How your film might be interpreted as an allegory

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Instructions: Answer the five questions below.

Q1. Select one of the pairs of clips below ("A Star is Born" or "True Grit") and list the three biggest differences you see between the two clips. Then comment thoughtfully on how those differences help us to better understand the "how" and/or the "what" and/or the "why" of the film. (It's a double question).

Q2. Directors tend to have certain characteristic features of their films (like, for example, Steven Spielberg's lens flares). Select a director, pick two of their "trademarks" and comment on how each trademark makes sense in the context of the director's life, career, body of work, etc. For example: One of Steven Spielberg's trademarks is the use of lens flares. This is consistent with the fact that the was part of a generation of "rebel" filmmakers in the 1970s who deliberately "broke the rules" for artistic effect. Furthermore, Spielberg's films often exist in the realm of fantasy, and the lens flare has a very otherworldly feel, apropos to that kind of film. It's also the case that a lens flare, at least in the 1970s, was a fairly difficult feat to pull off, which means that you need a lot of talent working for you and money to spend in order to do it. As a "blockbuster" director, Spielberg had (and has) those kinds of resources at his disposal. The directors' biography pages on IMDB generally have lists of "trademarks."

Q3. Select a commercial for any U.S. politician (you can find lots of them on YouTube), and discuss whether or not you think it should be considered propaganda.

Q4. Choose one of the 50 highest-grossing films of all time (adjusted for inflation) that is NOT one of the Star Wars films, and suggest how your film MIGHT be interpreted as an allegory. If you would like to do a film that is not in the Top 50, you can e-mail me and run it by me.

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len2283021

4/14/2019 9:49:07 PM

Answer the all questions. Each is worth five points, except for the first one, which is worth 10 points. Note that I am not going to give you guidelines on how much to write, or how many points to raise. That would do more to confuse than to clarify. I will say that you want to give them impression that you have thought carefully about your ideas, and that you have put forward your best effort to do justice to the clip. It is also important to support what you are saying with substantive explanations and evidence. You should write as if the person who is reading your answers is not in this class, and so is relying on you to explain what they need to know in order to understand your arguments.

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