So I went to see two movies in a row again today. While twice does not a habit make, it surely encourages one. Why is it that I so love movies? I can't even pinpoint when it was that I started loving movies, but I really do. Sadly, I don't love them enough to have seen all the classics or even all the new ones. I bet I would watch more classics if I wasn't in New Zealand because here I don't have a DVD player and their movie rental places suck.
The actual point I wanted to make though (I know at times it can be rough to figure out what exactly that is) is that I wonder if film is becoming a more reputable form of literature. I know that some movies are utter sentimental crap, but so are some novels. The comparisons are endless, I think. As for the good movies, there is a lot to read into, generally just a lot going on that is interesting to talk about. I wonder if someday I will be teaching a film aesthetics course (oh, if there is a Lord in heaven, I better be teaching that course someday) and if the impressive thing will be that a course of that nature is utterly unremarkable. Naturally, the class itself would be world changing, but the fact that I was teaching a class using film as the major medium would be humdrum.
Can you imagine a class where you would sit around and analyze movies? Because that's basically my Saturdays. Then again, imagining a class where you sit around and analyze books sounds pretty great to me, so I guess it's lucky for us all I'll be an English teacher.
15 July 2005
Lights, Camera, Action
Posted by Annika at 6:05 PM
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we actually have a winterim course here at concordia that is built around watching movies, and then sitting around and analyzing them. on a not so side note... what movies did you go to see?, and what would be the featured movie as the final for that class that you are assured of someday teaching?
I saw Mean Creek and A Good Woman that particular day. The first was horrid, the latter was expectedly fluffy, but good nonetheless.
It depends on what my point for the course was. I think it would almost definitely be by Charlie Kaufmann (apologies for spelling his name wrong, if that's wrong) as he has some pretty compelling movies. Perhaps Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind because I like the science fiction-y problem of the psyche. What would you forget if you could? What would the implications be? Philosophically speaking, would it be beneficial? But if it were something focusing more on symbolism, or modern representations of the American dream or some such thing, you can see how the "final" would change drastically.
In another not so side note, there was a course at Valpo too, but the teacher left before I could take it and no one else would pick up his slack. Jerks. What movies would you pick? ("you" being Lisa and/or anyone else)
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