HW 49- Class Movie Analysis

The movie that our class made, was filmed over two days. Given minimal time to put together a finished project, our class did not fully complete the production process. However, because I was [along with Charles] filming the movie, I was able to play my part in contributing to this final project.

The movie itself seemed slightly trivial in that the main actor in the film (Andy) was sending a contradictory messages to the viewer through his inconsistent tone and movements. Our project seemed to lack a clear point or opinion which we were trying to get across. The script as written was clear enough, but unfortunately it got lost in translation when we applied it within a new medium.

Interestingly enough, the same aspects of our project that made the film unclear and confusing were probably the most insightful parts as well. Although Andy was entirely incapable of acting, he revealed how uninteresting it was for a teacher to play a teacher in a movie. Like we learned in the "cool" unit, a person plays a role, a character if you will. Being an actor on stage is when a person playing a role in life assumes another fictional role in the theater. This is the point at which people are the most removed from their true selves.

Andy was entirely removed from himself when he was portraying a fictional version of himself. He got lost and what was left, was the Andy that we see in the film. He stares confusingly into the camera at times, and half heartedly commands his class at others.

What we touched on in this project, was that teachers are part of a much larger system. The teacher shapes the lives of his or her students, and is the flesh and blood connection that we have with the leviathan system that controls the teachers. For this reason, it is logical that the dull, fascist teacher who Andy portrayed was instructing pawn like students who were arguing amongst themselves. Showing signs of argumentation between each other provided enough contrast to highlight the lack of confrontation between the students and the teacher. His rule was unquestioned and the students were content. Typical.