Last Sunday there was a football game at the stadium in La Romareda, Zaragoza between veterans and veterans of the English team. was a charity match and all the money raised from ticket sales will be donated to children with cancer to help them improve their status. is a way to cooperate with children with health problems while still being able to see good football. At half time we prepared a surprise: an airplane flew over the stadium and he fell five paratroopers from the army, the latter had a bad landing and knocked to the television cameras and a full bench, it took them ahead. At the end of the match did a drawing for soccer to avoid some bonds. He won the English 4-1. The players had a great time playing well and were happy to have scored 1 goal to cancer. for me has been the most exciting game I've seen.
"The greatest consolation in misfortune is to find compassionate hearts"
Menander
On 28 September, at the age of 88 years, we let the director Arthur Penn after a long career filled with success.
"El milagro de Anna Sullivan ( Arthur Penn, 1962) grew out of the autobiography of Helen Keller (1880 - 1960), the exemplary American writer and speaker required to overcome the barriers of blindness and deaf-mutism to succeed in life. Just learning and early experiences were collected in the book "The story of my life" (1903), which served as the screenwriter William Gibson to take the stage and screens (television and cinema) so touching story.
Patty Duke (Helen Keller) and Anne Bancroft (Anna Sullivan)
The interpretive effort conducted by ; Anne Bancroft in the role of the teacher Anna Sullivan , and the very young Patty Duke , won the Oscar as best supporting actress, contributed significantly to the success of this film. Both actresses had performed these same roles on Broadway scenarios in the stage version.
This film begins by showing the little Helen victim of a high fever, perhaps caused by an infectious disease like scarlet fever or meningitis. During his convalescence, his parents, the wealthy landowner Captain Arthur Keller ( Victor Jory) and his young wife Kate Keller (Inga Swenson ) Appalled to discover his little girl is completely blind and deaf.
The Scarlet is caused by Streptococcus pyogenes serogroup A and debuted with a sharp and abrupt fever, accompanied by a characteristic rash of this disease. It usually affects young children between 2 and 10 years of age. Thanks to early treatment with antibiotics today its complications are usually mild.
regard to infectious meningitis, according to its etiology may be viral (more benign), bacterial (more severe) or fungal (more rare). This disease is usually a common cause of fever in infants and children. If left untreated, can leave as sequelae of brain damage.
In this film, Arthur Penn at all times avoids the temptation to give the work a syrupy or moralistic tone, which may well correspond to events such as those that are narrated. The dedicated teacher, marked by his own experience as institutionalized handicapped children, advocates at all times to achieve the independence of the blind girl - deaf and dumb, trying to keep away the feeling of compassion and overprotective family.
Enjoying her scenes, the tenacious struggle conducted by Anna Sullivan to counteract the isolation and aggressiveness of the young Helen reminded us of those epic scenes featuring other bitter rivals, such as D'Hubert (Keith Carradine ) against Feraud (Harvey Keitel ) in "The Duellists" ( Ridley Scott, 1977) or Sean Thornton (John Wayne) against "Red" Danaher (Victor McLaglen ) in "The Quiet Man" ( John Ford, 1952) ...
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For the role of Anna Sullivan also ran Ingrid Bergman (she said so in one of his autobiographies), the glittering ; Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn fragile. Arthur Penn finally chose to Anne Bancroft, winner in 1960 with a prestigious award Tony for his work as the stubborn on a theatrical masterpiece.
When filmed this film, Katty Duke was 16 years, forcing the director and his team to characterize it so that it seems no more than 7 to 8 years, the approximate age would be Helen Keller when it began to be conducted by Anna Sullivan.
In 1979, Patty Duke herself got into the skin of Anna Sullivan to shoot the TV version of this work, while the popular Melissa Gilbert (Laura Ingalls the unforgettable of "The House on the Prairie ") played Helen Keller .
A mere Melissa Gilbert as Laura Ingalls
In 2000, Nadia Tass directed "The Miracle Worker" , a new remake television history, starring Allison Elliot as Anna Sullivan and Hallie Kate Eisenberg as Helen Keller .
Finally, "Black" ( Sajay Banshali Leela, 2005) tells the story of Michelle McNally ( Rani Mukherjee ), a young Anglo-Indian woman who goes blind and deaf at 18 months in the wake of a disease and also required to overcome the barriers of disability.
"The sick arrived one after another, marching before astonished doctors who had never seen anything like that. They looked like puppets without strings, they were about life. Forty cases in a single night, Oct. 19 at the Hospital of San Nicolas de Saint-Marc. Vomiting, diarrhea and absolute weakness. They were still spending hours and the flood was overwhelming: 400 contagious first day, 1,000 the second "...
These lines have been culled from recent information an online journal. They refer to the tragedy Haiti suffers unleashed after in their territory last fierce epidemic cholera .
few years ago, I wrote a similar work on another epidemic, which struck the city of Ourense during 1854. The dire health conditions in my hometown in the mid-nineteenth century became the breeding ground for the spread of the disease. These circumstances have unfortunately result consistent with those experienced in contemporary Haiti, and also gave those inside China in the first decades of the twentieth century, a scenario in which the action takes place "The Painted Veil ( John Curran, 2006).
We are facing a remake of that "The Painted Veil ( Richard Boleslawski , 1934) starring by the bright Greta Garbo in the role Katrin Koerber Fane .
tape in question, the screenplay by Ron Nyswaner is based on the novel by the famous and controversial William Somerset Maugham, charged of marked autobiographical elements, as this British writer (bisexual) had a turbulent relationship with Siry Wellcome, wife of U.S. tycoon pharmaceutical industry Henry Wellcome. Fruit of that adultery would be born a daughter. The scandal ended in divorce, marriage and new marriage between William and Syrie, which also eventually end up separating ... In his adventurous existence, Somerset Maugham traveled extensively in China, and is therefore very knowledgeable about their culture and society.
The novel dates from 1925, which also starts the movie.
The immature and capricious Kitty (Naomi Watts ) live idle in a family fallen on hard times in London society. To escape the parental unit without thinking accepts the proposal of marriage which makes the taciturn Dr. Walter Fane ( Edward Norton), a doctor engaged in research bacteriologist. The young newlyweds soon be leaving for Shanghai where Walter manages a public health laboratory under the British colonial government.
Naomi Watts (Kitty) and Edward Norton (Walter) are Fane
The daily monotony and boredom leads to apathy growing in Kitty, while her husband remains increasingly absorbed in his work. Perhaps because of this, she throws herself into the arms of attractive vice consul Charlie Townsend (Liev Schreiber ), a seducer with a reputation for womanizing and his own wife Dorothy (Juliet Howland ) agrees to all his infidelities.
Charlie Townsend Liev Schreiber is
Walter will soon discover adultery. Undaunted, his wife gives two options to avoid the decree nisi : or Charlie divorces his wife to marry Kitty or she must go with him into the country, accompanying him to a remote city devastated by a cholera epidemic.
DISEASE ...
Cholera is an infectious disease caused by Vibrio cholerae , a bacillus (comma-shaped) Gram negative discovered in 1854 by Italian Filippo Pacini studying the gut contents of those affected. occurred 30 years before the brilliant discoveries of Robert Koch in the field of bacteriology.
Apparently Koch himself traveled to India and Egypt to study the pandemic between 1881 and 1896, identifying a bacterium called kommabazillen as a cause of disease.
We are in 1925. The treaties of the History of Medicine report that in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and more specifically between the years 1899 and 1923, there was a cholera pandemic. The action of the film would be developed as in the last throes of this pest.
As in many other occasions, as happened in India the Ganges and in Haiti in the Artibonite , infected waters are the means of transmission of the disease ...
Today it is a classic epidemiological study John Snow was on the outbreak of cholera in London in 1854, discovered through a map cases that contaminated water pump in Broad Street ... The film in question, Dr. Fane also ordered the closure of a contaminated supply well in the middle of town.
order to prevent the disease Dr. Fane will face ascentrales customs of China's population, where the bodies were obscured several days before being buried, precisely in a cemetery surrounded by the waters of a tributary of the mighty Yangtze Kiang , where children play and swim, and the population is supplied with water for drinking and cooking.
To these difficulties must be added the hatred of the foreigner in China nationalist effervescence after World War II, and the scourge of feudalism still prevails in many rural areas, where people were forced to survive in the deepest misery and discontent which later lead the communist revolution of Mao Tse-tung (1949).
A Despite all the advances, the treatment of cholera remains simple. The World Health Organization ( WHO) recommends the early use of oral rehydration liquid and minerals intended to replace the patient's body fluids lost through diarrhea and vomiting abrupt. In particularly serious cases, we need an infusion of intravenous fluid, as we see in the film.
also observed in the film as an improvised hospital in the grounds of a convent of French nuns. The beds of patients account for only a few battered tables provided with a hole in the middle laying evacuate the bowel movements. The constant stench, nauseating, heat, morbid.
Just working on these units and the orphanage next door, the once indolent and fickle Kitty Fane get relieve their pains. But redemption comes later, once forgotten memories of her lover and finds true love by her husband succumbs to the disease he was fighting.
there a reference to vaccination against cholera, poorly developed at that time.
The pace of the film takes on some occasions, perhaps to emphasize the arduous nature of the circumstances in which they must live and work Fane marriage. Some critics have labeled this film as cold and academic, but we would emphasize the beauty of the images that highlight certain landscapes that seem culled from traditional Chinese prints.
The film in general, by theme and atmosphere by the antagonism between the medical care and research, including clinical practice and public health scientist for the fight against ignorance and superstition, has reminded us several times that other films reviewed in this blog, "Road to the jungle" ( Robert Mulligan, 1962)
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Edward Norton himself convinced that Naomi Watts will play Kitty, the paper that was initially thought Nicole Kidman . Norton and Watts were also producers of this film.
The soundtrack can be heard delicatessen et up: the melancholy Gnossienne No. 1 Erik Satie of .
Last Sunday I went to my neighbor Oroel Peña Lucia and mother. We left morning to 7:45 pm with our packs and our boots in the car. Oroel The rock is a summit of the Pyrenees south of Jaca and at an altitude of 1,769 meters. At the start of a long trip was cold and cloudy. As we climbed we find pine, fir and holly bushes and boxwood. It was a narrow path with rocks, red earth, roots out of the earth and many leaves because it is autumn. After heavy snow are almost the top, and we threw snowballs and we get wet ass. And above all there was a cross that was huge and that was the rise. And from there you could see the ice rink of Jaca and mountains with more snow. The descent was faster and had a park with tables ate, we played a while and went home. The tour was very nice.
