film stuff
Felt like an Anna quote today lol, not too sure why ;) I don't really want to smack anyone, except maybe profs haha.
Watched The Triplets of Belleville in class yesterday. Another 'omg so weird but ultimately enjoyable' movie. I'm glad I read the wikipedia entry about it afterwards though cuz I thought Champion was the woman's son, I didn't realize he was her grandson. I really want to see the opening two scenes again- particularly the scene where the performance turns out to be a tv programme and then the cut to the guy playing the piano? Cuz that confused me- I thought the old woman WAS one of the Triplets at first, that she was trying to get the boy to play piano so he could be a performer like she was, cuz wasn't that him playing as a grown-up? Or was that his father? So confused! The different colours for the flashbacks were supposed to help, I know, but they didn't. Must put that in screening notes... Want to see it again so I can figure that out! Hopfully it's on YouTube or something. Maybe I can find a torrent, cuz I don't think it'll be at our local Blockbuster ;) The prof said he had to go to Toronto to get his copy...
Stayed at school til 9 last night trying to flesh out this film class essay. Left school with a couple anime books prepared to do something on the cultural representations and the statement about the deterioration of traditional Japanese culture due to its corruption by American mass consumption Miyazaki makes in Spirited Away. But this morning, I realized I only had two books and that neither of them was enough to build an 8-page paper with, because neither really analyse the artistic elements of the film which is something I have to do for the assignment.
So I think now that I may just use my old Canadian research AGAIN (holy crap how glad am I that I took the time to make those 80 pages of computerized notes last year?!?!?!) cuz it's too late to get the books from the library and put in solid research with only 5 days left til the paper's due, and do the paper on the representations of societal value in three Canadian shorts. tg I found out yesterday we CAN use shorts, cuz I thought it had to be feature film or tv. Might use Neighbours, Big Snit, and Getting Started or possibly The Hockey Sweater though I have no research on that one which is why it would be better to stick with two Condie films. Or... I might do Thorson's Country Cousin, Neighbours, and Big Snit cuz then I can show representations of societal values from three different time periods. Ooo! I like that! Gonna look at the stuff I have this afternoon and try to flesh something out there.
School's not til 6pm tonight instead of 530 which means we're stuck there til 9. Boourns. Will probably be a texting fiend to try to entertain myself, so long as I don't sit by the prof again like last week!
Watched The Triplets of Belleville in class yesterday. Another 'omg so weird but ultimately enjoyable' movie. I'm glad I read the wikipedia entry about it afterwards though cuz I thought Champion was the woman's son, I didn't realize he was her grandson. I really want to see the opening two scenes again- particularly the scene where the performance turns out to be a tv programme and then the cut to the guy playing the piano? Cuz that confused me- I thought the old woman WAS one of the Triplets at first, that she was trying to get the boy to play piano so he could be a performer like she was, cuz wasn't that him playing as a grown-up? Or was that his father? So confused! The different colours for the flashbacks were supposed to help, I know, but they didn't. Must put that in screening notes... Want to see it again so I can figure that out! Hopfully it's on YouTube or something. Maybe I can find a torrent, cuz I don't think it'll be at our local Blockbuster ;) The prof said he had to go to Toronto to get his copy...
Stayed at school til 9 last night trying to flesh out this film class essay. Left school with a couple anime books prepared to do something on the cultural representations and the statement about the deterioration of traditional Japanese culture due to its corruption by American mass consumption Miyazaki makes in Spirited Away. But this morning, I realized I only had two books and that neither of them was enough to build an 8-page paper with, because neither really analyse the artistic elements of the film which is something I have to do for the assignment.
So I think now that I may just use my old Canadian research AGAIN (holy crap how glad am I that I took the time to make those 80 pages of computerized notes last year?!?!?!) cuz it's too late to get the books from the library and put in solid research with only 5 days left til the paper's due, and do the paper on the representations of societal value in three Canadian shorts. tg I found out yesterday we CAN use shorts, cuz I thought it had to be feature film or tv. Might use Neighbours, Big Snit, and Getting Started or possibly The Hockey Sweater though I have no research on that one which is why it would be better to stick with two Condie films. Or... I might do Thorson's Country Cousin, Neighbours, and Big Snit cuz then I can show representations of societal values from three different time periods. Ooo! I like that! Gonna look at the stuff I have this afternoon and try to flesh something out there.
School's not til 6pm tonight instead of 530 which means we're stuck there til 9. Boourns. Will probably be a texting fiend to try to entertain myself, so long as I don't sit by the prof again like last week!