Archive for April, 2007

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Friday, April 27th, 2007

Watch for the Close-ups: a Final Blog

Life is a tragedy when seen close up, but a comedy in long shot. – Charlie Chaplan As a class, it is clear that we have come to the consensus that Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo is a movie to be seen two or more times in order to comprehend what’s going on. So, in order to […]

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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

MacGuffin

I got to thinking about the concept of the MacGuffin after class – trying to figure out examples of this to help me better understand it. So, to help others understand, I have a few to offer. If anyone else has any MacGuffin’s that may help our classmates understand this concept, POST THEM! Casablanca – […]

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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Love = Death?

Today we were faced with the question, “Can love of the highest kind be anything but deadly? Love of anything: a person, job, idea, etc.” I got to thinking what a horrifying question this is. It can be paralelled with the question, “How far are you willing to go to get the one thing you […]

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Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Bravo Costume Designers

Slightly outdated in its trick photography, yes; however, costume desginers for the film adaptation of Portrait of Jennie did a fantastic job of rushing Jennie through her childhood years, throwing her into her teenage years and portraying her as a young adult. It’s easy for a novel to paint these pictures, for half the battle […]

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Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Just a thought…

After writing my last post I had this thought: it’s interesting that a portrait, the likeness of someone, can cause the viewer to create his own portrait, verbal description, of the one stuck in the photograph. Sort of how Matthews keeps saying that the girl in the photograph reminds him of a different time – […]

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Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

What if Time is Timeless?

I feel it’s safe to say that most of of us have agreed that art and love transcend time. Since our debate takes into consideration three ideas – art —> time —> love – it’s entirely possible that time can somehow transcend itself. After all, it’s surrounded by things that transcend time. We speak of […]

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Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Time & Distance

“There is one thing about distance: that no matter how far away it is, it can be reached. It is over there, beyond the Jersey hills – one can drive to it – it is north, among the pines, or eastward to the sea. It is never yesterday, or tomorrow. That is another, and a […]

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Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

The message of Fast, Cheap and Out of Control in Gates of Heaven

After concluding that reverting back to square one in Fast, Cheap and Out of Control may have something to do with reverting back to focusing on human relationships, I went back to Gates of Heaven in search of the same theme. An unlikely place to look considering Gates is about pet cemetaries and a human […]

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Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Square One

What does square one mean? This is a question we have been discussing recently in class. Curious as to what the world thinks of square one, I googled it. According to Google, there was a television series called Square One from 1987-1992. It aimed to help the math crisis among American schoolchildren, teaching them fundamental […]

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