Rush #10 Crew Remake Synopsis

The synopsis of our remake is from the film "I Love You, Man." We decided to take the scene where the character Peter is going on a dinner outing with a man to get to know him because he s looking for a best friend. The man he is meeting, Doug, gets another idea about the dinner and takes it as a date. Our scene is re-creating the scene but using "L-cuts" and showing Peter realizing that this was actually a date as he is explaining the night to his wife. This is an example of unification because as he is talking he is unveiling a view of the night he hadn't thought of until he said it out loud.

Rush #9 She's Gotta Have It

For this rush topic I chose to focus on the comedic principles of Unification in relation to my anchor in "She's Gotta Have It." I chose Nola's hair because it at first captured my interest, I liked the style and through it was different. I feel like it also symbolizes the era and women being able to express themselves like they hadn't been able to before. It ties in with her choice to not pick one man and to keep her personal freedom by choosing a haircut that is short and strong. I can't seem to find a way to connect my anchor ( Nola's hair) to Unification but I think a good scene to chose is when the audience is introduced to Greer Childs, (one of her 3 boyfriends) who thinks he is " so great" but really, little does he know Nola won't be choosing him even though he thinks they are great together and that he a a great catch. It slightly brings unification into play that he is unaware of his foolishness that he isn't everything she wants.

Rush #8 Annie Hall

For this Rush I have decided to slightly tweak the rush because my remake group has finished our project, so I will use this as a "what if" instance. Our crew chose the film " I Love you Man," and I felt that the scene in which the main character ( played by Paul Rudd) meets a man for dinner, and they both have different objectives as to what they are there for. The scene in Annie Hall, which I felt could relate or come into play in our crew remake was when Annie and Alvy meet after tennis when they first start to realize they are interested in each other. This scene has similarities roughly in the context but more so in the scene's use of mis-en-scene with the camera shots and use of dialogue. Annie Hall uses her " la te da" line and Paul Rudd character uses his known " pointing, and gestures that are true to his character like Annie is in her character.

Quiz for week of march 7-12th

For this weeks film I chose " Grumpy Old Men." I started by choosing an anchor in the beginning of the film which was Max's duck fishing pole. At first I chose it because it reminded me of an old toy I had when I was young but I also chose it because I thought I might be a hobby of his. Throughout the film I found fishing was his biggest hobby along with his childhood best friend John. The fishing pole comes into play when John takes Max's pole and breaks it in half to get back at him for something he did. This is their friendship, pulling pranks. This pole shows to have much more meaning because it helps to unify the two after John fixes his pole and returns it, even though Max doesn't look like he forgives him at first. This is an instance of unification because although the pole is just an object I chose form his home it is a binding aspect of the film and the relationship between the two men. It brings out comedic understanding and underlying meaning that brings depth to the film and its diegesis.

Rush #7 Re-make project

This week we met with our group and swapped ideas among each other. We were all thinking of similar aspects we wanted to include such as surging and bleeding and the use of L-Cuts. We also wanted to use a newer comedy we could relate to and that we knew well. After coming up with a list of ideas we settled on the film "I Love You, Man." The reason for choosing this film was because the plot of the film is based on a man who is trying to find a best man after going through life without a best guy friend. He meets a quirky man who ends up becoming his best man through a series of stages including various instances of surging and bleeding, where one thinks something while the other thinks its something else. We all agreed on a particular scene of when Peter (the main character) is set up for dinner by his mother to meet a new potential guy friend. We plan to put in L-cuts going back to scenes of the dinner, as he talks to his wife about the dinner date where through talking about it realizes the other man was gay.

After fleshing out our idea we met again and have split up the work for the next step of the project.

Rush #6- Billy Wonder and the Concrete-Universal

In the film, Some Like it Hot, I chose a cigar for my anchor point from the first 5 minutes. After reading the blog post I am a bit confused, but feel I have a slight grasp of the message and connection between "universal" and "concrete."

Various cigars recur throughout the film beginning with a center frame shot of a man drinking a scotch and lighting a cigar at a restaurant. This is a example I believe of a concrete instance of the cigar, another being one of the gangsters who kicks the cigar out of the man mouth they just shot. These are material, or human instances correlating to the repetition of the cigar.

The cigars also come into play in the "universal" term, for instance when one of the two men talks about the "smokin" girl in the "slumber party." Also Jack Lemmon's character says, "his mother will approve because I don't smoke," when talking about his new fiance. These are two different examples of the cigar being used in a different context or in the view of ideals or values, such as the last quote I mentioned, which showed the values the man's mother had and how she will approve.

Rush #5 Anchor Points (again) 2/24/11

The anchor I chose while watching Mon Oncle was the recurring image of a wire frame of an old lamp post that would show up in the foreground of the right corner in various scenes. Im not sure as to why I chose the lamp post, it just suck out at me from the beginning. I applied the word " lamp" to the template, and I came up with the following expression of misfortune:

"They say ideas are like a lamp turning on --but if so, I think I just broke my bulb."

My sequence would open with a blur of street lights from a view of someone driving at night peacefully listening to music. The lights would then dissolve into a scene of a beaming singular light fixture hanging from the ceiling as the camera pans down to someone being questioned for a crime in a police station.