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I'm going to share with you the first question on my history final exam. Then I'll tell you how badly I answered it. Here it is, in excerpt.
"Tell the story of Reconstruction South for African Americans in the form of a movie plot. Introduce the setting, describe important turning points, and end with a conclusion that leaves viewers with a memorable understanding of the significance of this period for African Americans."
Do you know how often I watch movies? Almost never. I can't remember the last time I saw a movie in a theatre. Heck, I can't remember the last movie I watched outside of a theatre. Part of it is that I can't tell which actor is on the screen most of the time so many aren't that interesting. There are just always other things I'd rather be doing than watching video entertainment. Like pointlessly web surfing for hours at a time.
Anyway, so I'm not so great at scripting an art form I don't follow very much and am not very into. Plus I feel really self-conscious and occasionally dumb about trying to dramatize real events. But I wrote a sort of plot overview.
Geez, this is a bad movie. Even after I talked to my dad a little bit for advice, since he *is* a theatre teacher. It goes like this. Some people are talking about big important things! Then a family is talking about stuff in their lives. Then important people are talking again. Then back to the family. Boom! It's the KKK! Now people are sitting around talking about what to do about the KKK and all the bad stuff in the South. Ok, they're going to go West with the exodusters, unlike their friend who's going to Liberia. The end. Thank you, thank you.
You couldn't pay me to see this movie. Unless it was directed by Coleman Francis maybe. It'd be called Red Klan Kuba, and Fidel Castro would make a random pointless appearance. Except my movie actually has one scene with action in it, which is approximately infinitely more action than Red Zone Cuba had, so I think I at least have a seed here for a script that *might* be better than a Coleman Francis film. (Though to be fair, at least someone actually *paid* him for a movie, so he's got me way beat.)
I think I'm going to turn the exam in along with a disclaimer about my movie. On the plus side, I'm pretty sure I can get a 60% on this exam and still have an A in the class. Since this question is worth 30% of the whole test, I could probably not even answer it and do alright. But instead, I spent a day working on this masterpiece, between distractions to drive people around town, get food, pet cats, and pointlessly surf the web for hours at a time.
"Tell the story of Reconstruction South for African Americans in the form of a movie plot. Introduce the setting, describe important turning points, and end with a conclusion that leaves viewers with a memorable understanding of the significance of this period for African Americans."
Do you know how often I watch movies? Almost never. I can't remember the last time I saw a movie in a theatre. Heck, I can't remember the last movie I watched outside of a theatre. Part of it is that I can't tell which actor is on the screen most of the time so many aren't that interesting. There are just always other things I'd rather be doing than watching video entertainment. Like pointlessly web surfing for hours at a time.
Anyway, so I'm not so great at scripting an art form I don't follow very much and am not very into. Plus I feel really self-conscious and occasionally dumb about trying to dramatize real events. But I wrote a sort of plot overview.
Geez, this is a bad movie. Even after I talked to my dad a little bit for advice, since he *is* a theatre teacher. It goes like this. Some people are talking about big important things! Then a family is talking about stuff in their lives. Then important people are talking again. Then back to the family. Boom! It's the KKK! Now people are sitting around talking about what to do about the KKK and all the bad stuff in the South. Ok, they're going to go West with the exodusters, unlike their friend who's going to Liberia. The end. Thank you, thank you.
You couldn't pay me to see this movie. Unless it was directed by Coleman Francis maybe. It'd be called Red Klan Kuba, and Fidel Castro would make a random pointless appearance. Except my movie actually has one scene with action in it, which is approximately infinitely more action than Red Zone Cuba had, so I think I at least have a seed here for a script that *might* be better than a Coleman Francis film. (Though to be fair, at least someone actually *paid* him for a movie, so he's got me way beat.)
I think I'm going to turn the exam in along with a disclaimer about my movie. On the plus side, I'm pretty sure I can get a 60% on this exam and still have an A in the class. Since this question is worth 30% of the whole test, I could probably not even answer it and do alright. But instead, I spent a day working on this masterpiece, between distractions to drive people around town, get food, pet cats, and pointlessly surf the web for hours at a time.
