Another day, another 1/7 of a dollar
I had my writing students hand in love stories. The stories are pretty standard, and one of my students tried to pass off a Chinese fairy tale on me, so I mostly judged them by their descriptive prowess. Three of them were actually pretty evocative, but just loved prepositions too much. So I would rewrite some of their over long sentences in a shorter way so they could see how to write a tighter sentence.
One of my students missed an in-class performance, so did a movie review for the class instead. He tried to explain his fascination with the Joker from "Dark Knight" without quite sounding like he thought the Joker was the hero. I chatted with him after class; he just thinks the Joker is the most important character. He showed clips of the scene where Batman interrogated the Joker in the police station, and of the Joker/Two-face face off in the hospital. From the back of the room, I could see the students flinching away from the scenes. Anyway, after class we chatted awhile about how the Joker always manages to steal the scene from Batman, no matter what the artistic medium. Is the coincidence of hiring superior actors to play the roles? The strange glee of purified evil?
One of my students missed an in-class performance, so did a movie review for the class instead. He tried to explain his fascination with the Joker from "Dark Knight" without quite sounding like he thought the Joker was the hero. I chatted with him after class; he just thinks the Joker is the most important character. He showed clips of the scene where Batman interrogated the Joker in the police station, and of the Joker/Two-face face off in the hospital. From the back of the room, I could see the students flinching away from the scenes. Anyway, after class we chatted awhile about how the Joker always manages to steal the scene from Batman, no matter what the artistic medium. Is the coincidence of hiring superior actors to play the roles? The strange glee of purified evil?