dang, but i'm curious what sort of discussion this teacher led?
what'd he say, mullog?
It was a three day, 45 minutes per day monologue mostly, about
how his wife felt the woman was justified in shooting herself and
he thought she wasn't. The monologue would continue for ten
minutes, after which he would notice that no one cared. He would
then sip his coffee glare at us from over the edge of the mug, and
ask if any of us had an opinion- if the opinion did not relate to
the morality of the wife's suicide it was summarily dismissed and
the discussion returned to "what his wife thought" and how she was
wrong.
This, of course, is coming from the professor who talked for 30
minutes on how the reason Minority Report was shot with a red
filter (and therefore is very blue and has little to no red) is
because the director was aiming for a revival of Film Noire. An
opinion firmly rooted in a random forum posting that he encountered
while googling the film before class. (The actual reason is that a
world without murder is a world without passion, blood, death- all
subconciously represented by red. Flashbacks to scenes without the
murder prevention DO contain red.)
No worries, I still have the book. I'll read it sometime
later.
My one serious issue that I recall is that a lot of time was
spent setting a mood, when I felt it would be more powerful to let
us feel the mood ourselves from the tone, situation, character, and
direction of the story.
