DiCaprio Has Depth - Marian High School

DiCaprio Has Depth
MollyMisek
W
hen I first saw Leonardo DiCaprio’s
frozen body sink into the depths
of the Atlantic in Titanic, a piece of
my 6-year-old heart drifted away with him.
After being convinced for a good six
months that the love of my life was gone
forever, I was delighted to find out that Leo
had come back from the grave in the form of
King Louis XIV in The Man in the Iron Mask.
Although I didn’t comprehend any part of the
storyline (especially his alarmingly long and
greasy hair), I found myself sighing in relief.
That small chunk of my heart was back in
place. Everything was right with the world.
Dear Leo (as I prefer calling him)
continued to charm me as he appeared as the
little orphan boy in Growing Pains and later
starred in flicks like Catch Me If You Can, The
Aviator, and Shutter Island.
However, in his latest movie, he did more
than charm me. He literally melted my brain.
Inception can barely be described in words.
Before the mind-blowing theatrical feat
Sputtering, choking, and blank stares of awe
are all more acceptable methods of expressing
known as Inception came along, DiCaprio
the sheer astonishment one will experience
had flabbergasted audiences with a variety
only twenty
of action films,
minutes into the
helping to redefine
a genre that was
movie. Aided
by the superb
long plagued with
acting of Joseph
mixed martial
Gordon-Levitt
arts, automatic
weapons, beautiful
and Ellen Page,
DiCaprio creates
women, and bland,
run-of-the-mill
an alternate
dream world that
plotlines.
makes moviegoers
Through his
work in movies like
question their
Blood Diamond and
own lives, not to
Gangs of New York,
mention their
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DiCaprio has set
sanities.
Still, I am not
precedent for other
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here to give a review of Inception; I’m here
action flicks: a plot which is not is not built
around the number of explosions or knife
to recall what an amazing genre Leonardo
DiCaprio has created through his movies.
fights (although there are still a good number
n’t
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“A quiet room and all you can
hear is someone
texting.” freshman
Megan McClanahan
of those) but around developed characters
whose lives have more meaning than how
much blood they spill.
In Shutter Island, for example, DiCaprio’s
character conceals a history that’s too horrible
for him to accept. No gigantic explosions are
needed for the movie’s eerie message to come
across.
It may help that he’s good-looking,
but the fact of the matter is that I, along
with audiences worldwide, continue to be
captivated by Leonardo DiCaprio.
He brings true characters to life and places
greater priority on extraordinary plots than
on buff guys in wifebeaters gunning down
civilians.
It is this element in DiCaprio’s movies that
attracts so much critical acclaim for movies
like Inception. I am proud to call myself a fan
of Leonardo DiCaprio.
Who knew my Dear Leo would become
such a revolutionary actor?
EveryBODY’s
Talking
BrookeUrzendowski
LizProsser
A
girl writing in a notebook. A man
“It was hard to believe they were real
dribbling a basketball. A boy throwing
bodies at first, but after seeing all the different
a baseball. All of these images do not
muscles and parts it was so cool” Sophomore
seem like they belong in a museum. In fact,
Maria Roubidoux said. “Seeing how
not only are these images drawing crowds
everything works was a great experience.”
of attention, they are also the talk of much
But while some people find the exhibit
controversy. The reason? Each posed person
fascinating, others are not so impressed.
is a real human body completely exposed and
“It seems disrespectful,” Dr. Thomas
preserved for a special exhibit new to Omaha.
Quinn, director of medical anatomy at
Located on 10th and Dodge, Bodies...
Creighton University School of Medicine, told
The Exhibition adds a new flare to central
the Omaha World-Herald. “Posing bodies
downtown. The exhibit has been beating
and charging people to see them is like a
with energy and controversy since its opening
sideshow.”
on May 1, 2010. This once in a lifetime
Many Catholics also seem weary of the
experience allows the public to examine every
whole idea. The Archdiocese has expressed
muscle, bone, and tendon in the human body
its concern back in April when Rev. Joseph
for the price of a $22 admission ticket. Before Taphorn stated, “It (the body) becomes
its Omaha
something
debut,
that is used
millions
for profit, an
Something Every
Needs to Know object to be
of viewers
around the
gawked at.”
nation are
Other
An exhibition all about the
obsessing
priests have
body and its many parts
$22 for
over the
expressed their
students
informative
concern that
10am-8pm Sunday-Thursday
and in
it would not
10am-10pm Friday-Saturday
depth
be appropriate
look into
for Catholic
1002 Dodge
the body.
schools to take
Street, Omaha
May-November 2010
Bodies...The
their students
NE
Exhibition
to the exhibit.
originated
This brings up
in Tampa,
the question
Georgia, Ohio, Texas, Navada, Canada, New York,
Florida in
of whether or
Missouri, Arizona
2005 and
not students
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Source www.bodiestheexhibition.com
has since
should view
spread
Bodies...The
across the United States, parts of Canada, and
Exhibition as an informative study into the
South America.
human body or an exploitive organization.
Each body is meticulously dissected and
“I don’t see it as a problem,” Roubidoux
goes through a process called the Polymer
said. “These people were going to be put in
Reservation, which allows it to be preserved
the ground anyway so using them to learn is a
forever.
good thing.”
Using liquid silicon rubber, the human
All of the bodies are legally obtained people
tissue becomes permanent within a week’s
of Chinese descent and died of natural causes.
time and can be posed during this period. For
Dr. Ray Glover, the Bodies Medical Director,
the larger organs, this process could take up to posted on the official website that each body
a year before completion.
undergoes the same process and is treated and
The finished product is an exact human
displayed with respect.
body in its original shape and form that will
“Our exhibitions are not anything that has
never decay.
to do with denigrating the body,” Glover said.
Each full-body specimen showcases a
“The exhibitions are about health and life
different system in the human body: skeletal,
and encouraging people to take care of their
muscular, reproductive, respiratory, and so
bodies and understand them better.”
on. Frozen fetuses are also on display that
Still, many people nationwide do not find
have been preserved at different stages of
the idea of an exposed human body morally
development. Every organ has been isolated
or physically appealing. The argument is one
for a close-up study and there is a whole
that will continue as long as preserved bodies
section dedicated to the inner workings of the
are on display and will only grow as Bodies...
brain.
The Exhibition makes its way around the
world.
Bodies...The
body Exhibition
What:
When:
“People biting into
popsicles.” junior
Sarah Singer
How Long It Is Here:
“The new SunChips bag.”
sophomore
Erin McQuillan
“The sound of
computer paper rubbing
together.”
senior Joy Leick
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Blast From The Past:
A Review of the Kids’ TV Transformation
ErinO’Brien
T
ommy and Chuckie race around the
neighborhood in the Reptar wagon.
Louis pulls yet another prank on Ren.
Helga calls Arnold a “football head” for the
300th time.
These were all too familiar scenes from
our childhoods as we were growing up in
the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. One could
argue that this period was a “Golden Age”
of children’s television, with networks like
Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and Cartoon
Network churning out hit after hit with the
elementary-school crowd.
Watching shows like “Hey Arnold!,”
“Doug,” “Boy Meets World” and “Rocko’s
Modern Life” (by the way, did you know
Rocko was a wallaby?) was as ingrained into
our daily lives as Candy Land and dinosaurshaped chicken nuggets. We lived in half-hour
increments of
paradise.
Unlike the
Rugrats, who
managed to stay
babies for more
than a decade,
children’s TV
has changed
drastically over
the years. Kids
are no longer
roaring with
laughter at “All
That” or being
kept up at night
by “Are You
Afraid of the
Dark?”. There
is no more
idolizing Jett Jackson or fighting over which
Powerpuff Girl is the best. Even “Boy Meets
World” has gone from constant daily reruns
on Disney Channel to the ever-so-popular 6
a.m. time slot on ABC Family.
What has happened to the TV shows
and characters that not only graced every
child’s television screen but every lunchbox,
backpack and bedspread?
Nowadays, a typical Nickelodeon daily
lineup consists of “iCarly,” “Victorious,” “Big
Time Rush” and “SpongeBob Squarepants,”
which has miraculously survived the entire
first decade of the 21st Century. All of these,
with the exception of Spongebob, are sitcoms
set to laugh tracks and aimed mostly at
preteen girls. It’s a far cry from Nick’s cartoon
heyday of the 90’s.
Disney Channel has also followed this
path in recent years, with sitcoms like “Suite
Life on Deck,” “Sonny with a Chance,” “Jonas
LA” and, of course, “Hannah Montana”
dominating the airwaves. The network has
even been criticized by the media for pulling
What We Were Watching
away from Walt Disney characters such as
Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck and
gearing their programming toward preteen
and teenage girls.
Another alarming trend in children’s
television today is the common plotline of
characters searching for stardom. Disney
has made billions of dollars off of Hannah
Montana and the Jonas Brothers, and the
success of their respective TV shows has gone
through the roof.
But it’s not just limited to international
superstars. “Sonny with a Chance,” “Big Time
Rush,” “Victorious” and a handful of other
programs also focus on the main characters’
pursuits of fame and fortune. Even Disney
Channel Original Movies, such as “Camp
Rock” and “Starstruck,” have followed
suit, although the number of “DCOMs”
produced each
year has decreased
considerably over
the past decade
(anyone remember
“Smart House”
or “Phantom of
the Megaplex?”).
It’s as if the sole
purpose of Disney
and Nickelodeon is
to turn teenagers
into pop stars that
can sell out arenas
and have their faces
plastered on every
12-year-old girl’s
bedroom wall.
However,
these networks
have still followed
the tradition of providing appropriate
programming that has important moral
lessons to teach today’s youth. Even so, it
seems as though children’s television has
become too commercial and contains plotlines
that are too mediocre and interchangeable.
Kids today aren’t able to experience
the same joy and hilarity from the
television shows that made our childhoods
so memorable (honestly, what we have
done without characters like Beans from
“Even Stevens?”). These were more than
just 30-minute installments of mindless
entertainment; they were daily tokens of the
innocence of childhood. Most importantly,
they always reminded us that, in the end, the
characters we idolized on television were just
like us.
So, Marian girls, hold on to your “Tiny
Toons” lunchboxes, “Arthur” pillowcases and
“Lizzie McGuire” backpacks, because, for
years, those are the things that defined what
it meant to be a kid.
“Even ‘Boy Meets
World’ has gone from
constant daily reruns
on Disney Channel to
the ever-so-popular
6 a.m. time slot on
ABC Family.”
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