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.
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