Introduction by Jackie

Hi!

I´m Jackie and this is my first mission blog. I´ve tried before to write on a blog, connecting it to my website. Due to lack of purpose I found myself not knowing where to go so I simply stopped. This time I´m on a mission. Starting from today which is the 7th of May 2010 and until the 6th of May 2011, I will read 10 books and 10 movies recommended by Benicio Del Toro. I found a list of his favourite books and movies on the website beniciodeltoro.com. I´ve been wanting to do something different for a while now, and after seeing the movie Julie & Julia I got hooked on the idéa to have a blog.

The reason why I have picked Benicio Del Toro is something that has its own little story. A story I thought I would share with you now. The summer of 1989, I was fifteen years old and the latest Bond-movie was released. License to kill became my first Bond
experience and I remember being so afraid of the main villain´s henchman Dario. In those days I didn´t know what internet was or even how to manage a computer. This led to why I didn´t bother to find out who played Dario. All I knew was that I was soo scared of him. Six years later I was sitting and watching movie reviews on tv. One review that especially caught my attention was when the critic announced that Quentin Tarantino could take the backseat and let Bryan Singer steer the wheel. That´s how I got introduced to The Usual Suspects and I realised that Fred Fenster was played by Benicio Del Toro who also played Dario. Dario got a name and I became a fan of Benicio Del Toro.
During the years I´ve seen some of his work and I have admired him as an actor, but it wasn´t until the remake of The Wolfman 2010 that I finally came to learn more about him as an actor but also more about his background and interests. As an audience we have been taken through quite a journey with the multiple of different and intriguing characters that he´s played. Each movie role has been different in either looks or ways. The purpose with this journey that I´m going to begin is a bit different. I thought it would be exciting to explore a world of different colours, worlds I probably never would have entered by myself. With the list of exploring twenty different worlds, I´m expecting it to be a journey and adventure, which is going to change my life for a year.
The first book that I started reading today is Truman Capote´s In cold blood. The beginning is well-written and I like the tone of it. Whether I´m going to like or hate or just endure the books and the movies, I will go into this with an open mind. If you think positive and you want to learn and have something new at the end of the journey. I think that´s the way to go about it. So there you have it, my introduction to this blog.

I hope you will join me on the ride.

Cheers Jackie