Well I have just finished my first week at Journalism School, and find that we have Friday’s off! What have I learnt, well I guess I have had introductions to interviewing, taking mugshots to add substance into articles, and writing different types of news stories. All this should evolve further over the next few months, and I should know if it is something I would want to do as a job or interest in the future.
So today, as it was Friday, I had the day off, and what a lovely day! It was shorts weather.
In the morning I showed Lucy, no not my Lucy, around the area, taking her on a tour around all the lovely bays around Wellington. I had met Lucy in the Mount Vic park on Monday on the way home. She is a nurse from Wakefield, Yorkshire, and had only been here for a week. It’s funny, but I seem to be able to just talk to anyone! Anyway, when I was talking to her I said that she should phone my Lucy when she starts work, as she will be working in the same hospital. Then consequently out of the blue I got a text, so I arranged this tour. I should be a tour guide, as I seem to know a lot about the city and surrounds!
This afternoon I went to the cinema, which seems to be the new thing in my life as I seem to be going a lot. I went to see ‘Public Enemies’ which is a film about John Dillinger, who was a notorious bank robber in Chicago. It starred Jonny Depp as Dillinger,and Christian Bale (who played Batman, and actually comes from Bournemouth) as Melvin Purvis, with Marion Cotillard as ‘Billie’ who is Dillingers lover, and Billy Crudup as J.Edgar Hoover. It seems that according to the film, that the FBI had trouble at this time (1933) getting any kind of support for the new investigations service, with local councillors (or state controllers) feeling that they were not required. Anyway, they were the ones who eventually go Dillinger, gunning him down outside a cinema.
Another enjoyable film, full of action and good acting. In fact within the film there was a scene in a cinema showing a Clark Gable gangster film, andyou really do notice how much better the acting is nowadays. As we all know Dillinger was eventually caught, in fact he was brutally killed by FBI agents, but what was surprising to me was the way he was portrayed as a caring kind of guy. He had fallen in love with his mistress, Billie Frechette, and was shown as a very loving chap! Exceot for his victims of course, but the film wanted to show his character as someone who didn’t want to kill particularly, and was just interested in getting a better life for himself with the money he stole. The film is obviously just a snapshot of his life and is shown from the eyes of the writers and directors, but is good value all the same.
There are a lot of good films coming up, and the next two I want to see are from New Zealand. One is by Tom Scott, who is a cartoonist on the Dom Post (a Wellington paper), called Separation City, and the other is called ‘Under the Mountain’ written by Maurice Gee (the novel) and Mathew Grainger(the screenplay).
Watch this space for a brief synopsis after I have watched them.
Well I’ve written over six hundred words so that’ll be it for now. The weekend beckons, and we have our round of Rugby, Netball and Hockey tomorrow, along with an extra helping of Rugby on Sunday as Alistair is in a tournament. You never know there maybe time for Lucy and me to do something we would like to do, but don;t count on it!
