The Innovation in the Animated-Film History

As I mentioned in my self-introduction posting, the animated film “Toy Story(1995)” is one of my favorite movies. I liked the story and characters. But Toy Story has more interesting stories regarding its making. And after knowing that stories, you will definitely think that Toy Story is literally the innovation in the animated film history. There are many innovative aspects from this movie regarding CG, the Academy Awards, and profits.

The Toy Story is the first feature-length 100% computer-graphic (CG) animated film. There had been many CG animations before the Toy Story released. But there were just only short-animations or something. Because at that time, not many people thought the big possibility of the fully CG animation films, so there were not many investments to CG animated film industry for animators to make big CG movies. But Steve Jobs thought that possibility, so he founded the company called the Pixar Animation Studio. And he recruited animators and CG experts such as John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who were trying to make CG animated films hard and encouraged them while investing lots of money for them to make great featured-length CG animated film. That’s how it was, the beginning of the Toy Story.

The Toy Story is the first to have an existence as an animated film in the Academy Awards. The Toy Story got a lot of awards in the Academy Awards. For example, the director John Lasseter received an Academy Special Achievement Award in 1996 for the development and inspired application of techniques that have made possible the first feature-length computer-animated film." Particularly, the most noticeable point is that Toy Story is the first animated film to be nominated for an Academy Awards writing category called Best Original Screenplay . After that, lots of animated films have been getting awards in the Academy Awards.

The Toy Story is the first taking a big role with huge profits for animated film industry. Upon its release on November 22, 1995, Toy Story managed to gross more than $350 million worldwide. In details, Toy Story earned $361,958,736 worldwide and became the highest-grossing film of 1995. At the time of its release, it was the third highest-grossing animated film of all time, after The Lion King (1994) and Aladdin (1992). This made people assure that computer-animated films could be successful, so many studios began to make CG animated films.

There are very innovative moments for the Toy Story to have as the first featured-length 100% CG animated film, the first existence in the Academy Awards and the first to get huge profits as the first featured-length 100% CG animated film. I think the journey of Toy Story is really innovative. Because lots of people didn’t really think that CG animated films can be successful and popular. That’s why Steve Jobs, John Lasseter and Ed Catmull had a tough time at the beginning when making the Toy Story. But through that tough time, Toy Story finally was completed, came out to the world, and became one of the historical films. Who would have known that people could watch the 100% CG feature-length animated film?

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http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/toy-story-turns-20-changed-animated-films-forever/story?id=35281890

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/60at60/2015/8/1995-first-feature-length-computer-animated-movie-392883

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story

http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=2073114&cid=42621&categoryId=44436

http://movie.naver.com/movie/magazine/magazine.nhn?nid=1146

http://news.joins.com/article/20497153

A Lunch Box for a Sustainable Future

Do you know a tumbler? According to "Wikipedia", it is a flat-bottomed beverage container for drinking made of plastic, glass, etc. Recently I saw many people use tumblers more naturally than before at the cafe. But the effect of using the tumbler is more powerful than we thought. Because while making disposable paper cups, there is carbon dioxide emission a lot which is one of the main reasons for global warming. 
So using a tumbler at the cafe instead of a paper cup is good action for a sustainable future. Then how about at a restaurant? I think personal lunch box can take a role like a tumbler can do. It can reduce the amount of food waste, disposable products and also it can be economical.  


First, carrying a lunch box in a daily basis can reduce the amount of food waste. When I order some food at a restaurant, there can be a moment that the dish is too much. So I had to let them be thrown away. But at that time, if I can take the rest of the dish on my lunch box, there cannot be food waste from my dishes. I think it is a good idea for both, the restaurants and the customers. Because accumulated food waste from customers' dishes can be definitely burdensome for the restaurants to deal with.


Second, carrying a lunch box in a daily basis can reduce the amount of disposable products. These days, a lot of people are aware of the food waste problem. So a lot of restaurants tend to try packaging services if the customers have the leftover. But most of packaging services are using disposable packaging containers. So it's irony. Because on the one side, it is reducing the food waste. But on the other side, it is increasing the disposable products at the same time. So that's why a personal lunch box is needed particularly I think.


And lastly, carrying a lunch box can be economical for users. This is from my personal experience. When I ordered some food at lunch, there was a big dish I couldn't expected. So I asked the staff to pack that and then I had that again at dinner. I mean if you take your leftover on your lunch box, you can eat them again whenever you want. I think it is really a good thing. You don't have to pay for a new meal.


Carrying a personal lunch box can be quite burdensome and the atmosphere is quite awkward. Because it is not common culture for taking out a personal lunch box at restaurants. But if it gets more common like the way of the tumblers at the cafe these days, it will be a really good action for a sustainable future. And also I hope that there will be new types of lunch boxes which is comfortable to carry outside.














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http://m.post.naver.com/viewer/postView.nhn?volumeNo=4524358&memberNo=15002314&vType=VERTICAL

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Namsan and the movie "Worst Woman"

Recently, I saw the movie called 최악의 하루 (English name is "Worst Woman"). There are two main backgrounds in this movie. One of those backgrounds is Namsan (one of the mountains located in Seoul) walking trail. Personally, I really like to go to Namsan walking trail. So after hearing that there is a movie which was shot in Namsan walking trail, I went to the theater right away. After watching the movie, I felt that it's really impressive. Because the story and characters of the movie coordinated so well with Namsan. And then I wanted to know more behind stories about the location. So I researched, and found out that there are specific reasons for Namsan to be in this movie.

First of all, Namsan walking trail is a good place for walking. Because in the movie, the characters walk a lot. They just keep walking while talking to each other. The characters express their emotions while walking most of the time in the movie. After all, walking is a really important factor in this movie. That's why Namsan walking trail is a really good place for the movie literally. 

Then why is walking important in the movie? Why are the characters walking at Namsan? According to Kim JongKwan, the director of this movie, he really likes to walk at Namsan walking trail in his daily life. So he wanted to make a movie including the factor of walking at the stage of planning of this movie. He explained that this movie is consist of the settings including temporary time, limited area, and the description of the city. He said that he likes this kind of movie. He also added that there are movies like this, such as Before Sunrise or Midnight in Paris etc. Like he said, when you see those movies, the characters are waking in the city while the story is going on. 

Before watching the movie, I didn't know that there are specific reasons for the director to choose Namsan as a movie background like that. From now on, when I go to Namsan, the movie "Worst Woman" will remind me of the Namsan scenes. I think it's really interesting that Namsan feels different to me now after watching the film and knowing behind stories. How influential the place in the movie is to the audience?

reference

http://english.visitseoul.net/attractions/Namsan-Park_/3634

http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/ATR/SI_EN_3_1_1_1.jsp?cid=264320

http://www.cine21.com/news/view/?mag_id=84105

https://youtu.be/HWPJ6poKqIQ
https://youtu.be/Dc5NJ_UOf_c

Geotourism of Namsan

      Namsan is one of the famous mountains in Seoul, Korea. So Nam San is called "The lung of Seoul." And it's also one of the famous attractions in Seoul, Korea. So there are so many visitors going-on every year. 

      But recently Namsan is suffering from the air pollution. Because so many tour buses are emitting air-pollution nitrogen oxides. And most of tour buses are diesel buses and this kinds of buses are one of the main factors to fine-dust problem. It can be really harmful for the nature of Namsan and people who are visiting at Namsan.

      So in this point, Geotourism is really needed. The possible effects of geotourism in Namsan include protecting the nature and making Namsan's image better. 

      One possible effect of geotourism in Namsan is protecting the nature. Namsan is a mountain itself. It is a nature literally. It's not an artifical attraction. So it needs to be protected. When it comes to the air pollution issue, If Namsan is protected well, then visitors can breathe cleaner air. Or not, visitors are disturbed by the exhaust from tour buses emitting bad gases while walking around at Namsan. In detail, the road where many buses emitting bad gases ride is really close to the trail where visitors or climbers walk. It is really direct exposure to that bad gases. So it can be really serious health issue.   

      Another possible effect of geotourism in Namsan is making Namsan's image better. If Namsan can get more famous for its cleaner air-environment, visitors are more likely to come to the Namsan more often than before. It can be the truly healing-place for people. People can breathe cleaner air with their family or friends while working out or walking around in the fresh air. They can feel the nature instead of frowning at the exhaust. This can make Namsan's image better.

reference:

http://blog.naver.com/kecoprumy/220325439033

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2011/03/204_51909.html

http://news.mk.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=416694&year=2016)

       

Hello everybody~^^

I'm Yu Jin Lee in my 4th grade, majoring in English.

I want to talk about one of my hobbies for my short self-introduction.
Because introducing the things that I like so much can definitely express me, I think.
Usually, I'm really interested in learning English. Especially I like to watch animations for learning English. "Toy Story" is one of my best animations. I watched this movie when I was almost 5. It was really really long time ago. But still, I watch this movie
quite often. You can guess how I like this movie. And also It was my first motivation for me to got into learning English. Because the scenes and the voices of the characters in the movie was so attractive to me so that made me want to understand without the Korean subtitles. So I just watched it repeatedly. That was very helpful for
learning English. So until now, watching movies for learning English is one of my big hobbies.

Thank you for reading my short self-introduction.
I'm looking forward to this blog. 

Because I've never been writing with only English before.  

I hope I will do well on my writing with this blog. 

Then, see you next time. Bye~