10/11/17 Period 5

Today in class we started to talk from where we ended last class since we ran out of time yesterday. We picked up from last class talking about synthesizing, or bringing together two or more things into a coherent whole, two texts using their tones and making a claim that brings the two texts together and compares them. In our groups we had to make a claim about tone that synthesized the coin flip scenes in No Country for Old Men and in the episode "Threat Level Midnight" from the Office. First we listed tones from each scene individually. Tones from the scene from No Country for Old Men were foreboding because of Chigurh's all black clothing and his deep voice, sinister since Chigurh was threatening and he interrogated the old man with personal questions, and curt when he let the wrapper uncrinkle which awkwardly broke the silence. Tones listed about the scene from Threat Level Midnight were histrionic because the movie Michael Scott made was overly-dramatic with the last coin toss and it's choice of music, comic because of the clean-up on aisle five line having nothing to do with the scene having the president own an NHL stadium, and mock-serious because they tried to be serious but it didn't work. Once we did that we began to make the claim we were told to make. The claim our group came up with was "The tones of the two examples, Threat Level Midnight and No Country for Old Men, differ in the way they try to express seriousness, Anton Chigurh is meaning to be serious to create suspense, and Michael Scott attempts to be serious, and fails in a way that provides comedy". This lesson can be extended to the world at large because we can now compared two movies or scenes more effectively.