At the moment we are doing the golden age of Hollywood in film class. Obviously a fantastic area of film history to study and one I am enjoying immensely. However today in tutorial ( at 9am I might add, thank you fate you wicked bitch) we were talking about the movie called "Sunrise", made in 1927, before sound had really taken off and everything was still in black and white. It was universally hated in our class but after talking to our tutor for a while at least some of us (including me, such a little swot) agreed that it had some merits.
This was fine however when he started to say that really we needed a basic understanding of photography, art history, theatre lighting, history of music to understand movies I got a little lost.
It got worse because some of the class suddenly stared chiming in saying "Ah yes I did notice that the movie played very like a symphony" or "Well i did think the way the movie was shot was very Rembrandt" suddenly I was in hell.
Surrounded by people who knew what was going on and others nodding I felt like Id joined the wrong class.It was a nightmare, I even looked down to make sure I was still clothed......In most of my nightmares I'm naked, thought I ought to explain....now I have said too much, hmmmm this is awkward.
AAaaaaaanyway It was weird to be in a familiar surrounding and to have no idea what was going on. To this end I have come home and done some extra reading stuff so it doesn't happen again.
Rembrandt was so good at art he was practically considered to be a prophet of his time.
A symphony is an extended musical composition that has no fixed set of rules but is almost always done with an orchestra.
I'm gonna totally rock next weeks tutorial, when we shall be studying........It happened one night,(reads) a screwball comedy that....aaaaaaaaahhhhh fuckit :(
English and History are still entitled " the Renaissance: How the Greeks were pure awesome and that"
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