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The Road to Freedom.

1. What is Sartre’s preoccupation with the duty to choose, the duty to be responsible for one’s own generation or time period?

- We are free and people take responsibilities from their actions. We choose our path for our future he was afraid the new generations didn't take the right choices.

2. What distinction did Sartre make between characters in cinema and people on the street, and why?

- He had to realize that he had to link his ideas about individual freedom to society as whole.

3. How did Sartre’s experience as a POW change him, and in what ways?

- He wrote about morality, he started talking about human freedom, he wanted to built a new society, and suddenly he became a kind of leader. With his writings he tried to transmit his way of thinking to the people. He believed more in collective freedom rather than the individual freedom.

4. Do you think Sartre’s interest in the liberty of man has the same importance today as it did then? Why or why not?

- Yes but with some themes, like liberty of expression, the liberty of having the sexuality you want, liberty of choosing your beliefs. Society has changed so it’s needs.

5. What in Sartre’s mind was the responsibility of the intellectual and the people?

- Their relationship should be re-established immediately. Not because intellectuals would lead them, but in order to create s new society they must first get together.

6. What was the effect of his death on the French people and why?

- They were left without their ethic compass and were a bit lost as to how they would move forward from there.

The Stanger Chapter 2

Meursault had more free days, his boss gave him a couple more so he took advantage of the situation and went swimming with Marie Cardona, a co-worker, the spent all the afternoon swimming and flirting and at night they went to see a movie, Marie spent the night with Meursault and left early in the morning.

Thye next day Meursault doesn’t feel like doing anything so he spends all the afternoon on bed, on his balcony, watching people and criticizing, eventually he gets hungry so he makes dinner with some ingredients he has there.

Albert Camus. The Madness of Sincerity

1.- How does Camus describe the character: “Meursault” on his novel “The Stranger”?

2.- What was Camus’s role on “The Combat”?

3.- Why do the american people felt a sort of “connection” towards Camus and Camus’s literature.

4.- Why was the theatre so important to Camus?

5.- Why did Camus react the way he did after knowing he won the Nobel prix?

The Stranger Chapter I

Meursault receives a telegram telling him that her mother has recently died, so he has to go to the funeral and fix all the papers.

When he arrives to the house where his mother used to live, he meets the keeper who is in charged of the house and was in charged of his mother, he tells Meursault that it was the best option to send her mother there, and that the funeral ceremony would be something really religious.

He spends the entire night next to his mother’s body and also did the keeper, who offered him coffee, the next day he sees a lot of people he’ve never seen in his life but that knew his mother, between all these people there was a man named Thomas Perez who was Meursault’s mom “special friend”.

The Story of Film Episode 3

1. Rebellion against what? against romantic cinema

- In 1920′s and 1930′s. Rebellious directors challenged entertaining cinema, they used make up to prove a more normal reality.

2. How does this rebellion fit in with a general rebellion of the early 20th century

- People wanted to give a look of what it feels to be alive.

3. Ernst Lubitsch? actor, then director, style of his own, ridiculous.

- He overacted on his movies, but came with a style that was his own, he had a very surreal production, and showed sexual desires on screen

4. Cinematic Impressionism and Abel Gance…

- Many images that showed different scenes to create a feeling of flashbacks.

5. German Expressionism in Cinema…

- Directors wanted to show different aspects of human mind.

6. Flat Light? low contrast, close-to-the-lens lightning,

- To create an effect of shadows on horror movies.

7. Fritz Lang and Metropolis…

- He started making films about the structure of the society. Metropolis tells the story of classes between workers in New York City.

8. F.W. Murneau and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

- A man and women are so in love they don’t notice the city and the cars, the city turns into nature, and then city again.

9. 5th set of rebels…

10. First abstract animation

-Paint with water, moving spots on the screen.

11. Alberto Calvacanti…

- Experiment with multiple eyes.

12. Un Chien Andalou…

- Film that tended to show how the conscious works.

13. Film as a way to corrupt the people…

- With themes like love and sex, these movies washed people’s brains.

14. Sergei Eisenstein…Form over Content

- Russia showed how society was through cinema.

15. Montage of Attractions…

- A scene where a lot of things happened really quick.

16. Japan’s humanistic films…what is humanism?

- Japan created the best humanistic films of the 20th century.

Humanism showed the human on its nature, his life.

17. Yasujiro Ozu…

- Influent film maker in Japan, he didn’t believe in heros, people are not decent.

18. Ozu’s innovations in camera height…

-He invented the "tatami shot", in which the camera is placed at a low height, supposedly at the eye level of a person kneeling on a tatami mat.

Chapter 9

Basically this chapter is all about Yvonne.

She, the Consul and Hugh are at a bull fight, but somehow this place or the circumstances produce something inside Yvonne’s head. She starts to have a lot of flashback about her childhood and some things in her young adulthood, she mentions her both parents and the role they still have in her life.

I think that the best moment in her life was when she was a Hollywood actress, that was the time of her life and I also think it was really hard for her to leave that life style.

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The Story of Film Episode 2

Escapism, the promise of perfection: This was what Hollywood promised

The soundstage was built to control this: Light

The Model T Production Line: It was set up to make the props and sets

Standardization? A way for producers to control where the movies where shown and how the actors had to act. It was a form of dictatorship that somehow made sense. Speciﬁc companies had speciﬁc characteristics. Which had which?

MGM: Very proud of themselves, had more stars than in heaven, their movies were full of light and luxury

WARNER BROTHERS: Stars where angles with dirty faces, they were more realist in their dramas.

PARAMOUNT: Sparkling, romantic, champaghney

Copycat movies: In Mexico, India, France, etc. and managed to copy the art within the originals while adding a personal touch.

Mainstream/Bubble: Classic, romantic movies

Buster Keaton: Had a fascination for the camera, greatest comic for directing. Helped define silent cinema with jokes and editing. Eventually sacked by MGM and became an alcoholic.

The Extravagance of silent ﬁlm: At that time it was easy to be extravagant at that time

Deadpan: Keeps back from the action and finds grumpiness funny

Chaplin kicking a balloon of the world, is metaphor how/why?

Hitler makes the world his toy

Chaplin kicked out of Hollywood because he was a Leftist: why? What is a Leftist?

How can reality break fantasy? Reality has nothing to do with fantasy and hollywood realized that. They also started to make non-fiction movies to despict reality. Documentaries where therefore born.

Why hate Stronheim? Tried to undermine cinema´s fantasy. His vision became a stigma

American optimistic endings? Wanted a realistic picture but the studio wanted to end the ending a happy one to therefore please the viewer.

Early Russian laments? They were pessimistic and depicted loss and suffering

European:——vs——American:

Europeans were more concerned in the grimy and terrible reality from which people suffered while american films focused more on comedies and superficial reality.

european movies: Were more realist

american: Movies were escapists and were used more to see a utopia

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Under the Volcano. Ch.7

Hugh, Yvonne, the Consul and Laurelle arrive at Laurelle’s home but Yvonne is uncomfortable, she wants to leave the moment she arrives, and of course the consul and her start a discussion, they are back together but is not the same anymore.

Yvonne and Hugh leave and Laurelle and the Consul stay at the party drinking, a lot of drinking happens and Laurelle gives him a speech of how he believes he’s a drunk and that he should stop drinking that much.

The Consul didn’t listen to him so Laurelle left, but then his words started to make an effect on him and he also reflected about his drinking, he leaves that place and finds a ride named The Infernal Machine where he lost his belongings and money I think...

He’s just like a child, very immature and lost.

The Story of Film Episode 1.

Key Words: - What drives cinema? IDEAS, not money. They excite us. - Edison Light: Inventor of the lightting bolt. Cinema became the art of light, light was the key for cinema, so he started shotting small films in collaboration with other people like Lumiere. - Shock of the New: People were amazed with movies, they didn’t understand how they worked and sometimes they scared them. - Escape/Mirror: People started using cinema as an escape and as a reflection of their own lives. - Low Brow Art: It was considered as a low art at first because most poelpe couldn´t see the artistic aspect within it and was therefore regarded as entertainment for lower classes. - France took filmmaking seriously: France knew that the development of film making seriously because they could forse its potential. - Phantom Ride: Is a type of filmming a movie, with many zooms. - Widescreen: A new technique where close ups showed many details of the scene. - How does editing make film? flow of action, liberation from actuality…! Let the action flows and give a continuity and look more professional. - Parallel Editing: Editing that manages to show two scenes that happen at the same time without confusing the viewers. - Reverse Angle: When the actors gave their back to the cameras. - Movie Star, characteristics of: Very sexual, movie makers shoot their faces more that the other actors, they were special. - Luxury, Costuming: they were an important factor for the movie stars. They made them out stand.

-Drawing on Film: Basically was making doodles in the scene of a movie and with this give a meaning.

- The Phantom Carriage: Movie in which stories are told by a man about this Phantom Carriage. They made a ghost appear - Departure of Garbo and Bergman: A swedish place in which they were filming a movie, but then left to go to Hollywood. - Youth and Glamour: It was an special phase, you are beautiful and happy. Being young and glamour on a movie gave you a plus. - Why Hollywood: because of the weather, sunlight, the east coast - 180 Degree Rule: When they switched the scene to look better, and the actors seemed to be looking at each other’s eyes. - Women immigrants: They were part of the creation of Hollywood, they directed many films - Alice Guy and Lois Weber: One of the first female directors in the history of cinema. - Wall Street: Cinema was gaining so much money after talking movies started that Wall Street got involved. - D.W. Griffith: Director, he brought the wind of the trees to cinema. - Backlighting: Managed to emphasize the actors by using light. - Intolerance: Movie made by Griffith to show intolerance through the ages, from Babylon and Jesus to today. - Intercuts:The jump between story lines. - Interconnecting storyline: Wanted viewers to focus on the story instead of the shot.

Loose Change

This documentary really opened my eyes, I’ve always thought that there were also bombs inside the Twin Towers who “helped” the buildings to fall down, not only the planes had a part in this,

But I don’t think that the americans made this to themselves, that would have been going to far, even the even with the Pentagon was unbelievable and a lie I don’t think that the U.S.would have done this to a city and to millions of innocent people. Maybe I’m innocent or I haven’t lost my faith in humanity but I just don’t buy it. The scene when the two towers are receiving the plane impact are the most shocking thing I’ve ever seen in my life, this was a big deal so that’s what I don’t believe it was a trap or a lie.

Revelation of the Pyramids part2

1. Again, how do we account for the discrepancy between the statues facial features on Easter Island and those supposed to have carved them?

-We will never know, even experts don’t know what happened exactly, it’s a mystery, they used the same techniques other people used in other places and some how managed to create a face that they’ve never seen before.

2. What is the significance of the red pyramid?

-It used the precise measurement from the modern metric system .

3. What is the significance of pi and the golden number?

- Well the Great Pyramid measures contain these two numbers that are precise in math, The Golden number appears several times in the Great Pyramid measures so do Pi, this makes the pyramid “perfect”.

4. Are the sacred sites and the line around the earth in which they seem to be found nothing more than coincidence? If so, how would you explain the coincidence?

- I think this was a coincidence because all these scared sites are all over the world and they didn’t have any connection between them.

5. In the end, what would it matter anyway if there was a more advanced civilization that existed before us?

- Everything we know would change, human existence would be put on question and more and more mysteries would come up.

6. Is it possible that the pyramid construction and how it was constructed was a message about our planet for future generations? Would be able to hear it in our time of cynicism and skepticism?

-YES! I’m a true believer of this and that this older civilization left messages to the future human race. They warned us about something maybe.

7. What is the significance of the 26000 year cycle called procession?

-Probably a hidden message that takes a lot of time to be resolved.

8. How does are consciousness of time being linear make it almost impossible for us to fully identify with the idea of cyclical time, or the eternal recurrence?

-Maybe the people who left the message had a different way to think and to see things, a way different from ours so that makes it impossible for us to solve the mystery message. Maybe the aliens are the one who can help us.

Under the Volcano

Fourth chapter.

Hugh arrives to his brother’s house and sees Yvonne at the garden (once again) and she is working on it (once again)

Yvonne seems very happy to see him, I think she has feelings for him but I’m not sure what kind of feelings. They start talking and Yvonne notices that Hugh’s appearance is horrible, his clothes are dirty and old, so he tells her that he arrived to Mexico in an illegal way so he definitely looks like a mess.

They leave the house and go for a walk a basically they start talking about everything and anything, they are good friends and understand each others so well.

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