Godfather Response

The Godfather Response

1a) Although the Godfather is an older movie, it is still a classic and a movie I will recommend to anyone and everyone. It has a very unique connection to the American Dream, not in the "happy go lucky, perfect fmaily of four" sense you would expect. It has a very dark connection.  The American dream refers to succes for yourself and for your family, although in this case it refers to Vitos success with his gang. The way the Corleons worked to get their success was through cheating, lying and murder, the opposite form of "hard work" that you get from the original american dream.

1b) This films success comes from its classic motives combined with its originality. In many ways it is a classic mafia film with the family lies and the repetitive murder. Although this film dives into deeper emotion within Vito and the rest of the gang and family. This drifts the movie away from "mafia" and leads it more into drama, whihc was very unusual for this type of film in the 70's.

   

MYST Post 3 - Ask Me Anything

MYST #3

Ask me Anything



Ask me anything is an "indie teen film" about a teen girl, Katie Kamperfelt, who decides to take a year off of school while her friends go to college. She struggles with friends, boys and family issues like any other teen but this movie has an alternative take on these usual adolescent problems.

The director, Allison Bernett, takes personal experiences from her childhood and incorporates them into this movie. We view Katie's life through the keys on her computer and the anonymous blog she writes about her life. This is important because the director doesn't want er film to be a typical teen drama, she wants us to focus on the emphasis on social media in teens lives nowadays and how that is the primary way they communicate. Throughout the movie you see emails, texts, phone calls, social media comments be the primary source of emotion through the movie. This is the way Katie communicates with her different boys and her family.

Although the focus in this movie is through modern technology and social media, the movie ahs an old fashioned love story sort of feel. Katie struggles with boys of all types and all ages, ones that her mother approves and ones that she doesn't. This is a common theme through all love stories over the past decades and I think Allison wants to emphasis that even though times are changing in terms of technology and the allowances parents give their children, love is love. There is always difficulty and there is something "classic" about this modern love story.

Callie Pasick