Man oh Man!!! The alumni are REPRESENTING...and the current students are SNOOZIN!!! Where are you? Alumni get a gold star! None for current FIers...oh snap...no he didn't just call you out! Oh yes he did.
All right, well your assignment for this weekend...which five alumni will comment on...is to consider the archetypal references in Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope for the geeks in the audience). Widdy will review some more tomorrow like Man vs. Nature or Man vs. Machine. Do not forget the 7 standard character archetypes discussed today. Over the next few days, take good notes anytime you see evidence of an archetype at play in the film. Analyze it. Consider its importance. For Monday, write a one to two page paper identifying one or a few archetypes in the film. Define the archetype, reference its place and importance to the film. Then, in the body of the paper, discuss the thematic importance. What message is the filmmaker trying to send? Oh, and just to add further insult to injury...I am totally gonna collect notebooks tomorrow, but most of you are not reading this, and will be caught with incomplete journals. Then when you read this tomorrow (which will be today as you read it), you will feel bad because you could've saved yourself the pain of incompletion by reading the blog. Maybe, just maybe, however, you are reading this message tonight (which will be yesterday for those of you reading this tomorrow, which is today while you are reading this) and will be saved. You will run to your journals, complete them and sleep a blissful, comfortable sleep. Maybe someone has been saved from doom. So, you know...lesson learned...reading the blog as muy bueno for your constitution. Booya!
A GOLD STARRRR! Oh snap! I loved the dvd we watched explaining all the archetypes and references. However, you can tell George Lucas went insane when he started the last 3 movies. "Jar Jar is just like R2D2 and C3PO."...... riiiiiight. "The pod racing is chariot racing." ..... alright really trying to stretch your literary and historical references now. I respect the first 3. The use of light sabers to represent the samurai's blade, C3PO and R2D2 are jesters, the story of the reluctant hero. Even the father and son fighting links back to the Greek creation story involving Uranus, Cronos, and Zeus.
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ReplyDeleteno one will have read this tomorrow
2 page essay?! On Star Wars?! Wha?! D:
ReplyDeleteAwh man :/
Oh that gives me a question Costal! Say I wasn't here on the day its due. Would you me to email it to you on the due date or just give it to you the next day?
This last one here is me! Why it says anonymous...blame it on my stupid cell phone >:(
ReplyDeletehey, um, i haven't been here.. when would i have to do all of this?! i feel like i'm missing too much.
ReplyDeleteoh and james, wrong... i read it, camille read it.. and yea!
so whose in the "golden star" costume...costal or wheisback...?
ReplyDeleteand paul brower...i know it's late but i just saw your "procrastination" documentary and I thought it was the funniest thing. ever. kudos to you haha
ReplyDeleteyeah great job on that documentary you made paul
ReplyDeleteYeah man I make a great documentary. I was also the star of it =P
ReplyDeleteDon't be jerks. The documentary was made by James Evans, who despite saying so, would be very flattered that people are still enjoying his work. Thanks Clancey!
ReplyDeleteahhhhhahahahahaha. oh was it? my badddd. well either way it was still hilarious.
ReplyDeleteJames is amazing!
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