1. What is Helena doing while her mother is looking for her?

Helen while her mother is looking for her she is playing with the socks puppets and drawing .

2. What is the dialogue for the first scene with the sock puppets?

White sock :” I’m queen of everything, I am spot of town, i am queen of the city, and queen of the town ,and queen of the smallest freckly things , and everyone looks me so. She is such a wonderful queen, and not embracing at all, so normal that goes to school,there is nothing to worry about ,except” .

Black sock: Haaa..but i am the queen of evil and I’m aswong, you can not escape my Communist of black magic mothers.

3. Look at your answers for #1 and #2. Who do you think the sock puppets represent.

The white sock represent what Helena want to be and the black sock represent what she is.

4. How does Helena feel about living her father’s dream?

She feels happy for her father that follows her dream but she doesn’t feel good cause she want to be normal .

5. List all the things you can think of that make the movie different from the book.

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1. What is Helena doing while her mother is looking for her?

She is playing with sock puppets

2. What is the dialogue for the first scene with the sock puppets?

White Sock: I´m the queen of everything and watch down, I´m queen of the city and
the queen of the town, and queen of the soul and freaky things, and
everyone  looks me so.. she is such a wonderful queen, and not every
embarrassing it’s all, so when she goes to school has nothing to worry
about  except

Black Sock: haa!!! But i´m the queen of evil and I must warn you,
you  cannot escape my calamities of black magic puppets.

3. Look at your answers for #1 and #2. Who do you think the sock
puppets represent?

The black one the life of Helena and the white one the life that
Helena want to have.

4. How does Helena feel about living her father’s dream?

That even when is her father dream is not her obligation to make it,
she have others dreams in life.

5. List all the things you can think of that make the movie different
from the book.

In the book things are specified more the things that are happening in
the story and in the movie you can understand a little bit better
because there is acts and feelings you can persive.

3. Look at your answers for #1 and #2. Who do you think the sock puppets represent?. the girl wanna be two things that the socks represent. the white sock represent the normal life in school and friends, and the black one represent shes life on the circus.

4. How does Helena feel about living her father’s dream? She only wants to have a normal life, and stop being in his dad´s dream, that is have a circus.

5. List all the things you can think of that make the movie different from the book. that in the book they discribe better the things, and we understand better on the book, and when you read on the book you imagine the situacion and in the movie they put you the situacion.

Questions:

1. What is Helena doing while her mother is looking for her?

Helen while her mother is looking for her she is playing with the socks puppets and drawing .

2. What is the dialogue for the first scene with the sock puppets?

White sock:” I’m queen of everything, and spot of town, i am queen of the city, and queen of the town ,and queen of the smallest freckly things , and everyone looks me so. She is such a wonderful queen, and not every embracing at all, so normal that goes to school,there is nothing to worry about ,except” .

Black sock: Haaa..but i am the queen of evil and I’m warn you, you can not escape my calamities of black magic puppets.

3. Look at your answers for #1 and #2. Who do you think the sock puppets represent.

The white sock represent what Helena want to be and the black sock represent what she is.

4. How does Helena feel about living her father’s dream?

She feels happy for her father that follows her dream but she doesn’t feel good cause she want to be normal .

5. List all the things you can think of that make the movie different from the book.

MOVIE
The black and white socks “puppets”
Helena is not dressed.
They put music.

BOOK
Helena is talking.
Helena is dressed,when her mother told her to go out.
No music .

1. What is Helena doing while her mother is looking for her?

2. What is the dialogue for the first scene with the sock puppets?

3. Look at your answers for #1 and #2. Who do you think the sock puppets represent?

4. How does Helena feel about living her father’s dream?

5. List all the things you can think of that make the movie different from the book.
Answers

1. When Helena’s mother is looking for her, she is drawing.

2. The dialogue is:

White pupet: I’m queen of everything, in this part of town. I’m queen of the city, and queen of the towns, and queen of the soul of  freaky things. And everyone here says: Oh she is such a wonderful queen, and not every embarrassing at all senile and ghosts score. There’s nothing to worry about except.

Black pupet: Ha! But I am the queen of evil and I must warn you, You cannot escape my calamity of black magic puppets!

3. We think that the white sock represents the good part of Helena, and the black sock represents the bad part of Helena.

4. Helena feels about his father dream that it is to her to become a great circer not good because she says that she wants to have a real life.

5.  1) In the book doesn’t appear how the mother passed over and go to a hospital

2) In the movie the story appears in third person and in the book in first person.

Questions:

1. What is Helena doing while her mother is looking for her?

Helena is playing with puppets and when her mum is outside of her room she makes like she is drawing.

2. What is the dialogue for the first scene with the sock puppets?

White Puppet- I´m the queen of everything. And the swat of town. I´m the queen of the city and the queen of towers, and queen of  swords and the freaky things. And everyone here misses all, she is such a wonderful queen and not everybody sing it to all. Senile and ghosts go.There’s nothing to worry about. Except..

Black Puppet- Ah, but im the queen of evil. And i’m sore you. You cannot escape my enemies. Of black, magic, marker.

3. Look at your answers for #1 and #2. Who do you think the sock puppets represent?

We think the white puppet represent Helena and the black puppet represent the Mum.

4. How does Helena feel about living her father’s dream?

She feels angry and furious because she has to participate in the fathers dream, and she is fed-up because she is doing something she doesn´t wants to do.

5. List all the things you can think of that make the movie different from the book.

a) In the movie you can see more details specifically and you can see the way she talks and in the mood she is.

1. What is Helena doing while her mother is looking for her?

2. What is the dialogue for the first scene with the sock puppets?

3. Look at your answers for #1 and #2. Who do you think the sock puppets represent?

4. How does Helena feel about living her father’s dream?

5. List all the things you can think of that make the movie different from the book.
Answers

1. When Helena’s mother is looking for her, she is drawing.

2. The dialogue for the first scene of the socks puppets is:

White Sock: I’m queen of everything, in this part of town. I’m queen of the city, and queen of the towns, and queen of the soul of freaking things. And everyone here says: “Oh she is such a wonderful queen” and not every embarrassing at all senile and ghosts score. There’s nothing to worry about. Except:

Black Sock: Ha! But I am the queen of evil and I must warn you, You can’t escape my calamity of black magic muppet!

3. We think that the white sock represents the good part of Helena, and the black sock represents the bad part of Helena.

4. Helena feels about his father dream that it is to her to become a great circus not good because she says that she wants to have a real life.

5. The things that are different the movie of the book are:

1) In the book doesn’t appear how the mother passed over and go to a hospital.

2) In the movie the story appears in third person and in the book in first person.

Part 1

1. What is Helena doing while her mother is looking for her?

She is drawing in a paper..

2. What is the dialogue for the first scene with the sock puppets?

White Sock: I’m queen of everything, in this part of town. I’m queen of the city, and queen of the towns, and queen of the soul of freaking things. And everyone here says: Oh she is such a wonderful queen, and not every embarrassing at all senile and ghosts score. There’s nothing to worry about. Except:

Black Sock: Ha! But I am the queen of evil and I must warn you, You can’t escape my calamity of black magic muppet!

3. Look at your answers for #1 and #2. Who do you think the sock puppets represent?

The mom and Helena.
4. How does Helena feel about living her father’s dream?

She feel awful.

5. List all the things you can think of that make the movie different from the book.

The puppets are not on the book

Questions:

1. What is Helena doing while her mother is looking for her?she was
doing like a show with her socks

2. What is the dialogue for the first scene with the sock puppets? I´m the queen of everything

White sock: I am queen of everything in this part of town.I am queen of the city and queen of the towers.

3. Look at your answers for #1 and #2. Who do you think the sock
puppets represent?the white the real life and the black the circus

4. How does Helena feel about living her father’s dream?  bad

5. List all the things you can think of that make the movie different
from the book.
1 When the clown sell the tickets
2 The music

1. List 3 elements that tell you this part of the story is taking place in a dream.

when hellena looks at hers selve sliping,when the biolinist bracks a rock

2. What is the male character’s name?

Valentine

3. List at least 3 things you associate with his name.

Danger, magic and romance

4. Look at your answers for 2 and 3. What might the male character be a symbol of?

A friend or a boyfriend that Helena didn´t had.

5. What does the male character say you need to know if you’re happy or sad?

that if you have a mask you didnt no if you are happy or not

1. What is Helena doing while her mother is looking for her?                                                                                          While Helena’s mother is looking for her, she is makiing a puppet show with her socks.

2. What is the dialogue for the first scene with the sock puppets?                                                                               White sock: I’m queen of everything,  in spuft town, I´m queen of the city, and queen of the towns, and queen of the small frickly things and everyone that looks at me says ooh!! she’s such a wonderful queen and not every embaresing its all to several guyes in this sculen, there is nothing to worrie about except…..                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Black sock: haaa but I am the queen of evil and I’m a swor you, you can not escape my kind news of black magic muppets!

1. What is Helena doing while her mother is looking for her?

While Helena’s mother is looking for her, she is making a puppet show with her socks.

2. What is the dialogue for the first scene with the sock puppets?

White sock: I’m queen of everything,  in spuft town, I´m queen of the city, and queen of the towns, and queen of the small frickly things and everyone that looks at me says ooh!! she’s such a wonderful queen and not every embaresing its all to several guyes in this sculen, there is nothing to worrie about except…..

Black sock: Haaa but I am the queen of evil and I’m a swor you, you can not escape my kind news of black magic muppets!

You should never play charades with wooden penguins.

(Goldwyn) Stephanie Leonidas, Gina McKee, Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, Dora Bryan, Stephen Fry, Simon Harvey, Robert Llewellyn, Eryl Maynard. Directed by Dave McKean

Some of the most amazing graphic novels ever have sprung from the fertile imaginations of writer Neil Gaiman and illustrator Dave McKean. Now, the two are teaming up for a movie of unparalleled visual sense.

Helena (Leonidas) has always dreamed of running away from the circus. Her mother (McKee) and father (Brydon) run a Cirque du Soleil-esque traveling show that manages to make ends meet – just – but it isn’t the life Helena really wants. She is an imaginative girl, who spends every moment she has drawing fantastic images of strange creatures inhabiting a vast city. Her teenage impulses for doing her own thing often bump up against her parents need for her help in the overwhelming job of The Show Must Go On. After a particularly nasty argument with her mother (are there any fights worse than those between mother and daughter?) she ends with the nasty wish that she would be the death of her mother.

A little later on, her mother collapses and Helena’s world is turned upside down. Without her mother’s vital contributions, from taking tickets to her role in the show, the upcoming tour is in jeopardy. The family has never been flush to begin with, and their dwindling savings are setting off alarm bells. While her father is sticking fingers in all sorts of dykes, trying to keep the business from going under, Helena visits her mother, who pops in and out of consciousness. At length, she is told that her mother is going to have a critical operation. Helena goes to sleep, feeling betrayed.

When she wakes, she is in a place that is familiar yet unfamiliar. She meets up with a juggler/con man named Valentine (Barry), but they are interrupted by the onset of shadows, which turns the other performers into crumbling dust. As they escape, Helena realizes that the place she is in is the city she has drawn. Before she can catch her breath, she is whisked away to the palace by a palace guard that travels on stilted legs. While on her way to the palace she realizes that she can see her bedroom through certain windows and, to her shock, herself in it.

A pompous prime minister (Brydon again) who, like all the citizens wears an elaborate mask, informs her that she resembles a young girl who passed herself off as a princess of the dark side of the city, but this young girl had abused the hospitality of the white queen (McKee) and had stolen a charm. Now the white queen sleeps without waking, the balance between the light and the dark has been thrown out of whack and the city on both sides is beginning to fall apart. What is worse is that the spoiled princess has assumed Helena’s place in the real world. Helena must recover the MirrorMask and restore balance to the city and return the princess to the Dark Queen (McKee) and not incidentally, return herself to the real world.

The filmmakers have been forthcoming about being inspired by the world of Jim Henson’s film Labyrinth and the inspiration comes through markedly – in fact, Henson’s creature shop built many of the creatures that inhabit the City. Those who are familiar with McKean’s art will not find the imagery unfamiliar, particularly in the gothic nature of the city and its inhabitants, who sometimes look like a collage of images rather than a single solid idea.

 This is one of the most visually impressive movies I’ve seen, with stunning creations around every corner. The settings recall Victorian England as well as Wiemar Republic Germany with a hint of the worlds of Maurice Sendak and, of course, Jim Henson. This is the sort of movie you’ll want to see several times as there’s no way you can catch all the detail in a single sitting.

The English cast does a solid job but they mostly play second fiddle to the images and sets. The problem here is mainly a pedestrian story, which relies overly much on familiar concepts explored in Labyrinth and Stephen King and Peter Straub’s The Talisman whose story it rips off virtually note for note.

Still, one can forgive the “must save mom” maudlin-ness since the real reason for this movie’s existence is to excite your sense of wonder, and it does that in spades. There are times the surreal aspects of the visuals hop on the Dali highway and take off willy-nilly, but since I like Dali it doesn’t phase me much, but those who find surreality acceptable only in small doses, be warned that the dosage here is overwhelming.

WHY RENT THIS: Dazzling, imaginative visuals that are a feast for the eyes and food for the brain. You’ll want to see this more than once but even then you won’t be able to capture everything you see.

WHY RENT SOMETHING ELSE: The story is a bit pedestrian and the plot creeps into the maudlin periodically.

FAMILY VALUES: Some of the images might be too unsettling for younger, more impressionable sorts.

TRIVIAL PURSUITS: When Helena reaches for the book “The Complete History of Everything” in the library, the book directly beside it is entitled “Muppets in Space” with the title written in the Farscape font. Both are allusions to the Jim Henson Studios, which produced the film Muppets in Space and also the TV show Farscape.

NOTABLE DVD EXTRAS: There is footage from a Q&A session McKean and Gaiman did about the film at the 2005 San Diego Comicon, as well as an intriguing feature called Day 16 which shows an entire day of filming in time lapse photography.

FINAL RATING: 8/10

TOMORROW: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

1. List 3 elements that tell you this part of the story is taking place in a dream.

a) She see her sleeping.

.b) The worlds of light and shadows dosen´t exisiste.
c) She´s not a princess.

2. What is the male character’s name?

Valentine.

3. List at least 3 things you associate with his name.
a) Magic.
b) Romance.
c) And a little of danger.

4. Look at your answers for 2 and 3. What might the male character be a symbol of?

Maybe it symbol of someone Helena loves or hes prince charming.

5. What does the male character say you need to know if you’re happy or sad? That with a mask you can know if your are happy or sad.

Questions

1. List 3 elements that tell you this part of the story is taking place in a dream.

a) When Eric, the violinist starts to burn.

b) When she saw the cat with the wings and the human face.

c) When she stands in the book and flies.

d) When she sees herself in her room sleeping.

2. What is the male character’s name?

The male character name is Valentine.

3. List at least 3 things you associate with his name.

a) Romance.

b) Danger.

c) Magic.

4. Look at your answers for 2 and 3. What might the male character be a symbol of?

The male character might be a symbol of love, because in love we have romance,danger and magic. And maybe Valentine feels love for Helena.

5. What does the male character say you need to know if you’re happy or sad?

Valentine said that you need a mask, because it covers your feelings and nobody can know in what mood you are.

1. List 3 elements that tell you this part of the story is taking place in a dream.

2. What is the male character’s name?

3. List at least 3 things you associate with his name.

4. Look at your answers for 2 and 3. What might the male character be a symbol of?

5. What does the male character say you need to know if you’re happy or sad?

1. The three elements that tell you this part of the story is taking place in a dream are:

a)The black cloud.

b) The flying books.

c) The cat with face of man.

2. The male character’s name is Valentine.

3.The three things that I associate with this name is:

a) Magic .

b) Romance.

c) Danger.

4. The male character could be symbol of love, or a symbol of someone or something that Helena loves.

5.-The male character says that you need to wear a mask to know if you are happy or sad.

1. List 3 elements that tell you this part of the story is taking place in a dream.  1. The dark shadows burn people and that cannot happen in real life.  2. The queen cannot wake up without the charm.   3. She appears in a glitter shimmered and gleamed palace.

2. What is the male character’s name? Valentine.

3. List at least 3 things you associate with his name: Valentines day, Love, and Marriage.

4. Look at your answers for 2 and 3. What might the male character be a symbol of? A symbol of love because Valentine sound like love.

5. What does the male character say you need to know if you’re happy or sad? By putting a mask.

1. List 3 elements that tell you this part of the story is taking place in a dream.

That the juggler dies and sticks to the wall, The cat and the books that fly.

2. What is the male character’s name?

Valentine

3. List at least 3 things you associate with his name.

Romance, magic and just a hint of danger

4. Look at your answers for 2 and 3. What might the male character be a symbol of?

of love

5. What does the male character say you need to know if you’re happy or sad?

To wear a mask

1. What is Helena doing while her mother is looking for her?

When her mom is looking for her Helena is drawing in a paper .

2. What is the dialogue for the first scene with the sock puppets?

White Sock: I am queen of everything and spot of down, I am queen of the city and queen of the town and queen of the smallest freckle things and everyone he looks at me say oh! She is such a wonderful queen and not everyone embarrassing at all its all normal in case of school there is nothing to worry about except.

Black Sock: Haa! But I am the queen of evil and I most warn you , you cannot escape my calamities of black magic puppets.

3. Look at your answers for #1 and #2. Who do you think the sock puppets represent?

I think the sock puppets represent the good part of Helena and the bad one .

4. How does Helena feel about living her father’s dream?

Helena feel really bad cause she want to live her dreams and join real life.

5. List all the things you can think of that make the movie different from the book.

The book is written in first person and in the movie in 3th person .

Questions

1. List 3 elements that tell you the story is taking place in a dream.

the 3 elements that tell that is a dream are :

1.- the flying book

2.-the flying fishes

3.- the cat

2. What is the male character’s name?

the male character name is Valentine

3. List at least 3 things you associate with his name.

the 3 thing are love, magic and romance.

4. Look at your answers for 2 and 3. What might the male character be a symbol of?

the mail character is a symbol of love

5. What does the male character say you need to know if you’re happy or sad?

The male character said that your mask is what said if you are happy or sad.

6. Think about the word MirrorMask.

What does a mirror do?

A mirror reflects you.

What might a mirror be a symbol of?

A mirros migth be a symbol of what you feel

What does a mask do?

A mask hide your identity.

What might a mask be a symbol of?

A mask be a symbol of what you want  to hide and what you want to be .

What do you think a MirrorMask might be?

A mirror mask might be a reflection of what you want to be .

List 3 elements that tell you this part of the story is taking place in a dream.

*1.- Because a shadow touches the violinist and suddenly he burns.

*2.- Because the books start to fly because they said bad words.

*3.- Because a very strange cat appears.

2. What is the male character’s name?

The male character name is Valentine.

3. List at least 3 things you associate with his name.

Valentine is associated with :

Magic, Romance, & a little bit of danger.

4. Look at your answers for 2 and 3. What might the male character be a symbol of?

The male character is a symbol of LOVE.

5. What does the male character say you need to know if you’re happy or sad?
You need to know if you are happy or sad by wearing a mask.