These are
the words/phrases you must memorize for the Mid Term Test on Tuesday (April 15):
western, leprechaun, picaresque, pay homage to, jukebox, scent, autistic,
genre, misogyny, revenge, justice, twist of fate, is, eat, mythical, Oedipus
Rex, to scalp (v.), society, character (in a story), snitch, jukebox, documentary,
paragraph, sentence, colonel, respectful, amazing, Irish, plot, burn down
Ethan Hawke and Denzel Washington starred in Training Day too, another film by the director of The Magnificent Seven
Western:
means America or Europe
western:
cowboy movie in the wild west
That’s the
next genre.
To live in a
civil society, we need justice.
In a civil
society, people are nice to or respect people they do NOT know
People think
revenge is the same as justice.
The director
is African American. In history, black people had less justice than white
people.
The
Magnificent Seven. It is based on famous Japanese movie called The Seven
Samurai. Kurosawa.
In 1849,
gold was found in the wild west. People from all over the world came to look
for it. In the 1850s, most of the people in Ireland moved to America.
Leprechaun:
little magical guy in Irish stories
In the old cowboy movies before there was sound,
they would show cowboys riding on the horizon far off to tell the audience time
had passe
Is Charlie
(played by Tom Cruise) a dynamic character or a static character?
Dynamic:
changes by the end of the movie
Static: does
not change or learn anything
The theme of
the movie is autism: learning disability or rather a problem dealing with social
issues. Social situations / society confuses autistic people.
Picaresque is a genre where the protagonist
(hero) must travel. Usually, the trip is to escape. It is not planned a planned
trip. The protagonist (hero) usually does not have much money and meets lots of
adventures along the way.
Look at what
Charlie is holding. It is medicine for his bad stomach, because he has a
nervous and angry personality.
K-Mart sells
cheap, low-quality things like Wallmart. A lot of what you buy breaks quickly
and is not a brand name.
Raymond thinks
“Who’s on first?”1B from baseball.
Actually, Who
is the last name (surname) of the player playing first base (1B).
For example,
John Who is playing first base.
He does not
understand jokes.
That is a
jukebox. We put coins into the jukebox and will play the songs we choose.
Pawn Shop:
give the store something valuable and they lend you money. To get the valuable
thing back, you have to pay more money
Review: The
movie is Scent of a Woman. The genre is drama or coming of age (change from a
teenager to an adult). Scent means smell. Remember the protagonist is blind, so
smell is more important to him.
He says rude
and shallow things about women, but believes he is being smart.
Misogyny:
hatred of women in literature, film, etc. Why do we have misogyny? He does not
respect women. Is he a dynamic character, someone who changes at the end,
ora static character = someone who
never changes?
Lyndon
Johnson was US President from 1963 to 1968
It is all
untrue. So, is he blind because he can’t see things or because he can’t see the
truth.
He doesn’t
want to snitch on his friends. Snitch here means tell the teacher bad things
about your classmates.
Why does he
drink so much? Is it because he is lonely or depressed?
Twist of
fate: surprise
ending / finish to a book; we did not expect the ending
What do we
know about World War II?
Adolf
Hitler. 1933 until 1945 (The election was 1932.)
He murdered
his children at the end of World War Two. They were poisoned.
He and his
girlfriend committed suicide in Berlin.
Foreshadow:
give hints about what will happen later in the plot/story
Red dress:
killing or blood
“I have been
chewed out before.” I means you are in trouble but not really.
There was a
very famous American writer named Ernest Hemingway. He won the Nobel Prize for
Literature. He has a famous collection of short stories called In Our Time. He
also committed suicide in 1962.
He fought in
World War I. Then he had PTSD. His short stories about Nick Adams. They would
always start with a terrible war scene he experienced. Bombs. Noise. Killing.
The next
scene is the forests in Michigan where he grew up and he is camping or fishing,
and everything is peaceful.
Homework:
Write a paragraph about the twist of fate at the end of Inglorious Basterds.
How has the director changed the historical facts in this movie? I think a
paragraph is five or more sentences.
This is not
homework. Today’s movie is Scent of a Woman. It is a about a blind man. What
are the five senses?
1.See/sight- Blind
2.Hear- DEAF
3.Touch
4.Smell/scent
5.Taste
People say
if you lose a sense, for example, become blind, your other senses become
stronger. So this blind man uses scent or smell to help him.
This genre
is coming of age, or changing from a teenager to an adult.
Social
status
Rich kids
are treated differently than poor kids by teachers or society. The theme is the
unfairness of that.
Static
character: person who stays the same and does not improve
Dynamic
character: changes
Unfairness
for poor people.
The colonel
says he understands women. Then he explains about women, but his idea about
women is completely superficial or shallow.
There was
king in ancient Greece that was blind. Everyone knows of him because of the
Oedipal Complex: every man hates his father and loves his mother according to
Freud’s psychology. The king killed and married his mother in the story. But he
did not know she was his mom…
At the end
of the play, Oedipus stabs out his own eyes. The reason is he says the eyes
don’t help him to see the truth, so he does not need. He becomes blind.
“I am giving
you pearls here.” Jesus: “Don’t throw your pearls down before swine.” Irony
I want to
study Pulp Fiction, if we can use this classroom. If we change classrooms, we
will start with another film.
My name is
Patrick. We will start with the grades. If you come to every class, you will
get a high grade. If you miss a lot of classes, you will fail. You have to
watch the films.
20% Homework
10% Attendance (1% will be deducted for every hour of class students are
absent from)
If you miss
nine hours, you fail.
30% Midterm Exam
40% Final Exam
If we study
Pulp Fiction, here are some things to think about.
Genre:
comedy (funny)
Every movie
we do will be a different genre.
Genre:
drama, science fiction, horror, documentary, cartoon, coming of age, tragedy,
etc.
Pulp Fiction
was produced in 1994.
It is
Tarantino’s second movie. Tarantino is the director.
The
structure of the film is not in chronological order. First, then, later,
finally. 1, 2, 3, 4.
The order of
the movie is a little bit crazy.
3, 6, 2, 1
Why did he
do this? What is the director trying to say. The watch is quite important.
What does
Pulp Fiction mean?
It is a
story without a lot of meaning. People just read it to waste time or relax when
they are tired.
It was
popular in the 1940s, before we had TV. They are violent.
Subtitles
We are going
We are going
to watch another Tarantino movie about WWII. This genre is war.
WWII takes
place from 1941 to 1945. During this time the Nazis (Germans) killed 7,000,000
Jews. This movie focuses on that.
He is the
secret police. SS. They have to catch political complainers. In Taiwan before,
from 1950 to 1987, there was a secret police.
When he
smokes the pipe, what does it mean (represent)?
Rat is a
slang in English. If we say “He is a rat,” it means “He is a snitch.”
Brad Pitt
says he is related Jim Bridger, who was a famous cowboy and gunfighter.
The
government in the wild west would pay Indians to kill their enemies. The
Indians had to prove it. So after they killed an enemies, the would cut off the
top of the head to prove they had killed the enemy. This is called scalping.
Technicolor.
Sounds of
Music dance scene.
Why do they
take the boots off and throw them away? Being shoeless is the symbol of poor or
having nothing.
“Paying
homage to” is when one director copies another director’s scene to show
respect.
When he was
a boy, he really loved to watch Cowboy and Gunfighter movies.
