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Asterios Polyp is an interesting graphic novel that explores the mind of a straight-laced middle-aged man and his relationship with his freer wife. Visually, the novel is stunning. Most graphic novels I’ve seen are done in black and white or full color. Asterios Polyp has a limited color palette that makes use of mostly blue, pink, violet, and yellow.   There is no green; I wonder if it’s because green represents nature and is considered to be a creative color, but Asterios is emotes little and is not creative in regards to his views on life. It could also just be the author’s aesthetic choice. I think it’s cool how the speech bubble shapes and dialogue fonts different based on the characters’ personalities. Asterios is stiff, so his bubbles and font are angular. His wife is artistic and kind, so her bubbles and font are rounded. You can tell who is speaking just by looking at their dialogue. The novel’s story is not linear. It jumps several times from Asterios’...

I watched three movies by Sophia Coppella: Marie Antoinette, The Bling Ring , and The Virgin Suicides . After watching them, I think I can say that I’m not a huge fan of her work. Her style is very unconventional in that it doesn’t follow the same structure as typical western stories. In the listed three movies, the plot has an inciting action at the very beginning, and the overall energy of the story stays pretty consistently low until almost the end. Even the seemingly important moments don’t feel much more serious that the other moments. I think this partially has to do with the use of music. The use of music is pretty strange; in Marie Antoinette , the soundtrack ranged from classical to pop rock; in The Bling Ring , music played during the club scenes but it was silent when the characters were stealing, which I think partially took away from the importance of those moments. On the other hand, the stealing scenes were quite stressful to watch BECAUSE of the lack of instrumenta...

Most essential visual moments: ·       Setting: Apartment-balcony, Karaoke ·       Main theme: His loneliness, missing his family after 6 months and needed contact ·       Color scheme – cool greys and blue where the boy would have a cool palate ·       Protagonist: Gilho ·       Ages would be changed to 25 and 35 ·       Scenes: o    Need to establish that he has a family and that he is sending money to them / show his loneliness o    The arrival of the boy – sitting on the door matt o    He hates the goose – the boy never mentioned a goose o    6 the next morning - boy made breakfast (uncomfortable to see a man preforming a woman’s role) – talks about his poetry o    Walks in on the boy talking to the goose, tells him that the goose is his mom reincarnated – shows t...

I read the screenplay for Wes Anderson’s film Rushmore and imagined what I’d do if I was the set designer. There are several locations in the story, and a few caught my interest. In Max Fisher’s prestigious prep school Rushmore, there is his classroom, Miss Cross’s classroom, and the auditorium with the stage. There is also Max’s father’s salon and the public school’s classroom where Max ends up after getting expelled. Rushmore is a very high-status school, and the students who attend it must have quite a bit of money. It is also like a dream for Max to be there. I see the walls being pale yellow and the wood is a golden brown. The lighting is warm, and the overall feel of the area is that it is golden. For Max’s class, the curriculum is structured, so although there are a lot of posters and papers pinned on the wall, the colors are all uniform, perhaps red or navy blue – it sort of mirrors his stiff personality. Miss Cross’s room is more colorful because she teaches younger chil...

This short story was in an interesting reaction to women’s frequent troubles and grievances about monthly periods. We live in a time when the menstrual cycle can be controlled with the use of birth control, but in the world in which Even the Queen takes place, periods can be stopped with using a chemical called ammenerol that women take while so long that they can never experience one in their life. I thought it was interesting how the opinion toward the widespread stopping of periods differ between two groups: one group being regular woman who benefit from ammenerol and being content, and the other group being the Cyclists – women who chose not to take ammenerol and have their monthly cycle regularly. The women who take ammenerol are very content with the way things are for them: not having to lay down with heating pads, suffer from anxiety attacks, or deal with PMS. I can relate to them because I do find having periods a big pain. It’s messy and expensive, and they cause cramps...