Section I
Written:
Contrast: Minorities and treatment of each other; Jewish-Italians treated each other fairly while Pekar was bullied and attacked by Black kids after they moved into the same neighborhood as him.
Parallel: Started out in Jewish-Italian neighborhood, and then after the Blacks had moved into the area, Pekar moved back into a Jewish-Italian neighborhood.
Visual:
Parallel: Shadows drawn on Pekar when he is violent, secretive, deceptive, or just plain smug.
Contrast: Gets beaten in his old neighborhood, while he dishes out the beatings in his new one.
3. Words: Pekar uses a rectangular text box when he is narrating or showing a thought from a 3rd person perspective. When someone is talking he shows a round speech bubble with the tip pointing to the speaker. Sometimes when he is in thought it will show a speech bubble but have these round carvings on the edge of it. On pg.11 Pekar is talking to himself and is visually going back and forth and literally saying contradicting thoughts coming out of his head, as he says ,"but.......on the other hand.....but...."
Monday, October 28, 2013
Section IV
Visual:
Contrast: When Harvey first meets the teachers at the school he is working for during the summer, he looks happy. His face is drawn normally, as in it shows the same color all the way through. When he hears the summer boss lecturing about how they shouldn't be writing articles for jazz magazines, Pekar's face is covered by a shadow as he knows something fishy occurred.
Parallel: It looks like he's wearing the same jacket when he is giving a kid his basketball, as the one when he hitchhiked to New York City.
Written:
Contrast: Harvey thought school, especially geography was going to be easy for him. He was very happy and confident, but after getting a C+ on a test, he was so emotionally shattered that he quit college because he could not drop the class.
Parallel: When Harvey beats the guy up in the church parking lot, it is similar to his past days, even though now he considered himself to be an intellectual, there is still that past fighter in him and it never really went away.
4. So far Harvey thinks of himself as an intellectual and not a fighter anymore, like he was as a high school kid. He starts reading a lot of books and listening to jazz. He writes an article for a well known jazz magazine and works during the summer. Even though he seems like he has changed, when he cut off a driver with his car, he had a fight with him in a church parking lot. Harvey feels good about beating the guy up, just like how he enjoyed fighting when he was a high schooler. This is a reason to believe that while on the outside he may have seemed to change, deep down he is still the same kid. Harvey's identity is pretty spontaneous and up for grabs. Every section of reading he seems to change, from being a man beating jock, to a more calm and softer intellectual. I don't really believe in fate or that it shapes your identity, and Harvey's personality changes are spontaneous, but they shape according to his surroundings. When he was in high school, being the "tough" guy was considered cool and that is what he did. In the end his personality changed based on or had some change from his surroundings.
Visual:
Contrast: When Harvey first meets the teachers at the school he is working for during the summer, he looks happy. His face is drawn normally, as in it shows the same color all the way through. When he hears the summer boss lecturing about how they shouldn't be writing articles for jazz magazines, Pekar's face is covered by a shadow as he knows something fishy occurred.
Parallel: It looks like he's wearing the same jacket when he is giving a kid his basketball, as the one when he hitchhiked to New York City.
Written:
Contrast: Harvey thought school, especially geography was going to be easy for him. He was very happy and confident, but after getting a C+ on a test, he was so emotionally shattered that he quit college because he could not drop the class.
Parallel: When Harvey beats the guy up in the church parking lot, it is similar to his past days, even though now he considered himself to be an intellectual, there is still that past fighter in him and it never really went away.
4. So far Harvey thinks of himself as an intellectual and not a fighter anymore, like he was as a high school kid. He starts reading a lot of books and listening to jazz. He writes an article for a well known jazz magazine and works during the summer. Even though he seems like he has changed, when he cut off a driver with his car, he had a fight with him in a church parking lot. Harvey feels good about beating the guy up, just like how he enjoyed fighting when he was a high schooler. This is a reason to believe that while on the outside he may have seemed to change, deep down he is still the same kid. Harvey's identity is pretty spontaneous and up for grabs. Every section of reading he seems to change, from being a man beating jock, to a more calm and softer intellectual. I don't really believe in fate or that it shapes your identity, and Harvey's personality changes are spontaneous, but they shape according to his surroundings. When he was in high school, being the "tough" guy was considered cool and that is what he did. In the end his personality changed based on or had some change from his surroundings.
Friday, October 25, 2013
protagonist of each film fell for. They both use their attractiveness to infatuate the two men. The
shots are very similar as both are staring directly at their faces. Both have blonde hair and lipstick. They are also both heavily clothed in the respective scenes. Also both shots are a first person perspective or how the male character sees them face to face. Its a close ranged shot with no angles involved.
Ssection III
Visual:
Contrast: Timid in front of girls in high school, but in college he goes on dates with a couple of women.
Parallel: The hug his mom gives him when he decides to go to college, and the same hug is shown when he tells her he's hitchhiking to New York, showing she loves him the same way, no matter what he does as long as he can enjoy doing it.
Written:
Contrast: He thinks he will fail college in the beginning, but when he actually goes to his college classes, he succeeds and becomes happier than before.
Parallel: The face he makes when he gets into trouble while working at the railway and when he thinks about failing science and math in college.
5. Fate vs Free Will:
Pekar is a huge endorsement of free will as whatever he does in the story, happens because of him and his actions. Whether it be falling in love with jazz or going to college, they were all decisions that Pekar had to make for them to happen. At the same time, every time he quits something, it is not fate, it is his own choice to quit it, whether it be sports or a high school math class, his choice was made by himself.
I think that he molds himself into the likes of his environment as he himself is pretty insecure so wants to do his best to fit in and get along with at least one group of people.
Visual:
Contrast: Timid in front of girls in high school, but in college he goes on dates with a couple of women.
Parallel: The hug his mom gives him when he decides to go to college, and the same hug is shown when he tells her he's hitchhiking to New York, showing she loves him the same way, no matter what he does as long as he can enjoy doing it.
Written:
Contrast: He thinks he will fail college in the beginning, but when he actually goes to his college classes, he succeeds and becomes happier than before.
Parallel: The face he makes when he gets into trouble while working at the railway and when he thinks about failing science and math in college.
5. Fate vs Free Will:
Pekar is a huge endorsement of free will as whatever he does in the story, happens because of him and his actions. Whether it be falling in love with jazz or going to college, they were all decisions that Pekar had to make for them to happen. At the same time, every time he quits something, it is not fate, it is his own choice to quit it, whether it be sports or a high school math class, his choice was made by himself.
I think that he molds himself into the likes of his environment as he himself is pretty insecure so wants to do his best to fit in and get along with at least one group of people.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Minority Report Still Shot
- Long Shot
- Scene is when Laura comes to tell Burgess to rethink the killing of Tom.
- There's no real angle to the shot, its looking straight forward at the characters and the surroundings.
- Room is filled with natural light, compared to previous scenes in the movie, where the locations were lit with artificial light.
- Burgess is wearing a black outfit, while Laura is wearing a lighter colored dress.
- Furniture is symmetrical. On each side of the couch in the middle, is a lamp facing upwards and two pictures/paintings hanging on the wall behind them.
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