Week 3 EOC: Stolen Valor Act

Stolen Valor Act says it's a federal crime to falsely claim that you have no military honors when you really have not, but apparently that's not the case by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court says it's protected by the first amendment and that people can lie about anything. This can cause a lot of people because that means any company can falsely claim something and sell them to the public. For example, a company can falsely claim that it can cure cancer and somebody can stop them because it's protected by the 1st amendment and they can totally ignore the regulations. The first amendment needs to be regulated, if not the United States can be in a lot of trouble. If it’s not regulated then people will think that it is okay to yell “Fire!” at the movie theaters. A five year old kid will think it okay to say “bitch” to his/her mother. It will get bad for our country. Other countries already look down on us, this would make this worse than it already is. The people of the United States already has enough rights, it wouldn’t hurt to have more restrictions.

Week 2 EOC: Erin Brockovich

I have watched Erin Brockovich and researched the facts on the PG&E case. In the article from L.A. Times says that PG&E has agreed to pay $295 million settlement. PG&E have apologized to the Hinkley citizens. It is nice that they have apologized, but many have birth defects and many other diseases because of this pollution. It was an issue that PG&E have noticed, but didn't bother to do anything about it until it's too late. And knowing what the lawyer thought about the victims, this is brutal. I wish lawyers cared about their clients. I never liked lawyers even before learning about this case. Some of the lawyers are so greedy. It seems like lawyers only care about money and only care about their ego. I wish we had more people like Erin Brockovich, people who actually about their clients. The lawyers who are so greedy are unacceptable in my opinion. Many people don’t like lawyers and this is the reason why. Having people like Erin Brockovich are one of the rare moments they the lawyers care about the people. The people who are going into law, don’t be one of those greedy clients and be like Erin Brockovich.

Week 1 EOC: Voice

My name is Christopher and I currently a student at the Art Institute of Las Vegas majoring in Digital Filmmaking and Video Production. I was born in Tokyo, Japan. Even though I was born in Japan, I was raised here in Las Vegas for almost my entire life.I am a filmmaker.In my free time I film reviews mostly about toys, because one of my hobby is collection action figures and model kits. I post my reviews on Youtube. When my friends ask me, “What is your favorite movie of all time.” I say “none” because I love movies and can’t just make one. Other than watching movies, I love watching “making of” and Behind the Scenes that originally sparked my interest in filmmaking. What made made that interest set in stone was during high school. My friends and I got a Julius Ceaser project, so what my friends and I did was that we made a modernized version of Julius Ceaser and everyone in my audience loved it and so did my english teacher. But that movie has been lost, sadly. The other film that my friends and I did was a sniper film simply called “The Sniper” and it had no lines, it was just about 2 snipers shooting that each other. People who have watch this short little movie loved this one too. So I made a decision to become a filmmaker. My passion is to entertain my audience. I also want send message about life, what people should or should not do, so that the people would live a better life. I know that it won't work all the time, but that won't stop me from doing what I like to do. The genre that I focus on are action/adventure and drama. I want to touch people's heart with my films. My drama genre films will be about a true events. My action/adventure genre will be all fiction. I hope you will enjoy my films as I enjoyed making them. What I see lacking in current action films are that there are no stories and if there are it’s a really bad story. I want to change that when I become a filmmaker. I want to make a film with a really good story. I want the character to be lovable and even hated instead of just being there. We are at the age where the CGI are very cool and there for these movie studios focus on the EFX rather than the story itself. CGI are infact cool, but they have to have a story to them. Why are they there? How to characters feel about them? How does it effect the story? Those are the elements that the current films are missing. We always get a movie like Transformers and Battleship where they only focus on the CG and not those elements. We also get a drama that is not relatable and the audience don’t focus on that. So I want to change that.