Thursday, April 21, 2011
What to Choose, What to Choose?
There were lots of movies to choose from for the Final research paper and presentation, but after briefly reading about a few of them, I was able to narrow it down to Memento, Brick, and Seven...but I ended up picking Memento. The thing is I have never seen this movie, so I will be doing that shortly. I've seen Seven numerous times and I love it, but I thought it would be a good idea to try something new. The fact that it has great reviews helped a lot too, in some articles it said that it was the best movie that year it was released, so that definitely caught my attention. The comments I read about the movie specified also that it fell into the noir genre and since that's the premise of the movie we were to pick for the paper, it was perfect. Since I haven't seen the movie yet, I don't have many details about the movie and why it falls into the noir category and why it's a good choice for the paper, but I'm definitely looking forward to seeing the movie and being able to decipher the noir qualities that I have come to understand through out class. One of the comments I found about the movie mentioned that watching the movie once wasn't enough, that it was a bit involved and that just watching it once wouldn't do. I will probably have to watch it at least a couple of times to really get all the hidden messages and clues the director included. According to what I've heard, it should be quite entertaining. My sources will include the movie itself, 3 movie analysis I obtained online and movie reviews. It's amazing what information and ideas are available when seeing things from anothers perspective.
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Jennifer,
ReplyDeleteAlthough it is risky to pick a movie you haven't seen, Memento has many connections to film noir and neo-noir.
Keep in mind that you were supposed to include at least five sources in correct MLA works cited format.