That was pretty much the best BLOG ever. Great discussion. You should all see I Heart Huckabees if you liked Napoleon Dynamite--It is really funny! Today, we saw weird clips in class. They exemplify odd, dark or quirky dry humor...John Makovich was about a company that exists on the 7 1/2th floor of a building where no normal people can stand up straight and a portal that allows normal people to enter John Malkovich the famous actor-- to live as him inside of his head for 15 minutes and then you get thrown out onto the Jersey Turnpike. This movie deals a lot with metaphors (a symbolic representation of something literal, like running water and the sound of it can be a metaphor for peaceful nature...) So...just based on what you saw today, tell me what you think the movie is trying to convey and how it does this through metaphor. Don't bother with posts of I never saw the movie, I will not count them. Just go off what we watched in class: Lots of times movies use strange devices and scenarios to comment on life and work and love, abstract stuff like that...Hints to sniff out metaphors in BJM:
What does it say about being a celebrity?
Why does the movie use puppets so much?
What does a short ceiling make people do while they are at work? Who would LIKE to work there?
What do all of the language misunderstandings symbolize?
Is anybody happy in the movie?
Also, don't forget to bring your cartoon on Wed for the humor assignment, along with the citation. :-)
Next Monday we will dedicate class to The Chappelle Show, to make sure we talk about some one you guys are into...
XO--Sandra The Blogging Movie Junkie
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This movie is a metaphor for "walking a mile in someone else's shoes". What comes to be by going through the portal to John Malkovich's mind is that people can leave the sad existence they call their own lives to seek the life of another- what they find, however, is that it doesn't necessarily amount to anything better. Literally speaking, Craig's character tries to become powerful through his ability to offer this portal, but instead the line is blurred between if he has gained some control or if he is nothing but predestined to work on the 7 1/2 floor in a gray world.
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