With great reviews from all corners, the Dark Knight is all over the news. Heath Ledger as the Joker seems to have overshadowed the Batman. Man I’d to go watch it, but the all the weekend shows are booked :(

I finally get to watch Indiana Jones over the weekend. When the first Indy - Raiders came, I was still in school, and I can remember watching it in a local theatre without understanding a single words. But the bolder chase & the truck scene are still fresh in my head. I don’t want to write some review of my opinion on the movie. But if you ask me whether I like the new Indiana Jones after 19yrs, I’d say, I’d grown older not Indy.

The adventure continues :)

Indy 4 released at US today, the net is flooded with Indiana Jones reviews. For me, I’m avoiding all reviews, I hate bad reviews of Indy and above all I HATE SPOILERS. Damn the critics at Cannes. Come May 30 catch me at a multiplex in Bangalore :)

It’s official, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” will release in India on 30th May 08, a good one week after the US release. Time to crack the whip Dr. Jones. I saw the rushes, you know what, the fedora still looks damn good on Indy. [My earlier post on Indiana Jones]

Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first of the Indiana Jones trilogy, one of my favorite movie of all time. I like Indiana Jones mostly because, he’s not perfect, makes whole lots of mistakes though at the end he beats up all the baddies :)

The movie had quite a fan following allover the world, but some fans go that extra miles.

Three kids from Mississippi, 1982, created a shot-to-shot remake of the movie. twenty-one years later, their fan film creation has become an underground hit receiving attention from media elites such as CNN, Vanity Fair and even a nod from Steven Spielberg himself.

And now, in February of 2004, it was announced that producer Scott Rudin (Addams Family, School of Rock) purchased the rights to the untitled life story of the three Mississippi kids who remade Raiders of the Lost Ark over the course of 7 years. The film will chronicle the childhood adventures of Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala and Jayson Lamb on their ultimate quest to remake the greatest film in cinema history.

http://www.theindyexperience.com/raiders_adaptation/raiders_adaptation_main.php
http://www.bbcworld.com/content/talkingmovies_archive_18_2005.asp?pageid=665&co_pageid=6

Now apart from this adaptation, watch out for Indy 4, with Harrison Ford coming soon 2007 ;)

This time I pledge that I won’t be a spoiler like I did in my previous entry “Revenge of the Sith“.

Thriller writing doesn’t get any better than this. - Denver Post
The review about Dan Brown’s much acclaimed novel The DaVinci Code is never ending. The book ran at an exhilarating tempo through a night of murder, symbology, code breaking, cryptology, secret societies and Leonardo DaVinci’s The Vitruvian Man.

The Vitruvian Man, there are many myths and theories which surrounds this DaVinci work. But from an angle, we can understand the proportions of the human body. For example, if we divide the total height of our body with the length from toe to waist, or the total length of our arm divide by the length from fingertip to elbow, we get a value 1.61803399. This proportions can be found in many of natures creations from the arrangements of petals in a flower, eye like marking in a butterfly, spiral of a sea shell, the list never ending. This value is roughly a ratio of 5/3, called the The Golden Ratio or Phi (Pronounced Fi).

This ratio was applied to many of DaVinci’s work and on many Roman architects.
The Golden rectangle, as many of us may have heard is also based on the Golden Ratio.
There are unlimited applications today from paper sizes to page layout and yes graphics design.

Thank you Mr. Brown for helping me realize that not all old painting are for Historians. Or who knows, maybe I’m growing old, while learning to appreciate your book and old paintings ;)

Some related links:
http://goldennumber.net/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/leonardo/gallery/vitruvian.shtml
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldenRectangle.html
http://www.danbrown.com/

Note: The following may contain spoilers about “Star Wars: Episode III.” If you’d rather not know anything, stop reading now.

Closing the circle of ‘Star Wars’.

Supreme Chancellor Palpatine was a Sith Lord, and the fear of Anakin’s recurring nightmare of Padmé dying in childbirth, made Anakin embrace the dark side. Is this how the circle closes after 28yrs?? or is this some demo reel for “Industrial Light and Magic”??

Sad to see such an epic movie closing up in this fashion, the story rushing in from one scene to another. Atleast, let the smoke of Anakin’s buring skin subside to put the much anticipated Darth Vader mask. The one thing that will make me watch Star Wars again will be Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi). I can actually feel him becoming Sir Alec Guinness in the 1st Start Wars, now Episode IV : A New Hope.

I guess I might be expecting too much too much, growing up with the original Star Wars movies, with Hans Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Chewbecca and the Millinium Falcon. Or maybe This is how truth dies - to thunderous applause.

Maybe I’ll run back to the theatre and prove myself that I still haven’t Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith.