Film Class: Random

 

Homework: Answer the five questions.

1. Why has the old sherriff grown disillusioned? Explain.

2. Why might the coin tosses in No Country for Old Men be connected to the idea that life is random or meaningless? Explain.

3. What happens to Carla Jean Moss, the wife of the film's protagonist, at the end of the film? Explain.

4. What happens to the psychotic killer, Anton Chigurh, at the end of No Country for Old Men? Imagine.

5. How are we surprised by the protagonist Llewelyn Moss? Explain.

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Grades:

40%: Final

30%: Midterm

20%: Homework. Must give me two. I will send the questions after a movie finishes.

10%: Come to class. Every hour you don’t come to class, I will deduct 1% from your grade.

Different genres: science fiction, hor

ror, comedy, Western

 

There is an important idea in film and literature, art:

Existentialism: the meaning of life

This movie is nihilistic. No meaning or god. There is no reason for things, which is called random.

Coin flip. He kills and makes decisions based on the coin.

Life is meaningless. What happens to you is random.

I won’t take breaks in this class. I want to end around 4:45 to 4:50.

Unlikely hero. This man is poor and uneducated, so we don’t expect him to do much or be great.

Protagonist: main person

Marine

Picaresque: this is a story where someone has to go on a trip. They didn’t actually want to go on the trip. Usually, they go to escape. Usually, they are poor. But they have lots of adventure, and this forms the plot / story.

Meriachi Band

Were you in ‘Nam. Vietnam. War in the 1960s.

Disillusioned: when you get old and hate the society because you have seen so many bad and crazy things; he does not believe people are good now