Amy's 10 fanfiction links

                                                                                     1. Hero

This fan fiction is actually from a PSP game called Final Fantasy Vll : Crisis Core which is an action role-playing game plus storyline of how Zack Fair, who works under a company named Shinra as a 2nd class SOLDIER. Together with his mentor, Angeal Hewley, 1st class SOLDIER, they accomplished many missions. As Zack continues his missions, he slowly discover Genesis's origin, Project G which creates soldier infused with Jenova cells, and could replicate into many copies that would destroy the whole world. On the journey of becoming a Hero, Zack become friends with a Shinra infantry soldier, Cloud Strife. Both of them were best friend and they share a deep bond with each other since. Sephiroth, a legendary 1st class SOLDIER, who Zack trusted and admired, betrayed them after he discovered from Genesis that he was an experiment, implanting with cells of the Jenova and only he was a perfect experiment. Although Zack and Cloud managed to stopped the destruction in Nibelheim caused by Sephiroth, they are utterly wounded. They were captured and became Dr Hojo's experiment on Jenova cells and mako exposure. Zack was unaffected so he broke free and rescued Cloud who was the only one carrying Sephiroth's pure cell. They quickly became high priority targets for the Shinra forces. However, leaving Cloud, Zack encounters a huge number of Shinra troops by himself and was very wounded. He urged Cloud to live both their lives before passing on and gave the Buster Sword to Cloud as Angeal had done to him.The ending always made me cried whenever I watched because Zack sacrificed himself in order Cloud could lived on and Zack can't visit her girlfriend, Aerith, ever again.

2. The Karate Kid

This is a 2010 movies which is about a 12-year-old boy called Dre Parker, moved from Detroit to China with his mother. Dre had a crush on a young violinist called Mei Ying, but Cheng, whose family were close to Mei Ying, attempt to kept them away by beating Dre and later humiliating him in the school. Dre was saved by a maintenance man of Dre's building, Mr. Han when Cheng and his friends brutal beating Dre. Thus, it seems that Mr. Han is a kung fu master. Dre and Han decided to made peace to Cheng's teacher, Master Li. But Master Li, who teaches his students showing no mercy to enemies threatens them unless they fight or they will end up be beaten up. To avoid this, Han decided to let Dre to take in a kung fu tournament and promised to fight during that time fair and square. In the process of training, Dre is learning apply to life in general, and that serenity and maturity, not punches and power, are true keys of martial arts. At the tournament, a fellow students of Master Li were instructed to break Dre's leg so he couldn't compete against Cheng. But Dre's perseverance had won against his pain on his leg and so he won the tournament and the respect of Cheng and his classmates. I laughed most of the time when I watched and I've always wanted to learn Karate even though I never do but it is good watching Dre fight from a boy who don't know kung fu at all turns up to be really good at it.

                                                             3. Conan Edogawa

This is the main character of Detective Conan/ Case Closed which had released in both anime and manga since 1994. It is a story about Shinichi Kudo, a high school detective who was forced to take a experimental poison which suppose to kill him but the side-effect turned him into a  seven-year-old. From then on, Shinichi decided to hide his true identity and managed to move in with his childhood friend, Ran Mouri, whose father is a private investigator. By the help of the special gadgets invented by Dr. Agasa, and using "Conan Edogawa" as his new name, Shinichi continues to solve criminal cases, usually posing Ran's father by using the gadgets while he continues to pursued the Black Organization, who developed the poison. This is my ever first detective story I watched and I was really impress eventhough Shinichi's body became small, but his criminal solving skills were still stunning. I wish I had the skateboard and the glasses that Dr. Agasa invented. Then I can target whoever I want!

 4. Juno
This is a comedy-drama film about a high school girl,  Juno MacGuff, had an preganancy and many other events that put pressures of adult life onto her. At first Juno decided to made an adoption. During the pregnancy progress, Juno struggles with the emotion she feels for her baby's father, Paulie, who is clearly although passively in love with Juno. Paulie reminds Juno that it is at her request they remain distant and tells her that she broke his heart. He is also suggests that she has feelings for him she is unable to admit. At the end Juno accepts that she loves Paulie. The films then ends on summertime where Juno and Paulie playing guitar, following by a kiss. I learned something from this movie about preganancy and child-labor. And it gives me an idea in the future if someone I know were in this kind situation, I would know how to deal with it.


                                                            5. Spirited Away

This film received many rewards such as the second Oscar "Best Animated Features", and is the first anime film to win an Academy Award. It talks about a ten-years-old young girl, Chihiro, who is moving house with her parents. On the way of driving, they found an abandoned theme park and a tunnel lead to a deserted town and a stall full of freshly-cooked food. Chihiro's parents greedily helped themself while Chihiro went around and explore the place. She meets Haku and he warned her to escape but Chihiro's parents had turned into pigs. Chihiro then had no other choice but to work at the bathhouse by the help of Haku until he can help her recover her parents and escape. Chihiro, from my point of view probably looks like a spoiled-child in the beginning. But throughout the story, when the situation brings her down and she was desperately to find a way to save her parents, Chihiro walks into an adulthood. She gradually became more mature as she interact between the obstacle of what the people had brought to her.



 6. Madagascar 2:Escape to Africa
This is a hilarious and fun movie which is the sequel of Madagascar.It is about the continuing journey of Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo. After trapping at the Antarctica for lso long, the chimpanzees leader, Skipper and his fellow penguins had finally repaired the airplane and using it to fly back to New York. However, due to the bad weather, the plane clash-landing on Africa and at there, the animals find out more of their kinds. Alex, found his long lost parents, Zuba and his mother. At here, Alex have to face a coming-of-age challenge in order to take the alpha lion, in which his uncle, Makunga had determined for very long. He eventually took over the position from Zuba because he wants to prevent his son for failing. Soon after, it seems that the water in Africa had dried up due to Nana and the New Yokers dammed up the river and the build a place. Eventually Alex managed to save Marty and Zuba in the end. Zuba decided to gave the position to Alex but Alex in turn refuses, resulting the both of them become the leaders. As the plane were fixed, Skipper and his fellow penguins set off to Monte Carlo while leaving Alex and the others happily remain in Africa with Alex's parents. It is a very fun and relaxing movie. I've laughed most of the time while I watched and I'm still loving it! And the song "You got to moved it!" always cracked me up as well.

7. Soda water and Chocolate

Chocolat is a romance film of a mysterious woman called Vianne, moving in to a Frence village with her daughter, Anouk. She opened a small chocolateria and serves many exotic chocolate to the reluctant villagers. But the villagers aren't taking with her immediately, however the chocolate that Vianne serves had rescue and changed the life of some fellow townspeople.  The village mayor, Comte Paul de Reynaud seems Vianne as an immoral woman so he quietly contest against her. Soon after, Vianne were madly attracted to a gypsy, Roux, who came with a band of river gypsies camp on the village outskirts. I've seen both the movie and novel twice and finally understand what Chocolat is talking about. Because the first time, my english wasn't that good enough to understand the French assence in the movie. But after seeing both twice, I really love it especially the part where Vianne making exotic chocolates and the decorating of the shop. It makes me happy and it really gives you an appetite to eat chocolates!

8.  Last Samurai
This film is based on true story about Nathan Algren, who was an ex- Army captain and an alcoholic, who is terrified by his past transgression against Native Americans during the Indian Wars. Algren was forced to accept and invitation by his former commanding officer Lieutemant Colonel Bagley who he hated the most after he got fired by his employer due to his alcoholism. Algren also approaches Mr. Omura, a Japanese business man and a British translator, Simon Graham who with a deep interest in the Samurai. Algren was command by Bagley to trained the army in handling a rifle. Before then, Algren is ordered to take them into battle against a group of samurai led by samurai Katsumoto.  During battle, Algren killed Katsumoto's brother-in-law, Hirotaro. Katsumoto prevents his warriors finishing off the wounded Algren and takes him prisoner to their isolate village, where he rest in a house belonging to Hirotaro's family, his widow Taka, her two sons and Katsumoto's son, Nobutada.Over time, Algren overcomes his alcoholism and sharpens his mind and skills through practice of bushido, the way of the samurai. Taka develops romantic feelings for Algren.After when Algren was taken back to Tokyo, Omura command him to crush all the samurai but Algren refuses. Therefore, a war of samurai and the American soldier began. At the end, Algren killed Bagley but when the Imperial lieutenant orders to kill the dying samurai, Katsumoto himself, observing bushido, asks Algren to assist him in performing seppuku, and Algren did. When the Emperor was to sign a treaty of US rights to sell firearms, Algren offers Katsumoto's sword to the Emperor, and the Emperor understands the message and realizing that he need not to ruled by Omura. When Omura protest, the Emperor offers him Katsumoto's sworn to commit seppuku if the dishonor is too great to bear, so Omura just lowers his head and walks away. Algren then returned to the village and to Taka. I was really shock the part where Algren commits seppuku to Katsumoto, in other way is sad as well. But because of this, it managed to change the opinion of the Emperor and finally bring peace to Japan.

9. Sleeping Beauty
It was showed in 1995 Walt Disney Animated film and it is worldwide known now. It talks about once a upon a time, there lives a King and Queen but they didn't had any children. However, one day the Queen was pregnant and she born a girl. The King was overjoyed so he decided to held a feast and invited many guests from all over the countries. The King also invited the three good faeries in order to blessed their princess. The three faeries named the baby Aurora and they blessed her gave her the gifts, beauty, wit and musical talent. During that moment, the wicked fairy turns up in fury because the King didn't invited her. Therefore, the wicked fairy decided to curse the princess that when during her 16's birthday, she would prick her finger on a spindle and die. The King and Queen were extremely worried, but one of the good faeries, although she was unable to remove the curse, said that the princess instead for a hundred year, until awakened by true love's first kiss. The King order all his nations to burn all the spindle that they could find to prevent the curse happened. But during Princess Aurora's 16's, she chanced to come upon to a tower and, the wicked fairy turns into a old woman and creates a spinning wheels and spindle, which Princess Aurora pricks. Therefore, a hundred years of sleep begins. All the people fall asleep as well and the castle were covered with forest and thorns that no one dared to enter into. One day, a Prince from other country passed by and was enhanced by it and decided to break into the castle. The Prince was trembled when he saw the princess's beauty so he kissed her and Princess Aurora's curse were broken as well the people in the castle all woke up. This was my most favorite's Disney princess story when I was young. Sleeping Beauty was described  as Disney most beautiful heroine and I think she really is.

10.Freaky Friday
This film talks about the story of mother and daughter how their body were switched over when they ate a fortune cookies in a Chinese restaurant offer by a an elderly Chinese women. Anna and her mother Tess have an argument because both of them seems to think they don't understand each others matter. And it brings misunderstood as well. But the switching over body had let of them experience each others matters in the daily living. And which brings changing of opinion between both of them. They start to understand each other more and in some way it doesn't seems to be bad at all. At the end, they were switched back after the mother and the daughter confess what they really think and both of them lived better more than ever. I watched twice because it is funny and the storyline was pretty encouraging to me. Is a good movie for parents and teenagers.