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Branislav Andjelic is Nikola’s friend and coworker whom I met a few days ago. He is a very interesting person, mostly because he’s had experience in a lot of professions during his life.

He wanted to become a journalist when he was younger, so he decided to go to a journalism university. He was in his third year when he got a job opportunity as a translator in the middle east. He took the job because the pay was really good, but he had to put a pause on his university studies. After that job, he came back to Belgrade and tried to finish his studies, but after some time he realized he just wasn’t cut out for all the studying anymore. Not long after his translating job, he went to Kenya, where he bought a film camera and helped his friend film a documentary about a Ugandan general Tito Okello, for which they got the “Best documentary movie in Yugoslavia” award. After Kenya, he didn’t go back to Serbia, but he went to USA, finished an economy university and began his job as an economics professor in the USA. When he got back to Belgrade he worked for the Serbian president Zoran Djindjic. One of the many things he did was organize a group of people who made the official country domain name for Serbia .rs. Unfortunately, after Djindjic was assassinated, Branislav was sent to jail and he stayed there for three whole months. After he got out he started his wine business, which produces one of the, if not the best wine in the whole Balkan.

He’s probably one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met because he’s accomplished so much in his life. I think he is a very intelligent, hard-working person, who got lucky in the early start of his career with the job opportunity he got, but the person he became today and the position he holds currently are simply the result of his hard work.

Alfred Adler was an Austrian medical doctor and psychotherapist. He’s the founder of the school of individual psychology.

Now you might be wondering what is individual psychology?

Well individual psychology states that every thought and wish a person has actually comes from their fear of their own inferiority and their need to be better than other people.

My personal favorite few of Alfred Adler’s theories are:

• Everybody’s aspiring to be perfect
• Types of people
• Theology

 

Everybody’s aspiring to be perfect

According to Adler every human being is trying their best to be their own perfect self in their own way. He considers it a completely normal and natural process that develops in people as they grow. It’s of course different for every person, as all people are different. Now when Adler says everyone’s aspiring to be perfect, he doesn’t mean having perfect grades, or perfect looks, he means that each person wants to be what they believe is perfect. And their aspiration to achieve such perfection would lead them to work really hard, until they get the satisfaction from fulfilling their wish and achieving their perfection.

A healthy person would direct their need for perfection and success towards social goals, but a mentally unstable person would rather direct them towards themselves.

 

Types of people

Adler wrote about four different personality types that appear in people

 1.  Dominant and superior type

By its name it’s obvious this type is the dominant, aggressive leader that are extremely energetic

2.   Socially useful type

This type is quite similar to the dominant type in terms of energy, but the difference is that dominant people tend to look more out for themselves and make decisions that would definitely benefit them more, while the socially useful type would firstly look out for the social circle and the people around them and try to make their actions benefit more the people than themselves. 

3.   Leaning type

The leaning type is described as people who have very little energy and need other people’s help to get through life.

4.   Avoiding type

This type has the least amount of energy, sometimes it’s said that they don’t have any energy. They avoid social interactions as much as they can and they often tend to get lost in their own heads filled with their comfortable thoughts and little perfect worlds.

 

Theology

Theology is based on the fact that people are more motivated by their expectations of the future, rather than their experiences from the past.

Adler had this thought that contradicted Freud’s idea that states that the past strongly affects how we act currently and motivates our motivations and future desires.

 

5.   Jim Gaffigan

Jim Gaffigan’s jokes are mostly based on his experiences with his family, his failed attempts at slimming down and overall his day to day life. He’s a very clean comic, meaning he doesn’t talk about vulgar things and doesn’t use curse words. Because of that he is a comic that you can watch with your family and it can be fun for everyone.

4.   Kevin Hart

Kevin Hart’s a very funny and relatable comedian that also jokes about his family and his every day-to-day problems, but unlike Jim Gaffigan, he uses a bit harsher languages and his shows are more oriented towards adults than children.

3.   John Mulaney

John Mulaney is a comic that can be enjoyed by everyone. His jokes are based on his everyday life which mostly isn’t that different from others, but the way that his jokes are told makes everyone crack up. He’s also a pretty clean comic, but you may catch him swearing here and there.

2.   Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais is a brilliant comic that can make fun of everyone and everything. Some people may already know him from the British television series “The Office” but he has done so much more than just that. If you haven’t already, check out his movies and television shows like “After Life” and “The Invention of Lying”.

1.   George Carlin

George Carlin is definitely on of the best comedians that have ever lived and a lot of people, including me, would say that he was the best. He joked about whatever he wanted and didn’t care if it was considered inappropriate at that time. Because of his huge success he was pronounced as “The dean of counterculture comedians”.

“American Psycho” is a movie directed by Mary Harron. It describes a bizarre concept of how an insecure and schizophrenic man, Patrick Bateman, who has almost never ending sick illusions about him murdering anyone he sees as better than him and for his sick and twisted sexual needs can be a wealthy investment banker. Him being in such a high position while he’s clearly sick and suffering from schizophrenia is just proof that big companies, like the one that Patrick Bateman worked at, clearly don’t care about who works for them, as long as they are making money.

The movie first shows Patrick, played by Christian Bale, as a psychopathic serial killer, but at the end we find out that he is just a wimp that is sick enough to imagine all the horrific things he does, but isn’t brave enough to actually go through with them.

Not all the people who saw the movie agree that Patrick Bateman isn’t a serial killer. Some think that he did kill all the people that were shown in the movie except Paul Allen. I don’t agree with that, if he did really kill them, then why would the bodies just disappear in one night?

Overall I really loved this movie and would strongly recommend it to everybody reading this who hasn’t already seen the movie.

Steven Spielberg is one of the most talented and popular movie directors to this day. He has had numerous box-office hits and award winning movies that everyone loves. Here are my top 5 favourite Steven Spielberg’s movies:

5.   Jaws

Release date: June 20, 1975

As the poster already says it, this movie is a thrilling and terrifying motion picture that is going to keep you at the edge of the seat from the beginning till the end.

4.   Jurassic Park

Release date: June 9, 1993

Much like Jaws, Jurassic Park is a thrilling movie that has both a well told story and amazing CGI scenes with dinosaurs. If you like dinosaurs you will probably like this movie too.

3.   E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Release date: June 10, 1982

In comparison to Jaws and Jurassic Park this movie is more directed towards kids. It doesn’t have human-eating sharks or dinosaurs but an alien that was abandoned by its kind a boy who wants to help the alien.

2.   Saving Private Ryan

Release date: July 24, 1998

Saving Private Ryan has one of the best opening scenes in the history of all movies. It’s an amazing film that properly explains the hell that people go through because of war. If you are looking for new movies to watch I really recommend this one.

1.   Schindler’s List

Release date: November 30, 1993

This is one of my favourite movies of all time. The story is about Oskar Schindler, a German Nazi, who after seeing the horrors of Polish concentration camps has a change of heart and tries to help his Jewish employees. This movie has a bit heavier theme than most of Steven Spielberg’s movies, but it’s still an amazing movie that everyone has to watch at least once in their life.

 

The movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” came out in the year 1968. It is a sci-fi film which was directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick. It’s based on Arthur C. Clarke‘s short story “The Sentinel” which was published in 1951. The script was written by both Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke.

The film depicts the journey into the unknown in search of extraterrestrial life. The crew is made up of 5 humans, three of which were sleeping during the trip and a HAL 9000 robot.

The soundtrack has used many of the classical songs that compliment the scenes amazingly well, such as Johann Strauss II‘s 1866 Blue Danube Waltz, Richard Strauss‘ symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra György Ligeti’s Atmosphères and the works of Aram Khachaturian 

I know that when you write a review about anything you have to say the good and the bad stuff, and I have tried to find something I didn’t like about the movie, but I just couldn’t. To me everything about it is perfect, from the story, the directing to the soundtrack. Everything is amazing and goes so well together. I think “2001: A Space Odyssey” is one of the, if not the best movie of all time. While watching the movie you will find you eyes glued to the screen unable to look away and after you see it you will never be able to stop thinking about it.

Tim Burton‘s movies are often perceived as weird, creepy and scary and most of the time they are, but I just love them for it. Here’s my top 5 favourite Tim Burton’s movies:

5.   Frankenweenie

Release date: October 5, 2012

Description: Victor invites trouble when he revives his dead pet dog Sparky after it is hit by a car. Now, Sparky looks like a monster and terrifies Victor’s neighbours.

4.   Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Release date: July 10, 2005

Description: Charlie, a young boy from an impoverished family, and four other kids win a tour of an amazing chocolate factory run by an imaginative chocolatier, Willy Wonka, and his staff of Oompa-Loompas.

3.   Dark Shadows

Release date: ‎May 11, 2012

Description: Rich playboy Barnabas earns the wrath of Angelique, a witch, when he breaks her heart. She turns him into a vampire and buries him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas escapes to settle scores.

2.   Sleepy Hollow

Release date: November 17, 1999

Description: Ichabod Crane, a police detective, is sent from the city of New York to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of murders committed by the Headless Horseman.

1.   Edward Scissorhands

Release date: December 6, 1990

Description: Edward, a synthetic man with scissor hands, is taken in by Peg, a kindly Avon lady, after the passing of his inventor. Things take a turn for the worse when he is blamed for a crime he did not commit.

5.   Princess Mononoke

Name in Japanese: もののけ姫

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Release date: July 12, 1997

Description: In the 14th century, the harmony that humans, animals and gods have enjoyed begins to crumble. The protagonist, young Ashitaka – infected by an animal attack, seeks a cure from the deer-like god Shishigami. In his travels, he sees humans ravaging the earth, bringing down the wrath of wolf god Moro and his human companion Princess Mononoke. Hisk attempts to broker peace between her and the humans brings only conflict.

4.   Kiki’s Delivery Service

Name in Japanese: 魔女の宅急便

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Release date: July 29, 1989

Description: In this anime feature, 13-year-old Kiki moves to a seaside town with her talking cat, Jiji, to spend a year alone, in accordance with her village’s tradition for witches in training. After learning to control her broomstick, Kiki sets up a flying courier service and soon becomes a fixture in the community. But when the insecure young witch begins questioning herself and loses her magic abilities, she must overcome her self-doubt to get her powers back.

3.   Howl’s Moving Castle

Name in Japanese: ハウルの動く城

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Release date: September 5, 2004

Description: Sophie has an uneventful life at her late father’s hat shop, but all that changes when she befriends wizard Howl, who lives in a magical flying castle. However, the evil Witch of Waste takes issue with their budding relationship and casts a spell on young Sophie, which ages her prematurely. Now Howl must use all his magical talents to battle the jealous hag and return Sophie to her former youth and beauty.

2.   My Neighbour Totoro

Name in Japanese: となりのトトロ

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Release date: April 16, 1988

Description: Mei and Satsuki shift to a new house to be closer to their mother who is in the hospital. They soon become friends with Totoro, a giant rabbit-like creature who is a spirit.

1.   Spirited Away

Name in Japanese: 千と千尋の神隠し

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Release date: July 20, 2001

Description: In this animated feature by noted Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, 10-year-old Chihiro and her parents stumble upon a seemingly abandoned amusement park. After her mother and father are turned into giant pigs, Chihiro meets the mysterious Haku, who explains that the park is a resort for supernatural beings who need a break from their time spent in the earthly realm, and that she must work there to free herself and her parents.

10.   Nicole Kidman

Movies: Eyes Wide Shut, Aquaman, The Others, The Hours, Moulin Rouge!

Nicole Mary Kidman is an Australian actress and producer. Her awards include an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. She was listed among the highest-paid actresses in the world in 2006, 2018, and 2019. Time magazine twice named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, in 2004 and 2018.

9.   Natalie Portman

Movies: V for Vendetta, Thor, Thor: The Dark World, Black Swan, Léon: The Professional

Natalie Portman is an actress and filmmaker with both Israeli and American citizenship. Prolific in film since a teenager, she has starred in blockbusters and also played psychologically troubled women in independent films, for which she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.

8.   Angelina Jolie

Movies: Maleficent, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Girl, Interrupted, Salt

Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. The recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards, she has been named Hollywood’s highest-paid actress multiple times.

7.   Emma Stone

Movies: La La Land, The Amazing Spider-man, Zombieland, Easy A, The Help

Emily Jean “Emma” Stone is an American actress. The recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, she was the world’s highest-paid actress in 2017. Stone has appeared in Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2013 and in 2017, she was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. 

6.   Gal Gadot

Movies: Wonder Woman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League, Keeping Up with the Joneses, Fast and Furious

Gal Gadot is an Israeli actress, model, and producer. At age 18, she was crowned Miss Israel in 2004. She then served two years in the Israel Defense Forces as a fitness/combat readiness instructor, after which she began studying law and international relations at IDC Herzliya college while building her modelling and acting careers.

5.   Emma Watson

Movies: Beauty and the Beast, Harry Potter, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Circle, Little Women

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress and model. Born in Paris and brought up in Oxfordshire, Watson attended the Dragon School and trained as an actress at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts. As a child, she rose to prominence with her first professional acting role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series.

4.   Jennifer Lawrence

Movies: X-Men, The Hunger Games, Red Sparrow, Passengers, American Hustle

Jennifer Shrader Lawrence is an American actress. The films she has acted in have grossed over $6 billion worldwide, and she was the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016. Lawrence appeared in Time‘s 100 most influential people in the world list in 2013 and in the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2014 and 2016.

3.  Margot Robbie

Movies: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, I, Tonya, The Wolf of Wall Street, Suicide Squad, Focus

Margot Elise Robbie is an Australian actress and producer. She received nominations for two Academy Awards and five BAFTA Awards. In 2017, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2019, she was ranked among the world’s highest-paid actresses.

2.   Zoe Saldana

Movies: Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Avatar, Star Trek, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Zoë Yadira Saldaña Nazario is an American actress. After her performances with the theater group Faces, she was in a 1999 episode of Law & Order. Her film career began a year later with Center Stage (2000) portraying a ballet dancer.

1.   Scarlett Johansson

Movies: Black Widow, The Avengers, Jojo Rabbit, Marriage Story, Lucy

Scarlett Ingrid Johansson is an American actress and singer. The world’s highest-paid actress since 2018, she has made multiple appearances in the Forbes Celebrity 100. Her films have grossed over $14.3 billion worldwide, making Johansson the ninth-highest-grossing box office star of all time. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Tony Award and a BAFTA Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards.

 

 

 

 

10.   Brad Pitt

Movies: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Inglourious Basterds, Fight Club, Seven, 12 Monkeys

William Bradley Pitt is an American actor and film producer. He has received multiple awards, including two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award for his acting, in addition to another Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award as producer under his production company, Plan B Entertainment.

9.   Jim Carrey 

Movies: Dumb and Dumber, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Liar Liar, Yes Man, The Truman Show

James Eugene Carrey is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, writer and producer. Known for his energetic slapstick performances, Carrey first gained recognition in 1990 after landing a recurring role in the American sketch comedy television series In Living Color.

8.   Robert Downey Jr.

Movies: Iron Man, The Avengers, Sherlock Holmes, Tropic Thunder, Dolittle

Robert John Downey Jr. is an American actor and producer. His career has been characterized by critical and popular success in his youth, followed by a period of substance abuse and legal troubles, before a resurgence of commercial success in middle age.

7.   Johnny Depp

Movies: Pirates of the Caribbean, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Dark Shadows, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands

John Christopher Depp II is an American actor, producer, and musician. He has been nominated for ten Golden Globe Awards, winning one for Best Actor for his performance of the title role in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Actor. He is regarded as one of the world’s biggest film stars.

6.   Leonardo DiCaprio

Movies: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Django Unchained, Inception, The Revenant, Titanic

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor, producer, philanthropist, and environmentalist. He has often played unconventional parts, particularly in biopics, drama, crime, romance, and period films. As of 2019, his films have grossed US$7.2 billion worldwide, and he has placed eight times in annual rankings of the highest-paid actors in the world.

5.   Anthony Hopkins

Movies: The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon, The Mask of Zorro, Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor, director and film producer. He is the recipient of an Academy Award, three BAFTAs, two Emmys and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. Hopkins received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, and in 2008 he received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

4.   Tom Hanks

Movies: Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, Cast Away, The Green Mile, Big

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, Hanks is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon. Hanks’s films have grossed more than $4.9 billion in North America and more than $9.96 billion worldwide, making him the fifth-highest-grossing actor in North America.

3.   Jack Nicholson

Movies: The Shining, Chinatown, Batman, The Departed, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

John Joseph Nicholson is an American actor and filmmaker whose career is longer than 60 years. He is known for having played a wide range of starring or supporting roles, including comedy, romance, and darkly comic portrayals of anti-heroes and villainous characters.

2.   Robert De Niro

Movies: The Godfather Part II, Goodfellas, The Deer Hunter, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull

Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. is an American actor, producer, and director who holds both American and Italian citizenship. He is particularly known for his collaborations with filmmaker Martin Scorsese. He is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2009, he received the Kennedy Center Honor. In 2016, he received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama.

1.   Al Pacino

Movies: The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Scarface, Heat, Serpico

Alfredo James Pacino is an American actor and filmmaker. In a career spanning over five decades, he has received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. He is one of the few performers to have received the Triple Crown of Acting. He has also been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the National Medal of Arts.