Final Blogger Assesment English 1B

 

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Why did I choose Star Wars On Trial?

I took a break from Dark Knight Returns because I wanted to read a longer book (and the library doesn't allow renews on graphic novels but that's irrelevant). I also wanted to go with something that didn't just make me look like the nerd in class, you know like Star Wars. But the real reason I chose this book is because I have two passions in life: comedy and movies. Film has the ability to influence us in so many ways that we don't even realize. The lawyers in the book (by the way there was a real trial about the religious and government undertones in Star Wars. Isn't that awesome?) make this apparent due to their quote they took from a famous New York Times interview, "Movies have a big voice, and what we filmmakers have to do is set a good example" also on page 5 Birn (The lawyer) Brought up is how he felt after seeing The Empire Strikes Back, "This (Star Wars) wasn't just fun anymore. It felt... important.

I want this book to help me understand why certain people feel so passionately about the films they took the time to see, love and eventually argue about religious undertones of.

So here is the non rhetorical question I'm putting out:
What are your top 10 favorite films of all time and talk about why they are your top 10. Submit below in comments and click here to visit my movie blog so we can continue our discussion about movies.

Here's my top 10 to get you started (in no particular order)
1. Dark Knight
2. Avengers
3. Star Wars 4
4. Star Wars 5
5. Star Wars 6
6. The Matrix
7. Batman Forever
8. Ghostbusters
9. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
10. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

 

One purposeful diction choice I made was when I said, "the library doesn't allow renews on graphic novels but that's irrelevant" I chose the word irrelevant because I like to use larger words and that is just how I talk. That was an important factor in adding voice. Another reason was I wanted to maintain (at least at the beggining) a sense of professionalism and then geek out by the end. A purposeful syntax choice I had was keeping the sentences in parenthesese medium in length because it was a tangent of train of thought but it wasn't an entirly new subject. "(by the way there was a real trial about the religous and government undertones in Star Wars. Isn't that awesome?)"

 

Over the course of the trimester I tried to find ways to enhance my use of technology. "The blogger takes advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically by consistently including links, pictures, and videos in their posts as well as three or more Goodreads widgets, which reflect regular updates." My main struggles with this at the beggining was I didn't know how to add them but with my movie blog it got easier for me. Then the struggle became where to add them oppose to how. The easiest thing to add were the pictures just to give a glimpse to what the blog is about. Going with the cover of the book is too obvious the wierder your picture (school appropriate and relates to the subject) the more they want to read (this has been Spencer Walsh with Advice for Adverts) but I digress. In this post I found a way to insert a link and have it make sense. I also have a way to incorperate a video for my next post.