12/1/09: Movie Review

Movie Review: Bridge to Terabithia

Everyone, no matter who you are, feels the pressure of everyday life on your shoulders. Jess Aarons is a ten year old kid who gets picked on at school by nearly everyone. His life at home wasn’t much better. He is the only boy out of five children. His oldest sisters, Ellie and Brenda, are terribly mean to him and are vigilantly on the lookout for opportunities to belittle Jess, who is in the middle. May Bell is only six years old. Like Jess, she doesn’t have very many friends at school so tries to push her way into hanging out with him. Joyce Ann is the youngest at four years old, and isn’t seen much in the movie.

Because Jess is the only boy in the family, his father is very hard on him and has Jess working tough to help earn bread for the family. Jess isn’t interested in working on a farm, he’s artistic and loves drawing. His father however sees art as a waste of time and chastises him for not being useful. Jess is trapped between helping his father but forsaking his artwork, and continuing to be picked on at school yet pursuing what he loves. It’s not until Leslie arrives that he truly finds his place in the world.

Jess trained all summer and strove to be the fastest kid for the big race on the first day back to school. He would have been too if it wasn’t that new girl, Leslie Burke. The race began and Jess took the lead, but right as he was about to win, Leslie shot ahead of everyone. Jealous at Leslie for stealing the one thing he wanted, he refused to even talk to her for a day. On the bus home, he was drawing in his sketch book, Leslie was sitting on the seat ahead and watched him drawing for a second until he closed his book and waited for her to turn away, but when she offered him some gum, Jess realized she wasn’t like the rest of the kids at school. Departing from the bus, they raced home.

Jess and Leslie quickly became friends. Her wild imagination proved to be the perfect companion to Jess’s love for drawing. During English class, their teacher had Leslie read her poem that she made about scuba diving and Jess could literally imagine bubbles in the air . From this point on, Jess liked Leslie a lot.

The two of them ran home from school one day, and ended up finding a rope swing above the river than ran its course in the woods behind their houses. At first afraid of going across it, Jess said they should go home because it doesn’t look very safe. Leslie ignores this and makes believe that the rope is an enchanted gateway to a magical land that belongs to the two of them. Inspired by Leslie’s bravery and enchanting imagination Jess takes the rope and lets go of his fear. This act represents being set free from everyone else. For you see, before Leslie arrive, Jess was on the dangerous path of conforming to the ways and life style of everyone else in Lark Creek, which basically means becoming a bully, jock, or farmer. Leslie’s newfound world takes the weight of peer pressure and family off his shoulders.

They find a tree fort in their new land and transform it into their very own castle. Still discovering all the new amazing things about the area they found, they climb a tree and look out upon the landscape. Leslie sees a magical kingdom with mountains, valleys, rivers, and creatures abroad. Jess however, sees only his regular town and the surrounding trees. With Leslie’s encouragement however, he closes his eyes and opens his mind. Upon reopening his eyes, he lets his mind soar and finally sees life the way Leslie does, and looks out at the kingdom of Terabithia in all its glory.

Jess’s music teacher Miss Edmunds invites him to a museum. Jess’s crush on her stops him from inviting Leslie along. He quickly tells his mother while she was still asleep that he was going out, then heads off to the museum. While he is away, Leslie tries to cross the rope bridge into Terabithia but the rope snaps and the flooded river sweeps her down stream. Jess comes home and to his horror, discovers the fate of his best friend. Grief overwhelms Jess and he refuses to believe that Leslie is gone. He runs as fast as he can to the river where he finds the snapped rope dangling above the river, a tree has fallen down nearby which was the cause of the snapped rope. The rope was the symbol of the magic of Terabithia, and with the death of it’s queen, the magic was ended. However, Jess builds a bridge over the fallen log, proving that nothing can crush the magic that was created from the friendship of Jess and Leslie.

Critical Essay: 11/20/09

A lot of people love going to the movies. They watch them for entertainment, for a good time. Right? What could be more harmless than sitting in a theater, eating a gargantuan ten dollar bucket of popcorn while slurping down a supersized Coke? Aside from an overdose of theater-butter, your average Joe leaves the movies with nothing more than a full belly, happy mind, and lighter wallet. But what message has that movie put into his head? Directors always have an agenda for their movie. They make them to put thoughts into people’s minds and what the most dangerous concept of movies is, is how they can show something dangerous, and portray it as normal, romantic, or funny, to make it seem less dangerous than what it actually is. How exactly does media affect the way people view morality?

Whenever a director makes a movie, they will always have a targeted audience, whether it be the whole family, just children, or adults only, the images and thoughts it invokes are meant for that age group. For kids, they could show silly vampires like the Count from Sesame Street. One may think, how are vampires dangerous? They’re just made up and can’t hurt anyone. Well, what happens is it tells children that vampires are an everyday occurance, and that fact just snowballs into the introduction of more and more objectionable material until, as adults, some people are so immersed in witchcraft, occult activities and practices that they don’t even realize what it is anymore. Movies aimed at older generations are easier to recognize than Sesame Street, of course. Especially ones What’s sad is how older, and supposedly wiser adults don’t see how they’ve become desensitized to the witchcraft practices that they watch. They’ll see it as something spooky, but not wrong. This is due to what environment they were raised in as kids.

However, not all movies give their audiences corrupted messages. In fact, there are lots of movies out there that show positive reinforcement towards godliness and staying true the Bible. My favorite example is Fiddler on the Roof. It combines rich and compelling story alongside heartwarming and powerful music in a perfect combination that sets your feet a tappin’ and makes you want to jump up and yell, “Tradition!” Viewers of all ages could watch this film and be motivated to start going to church by watching it. One extremely powerful movie is the Passion of the Christ. There are stories of a woman having a heart attack by watching the movie and that the poor lady died at the hospital. Now the Passion is a very gorey movie and the woman obviously had such shock that her heart went all a flutter.

Should a teenage kid who has been exposed to video game and movie violence all his or her life watch the same movie, it’s no doubt that that kid would be hardly phased at all from the gore. Video games these days have gotten increasingly violent, realistic, and mature. Parents will buy games like Grand Theft Auto, Medal of Honor, Mortal Kombat, or Dead or Alive for their children, not knowing how bad they are for them. Ignorant parents will get their sweet little children a game that promotes crime, sex, murder, and get upset when little Jimmy and Susie start throwing around cuss words and emulating repulsive or obscene acts.

Children learn by observing and imitating, so if they are exposed to lewd behavior, violence, gore, crime, or witchcraft, they will copy what they see. Learning starts at a very early age. Even in a child’s infancy they will see the way their parents behave and those acts grow on them. When they start watching TV shows and movies, they need to be exposed to the right material. Children, ages 8 to 18, spend more time (44.5 hours per week- 61/2 hours daily) in front of computer, television, and game screens than any other activity in their lives except sleeping (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2005). With that fact in mind, how much of what the kids watch are being monitered by an adult? Children’s programs contain similar amounts of indirect and verbal aggression as general adult programs, but neither types of aggression are considered when creating ratings for children’s programs, and 67% of children’s programs that contained physical aggression were not correctly rated, with one program containing 53 acts of aggression in 1 hour (Linder, 2009).

Movies have ratings on them for a reason and parents need to be careful about monitoring what their children are watching. Video game violence can lead to real life violence later. When children don’t realize the consequences of their actions until it is too late, they’ve already been stepping down the wrong path for far too long. Numerous studies have been done on the correlation between the nature of violent video games and crime. The strongest evidence for these studies is what happened on April 20, 1999.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold created a massacre at Columbine High School. It will never be known what exactly their reasons were to kill thirteen of their classmates and injuring twenty three, but after investigations were made, it became known that the boys were strongly addicted to first person shooter type video games. Harris had a modified version in which there were two players, most likely for him and Klebold, and that none of the victims could fight back, resembling a real life situation in which they aren’t murdering zombies and monsters, but real human beings who are fleeing for their lives. It may never be known if it was the video games that gave them the inspiration to cause the massacre, but what we can infer is that the violent games did instill the thoughts into their minds.

Studies by six prominent medical groups (American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, American Psychological Association, American Medical Association, American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Psychiatric Association) show that if exposed to violent movies or video games, children will increase anti-social and aggressive behavior, they will be come less sensitive to violence and suffering, and finally that children will view violence as an acceptable way to settle conflicts. (Congressional Public Health Summit, 2000). This last fact is cause for concern, because with the rise of violent video games and movies, how many more Columbines could America potentially have?

with a last ditch effort, i’m literally strangulating my brain for more words to come out, but there is nothing. I’ve ran myself dry on this topic. My brain fuel is out and the only sign of civilization was a five days ago. Anyone out there? Hello? I guess I’ll just lie down for a while… maybe something will come to me in my sleep…

Blog post 4: a little late, but still here!

The movie i have chosen to write about is none other than the magnificent movie, Fiddler on the Roof! This masterpiece is one of the greatest cinematic contributions to our time. It’s a perfectly blended mix of music, storyline, and love that was brewed to excellence.

I chose this movie because of the message it tries to show to it’s viewers. That violence is never necessary and love will always conquer. I love the Jewish music in the movie, and its songs are captivating and chilling. The Sabbath Prayer song still gives me goosebumps! With such powerful artistry in its music, who could resist writing about it?

However, it’s not just the wonderful music that swayed me into choosing this film, but it’s enriching story line too. For it’s time, it had extremely modern techniques used to make it, like the scene with Tevye and the butcher, Lazar Wolfe, where during a moment of reflection, while Tevye was thinking to himself, it seemed that time was frozen for the rest of the world, and it gave the audience a glimpse into the his mind without taking away from the scene they were in. The same technique is used when Tzeitel an Perchik confront Tevye to ask of him his blessing for their marriage. Although in this instance, while Tevye is reasoning to himself on whether or not he should give his blessing, he appears several yards away from the others while time is frozen, giving the inflection that their proposal is an outlandish and “far out” idea. Absurd! Unthinkable!

Not many movies have captivated me like this one, and thus, it’s going to be the topic of my next paper

Blog post 5: V for Vendetta

When you have a movie loosely based off of a nineteen eighties graphic novel that just so happens to be loosely based off of a four hundred year old event in history, there is bound to be quite a few misconstrued facts. Alan Moore, the main author of the graphic novel, has literally renounced the movie as a horribly mutated deviation of his work, and for good reason!

One such article clearly states what it’s authoer, Richard Porton, believes to be are the main points the movie tries to make, and what is disturbingly wrong with the way the directors of the movie, Grant Hill, Joel Silver, Andy Wachowski, and Larry Wachowski portrayed the world in which the main hero, the anarchist who calls himself, V, lives. He even quotes National Review Online calling the film an “undercooked popcorn subversion”. Clearly he dislikes the movie, but why? What is the reasons behind his aversion to it?

Richard describes how the setting takes place in a near future England which is ruled by a fascist, totalitarian government that dictates all states of affairs with an iron fist. However, ever since the fall of the Nazis, countries have shied away from booming voiced, ham-fisted, extremist leaders. Making it extremely unlikely that any country would give such a person that power. The government has criminalized homosexuality, outlawed all religions except for the state’s, and state-run torture is seen as normal. The mysterious hero, V, uses shakespearian quotes to win over the minds of the entire population of England with a single three-minute speech. Hollywood is known for making some far fetched movies, but this one is so far out there that the ridiculousness of the film distracts from it’s message it tries to show.

Sicko Movie Paper

My brain was literally racing after watching this movie. It actually makes me want to move out of this country to either France or Britain, or at least somewhere that isn’t trying to kill its own people to make money. I can’t believe this disgusting and horrendous wickedness isn’t making headline news everywhere across the country! It’s sickening how corrupt people are allowed to get away with it because they aren’t technically killing anyone, just denying them the life saving coverage they need. Those who have the final say on whether or not someone’s insurance is approved or denied should be considered mass murderers and held accountable for their crimes against humanity. They’ve denied thousands of people the life saving treatment needed, and then get rewarded for it by the companies they work for with a raise! Unfortunately, the problem isn’t with just providing free health care to everyone (which in itself is a prospect that many fear because of the notion of the government being able to deny coverage to people then instead of a private insurer), but the underlying corruption within the system.

The rich and powerful don’t care who dies as long as they are capable of making profits off their deaths. They will kill mercilessly for money, and they don’t even care who it is that dies. One particular “doctor” admitted that he had a stamp that he used to sign his signature on the papers that would deny life saving treatment so he could cut back on the time required to write it out manually, leading to more coverage denied.

The billion dollar profits they make are built upon the mountains of bodies of the people they’ve sentenced to death through the denial of life saving care. Even Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush both took over $800,000 bribes to stop campaigning for universal care. That just goes to show how deep corruption in our government runs. If the leaders of our people are accepting money from corrupt corporations to stop telling the population about how they’re being denied, then it’s not just the private insurers that need to go. I change in government is also needed, one that won’t stand for mass murderers that claim to be hard working people.

The insurance company’s ridiculous ways to save money have to stop! One particular example that I can think of is when a man, who was also a husband and father, needed a life saving surgery for a bone marrow transplant. This part of the story touched my heart more than any other part of the documentary because I have a friend who’s younger brother needed a bone marrow transplant. He got the treatment needed, but I don’t want to imagine what my friend would be like if his younger brother was denied the coverage needed to pay his medical bills. In the documentary, however, the man’s younger brother was a perfect candidate for the transplant, yet his insurance was denied because they said that, even though that type of treatment had been successfully used before on many other patients, it was experimental and thus not covered by his policy. The man, Tracy, later died from a cancer that could have been stopped. It breaks my heart to know that my friends were one of the very few lucky ones to be approved. How many others had been through the same experience?

it’s not only the impotency of insurance companies that makes me want to shove a certain thing up a certain someone’s you know what. Why is it that residents in France get a minimum of THREE weeks of payed vacation when most people in America work their entire lives for a fraction of the luxury? The average American citizen’s income in the year 2004 was $44,389, which equates into an average of $3,700 a month. Subtract all the expenses of insurance and bills, and you’re looking at around $1,000 a month for entire families, which isn’t much at all. Now if you’ve watched the movie then you’ll have seen that the French man who was interviewed made 8,000 Euros, or around $15,000 American each month. Not only that, but he didn’t have to fork out thousands of dollars for the insurance for his family.

There needs to be a change in America, and it needs to start with the expulsion of the corrupt and greedy. They do not belong in a position of power, or a position of leadership, or any position at all. They belong in a cell with the rest of the murderers. It almost seems unfair that such people are allowed to get away with this because it’s their job. Shouldn’t they be convicted of mass murder? Or is it the fact that they are able to pay anyone off that opposes them that keeps them out of jail? Are the American people that easily bought? If we can get everyone aware of this crisis that’s suffocating our lives and siphoning the money out of our pockets, then we can get a change to happen. If enough people rise up to face them. For you see, people should not be afraid of their government, government should be afraid of their people.

Sicko blog

My brain was racing after watching this movie. It literally makes me want to move out of this country to either France or Britain. I can’t believe this isn’t headline news everywhere across the country! It’s sickening how people are allowed to get away with it. Those who have the final say on whether or not someone’s insurance is approved or denied should be considered mass murderers and held accountable for their crimes against humanity. Unfortunately, the problem isn’t with just providing free health care to everyone, but the corruption within the system. The rich and powerful are greedy. They kill for money. The billion dollar profits they make are built upon the mountains of bodies of the people they’ve sentenced to death through the denial of life saving care. Even Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush both took over $800,000 bribes to stop campaigning for universal care.  The insurance company’s ridiculous ways to save money have to stop! One particular example is when a man,  who was also a husband and father, needed a life saving surgery for a bone marrow transplant.  His younger brother was a perfect candidate for the transplant, but his insurance was denied because they said that even though that type of treatment had been successfully used before on many other patients, it was experimental and thus not covered by his policy. The man, Tracy, later died from a cancer that could have been stopped.

it’s not only the impotency of insurance companies that sickens me. Why do residents in france get a minimum of THREE weeks of payed vacation when most people in america work their entire lives for a fraction of the luxury? there needs to be a change in america, and it needs to start with the expulsion of the corrupt and greedy. People should not be afraid of their government, government should be afraid of their people.

Bridge to Terabithia

Movie Review: Bridge to Terabithia

Everyone, no matter who you are, feels the pressure of everyday life on your shoulders. Jess Aarons is a ten year old kid who gets picked on at school by nearly everyone. His life at home wasn’t much better. He is the only boy out of five children. His oldest sisters, Ellie and Brenda, are terribly mean to him and are vigilantly on the lookout for opportunities to belittle Jess, who is in the middle. May Bell is only six years old. Like Jess, she doesn’t have very many friends at school so tries to push her way into hanging out with him. Joyce Ann is the youngest at four years old, and isn’t seen much in the movie.

Because Jess is the only boy in the family, his father is very hard on him and has Jess working tough to help earn bread for the family. Jess isn’t interested in working on a farm, he’s artistic and loves drawing. His father however sees art as a waste of time and chastises him for not being useful. Jess is trapped between helping his father but forsaking his artwork, and continuing to be picked on at school yet pursuing what he loves. It’s not until Leslie arrives that he truly finds his place in the world.

Jess trained all summer and strove to be the fastest kid for the big race on the first day back to school. He would have been too if it wasn’t that new girl, Leslie Burke. The race began and Jess took the lead, but right as he was about to win, Leslie shot ahead of everyone. Jealous at Leslie for stealing the one thing he wanted, he refused to even talk to her for a day. On the bus home, he was drawing in his sketch book, Leslie was sitting on the seat ahead and watched him drawing for a second until he closed his book and waited for her to turn away, but when she offered him some gum, Jess realized she wasn’t like the rest of the kids at school. Departing from the bus, they raced home.

Jess and Leslie quickly became friends. Her wild imagination proved to be the perfect companion to Jess’s love for drawing. During English class, their teacher had Leslie read her poem that she made about scuba diving and Jess could literally imagine bubbles in the air . From this point on, Jess liked Leslie a lot.

The two of them ran home from school one day, and ended up finding a rope swing above the river than ran its course in the woods behind their houses. At first afraid of going across it, Jess said they should go home because it doesn’t look very safe. Leslie ignores this and makes believe that the rope is an enchanted gateway to a magical land that belongs to the two of them. Inspired by Leslie’s bravery and enchanting imagination Jess takes the rope and lets go of his fear. This act represents being set free from everyone else. For you see, before Leslie arrive, Jess was on the dangerous path of conforming to the ways and life style of everyone else in Lark Creek, which basically means becoming a bully, jock, or farmer. Leslie’s newfound world takes the weight of peer pressure and family off his shoulders.

They find a tree fort in their new land and transform it into their very own castle. Still discovering all the new amazing things about the area they found, they climb a tree and look out upon the landscape. Leslie sees a magical kingdom with mountains, valleys, rivers, and creatures abroad. Jess however, sees only his regular town and the surrounding trees. With Leslie’s encouragement however, he closes his eyes and opens his mind. Upon reopening his eyes, he lets his mind soar and finally sees life the way Leslie does, and looks out at the kingdom of Terabithia in all its glory.

Jess’s music teacher Miss Edmunds invites him to a museum. Jess’s crush on her stops him from inviting Leslie along. He quickly tells his mother while she was still asleep that he was going out, then heads off to the museum. While he is away, Leslie tries to cross the rope bridge into Terabithia but the rope snaps and the flooded river sweeps her down stream. Jess comes home and to his horror, discovers the fate of his best friend. Grief overwhelms Jess and he refuses to believe that Leslie is gone. He runs as fast as he can to the river where he finds the snapped rope dangling above the river, a tree has fallen down nearby which was the cause of the snapped rope. The rope was the symbol of the magic of Terabithia, and with the death of it’s queen, the magic was ended. However, Jess builds a bridge over the fallen log, proving that nothing can crush the magic that was created from the friendship of Jess and Leslie.

Luke Langley, movie blog

WARNING! Heavy spoilers! if you don’t want to ruin a really good movie stop reading.

Bridge to Terabithia.

I’m going to admit, I’m proud of myself for having never cried at a movie. Even in the saddest films that have made my sister literally bawl her eyes out. I don’t know why, but ever movie i’ve ever watched has never made me feel that way, except one. I didn’t cry, but damn, I came close to it. The movie that nearly broke my masculine record was Bridge to Terabithia. Ten year old Jesse Aarons, was picked on at his school. The only thing he was good at was running and art, both of which were looked down upon by his class mates and his family. He lived on a farm and wasn’t to waste time drawing when he needed to be working.  He trained all summer for a big race, but a new girl, Leslie Burke, easily beat out everyone. He’s upset at being beat by a girl, but the two become friends after Leslie offers him a piece of gum on the bus. She becomes his one friend in the whole world and they do everything together.

They create an imaginary kingdom called Terabithia in which the children play. Jesse’s youngest sister (out of four) asks to join them but is denied every time. When I was watching the movie at this point, Jesse seemed almost selfish, not wanting to share his new friend or kingdom with anyone! Then one day, Jesse’s music teacher, Ms. Edmunds, notices his artwork and invites him on a trip to the local museum. Jesse’s secret crush on her overpower’s his desire to take Leslie along with them, so as they drive by her house on the way to the museum, he just watches it pass by. When he gets back home, he finds that Leslie has gone missing. After hours of searching by police, her body has been found downstream. She fell into the river and hit her head against a rock when the rope swing they used to cross into the realm of Terabithia snapped. Jesse feels overwhelming greif because he felt that if he had invited Leslie along, she would still be alive.

This was the saddest point in any movie I’ve ever watched. Not many children are expecting such a sad story and I know quite a few who broke down in tears while watching it. I don’t know how well you handle sad movies, but if you don’t do so well, don’t watch this movie. It’s not for the faint of heart. 😦

500 Word Blog

It’s a parents worst nightmare to have a child of theirs throw a temper tantrum in a public environment. That fear is exactly what the makers of this ad used to grab the viewers complete and uninterrupted attention. How would react to your kid began acting completely out of line? The parent in this ad was so utterly embarrassed he didn’t even know what what to say. My best guess is that you would be just as dumbstruck, or worse.

The commercial begins in a supermarket with a father and child doing some regular daily shopping. The little boy places an overly large and quite possibly expensive bag of “sweeties”  in the cart. The dad puts it back without saying a word and gives his son the look that says “absolutely not”. Refusing to not get what he wants, the boy puts the gargantuan bag of candy back in cart and once again it gets put back on the shelf.  The boy did what any misbehaving little brat would do and threw the worst temper tantrum you could ever see. He screamed, shook the cart, threw merchandise off the shelves, and eventually fell on the floor flailing to his devilish little heart’s content. He wanted those sweeties and he was going to make sure the whole world new of it!

After seeing such an example of a disturbingly common occurrence in course of raising a child, this should invoke awareness of safe sex upon the viewer’s minds. Thousands of people world wide are uninformed about using condoms and the importance of safe sex. Think of how many lives have been ruined (in the nicest way) because a couple had an unwanted child at the wrong time. Not only does it overturn the parent’s lives and probably any plans that they had for their themselves, but because of the actions of the mother and father, the baby is born into a home that is unready to accommodate another mouth to feed and take care of. That is the message that the makers of this advertisement hoped to portray to young couples all around the world; If you are going to have sex, use a condom!

When watching the commercial, did you notice the dad’s facial expression? He looked completely beaten by his child. The weariness and taxed grimace clearly shows on his face as his kid is going absolutely berserk in the store. So many new parents are unaware of the challenges of adulthood. Hopefully, by raising the practice of safe sex, unplanned pregnancies and abortion rates will drop, lives will be saved, and as an indirect result of not having to raise a child when the parents can’t afford one, the parents will live happier lives and the won’t stress out family, friends, and everyone around them.

As the usage of condoms rises, less and less parents will find themselves in the embarrassing situation. If you plan on having sexual relations with your partner, be safe and wear protection, and have fun!

The greatest blog post ever!

Welcome to Luke Langley’s Magnificent blog post! Bask in it’s glorious glory, let it’s radiant aura pierce your very soul and take you on a spiritual journey to the shores of brilliance. Your very being will be lifted, raised to enlightenment by reading this blog, that is an inevitable fact, commanded by unseen forces beyond our imagining.

And now, for the proud moment that you all have been expecting. Keep your arms and legs away from the screen or risk losing them to a blast of amazingness bursting forth from the monitor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQhw5VDy8Do

This commercial happens to be one of my favorite ones on youtube. It’s a commercial for a newspaper. The funny thing is, is that you don’t even realize that it’s for a newspaper until the last few seconds. The majority of it is playing on people’s imaginations to entice them into believing explicit happenings are happening. The commercial starts of with two men in a sauna, you can see that the man on the left has a tower around his waist, but the fellow on the right has his around his neck. He seems to be asleep. Mr. Dude on the left, glances at the right man’s crotchal region and gives a chuckle. He double takes as in surprise and something has intrigued him to a point of getting close to examine whatever it is he is looking at. Right Guy wakes up to see Lefty staring at his loins. Left Guy notices he’s awake, and is completely embarrassed until the right man gives a nod and both stare at his manhood. Up to this point, the focus of their attention has been assumed to be this, but as the camera panes out, you realize the Right man actually DOES have a towel around both his waist and neck, and they were really looking at a newspaper that happened to be in his lap. As they pick it up, the advertisement for a Swiss newspaper appears on the screen. The end.