Favorite Scenes

Describe a scene from a movie we have screened in this course. What makes this scene so memorable? Is it funny, inspiring, satirical, tragic, or just amazingly beautiful?

Shout out!

Hey guys,

If any of you like horror/dark comedies/vampire movies, my cousin is finishing up directing and producing a film that he wrote the screenplay for called The Revenant.  I think it should be finished this summer or fall soo you should all see it!! (One of the guys from heroes is in it.)

The Revenant is a story about an ancient pestilence recurring to infect modern society.

In what was supposed to be a standard military drive through the desert, Officer First Class Bart Gregory finds himself killed in Middle East during a rescue attempt gone wrong. Although his body is returned to the United States, and his body is laid to a peaceful rest, Bart finds that his afterlife is anything but. But before the lid can be put on his tomb, Bart inexplicably awakens, confused, horrified-- a moldy, putrefying living corpse - A Revenant.

Bart desperately enlists the help of his best friend, Joey Leubner, in an attempt to ease Bart's newfound nausea and agony. When a panicked emergency room forces the confused corpse to flee, the two friends discover that there is only one cure for Bart's condition:  Human blood.

Bart and Joey take matters into their own hands to keep Bart from decomposing, becoming "The Vigilante Gun-Slingers" in the process. The two anti-heroes sate both Bart's bloody urges to feed upon the living, and exact vengeance upon the criminal element to protect the innocent. However, it is only a matter of time before things begin to spiral out of control during their macabre crusade, and Bart will learn that he must eventually embrace the path of his own horrific destiny... all while cruising in a 1979 Camaro with a surfboard on the roof.

http://www.therevenantmovie.com/ 

Marriage -- And Divorce -- His Girl Friday Style

His Girl Friday charts the marriage and divorce and remarriage of Walter and Hildy and the engagement -- and near marriage -- of Hildy and Bruce. What is this film saying about that state of marriage in the modern world?

Depression-Era Entertaiment

The films Boudu and His Girl Friday were both films produced in and influenced by the Great Depression. What do you notice about these films that shows the influence of the Depression? How about the politics of the movie? As we approach the greatest economic crisis since that time, do these movies have any lessons for our time?

Favorite Actors/Actresses

Do you have a favorite actor or actress whose films you just have to see regardless of whether the movie as a whole looks good or bad? Someone whose performances inspire you? Someone whose skill in acting, witty jokes, or just plain beauty make you love them?
Describe what makes your actor or actress your favorite, whether it be a particular performance, or a particular skill.

Recent Raves and Pans

Have you seen a movie in the last year that you can recommend? Have you seen one that is the equivalent of watching paint dry or hearing chalk scrape against a blackboard? Describe a movie you have seen recently and, more importantly, what makes it good or abominable.

Celluloid Religion

The Passion of Joan of Arc portrays the trial and execution of a 19 year old girl for her heresy. The judges claimed that the devil, not God, was the source of her voices. Her punishment was being burned alive. As a result of watching the film, are you more or less sympathetic to religion? Does the film have a spiritual message or does it condemn spirituality? What is it trying to tell us about religious faith and how?

Or, alternatively, are their other religious films you have seen that do a better or worse job than this film?