Thoughts & Ramblings of a College Student

Reading screen plays, for me, was an entirely different world. It certainly takes a certain kind of imagination and knowledge to be able to read a screen play and truly make something of it, thus I salute movie makers everywhere for the way in which they bring these fairly vague documents to life. I made the slight mistake of reading a  rather difficult screen play to follow, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.  After much confusion and being unable to really piece things fully together, I switched over to reading a screen play for a movie I have even watched and love, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and still had a very hard time with the hypothetical thinking and filling in all the blanks of the people places and visuals involved. After reading the screenplays I certainly  had a new appreciation for all the people and creative power it takes to create a movie and to bring these conversations, essentially, to life. Although i studied costume design very briefly befor...

Ready Player One for me wasn't as interesting or moving (in terms of content directly related to my interests)  as some of the other pieces we have read in the past. Although it certainly brings to light certain ideas about technology and gaming facilitators for escape and building your own alternate reality. I think although we are just discovering the capacities of virtual reality we know enough to create a world around it, like was done here on Ready Player One. I believe it was a successful descriptor of what the creation of that world could mean to many people in real life, and how it could actually affect the real world and doesn't just exist in its digital form. Although I believe we are a a handful of steps removed from reaching the full potential of virtual reality and its impacts in the way they are exposed on Ready Player One, I think Clide does a good job at giving virtual reality a voice in our real world by exposing   Wade's connections and successes withi...

After reading Marriage of a Thousand Lies, I was more than glad to have had that real life Q&A with Sindu. For one, its a given that this novel is relevant to our world today, because Sindu is a contemporary writer of our time, but also because of the issues it deals with within the story. The LGBTQ community, tradition vs the new age, and the issues of the non binary. It is interesting to know that this story is not a "thinly veiled memoir", but a story opposite of Sindus. I, like the people she talks about in her interview, automatically thought she was writing a story about herself. It is interesting to see that she in fact isn't and is going out of her way to write stories not only directly related to her but also doing the active research to find them. However in the same manner I was glad to see that lucky did in fact have some aspects of her personality that came from Sindu and that helped develop the character, which in some ways allows us to know and feel ...

Oh cosmopolis, what a bore,really! In terms of content and storyline anyway. But so much more parallel to real life than many other stories. Cosmopolis certainly shows us a very straightforward depiction of privilege and the privileged and how truly unprivileged they are at certain other aspects of life that, personally, I deem far more important than money and power.  Eric Parker, like the privileged of our world, live in an absolute alternate reality from the rest of society. With their coveted money, come actually very few assets.  The only thing this guy has is money, sex, and luxurious objects. Other than that. He’s literally a zombie. Has barely any sense of emotion other than power or arousal, has no idea how to communicate with a person in a reasonable way, has no sense of how to emotionally connect with someone neither verbally, nor physically.  And in reality, throughout the whole duration of his car ride, he’s got visits and stops with plenty of peop...

If I were to design a wonder woman theme park I certainly would leave the poly amorous bit of its history out of the main attraction, mostly because I feel in some way that children of young ages all still look up to Wonder Woman and although more widely accepted I feel it isn’t our place as artists to dictate when to expose children to those sorts of issues and ideas. If the park was only for a certain age range, say 18+ or so, well that would be a different story, where the more complex ideals could be presented widely.  I would base the theme of the park around the idea of women empowerment as we ride the new wave of “hype” for the recent live action Wonder Woman.  It could go as far as being a sort of role playing situation where you could pick to play from an array of characters pulled from Wonder Woman’s universe when you first arrive at the theme park experience and in some digital way your achievements are recorded. At the end of the experience there could be an...

         In True Grit both the text and the movies, we were able to see the Child Savior myth in action at its finest.  The content shows us how Mattie, proves herself to be far more responsible and mature than the male characters that surround her. Through the duration of the text and film  Mattie often, directly and indirectly, helps the men behave and take action in a more mature way than they would have without her influence.         In class we spoke of how trustworthy the point of view is, as we are experiencing the story through her, when she is already older, indicating in some way that potentially the vision is skewed and that we might not be getting the full story, or the most accurate story, however I personally feel that if her intentions for avenging the death of her father were true and honest, then her retelling would be as true and honest as they could be. This was not something that bo...