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Blood and Flowers-In search of the Aztecs (Documentary)
A BBC Documentary about the Aztecs.- published: 30 Oct 2012
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- author: Samyaza Shemyazaz
Two Broke Guys
Plot
Stereomongrel is a ten minute experimental film which explores the effects of two disparate worlds colliding. Witnessed through the eyes of a gifted twelve year old girl, high and low culture clash in the neutral battle field of a museum. Filmed in Super 35 mm, Stereomongrel style can be described as "hyper, supra, and marvelous real," through the use of 3-D animation, stop-motion animation, and highly choreographed tableaux or set pieces. Genres that are blended and tweaked by this uniquely hybridized film include psychological/supernatural thrillers, Italian horror movies from the 70s and 80s, and the unattainable ideals - both physical and economic - found in hip-hop music videos and fashion magazines.
Plot
In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and guides him into the hallucinations of the Magic Theater, which seem to take him into Hell. Can humor, sin, and derision lead to salvation?
Keywords: based-on-book, based-on-novel, classical-music, dance-lesson, dancing, death, female-nudity, independent-film, jazz-musician, kiss
Hermine: O, Harry, you *are* an idiot!
Pablo: There is a light within. You need only to step out of your own shadows to see it.
Pablo: All humor is gallows humor.
[first lines]::Harry Haller: The day went by just as days go by. I killed it in accordance with my primitive and withdrawn way of life. I worked for an hour or two, had pains, took some opium and lay in a hot bath for two hours. Was glad when the pains consented to disappear. All in all it wasn't exactly a day of rapture. Perhaps the time is come to follow the example of Adalbert Stifter: a fatal accident while shaving...
Pablo: Learn what is to be taken seriously, and to laugh at the rest!
Goethe: Oh, no wonder you're so grouchy, if you're going to take Time seriously. There is no Time in Eternity. Only a moment. Just time for a joke!
Plot
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...
Keywords: 1510s, 16th-century, alcoholic, aztec-indian, based-on-novel, beach, caballero, carrack, catholic, cauterization
Master of Women's Hearts . . . . . . . Conqueror of a New World.
My sword shall make a new world . . . your kiss will make it paradise !
Master of women's hearts!
Conqueror of a New World!
Here is the full surge of conquest of gold and empire!
Pedro De Vargas: [reacting to the torture of his sister] I'll confess anything if you'll just release her!::Don Francisco De Vargas: No! Do not save her by a lie! Silva, if you do this thing, look to your own soul!
Jail guard: Senor el Supremo, the girl is dead!::Diego De Silva: You bumbling fools! Have you no skill in your craft?
Father Bartolome Romero: God's love is a heavy burden.
Juan Escudero: Believe me, gentlemen, a lame goat takes no siesta. If something's got to be done, do it.
Pedro De Vargas: [finding Botello lying on the ground] Botello, what happened?::Prof. Botello: [groans] What misery! I'm lucky to be alive! Oh, my poor head!::Pedro De Vargas: But what happened?::Prof. Botello: You won't tell on me, Pedro lad?::Pedro De Vargas: Of course not!::Prof. Botello: I was just taking a stroll with one of those Indian ladies - ugly as sin, of course, color of mud, but charming, dear boy, charming.::Pedro De Vargas: You know the penalty for touching an Indian!::Prof. Botello: Now, now, Pedro, you know orders don't apply to a cockroach like me.
Prof. Botello: Even my skill cannot defeat the will of God, but I've stopped the bleeding. You'll have to admit it's a well-sealed wound!
Coatl: I think of what you do for me in Spain. I think I speak to you now. Maybe I understand better why you come here. This is my country, senor. These are my people, my gods. We not come tell you to stop loving your gods. We not come to make you slaves. Why do you do this, senor?::Pedro De Vargas: Well, I'm afraid I haven't any answer for that. It isn't right for men to worship idols. There's only one true God.::Coatl: Maybe your God and my God same God. Maybe we just call him by different names.
[last lines]::Hernando Cortez: Gentlemen, this time last year we were fighting mosquitos in swamps, accepting paltry gifts, and half-starving. But now we stand knocking at the very door of the great Emporer Moctezuma. We shall meet with His Majesty face-to-face - have done with ambassadors and specks of gold. This, gentlemen, is just the beginning!
Plot
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...
Keywords: 1510s, 16th-century, alcoholic, aztec-indian, based-on-novel, beach, caballero, carrack, catholic, cauterization
Master of Women's Hearts . . . . . . . Conqueror of a New World.
My sword shall make a new world . . . your kiss will make it paradise !
Master of women's hearts!
Conqueror of a New World!
Here is the full surge of conquest of gold and empire!
Pedro De Vargas: [reacting to the torture of his sister] I'll confess anything if you'll just release her!::Don Francisco De Vargas: No! Do not save her by a lie! Silva, if you do this thing, look to your own soul!
Jail guard: Senor el Supremo, the girl is dead!::Diego De Silva: You bumbling fools! Have you no skill in your craft?
Father Bartolome Romero: God's love is a heavy burden.
Juan Escudero: Believe me, gentlemen, a lame goat takes no siesta. If something's got to be done, do it.
Pedro De Vargas: [finding Botello lying on the ground] Botello, what happened?::Prof. Botello: [groans] What misery! I'm lucky to be alive! Oh, my poor head!::Pedro De Vargas: But what happened?::Prof. Botello: You won't tell on me, Pedro lad?::Pedro De Vargas: Of course not!::Prof. Botello: I was just taking a stroll with one of those Indian ladies - ugly as sin, of course, color of mud, but charming, dear boy, charming.::Pedro De Vargas: You know the penalty for touching an Indian!::Prof. Botello: Now, now, Pedro, you know orders don't apply to a cockroach like me.
Prof. Botello: Even my skill cannot defeat the will of God, but I've stopped the bleeding. You'll have to admit it's a well-sealed wound!
Coatl: I think of what you do for me in Spain. I think I speak to you now. Maybe I understand better why you come here. This is my country, senor. These are my people, my gods. We not come tell you to stop loving your gods. We not come to make you slaves. Why do you do this, senor?::Pedro De Vargas: Well, I'm afraid I haven't any answer for that. It isn't right for men to worship idols. There's only one true God.::Coatl: Maybe your God and my God same God. Maybe we just call him by different names.
[last lines]::Hernando Cortez: Gentlemen, this time last year we were fighting mosquitos in swamps, accepting paltry gifts, and half-starving. But now we stand knocking at the very door of the great Emporer Moctezuma. We shall meet with His Majesty face-to-face - have done with ambassadors and specks of gold. This, gentlemen, is just the beginning!
The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to 16th centuries. "Aztec" (Nahuatl pronunciation: [astekaʔ]) is the Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlan", a mythological place for the Nahuatl-speaking culture of the time, and later adopted as the word to define the Mexica people. Often the term "Aztec" refers exclusively to the Mexica people of Tenochtitlan (now the location of Mexico City), situated on an island in Lake Texcoco, who referred to themselves as Mexica Tenochca or Colhua-Mexica.
Sometimes the term also includes the inhabitants of Tenochtitlan's two principal allied city-states, the Acolhuas of Texcoco and the Tepanecs of Tlacopan, who together with the Mexica formed the Aztec Triple Alliance which controlled what is often known as "the Aztec Empire". In other contexts, Aztec may refer to all the various city states and their peoples, who shared large parts of their ethnic history and cultural traits with the Mexica, Acolhua and Tepanecs, and who often also used the Nahuatl language as a lingua franca. In this meaning it is possible to talk about an Aztec civilization including all the particular cultural patterns common for most of the peoples inhabiting Central Mexico in the late postclassic period.
Cain Velasquez Ramirez (born July 28, 1982) is a Mexican American mixed martial artist fighting in the Ultimate Fighting Championship where he is a former UFC Heavyweight Champion. He is a two-time All-American collegiate wrestler from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, and a Junior College National Champ at Iowa Central Community College. He is a two-time 5A state champion in Arizona, compiling a record of 110–10 for Kofa High School in Yuma, Arizona. Cain Velasquez is ranked #2 in the heavyweight division.
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The Walls are an Irish rock band. They were formed in 1998 by two ex-members of The Stunning.
Brothers Steve and Joe Wall (previously of The Stunning) returned to Ireland after a two-year failed label stint in London. Their Camden housemate Carl Harms joined the band on guitar and keyboard duties. Drummer Rory Doyle joined soon afterwards. They set up their own label, Earshot Records (later changing it to Dirtbird Records) and recorded and released a string of singles. A remix of one of the album tracks, "Bone Deep", clicked with radio and became a nationwide hit. Many of the songs have featured on a number of TV series and feature films such as Bachelors Walk, Dead Bodies, Goldfish Memory and On the Edge (starring Cillian Murphy).
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We traveled through this land a thousand years ago
We were the first to see the purple skies
I wondered round the desert in a mask of gold
I left a thousand things for you to find
I left my home where your houses stand
I left my gold where your highways ran
I lived my life on what you call your land
I left my soul in the Aztec sand
The days grow long the nights are getting warmer
The rains are few beneath the blazing sun
Traveling fathers finding little water
The time has come when we must play this world
I left my home where your houses stand
I left my gold where your highways ran
I lived my life on what you call your land
I left my soul in the Aztec sand
Round and round
Our lifetime goes
Where does it end
Someone must know
I've got a family now but you wouldn't know them
They're beaten down so hard they can hardly stand
We used to live so brave so free like an eagle
Now they make us live like a crippled man
I left my home where your houses stand
I left my gold where your highways ran
I lived my life on what you call your land
I left my soul in the Aztec sand
We traveled through this land a thousand years ago
We were the first to see the purple skies
I wondered round the desert in a mask of gold
I left a thousand things for you to find
I left my home where your houses stand
I left my gold where your highways ran
I lived my life on what you call your land
I left my soul in the aztec sand
The days grow long the nights are getting warmer
The rains are few beneath the blazing sun
Traveling fathers finding little water
The time has come when we must play this world
I left my home where your houses stand
I left my gold where your highways ran
I lived my life on what you call your land
I left my soul in the aztec sand
Round and round
Our lifetime goes
Where does it end
Someone must know
I've got a family now but you wouldn't know them
They're beaten down so hard they can hardly stand
We used to live so brave so free like an eagle
Now they make us live like a crippled man
I left my home where your houses stand
I left my gold where your highways ran
I lived my life on what you call your land