Angels Reset
Consider the HBO spectacle we part-took on Tuesday.
Identify for us the following:
1. 5 overriding questions - what you must/need to/ feel you should ask when dealing with the agenda of this representation: play with the following interrogative words, WHAT, HOW, WHEN, WHO, WHY;
2. 5 decisive statements - what you need/want/ feel you ought to share with the rest of our community of learners when it comes to the way this representation 'reads' Kushner's dramatic text: play with the following words of cognition and sensation, BECOME, BE, SEE, TOUCH, GROW, FATHOM.
posted by belag @ Monday, December 03, 2007
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ok, though i mind the picture in the box, so it's gonna go...
Here's my (late) response to this assignment..
A. 5 Questions
1. What could be the reason behind the comical representation of the spirits of the ancestors?
2. How does the director play with the depiction of the state of altered consciousness (the drams, the hallucinations)?
3. When did homosexuality, if at all, stop being a taboo? How democratic and liberal is our society?
4. Who is the historical person behind the character of Roy?
5. Why did the movie put so much accent on the supernatural moments? To what extent did the director build on the concept of the Fabolous/Camp-epic Theater?
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B. 5 Statements
1. The movie follows Kushner's text to an extent where it becomes merely a visualization of the play; the spectator can even know which facial expression to expect from a character in a particular scene.
2. Regardless of what Kushner later said about his only play and what other people wrote about it, the film appears to be based entirely (and solely) on the text, discharging all sources of influence.
3. The characters in the movie, as well as in the play, are built with such a complex psychological background, that the viewer (reader) gets the impression that s/he can see through them and into their thoughts.
4. Using the advantage of visual representation, the movie gives a far more intimate spin to the bar scene in which Roy and Joe talk, by putting an accent to the touch --> while talking and trying to convince Joe to complete a suspicious assignment, Roy doesn't take his hand off of Joe's shoulder and slowly slides his fingers on his back.
5. As the story moves on, the presence of surreal elements grows, and at the end of "The Millenium Approaches", it crosses with the realistic - an angel, a messanger from Heaven, comes to tell Prior that he is the new prophet, and indeed he can already be seen as a prophet because of his attitude towards his illness. The movie provides an excellent representation of this, and even goes a step beyond with the expanded duration of the messanger scene.
Why is Roy Cohn represented as the most masculine gay character?
What is the point of the usage of so many special effects for the representation of the supernatural?
How does the comical representation of Prior1 and Prior2 serve to the plot?
Who acts the rabbi ate the beginning of the movie?
When do we really see an evidence for Joe's homosexuality for a first time?
1. Why is Belize not black enough?
2. Why is the Angel a female?
3. Why does the Angel speak in Hebrew?
4. Why is Joe that attractive?
5. Why is there no actual text seen on the great book?
Unlike Toni Morrison, I do not take refuge in HOW. I'M VERY TIRED WHILE WRITING THIS. DON'T HATE ME.
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1. I SEE that Belize definitely passes the paper bag tess.
2. The scene in which Belize and Louis discuss the color of the sky IS UNFORGETTABLY AMAZING.
3. I SEE that Harper is too cute to be Harper.
4. The Priors of the past serve their purpose really well. They quickly BECOME my favorite dynamic duo. :)
5. Meryl Streep IS amazing.
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