Thursday, April 11, 2024

2024 Midterm Exam

Remember these words: 

dystopia, genre, paragraph, sentence, twist of fate, foreshadow, vanilla ice cream, pay homage to, on purpose, angst, anxiety, on purpose, chronological, metaphor, match cut, janitor, pulp fiction, stammer, first generation, actor, opening credits, briefcase, hint, Samurai sword, basement, lottery ticket, plot, image, chopper, diner




NOTES: 

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We want to do a different genre of movie each time. This is science fiction. Sci-fi.

You are sitting on a winning lottery ticket and you’re too much of a pussy to cash it in.

Figurative language:

1.      Metaphor: when something is something else

Will’s brain is a winning lottery ticket (because he is so smart that he can make a lot of money).

2.      Simile: like or as, compare

Will’s brain is like a winning lottery ticket.

Shakespeare Sonnet 18

Shall I compare you a summer’s day

Thou are more lovely and temperate.

3.      Personification: Give inanimate objects (is something not alive) human or living qualities

The wind was like an angry cat, howling in my ear.

The earthquake was a nightmare. 

 

The Boston accent is flat. Usually Americans curl the r and l.

Footage: film or part of a movie

Dystopian: story about the future where the future is terrible, maybe global warming or authoritarian / dictator government

Rogue: thief, robber, criminal, not controlled person

Android: robot

Director’s cut: this is how the director wanted the movie to be; the director did not want a narrator. Many directors think the movie should tell the story be the visual and acting

Studio version: this is how the movie company or studio changes the movie; the studio added a narrator because they thought the viewers would not understand the plot or

Story

 

Voice over

  

1982 but imagining 2019

History. America beat Japan in World War II. So you will see a lot of American influence in Japanese culture now. America was in Japan after WWII to organize it, from 1945 to 1952

This movie however is if Japan won World War II and America lost. Japan is running America. It is the government in the USA. Let’s count the Japanese images.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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