Indian Epics

- For this week I researched a story of Sun Wukong to figure out how to integrate Hanuman and Sun Wukong in the same story. - Origin story is different from Hanuman in a sense that Sun Wukong was born in a stone compared to Hanuman, where Hanuman actually had parents and Hanuman's father was the wind god. - Hanuman was also serving a king named Sugreeva where in Sun Wukong was deemed as king of monkeys when he found a hidden village inside a waterfall. - Hanuman also serves Rama, who was the reincarnation of Vishnu. Hanuman is portrayed as the loyal and faithful servant. In comparison, Sun Wukong is seen as troublemaker and delinquent since he constantly goes against jade emperors wishes and wreck havoc in heaven.  - Researching a right story to fit both of them was a hard one. Since both of the characters were heroic on their own way, I had to find a story where I could make both of the shine. - There was a story called " The Bear and the Travelers" in Aesop...

- When Dave breaks up with Nina over a email, it was very sad. Sound affect for her heart breaking was also very descriptive of her situation. - The art direction for this film is very surreal. When the gods were dancing to a tune right after the break, the imagery was very flashy and gave me a weird feeling at the same time - Part B is after the book the Ramayana. When Rama banishes Sita for getting kidnapped by Ravana seems very harsh and she was even pregnant. - Rama seems very jealous that she stayed with Ravana - Sita meets Valmiki while lamenting her current situation. - Its funny how the twins praise Rama even after their mother was abandoned by him for doing nothing wrong. - I feel with the male narrator when he said Sita should forget Rama for not treating her right - Rama wants to take the twins back and not take Sita back. Rama wants her to prove her purity again - Sita sinks into earth since her purity was proven by the mother earth taking her back. she lived a roug...

- Lakshmi is portrayed very fancy in the beginning of the movie. Never imagined how she looked like before. - When Shiva is dancing on the ring of fire, I don't know why but it was very funny - This movie did not start how i would have imagined. When I saw San Francisco in the opening I was lost for a second. - As the movie progressed, I realized this is like the shorten version of the Ramayana. - 14:20 scene was very violent but it was toned down due to the animation - The movie describes that Ravana wasn't that bad besides the fact that he kidnapped Sita. - They make fun of Sita when she was dropping jewelry all the way to the Lanka. - They say that the Hanuman was the reincarnation of Shiva, which I never knew - Ravana gets mad at Sita since he was being considerate to her but she kept rejecting him - Ends with her going through fire trial Image of Rama and Sita : Flickr