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    What class would you see that in?
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    I wish I wasn't going to see Fight Club.
    Because it would mean that I was in Classics.
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    What class would you see that in?
    Film classes and classes dealing with social/political commentary in fiction.

    Note however, that watching cool films in class is not nearly as awesome as it sounds. If it is taught in an English class, it'll be taught with a lot of theory and theory is not fun. And if you're the person who hates dissecting fiction, it will not be fun. Also, if you don't like dissecting fiction, don't be an English major.
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    Heh, we "studied" Star Wars (A New Hope in its entirety and the three others (at the time) in bits and pieces) and The Omega Man in my senior year high school religion class. The teacher was a rather young priest with a significant geeky streak. We didn't go overboard into the dissection; he mostly just pointed out the obvious symbolism and let us have fun watching.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Semidi View Post
    Film classes and classes dealing with social/political commentary in fiction.

    Note however, that watching cool films in class is not nearly as awesome as it sounds. If it is taught in an English class, it'll be taught with a lot of theory and theory is not fun. And if you're the person who hates dissecting fiction, it will not be fun. Also, if you don't like dissecting fiction, don't be an English major.
    I thought everyone knew that watching cool films in class was just a trap to get people to stop complaining about the curriculum. I'm counting myself lucky that we only have to write about every single camera angle for 5 segments of 5 minutes.
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    Coolest movie we got to watch in my English class was Hamlet with Derek Jacobi. Although, just about anything with him in it is awesome. (I, Claudius; Underworld Evolution...)
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    Never done any Shakespear at all, ever <.<
    I did pretty damn well with films in high school. The notable ones, or rather the ones I remember, include: Gallipolli (depressing), The Sixth Sense (great movie, 'til about the 4th watching - 1 you're surprised by the twist, 2 you get to see how it all worked, 3 is just another rewatch in which you might catch stuff you missed. After that... *yawn*), Willow (woo!), Edward Scissorhands (WOOOO!), Princess Bride (WOOOOOOOOO!), Gattaca (pretty good...).
    I had one class in particular at uni called "Celluloid Heroes: Men and Masculinity in Film". I can't remember most of the movies we studied for that - there were a lot - but the ones I do were Fight Club (though I never actually saw the beginning <.<), The Crying Game, Lantana (good Australian movie, highly recommend it), The Dead Poets' Society, Someone vs. Someone (I forget what it's called), Mrs Doubtfire and Tootsie. I remember reading an interesting article on Terminators 1 and 2 during that class, too, but I'm not sure whether that was actually part of the curriculum.

    (In case you're interested, the article was examining what the two movies say about desirable qualities of or expectations on men. In 1, the good guy is the sensitive, new-age, relatively physically weak, "human" man, who is caring and emotional and so on. The bad guy is a large, muscular, emotionless, logical "robotic" man. Thus, the old-style stoicism, machismo and physical prowess of masculinity is "bad", while emotion, caring and so on is "good". In 2, the good guy is now the emotionless robot, who will, as Sarah says, "never stop..." and the bad guy is the one who is flexible and emotive and physically weaker-looking and so on. The implication is that there was a reaction against the "sensitive new-age guy", in which all these stoic old-style "boys don't cry" men felt threatened by the new type of man.)
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    Serpy, I'm curious. How did you manage to avoid Shakespeare? I thought it was spread like a disease through any English curriculum.
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    It was just never an option in any English class I've ever done. Actually, that's not entirely true: Othello was on the list of possible texts in year 12, but my teacher went for "lowest common denominator" I'm serious, she literally told me that: (paraphrasing from my awful memory) "I chose things that everyone would be able to do."

    I have, however, read Hamlet on my own, saw my dad play McDuff in Macbeth, watched Romeo and Juliet on stage, and went on tour with Popular Mechanicals (a rewriting of Midsummer Night's Dream from the point of view of Bottom et al).

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    You haven't seen a Midsummer Night's Dream until you've seen Khaos Dream performed.
    It's the original play, all the original lines and plot and what not... but incredibly sexed up.
    Went to see it as part of our drama class, and one of our teachers (our favourite one) was so confused that we had taken a school group to see it.

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    There was Shakespeare in my English 11 class, but I think English 12 avoided it.

    Anyways, we did MacBeth, and I read the parts of Duncan and MacDuff.
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    As for film in academia, I've had quite enough of that at second hand (Miss Eggy's 'Religion in Films' modules) to even contemplate the idea that it's a fun thing to do. They've twisted her film-enjoying perceptions so far she can discourse quite intelligently on Messianic imagery in Disney and Pixar films. I threw out a sarky comment that Wally was Jesus in Purgatory when we saw the film for the first time, and she didn't stop ranting about parallels between the two for about five minutes.

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    I think we spent half the school year of sophomore year studying Macbeth. We spent something like a week and a half on each scene. It took way too long, and completely destroyed any possibility of me enjoying that play.
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    Heh, we never had to do MacBeth. We're doing Hamlet now, though.

    Also, why don't they make music like this anymore?
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    They don't make it anymore because there's a lot of people like me who dislike it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by xNadia View Post
    Serpy, I'm curious. How did you manage to avoid Shakespeare? I thought it was spread like a disease through any English curriculum.
    Not towards me, but always some time before Shakespeare is mentioned, Tolkien is.
    The english teacher then always mentioned some facts.

    Some of you can probably can see it coming.

    I simply love butchering my english teachers with Tolkien. I love it.....
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    I was mercifully spared Tolkein throughout my entire schooling. My wife, however, was not so lucky. Landed a professor that thought Intro to Fiction should be Intro to Tolkein and proceeded to drown the class with the books while paying lip service to a handful of other fantasy works to retain the appearance of legitimacy.

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    We sometimes get some really obscure and bad books in my class. One was called Tangerine. It was about some kid in Florida with screwed up eyes, and he was doing....something. There wasn't really much of a plot to the book except that the kids brother was an ass and...that's about it. And we read these kinds of books a lot. Only when we got into high school did we start to read anything decent, such as Oedipus Rex.
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    I did some Shakespear at school, but I didn't do any LotR stuff. Everybody Wants to Rule the World is my most favourite song ever. Dragonprime, the name of that book reminds me of another Tears for Fears song: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Od1-hXZ1zUQ .
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    He dunt like TFF. And for some reason thinks that the reason that other music replaced it is because everyone's decided that it's somehow better.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dragonprime View Post
    We sometimes get some really obscure and bad books in my class. One was called Tangerine. It was about some kid in Florida with screwed up eyes, and he was doing....something. There wasn't really much of a plot to the book except that the kids brother was an ass and...that's about it. And we read these kinds of books a lot. Only when we got into high school did we start to read anything decent, such as Oedipus Rex.
    And saving the tangerines and soccer and the real estate guy and, now that i think about it, that really was a bad book. We mostly read Shakespheare in our class.
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    It's not that EVERYONE. It's simply that it's no longer a popular form, so it doesn't sell well, hence no more music like that.
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    Heh, fads are silly things, aren't they?
    I can honestly listen to *any* kind of music, just as long as there's talent and decent musicality.

    I just have some reservations against a lot of the minimalist styles some modern music uses... And auto-tuners. I'd rather listen to a person singing, not a person singing through a machine that makes their voice sound better...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Recaiden View Post
    And saving the tangerines and soccer and the real estate guy and, now that i think about it, that really was a bad book. We mostly read Shakespheare in our class.
    Oh yeah, now I kind of remember it. Sort of. Honestly I'd rather forget about that book.
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    Did someone say Tangerine?

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    Heh, fads are silly things, aren't they?
    I can honestly listen to *any* kind of music, just as long as there's talent and decent musicality.

    I just have some reservations against a lot of the minimalist styles some modern music uses... And auto-tuners. I'd rather listen to a person singing, not a person singing through a machine that makes their voice sound better...
    I agree. Except I don't know what you mean about minimalist styles. I don't really keep track of modern music any more.
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    I know nothing of your 'music' dealie! Yay! Ignorance!

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    GAH! Spoiler it!

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    I has radio alphabet stored in my head.

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