Thứ Hai, 1 tháng 5, 2017

Waching daily May 1 2017

Oh hey I'm glad you're here

Listen, the internet it's a terrible place But it wasn't always that way

It used to be a magical land full of hopes and dreams

A new frontier No longer did you have to go down to your

local junkyard and watch some gross guy finger his belly button and say, " that's the best

I can do on that axle."

That wasn't the best price he could do!

He was lying to you!

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for bargin prices.

What a time to be alive!

Oh, why is JcrOffroad's fabrication department so sparse today?

Because it's Friday.

And this is America!

And then something terrible happened.

Mark Dingleberry smoked a bunch of weed in college and stole the idea for Feelingsbook

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Daryl is feeling ranty today!

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They could voice terrible opinions, based on zero experience, and present them as fact.

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And some guy in a 1987 Bronco II knows for sure you didn't air in that last Mikeys Hot

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We can learn to enjoy things for what they are!

We can learn to let people build their Jeeps the way they want.

We can make the Internet better for everyone!

Yes, that is a 50" light bar.

And no, I didn't air down for this.

Talk to you later bye!

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You Can Recover: Anusha in Bangalore, India - Duration: 6:23.

It's A Beautiful Day To Exist

Independence The name of the two feet upon which I stand

And have built me up, Piercing the horizon with the sharp edge of

their confidence.

The ice is thin and quivers like an old rickety gate

But my heels are carved into the ground.

Looking up, the clouds part to reveal the golden fire

That I've been following, unblinking.

I'm hoping to figure out which path ahead is mine.

Everything yet nothing is uncertain.

I haven't accepted that what I want everything to be

Can't be anything but what it is.

My story, My conscience,

My actions

Why I haven't I owned up to the power emanating from my palms like the sun radiating

For the whole universe to sit and watch awestruck ?

The road bends and turns into itself And all that is left is a giant rubber band ball.

My body is tossed into the meandering rivers, veering me off course yet again.

Gasping for breath, cold shivers rack my spine In a strict pattern, always on beat.

Coughs echo in the thick of the ocean.

But the sole thought circling my inner ear Tickling my brain,

Is that It's a beautiful day to be exist

Because in today I am fortunate to struggle And fall tens of times over in tears

Curled up in fetal position on my bed.

I am fortunate to feel this sadness And this pain

Yet endure another day of more.

I want to be real.

I want to feel the deepest of sensations because Only in those moments do I feel the Joie de Vivre.

I can tell myself that I lived Despite the sword hugging my insides

Crying soft red tears onto the grass.

I can shout back to the darkness And ask her to embrace me

Thank her for the pathways she failed to leave For now I can see without the light.

I can speak words And take in deep breaths of refreshing reality

Without choking on the soot

It's a beautiful day to be alive and sad.

Or mad, or bored or empty, or lonely.

Because I can feel and that itself is a gift from god.

To merely exist and see the world shift.

Life is beautiful in its imperfections and never-ending tastes

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is the topper to the melting sundae.

Eat it all up in one big gulp so that you can take in every tiny piece of it because

the whole wouldn't be the same whole otherwise.

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Hi everyone, my name is Anusha Ramji.

I am 19 years old.

Throughout the course of my life, I've been given various labels.

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The world is your oyster, and options are limitless.

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Other peoples' perceptions do not define or equate to your own.

Be your own person and love every bit of who you are.

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Theater Talk - "Groundhog Day" with Andy Karl, Danny Rubin, Matthew Warchus - Duration: 26:46.

>> HASKINS: Coming up on

"Theater Talk"...

>> KARL: When Matthew and I

first met about possible

casting, 'cause he was looking

for some Phil Connors, and I

thought I was wrong for it.

I was like, "I don't know.

I don't play that Bill Murray

sort of sarcasm -- or I haven't

yet."

>> HASKINS: Are you not a

narcissistic guy?

>> KARL: Not naturally, but I'm

working on it.

>> HASKINS: "Theater Talk" is

made possible in part by...

♪♪

>> MAN: Okay, we're on in

three...two...

>> PHIL: Once a year, the eyes

of the nation turn to this tiny

hamlet in Western Pennsylvania

to watch a master at work,

Punxsutawney Phil, a groundhog.

[ Alarm blaring ]

>> HASKINS: From New York City,

this is "Theater Talk."

I'm Susan Haskins.

>> RIEDEL: And I'm

Michael Riedel of

the New York Post.

Now, Susan, I have been touting

the new musical "Groundhog Day"

since it opened in London almost

a year ago now.

And I'm happy to say, having

seen it, it lives up to my hype.

It is a terrific new American

musical with a little touch of

Britishness here and there,

with the director.

And the director's with us,

Matthew Warchus, our old friend.

Welcome back to "Theater Talk."

It was written by Danny Rubin,

who wrote the movie it's based

on, has written the book.

Welcome to "Theater Talk," and

welcome to the musical theater.

>> RUBIN: I'm happy to be here.

>> RIEDEL: And it stars someone

I knew was gonna be a star from

the moment I saw him as the UPS

man in "Legally Blonde,"

Andy Karl.

>> KARL: Oh, yes. That was it.

Was it the shorts?

>> RIEDEL: As soon as you walked

out, I thought, "That man is a

star in brown."

Welcome, guys, to

"Theater Talk."

And congratulations on the

success of "Groundhog Day."

>> WARCHUS: Thank you.

>> RIEDEL: Danny, take me back

to the movie, though.

What was the idea that you had

to write the original screenplay

for a movie that is now

considered a contemporary

classic?

>> RUBIN: I was trying to come

up with an idea for a movie,

because that's what I do, and I

was thinking about immortality.

I was wondering if a person who

did not seem to be able to grow

up along with everybody else --

these arrested-development kind

of people -- I thought, "Well,

maybe they just haven't had

enough time.

What if they had more than one

lifetime to work it out and grow

up?"

And I thought that was kind of

interesting but tedious.

I was trying to figure out how

to deal with a very, very long

immortal life on film without

building too many sets.

And then I had had this other

idea, a long time before, about

a person repeating the same day

over and over again, and I

realized, in that moment, that I

could get an immortal life, or a

very long life, just by having

the person repeat the day over

and over again, and then

discovered all the repetition

themes.

>> RIEDEL: So, how did you hit

on the fact that he was gonna be

a weatherman?

'Cause that's the stroke of

genius, that the Groundhog Day,

the Bill Murray, the Andy Karl,

is a weatherman.

>> RUBIN: There were a lot of

ideas that came together very

quickly, and the first thing I

had to do when I got this idea,

I thought, "This is great.

I have to just start writing.

I just have to start writing.

Which day does he repeat?

Which day does he repeat?"

That's gonna give me a lot of

information.

Is it a holiday?

Is it a birthday, an

anniversary?

What's going on?

I just opened the calendar, and

the first holiday I came to was

February 2nd, Groundhog Day,

and I thought, "Oh, that's a

good idea," because I knew about

Punxsutawney.

I knew it was a very small town.

I knew they had this ceremony

every year.

And I figured the only way to

get somebody really upset and

frustrated in this situation was

if he came from somewhere else.

And I thought, "Well, who goes

to Punxsutawney?"

A newscaster, or weatherman, who

would come to town.

And so that idea came in, and I

thought, "Oh, I got to give him

a name," and I thought, "Ooh,

the groundhog's called 'Phil.'

Let's give it to the guy and see

if that leads anywhere," and the

whole thing about being a

weatherman.

Everything just kept feeding in

and becoming a better and better

idea.

>> RIEDEL: Yeah.

>> WARCHUS: You see how easy it

is?

>> RIEDEL: I was gonna say.

He makes screenwriting sound

easy.

And the studios leapt at it as

soon you handed it to them.

They thought, "What a great idea

for a movie."

>> RUBIN: Yeah, it took them at

least a year to come -- People

liked the screenplay, and I

actually got work off of it.

It became my calling card.

And I went around and managed to

drum up some other work from it.

And then, about a year later,

Harold Ramis found it and

decided this was the right

movie for him at that time.

>> RIEDEL: Yeah.

Matthew, I want to ask you.

Steve Sondheim has famously said

he wanted to turn

"Groundhog Day" into a musical,

but he couldn't solve a problem.

He couldn't figure out a way in.

What was it that attracted you?

What was your idea, when you

first saw this movie, that it

could be a musical?

>> WARCHUS: Probably the same

thing that attracted Steve, and

other people, I think.

Danny thought that it could be a

musical.

The ideas in it are big enough

to sing about, you know?

That's what it comes down to.

It deals with such enormous

things, about time and trying to

be the best version of yourself

in the limited amount of time

you have, and it sort of expands

into this universe of emotion

and thought in such a tiny idea.

I love the film.

It makes me laugh a lot.

But things that make me laugh a

lot aren't always enough.

It makes me think a lot.

It actually makes me cry,

as well.

I find it very touching, a very

moving story.

I think it's wise.

To be wise and funny is, like,

for me, the perfect combination.

>> RIEDEL: Yeah.

And we should say, Tim Minchin

wrote the wonderful score, too.

He isn't with us, but we're one

of his big champions here on

"Theater Talk."

>> WARCHUS: Well, absolutely.

And I am, as well.

And when we finished working on

"Matilda" together, we talked

about, you know, what should be

next, and we thought that

this should be it.

And I knew that Sondheim -- I

knew that he'd thought about it.

And one of the things that I

think is so exciting for Tim

is that it is a story in

which -- It's a very

mathematical story, in terms of

trying to construct it.

You're building kind of a

labyrinth, and you have to build

it in a very mathematical way,

but it's very emotional as well.

And this idea of turning maths

into emotions is something I'm

very interested in.

Tim is as well.

I think Sondheim is as well.

>> RIEDEL: Yep. Absolutely.

>> WARCHUS: It's a lot of work.

>> RIEDEL: Andy, you're playing

the Bill Murray role, which is

one of the iconic performances

now.

Do you not think about

Bill Murray?

Do you not watch

"Groundhog Day"?

Because you have given it your

completely unique

interpretation.

I mean, it is not a Bill Murray

facsimile.

>> KARL: I think just the idea

of the actual premise of the

show is almost bigger than

Bill Murray.

Just the idea of it.

But it was actually when

Matthew and I first about

possible casting, 'cause he was

looking for some Phil Connors,

and I thought I was wrong for

it.

I was like, "I don't know.

I don't play that Bill Murray

sort of sarcasm -- or I haven't

yet."

>> HASKINS: Are you not a

narcissistic guy?

>> KARL: Not naturally, but I'm

working on it.

It was one of those things

where -- only 'cause my concept

of "Oh, I'm gonna have to play

Bill Murray.

I just finished playing Rocky in

something.

I don't know if it translates

well."

And then, as soon as I read the

script, and he played me a demo

from an early, early, early

workshop of the opening number,

and I was like, "This is so

smart."

And it can so be adapted to

stage that I knew exactly what

I wanted to do with it.

And I never had Bill Murray

in my head.

I knew he's iconic, as far as

the movie's concerned, but when

you write a musical, especially

one that was a movie, you just

got to rip it apart and find out

what makes it -- its value.

>> RIEDEL: To his point, though,

about having to reconceive the

movie as a musical, this is your

first musical, right?

[ Chuckles ]

Can you tell us --

>> RUBIN: The first play I wrote

30 years ago actually involved

the story of, like, a protest

folk singer, and so I wrote a

bunch of songs that were

performed that were part of it,

but it wasn't like a genre

musical.

It was a play with music in it.

>> HASKINS: What was it called?

>> RIEDEL: Um, "What Do You Do

With Old Hippies?"

[ Laughter ]

>> RIEDEL: That's Matthew's next

project.

Did you write the songs, too?

>> RUBIN: I didn't even attempt

to write music or lyrics for

this, except when I was

conceiving of how it would play

out.

I could think musically.

And then working with Tim and

with Matthew, who's also very

musical -- he might be modest

about that, but he is -- I felt

like I could speak the same

language, and that was helpful.

>> RIEDEL: And when you were

looking at your screenplay, what

sort of are the key moments or

things you thought, "This has to

be changed in such a way to make

it a musical"?

Moments in there that you think,

"This becomes a song," that you

found?

>> RUBIN: Well, sure, I did.

I had my own ideas about it, but

I also knew that that wasn't the

important thing.

That was enough to get me

started, but I really knew that

it had to do with Tim's response

to the movie -- or to the story,

actually.

Not to the movie, but to the

story -- not mine.

And so it was a conversation

among all three of us.

>> WARCHUS: What happened is

that the three of us spent a lot

of time talking about how to map

out the story, the story of the

film, how to create a map for it

for a musical.

And literally, this was done

with a lot of Post-it notes and

kind of things stuck to boards

and things scribbled on it.

And we worked kind of equally

together, discussing what from

the film could live in that map

and what would have to be

different and the length of the

first act and the length of the

second act where the songs

would go -- something that Tim's

brilliant at.

And then Tim took that map away

and wrote to it, and then we

moved forward, and what he wrote

caused Danny to rewrite the

scenes in between, and so on.

So it's very much a kind of

tennis match.

>> RUBIN: That collaboration was

so beautiful, and it was also

necessary.

I had kind of reached a

roadblock in my own work, and I

was like, "This is crazy."

About half my ideas are musical

ideas.

Everything has to be completely

integrated.

This isn't going to work if I

just say, "And that song goes

here, and that song goes here."

This was a case where I really

needed to roll up my sleeves and

work in collaboration with a

composer.

>> RIEDEL: When did you find

him?

And was he always in your mind?

>> WARCHUS: Well, if you're

looking...

[ Laughter ]

If you're looking for somebody

who can sing really well -- it's

quite a hard sing, this show --

and dance when needed and be

very funny but charismatic

enough to behave terribly and

the audience still to like him,

it's a very, very short list,

believe you me.

And I saw "On the Twentieth

Century," and I saw the clown,

which was extremely useful.

>> RIEDEL: 'Cause I texted

Matthew yesterday, and I said,

"The remarkable thing about your

performance is you capture all

the twists and turns the

character has to take, from

being arrogant, bitter,

condescending, then hedonistic,

and, in the end, human."

But it's never that kind of big,

pushy musical-theater acting.

It's subtle, and yet it fills

the 1,800-seat theater.

It just comes naturally to you,

or do you actually --

>> KARL: Really smart writing.

I mean, obviously, the material

stands on its own really, really

well.

But also as you're reading it,

you realize that it's something

that's not, you know, with

tongue in cheek.

Nothing is pushed.

You're earning this over the

length of time of the show,

especially the character's arc

from "A" to "B", because at the

beginning of the show, I'm

completely different than at the

end.

>> RIEDEL: And completely

different in the middle when

you're sleeping with everybody,

getting drunk all the time

because there are no

consequences for your actions.

>> HASKINS: I didn't think you

could be redeemed.

I have to say.

And even though I knew the plot,

I'm looking at it and saying,

"No, this guy's not --"

>> KARL: That's one of my

favorite compliments, because in

finding that character, and I've

played -- which was interesting

about doing this show, when I

was reading, I was like, "Oh,

this is everything I've done put

all together in one," which is

great.

I've had some great

opportunities to be on Broadway

and do shows and musicals, and

then this comes along, and it's

sort of a culmination of that.

You can take your personal life

and sort of expose it that way.

>> HASKINS: I do want to ask

you, though.

It's no spoiler alert that you

have to repeat scenes.

And at one point, I thought,

"Does he ever get confused, you

know, when he's up there with

this book?

Does he ever just lose his

place?"

>> KARL: I think my job is

actually easier because I have a

linear journey, because I know

what's going to happen.

>> HASKINS: Well, right.

The other people have to repeat

the same thing, yeah.

>> KARL: Some of the same

things, but in learning the

process and rehearsing it, it

was a little -- it was a

challenge when you, "Are we on

day two?

Are we day three now? Okay."

>> WARCHUS: Yeah, and Andy has

to wake up and get dressed.

You know, unlike the film, which

has jump-cutting, he has to wake

up and get dressed 11 times in

the show.

And one of the very first things

we did, in the first few weeks

of writing the show, is that I

got down to my boxer shorts at

home and timed myself getting

dressed.

And I said to Danny and Tim,

"Okay, we should all try this."

But as far as I can see, it

takes about 28 seconds to get

this far and then another 10

seconds to do that.

So you have to write music, or a

song, which allows someone to

get dressed over and over again.

>> RIEDEL: You see, musicals are

a series of problems that have

to be solved, and that's a very

technical problem.

>> WARCHUS: That's the first one

with "Groundhog Day."

>> HASKINS: Danny, I wanted to

ask you.

Harold Ramis and Bill Murray

were working on this with you.

It is said that they essentially

became estranged over their

disagreements over this film.

Do you remember that?

>> RUBIN: Oh, yes. Absolutely.

>> HASKINS: What was the -- I

mean, you know, to sum up.

>> RUBIN: Neither of them told

me, and I didn't ask.

>> HASKINS: Did you feel it?

>> RUBIN: Oh, absolutely.

It was three weeks before

first day of photography, and

Bill and I were in New York

working on the script, and

Harold was in Woodstock building

sets, and he called up, and I

picked up the phone, and he

says, "Let me talk to Bill."

And Bill was like, "I'm not

here."

>> HASKINS: Isn't that funny?

>> RUBIN: I already knew that

there was some tension.

>> HASKINS: But they felt so

deeply about their commitment to

this that something happened.

It's interesting.

>> RUBIN: I can only guess.

>> WARCHUS: It's like me and

Andy don't talk --

[ Laughter ]

>> RIEDEL: You just do -- The

best way to work with Matthew is

you just do what he tells you to

do.

>> KARL: The only time I've

ever, like, sort of lost it was

when you weren't there and there

were snowballs being thrown at

my head that had metal inside of

them.

I was like, "No. No.

We're not doing this."

[ Laughter ]

And then I felt bad.

You know, I had to go apologize,

but...

You never saw it, so...

>> RIEDEL: What seems to be the

challenge, though, Matthew,

would be the repetition.

I mean, you've got to set up

everything.

But, you know, if you want a

musical to move along, you have

to deal with this paradox of

repeating the same day and yet

pushing it along.

That must have been a big

challenge when you were

investigating this.

>> WARCHUS: Well, the first rule

of, you know, keeping an

audience engaged is keep

surprising them.

So if they think they know

what's coming and they can

predict it and it's the same as

before, they lose interest.

So you can actually never repeat

yourself in the story about

repetition.

We use lots and lots of

different techniques to try to

surprise the audience.

And, of course, what we can lean

on to a certain extent, and we

do, is illusions, which are

stage illusions.

And there's a point, as you

know, when Andy is somewhere and

then he's over there suddenly

and then he's somewhere and then

he's over there again.

And that was at a point in the

story where we could have done a

more natural, simple thing, but

it would have been repetitive.

We'd have seen it before.

We can't take that amount of

time.

We've got to go as fast as

possible.

We've got to do the stage

version of jump cuts.

>> HASKINS: Wonderful magic

tricks.

You're doing magic tricks. Yeah.

>> WARCHUS: There's some great

magic in it, and I think...

You know, it was interesting

brainstorming the story and

working out at which point does

the audience need a different

bedroom.

Does the bedroom need to change?

There's a point in the story

where he breaks free.

He realizes he is free, in a

sense, 'cause there were no

consequences, and then the

bedroom set no longer appears in

its full form after that.

It's fragments, and we're freer

and looser with the staging,

But surprising the audience is

definitely -- it's crucial for a

musical.

It's important any time, but

you've got to give them a

surprise every three minutes,

really, something like that.

And what I like about, you know,

some of the things that we

managed to do is that some of

the surprises take different

forms.

Some of them are things that you

don't see in the film.

They're not from the film.

There's a guy in a groundhog

suit, for example, doing

interesting things in the story,

and that's a surprise.

You would think that, onstage,

you wouldn't be able to do the

car chase that's in the movie,

but we do the car chase, so that

is --

>> RIEDEL: The car chase is

really good.

>> HASKINS: There's remarkable

design concepts.

>> WARCHUS: That's a surprise

that it's there at all.

There's something about the show

that we tried to do when we were

conceiving it is that we wanted

it -- It felt very important to

make it a very bighearted show,

and in order to do that, we

wanted it to be quite low-tech.

Now, secretly, of course, as a

lot of people now know, there

is a very complicated revolving

stage.

>> RIEDEL: Which didn't work in

preview.

>> WARCHUS: Yeah, which did

break down in preview.

But the trick is to try and hide

that kind of technology.

And playing on top of this

revolving floor that sets and

resets and rewinds underneath

people, the company are pushing

simple bits of furniture around

and making rooms and making a

diner.

And there's a sort of idea in

the design, Rob Howell's design,

that every location is made up

of many different parts in the

same way that a community is

made up of many different

people, or a man is made up of

many different parts of himself.

So this idea of jigsaw puzzle

and the low-fi, hands-on

community, organic kind of

world, rustic almost,

storytelling.

Simple, theater storytelling.

That dictated the style.

It's part of the meaning of this

story, so that's the style that

we wanted.

>> HASKINS: And the car chase is

kind of, what -- Bunraku or

stick puppets or something.

It's so brilliant when you see

it.

>> RIEDEL: There's like a little

Julie Taymor sort of things

going on there.

>> WARCHUS: People running along

holding miniature houses with

lights on.

You know, we wanted it to be --

It was very deliberate to make

sure it wasn't high-tech, to try

and get the charm but make it as

warmhearted as possible and as

fun, you know, piece of theater.

>> RIEDEL: I thought a very

interesting decision you made

was to open the second act with

the girl, Nancy, singing a song.

And I thought, "Well, that

is --" 'cause we don't her.

It's just this girl that he

wants to sleep with.

But all of a sudden -- The

song's very good -- and she

becomes a character and a human

being.

I'm interested to know why you

decided to go that way.

>> HASKINS: And I just want to

say, I thought, "Oh, they're

giving Andy Karl more time to

rest."

[ Laughter ]

>> RIEDEL: No, I thought it was

a very -- It's a very poignant

song because it makes the

townspeople have more of a

dimension to them.

>> RUBIN: Well, we had as a

goal -- I had as a goal -- from

the very beginning that we

wanted to add dimension not,

first of all, to Rita's

character, but also to the

townspeople as well.

And one of the things that the

audience gets through the first

act, they're very focused on

Phil the same way Phil is very

focused on Phil.

And we're ready to go on with

Phil's story.

What's gonna happen?

What's gonna happen?

Then we pull the rug out from

under the audience and show

another character.

And of us, we sort of feel a

little sheepish.

It's like, "Ooh. I was being

kind of Phil-o-centric, too.

I forgot that other people are

involved."

>> RIEDEL: And condescending to

these rubes here in the town who

aren't that smart or

sophisticated.

>> HASKINS: Are you reconciling

red-state people with the

sophisticated people?

Too sophisticated --

>> KARL: I certainly think

there's some people that should

come see the show and learn a

lesson.

>> HASKINS: Yes. Exactly.

Exactly. Get their comeuppance.

>> WARCHUS: Yes, and it

continues with that idea that

our eyes are opened a little bit

and we see somebody that we've

been taking for granted.

And we hear something about

their inner life.

And then it continues, 'cause

the same thing happens later

with Ned Ryerson, who's, again,

a character --

>> RIEDEL: The old friend from

the high-school days.

>> WARCHUS: And the camera stops

on him.

And he has a song, and we learn

a surprising thing about his

inner life as well.

And it's part of, obviously,

the overriding theme that Phil's

eyes get gradually opened as the

story goes on.

And the idea is that our eyes do

as well.

>> RIEDEL: I mean, to become

human, he has to learn what

empathy is.

>> KARL: Certainly empathy.

Certainly...

I loved one of the things you

told me the other day was the

first act is really about, "What

can I have?

What can I take from people?"

And the second act becomes --

or closer to the middle of the

second act, it's about

subtraction.

It's about freeing yourself of

all the things that you're

carrying that have no value as

far as, like, you know, you want

to attain the highest status or

you want to sleep with

everybody.

It's not about that.

It's about giving to --

>> HASKINS: And there's a death,

which seems to have a huge

effect on him.

>> KARL: Yeah, I think that's

one of the most beautiful

moments in the show.

We find out one of the

characters had lost someone.

And in trying to -- Phil tries

to help someone throughout the

day that he's not able to,

because life goes on and the

journey of life goes on and

death will come and life will

pass on.

And that's one of the biggest

lessons that he has learn and to

be okay with that and happy

about it, that we do have this

time on Earth to do what we do,

but we will be making that

journey beyond ourselves and to

celebrate that.

>> HASKINS: Do you back that up,

Danny?

>> RUBIN: Oh, yes.

Of course.

And I'll also add that it's in

the script, it's in, you know,

the music, but Andy's

performance is remarkable

because he actually gets to that

level of sincerity and level of

truth that feels effortless and

real.

And that allows us to empathize

with him.

>> RIEDEL: But what's more fun?

Is it more fun playing the

[bleep] or more fun playing the

good guy?

>> KARL: Oh, it's great being an

[bleep]

>> RIEDEL: [ Laughs ]

You really are having a

fare-thee-well up there doing

that in the first part of the

show.

>> KARL: That was the most

difficult part, is finding,

like, "What's the jerk inside of

me like?" and really sort of

sussing that out, and I found

that in London a few times,

like, "Oh, I know what it is."

[ Laughter ]

Just being there.

And then it's fun.

It's fun because you get to earn

the laughter despite of it.

I actually think audiences want

to see a jerk.

I --

>> RIEDEL: We always love the

villain.

>> KARL: Yeah, I've now proven

that point for myself.

It's like, "They're laughing at

me.

I'm awful, but they're still

laughing at me."

So, there is that.

But also, in some of the roles

that I've played, like

Tommy DeVito in "Jersey Boys,"

which was at the same theater,

sort of had that lovable

you-love-to-hate-him sort of

thing.

And, again, just a part of

something that I could take from

there and go, "Oh, I kind of

know what that is," so...

>> WARCHUS: And there is no

redemption unless he's been bad,

you know?

So if you try to minimize how

bad he is, the redemption's

trivial.

>> HASKINS: "Why do we care?

And why does he need to go

through all that?"

>> WARCHUS: Exactly.

And the other thing that's in

the design as well -- it's

probably worth saying -- is

this idea of scale.

We play with scale a lot, so

there are miniature things.

Right at the beginning, there's

a very miniature version of the

van.

And it's really part of this

idea that Phil thinks he's

bigger than anything else.

The very first song is called

"Small Town," where he just

ridicules and mocks small-town

sort of behavior and traditions

and people and life.

But part of that journey is when

there's a death and he realizes

that -- he is humbled by the

scale of things in life.

You can't control the limited

time that we have.

And he becomes -- Part of his

journey is subtraction to the

point where he sees how small he

is as a person, and at that

point, he's redeemed.

>> RIEDEL: See? You thought you

were writing just a comedy movie

for Bill Murray, and it turns

out to be fraught with meaning.

And I think this movie and the

musical will be analyzed in

literary classes now.

>> HASKINS: I think it already

is.

>> RUBIN: I've received a few

dissertations, sermons, and --

All kinds of thought has gone

into this that was not mine.

>> WARCHUS: I think it's lovely,

for me, 'cause my favorite thing

is to feel enlightened while

you're laughing.

I think that's a great thing.

>> RIEDEL: And it's never

over-sentimental, and it's never

cloying.

Even when he becomes human, you

don't think, "Okay, here comes

the soppy, weepy,

musical-theater comedy part."

>> WARCHUS: Good.

>> RIEDEL: It's a terrific

musical -- "Groundhog Day"

at the August Wilson Theatre.

I almost called it The Virginia.

That's how long I've been

kicking around this town.

The August Wilson Theatre.

Directed by Matthew Warchus,

written by Danny Rubin, who did

the movie as well, and starring

the terrific Andy Karl.

Thanks a lot, guys, for being

our guests on "Theater Talk."

>> WARCHUS: Pleasure.

♪♪

[ "If I Had My Time Again"

plays ]

>> RITA: ♪ If I had my time

again ♪

♪ The things I'd handle better ♪

♪ I would send my unsent

letters ♪

♪ If I had my time again ♪

>> BOTH: ♪ I'd open all the

doors I've never looked behind

before ♪

>> RITA: ♪ And, oh, the things

I'd taste, the things I'd try ♪

>> PHIL: ♪ I find the thing with

these revolving rhymes ♪

>> RITA: ♪ And the misery

I could prevent ♪

>> PHIL: ♪ They're only fun

'cause you know they're going to

end ♪

>> RITA: ♪ And I will make

a lot of friends ♪

♪ If I had my time again ♪

>> PHIL: ♪ Again ♪

♪ I have had it ♪

♪ I have had my time again ♪

♪♪

>> HASKINS: Our thanks to the

Friends of "Theater Talk" for

their significant contribution

to this production.

>> ANNOUNCER: We welcome your

questions or comments

for "Theater Talk."

Thank you.

For more infomation >> Theater Talk - "Groundhog Day" with Andy Karl, Danny Rubin, Matthew Warchus - Duration: 26:46.

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Tackle Anger At Its Source - Duration: 3:18.

Tackle Anger at its Source Remember, suppression of anger is a far cry

from avoidance of anger.

Anger harms you long before it harms the other person and has to

be preempted.

You must train yourself not to get angry at all.

Situations that are likely to cause anger must be analysed in a cool

and calm state of mind.

If this preliminary exercise, this advance study of possible actions and reactions, itself

puts you in an angry state, then work on appropriate antidotes,

so that when the occasion actually arises, you are armed with awareness.

Remember that futile or unspent anger becomes worry or grief that

can lead one even to suicide.

It should now be clear to you that anger must be neutralized at its

source.

When you succeed in this, the mind achieves tranquillity and

the meditation progresses well.

Wrong thoughts and evil deeds have their source and origin in

emotions alone.

When you train yourself out of emotions, one by one,

spiritual progress becomes steady, and calmness becomes an integral

part of your culture and personality.

This transformation will make your life happy and successful.

Neutralization of anger is particularly imperative when one has

taken to Yoga.

Yoga is actually a way of life for reducing tension,

ridding one of wrong concepts in the mind •. bringing one close to

Truth and eventually getting communion with Truth.

When one gets angry, one becomes emotional, and then one gets

away from the goal.

The state of Truth is absoluteness.

Anger or emotion keeps one away from the state of self-awareness.

If you want to become virtuous, if you want to make yourself a

peaceful and happy person, you have got to eradicate all emotions.

And among the emotions, the most evil one is anger.

IT you are successful in neutralizing anger, you will have more

awareness.

From this awareness, from this conservation of energy,

you will get more success and pleasure in every aspect of life.

Sometimes in the performance of duties, one may need to use an

authoritative tone to get things done.

On such occasions, one may act angrily, but one should not actually get angry.

Keep yourself fully aware and your inner calm will remain.

Doesn't a dramatic actor display anger when the script calls for it?

His pose is realistic, but is there any trace of anger in his heart?

You can also adopt this method in order to perform you duties successfully.

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