"These Pretzels are Making me Thirsty" 10/12/18

Going off of what we did in class on Tuesday, we continued to analyze tone words and tone sentences and see how they can relate in one synthesis statement. We started by looking over some of our examples of synthesis sentences we did yesterday and reflected on how much clarity and specificity they use, almost like a balance. Then we went back to looking at film clips, so as an example of tone we could analyze, we watched a clip from Seinfeld. The clip was about Kramer getting a small role in a Woody Allen movie, and he has this line he has to say and he doesn't how he's going to say it. He's supposed to say "these pretzels are making me thirsty." So what we did was take some of those flash cards we made yesterday on tone words, had to choose which tone we wanted to say that line in from the cards we made. So if someone got the word enraged, he'd have to say it like he's angry, and if someone else got optimistic, he'd have to say it like he was happy, you get the idea. What saying this line in different tone does is implies a different scenario with each different tone. So if someone said line like he was depressed, it gets you to wonder, why he's depressed, whats the context. That's why we had to give background to our rendition, so I had the word suspicious, and I had to say why I was saying the line like I was suspicious, and I said "because these pretzels are suspiciously too salty, like someone poisoned them." This activity correlates to what we did yesterday, analyzing the two coin flipping scenes from No Country for Old Men, and The Office. The two clips from yesterday both had coin flipping scenes but were different because of the tone they were presented in, No Country's was psychotic and threatening while The Office's was awkwardly funny. Our lines were the same but different because of the tones they were in, I had a suspicious tone, meanwhile someone else could have a bored tone. Just goes to show how big of a knowledge bomb this is when you could have identical lines, but completely different meanings, all because of the way they were presented.

Here's the clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMe7mlRv8UE