I. America’s Love Affair with the Movies (6.2.12.D.4.k)
Do Now Assignment
What is your favorite film? Who is your favorite film character? Why?
Lesson Objective (Essential Question)
Why are we fascinated with the movies?
Agenda
Notes and Lecture
Movies originated as a money making novelty
They provided entertainment for the masses
D.W.Griffith (1915) transformed the industry into a medium of social expression
However, it wasn’t until 1952 that film was recognized as art
Burstyn v Wilson placed film under the protection of the First Amendment
Today film continues as entertainment for the masses
Most movie goers are oblivious to artistic expression
Special effects determine a good film
It seems as if while there are great films there are no longer great actors
Popular films like Titanic are confused with classic and rewarded with an Oscar
Good films are like good books
Those that are classics endure the test of time
The term classic also applies to characters
Their stories touch upon the struggles inherent in the human condition
Others expose the baser side of the human character
While we aspire to be Atticus Finch, we are more like Jay Gatsby
Since 1965 the American Film institute has striven to preserve the legacy of American’s film legacy
YouTube
The Best Movie Montage 1878-2015/200+ Movies (9:23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHEhWRLOGFE
The Greatest Movie Villains (7:02) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38HZQba8WdA
101 Great Movie Heroes (5:50) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwTZEMS9MHE
Web Articles
100 year Lists - American Film institute - http://www.afi.com/100years/
Closure - Exit Activity: Discussion Review
Assessment (Summative) - Quiz Next Class on the Assigned Article or Video
Extension Assignment - AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies (Clips Countdown) 9:59
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UYlX1-mj4s
Forrest Gump (6.2.12.D.4.k)
Do Now Assignment - Review Assigned Article for Quiz
Lesson Objective (Essential Question)
What makes a film magical?
Agenda
Notes and Lecture
Forrest Gump (1994) may be a comedy, drama, or dream
It is known for Director Robert Zemeckis’ creative use of computerized visual legerdemain
Forrest is involved in every major event in American history between the 50s-80s
He survives them with honesty and niceness
Forrest may be slow, but he understands everything he needs to know…especially love
Tom Hanks may be the only actor who could have played the role
His performance is a balancing act between comedy and sadness
Can you imagine John Goodman as Forrest Gump?
Forrest’s life is a guided tour of straight arrow America
His girl Jenny goes on a parallel tour of the counterculture
The movie’s end is like a dream of reconciliation for our society
It is a magical movie
Forrest Gump Official Trailer HD (3:58)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYSnxZKTZzU
Movie Review
Forrest Gump Movie Review & Film Summary (1994) Roger Ebert
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/forrest-gump-1994
Supplementary Material
Web Articles - Bama, Bear Loom Big in Forrest Gump Story
http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/bear/story15.html
F/X: More Gump Effects: The Gary Sinise Illusion
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-07-10/entertainment/ca-14048_1_gary-sinise
Harold Russell at Reel Classics: Harold Russell’s Best Years Never Ended
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Harold_Russell/hrussell-article2.htm
Movie Puts the Unreal into Newsreel, Using Effects with Eerie Implications
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-07-06/features/1994187015_1_forrest-gump-robert-zemeckis-tom-hanks
Could Forrest Gump Have Possibly Survived His Epic Run?
http://theweek.com/articles/457759/could-forrest-gump-have-possibly-survived-epic-run
YouTube
Forrest Gump: Making of…Feather Sequence (3:22) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ2SWXwoYwQ
Annalee Perry - Lt. Dan Legs (2:07) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP98Zg2vTHs
Ping Pong (il “making of”) 2:56 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUOiJOqrHlI
Closure - Exit Activity: Discussion Review
Assessment (Summative) - Quiz Next Class on the Assigned Article or Video
Assessment (Formative) - Prepared for Class/Time on Task
Extension Assignment - Forrest Gump - Behind the Scenes 1-4 - Documentary (28:59) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2YDKsenivg
The Night of the Hunter (6.2.12.D.4.k)
Do Now Assignment
Review Assigned Material for Quiz
Lesson Objective (Essential Question)
What makes a villain so fascinating?
Agenda
Notes and Lecture
The Night of the Hunter (1955) is the only film Charles Laughton ever directed
He described it as a nightmarish Mother Goose story
It is his homage to the silent film era
He based his direction on the works of D.W.Griffith
The acting is characterized by over determined stylization
Operating on a low budget it was primarily filmed in sound studios
It tells a chilling story through visual fantasy
It is a timeless film
The film is based on the criminal career of serial killer Harry Powers
Robert Mitchum plays the lead, as the preacher Harry Powell
It is the only time Mitchum acted outside of himself
Lillian Gish’s performance as Miss Cooper overwhelms Mitchum
She is symbolic of saving grace
Her role also gives her the opportunity to move from victim to indomitable force
Ebert calls it one of the greatest of all American films
It is unappreciated because no one knows how to categorize it
The Night of the Hunter (1955) Trailer (1:54)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8dX6ZKJe2o
Movie Review
The Night of the Hunter Movie Review (1955) Roger Ebert
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie- the-night-of-the-hunter-1955
Supplementary Material
Web Articles
A Directing Career in One Film - The Night of the Hunter
http://www.charlotteviewpoint.org/article/2344/Night-of-the-Hunter-Criterion-DVD
Harry Powers: Bluebeard of Quiet Dell - http://www.wvculture.org/history/crime/powers01.html
Out of Time: Lillian Gish in The Night of the Hunter
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1997-out-of-time-lillian-gish-in-the-night-of-the-hunter
YouTube - Charles Laughton Directs The Night of the Hunter (7:59)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vG4AiYDs-w
Closure - Exit Activity - Discussion Review
Assessment (Summative) - Quiz Next Class on Assigned Article or Video
Assessment (Formative) - Prepared for Class/Time on Task
Extension Assignment - Charles Laughton reads The Night of the Hunter (34:37)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdYWaP6EIC8
The Devil Wears Prada (6.2.12.D.4.k)
Do Now Assignment
Review Assigned Material for Quiz
Lesson Objective (Essential Question) - How does film help us in our daily lives?
Agenda
Notes and Lecture
The Devil Wears Prada (2006) is based on the career experiences of Lauren Weisberger
Weisberger worked for Vogue Magazine as an assistant to Anna Wintour
The book reflects the author’s personal distain for Wintour - No man is a hero to his own valet
The film is toned down
It is unapologetically fascinated with power
It mocks without sneering
Although it may appear to be Anne Hathaway’s story it is actually Meryl Streep’s
Roger Ebert maintains that Meryl Streep’s character Miranda Priestly is a cross between Anna Wintour, Graydon Carter and a dominatrix
She insists that her inspiration came from powerful people she encountered - mostly of the male species
Streep wanted to make the uber boss out of my own pastiche
Miranda was to be as contradictory and messy as we all are
The Devil Wears Prada (2006) Official Trailer (2:05)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTDSwAxlNhc
Movie Review
The Devil Wears Prada - Review - Movies - NY Times.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/30/movies/30devi.html?_r=0
Supplementary Material
Web Articles
The Deal with the Devil Author
http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=84d73bab-5548-4b42- b63d-6d445f0a14a2
Meryl Streep Interview for The Devil Wears Prada (Dan Deevy)
http://www.thecinemasource.com/blog/interviews/meryl-streep-interview-for-the-devil-wears-prada/
Stanley Tucci: An Ultimate Acting Chameleon - Entertainment
http://emertainmentmonthly.com/2013/11/20/stanley-tucci-an-ultimate-acting-chameleon/
YouTube
Anna Wintour -CBS News (13:04)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52jAGB22CCc
Behind Scenes Devil Wears Prada/Runway Magazine (5:08)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37EgebvJSmE
The Making of The Devil Wears Prada part 1/Runway Magazine (4:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZhp4lH1DqU
Closure - Exit Activity - Discussion Review
Assessment (Summative) - Quiz Next Class on Assigned Article or Video
Assessment (Formative) – Prepared for Class/Time on Task
Extension Assignment - Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci on the View (06/30/2006) 21:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y97DptjjpOM
II. The Medium Is the Message (6.2.12.D.k) - Psycho
Do Now Assignment - Review Assigned Article for Quiz
Lesson Objective (Essential Question) - Must a movie be seen to be appreciated?
Agenda
Notes and Lecture
Marshall McLuhan coined the term the medium is the message
A cool medium is high in participation and low in information
A hot medium is low in participation and high in information
Film is a hot medium
Alfred Hitchcock compared film to a symphony and that he played his audience like an organ
He maintained that for a film to be considered great it must be seen
Look at the eyes of his characters
Hitchcock was a master of the subjective camera, subjective thought, montage editing and the McGuffin
He believed in the primacy of the writers and director and despised method actors
Psycho (1960) is his masterpiece
It connects with our innermost fears
The world is a dangerous place
We might commit a crime, fall victim to a madman or disappoint our mothers
Psycho Official Trailer 1960 HD (1:41)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz719b9QUqY
Movie Review
Psycho Movie Review & Summary (1960) Roger Ebert
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-psycho-1960
Supplementary Material
Web Articles
What is a McGuffin? Movie Terms Defined
http://www.videomaker.com/videonews/2013/02/what-is-a- mcguffin-movie-terms-defined
The Parlor Scene in Psycho: Images of Duality
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue02/features/psycho.htm
Hitchcock on the Filmmaker’s Essential Tool: The Kuleshov Effect
http://www.openculture.com/2012/05/alfred_hitchcock_on_the_essential_filmmakers_tool_the_great_kuleshov_ effect.html
YouTube
Alfred Hitchcock’s Rules for Watching Psycho (11:16)
http://www.openculture.com/2012/07/alfred_hitchcocks_rules_for_watching_ipsychoi.html
The Making of the Shower Scene in Psycho (13:07)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82vOLLMeOuQ
Closure - Exit Activity: Discussion Review
Assessment (Summative) - Quiz Next Class on Assigned Article or Video
Assessment (Formative) - Prepared for Class/Time on Task
Extension Activity - 55 Minute Documentary on Alfred Hitchcock: Living Famously (2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoAt5u2umaE
III. The Faces of Film: Film as Allegory (6.2.12.D.k) - One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Do Now Assignment - Review Assigned Article for Quiz
Lesson Objective (Essential Question) - Is allegory an effective form of story- telling?
Agenda
Notes and Lecture
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) is based on a novel by Ken Kesey
He considered it a Christ allegory set in as looney bin
It is a story about revolutionary politics going psychedelic
Toned down for film it is a parable about society’s enforcement of conformism
Jack Nicholson’s performance (R.P.McMurphy) is the high point of his career
He is a free spirit in a closed society
The Huck Finn who wants to break free
He is the cleansing spirit that comes along now and then to renew us
Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratchett) is the antagonist to McMurphy’s anti hero
Ken Kesey hated the film adaptation and Nicholson’s performance
It received five Oscars
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest -Trailer - HQ (2:34)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WSyJgydTsA
Movie Review
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Movie Review 1975/Roger Ebert
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-one-flew-over-the- cuckoos-nest-1975
Supplementary Material
Web Articles
The Nurse Who Rules the Cuckoo’s Nest - New York times https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/cuckoo-ar2.html
Why I Love…the Supporting Cast of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/27/why-i-love-supporting-cast-cuckoos-nest
How One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Changed Psychiatry
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8296954/How-One-Flew-Over-the-Cuckoos- Nest-changed-psychiatry.html
Haskell Wexler and the Making of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
http://worldcinemaparadise.com/2014/12/19/haskell-wexler-and-the-making-of-one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest/
YouTube
A Look Inside: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (10:29) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wlv99J5k1w
Jack Nicholson on One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (9:23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwD-MnZ0eEI
Closure - Exit Activity: Discussion Review
Assessment (Summative) - Quiz Next Class on Assigned Article or Video
Assessment (Formative) - Prepared for Class/Time on Task
Extension Activity - Movie Star Bios - Jack Nicholson (10:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54pLqj2VKOo
On the Waterfront (6.2.12.D.k)
Do Now Assignment - Review Assigned Article for Quiz
Lesson Objective (Essential Question) - Is allegory a cowardly form of personal expression?
Agenda
Notes and Lecture
On the Waterfront (1954) was based on a true story
Albert Anastasia, Father John Corridan and Tony Mike DeVincenzo were involved in the battle for the Hoboken waterfront
The film was was directed by Elia Kazan
Production began after he had testified before the House on Un-American Affairs Committee (HUAC)
His testimony made him a pariah in the movie industry
Kazan saw Waterfront as his story
I was telling the world where I stood and my critics to go _ themselves
Bud Schulberg’s screenplay straddles the emerging realism and the stylized gangster film
The cast of method actors led by Marlon Brando changed American movie acting forever
Their free form, stream of conscious expression revolutionized film as an art form
Some never forgave Kazan for using Waterfront to justify himself
On the Waterfront - Trailer (2:32)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj2J9XjvdoM
Movie Review
On the Waterfront Movie Review (1954) Roger Ebert
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie- on-the-waterfront-1954
Supplementary Material
Web Articles
Back on the Waterfront: The Original Brando - Dick Russell
http://www.dickrussell.org/articles/waterfront.htm
A Brief History of Organized Crime on On the Waterfront
http://onthewaterfrontthefilm.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-brief-history-of-organized-crime-on.html
Elia Kazan at Reel Classics: Article: Advertisement - A Statement By Elia Kazan
http://search.aol.com/aol/search?enabled_terms=&s_it=comsearch&q=elia+kazan+- +statement&s_chn=prt_main5
Father Corridan: Karl Malden’s Waterfront Inspiration
http://americamagazine.org/content/all-things/fr-corridan-karl-maldens-waterfront-inspiration
YouTube
Elia Kazan On the Waterfront (11:09)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp5q2kDM0hE
Budd Schulberg: On the Waterfront (Jan.. 25, 204) - Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1yzb10_9DQ
Spike Lee TCM on Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront (6:00) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp5q2kDM0hE
Closure - Exit Activity: Discussion Review
Assessment (Summative) - Quiz Next Class on Assigned Article or Video
Assessment (Formative) - Prepared for Class/Time on Task
Extension Activity - Leonard Bernstein - On the Waterfront Suite (20:58)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnRYARyIGP8
Apocalypse Now (6.2.12.D.k)
Do Now Assignment - Review Assigned Article for Quiz
Lesson Objective (Essential Question) - Is allegory evident to all its viewers?
Agenda
Notes and Lecture
Apocalypse Now (1979) was based on the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Its modern inspiration was the Green Beret Murder Case of Colonel Robert Rheault
It is not so much about war, but about how war reveals truths we would rather not discover
It is a story of self- discovery
The world is a pitiless Darwinian testing ground
We spend our lives in a fool’s paradise, never knowing how close we skirt the abyss
Realization of The Horror … what we must do to survive will drive us mad
The trouble filled production was described as a nightmare by its participants
Francis Ford Coppola said that it is not about Vietnam; it is Vietnam
We had access to too much money, too much equipment; and little by little we went insane
After reading the script the Pentagon refused to cooperate with its production
Much of the film was improvisation
The financial and human cost of production were staggering
Roger Ebert considers it the best Vietnam film, one of the greatest of all films
It pushes beyond the others into the dark places of the soul
Apocalypse Now (1979) Original Extended Trailer (3:47)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkrhkUeDCdQ
Movie Review
Apocalypse Now Movie Review & Film Summary (1979)/Roger Ebert
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie- apocalypse-now-1979
Supplementary Material
Web Articles
The Strained Making of Apocalypse Now
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-strained-making-of-apocalypse-now- 1758689.html
Telluride: Francis Ford Coppola Spills Apocalypse Now Secrets on 35th Anniversary
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/telluride-francis-ford-coppola-spills-729281
Brando v Coppola: Debunking the Myth of Apocalypse Now
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-l-mizruchi/brando-v-coppola-debunkin_b_5587675.html
YouTube
Money, Method & Madness - Making Apocalypse Now (5:25) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ672prcUNM Rare Marlon Brando - Behind the Scenes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vH7f__nCIQ
Closure - Exit Activity: Discussion Review
Assessment (Summative) - Quiz Next Class on Assigned Article or Video
Assessment (Formative) – Prepared for Class/Time on Task
Extension Activity – Apocalypse Now – Conversation Martin Sheen and Francis Ford Coppola (59:26)