Archive for February, 2007

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Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Amy and Laurie – 1994

The best film adaptation of the relationship between Amy and Laurie is the 1994 adaptation.I think the growing relationship between these two in the novel is a wonderful story – the way she straightens him out and her path to maturity.  The 1949 version makes Amy look like a 12-year-old girl throughout her entire life […]

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Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Companionate Marriage – Then and Now

The theory of a companionate marriage has been on my mind ever since last class.  Growing up, a lot of kids have that best friend – the one you used to catch lightning bugs with when you were six, played red rover with at school when you were ten, went to high school football games […]

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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Cartoon Little Women

This was a show broadcasted in Venezuela in the 1980s. This is the introduction. I find it odd that they made Jo’s hair blonde. I feel that her dark hair was a trademark character trait that helped advance her boyish nature. Anyway, this is hilarious and I wanted to see what you all thought of […]

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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Beth is the Flame, Jo is the Match

I was incredibly surprised by the amount of people who felt that Beth’s character was completely useless to the plot and/or theme/s of Little Women. First of all, I don’t see how a character in a novel that has been studied for years can be seen as simply “useless.” Obviously there is a point to […]

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Monday, February 19th, 2007

Little Women Influencing Many

After hearing some opinions on Little Women, I was curious to search and find more opinions, perhaps some with negative thoughts. I could hardly find negative remarks concerning the novel. My faveorite quote was by book critic Madeline Bedell. Se said that the novel is “The American female myth.” At first, I didn’t agree whole […]

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Sunday, February 11th, 2007

“Look into your heart!”

This is one of my favorite scenes from Miller’s Crossing. The Cohen Brothers have beautiful filming style, and this short clip captures a lot of it. The scene fades into a shot of the woods – barren, overgrown, not much sky can be seen. Obviously a setting for a place of death. We see the […]

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Sunday, February 11th, 2007

“I’m talkin’ about friendship. I’m talkin’ about character. I’m talkin’ about – hell. Leo, I ain’t embarrassed to use the word – I’m talkin’ about ethics.”

Miller’s Crossing immediately states the three themes present: friendship, character, ethics. Friendship – the quality or condition of being friends: good will. Character – qualities of honesty, courage, or the like; integrity. Ethics – system of moral principles: ethics of a particular culture. Not only are these three themes explored in the film, they are […]

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Sunday, February 11th, 2007

Glass Key to Yojimbo through Persistence and Agency

Last class we spent a lot of time discussing the similarities and the differences between these two films and why there are such similarities and differences. Many of you had great comments on why you thought Kurosawa made the changes that he did. I looked at it through the modes of persistence and agency so […]

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