1) Pick a film from the below.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Cool Hand Luke
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
3) The second time, make notes to prepare a 5 minute presentation of 5 slides. Each slide should tackle the following:
1) Summary of the plot and its major character.
2) How the character meets tragic conventions
3) How the plot meets tragic conventions
4) Aristotelian conventions that are covered in the craft (thought, diction, spectacle etc)
5) Which form of tragedy the film most closely resembles (Senecan, Greek, Renaissance, Early Modern etc)
6) Its success in 'teaching' us or 'changing' us.
Save these to the R drive on your first day back under 'Tragic film presentations'.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Cool Hand Luke
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
There Will Be Blood
The Wrestler
Dancer in the Dark
House of Sand and Fog
Grizzly Man (documentary)
Se7en
Papillon
Grizzly Man (documentary)
Se7en
Papillon
2) Watch it TWICE.
3) The second time, make notes to prepare a 5 minute presentation of 5 slides. Each slide should tackle the following:
1) Summary of the plot and its major character.
2) How the character meets tragic conventions
3) How the plot meets tragic conventions
4) Aristotelian conventions that are covered in the craft (thought, diction, spectacle etc)
5) Which form of tragedy the film most closely resembles (Senecan, Greek, Renaissance, Early Modern etc)
6) Its success in 'teaching' us or 'changing' us.
Save these to the R drive on your first day back under 'Tragic film presentations'.
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