Greetings once again my fellow classmates and welcome to one of my back to back daily blog entries. Today is the last school day before spring break which is awesome and I hope anyone reading this blog indubitably enjoys their time off. Today's class period was all about our podcasts. Unfortunately this is the third and final entry for everybody's series. We kicked off class with our pre production pages to help plan a discussion and lay out speaking/listening goals and objectives to reach. I hope you all learned something valuable from analyzing films and had some fun.
The name of my podcast series is Tuff Guy Chit Chat. Sebastian, Nick, and myself discuss films that star former WWE superstar Steve "Stone Cold" Austin. The first movie we discussed was The Longest Yard which came out in 2005. This was the first major movie that Steve starred in. The Longest Yard had a great cast including Adam Sandler, Terry Crews, Chris Rock, Nelly, Burt Reynolds, and more. Our second podcast was about Damage, where Austin plays a dangerous convict who ironically saves a young girl's life by entering the criminal underworld of fighting. The final episode of Tuff Guy Chit Chat from today was about The Condemned, a film about criminals being forced to fight to the death on a remote island, Steve Austin included. But who would honestly try to kill Stone Cold and think they could get away with it? I highly recommend you listen to our podcast if you want to be amused, intrigued, but never deceived.
The massive men of Tuff Guy Chit Chat made some excellent connections in today's episode to the real world and to other pieces of literature. We discussed the similarities between The Condemned, The Hunger Games, and Lord of the Flies. All three include people fighting each other to the death, but the far more significant correspondence is that of cosmos. Katniss Everdeen, Steve Austin, and the young British boys all find themselves descending into chaos and rejecting order (cosmos). Katniss and Peeta decide to kill themselves instead of letting the games end as they normally do which was extremely rebellious and the decision luckily saved both of their lives. The main theme in Lord of the Flies is rejection towards civilization and society, which is exactly what cosmos represents. We also referenced the Great Chain of Being, the medieval hierarchical painting we learned about in yesterday's class that summarizes order amongst living and non living things. The Condemned consists of several brutal killings and epitomizes chaos much like The Hunger Games or LOTF. These pieces of literature all directly defy cosmos and renounce the status quo. Sorry this isn't exactly a positive note to end on before the holiday, but nonetheless have a great break.
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