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Movie
Review: She's the Man
by Joshua Desmarais
Under the direction of Andy Fickman,
Amanda Bynes and a supporting cast provide a
merely okay recreation of William Shakespeare’s
The Twelfth Night. Take heed of the modifying words “merely okay,”
as while this movie was not all that bad, it most certainly was
not all that good, either.
Anybody who has read Shakespeare’s work prior to this essentially
knows the brunt of the plot – the only subsequent necessary step
would be to throw in copious amounts of soccer, a few modernized
names and extraneous soccer-related characters that were obviously
not previously in the play.
It all starts off simply, and admittedly not all that interestingly,
enough Viola Bynes is some manner of hot-shot girls’ soccer player,
her school cuts the soccer team, she looks remarkably similar
to her brother Sebastian James Kirk and she decides
it a great idea to pose as her brother and play soccer at his
high school. Her brother is, of course, not present for a while
in the movie.
The movie has all of the typical aspects anybody would really
expect from any really, really average movie from this era – the
character meets some disappointment, the character meets some
love interest, and all ends eventually meet. Replace “the character”
in prior sentences with Viola and one essentially has all the
middle action between the start and end of the movie.
The original play itself was intended to be a comedy, and though
it is a bit archaic for most people’s tastes these days, it did
fit its original intent. This remake also assumedly aims to be
a comedy, though it appeals to a rather base, juvenile sense of
humor, repeatedly relying on plays of “Ha ha! Look how awkwardly
Viola talks!” and quite overdone statements such as “I like cheese.”
Dead horses like the aforementioned “jokes” are the status quo
for this film. However, those two are not the only ghost horses
among the film’s repertoire there are also copious volumes of
slapstick humor. To be fair, at least one or two of their scenes
were quite amusing.
As far as how the film ends, of course everything gets resolved.
The original work itself was a comedy, not a tragedy, so nobody
meets with a grisly fate, and though the film is saturated with
soccer-related paraphernalia, the correlation to The Twelfth Night
does indeed shine through. All in all, the party I saw “She’s
the Man” with had mixed feelings, mostly negative. The most commonly
repeated statement post-film was “Can I have my two hours back?”
– bear this in mind!
The bottom line: not bad, but not that good.
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Guatamala Trip 2006
The Guatemala team traveled to Guatemala the week of February
17, 2006. Mr. Steve Torode as well as Mr.
Nathan Smith and Mrs. Lisa Moore accompanied
the students on their six-hour flight far away from home.
While in Guatemala, the group of 17 students helped to build the
roof of a schoolhouse. They went to San Antonio Nejapa, Antigua,
and Guatemala City. They also visited schools where they did activities
with children such as ball games and blowing bubbles. A favorite
game of the students that was shared in chapel was Shrimp and
Caramel. One person starts by saying shrimp, and the other person
answers back with caramel. Though the game sounds simple, it was
a way to get the kids involved with the students.
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The varsity girls soccer team defeated the Scotts Valley Falcons
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for the 2006 season.
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after a loss to Saint Ignatius in early February, the girls held
on to their hope. Fortunately, luck was on their side, and they
were allowed to proceed to the first game of CCS finals.
On the evening of February 15, the Warriors took the field under
Valley Christian’s stadium lights determined to make the most
of the opportunity they had been given. Their opponent, Woodside
Priory, was unable to penetrate Warrior defense throughout the
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Valley Christian Theater’s spring musical, Oklahoma,
is one of its finest accomplishments yet. The authenticity, dedication,
and captivation of the audience by the performers brought people
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The teachers had their own opening night on Wednesday, March 15.
Their experience was that of astonishment as these were their
students acting and putting on a show that could not be done to
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