Stevie Wonder

 





                                                              Stevie Wonder

By: Amelia Olsen

              Calvin Michiels

             Natalie Trumm

          Tyler Tennies



Our journey began on the third floor wandering around for a miscellanious C.D that turned out to be The Rolling Stones Album--Some Girls

We went down to the second floor and had to look for a newspaper which was hidden in a jungle of bookshelves.

Then we searched around for a shark hanging from the cieling and found a paw print under it.

The shark information led us to these eggs and then we had to go to...

We told her the famous dog show was the Westminister Dog Show then she gave us a V.

 

This was the Charlie Chaplin bookshelf that led us to the letter C.

Calvin found a monkey in a cage and fought it in order to get the letter H.

We had to find the Smithsonian Institution call number, so we did. We got the letters S and I.

Then we met a janitor and stole his elevator twice and rescued Stevie Pointer from the archives.

We won,

The End

Extra Credit Blog 7: "That's My Boy"..?

In Nathan Rabin's article, Stooping To Stumble Case File #29: That’s My Boy, on avclub.com, he starts with a harsh but G-rated critique of new movie, That's My Boy, comparing it with film, Rock of Ages, which he deemed equally unsuccessful.  Rabin then explains why he believes Adam Sandler, fan favorite actor, was so poorly received by audiences of this movie.  Having heard nothing about this movie before reading this article, I gradually picked up the understanding that because Sandler is so well-known for many iconic roles, seeing him as a vulgar and inappropriate man-child was off-putting for some viewers.  I have seen many of Sandler's movies and know the dim-witted humor his roles tend to lead towards.  From what I understood at that point, his role in That's My Boy, was still humorous but had a little too many raunchy characteristics added in.  At this point in Rabin's article, he begins explaining the plot in detail and that's when I fully understood just how far out of bounds this movie went in terms of appropriateness.  Several scenes are described in Rabin's article that include sexual acts between a teacher and a young student.  While this is obviously an attempt by filmmakers to humor a well-known fantasy of having an affair with a student, the descriptions of these scenes seem much too graphic for the Adam Sandler ideology that we know and love.  While I would have probably gone to see this movie just because of Sandler, I am glad to have read this film and be persuaded otherwise.  From Rabin's article and other viewers reactions to the movie, it does not seem to be the type of movie I want to see, nor does it have Sandler in his usual lovable role.

Film Homework Posts

 Both realism and antirealism can both be very effective in film because of the extreme differences in their characteristics. Realism is exactly what it sounds like, real. This is when filmmakers represent things as they actually are in real life. Antirealism, on the other hand, is representing those same things in a fantastical or abstract way. An example given by Barsam is the film, Donnie Darko. In this film, viewers are switched between scenes of Donnie's actual life as a schizophrenic teenager, and his fantastical view of how life really is, most notably, life with a demonic imaginary rabbit. Another example of realism and antirealism can be seen in the film Mean Girls. The main character, Cady, has just moved to a regular high school after being home schooled by her parents in Africa. More than once throughout the film, she is shown observing her fellow students through both realist and antirealist points of view. In her realist view, she sees girls cat fighting in the hallway while in antirealist view, the girls are pouncing on each other and growling just as wildcats in the jungles of Africa would do.

The presentation of a western film most often refers to the “long shot”, or zooming out on a character until they are insignificant to the shot and viewers are more focused on the landscape around that character. In comparison, the presentation of most horror films feature close up shots on the victim of the film. This strategy creates suspense and is most likely accompanied by daunting music, building suspense even further. 

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I found the most important scene of Easy A to be when Olive is confronted by her school counselor who is married to her favorite teachers and learns that she has been cheating on her husband with a super-super-senior student. Enraged, Olive runs off to tell the teacher about his wife's adulterous acts.  Her later discovered guilt for spilling this secret to her teacher is a turning point when she first realizes that her actions are hurting someone else. Up to this point in the film, she had become proud of her reputation and rumored actions, being the school's floozy. After seeing how hurt her favorite teacher was by the news of his failing marriage, Olive takes a moment in her online video journal to apologize to said teacher.  And this is where some of the first signs of guilt and regret shine through her otherwise nonchalant perspective of her situation.