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Book of Mormon Musical Review

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Yesterday i saw the hilarious musical “The Book of Mormon” which was written by the creators of South Park. The story tells the story of a pair of 18 year old Mormons who are sent on their mission as missionaries (One the Top of his class, and the other a complete dork who has no idea what he’s doing.), where they must spend two years helping people and spreading their religion. The thing is, the place chosen for them is Uganda. To make the situation worse, the village they go to in Uganda is ruled by a Ruthless Warlord who enjoys shooting people in the face.  The difference between the pure Mormons who go so far to avoid swearing that they say things like “bull-poop” and “OM-Gosh”. On the other side of the scale are the Africans, who are constantly dropping F-bombs and have the foulest mouths possible. At first look you may think that this musical is incredibly offensive, but the thing is, its only partially offensive, because its not like they show the Mormons as bad people. They do still mock their beliefs a little bit at times, but its not the the point where it was overly offensive. And the stories and things the Mormons preached where entirely accurate, since there were multiple Mormons in the original writing crew. I really have not laughed this hard at a musical in my whole life, it was just so gosh darn funny, i really couldn’t stop laughing. Especially when Jesus had the Cartman voice from south-park.

NOTE: This is not a musical for kids, it is very inappropriate, basically think, only let your kids watch this if you’d let them watch south park.

Dracula iSearch

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The detail from Dracula that i decided to research was the gold that Dracula was hoarding, ancient gold.

“The only thing I found was a great heap of gold in one corner—gold of all kinds, Roman, and British, and Austrian, and Hungarian, and Greek and Turkish money, covered with a film of dust, as though it had lain long in the ground. None of it that I noticed was less than three hundred years old. There were also chains and ornaments, some jeweled, but all of them old and stained.” – Jonathan Harker, Dracula.

I feel like this scene really had an impact on my view of the Count, for, after that, I went from seeing Dracula as a wealthy man to a extremely rich man.

It also leads me to believe that he may have more gold in the other locked rooms of the castle, and probably even some gold from Transylvania itself because I found out in my research, that Transylvania was very rich with minerals like gold.  I feel like Bram Stoker put the pile of gold in to add to his feel of mysteriousness and superiority, because you never know how he got it for sure.  The pile of gold may not be significant to the actual story, but it certainly was a good thing to include

“In his speaking of things and people, and especially of battles, he spoke as if he had been present at them all.” – Jonathan Harker, Dracula.

I feel like this also shows that Dracula actually was in those battles that he was talking to Jonathan  about, as it would seem that he got a share of the loot when he won, which is one of the first pointers full out given to show that Dracula may not be human, but rather something that lives a lot longer.

It also leads me to believe that he may have more gold in the other locked rooms of the castle, and probably even some gold from Transylvania itself because I found out in my research, that Transylvania was very rich with minerals like gold.  I feel like Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula) put the pile of gold in to add to his feel of mysteriousness and superiority, because you never know how he got it for sure.  I do not believe that the pile of gold plays a significant role in the story, but it sure adds to it for the reader, for it really helps develop the character of Dracula. I tried to research where the gold came from or any other details that I should know about, but I could find very little, since pretty much everything that came up were “gold deals” at hotels with Dracula in the name.

Guardians of the Galaxy Review

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I have to say this. Pure brilliance,

but then again what else could you get when you combine amazing comic book material, a soundtrack of classic 70’s music, an amazing set of actors,  and a band of misfit clumsy heroes?

You get beautiful work, that’s what you get. With the main character being a clumsy player from earth, who can get himself into more trouble than most living beings, and the supporting characters including a talking military minded raccoon and a tree-thing who only knows how to say one sentence, how could you go wrong. Howard the duck even makes a joke appearance in the scene after the credits :p

With everything beautifully done from beginning to finish, Guardians of The Galaxy is a must see movie.  And definitely my new favorite.