Well...once again I can find no information on what this blog is supposed to be about...so I figured I'd just make a post related to my topic...since it's better to do the assignment wrong than not at all
I always say you can separate a good movie from a great one by re-watch value. By that I mean every time you watch it after the first viewing you notice something new. The Dark Knight most definitely fits into this category. The film has been around for three years now and it’s almost a guarantee that I see something I didn’t before…even though I watch it quite regularly. I just wanted to catalog two things I noticed most recently.
1. In the prologue (bank robbery) we get a glimpse of just how much Batman is messing with the systems of Gotham. The alarm guy on the roof says very briefly “That’s weird it was dialing out to a private number” while he disabled the silent alarm of the bank. Now at first I didn’t know what to think of this, then when they revealed it was a mob bank I thought it might be a mobster’s number it was trying to reach…but that doesn’t make any sense…but if the number was Batman’s…that makes a lot more sense. So less than 2 years into the job Batman has (probably) wired every bank in Gotham to alert him if it’s being robbed. Kinda cool, it’s the little things
2. While Batman is interrogating Joker, Joker gives him an address for where to find Harvey and Rachel. Now in movies they can’t use real phone numbers, street addresses, ect. because people will go find theses addresses and private businesses’ and residents don’t want fans all around. So they put 555 phone numbers and 1234 fake street addresses into the movies. The address Joker gives Batman is “Two hundred and fifty fifty second street”. Sounds like a fake address…what gets me is Harvey aka Two-Face later holds hostages and puts up a horrible ultimatum that all revolves around his coin…at this address. In the comics Two-Face is notorious for committing these types of crimes at locations related to the number two. “200 50/50 2nd street”
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Blog 14
"As you move on from this class, in what ways do you think you will APPLY the knowledge you gained? (Be honest. How does critical analysis help further your education?)"
I honestly like the little bit of post script that went along with this email. It was funny. Never had a professor say bitch fest before, especially in an email sent out to the entire class...gotta admit I'd laugh quite a bit if that came back and bit you in the ass Jaron.
To be completely honest I don't think I've gained any useful knowledge in this class...except perhaps that hearing someone's name three times cements it into your memory...though I'm not sure how true this is and that I really only remember to call you Jaron simply because you said this fact. Perhaps if when meeting someone for the first time you were presented with their name and an obscure fact forgetting their name would be a lot harder...at the very least I'm sure game show contestants would become much more successful.
The knowledge I received in this class was not helpful because I felt that what I hadn't learned in other writing classes I'd taught myself. Maybe I'm just a great writer who is also amazing and handsome, or maybe the class was just useless...I'll pick the former...and I have no ulterior motive for making that choice.
I honestly like the little bit of post script that went along with this email. It was funny. Never had a professor say bitch fest before, especially in an email sent out to the entire class...gotta admit I'd laugh quite a bit if that came back and bit you in the ass Jaron.
To be completely honest I don't think I've gained any useful knowledge in this class...except perhaps that hearing someone's name three times cements it into your memory...though I'm not sure how true this is and that I really only remember to call you Jaron simply because you said this fact. Perhaps if when meeting someone for the first time you were presented with their name and an obscure fact forgetting their name would be a lot harder...at the very least I'm sure game show contestants would become much more successful.
The knowledge I received in this class was not helpful because I felt that what I hadn't learned in other writing classes I'd taught myself. Maybe I'm just a great writer who is also amazing and handsome, or maybe the class was just useless...I'll pick the former...and I have no ulterior motive for making that choice.
Blog 13
So after reading thorough the entire syllabus I am unable to figure out what the 13th blog pot is supposed to be about....that being said I have decided to write about something random today.
I was reading an article concerning Douglas Adam's famous work "The Hitch Hiker's guide to the Galaxy." The article (and it doesn't matter what the name of the article is or who wrote it since I'm lying) was trying to reason what the hidden meaning is behind the answer to the great question is. What is the meaning of life the universe and everything. In the novel a giant computer was built to answer this question and after millions of years it said that the answer was 42. The author of my pretend article would probably discuss something about it being a joke or talk about root 13 related mathematical equations.
But I will not. I really like the answer 42. Being a philosophy major a lot of people will joke around and ask me what is the meaning of life. I answer them straight faced 42, and then either end the conversation entirely or just move on to something else. The reason I like the answer 42 is because it is a definitive and short answer to a question that I feel is never given much thought. When someone asks what the meaning of life is they often have absolutely no idea what they're asking because they have put little to no thought into the question. What they are often trying to do is just sound complex, mysterious, and "deep". So an answer like 42 is the perfect answer to them. It's not the answer they want, it's not the answer the expect, hell it's not even an answer that makes sense. If you're going to ask me the meaning of life I'm going to tell you 42 because you have no idea what your saying and it's a perfectly good answer to such a question...that or people aren't wearing enough hats.
I was reading an article concerning Douglas Adam's famous work "The Hitch Hiker's guide to the Galaxy." The article (and it doesn't matter what the name of the article is or who wrote it since I'm lying) was trying to reason what the hidden meaning is behind the answer to the great question is. What is the meaning of life the universe and everything. In the novel a giant computer was built to answer this question and after millions of years it said that the answer was 42. The author of my pretend article would probably discuss something about it being a joke or talk about root 13 related mathematical equations.
But I will not. I really like the answer 42. Being a philosophy major a lot of people will joke around and ask me what is the meaning of life. I answer them straight faced 42, and then either end the conversation entirely or just move on to something else. The reason I like the answer 42 is because it is a definitive and short answer to a question that I feel is never given much thought. When someone asks what the meaning of life is they often have absolutely no idea what they're asking because they have put little to no thought into the question. What they are often trying to do is just sound complex, mysterious, and "deep". So an answer like 42 is the perfect answer to them. It's not the answer they want, it's not the answer the expect, hell it's not even an answer that makes sense. If you're going to ask me the meaning of life I'm going to tell you 42 because you have no idea what your saying and it's a perfectly good answer to such a question...that or people aren't wearing enough hats.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Process update 3?
I don't know what else to say at this point. I'm working on it still in the middle process and just need to take a weekend to sit down and write. These process updates remind me of middle school when the teachers would walk around the room or computer labs and ask me what exactly I was working on...
response to readings 2
The readings were on metacommentary...which can be a useful tool...But I feel that it's over used and just ends up filling otherwise blank pages. I'm not going to do the required two hundred and fifty words in this blog, as a way of making a point.
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Process Update
My process update for this project is that I am in the middle stage. All I have physically written down is the outline of my arguments and diagnosis for each character, and a few notes on different points to make on each character…I also have one or two paragraphs written down as to things I’d like to say. I just really need to add all the…meat for lack of a better word to it. I need to consider what rhetorical words to use. I want to try and establish some kind of sympathy for all the characters since none of them have a very happy go lucky background and I don’t want the paper to be dry.
The problem with this is creating sympathy for a character like the Joker, considering that he views people as objects and would be considered by few to be a person. The same goes for Two Face…half the time…http://instantrimshot.com/ See what I did there? I think I’ll try to build sympathy more on their origins than who they currently are as a character. Another problem I’m having is citing sources for why I believe a certain diagnosis or a philosophy fits a character. With comic books, especially with characters as old as Batman and his rouges, there are so many instances where a character will do one thing in one issue and then something completely contradictory in another. I think I’ll try to limit what exactly I’m talking about to what are considered the stories for the characters.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Whatever I want!
When I'm bored I like to try and make the world a more interesting place. I regularly go to the "Missed connections" section of craigslist in random cities and post vague but extremely strange messages about personal encounters. I attempt to be extremely vague about what sex I am while writing and I always give very specific directions to the reader...I honestly believe I have left many people wearing Dr. Suess Cat in the Hat hat standing in the middle of corn fields with chili dogs. I hope to one day get two people to meet per instructions I leave that have never before seen each other in their lives. What happens from there is hilarious no matter what. Maybe they fight, maybe they walk away, maybe they fall madly in love and get married in a hot air balloon. Who knows?
Another fun one is to leave strange notes around the city. Notes like
"I am time traveling and if all goes according to plan at 9:17 Tuesday afternoon I should rematerialize right in front of this note. I am leaving this only as a precaution so that no one is standing here at that exact time. If it's about that time and you are standing here reading this please move now. Failure to do so could lead to your atoms and my atoms being fused together in space and time. And I don't want your atoms in my atoms...no offense, it's just a personal thing I have. But seriously if our atoms are fused we'll have to go see my uncle Dave to get them separated and he lives all the way across town, and it's a real pain to get there because there's a bunch of lights and some construction right in front of his neighborhood so you have to go in through the back and I always get lost when I do that. Do you know how to navigate his neighborhood? Cause I swear you have to make like 12 lefts and 32 rights to get to his house..."
-Syd
I have yet to try this idea but I think it's genius. I need a desk and an elevator. I want to put the desk into the elevator, then whenever someone opens the door I'd be sitting behind the desk and say "Do you have an appointment?"
-End
Another fun one is to leave strange notes around the city. Notes like
"I am time traveling and if all goes according to plan at 9:17 Tuesday afternoon I should rematerialize right in front of this note. I am leaving this only as a precaution so that no one is standing here at that exact time. If it's about that time and you are standing here reading this please move now. Failure to do so could lead to your atoms and my atoms being fused together in space and time. And I don't want your atoms in my atoms...no offense, it's just a personal thing I have. But seriously if our atoms are fused we'll have to go see my uncle Dave to get them separated and he lives all the way across town, and it's a real pain to get there because there's a bunch of lights and some construction right in front of his neighborhood so you have to go in through the back and I always get lost when I do that. Do you know how to navigate his neighborhood? Cause I swear you have to make like 12 lefts and 32 rights to get to his house..."
-Syd
I have yet to try this idea but I think it's genius. I need a desk and an elevator. I want to put the desk into the elevator, then whenever someone opens the door I'd be sitting behind the desk and say "Do you have an appointment?"
-End
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