2nd Written Task Movie Assignment Due January 23rd

I. Mandatory movie for all Language and Literature students: Waiting to Exhale IMDb link. Be prepared to discuss this movie in relationship with your winter break reading assignments.

II. Choose ONE of the following movies and please post it on this site so we don’t have 16 people doing the same movie (warning: some of the movies are rated R. If you know your parents do not want you watching these films, please either review it with them or choose a lesser rated film for this assignment):

1. Gone with the Wind IMDb link

2. Norma Rae IMDb link

3. Mississippi Burning IMDb link

4. Amistad IMDb link

5. West Side Story IMDb link

6. Boys Don’t Cry IMDb link

7. TransAmerica IMDb link

8. The Stepford Wives (Preferably the 1975 version)  IMDb link

9. The Hours IMDb link

10. The Color Purple IMDb link

11. Dr. Zhivago IMDb link

12. The Motorcycle Diaries IMDb link

13. Les Misérables  IMDb link

14. 12 Angry Men IMDb link

15. City of God IMDb link

16. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel IMDb link  (I love this movie!!!)

17. Remember the Titans IMDb link

18. Slumdog Millionaire IMDb link

19. Where Do We Go Now? IMDb link 

20. The Grapes of Wrath IMDb link

21. Philadelphia IMDb link

22. Salaam Bombay IMDb link

23. School Ties IMDb link

24. Thousand Pieces of Gold IMDb link

25. The Organizer IMDb link

Assignment for Written Task 1 #2: After watching the movie, decide how you will view it (race, class, gender, or a combination). Put yourself in either the time period the movie came out or in the time period of the movie itself. Whose perspective would be the most sympathetic?  An African American male? A poor white woman? A wealthy Arabic man? Now think about who would be the least sympathetic to the movie.

Write one or two (if one doesn’t reach the word count) of the following assignments. Make sure you are writing from a non-sympathetic perspective, unless you are doing two. Then one from each side would work.

a. an editorial about an event in the movie (as if you were in the movie writing about the movie).

b. a movie review written at the time the movie was released

c. in a screenplay format, rewrite a piece of the movie from a different perspective (keep in mind, some of these movies would not exist if they weren’t about certain groups. So writing about a slave who is a white man might not work).

d. write an editorial to the local newspaper discussing why this movie should not be shown in a movie theater or maybe even in school.

e. Your choice with an approved proposal.

Keep some ideas in mind for a second FOA after winter break.