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Question
Considering the vast array of cinematic works, which movie do you
believe is the most influential of all time and why?
☆Let’s Think
Ask each other the following questions after doing necessary
research.
1.
List up the vocabulary Laura
and Luke uses to describe the movie of their choices.
2.
Think of the movies that fit
the descriptions that you listed up in Question 1.
3.
What is your movie of your
choice?
☆Hints for Points
1.
“The Wizard of Oz”
2.
“The Matrix”
3.
“The Load of the Rings”
4.
“All Quiet on the Western
Front” “Dankirk” “The Deer Hunter” “Apocalypse Now” “El Salbador” “Platoon”
5.
“Dr. Strangelove”
6.
“The Life of Brian”
☆Responses for Ideas
and Expressions
Michael Moore movies have all caused seismic shifts in our awareness
and understanding of the current world dominated by the capitalist American
society, from his blockbuster debut “Roger & Me” on the corporate greed and
his deteriorating Ford hometown, Flint, to Academy Award-winning “Bowling for
Columbine”, on school-shootings and the American society, to anti-war movie
“Fahrenheit 9/11”, which reported the corruption of the George W. Bush
administration going to the Iraq War, to “SiCKO” on the endemic American
healthcare system, to “Capitalism: A Love Story”, which proved capitalism is a
sin, to “Fahrenheit 11/9” about the malaise of a capitalist society, to “Where
to Invade Next”, about the countries thriving with socialist ideas, to the
latest “The Planet of the Humans”, which showed the deception of renewable
energies and corruption of the leaders of the environmental movements. But I
think “Roger & Me” is the most significant because it changed the concept
of documentary. It never bored the audience with a textbook-like teaching. In
other words, it made documentaries an entertainment. It also started a style in
which the director goes to see VIPs without appointment or any preparation,
which gave the film thrills and reality. These new stiles changed the way
documentaries are made forever. (206 words)
“Barbie” is the most influential ever because it will change our
awareness about ourselves and the world. Boys must go see it if they want girls
to like them. It relentlessly satirizes the shortcomings of men like
childishness, narcissism, excessive masculinity, desire for dominance,
dependent mentality, ego, misogyny, violence, and contentment with patriarchy,
but with humor and in style, which makes women laugh out loud, transcending
their bags of spite towards men, and men realize these shortcomings of theirs. The
movie also satirizes a trap that independent single women fall into by showing unrealistic
Barbie Land, or female-dominated world, which is seemingly a women’s utopia but
actually a totalitarian dystopia controlled by lookism, capitalism,
consumerism, and fascism. Moreover, this movie gives girls and young women a
guideline on how to live as a woman in today’s world. In the beginning of the
plot, little girls go through the dawn of woman and change from a baby feeder into
a woman by destroying their babydolls after seeing a Barbie doll as an icon of
a fashionable, independent young adult woman, completely in sync with the
famous scene “ The Dawn of Man” in the classic “2001: A Space Odyssey”, but in
the end a stereotypical Barbie doll chooses to leave Barbie Land and live as a human
for the sweet pain and joy of motherhood and the true beauty of womanhood even
though she is informed of the oppression of women in the patriarchal real world,
being free from the feminism mantra and reactionism. This thread―a doll gets heart and becomes a human woman―is woven into radical satire of patriarchy
and feminism and perfect parodies to make both men and women see themselves
from a viewpoint above themselves for reflection and real feminism. Therefore,
although it has just started showing, “Barbie” will certainly be the most
influential. (310 words)
☆Response plan
Topic Sentence:
Supporting Details:
Conclusion:
Write your
response in 10 minutes. Show each other your responses. Write down questions or
suggestions to each other’s response.
DRAFT
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