Me Before You
Me Before You is a romantic novel written by Jojo Moyes. The book was first published on 5 January 2012 in the United Kingdom. A sequel titled After You was released 29 September 2015 through Pamela Dorman Books.
PLOT
Twenty-six-year-old Louisa Clark lives with her working-class family. Unambitious and with few qualifications, she feels constantly outshone by her younger sister, Treena, an outgoing single mother. Louisa, who helps support her family, loses her job at a local cafe. She goes to the Job Centre and, after several failed attempts, is offered a unique employment opportunity: help care for Will Traynor, a successful, wealthy, and once-active young man who was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident two years earlier. Will’s mother, Camilla, hires Louisa despite her lack of experience, believing Louisa can brighten Will’s spirits. Louisa meets Nathan, who cares for Will’s medical needs, and Will’s father, Steven, a friendly upper-class businessman whose marriage to Camilla is strained.
Louisa and Will’s relationship starts out rocky due to his bitterness and resentment over being disabled. Things worsen after Will’s ex-girlfriend, Alicia, and best friend Rupert reveal that they are getting married. Under Louisa’s care, Will gradually becomes more communicative and open-minded as they share experiences together. Louisa notices Will’s scarred wrists and later overhears his mother and sister discussing how he attempted suicide shortly after Camilla refused his request to end his life through Dignitas, a Swiss-based assisted suicide organization. Horrified by his attempt, Camilla promised to honour her son’s wish, but only if he agreed to live six more months. Camilla intends to prove that, in time, he will believe his life’s worth living.
Louisa conceals knowing about Will and Camilla’s agreement. However, she tells Treena, and together they devise ways that will help convince Will to abandon his death wish. Over the next few weeks, Will loosens up and lets Louisa shave his beard and cut his shaggy hair. Louisa begins taking Will on outings and the two grow closer.
Through their frequent talks, Louisa learns that Will has travelled extensively; his favourite place is a cafe in Paris. Noticing how limited her life is and that she has few ambitions, Will tries to motivate Louisa to change.
Louisa continues seeing her longtime boyfriend, Patrick, though they eventually break up due to her relationship with Will. Meanwhile, Louisa’s father loses his job, causing more financial difficulties. Fortunately, Mr. Traynor offers Mr. Clark a position. Louisa realises that Will is trying to help her secure her freedom from her family. The two attend Alicia and Rupert’s wedding where they dance and flirt. Will tells Louisa that she is the only reason he wakes in the morning.
Louisa convinces Will to go on a holiday with her, but before they can leave, Will contracts near fatal pneumonia. Louisa cancels the plans for a whirlwind trip. Instead, she takes Will to the island of Mauritius. The night before returning home, Louisa tells Will that she loves him. Will says he wants to confide something, but she admits that she already knows about his plans with Dignitas. Will says their time together has been special, but he cannot bear to live in a wheelchair. He will be following through with his plans. Angry and hurt, Louisa storms off and does not speak to him for the remainder of the trip. When they return home, Will’s parents are pleasantly surprised by his good physical condition. Louisa, however, resigns as his caretaker, and they understand that Will intends to end his life.
On the night of Will’s flight to Switzerland, Louisa visits him one last time. They agree that the past six months have been the best in their lives. He dies shortly after in the clinic, and it is revealed that he left Louisa a considerable inheritance, meant to continue her education and to fully experience life. The novel ends with Louisa at a cafe in Paris, reading Will’s last words to her in a letter, that tell her to ‘live well’.
CHARACTERS
- Louisa (Lou) Clark –
- William (Will) Traynor
- Camilla Traynor
- Katrina (Treena) Clark
- Patrick
- Nathan
- Alicia Dewar
- Georgina Traynor
- Rupert Freshwell
- Frank
- Thomas
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis
The film launched the Ghostbusters media franchise, which includes a 1989 sequel, Ghostbusters II, two animated television series, The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters and several video games. A reboot, also titled Ghostbusters, was released on July 15, 2016, by Columbia Pictures.
PLOT
Parapsychologists Peter Venkman, Raymond Stantz, and Egon Spengler are called to the New York Public Library to investigate recent paranormal activity. They encounter the ghost of a dead librarian but are frightened away when she transforms into a horrifying monster. After losing their jobs at Columbia University, the trio establish a paranormal investigation and extermination service known as “Ghostbusters”. They develop high-tech equipment capable of capturing ghosts and open their business in a disused, run-down firehouse. Egon warns them never to cross the energy streams of their proton pack weapons, as this could cause a catastrophic explosion. They capture their first ghost, Slimer, at a hotel and deposit it in a specially built containment unit in the firehouse basement. As paranormal activity increases in New York City, they hire a fourth member, Winston Zeddemore, to cope with demand.
The Ghostbusters are retained by cellist Dana Barrett, whose apartment is haunted by a demonic spirit, Zuul, a demigod worshiped as a servant to Gozer the Gozerian, a Sumerian shape-shifting god of destruction. Venkman takes a particular interest in the case, and competes with Dana’s neighbor, accountant Louis Tully, for her affection. As the Ghostbusters investigate, Dana is demonically possessed by Zuul, which declares itself the “Gatekeeper”, and Louis by a similar demon, Vinz Clortho, the “Keymaster”. Both demons speak of the coming of the destructive Gozer and the release of the imprisoned ghosts, and the Ghostbusters take steps to keep the two apart.
Walter Peck, a lawyer representing the Environmental Protection Agency, has the Ghostbusters arrested for operating unlicensed waste handlers and orders their ghost containment system deactivated, causing an explosion that releases hundreds of ghosts. The ghosts wreak havoc throughout the city while Louis/Vinz advances toward Dana/Zuul’s apartment. Their romantic encounter opens the gate and transforms them into supernatural hounds. Consulting blueprints of Dana’s apartment building, the Ghostbusters learn that mad doctor and cult leader Ivo Shandor, claiming humanity was too sick to survive after World War I, designed the building as a gateway to summon Gozer and bring about the end of the world.
The Ghostbusters are released from custody to combat the supernatural crisis, but after reaching the roof of Dana’s building, they are unable to prevent the arrival of Gozer, who appears in the form of a woman. Briefly subdued by the team, Gozer disappears, but her voice echoes that the “destructor” will follow, taking a form chosen by the team. Ray inadvertently recalls a beloved corporate mascot from his childhood—”something that could never, ever possibly destroy us”— and the destructor arrives in the form of a giant Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and attacks the city. The Ghostbusters cross their proton pack energy streams (reversing the particle flow) and fire them against Gozer’s portal; the explosion defeats Gozer/The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and frees Dana and Louis from their possessor demons. As thousands of New Yorkers wipe themselves free of marshmallow, the Ghostbusters are welcomed on the street as heroes.
CHARACTERS
Bill Murray as Peter Venkman
Dan Aykroyd as Raymond “Ray” Stantz
Harold Ramis as Egon Spengler
Ernie Hudson as Winston Zeddemore
Annie Potts as Janine Melnitz
Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett
Rick Moranis as Louis Tully
William Atherton as Walter Peck
David Margulies as Lenny Clotch, Mayor of City of New York
Slavitza Jovan as Gozer
Paddi Edwards as Gozer (voice)
Finding Dory
Finding Dory is a 2016 American 3D computer-animated comedy adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
The film is a sequel to 2003’s Finding Nemo and features the reprised voices of Ellen DeGeneres and Albert Brooks, as well as the new voices of Hayden Rolence, Ed O’Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Ty Burrell, Diane Keaton, and Eugene Levy. Finding Dory focuses on the amnesiac fish Dory, who journeys to be reunited with her parents.[8] Along the way, she is captured and taken to a California public aquarium, from which Marlin and Nemo attempt to rescue her.The film premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on June 8, 2016 and was released in the United States on June 17, 2016
PLOT
One year after reuniting Nemo with his father Marlin, Dory has become a helping hand in raising Nemo. One day during a lesson with Nemo’s class, Dory recalls through a childhood flashback that she has a family. She decides to look for them but finds her short-term memory loss to be an obstacle. The only thing she remembers is that they lived at the Jewel of Morro Bay.
Marlin and Nemo accompany Dory in her quest. With the help of Crush, they ride a water current to California. Upon arrival, they are forced to flee from a predatory giant squid that nearly devours Nemo. Marlin tends to his son afterwards and is sour toward Dory for getting them into the mess. Feeling hurt, Dory travels to the surface to seek help and is rescued by staff from the nearby Marine Life Institute after being caught in six pack rings; she is separated from Marlin and Nemo.
Dory is sent to the Quarantine section and tagged. There she meets a grouchy but well-meaning, seven-legged octopus named Hank. Dory’s tag shows that she will be sent to a permanent aquarium in Cleveland. Due to a traumatic ocean life, Hank wants to live in the aquarium, so he agrees to help Dory find her parents in exchange for her tag. In one exhibit, Dory encounters her childhood friend Destiny, a nearsighted whale shark who communicated with Dory through pipes, and Bailey, a beluga whale who believes he is unable to echolocate. Dory learns that the rest of her regal blue tangs species are being moved to Cleveland. She subsequently has flashbacks of life with her parents and struggles to recall details.
Marlin and Nemo attempt to rescue Dory. With the help of two sea lions named Fluke and Rudder and a common loon named Becky, they manage to get into the Institute. Dory finally remembers how she became separated from her parents: she overheard her mother crying one night, left home to retrieve a shell in hopes of cheering her up, and was pulled away by an undertow current.
Dory reunites with Marlin and Nemo in the pipe system. Back in Quarantine, they locate the tank of blue tangs, who tell her that her parents escaped the Institute to search for Dory but never came back. Dory realizes her parents are likely dead. Hank retrieves Dory from the tank, accidentally leaving Marlin and Nemo behind. He is then apprehended by one of the employees and accidentally drops Dory into the drain flushing her to the ocean. Dory comes across a trail of shells, remembering that when she was young, her parents had set out a similar trail to teach her how to find her way back home. At the end of the trail, Dory finds an empty home with multiple shell trails leading away from it. As she turns to leave, she sees her parents, Charlie and Jenny, in the distance and joyfully reunites with them. They tell her they have spent years forming trails for her to follow in the hopes that she would eventually find them.
Marlin and Nemo end up in the truck taking various aquatic life to Cleveland. Destiny and Bailey help Dory rescue them. Once aboard the truck, Dory persuades Hank to come back to the ocean with her, and together they hijack the truck, crash it into the water, and free all the fish. Dory, along with her parents and newfound friends, return to the reef with Marlin and Nemo.
In a post-credits scene, the Tank Gang from the first film, still trapped in algae-covered plastic bags, reach California a year after floating across the Pacific. They are promptly rescued by volunteers.
CHARACTERS
Ellen DeGeneres as Dory, a regal blue tang.
Sloane Murray as Baby Dory. Murray is the seven-year-old daughter of producer Lindsey Collins.[11]
Lucia Geddes as Tween Dory.
Albert Brooks as Marlin, an overprotective clownfish, Nemo’s father and Dory’s friend.
Hayden Rolence as Nemo, a young optimistic clownfish and Marlin’s son.
Ed O’Neill as Hank, a cranky East Pacific red octopus who previously lost a tentacle.
Diane Keaton as Jenny, Dory’s mother.
Eugene Levy as Charlie, Dory’s father.
Kaitlin Olson as Destiny, a near-sighted whale shark and Dory’s childhood friend.
Ty Burrell as Bailey, a beluga whale who temporarily lost echolocation due to a concussion.
Idris Elba as Fluke, a sea lion.
Dominic West as Rudder, a sea lion and Fluke’s friend.
Bob Peterson as Mr. Ray, a spotted eagle ray and Nemo’s schoolteacher.
Andrew Stanton as Crush, a sea turtle that lives on the East Australian Current, and the Seagulls.
Bennett Dammann as Squirt, Crush’s son. He was voiced by Nicholas Bird in the previous film.
Bill Hader as Stan, a kelp bass.
Kate McKinnon as Stan’s fish wife.
Sigourney Weaver as herself, the voice intercom announcer for the Institute PA system.
Alexander Gould as Passenger Carl, a delivery truck driver that works for the Institute, and Passenger Tommy, Carl’s co-worker. Gould voiced Nemo in the previous film.
John Ratzenberger as Bill, a crab.
Torbin Xan Bullock as Gerald, an outcast California sea lion who is frequently treated hostilely by Fluke & Rudder, and Becky, a friendly and helpful but dimwitted common loon.
Katherine Ringgold as a chickenfish.
Angus MacLane as Charlie Back-and-Forth, a sunfish.
Willem Dafoe as Gill, a Moorish idol, who is the leader of the “Tank Gang.”
Brad Garrett as Bloat, a porcupinefish.
Allison Janney as Peach, a pink starfish.
Austin Pendleton as Gurgle, a royal gramma.
Stephen Root as Bubbles, a yellow tang.
Vicki Lewis as Deb, a four-striped damselfish.
Jerome Ranft as Jacques, a cleaner shrimp. He was voiced by Joe Ranft, Jerome’s late brother, in the previous film.
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