Yesterday, during class we finished the film Back to the Future. Today, the class started off with Mr. Rivers assigning a poll for us to fill out on whether or not we thought the film was GOOD GOOD, GOOD BAD, BAD GOOD, or BAD BAD. Tallying the votes, the majority of period 3 class had voted the movie as GOOD GOOD. However a few voted that the movie was BAD GOOD or GOOD BAD. This lead to the discussion on why is it that the majority voted GOOD GOOD. Some argued that although this film seemed a bit cheesy, it still managed to make tons of money back in the 80's with its humorous plot and actions.
Also, we had watched a comedy sketch by a man named John Mulaney where he explains his opinion about the film Back to the Future. For those who missed the video or would like to watch it again here is the link: John Mulaney- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vkXvl5_MIc. During the clip, Mulaney explains a flaw in the plot. He believes the relationship between Doc and Marty was pretty sketchy. Mulaney backs up his claim with reasoning that the audience isn’t given a backstory to the origin of their relationship. All we know is that Doc is a crazy, old scientist who hangs out with a young high school boy named Marty. They are "best friends" and in one scene meet in a mall parking lot at 2 am for a science experiment. John Mulaney’s argument can be based off the BAD GOOD review. This gave the class another perspective opposed to the majority vote.
After that discussion, we worked on our assignments that are due this year such as the Lens tweets (due on 12/26/18), the letter revisions(12/21/18) , and the Be Reel blogs (first one due on 12/31/18).
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