Comparisons between Game Of Thrones and Tolkien's Middle Earth Hi everybody! This is my second notebook entry and to be honest I don't had any idea of what topic present to you until I remember a discussion about George R.R Martin's Game Of Thrones and Tolkien's Middle Earth which I had with my sister a couple weeks ago, so I hope you enjoy some of our points of view and of course, if you want to open this topic to a public discussion only let me know and we can discuss some of this ideas in a deeper way. To begin with let me make clear that both GoT and M-E, as you may know,are representations of real historic events but with a fantasy prespective and in some cases elements of mythology and epic tales of many ancient civilizations. The next comparisons so, are related with some similarities about names, characters and events. Game Of Thrones Middle Earth Tyrion Lannister Tirion, the first city built by elves Valar Morghulis The word "Valar" which makes reference to a certain spiritual entities of great power. Sam and Pypar (Night's watch) Sam and Pippin (Two Hobbits friends of Frodo Baggins) Drogo (Khal) According with TLOTR Drogo is the name of Frodo's Father Dothraki race (lords of the horses) Rohirrim meaning (The Horse-Lords). So, as you can see, these are only a few examples of coincidence between both stories, and like I said these are only a personal points of view and of course both of them are extraordinary examples of creativity and talent.

Is Stanley Kubrick the best movie Director? Hi everybody! This is my first notebook entry so I want to share with you some personal thoughts about who I consider one of my favorite and talented film-makers of all time. To begin with I would like to say that most of the Stanley Kubrick's films are so genuin and full of reflexive topics that sometimes are completely misunderstanding in the way that in most of the general (and no specialized) opinions we can find that people only sees the upper surface and gets the idea of only an "acid" or maybe "misanthropic" vision against mankind, and all their social problematics, of this polemic director. But, for example I think that if we learn to see this movies in an amoral (in spite of all "moral" subjects) way, which I personally thinks is the only way in which we can appreciate any form of art, we could find them very intresting and "poetic" in certain way. For example in his masterpiece "A Clockwork Orange" we can find a lot of topics related with selfconfidence, introspection and how most of the times we are inmersed in a world where the lack of principles and human values only conduces to auto-destructive behavior specially in the early days of our youth where instead of create individuals with concious and a global vision of what our acts affect ourselves and unfortunately to all around us, the global elites and media only construct ideas of what should all of us have to think and it doesn't matter if they only conduce to less and less self-knowledge and automatons. Because at the end of the day we are the only architects of our lives and we have this marvelous freewill which give us the opportunity to choose the way in which we want to live our lives. In order to finish I want to invite to all of you to check out all the filmography of this excelent director and ,like I already said, see them with a critic eye in spite of all our preconceived "old tables" of prejudices. Thank you very much and don't forget that this is only my personal posture and after all, you have the last word. Fernando Rojas, Mexico City.