Tuesday, July 30

Final Project due Sept 3: 8 groups of 2.

DEMONSTRATE:  thought patterns related to social organization
Present film clips & together & discuss together Paper:  2.5 pgs per individual or 3.5 pgs together.


Ÿ  Hist’l drama: show some of “the Killer Apps”
Ÿ  Costume, hair,  Art direction  - as it reflects thought patterns of society
Ÿ  Dialog - revealing thought assumptions as well as "gesture" 
Ÿ  Male pov/Female pov
Ÿ  Stages of the life cycle - and corresponding thought patterns
Ÿ  Music - classical, romantic, modern, post modern, electronica 
Ÿ  Political movements - changing thought patterns
Ÿ  Technology Science - as it comes to encroach upon human lifeŸ
Ÿ  Nature
Ÿ  Mysticism
Ÿ Values
Ÿ Socialization into an "is" pattern




this list can grow . . . 
2001
two advances in consciousness:  how?  why?
Bad Boy
Race and the ghetto
Becket, Apocapalypto
Pageantry, order, tribal, middle ages
Ben Hur
Christianity, forgiveness, redemption
Blowup
change the p.o.v.
Contact
you "know" there is something "out there"
Crash
multiple ways to think & structure world
Do the Right Thing
Race - notice the reviews in IMDB
Dr. Zhivagho
Communism - diff pol thought system

Life of Pi   faith

Anna Karinina    different era - or was it?
Fr & Ital auteurs in 60s 70s
“slice of life” – no pattern, no B M E
Gods Must be Crazy, The
primitive tribal thinking
Gunga Din
chance to see a classic
Harry Potter
what’s that about?  magical thinking?
Hustle and Flow
Race and creativity
Idiocracy
stupidity runs the country
Inception
is life a dream – is a dream life
Letters from Iwo Jima
2 types of soldiers = thought systems
Papillon
 - reading the world another way (like Egypt)
Memento
what is real
Performance
mind blowing – willful mind blowing
QT film(s)
Feminism
Singing in the Rain
create your own happiness (westher Nayler)
Spring Summer, Fall, Winter
stillness -
Teen movies
as if they are a whole other species
The Shining
the shining
Walkabout
modernism and innocence

waking life dreams - and stuff ...

matrix

We need to talk about Kevin

The Tree of Life
Shutter Island
Roshamon - Kurasawa - the classic about p.o.v.

1 comment:

  1. Off the CCh "must see" list
    A Clockwork Orange - medically control thot
    Annie Hall - man thought/woman thought
    Apocalpyse Now - War/Men/Testosterone
    Beckett - secular/god-based
    Chinatown - try for good/corruption
    Invasion of th Body Snatchers - mind control
    To Kill a Mockingbird - race
    2001 - where advances in thought come fr
    The Wizard of Oz - belief

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