Christ, Odesseus, and Oh, Brother Where Art Thou

Spent part of the other evening with Erin discussing the cinematography of Oh Brother Where Art Thou. Her English assignment was to take a scene from a movie and present an analysis of the themes and the cinematography used to reinforce the themes. We spent over an hour reviewing the flood scene. Wow. Lots of great stuff to discuss about resurrection, re-birth, being lost and then finding one's way and redemption. We talked about Greek Mythology, Christianity, Rationalism and the Age of Reason...I'm really glad I got a decent liberal arts education.

Besides the obvious stuff there was a lot of interesting panning, use of lighting and POV to talk about. Plus George Clooney is hot. And that Clark Gable thing he has going on...where's my Estrovin supplement, I feel a hot flash coming on. She didn't actually include that in her analysis. I think her (female) teacher would have agreed, though.

She got an A for the presentation.

Went over to PublishAmericasucks.com and read that one of the PODettes has left. I hope she left because her conscience finally came out of that coma its been in. Then I wandered over to MakingLight, a site where the people who comment are so freakin' smart I'm intimidated just reading the dang stuff...anyway she makes mention of Publish America as well. It's sad that authors printed there are put in such a postition that they can'f comfortably mention their works as publishing credits.

Posted by Dawno at June 11, 2005 01:24 AM