This interdisciplinary seminar uses creativity as an organizing principle. Human culture and consciousness are explored through reading, writing, the arts, projects, studios, and discussions. An emphasis will be placed the cultural artifact know as the movies or film or the cinema or motion pictures or flicks or history written in lighting, etc. Students will explore the basic building blocks of this cultural phenomenon, business giant, and central art form of the twentieth century.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Walk the Line
The movie, Walk the Line, is a true story about the life of the famous singer, Johnny Cash. Walk the Line is a movie that pulls at all of your emotions as you basically grow up with Johnny Cash, beginning as a child, and witness him become the great musician and rebellious outlaw he is remembered as. Once Cash became a true musician the fame tore him apart. He drank recklessly and he became addicted to drugs. One of the scenes in the movie involves Johnny being turned down by the love of his life, June Carter, on stage in front of his fans. Upset, Cash disappeared to his dressing room. The scene in the dressing room is of Cash taking his pills and violently breaking and throwing things. During this scene the camera is shaky and pans around the room quickly and unevenly, creating a feeling as though you were Johnny Cash, angry and psychotic on drugs. Just the movement of the camera alone can make you feel somewhat the way that Johnny did, pulling you deeper into the emotion of the scene.
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