“This is the worst movie I’ve
ever seen. How will I ever survive?”
Make it a humorous experience.
DISCUSSION
What was an
awful movie that you saw? What did you think was stupid about it?
Make a list
of scenes, dialogue, or actions you thought were bad during the whole film.
ESSAY TOPIC
Choose a particular movie you
saw, one that you thought was entertaining but not thoughtful. This could be an
action film, a superhero film, or any film meant for light entertainment. Review
a film of light entertainment as if it were the smartest, most intellectual
film ever made.
POSSIBLE CHOICES
§ Films such as Ant-Man, Jurassic World, Mad Max: Fury Road,
Fantastic Four, Pitch Perfect, Minions, Spectre, etc.
§ Any movie directed by Michael Bay
§ Any movie with Dwayne “the Rock”
Johnson or Vin Diesel
TECHNIQUES
Treat the thoughtless
entertainment as if it were intellectual or intelligent. For example:
§ What was the deeper meaning of that
car chase?
§ What was the philosophical
message made by the action scenes with guns and so on?
§ What is the symbolism of this
scene or that character?
LANGUAGE
1. You can talk or write using
big words, as a professor might talk or write. Don’t say “Batman lives in
Gotham City.” Say instead “Batman resides in Gotham City.”
Need fancy words for regular words? Use this website.
2. Some key words or expressions:
§ But of course
§ Indeed,…
§ deconstruction
§ I believe Chomsky would have said…
§ I think you have to define “X” (a
particular word – your choice)
3. Any French words about film
used in English. Here are some good ones:
§ mise en scene – the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play or in
a film
§ auteur – a
filmmaker whose personal influence and artistic control over a movie are so
great that the filmmaker is regarded as the author of the movie
§ oeuvre – the works
of a painter, composer, or author regarded collectively, e.g., "the
complete oeuvre of Mozart"
Thank you, Google results, for the definitions.
Now, it’s
your turn. Write it down, and post it to this website. This is going to be fun!
Roger
For the record, I enjoyed some of the films I listed, but you get the idea, right?
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