for the rest of his life.

One day, Jenny returns to visit Forrest and he proposes marriage to her. But she declines. She leaves early the next morning. After that, Forrest decided to go for a run. Seemingly capriciously, he decides to keep running across the country several times, over some three and a half years he become famous. In present-day, Forrest reveals that he is waiting at the bus stop because he received a letter from Jenny who, having seen him run on television and asks him to visit her. 

Forrest discovers he has a son. Jenny tells Forrest she is suffering from a virus. Together the three move back to Alabama. Jenny and Forrest finally marry. The wedding is attended by Lt. Dan, who now has prosthetic legs and a fiancé. Jenny dies not so long after. The film ends with Forrest and his son waiting for the school bus on little Forrest's first day of school. He opened the book that his son taking to school. As the bus pulls away, the white feather from the beginning of the movie is caught on a breeze and drifts skyward.

Some people said the book is better than the movie. And some said the movie is better than the book. But for me, I have read the book and have watched the movie and learned how vast the difference from the book to the film. Both movie and book is telling the same story about Forrest’s life. Despite the differences and the fact I enjoyed the movie and the novel. This is the most interesting story for teenagers and adults. The story is full of adventures, humours, sadness, and many more. It is a combination of the emotional in one story. 

The story line is very easy to understand. For me the thing that I like the most about this story is the unforgettable charming quotes that can easily be identified as a classic line from Forrest Gump. At the beginning of the movie, Forrest says that “life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you are going to get.” It means you would never know what will happen to you until you try or do it. And some time it can be your luck. This quote is really inspired me. It really gave a positive impact to me. And I would like to recommend this book to people who haven’t read it. Both movie and the book have their own charms. It’s an easy to digest material and it is also an enjoyable movie if u asked me.

~NCA~

Favourite Movie

          “Manisnya Cinta di Cappadocia” is a film by Bernard Chauly and it is an adaptation from a popular novel by Anis Ayuni, Manisnya Cinta. The film was in cinemas on 11 December 2014 and ends on 2 January 2015. In addition, the film collect profit RM1611925.90 for 22 days in cinemas. This movie is starring by a few of popular actors such as Nur Fazura, Shaheizy Sam, Lisa Surihani, Faizal Hussien, Eja, Josiah Hogan, Rafidah Abdullah, Zaibo and Fauziah Ahmad Daud.

          Rafidah Abdullah as a scriptwriter of ‘Gol and Gincu the Series’, ‘Istanbul Aku Datang’, ‘Pisau Cukur’ and ‘Kami Histeria’ formulate the script that easily understand and do not put all conflict in film. She knows how to make this movie like what people want. All movies that came out with her script will come out with the best storyline and also perfect background. Rafidah won the audience's heart with her own storyline that not heavy and easy to understand. Both movie, ‘Istanbul Aku Datang’ and “Manisnya Cinta Di Cappadocia” were perfect because they choose Turkey as the main place.Turkey has its own specialty that will make anyone being crazy with it because of its beautiful environment such as romantic places and that is totally suitable for couple who in love with each other and in other words, honeymoon.

          Rafidah put a comedy scene that audience does not expect. It will make audiences laugh and never feel bored during watching this movie. She also knows how to balance the storyline by not put too much conflict in one movie. I do not like ‘Suamiku Encik Perfect 10’ because the scriptwriter failed to attract audiences and the climax was heavy.

          There are a lot of my favourite scenes. First, Ifti Liyana always dreams to create something that she cannot do in reality. Scene when Ifti Liyana’s parents unsatisfied when she breaks off with Fredo. She says “Kalau susah-susah sangat, biar mak dan abah je yang kahwin dengan Fredo". She thinks about what will happen when her parents get married with Fredo and of course, it will never happen.

          Second, scene when Fredo say he love both between Ifti Liyana and Juita. After that, she was dream that she slaps and kick Fredo’s balls. “Ini satu, ini dua”. It was very funny when a girl kick her boyfriend’s balls when he asks for break off. Even it was hurt but broken heart was hurt more that his balls. Ifti Liyana still can behave her attitude by not doing it in real. She has to take care of her parents name and her own dignity because she must be an expensive girl.

          Lastly, the scene when Ifti Liyana and her family attend Fredo’s wedding ceremony. Everyone keeps going ask her about what happen between her and Fredo. Her aunties want rematch Ifti Liyana with their son. Ifti Liyana dreams that she was voice out her feelings by saying “Perhatian! Kepada sesiapa yang belum mempunyai pasangan, sila daftarkan diri anda di meja ini kerana makcik-makcik saya yang penyibuk ni ingin mendapatkan jodoh untuk anak-anak mereka"

          Any movies will not succeed without their talented actors. People who will follow director’s directions and scriptwriter’s ideas to be like what they want. In this movie, they choose Nur Fazura as the main actress and match her with Shaheizy Sam. They also choose Lisa Surihani, Eja, Faizal Hussein, Fauziah Datuk Ahmad Daud, Zaibo, Rafidah Abdullah and many more.